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2681  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: What might occur on the next bear market on: May 03, 2022, 04:42:17 AM
I am starting to see the drop of NFTs, especially with the p2e NFTs. Those that have cost $2k for that NFT to be able to start their p2e journey were done by almost 99% or close to that. And if we hover through the bear market, a lot of it will evetually die. Also with those popular NFT, we are going to see how strong they are. But the same as the trend of Ico, when bitcoin has entered bear market, they no longer can stand the heat of bloods while on bear.

Much of them was hype and the model in which they base the profitability of players is not very sustainable. It would need for new players to come in every month, however, this is impossible. Look at where the floor prices of Axies presently are and if the game is still profitable to play for the nongamers.

I remember a picture where there was an old man who said he wished that Axie Infinity will not go away. He might not be playing anymore, I reckon. It was a bad model based on profitability instead of building a sustainable community of users.
2682  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: SOL The Chain Goes down Again ! ETH 2.0 and upgrade is the only solution ? on: May 03, 2022, 03:07:24 AM
Imo cosmos ibc is better than all chains mentioned, but then again nothing in this world is perfect, so I assume as it gets more use it's cons will be revealed in due time.

All blockchain platfroms will have their own pros and cons. I reckon one of the biggest cons in Cosmos is it is harder to deploy a project compared to Ethereum or Binance smart chain where developers only need to know solidity so they can deploy their smart contracts. In Cosmos it is something similar to deploying your own blockchain if I am not mistaken.
2683  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: SOL The Chain Goes down Again ! ETH 2.0 and upgrade is the only solution ? on: May 03, 2022, 02:15:47 AM
@makishart. The Solana Foundation made some instructions in how to block NFT minting bots to fix the problem. I reckon this is very dangerous because it creates a setting for block producers on how easy it would be to create a storyline for censorship. What is spam and what is not? Anything censored only because it is considered spam should be very concerning.
2684  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: What might occur on the next bear market on: May 02, 2022, 04:31:46 AM

What is sad about these layer1 projects is that investors think that all these dumps are opportunity to buy at cheaper price. Nxt  is still around up to this day even when close to 10 years ago they were already here  like NEM.

I'm however not going to look at the top layer1 project to like the two, SOL, Matic or AVAX will likely going to continue to be used like ETH and BNB but some inferior ones might not survive when delisted.

I was one of the people who has speculated that Solana might be the Binance smart chain killer hehe. However, everyone I has witnessed how very wrong that prediction was. Solana has again suffered another outage that lasted for 7 hours. A platfrom like this where design weaknesses cause outages will not have longterm support from developers and users. Those VCs will also certainly dump their Solana tokens when their unlocks begin this year and they might never return.



Solana stakeholders rushed to right the network Saturday night after what one insider called “insane amount of data” flooded the proof-of-stake chain, knocking validators out of consensus and grinding still block production.

For reasons not yet clear, this swarm pushed validators out of consensus. Block production became impossible and the network went dark at 4:32 p.m. EST. By 11:00 p.m. EST, validators (coordinating through Solana’s Discord channels and a Google doc created by one of the validators) restarted the cluster at slot 131973970.

Unlike last September’s 17-hour outage, Saturday’s hard fork restart did not resolve with new-and-improved code populating across the validators. They simply picked up where the network flopped seven hours prior.


Source https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/05/01/solana-goes-dark-for-7-hours-as-bots-swarm-candy-machine-nft-minting-tool/
2685  Other / Archival / Re: Why has bitcoin adoption failed in El Salvador? on: May 02, 2022, 03:47:25 AM
Most recently, a report was released where a survey of residents of El Salvador was conducted. And judging by this survey, bitcoin adoption in El Salvador failed.

Full report here: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29968/w29968.pdf?utm_campaign=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&amp%3Butm_medium=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&amp%3Butm_source=PANTHEON_STRIPPED

Also, go to table 3. These people who have been continuing to use the Chivo wallet appear to be using it for payments made through American dollars. The government of El Salvador might have created their own dollar stablecoin instead of bitcoinizing their country hehehe. It appears Jack Maller's original plan for Strike in using USDT might have been more preferable for the people.
2686  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing] Shakur Stevenson vs Oscar Valdez Title Unification Fight (April 30) on: May 02, 2022, 02:46:45 AM

A lot of us definitely misjudge Shakur because he is young and lack of fight experience but surprisingly he is much fast. His hands is just too quick to throw not giving Oscar  the time react and a punch lands his face all the time.  The book makers are right about their odds in this fight. Shakur is pretty much a hybrid, I think he can beat Mayweather with such agility. He made Oscar look very rookie.

I very much agree. If you trusted the sportsbooks and made a bet on Shakur Stevenson to win with a decision which had the odds of 1.51 only minutes before the fight began, it would have been an easy money hehe. This appears to be a common occurrence in many fights in the sport of boxing. This is also certainly why I always lose money hehehe. Similar to Canelo versus Bivol, my money might lose again because it will be on Bivol.
2687  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [Boxing] Crawford vs Spence on: May 02, 2022, 02:25:25 AM

When I read the subject, I thought right away it was now official that there will be Crawford vs Spence fight. Cheesy

It's no doubt that it was a much-awaited fight for most boxing fans. For now, the status is just pure speculation.

I will just refer to what Spence Jr. said prior to his fight against Yordenis Ugas that he will settle with 2 fights before moving up. The first was done and won it vs. Ugas and the second one should be vs. Crawford as I don't think it's anyone else aside from him.

It might only be a speculation today, however, I am having a strong suspicion that Errol Spence's team and Terence Crawford's team are already thinking that the promoters are ready to bring the money, the fans are ready to spend the money and they also each other speculate that both teams are ready to accept a deal after what these boxers showed in their last fights.

@wheelz1200. My first choice to win was also Crawford but after witnessing Spence win versus Ugas with a technical knockout, I am not certain anymore hehehe. It might be another bet for the underdog, however, if the odds are very fair for the 2 of them, 1.90 vs. 2.00 for example, the pick might be Spence heheheheeh.
2688  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2022-01-29] Biden Admin To Regulate Bitcoin As A Matter Of National Security on: May 02, 2022, 01:16:05 AM
@Kakmakr. Agreed. Similar to any type of new technology that causes a foundational change on how we were doing things, there will always be the traditionalists like government or an outdated corporation who will fight this development to maintain the old order of things. In the cryptospace, it is also happening. There also many cryptotraditionalists who are rejecting Defi, ICOs and NFTs.
2689  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: What might occur on the next bear market on: May 01, 2022, 06:02:57 AM
@kidbounty. The layer 1 blockchain projects with strong communities are only Ethereum and Binance smart chain. I reckon if you still hold tokens in those other blockchains with weaker communities, it might be good for you to sell them now. Much of them will not be noticed on the next bull market where it will be the newer projects that will get all the hype.
2690  Economy / Gambling / Re: 🌴 PlataOCrypto.io 🦩 - The Casino is yours - Casino & NFT Shareholders on: April 30, 2022, 05:45:57 AM
@PlataOcrypto. Do you as issuer of the NFT have a marketplace for them for buying or selling? It would be very helpful for potential investors to see a floor price and it will certainly create more interest if the NFT can be sold at higher prices in Opensea or Looksrare.

In any case, Putty Finance might be useful for you and the holders of Platao's NFTs. I reckon maybe NFT issuers can work with them.

https://testnet.putty.finance/
https://docs.putty.finance/overview/introduction

Defi options and other Defi platforms to extract value and create liquidity for NFTs might be the future of services like yours.
2691  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Increasing transparency for new asset listings on Coinbase on: April 30, 2022, 04:30:12 AM
After the listing of Coinbase's shares on the stock exchange, we saw more transparency, although it is not a good thing, but the central platforms get a lot of information and may contribute to the manipulation that sometimes occurs.
If we compare Binance and coinbase in listing policies, Coinbase is better, But does anyone know any information about the assets that will be listed? It's the first time I've heard all of them.

I have heard of only Media, Stepn in Solana, the stablecoins and the tokens of Defi services Dappradar and Dextools. There others appear to be going to obscurity or will go to obscurity in the next bear market.

In any case, the chosen token by Coinbase is Stepn. It is the first project to release a token for the cryptospace's new move to earn storyline where users walk, jog and run to earn tokens. This is yield farming through exercising hehehe.
2692  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Elon and and how this "dude" could effect bitcoin in the future? on: April 30, 2022, 03:53:10 AM
Elon "did" managed to influence bitcoin, mainly doge but I am sure some of that helped bitcoin price to go up as well, specially that 1.5 billion dollars purchase news. Twitter purchase could impact it as well if he somehow integrates it into twitter as well but aside from that I do not see any connection. Twitter is already filled with crypto influencers, unless something changes about that subject, leaving it as it is shouldn't really be a big problem. Even the news of him trying to buy it increased doge which makes no sense, there will no sustainable increase but hypes like these, but it will always be temporary if he doesn't connect the two together.

The community should return to reality. Elon Musk made a margin loan of $12.5 billion to buy Twitter. He used $62.5 billion of stocks of Tesla as collateral for this. It is speculated that if Tesla dumps by 43%, Elon will have a margin call. This -43% dump is when the price of Tesla stock is $571.

The American economy, similar to other countries' economies, might enter a recession. $571 per Tesla stock is very much a possbility if we enter a recession. What do companies do if they take risk and needs more liquidity? They sell assets. What is one of the easiest assets to sell that Tesla owns in their treasury?



Assuming a starting value of $1,000 per share, the margin call comes at a share price of $571, at which point Musk would have to find $2.6 billion to lower the outstanding amount of the loan and bring the loan to value ratio down to the reset level. This could force the sale of some of Musk’s Tesla shares, putting downward pressure on the share price and lowering the collateral value further.

Source https://seekingalpha.com/article/4503494-tesla-stock-as-collateral-to-buy-twitter-avoid-buy-the-dip



Also, there were articles that Michael Saylor has also made loans against Microstrategy's bitcoin as the collateral.
2693  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / What might occur on the next bear market on: April 30, 2022, 02:12:05 AM
I reckon it might look very similar to the bear markets of the past where much of the other attempts of the old layer 1 blockchain projects have failed to help the growth of their ecosystems. Fantom, Atom, Avax, Terra, Algorand, Cardano might slowly enter obscurity similar to Nxt and Nem.

There will also be many failures of tokens issued in those layer 1 blockchain projects. The development teams of those projects might dump and leave the project or just leave and let the projects die. I also speculate that it might also be a similar occurrence in the NFT ecosystem. Teams will run out of money and leave.

Much of the gamefi ecosystem will also die with only a very few of those projects to survive. We are presently already witnessing this.

The projects that were created during the bull market will have their first token unlocks this year and next year which will cause more selling and dumping on their communities.

Also, the regulators will be coming and this will cause more fear and pressure within the cryptospace.
2694  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin ATM Installed in Mexican Senate Building !!! on: April 29, 2022, 03:42:38 AM
What do I think about this news? After being tricked by the announcement of Do Kwon which might only be hype and the news about the Central African Republic's acceptance of bitcoin which might come only from sauces, I am beginning to notice something. There might be some whales out there who want to hype bitcoin out of desperation. This is what I think about this news. I am back to being the skeptical me. Call me the antagonizer again.

100% right. At least you learned your lesson about getting tricked by hype etc.

Remember that even El Salvador was kind of a move by big bitcoin whales in the Miami conference. I don't think personally the president ever thought about it himself, the idea was just planted and they did everything, all he did was sign the presidential decree (obviously it had to be since the people never heard about it much to say even voted).

We all need to be smarter than taking sauce Smiley

Bitcoin's recognition as legal tender or an official currency in many countries will be good, however, El Salvador and the Central African Republic being 3rd world countries, their implementations for infrastructure will be with many failures similar to El Salvador's Chivo wallet.

This also does not make a bitcoin pump to a new all time high a certainty. An argument can be made that all the weak hype articles are only stories created out of desperation. I speculate a whole cryptospace market dump within this year. Everyone hyping for all time high on 2022 will be wrong.
2695  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: First African country adopts Bitcoin as official currency on: April 29, 2022, 02:35:50 AM
<…> Does that imply that everything about this is only fake news from sauces? <…>
Not necessarily. I’m currently more lenient to remaining sceptical, being there a lack of proper official source so far. I often try to go to the root source (or nearby) as a habit on relevant news, but it seems quite a task so far to move away from some stray tweet from a non-official source.

The amount of noise on the matter from all sorts of media, reputable and whatnot, suggests that there is likely something that is taking place, and it could turn out to be true, but we have seen recently how some new get blown out of proportion in a widely fashion, and how bitcoin legal tender was being attributed to Madeira, when the reality is a watered down version, closer to favouring its use there than anything else.

My scepticism may well be proven ungrounded in the aftermaths, and I really hope it is by finding a proper source and the real details behind of how it is going to be played out. Amongst other issues, the estimate of population with internet in the country is only 7,1%, which is a massive handicap to address in the bitcoin as a legal tender scenario.

Edit:
This seems to be the president's Twitter:
https://twitter.com/FA_Touadera

And this the press release found on a post on his account, which brings officiality to the matter:
https://twitter.com/FA_Touadera/status/1519300171615592448?cxt=HHwWgICzxZvd0ZUqAAAA

Bill: see complete law here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5396366.0

Looks real now, although I don't get the incongruence between making bitcoin legal tender and the bill that verses on the term "cryptocurrencies" in general (look at articles 10 and 11 in prior link).


I speculate that what it might be is the government of the Central African Republic is making their jurisdiction open to all of the cryptospace and not favoring only 1 cryptocurrency. Does this imply that it is on the business owner to make the decision of which cryptocoin he wants to accept? This would be similar to gambling sites in the cryptospace where they can accept bitcoin, litecoin, dogecoin and many others to choose from.

You are correct that this news is being blown out of proportion again. However, my argument before is if a government recognizes a currency by law as a means to pay taxes, settle debts, payments and other financial obligations, does this not imply that the currency recognized is legal tender?
2696  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: An African country officially adopts Bitcoin as legal tender on: April 29, 2022, 02:19:21 AM
I created a thread about this already 4 days ago. Let us discuss everything there.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5395977.0
2697  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🥊 The UFC Info and Prediction Thread on: April 29, 2022, 01:46:02 AM
Completely forgot that there is going to be Jake Collier vs Andrei Arlovski fight this weekend. This guy, Arlovski just cant get enough of fight. 43 years, 55 fights in professional career, been in UFC for 22 years. Again, Arlovski is sort of a card feeler, as his opponents record is like zebra - win/lose/win/lose... Arlovski has replaced Justin Tafa, who withdrew from fight. Well, that does not make Collier fight easier Cheesy I think Arlovski is going to win this fight (because Collier won previous fight and "zebra" rule gonna be used here Cheesy)

Agreed with your bet. Also, Andrei Arlovski is winning his last 3 fights versus other fighters with no names very much similar to Jake Collar hehehe. Arlovski's last defeat was versus Tom Aspinall. However, Aspinall has shown that he is championship material during his last fight versus Alexander Volkov where he won easily.
2698  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🏈🏈 The American Football Discussion Thread 🏈🏈 on: April 29, 2022, 12:59:12 AM
@DireWolfM14. Carolina Panthers and the New York Giants are the only teams that picked players for offense as of now. However, they are not quarterbacks, wide receivers or running backs. This draft is very different from the draft of last year. Last year was very exciting beginning the pick with Trevor Lawrence with other teams picking their own quarterbacks that might be the future of their franchises hehehe.
2699  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🏈🏈 The American Football Discussion Thread 🏈🏈 on: April 28, 2022, 04:45:16 AM
There are speculations that Samuel Deebo might leave the 49ers, however there is no news on why he wants to leave or where he will be traded. Will it be as simple as he only want to leave California? If it is really his reason, I speculate that he might be moving somewhere in Texas hehehe. It might also be Nevada?



While we still don’t know the precise reason(s) for Samuel’s trade request, the fact that it’s gotten to this point counts as a failure, at some level, by the team. Unless the sole reason is he doesn’t want to be in San Francisco, the 49ers could have said or done something to keep the relationship from disintegrating to this point. And even if it’s as simple as Deebo not wanting to live and work in California and nothing more, his decision to disclose his desire to seek a trade suggests that there’s a level of animosity that shouldn’t exist between an NFL team and such an important player.

Source https://sports.yahoo.com/deebo-samuel-continues-intent-leaving-235904205.html

You will notice this is a growing trend in the NFL. More and more you see guys making a huge fuss about things they wouldn’t have in the past. A lot of it having to do with the franchise tag, that of course the players and their union hate.

I don’t see Deebo going anywhere. Just like how Kyler Murray who removed all his Cardinals photos from instagram isn’t going anywhere. This is how they get teams to meet them halfway, or give them what they want either the next year or when their contract comes due.

I reckon if Deebo wants to be traded to win a ring, I speculate Kyler Murray is making it appear he wants to be traded to get a bigger contract offer than his present contract hehehe. However, there were some teams where he was rumored to be traded. Las Vegas is not one of them which might be the most suitable for him if the Raiders wants to replace Derek Carr.
2700  Economy / Speculation / Re: Terra cofounder Do Kwon is the one who is pumping Bitcoin on: April 28, 2022, 03:48:33 AM
@Sir Legend. We should begin to become more skeptical about Do Kwon and the purpose of his $10 billion bitcoin buy announcement, I reckon. Was it to hype bitcoin? This did not work. Was it to hype Terra? That did not work also. Will Terra hold $10 billion in bitcoin in their treasury? Where will this $10 billion come from? By printing UST? However, Terra will only print UST if there is demand in Terra's Luna token.

It appears being a contrarian where the market is bearish, I want to be bullish has made me become less skeptical and more of a hypeman.
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