There's been a good deal of things happening with Ethereum this year. It starts to beg the question of some of these layer 2 tokens are really worth it anymore?Layer twos mainly got their value back in the day when Ethereum was a proof of work system and fees were crazy high. They were born out of people wanting options outside of paying $50+ fees.

There was once a time when you could go work normal hours (roughly 40 hours a week) and have everything you needed and wanted to provide for a large family. However these days in most cases people are finding themselves working two jobs. But that's now even changed!

As we can see the price of bitcoin has done nothing but wildly swing on the downward trend. Now sure if you were lucky enough to buy bitcoin at 20k you're still sitting well and if you were able to get lucky and buy at the lower lows you're also doing well. But overall the trajectory of BTC has been slowly on the decline for nearly the whole year so far.

Polygon has gotten a lot of news as one of the biggest layer two tokens to help the crushing blow of Ethereum fees. It caught on in a large way when Ethereum transactions cost $50+ and Polygon was under $1 per transaction. Since then the blockchain has been able to grow and adapt but it's started to struggle.

There's a lot of talk about bitcoin exploding however all we have seen on the asset for the last five months is a very slow decline overall with some rapid ups and down. as we can see by the chart above we have pretty much been in a holding pattern for a while now but things are about to change that could very well impact the price of bitcoin in a big way outside of the halving event etc.

UBI otherwise known as universal basic income has been talked about a lot as of late. UBI is being heavily talked about again because of the disruption that AI is suppose to do to many jobs. However It's been roughly three years now and I haven't seen it really take any jobs instead it's simply evolved jobs in which people that understand how to use the AI tools, Agents etc are the ones keeping their jobs as Agents etc still don't do things on autopilot.