Right now all of the platforms that are developing metaverse technology are independent of one another.

Whether or not there will be a unifying presence in the crypto space for all metaverse projects is yet to be seen, but Decentraland seems to be one of the prominent choices for that.

Facebook's metaverse itself I think wouldn't really be investable given that it would be centralized and you'd have to buy shares, but it does have potential as well and will compete against decentralized alternatives.

There is a possibility in my opinion.

DOGE could crash to where it started a couple of years before (which is actually somewhat probable, imho) and SHIB may experience a second round of pumps that take it further than DOGE ever did in terms of market cap.

In that case, is a 0.1 DOGE SHIB possible? Potentially. But even then it is unlikely given how much growth needs to be experienced by the token.

I would say that you'd have to look at some riskier plays like Solana.

I personally am not a big fan of Solana because of their issues with network being down hours at a time etc., but if they can fix these things and become more decentralized then they do have a lot of potential going forward.

A lot of people are hyping up MATIC and other L2s but at the end of the day they will only be as big as the L1 that they build on.

Completely agree.

NFTs, Metaverse and Web3.0 are all buzzwords with no substance right now.

The only good trend that has come out of last year's bull run in my opinion is DeFi, which is actually what will be useful in the future and what everyone is using right now.

Metaverse, Web3.0 and NFTs are created by VCs for the VCs.

Agreed.

Altcoins have gained a lot of steam in recent months and I think that a lot of the projects out there are certainly competitors to ETH and BSC, which are currently the most dominant players.

NEAR, FTM and other projects all have a ton of potential and with the advent of DeFi will likely see substantial further growth going into 2022.

I think that this is a pretty fair list.

The only thing that you are missing imho for the DeFi applications would be Curve - they are one of the blue chips in the space.

I also would not be comfortable trusting CeFi platforms with significant amounts of money regardless of how secure they appear to be right now, it's simply not worth the risk for me personally.

Wouldn't be surprising at all.

At the end of the day the altcoin scene is just a giant circlejerk where all the founders come together and copy each other/fork each others' projects to raise capital.

Most of these transactions will be completely useless in nature and people don't care as long as they make money - just look at how people are ignoring these huge issues with the SOL blockchain.

ETH all the way.

BSC is only successful because it offers lower fees (for now) and also has a centralized exchange that is currently backing it.

But at the end of the day, it's not as scalable as other solutions out there like FTM, SOL, or whatnot. ETH will become more scalable itself after ETH2.0 comes out, which is certainly going to eat into the use cases of BSC.

Doubt it.

From what I've been hearing most people are rotating out of NFTs because they understand that it is just a transient hype, into more substantial projects in DeFi.

This is why Curve, FTM, ETH have been pumping despite BTC being down overall. DeFi is the future and the DeFi bull run was only interrupted by this NFT madness momentarily.

Terrible advice.

Take a look at how much hedge funds actually underperformed the broad based S&P500 index in the previous year.

Hedge funds and money managers are only useful when

a) they don't take a percentage annual fee and

b) your objective isn't to maximise returns per se, but rather to stablise returns even in times of market downturn.

A couple of people have asked me to clarify a step-by-step guide of how to liquidate your NFTs, as they don't understand the Arcona team's instructions, so here's how I did it:

1) Go to rarity.garden, connect your Metamask wallet and go to the BSC network.
2) On the left hand side tab, click "Your NFT Wallet", then "Register Collection". Here you need to enter the collection address which is 0xE59046EEF9477DFD6A231579CCB3b91201a5e41f for the FEOD NFTs that you have received.
3) Next, click on the top left hand corner of your NFT and click Sell. List at whatever price you want, I listed one at 0.15 WBNB and sold in around 1 day, and the second one sold at ~0.12 WBNB. Do NOT expect to sell it anywhere close to 0.3 BNB, you're just wasting your time and gas.

Several notes:
- You need to have around 0.01-0.02 BNB in your wallet to begin with to pay gas.
- Check decentralized marketplace for current offers so you get an idea of what yours can sell for at the time of offering.
- I'm not affiliated with Arcona, and this is general advice only. I actually think that this is badly mismanaged given that a community member needs to take their time to explain to the others, hence I've quit this sig campaign.

Demar has really made a comeback.

Another really good game winner from Saddiq Bey for detroit, and Terrance Mann managed to close out a comeback win for the LA Clippers against a stacked Nets team.

The Clippers are incredibly deep and I think that if they get Kawhi back this year, they will be able to become title contenders again.

There was just so much liquidity being pumped out by central banks all across the world.

They try to make it seem like that it is an issue of people not spending enough in the economy, but the real reason for this current savings debacle is very simple - record low interest rates, quantitative easing, and tons and tons of repos.

Inflation is coming soon, guys. Stay clear of fiat based assets.

Lakers are not going to the finals, period.

LeBron is having one of his best seasons so far in terms of production and yet they are still struggling to get above .500.

The Nets have a real chance of winning the East and perhaps the whole championship - they were so close to beating the Bucks last year. But it will depend on the Kyrie situation as well as how healthy KD stays.

I think that more and more people are actually using DAI or USDT for gambling.

As long as you don't use the ETH chain version of these stablecoins, I think that they are actually quite viable.

Transaction fees are low on networks such as Polygon which is definitely good, and the stability of value allows fiat players to also enjoy the fast transactions that are offered by crypto casinos.

Not going to happen.

Sportsbetting markets are efficient so there is virtually no long term exploitable pattern for sportsbettors to be able to take advantage of. Unless you have extensive backtesting/insider info/arbitrage opportunities.

Your EV, at the end of the day, is likely still going to be negative regardless of how many times you do this - or how many times you have won in the past.

I personally think that you should deploy it on a low-gas blockchain.

But overall, i think that gambling is always going to be one of the things that will benefit from decentralization just because of the importance of having fair rolls and making sure that casinos can pay out any wins.

If you can do it well, there is a lot of potential. But most protocols go to zero because they focus too much on development and not enough on marketing.

Thanks, I've just changed them. Seems like this round is about to end so just add me to the next round if that's more convenient for you.

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Completely agreed in regards to this. There were simply no disclosures in regards to the NFT - we trusted the project to reward with something close to 0.3 BNB liquidation price. Makes no sense to claim that it is "worth" 0.3 BNB when in reality it is issued for 0.3 BNB and there is no liquid market.

I could also issue an NFT and price it at 1 BTC, but it's not "worth" 1 BTC until there are buyers willing to purchase at that price.


You need to go directly to rarity.garden - the NFTs do not show up on any block explorers.

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For those interested, after fiddling around with the platform for a few days I've managed to sell one of the two FEODs for 0.15 WBNB before fees, after lowering the price on it quite a few times. It doesn't seem like there exists a liquid market for any amount above that.

After platform fees and royalties this comes out at 0.117 BNB, and I spent around ~0.02 BNB in gas fiddling around with orders as I didn't know what the liquid price was. So net proceeds were more like <0.1 BNB, and the second FEOD remains unsold.