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

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  1. user15000

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    You can read the book the bitcoin standard by ammous. This covers some of it too: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bitcoin-standard-podcast/id1403202032?i=1000533326959

    Also El Salvador already doesn’t control its own currency. The US dollar is something fluctuating that they don’t control. So Truman’s problem with this is what exactly? I also think that saying this is why countries got off the gold standard is inaccurate based on the history of monetary policy. Federal reserve started in 1914.
     
  2. Truman

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    Comparing the fluctuation of BTC to The Dollar is just absurd.

    And creating the reserve was to prevent the huge swings of the dollar that eventually ended in a fiat currency. I dont see that being a contradictory statement
     
  3. Truman

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    If El Salvador moves to a BTC fiscal system - 4% inflation over night!

     
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  4. HuskerInMiami

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    When I see articles like this from Reuters, it makes me want to buy. They're FUDing.

    I'd expect some drawback after the massive gains most have seen recently. ADA up 79% in the last 30 days. What is a 9%?

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  5. user15000

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    Yes it is absurd. Over any substantial period of time over the last 11+ years the dollar is down an absurd amount against btc. No one in ES is forced to hold any btc. And it solves a massive remittance problem for them.

    Your short sighted tweet above like it’s some gotcha of ES’s plan failing is just dumb and warrants no response.
     
  6. Truman

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    I admit it was a bit of a troll in response to your absurd over simplistic comparison.
     
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  7. user15000

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    It’s a complex topic. But in general, I don’t tend to align with the idea that inflexible monetary policy caused/worsened the Great Depression, etc.
     
  8. TheDKALife

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    whoa. what a drop
     
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  10. Menelaus

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    Gemini under maintenance right as I want to load up on more ETH and BTC. Nice
     
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  11. The Milkman

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    Bought more ETH. Delicious dip
     
  12. soulfly

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    Some real god damn weirdos itt. Everything basically tanked 20% at the exact same time. Instead of pondering wtf just happened: yum that dip was delicious

    :roll:
     
  13. Arrec Bardwin

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    Weirdos that are making a lot of money
     
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  14. HuskerInMiami

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    Did you have orders in? It dropped to 3100 for seconds.
    Or are you talking about at the 3500 level?
     
  15. HuskerInMiami

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    I tend to agree with you. It's our coping mechanism. But it's all been up so much the last month or so. I personally didn't buy this dip.
     
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  16. danny2430

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    I mean it depends on what strategies we are using more than anything

    Alot of us use DCA or wait for dips like these to buy in

    There was a ton of data out there, including the greed index, that showed prices were artificially high and needed some correcting
     
  17. letan

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    i just got some at 3450. 3100 would’ve been sweet
     
  18. user15000

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    Btc is up like 350% in the last year. Many others are up substantially more. Volatility is the price paid for outperforming the sp by 10x. And there is no wondering wtf happened: more people sold than bought. The endless search for a narrative in a purely supply/demand market that trades 24/7 is tiresome.
     
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  19. soulfly

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    I'm talking 20% dips in like the top 20 cryptos on Coinbase's pricing index. It just seems illogical that everything takes the same dip at the exact same time. That's at least worth wondering wtf happened.
     
  20. Arrec Bardwin

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    Multiple reasons, a lot of exchanges still have coins trade against BTC, and also use it for collateral for leveraged longs. So when BTC dips so do other coins along with liquidation causing selling.
     
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  21. Lyrtch

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    its largely a casino as by product of economic prosperity, that's why the correlation is so strong across the space, everyone is prepared that one day the casino could hit 0
     
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  22. Arrec Bardwin

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    I know you don’t actually think it will hit zero.
     
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  23. Lyrtch

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    i don't think it'll hit zero just from the dead enders, but the high downside risk and broad correlation in movements is not indicative of a space that operates on anything but wild west 1800s wall street style speculation
     
  24. Arrec Bardwin

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    I think the biggest difference is crypto doesn’t try to pretend it isn’t unlike Wall St.
     
  25. Lyrtch

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    i feel like people in here would dispute that crypto is largely devoid of utility and everyone is just using it as a get rich quick scheme. which is what drove much of the 19th century wall street speculation crisis.

    (which, is the obvious case, but not the popular one that I've seen outside of a few self aware crypto traders)
     
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  26. user15000

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    Lol at high downside risk for the best performing asset class in history that has a total addressable market in the hundreds of trillions.

    And lol at devoid of utility.

    Whatever you have to tell yourself I suppose.

    The biggest venture capital firms in the world are investing unprecedented amounts of money into crypto. Blackrock owns a shitload of mstr and btc mining companies. Basically every notable macro investor billionaire owns btc. Crypto is a 2 trillion dollar space that is seeing growth above the spread of the internet. But don’t let facts get in the way of some good old no utility high downside risk narratives.
     
  27. Arrec Bardwin

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    What is the "utility" of wall street other than to make money? If crypto didn't exist, the 2 trillion dollars would just be speculating on stocks with the rest.
     
  28. The Milkman

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    Got ETHE at 32.90. Should have specified
     
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  29. Lyrtch

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    i mean at its base level you're providing liquidity to companies you believe are good and have growth paths, on wall street many of these companies have utility and exist, on crypto exchanges it gets murkier

    and maybe they would be speculating in a non-crypto world, going for penny stocks, or it'd be lower risk investments, the risk profile of the investments is basically the whole thing
     
  30. Whammy

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    Would encourage you to use some DeFi products, there is definitely utility
     
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  31. Arrec Bardwin

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    I'm not talking about penny stocks, look at P/E of S&P 500. Acting like Wall St isn't wildly speculative is crazy.
     
  32. Lyrtch

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    Yes individual stock picking is often in the risk profile of speculative. The risk profile on picking individual crypto projects is much higher. Compared to the risk profile of a S+P ETF? Off the charts disparate.

    I think people over think P/E ratios though, especially when they are benchmarking backwards.
     
  33. Menelaus

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    There’s the stock market, then there’s Wall Street. The stock market is part of “Wall Street” but does not encompass the entirety of it. There are so many players across so many asset classes, and I would say that only a small percentage of it is purely speculative.
     
  34. HuskerInMiami

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    They post this. Someone/market triggers a cascade that drops prices 10-15% and 200 Billion from market cap. Then 1.5 hours later someone moves 142mm off Coinbase as all the markets/sites/apps are not working. Is there a conspiracy emoji?
     
  35. kennypowers

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    Solana is out here playing 4D chess
     
  36. two

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    How has the SolSea launch gone?
     
  37. soulfly

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    Glad I swooped it after seeing another poster lamenting not getting in at $130 (I subsequently got in at $137).

    I’ve only been invested for a week now, after a friend twisted my arm into it. Despite the dips of BTC, ADA, and ETH (his recs, with ETH being the heaviest investment), I’m almost back to break even because of SOL alone.
     
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  38. two

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    As long as NFTs keep pumping and they get some big projects on SolSea it should continue to grow
     
  39. user15000

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    This is fucking absurd. And super convenient to sell amid “ethics concerns” right before they likely taper. These guys should go to prison.
     
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  40. Whammy

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    Tend to agree with you here.....alot has been made about the "oligarchy" in the private sector but government corruption feels like it's at an all-time high. Pelosi and republican senator from Georgia were caught doing the same thing and no punishment

     
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  41. HuskerInMiami

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    I saw something like this yesterday. They have done such a good job of dividing people on politics, that instead of saying what your sides politician did was wrong, you say, "well your guy did it too in X, Y, Z.

    Can't we just all take a step back and say, "Why the fuck are we allowing this to go on?"

    This should be prison time for all involved. And we're emptying out the trusts you set aside for the next 10 generations.
     
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  42. Lyrtch

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    i think what some people miss, i can't speak to the Fed folks, but all the shit elected politicians are doing is very much legal, the senators/house members/etc.

    which is very bad and the law should be changed, few things are more toxic to democracy than corruption but after the last 5 years the appetite for changing any of it is near zero. the trump hotel in DC was one of the most brazenly corrupt operations of my lifetime, operated in the open and explicitly, and we're in a world where it just really doesn't move the needle. and that was ACTUALLY illegal.
     
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  43. danny2430

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    NFTs might taper a bit, but I definitely see the traffic flowing a bit over to Solana and maybe eventually Cardano (if their platform doesn’t wind up being a complete shitshow, which seems very possible)

    I’m beginning to get very concerned about Ethereum and just how unusable their applications are at this point. Unless they can hit on a solid upgrade or get to 2.0 before everybody’s expecting it, they are going to lose so much marketshare.
     
  44. Arrec Bardwin

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    Cardano can only do one tx per block for a contract, unless they change that it won’t ever be anything.
     
  45. user15000

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  48. Menelaus

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    Who’s buying today? Thinking about dipping my toes in again
     
  49. danny2430

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    I’m getting close on a number of limit orders that I’ve had set since last week
     
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  50. JohnnyChimpo

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