Crash Update ! ( I have not seen numbers this bad since the Terra Luna collapse ! )

Solana:     - 23.6 %
Matic:       - 26.2 %
Chainlink:  - 15.8 %
Optimism: - 22.1 %
Avalanche: - 17.6 %
IMX:          - 17.8 %
Gala:         - 21.1 %
LDO:          - 17.6 %
Sandbox:    - 22.6 %
Ethereum:  - 5.7 %

Quant:       - 5.4 %

I don't think it's impossible to revisit a 21K BTC, so I am trying to protect my investments.

P.S. Got me 34 more QNT !

So once again QNT jumps to the top of my portfolio with 100 QNT . I suspect most of you know about what Quant is trying to do, so I will just outline a few reasons:

First of all, as far as Altcoins are concerned... we're still in a Bear Market. Maybe even AT THE BOTTOM of the Bear Market ( or near the bottom )
This could go on for another 6 to 9 months for Alts as Bitcoin's Market Cap dominance is still high.
So rather than putting my money in a risky, extremely volatile Alt like FLUX or SFUND ( both of which I absolutely love, and are near the lowest
they have been during this bear market ), I decided to invest in something relatively low risk. I didn't choose any of the top 10 as I believe the upside potential is low ( 4X or less for most of them ).
So Quant being outside of the top 30 gives me just the right balance of risk and upside potential.
Here's a few other reasons:
Quant offers a Gateway to the world of Finance: Banks, Institutions, Corporate and CDBCs.
Interoperability is at the core of this offering.
Huge partnerships, strong leadership and highly disruptive.
Low token supply, high utility, potentially high demand.
Battle tested during previous markets and one of the best performers during the last Bull Run.

While the current price is disappointing, I did the numbers and QNT is up 160% from the absolute bottom of the bear market nearly a year ago.
I compared this with many other leading projects ( Matic, XRP, Cardano, LINK, Solana, Avalanche, IMX, BNB, ALGO and a few others ) and
QNT has outperformed all of them ( during this Bear Market ). A few other tokens like INJ and Render have better numbers , but also
more volatility on the way down. If for some reason BTC goes back to 21K or 20K I'd hate to be holding too many of those.
Incidentally, token performance is not just how fast the gains are when things are going well, it's also how strong a token is when BTC is crashing... and I have noticed that QNT has managed to outperform giants like BTC, ETH and MATIC on the way down at least a few times.
So for me QNT is a low risk, strong performer with huge potential upside... which is why it currently sits at the top of my portfolio stack.

Trying to buy Aimedis tokens and realize you need to use WETH ( Wrapped ETH ) to buy them. Why is this ? Why not just ETH ? And if I try to buy them with ETH... will I be unable to trade ?
Not just referring to AImedis but there are several other tokens that require WETH to buy them, not keen on using WETH

Couldn't see anything from that tiny Thumbnail pic.
By the way, does anyone know how to embed pictures properly on each post ? I tried imgur which is used EVERYWHERE , and Bitcoin Forum tells me it can't accept or display imgur links. Very frustrating !

So can anybody explain how Gods Unchained, ranked outside of the top 500 by CoinGecko has this much volume and transactions

https://imgur.com/9ZMn5SC

while Illuvium, a AAA game ranked near the top 100 has near zero transactions ?

https://imgur.com/pxWIFbY

well, I gotta say I am now a bit confused looking at some of this data.
I am invested heavily into Illuvium, thinking it's the number 1 gaming project in Crypto, and here the data
for volume and transactions during this bear market is almost flat ! What's more, Illuvium is ranked outside of the top 1000 for games way
below TownStar and Axie Infinity ( a game I thought was already dead ) Axie Infinity by the way is very near the top 10.
Going by CoinGecko Stats ( rankings ) which is what I normally use for when I research a project, TownStar is the one ranked outside of the
top 1000, while Illuvium is near the top 100 ( cryptos , not games ) So what gives ? Am I reading this all wrong ?

I use CoinGecko all the time and find it useful for many metrics, but I never knew it listed those stats I mentioned before.
There are some more specialized pages that have a ton of stats ( such as DeFi Llama and Statista ) it's just hard to know exactly which ones for crypto gaming.
So let's pick one project for example, Bloktopia. Where exactly in CoinGecko do you find the Stats I requested for this ?

https://imgur.com/NUKzyJZ

None of those tabs circled have them

How do you check Gaming Statistics on a crypto gaming project?

Mostly interested in:
Average monthly users
Yearly / Monthly revenue
weekly / monthly growth
rate of adoption

I remember seeing these figures and more for Axie Infinity when Axie was the number 1 P2E game in the crypto space, so now that we are at the bottom
I need this info to see if I could invest in the newer gaming projects such as:

TownStar
Illuvium
Bloktopia
Wilder World
Gods Unchained
Everdome
Gala
Vulcan Forged
Myria

I'm asking because I am not clear on what links if any this project has to the Terra Luna ecosystem.
Should it be seen as a dead project just because it was part of that ecosystem ? Does it still have links to UST and/or Terra LUNA ?
If they've managed to re-invent themselves this could be ( in theory ) a low cap gem.
Tokenized Stocks is something almost nobody else is tackling, and I for one like the concept. I've been looking to invest in NVIDIA and Google for a while.
So if Mirror has a working protocol where "tokenized" stocks can be traded , why not ? I think Tokenized assets could be the next
big thing, with projects like QUANT and LCX getting involved.

And why Bitcoin Forum now wants me to click on some pop up before every post ? And if I don't... I am labeled a "SPAMMER" ? WTF !??

Does this "star sending" have anything to do with Facebook pay ?

On another related note, some of these Facebook pages charge a "Subscriber" Fee. Not saying this is a way to make money but I saw one particular page where the monthly subscription fee was something like $120 ! Can you believe it ? I guess it could be an attempt from Facebook to steal back some of those Tik Tok influencers they lost a while ago.

Have a look at this:



So as far as I know, these stars are redeemable for money. Seems like the silliest idea, until you see some people are already using it.
In the screen cap example, it's a model / singer who gets stars from fans and can redeem these for money. The person actually running that page is the
mother of the singer, and I imagine she's the one cashing in on her daughter's popularity. But if this works country to country ( model singer is from Asia, fans are
from Europe / US ) could this be a sneaky way to transfer money ?

Anyone done this ? I think Mirror Protocol and FTX used to have this feature where a token would track the price action of your stock ?
Given the ties to the Terra Ecosystem and FTX of course, I'd stay away from these indefinitely. But is there any other decentralized
protocol on the blockchain that offers this ? I think Amazon, Nvidia, Google and Apple were the big ones, so quite possibly there's
a solution out there. Something like Injective Protocol maybe ?

P.S. I think several centralized exchanges offer access to stock markets but I rather use a DEX.

Well, the ad blocker was originally an extension so I checked and it is removed. Also not listed as a program separately , checked Control Panel.
I guess if the problem persists I will do a fresh install of Chrome.

No man, Newsgroups were never about "News". It's basically anonymous file sharing. Much faster than webpages if you know what you're looking for.
I think I will try it for the reasons I explained in my first post. Webpages sometimes die and never come back, old programs get discontinued, etc.
But it's true that for the most part Newsgroups have been replaced by better ways of sharing content.

Okay ! Thanks for all the inputs ppl. I switched over to Firefox, problem solved ! But just in case, I installed uBlock Origin, enabled it and no problems so far.
Went back to Chrome,  the pop up issue still happening !, the AdBlock extension did nothing to fix it, in fact... i run the trial version to see if it worked, and when it didn't
I stopped using it. So now I get the AdBlock Ad Pop Up spamming me every 5 seconds ! Nice !



I'd hate to have to remove Chrome from my laptop, but what other choice do I have now ? I already removed the AdBlock extension from Chrome and
the damn pop up is still there, rearing its ugly head on every page I browse !

From time to time I get a subscription offer from EasyNews on my email... I wonder. Are Newsgroups still alive ?
I think Newsgroups were good for the anonymity and speed... two of the things Blockchains are known for. But .... what about
the content ? Well, many of the webpages I used to follow have for some reason , disappeared ! Others are just impossible to find...
google search does not help either, it takes you to fake spam sites that are potentially harmful. So after some months of waiting
and thinking ( my fav site never came back ), I'm almost ready to try Newsgroups again. Full disclosure here, I'm looking for a
specific version of Edius ( Edius 6 ) which is available for free to registered users on the Grass Valley site.  I did register my
details on their site more than 2 weeks ago, never heard back from them ( my registration data needed to be checked and processed )
I did try some free alternatives to Edius which did not work on my laptop, either my GPU was not supported or some other issue.
So I guess Newsgroups are my last resort... if I don't find what I'm looking for, it's only a $5 subscription fee anyway.
Thoughts ?

I'm using Exodus wallet by the way. ETH network fees were $420 ( Australian Dollars ) at one point, and as low as $ 5.60 that same night.
A while later I checked again they were still around $120. So they are wildly volatile as you can see, and I don't know whether this is
an issue with the Exodus wallet but I normally try to pay less than $ 15. I see other chains like BNB charging a lot less, but most tokens
can only use ETH.

So this would have been the cost of ONE transaction. That's right, one.