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    Cryptocurrency It's incredible how quickly a few green candles changes the general sentiment in this subreddit.

    Cryptocurrency It's incredible how quickly a few green candles changes the general sentiment in this subreddit.


    It's incredible how quickly a few green candles changes the general sentiment in this subreddit.

    Posted: 05 Feb 2022 12:57 AM PST

    I don't want to come off as a killjoy; I'm as hyped as anyone here. But it was only a few days ago when everyone thought we were in the middle of a bear market, a few green candles later and it's posts calling for altseason and short squeezes. It's insane what one day of green does to people. Pumps are exciting, but we need to calm down a bit.

    Don't forget we are still in a downtrend, and history shows that pumps can disappear as fast as they appeared.

    So don't make any reckless decisions, stick to the plans you made before this pump, and calm down a bit. You'll do better if you stay humble and keep a level head on yourself. Cheers.

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    Crypto is awesome, but I’m losing faith in this subreddit more and more every day

    Posted: 05 Feb 2022 02:53 AM PST

    This post is going to be referencing one particular incident, but is an example which plays out quite often here. I would appreciate if you read the whole thing before you comment.

    I'm sure a lot of you came across this post over the last day, as it was the top post in the sub for a while. It "discusses" the recent wormhole bridge hack, announces that a VC stepped in to replenish the lost funds, and boldly theorises that this VC did this to protect/save solana. The OP went on to suggest that this proves Solana is a sham and propped up solely by VC money.

    While anyone with a basic understanding of the wormhole hack knows how wrong and full of misinformation that post is, I'm not even going to go into that in the interest of not making this post overly long. Scroll through the original thread and you'll find people explaining how so if you're interested, but it won't mean much after you hear what I'm about to say anyway.

    If anyone bothered to do as much as click on OP's name, they'd see his pinned post is him going into detail about how crypto is a Ponzi scheme and he only invests/interacts with it in order to play the trends for money.

    He is outright telling all of us that he's only here to manipulate us for his own personal benefit, and this subreddit sent him and his misinformation to the fucking front page.

    Read that again. 4.5k people in this sub upvoted AND defended the obvious misinformation from a poster, who has openly stated their intentions to mislead people for their own gain, simply because they read what they wanted to hear. I don't even blame the OP honestly, if this sub is going to let themselves get taken advantage of that easy, let the guy have his moons.

    This is the same sub that will comment "DYOR!!" under every single post. The same sub that shits on YouTubers who act unethically and mislead their fans. The same sub who makes fun of Dogecoin investors for not being able to think for themselves.

    If you aren't seeing how ridiculously tribalistic and hypocritical this is, you're in denial at this point. This post isn't a defence of solana, it's obviously got its problems, but if you can't see that the solana hate has beyond lost touch with reality in this sub, then you're investing based on emotion, not evidence.

    This subreddit has some cool discussion, some awesome people, but 4.5k+ people upvoted that dumpster fire of a post simply because it confirms their anti-sol bias. Don't let this place become the mindless echo chamber r/buttcoin thinks it is, we're better than that and crypto deserves better than that.

    TL/DR: someone set out to mislead people, and the people of this sub ate it right up, and sent him straight to the front page without questioning it. Quit the tribalism and hate bandwagons, it doesn't help anyone

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    Imagine how weird it felt for an 1960s vendor to accept payments from a plastic card. Same goes with crypto now.

    Posted: 04 Feb 2022 10:42 PM PST

    Imagine what it felt like accepting the first credit card payments in the world. The concept of intangible money, money that can't be physically seen, has always been a hard concept for humans to grasp.

    Some countries and cities now like Dubai and New York use more credit cards than cash. Yet the transition from cash to credit cards took a very long time.

    Meaning crypto will eventually become legal tender if we keep up this pace (and will most probably be adopted faster than credit cards got adopted).

    There are even crypto credit cards that are paving the way for crypto payment adoption. They're so easy to acquire. Platforms like Binance and Coinbase offer them. I have mine from CoinOvy. These crypto credit cards will be a great way to transition from digital payments to full crypto payments.

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    Why I believe we are all still a decade early to crypto.

    Posted: 05 Feb 2022 01:58 AM PST

    Why I believe we are all still a decade early to crypto.

    This post is a serious one I made after reading this article. [ https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html ]

    Shout out to Moxie for actually talking about how shit has just become super overcomplicated for coders to even begin to get into. This article is probably the best critique of the current crypto space I've ever read ^

    We have these ideas of immutable, trustless, decentralized platforms but most of them have become mutable and centralized with all trust put in the hands of a few servers.

    Cardano, for example, the fact that sundaeswap took 6 months to release and it's not even fully ready yetplus looking like they rugged cardstarter, it's not a good look!

    "Trustless" doesn't make sense when there's still just a team of greedy humans on the other end of single phone line. I recall when my friends where first getting into crypto a few months ago, best believe it wasn't 'for the tech', it was pure greed, they were aping hundreds into doggy coins hoping to make millions out of thin air.

    Arweave, which was made to solve the issue of NFTs being backed by on centralized servers, is still putting trust in the hands of others, so it's not exactly "trustless" and things can still be flagged for deletion and stuff like that.

    https://www.arweave.org/technology = "Finally, those that maintain gateways (the servers you will likely use to view the permaweb) can also apply content moderation policies to further safeguard their users."

    It's tricky though, like if you have permanent jpeg storage on a truly immutable permanent server what about criminal abuse material and other f'ed up stuff like that from being put on there 'for good'? That's why Arweave has a democratic processes for removal of content if it's deemed necessary, but the problem is it's SLOW!

    Just like Cardano, just like ETH, and Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and so on. All these truly decentralized things are slow as shit.

    Compare the time it takes to load this: https://audius.co/neonanesthetics

    With this: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4h3dx3iH28dTFooTspQqxd

    This just really highlights the sheer magnitude of the blockchain trilemma: Low Cost, Speed, Decentralization. Pick 2.

    I still believe in crypto, but if this doesn't make you think...I've always said there will probably be a dominant cryptocurrency in the future that solves all of these issues, but less and less am I thinking it will be any networks available today.

    It will likely be built upon 6G network protocols, or some similar competing concept; 6G will basically mishmash the current 5G super-speed, satellite based internet, to that of the internet of things, peer2peer data transfer, and blockchain(s).

    Here's a journal article from last summer: Blockchain and 6G: The Future of Secure and Ubiquitous Communication https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.05673.pdf = "the trustless nature of blockchain would make it easier to manage and audit 3D network resources and AI model parameters in 6G networks."

    Another example, in Windows update there's this:

    Microsoft Windows Update Delivery Optimization

    Now extrapolate that concept out to creating the blockchain and the internet itself, not just simple data transfer - it'll be a mix of current cell-tower tech sped up a thousand-fold by decentralizing server loads through peer2peer means, encrypted, and under consensus - all while having latency speeds measured in single digit milliseconds!

    Here is a latency test of my internet to google: Top is with VPN routed through Portugal : Bottom is without VPN.

    Ping Command to Test Your Network

    We need speeds 1 order of magnitude faster than the current best case scenario technologies, and 2 orders of magnitude faster than what's the more "practical" speeds we're used to.

    To conclude this spiel, I think we're about a decade away from this all. Till then, I am still having fun learning about money, economics, fiancé, decentralization issues, network effects, but less and less am I feeling married to any single current network/blockchain because they all seem to be unable to carry the load that will weigh on future technological shoulders.

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    Am I the only one that still has no idea what the Metaverse is actually meant to be?

    Posted: 04 Feb 2022 09:46 PM PST

    So what on earth is it?

    Is it just the idea that we'll all be playing MMORPGs all day with VR? Rather then chatting with someone on zoom I'll spend half an hour wiring up my VR kit so I can chat to their avatar in a pretend conference room? And then we'll go to a pretend coffee bar where we'll pretend to drink coffee that we'll buy with crypto?

    Is it just the idea of a persistent online virtual world? But which world? Presumably anyone can make their own metaverse? Does Eve Online count as the metaverse? Habbo Hotel? Or does it have to have VR?

    Isn't the internet just the metaverse? Or does it always require some sort of game like VR interface to count?

    And what role does Blockchain play in the metaverse? Is it intended to support the persistence and the idea of one true metaverse? But whose Blockchain? Surely anyone can create their own Blockchain for their own metaverse?

    Why are people buying virtual land in the metaverse? What utility does it have? And given it's just a simulation, the land itself is presumably infinite? So why pay for it?

    Am I just an old grumpy man?

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    Congrats to beginners who survived the dive under 40K ! Bravo Bravo Bravo !

    Posted: 05 Feb 2022 03:34 AM PST

    Hey, to all who didn't sell under 40K, congrats!

    We are still far away from ATH BUT you are not one of those who sold at a loss in order to swing trade. The climb is not yet achieved and we may dive further but you have shown your balls of steel and deserve recognition.

    Bonus points if you bought the dip under 40K ! You may even already be back in profit depending on how much your poured into the dip.

    Honestly be proud of you, crypto is wild and can grind your nerves but in the long run you may make good money !

    TLDR: Congrats to those who didn't sell at a loss in the hope to swing trade.TLDR2: Obvious WOW congrats to those who were able to swing trade and successfully did it !

    Let's keep calm and continue to DCA/ buy dips/ but stay steady !

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    BTC has just undone a month's worth of decline in 24 hours; this is why the crypto market is so entertaining

    Posted: 05 Feb 2022 03:20 AM PST

    It never closes and that's probably where the obsession lies for so many: there's no weekend or nighttime reprieve from the upticks and downticks. You know that when you go to bed and when you wake up in the morning something will have changed in your portfolio; things jump up or fall off of a cliff our of nowhere and you're just lying there thinking about what you're going to buy when it all works out (because it feels like an inevitability); you wake up and shrug off the -5% because you're sure that eventually it'll be made up, and it might not even take that long because of how quickly things seem to gain or lose momentum. At first it's stressful but if you stick around you develop a kind of gallows humour where you just laugh and wait for the next day to come around to throw more coins into the money pit. Because one day you know you'll have enough for that little impractical squashed-looking yellow car.

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    When Govt put something under "threat to national security" category, it means they will try to crush it down.But Mexican Drug Cartels laundering money via Banks never threatened the national security !

    Posted: 05 Feb 2022 01:23 AM PST

    Whenever Govt use this language, it generally means things are going to go bad for lot of people. And this time they declared Crypto - a threat to national security. Maybe it is just because of transparent nature of Cryptocurrencies, and people in govt hates transparency.

    In coming weeks, we might see Govt taking some ridiculous steps to neutralize this so called "National Threat".The question is when but it is happening for sure

    As the process is already started, where individuals like Treasury Secretary would get enough powers to prohibit any Crypto Transactions without any process or rules.Rest you can imagine.

    It's just ironic that, Mexican Drug Cartels laundering millions of dollars via global banks never seen as a threat to "national security" and its not any conspiracy theory, it's proven multiple times that Banks laundered money for drug cartels, and even govt had enough evidence of that but not a single person ever went to jail.

    As Govt thought that taking action against such banks would destroy the global economy. So it's better to get a cut from their dealings with drug cartels.

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    A DAO Created to Free Julian Assange Has Raised $7.5 Million in Ethereum

    Posted: 05 Feb 2022 02:25 AM PST

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