I don't usually buy meme coins, but when I was looking at coingecko the other day I saw every fruit and veg and pasta coin there, I thought let me choose one for fun and because we Greeks love our pork chops lol and every time we go out my Sister orders pork chops..or lamb ones. I thought let me grab a bag and you never know where it can go and that's just what I did. I really like the community on Telegram as well, they are actually quite good fun and not fudding it to death rofl  I said to my SIS if this coin explodes I will take her next year to S. Korea and have Korean Barbecue, courtesy of $CHOP.  . W need to get this on tik tok..

                                                                                          

I sure am hodling for the next bull run cycle but it ma be another year before we reach a new ATH in this cycle. Now Bitcoin/Altcoin cycles will be slower and longer and eventually less volatile. It's in the volatility though that we will make the money if we play it smart. Hodling is good but we don't want to also make the mistakes many of us made in 2017 holding and not selling anything at ATH. So this time I am taking profits and growing bags and staking, yield farming, getting rewards for holding now which makes holding valuable and offsets the risks a bit as well. This is important always, to look at the risk/reward ratio of our hodling.

I was thinking about adding DIA to my list of Defi/Oracles bag. It's quite similar to Zap which also uses bonding curves so am looking for a good entry point for this one. I might have missed the boat to get in early but as the market has taken a hit generally over the last few days, many coins have retraced and $DIA is one on my radar. It's just hard with limited funds to just buy into every coin, even if they have a lot of potential. I know there is a huge community behind it and DeFi is the big Niche pushing altcoins forward in the next bull market rally, jut like ICOS did in 2017.

It's like seeing 2017 all over again wiht the ICO boom. The idea behind Defi is brilliant, especially for the Unbanked who have no access to the financial system and yield farming pools are a bit like MINING coins. The only thing is you need to get into these projects early and you need to get into one which isn't a scam. Also as many Defi projects are based on ETHEREUM, you got high gas fees, so no use coming in with anything under 150-200 bucks as a pure minimum. I started my hardcore Defi Journey 2 days ago. I decided on my days off to study and go into 1-3 new Defi projects.. once they bloom a bit take out my initial investment, gas cost and a bit of profit and ride the rest. 1st Project am in profit and own 0.5 of the token which is worth around 0.26 eth at the moment , one I invested in presale and got 15% bonus and will be on uniswap on 29th august and also the 3rd one I am yield farming and once I can unstake will see if I am in profit to sell some and stake the rest, depending on the price. Once I complete a cycle will find another 1-3 projects spread the risk and carry on. Plan is to turn 0.5 eth to 50-1-- eth if I minimize my risk and maximize my gains over time. It's an experiment. 

The Idea and Technology behind Bitcoin were one of the greatest gifts to Mankind in this Era of our development. It also brought with it the best and worst that human nature has to offer but it is here to stay nonetheless. I think now of course Bitcoin is being manipulated by the Big Boys and we small fish just have to go along with the Party line for now. I am grateful to have lived through this experience in my lifetime, even the good and the bad..and hope that the LITTLE MAN will still have something to gain from the LEGACY that Bitcoin has brought to the global financial System. There is still a chance small people can benefit from it directly by owning it and indirectly through it's technological breakthrough.

I like a lot of projects and coins/tokens for different use cases. One though I am especially Bullish on even though it is in the top 20 for the year 2021 is CARDANO. Once CARDANO launches into the Goguen Epoch and we see smart contracts running on CARDANO and DeFi projects on it..I think we should expect ADA to move into the top -5 coins, all  depending on the level of adoption coming, which I think will be quite humongous. I am sure Charles has been working on cementing partnerships all along, while building this COLOSSUS of a project. I am still growing my $ADA bag.

You have now Big Wigs from traditional Financial markets saying that Bitcoin is now a safe haven asset to invest in as the USD and other FIAT currencies around the world cascade downwards in price. Of course the BTC market is heavily manipulated and mainly run by futures and margin traders and bitfinex printing  tons of tether to dump on the crypto markets, but nonetheless, Bitcoin is in limited Supply and that is something that can't be changed. So bearing that in mind, plus the intrinsic value it holds in its technology, we have a long term winner here and I can easily hedge my bets on it even if temporarily we most likely heading down to ten or even nine k for the interim period as margin traders leech out all the profits and gains made from altoins in the past month.

Never give up. We all make mistakes. I didn't cash out all my hard earned profits in 2018 bull run and it was devastating for me. I withered down through the bear market to only 15 bucks to my name left to invest and no job. I found a full time job in a blockchain company and started again investing from my Bitcoin salary every month and grew my portfolio again. I took stock of all my mistakes and tried to learn  from them. In less than 8 months I am now almost at the same point I was before the market blew up into a parabolic bull run. Now I think I am in an even better positions because the projects I have picked to hold are all solid and have achieved and are achieving their mile stones. You need to enter this market with a calm and rational head and don;t fomo into every shit coin because some pump and dump group on telegram 'told ' you to. Do your own research and enter each coin in the dips, then your risk is much less. Just don't give up, we are still a very small marketcap right now compared to other financial markets. 

I usually look at various fundamentals. I also check the Team out and see if they are real and are doing what they are supposed to be doing. I check out capital injections and partnerships.deals the project has. I see the niche it is in and is it solving a problem or providing a much needed service and of course I see the market and what trajectory the project is going in. I see projects like CARDANO fulfilling the problems the unbanked people have. I see band for example helping provide accurate data in the DeFi space. So many projects to choose from but we need to check out their credentials first.

I used to be just a holder but after not cashing out my unrealized profit in 2017/2018 I decided that this time around I would do things differently and it seems to be working. I do hodle long term coins like btc, eth, xrp ada and some solid oracle/defi/1st/2nd layer protocols and this time around we are seeing more mainstream, institutional mass adoption happening in this space..so this time round the bull run will be a little different. I day trade a couple of small caps daily that have good volatility..then I cash out some profits and put in big caps. I got a robot that copy trades that makes me profit in USDT, and I hodle weekly medium and long term bags.

A lot of the traditional Financiers are now branding BITCOIN as the NEW GOLD for this ERA. Hey BTC even surpassed the price of gold now so this means that gold is not as finite in supply and rare as they said it was as even ELON Musk is looking at mining gold from asteroids lol. BTC on the other hand is finite in supply as the code is solid and hardcore and can never be tampered with. I have high hopes that according to the stock to flow model for BTC, we can easily go to 100k per BTC by 2021 end. How long will this new bull market last for we don;t know but it should run for a year we hope.

Now we are seeing advertisements on main TV channels like FOX and CNBC for blockchain and banks are buying up BTC by the truckload. I think we can reach previous ATH at least by the EOY and there are predictions that by end of 2021/2022 we can go anywhere between 50k to 250k USD per btc. It is nice to try to own at least ONE BTC in our lifetime to pass on to our kids and grand kids. I am also thinking that more and more institutions and pension plans, hedge funds will use BTC as a hedge against inflation and the tumbling price and value of FIAT.

If you have noticed over the past month Bitcoin dominance has gone down a few points. This means we are going through a mini altcoin season and it is mainly DeFi projects and oracles that are seeing the light of day and a few mainnet projects. Also 2nd layer protocols and interoperability, iot, liquidity pools are also doing well. I think this time around we are seeing a new set of coins and tokens emerging as winners and you can see the likes of CHAINLINK rise and grow huge marketcaps, which is similar to what happened in 2017. I think we are at the cusp of a bull market now for the next one or two years at least.

I work in a project that burns from business profits regularly and now they have issues a quarterly burn. Eureka Network has burned so far over 40 million coins and yesterday they did another buy back in order to burn coins. I think at this rate the supply will decrease nicely and there will be more and more value added to it intrinsically because of all the partnerships and utility they are adding every month in different ways. They earn both from offline activities and online ones which is bringing the coin to increase gradually in value over time through adding REAL VALUE and a deflationary supply.

I participated in the BAND one but have no clue if I am going to get anything, that's if I even answered the questions correctly. I did give it a go though and if we do get anything it will be around ten bucks worth of BAND, Which in and of itself is a very nice gesture form CMC and also it is like giving back something and teaching people that they need to learn before they invest in any coin lol. Retail investors need to get smarter and this is where these EARN AND LEARN incentives come in very handy, especially for the newbies coming into crypto now.

Institutional money is pouring in right now. Grayscale alone is buying all the newly mined BTC, plus extra. Another company just bought 250 Million USD worth of BTC as a hedge against inflation..Banks are buying BTC by the boatload. They will all buy OTC, you don't see this movement on exchanges. Once this pops it will pop hard. I see it going into a parabolic movement middle to end of 2021 going into 2022 and this bull market has already just begun now. If you see every day the CMC is getting larger and also Bitcoin Dominance is going down for a bit. Bullish signals indeed and 100k is not improbably for the next parabolic bull run.

You have to be very diligent, set goals and also a great discipline. Another asset you need to cope in the Crypto markets is nerves of steel as when your holdings or coins drop in value you don't wan to panic sell and lose to the whales. Have short term, medium and long term targets so that way you don't miss out on the next bull run as well. For each coin, take out your capital and profits and then ride the rest. Learn from your mistakes as well and never be afraid to admit that sometimes you were wrong. Being humble can give you great gains and insight.

I am always looking for low cap gems to invest and trade. I just joined their telegram group and they look like a really cool community. I a going to see and dig more into it over the coming days and see if I should invest in a little bag and if it does a 10 x I will be really happy. I wonder if it might take off like crypto kitties did and if it does it might be a good thing to put some spare xrp I got on Bitrue exchange as I trade other coins there too and it's a pretty decent exchange may I add with good volume as well.

I just bought a small bag of it because there is activity n Telegram and the DEV put up a new pinned post only yesterday. So looks like there is some work being done to grow or revive this project as oracles are all the craze nowadays with DeFi exploding. I didn't risk too much but like anything we take a chance and see what happens 6-9 months down the road.  It might turn out to be a nice hidden Gem and they are not easy to find at such low marketcap. One Eth here and there could be a small fortune tomorrow.