I don't think that hype needs to end, eth just needs to scale more for handling anything people are hyped about. Meanwhile i'll stick to sending eth via L2.

I really wish i understood more about it. For now i am shilling it because some cool devs i know are constantly telling me how cool it is. There might be hype because of it but i see it similar to erc721, it's not over by a long shot even though it got way more hype so quickly it wasn't going to be sustainable. People were buying anything NFT related and only few seemed to know what they were doing.

I guess i need to take a day to study it as much as i can and hope i understand more of it.

That's quite a huge blanket that would need to be relevant. Some will stay relevant, some will run out of developer interest or money.
I am guessing godsunchained stay relevant as they keep getting more funding with new card packs. They will get their peaks when they are trending just like pokemon trading cards. At some point everyone is interested, and most of the time it's just die hard fans.

They are however not going to get adopted in similar level that AAA+ games are with their own esports competitions. I wish they would but it would require whole new easier way to use cryptos.

If you are holding your bitcoin in a centralized exchange that offers lending services and you are planning to hold it for a long time no matter how price fluctuates, i can't see any reason not to lend it. But if you are using it as it was meant to use and have self custodity, you might not want to lend it, at least without collateral as that requires ton of trust and you are putting lots of faith to lenders.

I have mad respect for people in the forum lending money for collateral as those act as an alternative for unethical loan sharks and banking services.

Thing with metaverse is that most people don't understand it. Metaverse doesn't mean it needs AR or VR to work. It needs nothing to do with it. AR or VR can act as a GUI for it but it isn't needed as it can be done without fancy visuals. Most of the data inside doesn't need to be visual tp be useful nor does the economy inside the metaverse.

I feel like we are going another "VR revolution phase" after AR become a thing and this all will look similar to the movie "The Lawnmower Man" in the future. Cringe glimpse of future with high expectations and nothing to do with reality.

I see it being totally opposite. I mean people in mainland in general could have more need for crypto but that doesn't matter as those voices doesn't matter. Only CCP matters in there. Meanwhile one country 2 systems is still somewhat happening and people of hong kong demand new things and freedom and some level of autonomity despite from oppressive government.

Without total rebellion of Hong Kong, they stay under thumb of CCP and  i am guessing this is part of their total surveillance plan.

Well attacking CEXes would be obviously most effective starting point, they would be basically exchanges buying and selling unregistered securites in the eyes of SEC.

And you can't really leave all this (declaring some altcoins are securities) to the shoulders of SEC. Many of these currencies has very questionable marketing tactic to begin with.
In sale phase of a token/coin, marketing itself can define if the token or coin is a security. Which is one of the reason when they are attacking the third parties providing the hype for tokens/coins. And i am guessing that most promoters got free hands on promoting and are promoting those assets illegally, hinting any growth in investment price is enough.
 
I am not sure what kind of place twitter is these days but at some point they needed to add more restrictive rules for promoting things like cryptocurrencies. Which most people didn't seem to follow, but i am guessing that was twitter's way of washing their hands so they won't get sued by allowing this.

What are you even talking about? The fact that some field of interest is dominated by men doesn't mean it's mens fault and no-one is even saying that. Quit trying to be victimized.

When majority of the whole cryptocurrency scene, holders, miners, devs, and thought leaders are men, the field is dominated by men. Dominating in a sentence is not a curse word that you should feel shamed about, it's a fact.

Reason why men are dominating the playfield in bitcoin scene, is like you said, women are not that interested in general. That doesn't mean there's not women investing in it or developing it, because there are. And there will most likely be more in the future.

Well they have been saying that xrp is a security for 2 years so i am still waiting for conclusion on that. Many of those i have no clue about and i am wondering why some other obvious securities are not in that list. Maybe they are too low marketcap and low visibility. But i have a feeling that this will be even longer process than anyone thinks. I might be an old man before this is settled.

First of all, they are both bounty campaigns. Singature campaign will give you visibility in here. If you do campaigns anywhere else, i want to suggest that don't push people retweeting, or writing their own spammy tweets about it. And spamming in the telegram is a sure way for me not to get interested. Fake onversations that are transparent ads are annoying as well.

You can just use requirements like changing a profile pic and background pic and some link to description etc. Less invasive is more appealing form of advertisement.

But would you have played snake if it would have long ads that you coudn't skip? Because those bitcoins will need to be paid for something so annoying i would rather just buy bitcoin, And if there's no ads or surveys or pyramid scam, then you are the product that they are selling by collecting every data they can from your device. In fact you can just assume that they are doing both to maximise their profits. So if you aren't dirt poor and want to sell your self for pennies, i would definitely avoid P2E models.

I would be happy with just good old texas hold'em tournaments with big prices. But more the merrier. It's been a long time since i last played and i will definitely join to some matches when this becomes real, but i am wondering if game is at all changed by people using GPT AI. I am starting to think that would make people make safer bets, trusting the probability, but i see it would give people who are irrationally bluffing a huge edge.

Correction, Binance US

FUD is a tactic for market manipulation. I don't think that goal of SEC is to manipulate markets. It's another thing if this is nothing burger or not, but if SEC sees coins they have listed as unregistered securities, they have to take action against Binance US.

Coinbase and Kraken will be next. That's not a FUD. They are located in US as well and in the eyes of SEC they are selling unregistered securities. It's really hard to see US exchanges winning SEC on this case, but let's hope for the best as i don't have a clue what the future is if ton of cryptos are suddenly securities.

Edit: i didn't realize that they have sued CZ himself as well. This is interesting.

This thread was made way before CEX attack on Bincance US that happened just now. I guess this seems like part of the choke point but when you look this from a CEX point of view, In their eyes Binance US was basically unlicensed securities exchange working inside US. So what do you think is going to happen?

I find it more astonishing that people are surprised, or maybe they are just acting surprised. I am guessing that Coinbase gets their charges next. That would bring the market down even more.

But same applies to erc20 and bep20 etc tokens as well. It's because the permissionless nature of blockchain, even trolls can fill it with their junk.

It's inspired by SBT but it's a new concept. Like SBTs but trasferrable and more.

Currently erc-721 NFTs are bound to wallets, just like cryptos are in general. You can think ERC-6551 other way around, wallets bound to NFTs. "Those are called Token Bound Accounts" (TBAs).
From what i understand, for example when you normally link wallets to sites, this could make it it possible to link your nfts. As those become smart contracts themselves.

This post explains it way better than i could:

https://blog.alphapanda.one/token-bound-accounts-erc-6551-the-future-of-nft-wallets/

I am still wrapping my mind around it. It took a while for me to even get erc721 when they came, so i guess i need to see this in action before i truly get the possibilities.

Bull market can get triggered by a rumor but i can't understand why people tend to see china as a huge player in it. Sure they have lots of people but it's notoriously authoritarian regime. They allow it as long it doesn't start to be a shadow banking system, and also people are afraid how west wants to end privacy and regulate cryptos, you might want to take a look what china has done to privacy. Mass surveillance next level and make snowden leaks look like kids stuff.

So if you people think that china of all places would allow it cryptos and their permissionless ideology, you have maybe take 2 steps back and see what they are doing
China is not even trying to hide their surveillance, because they know no one can do anything about it. Ccp doesn't ask for public approval or permissions.

I understand that trading allowed in china is good for volume and liquidity but that's all i can see it affecting. And remember that they are allowing trading of few cryptocurrencies in controlled cexes, so i don't see this as bullish for permissionless ideology of cryptos.

I am even more paranoid and keep my google 2fa auth phone as a seperate phone that i only use for that. Even though i don't keep over $1000 resting in casinos, not because i am worried of being hacked but because i am worried i might gamble everything.

But i agree with you, especially if someone is bragging how rich they are, they might get targeted. I remember some twitter influencer laughing how stupid people are getting hacked and how he has no sympathy for them. It took few days and i guess he provoked someone to hack all his accounts almost simultaneously.

So even though i feel like i am being secure, i am afraid that i have made a mistake at some point. But then again i am not rich enough that anyone would be even interested.

Cult like community doesn't happen at the start when you should invest in it. It comes after there are enough bag holders.

Did Elon tweet about pepe when it was worth buying? No. Did he tweet about dogecoin at the start? No.
Pepe coin had anon team, and it didn't have partners that i know of. Obviously it had some heavy hitters on the team who could affect right influencers and whales but that's it. You couldn't have known it was going to be a hit, because you didn't know what happens behind the closed doors.

I am not saying those are not good tips, they aren't just relevant for finding moonrocket tokens like PEPE.

Financial background, connections, health issues and where you live can be restrictions. Some people just don't have opportunity and there can be as many reasons as there are people. Or even if they would have they might not notice it because lack of resources and education. There is no one main reason.

But we can't all be rich either. It's basically a zero sum game. If everyone was "rich" in fiat money, money wouldn't have no value no more. Workers and things you want and need would cost so much more that your money wouldn't cut it.

Game is pretty much rigged from the start.

That's like saying with laws and police there are still crimes. Or with doctors there are still diseases. You can't remove money laundering completely, FATFs goal is to make it more difficult.

By all means you should avoid kyc if you can, but if you are dealing with fiat money or stablecoins, at some point it's most likely going to be mandatory. And by the look of things, it's going to be eventually mandatory for bitcoin as well as it's now taken more seriously by officials.

Most people that i know who came to trade cryptocurrencies in early days had a long texas hold'em background. I would even call them experts (compared to me) as they ended up in high places in tournaments. Many of them were even playing in live games (not trough net). I guess crypto attracts certain type of people, who want to make money but enjoy the risk as well or the "game" of it.

I know it attracted me and i had some live poker tournament background as well.