In the latest sign that crypto continues to filter through into the mainstream, CNBC host Jim Cramer has spent the calendar week discussing the big quantity of Ether (ETH) he holds.

On CNBC'due south Squawk Box on Tuesday, Cramer said he owns "a lot of Ether," explaining that he first bought it when he was trying to "buy some nonfungible token on Time Magazine. And then, they made yous buy Ether outset. I didn't go information technology so I just kept the Ether."

Cramer was referring to Time'south recent auction of mag covers in the form of nonfungible tokens when each comprehend somewhen sold for between $100,000 and $250,000.

Keeping the Ether, however, now "seems like a better deal," his interviewer quipped, in calorie-free of Ether'south electric current rally to trade to a higher place $3,300 — up 130% just this week. "I'll purchase a firm with Ether," Cramer half-joked in response.

Cramer'south point nigh paying for real estate with his crypto profits is more than an off-the-cuff remark. The boob tube host said last calendar month that he had recently paid off a mortgage using proceeds from his Bitcoin (BTC) investments.

Speaking in more than detail about using Bitcoin for the downwardly payment on his property in another interview earlier this week, Cramer presented himself neither as a purist hodler nor as someone who carelessly sells information technology off:

"You don't accept to stay in it. That'due south once again this kind of straw human being that what's going to happen is yous purchase Bitcoin, information technology goes up and then you lose everything. And what I'yard saying is you buy Bitcoin, you lot take out what you tin [...] and so you can buy something of peachy store of value historically and and then yous tin can let information technology run. [...] It'south not a lottery ticket. Many, many people went along for the ride, and I think they should sell some and and so exercise something else with it and they can keep some running."

In what he presented equally an approach to crypto that goes against sure "all-or-nothing" trading orthodoxies, Cramer added: "I don't get enjoyment from living in Bitcoin, merely I did become great enjoyment from buying this place, stocking the swimming, fishing, enjoying my family unit together."