IMO

Scrapin-Nee

It’s vastly underperformed where I thought it would be, especially if you adjust for inflation. Lots of things to consider… Halving is far less impactful, but ETFs have bought up a lot of issuance. If republicans get in the White House expect to see Bitcoin custody/lending in banks which will affect its value. Bitcoin Dollar theory would cement BTC as the asset to perpetuate the U.S. treasury ponzi via Tether. Miners are capitulating at these hash prices, but some are being incorporated into the grid and offer priceless flexibility to grids stacked with unpredictable renewables. This need will grow and eventually you won’t be able to separate them from one another. We haven’t had another 2020 inflation spike to open more people eyes. People stop being lazy and learn when they feel pain and need a solution. 2020 was an eye opening year. Many got orange-pilled during the lockdowns when they had time to be curious. Bitcoins price is dependent on how educated the hodlers are. It’s not about the top, but where hodlers set the floor. Even if the 4 year cycle breaks and uptober never happens, it’s still the best store of value long term as fiat is designed to be debased and other assets barely keep up with inflation. Where else are you gonna store your savings? A break in the 4 year cycle would shake out the speculators/tourists and ultimately will be a good thing for long term hodlers. The U.S debt is math. Bitcoin is math. If Bitcoin can remain decentralized and secure it will do what the math says it will.(which is go up against all money which isn’t as scarce.) IMO the 2 most amazing things about Bitcoin are the absolute scarcity and the ability to monetize stranded energy that would otherwise remain wasted. Bitcoins value if not priceless is worth millions of dollars per coin in today’s dollars, but many don’t see it and it’s this information asymmetry that separate the people who benefit going forward.

Brown_Noiser

Yup. And the way it SHOULD BE, is that whatever your retirement number (FI number), whether it's $2M or $20M, IMO it shouldn't HAVE to be invested in order to sustain you till death. The cash amount should suffice. However we live in a world wrought with inflation, caused almost entirely by the people running the government (not just current group, all the previous groups too). And so, you pretty much HAVE TO invest it to keep up.

stutesnshit

Ammunition has a much longer shelf life than bread. Unless its McDonald's bread. Not even mold wants to eat that trash. Where your from guns are banned? Im very sorry. I wouldn't live under such a regime where I couldn't have a rifle and ammunition to hunt mid size to large game. No way jose. And thats what IMO why you would buy ammunitions is for hunting. Not fighting your neighbors.

Alfador8

IMO it is more of a solution for individuals to allow them to opt out of the broken system. The US government could potentially take a similar approach, but it would collapse the value of the dollar and plunge the world into chaos, so I'm skeptical they'll take that approach.

Digital_Scarcity

IMO don't fuck with defi exchanges. They're for crypto degenerates and scammers. Maybe if you want leveraged exposure but can't figure it out, you should stick to leveraged ETFs. Let someone manage it for you. MSTR is a pseudo leveraged ETF of BTC. MSTX is a 1.75x leveraged long ETF of MSTR, for that extra spicy leverage on leverage volatility degens love.

elcaracter

Those are the normie 101 plays. Unless you've invested 100s of thousands, you won't be seeing millions soon. But they are a safe 3-10× on some. IMO, kaspa is a much lower risk with a much higher reward. I'd do a deep dive if I were you. But I'd get on it quickly because it's already climbing thanks to recent news. And if you can handle some risk, meme coins, I believe will continue to be the narrative this bull run. By some risk, I mean a lot. But all it takes is one to change your life. Stick to men's coins that have a decent amount of centralized exchange listings. It's a little less likely that they will immediately rug you. Good luck

GrouchyAd9824

My first move when I saved $5k wasn't crypto, it was a down payment on a house. That's what got me on the path to success IMO, a tangible bank account I'm forced to put money into every month while I live in it and work full time. Then I started saving again for home improvements and dabbling into crypto.

GrouchyAd9824

It happens, but you have a good position IMO if you don't shit the bed. I first bought BTC at like $400 in 2014 and sold in 2017 at like $5k when it skyrocketed. I ended up buying back in towards the 2017 top and got wiped as I just sat there like "Hmm, interesting". Don't do that lol. Ladder out your gains and DCA your dips.

cuchulain66

I don’t think rebalancing applies to BTC unless you don’t really believe in it being a new transformative asset class. I appreciate rebalancing in other asset categories but BTC is possibly the hardest asset class ever devised. So rebalancing requires selling that asset and deploying the proceeds into stocks/bonds/real estate which are, IMO, inferior. Also, you have to pay capital gains on the sale. For me, BTC is a moonshot. If it succeeds I’ll want as much as possible, if it fails, I’ll have what I expected anyway. Get to 1 BTC and ride it out. The $60K you spent at the average 7% S&P return will be about $240K in 20 years. What could BTC be in 20 years?

sgtslaughterTV

IMO, I thought it would have been cool if people weren't trying to make cashgrabs out of them with PFPs. it would have been much better if people just focused on making them useful in gaming applications without "money gimmicks."

Extreme_Nectarine_29

They are the number 1 reason for the lack of adpotion IMO.

Comprehensive_Low568

God bless bitcoin on YouTube. Watch the first hour and 5 minutes only IMO. It’s phenomenal and my highest recommendation to explain BTC

rizzobitcoin

Here's a great overview IMO: [https://blog.bitmex.com/satoshis-2014-email-hack/](https://blog.bitmex.com/satoshis-2014-email-hack/)

shonzaveli_tha_don

Fair point. But Minnesota where he is from absolutely worshipped at the alter of BLM. If you zoom out, and off Tim Walz personally, I feel the Democratic party has lost their way in regards to gender, men in women's sports, and have turned into war hawks. Just one man's opinion. I also think the withdrawal out of Afghanistan was so despicable to veterans that were over there, that if there was no other issue on the ballot I could not vote for them in good conscience. And if you zoom out some more, Democrats have had the presidency 12 of the last 16 years and IMO America is going in the wrong direction.

Smooth_Pianist485

The best way to make money in Bitcoin is to buy and hold for 5+ years. Much longer if you can. I prefer to DCA. IMO we are long past the days where the average investor can profit with their own mining rig.

HODL_monk

I sometimes consider myself smart, and like this guy, I have some very strongly held beliefs about other technologies I know nothing about. I personally believe AI is almost entirely a scam, exactly how he sees Bitcoin. Have I read all the white papers on AI, and studies the tech ? Nope. My logic is to just sort of pull from all the computer things in my life, and the AI examples out there, and the sum of the parts looks like a giant nothing burger. Can it make original art ? Maybe, but its so generic, and it has logic flaws, like lots of extra fingers everywhere. Can it make original articles ? Yes, but they are also crap, and any images it pulls in tend to be unrelated, or comically incorrect, like parody works. Even the search results are very bland, and easy to read, but rarely have anything useful in them. Maybe this all ads up to some large value, but I just don't see it, and so its hard to justify the insane investments in the sector. In a way, I can also see that AI, to some extent, is stealing Bitcoin's 'popular attention space', but in the end, the things that Bitcoin does just seem more technologically and socially important than learning about our African American founding fathers, or seeing some bland 7 fingered anime chicks. Any jobs that AI can actually do successfully either were low skill jobs, or they were jobs we didn't really care much about the output from, so I'm not to concerned about it 'taking' those jobs. Interestingly, the most worried people about AI are Hollywood writers. Sadly, IMO, their output has been in steady quality decline, and at this point, its not inconceivable that a machine pulling from myths and legends of old might just be able to come up with something that's better than the Woke garbage that Hollywood has been spewing out for the last few years...

Reed_4983

Haha, but buying is only possible if someone else sells at the same time, unless you're a miner. And even if you see Bitcoin as store of value (which it is IMO) at one point you'll want to cash in that value. Unless you plan on paying stuff with Bitcoin.

LewisRamilton

Now that you're a bitcoiner and a homeowner you'll feel much better IMO.

jsinvest10

My only strategy in crypto is BTC. However for the next bull run i want to buy 2 altcoins to improve the cycle performence and sell at the top. IMO this is a good time to buy.

UnreasonableCletus

IMO going 50% alts is super high risk. Without knowing your timeline, eth, sol, ada etc. whatever has the most marketing and when / if you have profit take it.

galimi

Bitcoin is going to lose value over time IMO. Better coins available currently in terms of transaction times, governance, speed and economics of the coin. Bitcoin is difficult to improve upon precisely because of the consensus needed. This has been great for operability, but not improvement.

Clearly_Ryan

IMO you deserve to lose your keys if you're browsing cat memes instead of learning about proper operational security for storing your crypto. 

Crypto_Powered

Best saying ever IMO.

Seattleman1955

The one topic that people aren't realistic about, IMO, is this idea that you can't lose with Bitcoin or that it is automatically going to give you a better return that stocks or anything else. I'm not talking about going back 10 years, I'm talking about now. Let's say you bought at $50k in 2021, now 3 years later we are still at that point. It's been lower, it's been higher but lets say it doesn't do much next year or it even goes down. Sure, maybe it will go much higher in 10 years or maybe it won't. It was "guaranteed" to hit $100k 3 years ago and now it's not even talked about much in terms of hitting that this year. Eventually it will double but stocks double too and at the current pace, Bitcoin is looking more like a mediocre stock. It's very volatile so you can always point to some low point that it hit and how it has doubled from that but it hasn't doubled from it's price 3 years ago. It's done nothing really.

Important_Addition

OK, that sounds very interesting but I will need to do more reading on this. IMO anything that helps decentralize sequencers is a good thing but I’m no expert on the downsides.

throwaway92715

Yeah, the ETFs added some chaos to the early cycle this time. It was tripping me out back at the beginning of the year. We've been slowly coming back to reality since then, but IMO this gradual downward crab walk is gonna break out on the upside in the next few months. If we enter a recession, that'll probably delay the upswing even more, at least until the indices find a bottom and the Fed cuts rates enough that whales start buying.

GinormousHippo458

Would a truly intelligent person waste their time, or care for taking and re-re-taking a test? It's a boring competition, between people who typically lack in physical and strategic abilities. IMO a truly intelligent person DGAF about a "score", they would rather apply their knowledge into bettering their condition.

Extreme_Nectarine_29

No one can argue that monero actually haves a usecase! So IMO the price will be stable and not grow very much

giospez

Congratulations on your ROI. Well done. If I were you, I would not liquidate your IRA's to complete the house purchase. Taking the penalty is just throwing money away, and a tiny bit of diversification is always a good idea, IMO. At the end of the day, it will make the difference between being left with 55 btc vs. 60, not really an earth-shattering difference. But this would just be my preference. Everyone is different

px403

I have zero interest in Tether, but I'm not the target audience. The fact is, it's changing lives and enabling people to transact safely in places where US banks can't or won't go, and IMO that's fucking awesome. I've never used Tron, and actually wouldn't even know where to start, but USDT on Tron is killing it, and making the world a safer, more free place to live. More power to them both.

lowprofitmargin

We already use Digital Money, the money at our commercial banks is Private Digital Money. What crypto is doing is prepping / providing an excuse for CBDC aka Digital Public Money to replace Physical Public Money (notes and coins). Physical Public Money is a problem because it’s anonymous, people may use it for legal or illegal purposes and there is no way of knowing. Physical Public Money is only created by the central banks and they IMO want notes and coins gone. So first they will introduce CBDC which is Digital Public Money to sit alongside Physical Public Money. When that’s all working nicely then say goodbye to notes and coins. Crypto has just accelerated the readiness of the public for money to be all digital, Public & Private.

shogun4fun

I personally think using easy money to obtain 9ne of the hardest producing asset isn't that crazy of an idea. If you plan on holding for a couple of halving IMO you will do well. Look how people looked at btc when it was at 10 grand. As you probably already know, many positive changes have happened since then. Not financial advice. Good luck

puffman123

Robin Seyr is a younger face on the block. He is all-in on btc, does some great interviews and is worth a look at. Underrated and under followed IMO.

bigbadhonda

The end goal IMO is programmable money which may be transacted without counterparty risk.

---Truthseeker---

looking at the big picture, everything is going according to plan. Dapps will use L2, can do 100x activity as they are doing now and not have huge fees. This is what was needed to scale. Its new though so will just take time for L2 activity to 100x. IMO will happen eventually.

bobbyv137

While this is true, the time and price based trend of the 4 year cycle is repeating again. Historically, price has broken the then ATH within 6 months of the halving and gone on into the true bull market. That means from late October onwards price ‘should’ begin to accelerate. The obvious issue being never before has Bitcoin experiences a rate cut pivot on this scale. And ultimately the 4 year cycle will break at some point. IMO the price is being insanely manipulated by those with deep pockets, mostly through derivatives. ‘Big money’ will let Bitcoin fly when they want it to. As frustrating this may all seem, the time to panic isnt yet. It’s when price begins to massively deviate from the time based pattern which should be worried. Example: if we’re still at $50k come Q2 next year I’d be very concerned. Something has to give. Bitcoin has always felt somewhat binary to me. I wouldn’t be at all shocked if come the end of summer 2025 it was $25k or $250k.

trifle_hat

A coiling spring is a fitting analogy for Kendu IMO - current volumes across crypto are low, as well as downward price action, but it will reverse. And the work the Kendu community is doing to position itself is second to none. I really think Kendu is an incredible risk reward play

JerryLeeDog

IMO, Jade is the best value out there for new Bitcoiners. I just got one but I'm not a beginner and not my first or ;ast wallet. Its $60, and checks all the right boxes: Open source, Bitcoin only, air gapped, made by Bitcoin nerds Bitbox02 and ColdCard are also great options

Living_Usual_8326

IMO, if you don´t need the money might as well just HODL it for some more years since you got in the market in a good time. Good luck!

ZenRiots

With every crypto influencer being paid BIG money for pimping the Ledger over the past few years... And I mean BIG money. I knew back in 2020 that this was going to end badly. No company selling a simple product has that much money to pay people to buy it. The only way the company is willing to spend that much to put their product in the hands of people is if they have another revenue stream that requires Mass adoption. I don't know what it is, or even if it is. But when it comes to alternative disruptive finance, IMO, any company pushing that kind of money around to put their products in the people's hands is IMMEDIATELY suspect. I bought an Ellipal... COMPLETELY AIR GAPPED is the only truly secure method of securing your private keys

P2PTrades

Closed source code so you can’t audit it. Open source code, or fuck off IMO

Datsyuk420

IMO, you don't want it to be in the hands of a custodian. That's a feature of Bitcoin. They can't rug pull you. If your money is in the bank, someone can tell you that it's gone. If you own your own home, you still don't fully own the land it's on and can get seized at any moment. If you have money in retirement, that can be seized at any time as well. A big feature of Bitcoin is that you are the bank. Yes, it's scary because you can lose it, and there's no help to get it back. But with great power comes great responsibility. I would look into the Executive order 6102. It is the main reason people say, "Not your keys, not your cheese"

advias

Yes, it's a needed step into decentralizing access to the internet like GPUs and servers in general. Although, IMO decentralized AI will be the largest sector in terms of value in the next 2 years behind deFi - for the same reasons defi is important, deAI will be as well when AI becomes a normal part of life. Depin will continue it by catering to it. The issue is deAI has a lot of vapor and marketing gimmicks that pretend they're decentralized when they aren't, like telegram bots that pretend they're decentralized, or models with tokens that call themselves decentralized because you use a token to use the model.

TemporaryMovie5394

IMO that sounds like the right amount.. ETFs will do well over a long term investment period anyways, and Im not sure what country you're in, but in Canada/US there are tax-free investment accounts, so your gains will not be taxed, unlike buying your own Bitcoin

stanley_fatmax

DCA IMO, hindsight is always 20/20, foresight doesn't exist. People lose fortunes trying to time markets.

JustinPooDough

The fact that miner capitulation and accumulation are going on, we’re dealing with Mt Gox, supply overhangs, and the price is averaging 60k… is bullish as hell. The old high range is the new low range - just like every other cycle. It’s literally all going to plan. The high pre halving was largely due to the etf hype and changes nothing IMO - aside from adding to the next potential high.

HesitantInvestor0

What I don't like is that everyone in this space is hyper bullish and incapable of any criticism or concern. Everything is bullish to them, and there is no limit to that. Peter Dunworth recently talked to Robin and said he wouldn't be surprised if 100,000 SATS could buy a house some day in the next twenty years. For that to happen, assuming prices of homes only double (they'll likely do much more than that", Bitcoin would be somewhere around a BILLION per coin. 21 quadrillion market cap. It's a nearly 17,000x from here. And did Robin push back or ask how that is possible? Nope. Fuck it, it aligns with his blindly bullish view. I think this space is going to continue to suck until people can at the very least contend with the unlikely nature of their predictions. Peter Dunworth should have been asked to justify his opinion. Something along the lines of "If Bitcoin reaches your prediction, it puts the cap at 21 quadrillion. That would be 40x the current amount of global wealth. How is this possible? Is your assumption that Bitcoin takes 100% of wealth? Do you think Bitcoin takes 10% but global wealth somehow explodes to 210 quadrillion? What do other assets look like in this scenario?" The fact he can let crazy shit be spoken and not even feel the need to expand makes him useless in this space IMO. Seems like a nice guy, but watching a nice guy be delusional is not worth my time.

EarningsPal

It also depends on exactly how stubborn he will hold. Person 1: Will self custody the BTC and consider it theirs no matter what. If they lose their job. They will not consider the BTC to exist in their possession. Person 2: Will keep it on an exchange and sell at a loss if they lose their job. One person will destroy their credit, maybe end your bankrupt with 0 BTC remaining. The other will also be bankrupt, except they still have a chance out there floating around in our imagination. IMO, if you’re going to do something like this, you BETTER HODL no matter what or don’t do it. You may only need one more year. Deal with the stress.

segersmarc

IMO that’s a dangerous game

Spy_v_Spy_Freakshow

Depends on the interest rate you have on your mortgage. If it’s under 5%, keep your crypto, IMO

YouTurmoil

IMO very unlikely. Right now is a very good time buy in I think.

KoldPurchase

[See here](https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/31/politics/donald-trump-tax-returns/index.html) He refused to release his tax returns, among other things, to a House Committee. > I don’t think politicians or their immediate family should be allowed to  trade stocks or invest in anything they can sway… public servants should serve to serve, not get filthy rich IMO Way too large. It basically mean they would rely only on their income to retire. You'd fail to attrack interesting candidates. Anyone who has an opportunity to keep working in the private sector or with a well paying job would stay there. I don't see a problem with it, so long as they don't own the stock on companys they regulate, or don't own the stocks directly.

duke_flewk

I googled “trump refuses to file declaration of interest” I got two pages of news results none were about my search.  I don’t think politicians or their immediate family should be allowed to  trade stocks or invest in anything they can sway… public servants should serve to serve, not get filthy rich IMO

CryptoFuturo

$500 to $60k is growth of 120x and that happened in about 8 years. Another 120x takes us to $7.2m. $10m by 2050 is definitely possible and likely IMO.

Traditional-Fan-9315

I think this model is for without inflation? I didn't watch the video though. If inflation ends up being double in 25 years which could very well happen, then a $5 million in today's dollars isn't really that absurd. Depending on the infrastructure and security of BTC, both a 5 and a 10 million dollar coin are possible IMO

Similar_Scar7089

I'd only recommend multisig to businesses or when multiple people want to manage a wallet. Single SIG with a passphrase is best, IMO, for individual's. You could stamp your seedphrase into metal, keep a copy yourself and in the bank vault if you choose. Tell your kids your passphrase, save your passphrase online in a few platforms. You can afford to be 'unsafe' with your passphrase assuming no one has access to your seedphrase.

Silarous

It really doesn't matter who or what it is. Liquidating the Satoshi stack will reveal too much information to remain a mystery. If Satoshi is alive and still has access to the keys, their identity is clearly more valuable to them than the monetary gain. IMO, it really boils down to three things as to why Satoshi's stack remains untouched. 1. They are dead. 2. They lost the keys. 3. They wish to stay anonymous.

Elonbull420

IMO the FED decreasing rates and starting QE is going to be more impactful than the election

na3than

>IMO this should be the main topic… thoughts? Price should NEVER be the main topic in this subreddit.

fallingveil

Neoliberal interests hand-wringing publicly about bitcoin is IMO the most confidence-boosting signal you could ever get.

Wonderful_Fun543

So you get all the taxes, and they get all the plausible deniability and anonymity? Fuck no, not even for 30% IMO.

HedgehogGlad9505

That's because you can't turn stock into cash within a few hours. Even moving fiat from online bank leaves trace of the robber's bank account. But if the robber forces you to withdraw btc from Coinbase to his wallet, it's instant and can't be traced. So it's the same as self custody IMO.

Swerve99

not worth it with such a little amount IMO. but if you insist then i’d use rocketpool

Alfador8

100% agree and I'm similarly preparing. IMO there will be a massive correction, but there will be equally massive intervention to try to right the ship, which will be very good for bitcoin (and other assets), but very bad for inflation.

Alfador8

>Even if the definition is 20% per year, that's already insane to assume for the next 10 years. I think it depends on what you're measuring the inflation of. CPI? Not gonna hit 20%. Insurance? Healthcare? Food? It depends, IMO. >And if he says 100 bucks will be worth nothing, 20% per year isn't enough for that. 10 years of 20% inflation would result in $100 being worth the equivalent of $16 in purchasing power today. Not nothing, but a pretty significant decrease. >I even believe we will go into deflation in the near future to strenghten the dollar against other currencies to stay the economic powerhouse. If we do, we're fucked. We need a lot of inflation to have any chance of paying down the national debt. With deflation, the $35T we currently owe becomes harder to pay off, even disregarding the second and third order consequences of deflation like reduced tax receipts. If our debt gets too far out of control the Treasury market could go no-bid and would destroy the dollar.

eyedude2898

Saylor and others have been pointing out that the first country to print money to buy BTC wins. IMO we may be several cycles away from this happening, but it eventually will, and that's when we'll see ridiculous levels like $10M/coin.

CryptoScamee42069

Hedge fund/market maker fuckery IMO

mostowjohnny

I bought a house years back it’s a financial burden. And. Everything is massively overpriced rn. My suggestion is stay in the apt. Keep stacking until we see new ATH. Wait for the crash during recession to buy a house IMO

Swerve99

BTC the only large cap to be buying rn IMO. the etfs just keep vacuuming up coins.

HODL_monk

Lots of people hype up Bitcoin as a bearer asset, but this causes lots of issues, and its not just cold storage. Lenders have lost coins, exchanges, and even though no ETF has been hacked, they also have not been around very long. No matter where you store your Bitcoin, there will be risks. IMO, you should learn how multisig works and use that setup, then sell your bitcoin as you have a need for the money, and pay taxes slowly over time, instead of all at once moving into an ETF. You might check with GBTC. They used to take physical bitcoin and give shares of their trust. There might be a tax free way to do that, but I don't know.

Gig-a-bit

F@ck what OTHER people want YOU to do. You make the decisions that are best for your path through life. They’ll wish they made your choices in the not too distant future IMO.

flavourantvagrant

DCA. But not that from about a month or so on, r are predicted to begin the parabolic rally which happens every 4 years. See btc 4 year cycle. The next phase starting in a month, lasting about a year, will see crazy price increases and volatility. So if you were going to DCA harder then do around that phase and less in that phase, IMO. Also, mentally prepare yourself for the volatility and some scary numbers . Don’t sell.

flavourantvagrant

IMO, as you don’t know about crypto fiat, then you need something simple, digestible and ideally fun to watch you get you going. Search school of block on YouTube. Look for this playlist by Ledger and I think you’ll thank me. Secondly, last btc cycle, I bought near top and my reasoning was that: if I don’t buy a lot now then I might forget about btc and I will probably miss the next dip. Of course that was FOMO and greed but the point is, you need to DCA. I would aim to DCA at least half of all the assets you own over the next 3-4 years. Why 3-4 years? Look into the bitcoin 4 year cycle. Basically every 4 years it’s topping out. Next top in a year. One after that in 5. If you’re gonna be buying a bit in this top, at least you can get the majority of the rest at better prices before the next top. Yes so there’s a peak expected next year. BTC isn’t cheap now at the moment but it’s ok. Next year it won’t be at all, relatively speaking. Buying too much then might mean you see losses for some time, when you enter the bear. You might consider choosing a lump sum your be willing to buy right now, e.g. 25k. You might DCA that sun over the following 8 weeks aggressively and then do lighter DCA for following 1 year as we’ll be close to topping out. When we slip into bear in about 1.5 years, maybe start proper DCA with a bigger more regular figure. With DCA you’re supposed to just stick to a number…but due to the timing of your entry, this might be a more profitable strategy. Finally, just buy real BTC. Have full sovereignty and liquidity of your own assets. I suspect if you learn enough about btc, you might realise you want to for the enticing principles that come along with decentralised money

DuckDuckMosss

At your timeframe, getting a job that pays $50-100k is more life-changing than investing in Bitcoin, IMO.

kilo6ronen

IMO there’s just so many better options with better tokenomics. Personally I would have sold immediately even for a loss and moved my money

jawni

That's kind of hilarious, because Cardano is literally the most liked altcoin in this sub besides ETH. If there is a negative post about Solana, all the negative comments will be upvoted, all the comments defending Solana will be downvoted, **regardless of the veracity or quality of the comment**. If there is a negative post about Cardano (like this post), all the negative comments about Cardano will be downvoted, all the positive comments will be upvoted, once again, **regardless of the veracity or quality of the comment**. I made two very detailed and relevant comments that were less than favorable towards Cardano, but IMO were fair and accurate assessments. Only got 1 reply, but many downvotes. And even then that one reply had to pick and choose what points to address and which points to ignore and got upvoted. You'll also only ever see post about more niche things when they related to Cardano, because if they got posted about another coin they'd just get downvoted. Things like random small partnerships, exchange listings, protocol upgrades, etc. [example](https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/search?q=cardano+fork&restrict_sr=on&include_over_18=on&sort=relevance&t=all) Trusting this subreddit to tell you it's own bias in an unbiased way is like when a company says "we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing." A lot of people here love Cardano and love to think that they are the minority, when the curation of this subreddit clearly paints the opposite picture. Obviously I have my own biases, but when you look at the big picture I feel it's hard to ignore the favoritism. Just search different coin names on this subreddit, read the comments, and fact-check them. You'll be amazed by how much of this subreddit's content is just flat out lies that get perpetuated endlessly.

Tasty_Action5073

The cryptography is pretty basic in Bitcoin IMO 😅 that’s the least interesting part. Bitcoin is so much more than cryptography.

manav241219

Well IMO in current scenario all over the world it more chance of Evil counties or Evil alliance to Nuke the shit out of the world than the above happening, Even than the evil country has to have a motive to kill bitcoin which could be its treasure trove.

LordOfTrubbish

That's not a kink, it's just mindless consumerism, and IMO a big part of what makes collecting them such an *unattractive* hobby to so many people to begin with.

moonst1

Some news aggregators (e.g., cryptopanic) also post some important tweets. IMO, twitter has too much noise anyway. If you're not a daytrader, I think it's better to NOT have twitter.

No-Contribution9918

Eh, Cardano being slightly more expensive than Ethereum is not really that interesting IMO, especially given the fact that both are still some the least scalable chains in crypto (and both chains are generally pursuing "L2 scaling"). But yeah, many of these are why I myself left Cardano a while ago. >For some reason Cardano has a higher % of closed source apps than any other ecosystem, which goes against the ethos of blockchain and decentralization. No offense, but I don't think you've looked at other chains outside of (I assume) the largest chains like Ethereum and Bitcoin. There are definitely chains that have quite a high percentage of closed-source apps. As long as you can reverse engineer smart contracts, nothing is truly "closed source"; assuming you mean not having a visible repo though, then yeah, Cardano has that problem, but I don't know if I would say it has *the* highest percentage of closed-source apps.

adioking

Sold all my BTC and went all in on margin with an ETF so I could double my exposure. If you truly believe, then this is the way IMO. NFA 😂

Sidivan

HBAR is the long term play IMO. There’s so many massive companies quietly working in the background. They’re focused on practical use cases and creating value rather than price action. It’s the corporate research approach to the space as opposed to the grass roots “guy in his basement” development we’ve seen with BTC, ETH, ADA, etc… I realize most crypto people like the single genius inventor stereotype, but real growth happens when a well-funded company decides to take time to develop the vision.

SpecialDonkey6563

I agree that he would be capable. But it seems highly improbable to go to such lengths due to the fact that nobody even thought to look at it until years later. To try and come up with that kind of scenario ahead of time just isn’t likely IMO. The simplest answer is the guy sending the emails is different than the guy running in the race. And thus the most likely answer. Of course there is no way to know with certainty for either Hal or Len, unless somebody finds their keys and can trace them to either person.