Official Cryptocurrency Thread: Skepticism to Speculation to FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

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  1. Penguin The Duck

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  2. user15000

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    More angry bagholders
     
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  3. Arrec Bardwin

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    Hello, my name is Arrec and I like both Bitcoin and Ethereum.
     
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    Whew, feels good to get that off my chest.
     
  5. FourClover01

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    As do I, now let's turn this thread into another alt coin argument.

    Also, I enjoy Harrison making the case for ETH, very similar to my ADA stance without all the Gas.
     
  6. Arrec Bardwin

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    If ETH is Oil, ADA is Enron.
     
  7. FourClover01

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  8. jorge

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    No it’s just generally bad form to repeatedly shit on other strategies and pump your own but do you.
     
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  9. user15000

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    Which of these is btc, which is eth, and which is 99.9% of altcoins?

     
  10. jorge

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    No I do not care to debate this with you. Just chill tf out
     
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  11. user15000

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    NYDIG, a leading provider of technology and investment solutions for Bitcoin, today announced it had raised $100 million of additional growth capital from strategic partners including property and casualty (P&C)-focused insurers Starr Insurance, Liberty Mutual Insurance, and other P&C insurers, joining NYDIG's existing life insurance and annuity-focused strategic partners New York Life and MassMutual.

    Ross Stevens, CEO of Stone Ridge and Executive Chairman of NYDIG, continued, "Fiat depreciation causes inflation in fiat premiums, while collapsing the purchasing power of claims. We see a brighter bitcoin-powered future for the billions who depend on the insurance industry every year. With the addition of Mike Sapnar, a trusted partner for years, and now with Starr, Liberty Mutual, New York Life, and MassMutual as shareholders of NYDIG, we will be working tirelessly to enable new bitcoin-denominated products for global insureds."

    More angry bag holders
     
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  12. user15000

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    Cool. For your own benefit, I'd suggest you educate yourself instead of the drive-by "i don't care" shitposting you're currently doing. We get it. You don't care and don't have any opinions.
     
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  13. Whammy

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    Just so you know, the angry bag holders are people like you. Not Liberty Mutual, NY Life, etc.....

    Not everyone who disagrees with you is uneducated on the topic either
     
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  14. jorge

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    Listen I’ll get off your back for the sake of the thread but perhaps try to be a little less paternalistic and presumptive about others investments and education.
     
  15. HuskerInMiami

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    INteresting read.

    This stood out to me:
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  16. user15000

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    Literally the only thing he has added to the thread is that he doesn’t care. Cool I guess.

    The “you mad” because I don’t own or think it’s a good idea to invest in eth is intellectually lazy. Do better.
    Perhaps try adding literally anything of substance to the thread. No one gives a shit that you don’t care.
     
  17. jorge

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    Thanks for your feedback
     
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    I caught the falling knife and turned it into a quick gain (~$200). Moved it over to BTC just now.

    Not a habit I'm looking to pick up.
     
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  20. HuskerInMiami

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    The "angry bag holders" is what weirds me out.
     
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    Shouldn't you be happy that people are investing in crypto? The more that enters the system, the better for the OG cryptofolks.
     
  22. user15000

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    Sure. If he has any actual questions, I’m happy to answer and have done so for countless people. Coming into a thread to say “no one cares” is not going to be met with a cheery response. Also Jorge from the internet buying btc is probably not going to do a whole lot. People who are interested will learn about it and make up their own minds.
     
  23. dblplay1212

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    Maybe he has the answers and you should be the one asking the questions?

    :bernie:
     
  24. HuskerInMiami

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    One Jorge doesn't make a difference, but when you have millions, it does.

    You are one of the first investors of BTC on tmb (as far as I know), and I would expect you to be a more tactful ambassador/advocate.

    I appreciate your twitter posts and articles. I just think the snarky comments at the end subvert your intentions.
     
  25. jorge

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    I don’t have any answers and be wary of those who pretend they do.
     
  26. brolift

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    Jorge is Saylor I heard
     
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  27. user15000

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    The snark is said in jest and just to entertain myself. I think the contrast is funny between the eth tweet that btc is basically useless and the near daily bullish news for btc.

    As for the ambassador comment, I think I’ve done more than a fair share of substantive engagement with anyone who has a genuine interest. jorge doesn’t care. Great. I’m not going to plead with him to start caring about btc or crypto generally.
     
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  28. jorge

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    Oh i care about crypto, i just dont care about your snarky opinions. Glad to know you aren't a serious cunt and just being cheeky.
     
  29. user15000

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    Oh I’m probably still a cunt, just a cheeky one.

    Pretty sure I added snarky comments after Twitter posts for years to dig at HuskerGuy99...this is nothing new.

    I hope everyone ITT gets rich. I just have strong opinions as to how that happens.
     
  30. Brocktoon

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    Get that Ethereum has a better use case than Bitcoin but projects and users are running away from that platform like crazy because of the gas fees. Unless they get 2.0 launched faster than than projected, I don't see how it maintains its hold a the go to blockchain network for developers. Which would negate that line of reasoning for it shooting past BTC.

    The comparison to ETH being oil vs. BTC being gold is also accurate because oil has a massive hold on the current market but is antiquated and will eventually become obsolete, something that will happen to ETH unless they make transactions more practical for everyday use.
     
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  31. user15000

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    I'll bite again. Why do you think the bold? The total addressable market for btc as a store of value asset is in the hundreds of trillions of dollars. I get that some think btc is boring, but I'm not sure I could come up with a better use case.

    Dan Held has a long post on BTC v. ETH that I'll spoil below if you or anyone else is interested.

    Foreward
    This is my personal opinion and not reflective of my employer. Undoubtedly there will be people who disagree with my opinion. I find it in very poor taste and antithetical of crypto ethos that members of the ETH community have often tried to get me fired for expressing my opinion and will likely do so again after this.


    Origin story and launch

    Satoshi planted Bitcoin during the peak moment of despair in the 2008 financial crisis. With the 2008 financial crisis, trust had been lost in a world that ran on trust.

    “The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve. We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts. Their massive overhead costs make micropayments impossible.” - Satoshi Nakamoto

    Satoshi set out to solve the problem of trust with money.

    To ensure that the launch was considered fair, Satoshi took careful steps to make sure that the world would look back and observe that Bitcoin was launched fairly:

    - No premine (he didn’t grant himself any coins)
    - 2 months heads up before launching the network
    - Coins had no value for 1.5 years so circulated freely (not replicable)
    - Unlike every other founder in history, Satoshi never cashed out. Which is currently worth around $52B at the time this article was written.

    Let’s compare Bitcoin’s launch to Ethereum:

    “I happily played World of Warcraft during 2007-2010, but one day Blizzard removed the damage component from my beloved warlock's Siphon Life spell. I cried myself to sleep, and on that day I realized what horrors centralized services can bring. I soon decided to quit.” - Vitalik

    Vitalik felt there had been an injustice due to the centralized nature of the video games he played. He took the initiative to build a new decentralized app platform which would allow for developers to build permissionless products.

    Ethereum was perfectly crafted to match narrative market fit with Silicon Valley. Apps and app stores were all the rage at the time (when launched in 2015). Uber, Airbnb, etc were all mobile first. Ethereum was marketed as a “decentralized” app store which would allow for “dapps” to be spun up by any developer without restriction. This was the holy grail that Silicon Valley VCs and builders had dreamed about.

    In the launch strategy, Ethereum decided to do something controversial at the time, a premine. Before Ethereum, most coins that had a premine were instantly labeled as untrustworthy/unfair by the crypto community. Post Ethereum, the stigma had been lifted.

    Ethereum launched with 12 million ETH for the developers, and 60 million for the ICO participants to buy. Considering there are 114.8M ETH at the time of this writing, so around ~63% were premined.

    Product/Market
    In tech, there is a terminology called “Product Market Fit” or how well your product solves a problem for the market. In crypto, we could call this “Protocol Market Fit” or how well a protocol solves a problem for the market.

    And while there is actual real world utility, part of the market fit process is crafting narratives (perception) to rally resources, value, and mindshare behind your protocol.

    Bitcoin is not immune to the ebb and flow of narratives. Over the years, many narratives faded in and out of popularity. The chart below shows that movement over time, although it was created 2 years ago so it’s a bit outdated.

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    Bitcoin is distinctly different than all the other blockchains because it has had a persistent narrative since day one: Gold 2.0/SoV (Store of Value).

    Bitcoin was built to solve the problem of trust with governments, to be a store of value that you could send anywhere/anytime without trusting anyone else.

    Bitcoin’s narrative matches the real world utility.

    The Ethereum community has endorsed radical changes/pivots, trying to find narrative fit (aka Protocol Market Fit), even so far as to recently claim a Store of Value narrative. The Ethereum leadership team is more willing to embrace alternations to the core objective of the protocol in their search for PMF (world computer, dapps, crowdfunding, NFTs, DeFi open finance, radical markets).

    The chart below demonstrates how often they shift narratives as DeFi and NFTs weren’t even included in this chart 2 years ago.

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    Ethereum is an aggregator of these narratives, trying each one out over the years in an attempt to seduce Bitcoin and other believers.

    But there is no persistence of a singular narrative, Ethereum still trying to find PMF even after all this time.

    Total Addressable Market (TAM)

    Bitcoin is going after the “store of value” TAM which will capture some % of the following:

    Gold ($10T)
    Real Estate ($200T)
    Bonds ($100T)
    Equities ($30T)
    Broad Money ($100T)
    Fine Art/collectibles ($20T)

    (Compiled by Brandon Quittem)

    Ethereum is going after a smaller TAM around applications that need full decentralization, Dexs that have an upper bound TAM of exchange revenue, NFT or digitization of collectibles, etc.

    When you hear people whine about “Bitcoin is boring/only doing SoV” that is such a silly statement because Bitcoin is tackling the largest TAM out there! It doesn’t need to do anything else. It’s akin to complaining that Apple is ONLY a tech company and that it should also get into oil production.


    Culture of Decentralization

    Bitcoin has chosen a culture of decentralization across a wide variety of aspects, whether that be around not having a single leader, to making running a full node easier to run.

    The Ethereum community has chosen to embrace features of centralization such as having Vitalik remain as the leader of Ethereum (even if they claim he doesn’t influence the protocol that much, he certainly does), and increasing the difficulty of running a full node.

    Decentralization is important as that is what enables Bitcoin and Ethereum to have Protocol Market Fit around permissionless system of Gold 2.0 or dapps.

    This has lead to several material issues, for example:

    Verifiability: Bitcoin’s monetary policy of a fixed supply is one of the greatest breakthroughs with the protocol. Due to how the Ethereum blockchain is configured, it is very hard to audit the circulating supply. Pierre Rochard, an accountant, highlighted this issue recently where it is still unresolved as to how much Ethereum actually exists.

    Node Centralization: Being able to verify all transactions and supply from your home computer ensures that the rules of Bitcoin are being followed at any given moment. With Ethereum, the community has embraced accelerating costs of running nodes, which pushes developers and users to be increasingly reliant on trusted 3rd party node operates such as Infura.

    In November 2020, this issue came to a head when Infura went down. This lead to many major services including exchanges not being able to connect to the Ethereum blockchain which meant no deposits or withdrawals could happen. Several months earlier Vitalik had downplayed the issue on a podcast episode:

    ”So I think first of all the Ethereum network is not reliant on Infura. Like if Infura died tomorrow you know the Ethereum network would keep going” - Vitalik

    Which brings us to the final decentralization issue, protocol founders.

    Founder: Satoshi chose to be pseudonymous, which fit the ethos of the Cypherpunks. People can project hopes and dreams on an anonymous individual, ensuring maximum neutral connection to Bitcoin. That’s why a book is often better than the movie. His pseudonymity was a critical component of the founder story — dev worship is a dangerous thing for an open source project aiming for decentralization. Volunteers need to rely on trusting the objective reality of the code, rather than focusing on the merits of the project leader.

    “Satoshi left because he didn’t want its influence to affect the protocol development creating a single point of failure. The very idea of “Satoshi Vision” itself is against Satoshi’s vision for Bitcoin” — Frederico Tenga

    With Ethereum, Vitalik has remained a center decider on a large swath of issues including monetary policy, game theory, etc. This leaves Ethereum open to a political attack vector as Vitalik is a human, has human flaws, and is potentially corruptible.


    The base layer of the financial system should be stable

    Protocol Stability

    Bitcoin’s development is intentionally careful and slow. If the world’s financial system is to be replaced, it needs a stable foundation in which to build upon.

    ”Something to note is that it's impossible for Bitcoin to be the ‘Myspace of cryptocurrencies’ because for a currency, longevity and unchangedness are features, not bugs.” - Joe Weisenthal

    What Joe is referencing is the “Lindy effect” which suggests that the longer Bitcoin remains in existence the greater society’s confidence that it will continue to exist long into the future. If Bitcoin exists for 20 years, there will be near-universal confidence that it will be available forever, much as people believe the Internet is a permanent feature of the modern world.

    Ethereum however has embraced radical changes to it’s protocol in it’s short 6 year lifespan, here are a few examples:

    • Sharding: Ethereum wants to utilize an experimental scaling solution called “Sharding” which will help scale L1 transactions. However, there are numerous issues with how this will be implemented.

    • Switching from Proof of work (PoW) to Proof of Stake (PoS): Proof of stake has numerous issues including introducing subjectivity in the transaction history if there is a chain split/partitioning, liveness requirements that are hugely detrimental if you go offline, and increased financial centralization as owners of Ethereum’s premined coins will increasingly grow their position through staking vs PoW where there is churn in the validator set.

    • EIP 1159: A monetary policy change which is hypothesized to help the long term security model of Ethereum.“Ensures an inflationary security budget for validators, while also having a deflationary element in the form of fees.” - Lyn Alden
    These constant changes leave Ethereum open to exploits and attacks. As evidenced recently by the near constant stream of DeFi thefts, and weakened decentralization.

    Early in Ethereum’s lifetime, the community even embraced reversing transactions due to a hack of “The DAO.” Reversing transactions due to loss of funds violates the core principle of having a blockchain, that transactions should not be reversible.

    And this reversal wasn’t due to a protocol exploit which broke social consensus (as Bitcoin has done when it was worth $0 and had an inflation bug), it was simply a theft of funds. The decision to reverse the transactions passed through ‘community consensus’ that had less than 6% of Ether in circulation voted on the matter in a process of under 2 weeks. (Source)

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    Monetary policy stability

    Satoshi crated genius monetary policy breakthrough: a fixed supply of 21,000,000 Bitcoin.

    Bitcoin has this fixed supply for several reasons: being a precise measuring stick, reducing political attack vectors, and encouraging speculative bubbles which act as a viral loop. (A more in depth article on the monetary policy is available here)

    Its fixed quantity is irrelevant. What matters is just that there is a fixed amount. As economic activity moves from a primitive scale, it becomes harder for individuals to make decisions without having a fixed unit of account with which to compare value.

    Regarding political attack vectors, Satoshi felt that setting a “proper” rate of inflation rate was impossible so he decided to remove human decision making from the process. Satoshi has two quotes regarding fixed supply that support this conclusion:

    “Indeed there is nobody to act as central bank or federal reserve to adjust the money supply as the population of users grows. That would have required a trusted party to determine the value, because I don’t know a way for software to know the real world value of things.”

    Satoshi also says

    “If there was some clever way, or if we wanted to trust someone to actively manage the money supply to peg it to something, the rules could have been programmed for that.” (I think he’s being sarcastic here)

    Finally, Satoshi hypothesized that a fixed supply might create speculative bubbles.

    “As the number of users grows, the value per coin increases. It has the potential for a positive feedback loop; as users increase, the value goes up, which could attract more users to take advantage of the increasing value.”

    With Ethereum, they’ve embraced a constantly changing monetary policy. In effect, they’ve replaced suits (central bankers) with devs. This is no different than existing fiat money where we have to trust in a group of individuals not to change the monetary policy.

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    There is a fundamental misunderstanding by the Ethereum community around what constitutes “sound money.” Vitalik himself thinks that sound money = lower inflation.

    ”Lower inflation is sounder money!” - Vitalik

    You know what other money has low inflation? The US Dollar, but no one would consider that sound money. What makes a sound money is a credible/unchanging monetary policy, and Bitcoin has the perfect iteration of that.

    As Lyn Alden eloquently puts it:

    ”The [Ethereum] annual issuance rate with all those annotations kind of looks like it was drawn by a Bitcoiner making fun of Ethereum, but instead that’s from an Ethereum source. Various Ethereum Improvement Proposals or ‘EIPs’ by developers have changed its monetary policy over time as needed for various reasons.”

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    How can we trust that Ethereum’s monetary policy won’t change again? How can we be sure that it won’t be a detrimental change? Even if the Ethereum community agrees it will never change, and it honors that, it will perpetually be 12 years behind the trust that has been built with Bitcoin.

    Now the retroactive explanation the Ethereum community uses to explain these changes in monetary policy are that it ensure long term security of the network will be intact. The concerns over security or monetary policy for Ethereum are very new, with discussions only being had in the last few years.

    The Ethereum community continually tries to undermine confidence in Bitcoin’s monetary policy through claiming that long term Bitcoin isn’t secure because of this fixed supply. This claim is intellectually dishonest and has been debunked throughly.

    With both the monetary policy and protocol, humans develop trust over time. There is no substitute for it. No matter what tech is build, or promises made, there is nothing that any other protocol can do to replicate the trust humans have with Bitcoin.


    Conclusion

    Bitcoin set out to tackle the largest TAM out there, storing value, which is a $300T+ market. Bitcoin has largely executed along that path, has gone through numerous trials and tribulations, and is looking increasingly likely to succeed.

    And in order to succeed, Bitcoin just needs to stay the same. Stability with its monetary policy and protocol. Unchanging is a feature, not a bug. Some whine that it should ALSO try to do other things. But in doing so, that could potential damage it’s core objective.

    If we use the analogy of a rocket ship launch, Bitcoin has already escaped earth’s atmosphere, has gone past the moon, and is on the way to Mars. There’s no reason we would want to change the trajectory or swap out the rocket engines.

    With Ethereum, they’re swapping out the rockets, and changing the trajectory before they’ve left the atmosphere. It’s an incredibly risk maneuver which could yield amazing results, but at the same time could lead to it exploding mid flight.
     
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  32. Brocktoon

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    Ethereum has products, services, apps, games, etc. on its network that all require users to buy their token to access. There is a significant level of people that hold ETH for reasons other than speculation.
     
  33. user15000

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    Missed this press release yesterday. Another billionaire adding it to corporate treasury.



    Caruso, one of the largest and most admired privately held real estate companies in the United States, announced today its investment into cryptocurrency through a partnership with Gemini, a cryptocurrency exchange and custodian. Caruso has made a significant initial investment in bitcoin as part of its treasury management strategy making them the first to adopt the technology in the real estate industry, continuing to pioneer new technology and experiences for their guests throughout its retail ecosystem.

    "We have partnered with the most innovative company in cryptocurrency management and blockchain technology because they are reinventing the way we do business for tomorrow," said Rick Caruso, Founder and CEO of Caruso. "I believe Bitcoin and cryptocurrency will play an important role in our collective future, and working with Gemini now will bring unparalleled experiences and pioneering technology that add real value to our guest experience. We envision a myriad of opportunities where we can better engage our guests and enhance their experience on our properties like introducing blockchain enabled rewards and enabling cryptocurrency payments. Partnering with Gemini on consumer applications will bring endless options, but we also see a future of how this technology will bring people together."
     
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    They gonna start doing deals w Propy?
     
  35. user15000

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    Had to Google what that is. No idea.
     
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    Withdrawal from Blockfi initiated, time to liquidate BTC and ape into DeFI.

    Tired of digital gold diddling around between 45k and 60k
     
  37. Brocktoon

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    BNB is up to $413 today, it was $230 two weeks ago and $30 in January. I've been using it for weeks to pay fees messing around with shit coins and I really should just been holding. Seems like the best bets are on the platforms and exchanges that host all these "innovative" projects rather than the projects themselves.
     
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    Regret not going harder at BNB...only put a couple hundred bucks in at 196 as a popcorn bet. Now I’ve missed the boat
     
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    Surprised to see this from such a large bank

     
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  41. user15000

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    Cuban has been a dipshit in this space for years.

    The takeaway from Scaramucci's video is probably that he's moving his 26,000 institutional investors into btc (not eth), but what do I know.
     
  42. southside

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    If you listen to Cubans recent interviews you’ll see he knows far more about eth and defi than you do and most of the larping maxis on Twitter. He had some bad takes early on but so did your demigod Saylor you can’t get enough of.

    you also want to be in something before the institutions show up, which is where the easy money in btc was made. If you see the exchange flows that’s clearly happening with eth. It’s not retail.
     
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  43. user15000

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    I’ve listened to most every interview he’s had, including the one this week with Laura Shin.

    I’ve yet to hear an explanation as to why institutions would show up in eth. Better yet, why would I, random person, buy eth? Many in this thread like to do the “play nice and isn’t it in your interest to talk this person into your coin?” approach. So let’s do it. I have plenty of investable money.

    What need do I have for eth? Why today would I buy any? And what need does it meet? Buying nfts? Pass. Is it just another speculative trade where I’m sold on trading in and out of US dollars? In which case great, there are plenty of alts for that, and I’m not interested. Is it a secure network? Can I run my own node to verify supply? Is it decentralized? Corporations need a treasury reserve asset and are pretty clearly moving to btc for that. What need do they have for eth?
     
  44. HuskerInMiami

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    What's your crypto allocation look like?
     
  45. user15000

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    Can we just accelerate this? Start posting the xrp and Cardano stuff from random Twitter people.




     
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  46. jorge

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    Buy Conflux!
     
  47. southside

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    It's a pretty simple thesis. After EIP-1559 ETH's supply will decrease in perpetuity, BTC stays the same, thus it will be a better store of value than BTC. Defi, run on ETH, has the best yields of any financial sector in the world, bar none in a world that is starved for yield. Institutional money will find that and the buying behavior suggests they're already starting. You need ETH to transact in that space. ETH has the most talented developers of any blockchain in the world in a space that already has a massive labor shortage and that is why it will keep winning with its network effect.
     
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    This is pretty intellectually lazy, because those are vaporware chains with no actual products, let alone ones that are massively profitable like are built now on ethereum.