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@Walrus - Well, my Shib has given me the cold shoulder over the past few days. 🙁
 
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blubarb blubarb
@Walrus - Well, my Shib has given me the cold shoulder over the past few days. 🙁
it experiences a few dips aliright this week,🙁 but recovered somewhat yesterday, and hopefully will take off again soon.
 
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@Walrus - Well, my Shib has given me the cold shoulder over the past few days. 🙁
Ha ha shiba, I think it’s a bit more “dubious speculation” than certain other coins but I people made (make) money on it. I use those type of coins to increase my holdings in the projects that seem a little more solid (to me) like ETH but I’ve lived through, and held through, 90% crashes in Btc and Eth. I had pretty much written it off really. I am tempted to say Shib is dangerous stay away but I said that to some dude about doge coin and he later made close to 500k on it so who knows. As long as your having fun and not walking on the edge of financial ruin expect crashes, have some fun, the future will sort it all out for us. Now SOL though, ever since I staked it it’s been doing quite well.
 
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was she hot ? for some reason i am picturing Charlize Theron
Tbh she was a looker and dressed very sharp but I’m also a big “fan” of Charlize I wouldn’t put her at that level.
 
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currently invested in Bitcoin and Ethereum; overall amazing how far it has come!
Those are my two core holdings but I have added a few others and benefited off the meme coin’s although I don’t consider them to have much worth I don’t dictate what things do so I will chase hype on occasion. Solona has become of great interest to me and the designer worked for drop box and several other tech companies it appears a lot of VC money went into the project and I am unclear if the “locked” period for them is over. Half my ETH is staked so I am screwed if it crashes but Solana you can get in and out of staking quite quickly. I’m getting some thoughts off profit taking (which will not make me rich) as I read so many “it’s all gonna crash” including the market but how long have we been hearing that. This AM Barron’s had an analyst saying sell as a “tulipmania” crash is imminent in the crypto market (been hearing that 8 years) and another analyst saying Btc, gold and silver are the only things worth having for the coming depression so flip a coin at this point.
 
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Oh snap this is the replay from Barron’s on business news yesterday too much conflicting info can’t compute might blow gasket
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Walrus
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Yes that was me yesterday pontificating on a crypto crash, note to self, don’t listen to me
 
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Everyone is telling me that I should get into Alt coins.

Usually a sign there is going to be a pump, then a dump.

These Diamond Hands are just going to Hodl
 
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Everyone is telling me that I should get into Alt coins.

Usually a sign there is going to be a pump, then a dump.

These Diamond Hands are just going to Hodl
Dude I don’t even remember what “sell” means I removed the button from my Btc and Eth I’m going titanium hands
 
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Just added more ETH, and will re-evaluate by EOY if it comes close to $6k-$7k. Many are projecting $10k minimum, but I just don’t see it. $8k? Still a stretch, but with news of 2.0 and recently becoming more and more deflationary, it’s totally reasonable. Maybe I’ll be completely wrong, and ETH will slap me in the face with $11k by January. ☕
 
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ETH just had its first deflationary month. Might have just had its last inflationary month. We might not be anywhere near its actual value.
 
Walrus
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Interesting in an interview today Tim Cook said he holds Btc and Eth had he “studied” it for a while thinks it’s wise to have in a portfolio. He did not recommend it just saying he liked it. I’d like to know how Tim Cook study’s crypto. Certain not clickbait head lines on energy and illegal activity. I wish he spent some time exposing what in his studies told him it was a good move. His brain works a few notches above mine. I bet he could lay out some interesting thoughts on the topic. Michael Saylor is interesting but that guy is living on hopium. Of course he was spending hundreds of millions at 9,500 a coin so I guess he has the right.
 
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Interesting in an interview today Tim Cook said he holds Btc and Eth had he “studied” it for a while thinks it’s wise to have in a portfolio. He did not recommend it just saying he liked it. I’d like to know how Tim Cook study’s crypto. Certain not clickbait head lines on energy and illegal activity. I wish he spent some time exposing what in his studies told him it was a good move. His brain works a few notches above mine. I bet he could lay out some interesting thoughts on the topic. Michael Saylor is interesting but that guy is living on hopium. Of course he was spending hundreds of millions at 9,500 a coin so I guess he has the right.
Interesting contrast with Bill Gates, who has been dismissive of crypto in general.
 
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I don’t know that Saylor is on hopium, but his Bitcoin maximalism seems foolish.

There’s still trillions of dollars coming into crypto. The bullish case is easy to make. Crypto is where the Internet was in the late ‘90s when it still took some skill and knowledge to navigate. The time when banks and brokerages can custody coins and tokens isn’t far off. Some major blockchain games will be here next year. Face melting gains are still available.

Or not, but rolling the dice looks a lot better than watching one’s savings get inflated away.
 
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I don’t know that Saylor is on hopium, but his Bitcoin maximalism seems foolish.

There’s still trillions of dollars coming into crypto. The bullish case is easy to make. Crypto is where the Internet was in the late ‘90s when it still took some skill and knowledge to navigate. The time when banks and brokerages can custody coins and tokens isn’t far off. Some major blockchain games will be here next year. Face melting gains are still available.

Or not, but rolling the dice looks a lot better than watching one’s savings get inflated away.
I’ll be honest and this is just my opinion. Some of these shitcoins pumping (of which I do partake and benefit from) remind me of the the ico days that lead to a serious shake out and crash which took down the good stuff with it. Sitting at lows for years. I detect shades of that and would not be surprised if there was a shake out again. Now timing that is the issue of course. Those are just my thoughts though, don’t always amount to much.
 
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Ha ha shiba, I think it’s a bit more “dubious speculation” than certain other coins but I people made (make) money on it. I use those type of coins to increase my holdings in the projects that seem a little more solid (to me) like ETH but I’ve lived through, and held through, 90% crashes in Btc and Eth. I had pretty much written it off really. I am tempted to say Shib is dangerous stay away but I said that to some dude about doge coin and he later made close to 500k on it so who knows. As long as your having fun and not walking on the edge of financial ruin expect crashes, have some fun, the future will sort it all out for us. Now SOL though, ever since I staked it it’s been doing quite well.
I bought SHIB at 0.00000620 and sold most of it when it peaked recently, my biggest crypto win ever. I ran straight for ETH, SOL & ADA. I am waiting for the next bump to dump another 300m and I will sit on 100m until it hits the moon or disappears, either way it has served me well.
 
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Well been a little rough so I kicked up my Btc DCA a bit but that 1,000 point drop on Friday in stocks just shook everything up. I’m very curious to see pre market and market performance tomorrow are we at the start of something funky?

Ok I gotta get this off my chest. I had to leave work Tuesday afternoon due to a cold. I had to get a pcr test to return. I took three instant test all negative but my company will only accept PCR. No problem it’s the rules but there was a back log and I couldn’t get the test until Saturday so chances are I’m out of work until Tuesday.

Now I have this side job delivering PPE between certain medical facilities. I only due it part time, the moneys good and you can do it when you want and they pay kinda crazy I think partly because no one wants to deliver to testing centers and medical facilities. So I called them told them I had to wait for covid lab results and wouldn’t be doing deliveries this weekend. So Saturday they called gave me a list of deliveries and pick up points. I had to go through the whole schpeil again. They relented but said they would have accepted instant results. When I deliver this stuff I go by the dialysis unit, neurology and other things with scary names. They laid I guilt trip on me today and reminded me when I took the job I said “I wanted to be of service and help during this crisis not hide in my house.” Frig I hate when people do that. I had to tell them I didn’t save poof of my instant negatives as I only got them so I knew I wasn’t infecting others. They said “we can take your word just do a four hour run we will pay you for eight.” I don’t know it was really weird I would think delivering PPE gear they would take it more seriously than my regular job. I am vaxed and everything no booster yet but gotta get it by 4 January.

Im just confused and I’m sure I’ll be fine with the PCR results I hate to tell you how many of these tests I’ve had to get over the last year and however long this has been going on. One reason I bring it up in this thread as I took this side job purposely to invest and save up for watches. I dont know I’m still perplexed by this virus. When I went to the concert Friday I brought both my vax card and a negative instant test turns out they didn’t even want to see it. I was trying to show it to the people taking tickets they couldn’t be bothered. What a weird situation we are living in today.

edit sorry this is probably TLDR but I requested to hold of my return until the PCR results as they are allegedly the most accurate and due to walking in places where people are being treated for serious illness it just seemed that smart move, they didn’t agree with me.
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Another interesting development.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/22/el-salvador-plans-bitcoin-city-raise-1-billion-via-bitcoin-bond.html

Someone's take on it here (avoid the comments section if you don't appreciate lunacy):

https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/bitcoin-bond-el-salvador-makes-history

Although these are two very real advantages of making Bitcoin legal tender, in themselves they’re not huge reasons for most countries to go all in on BTC. However… being able to use Bitcoin to get a billion-dollar loan, that’s the type of incentive that could drive countries to adopt the world’s most popular digital currency.
 
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