Spreading faster? Sure, but more dangerous? Haven't heard that yet. People are expecting milder symptoms. And it's true that current vaccines aren't as good against it. But in theory, the mRNA of that variant can easily be turned into a vaccine.

Also heard the US army is creating a vaccine that should cover all variants in one.

So not too worried about the virus, more worried about repeating 2018, as that was a rough year for crypto.

So I feel like I'm taking too much risk, by hodling lots of cryptocurrencies, and in case a bearmarket begins I'd like to hedge my positions and open some shorts, much less than my hodlings, but still significant.

But what coins would be good for that? What coins would go down more than others in a bearmarket?

I'm thinking perhaps Solana as it's so high, but its direct competitors (Avax, Luna, Polkadot are better in essence)

But there must be many more coins that will go down. What about Shiba Inu? I'm always worried for a sudden Robinhood listing though, as they did with DOGE.

What can you guys come up with?

I somehow forget about this coin. It's like the new lisk, it's an Ethereum competitor but just doesn't get as much attention.

The parachains will be interesting. I heard Shift is going to be one, we'll see.

I don't really consider collecting a game, but I guess it can be seen as one. But I want to like have fun, not spend tens of thousands to show off some ''nonfungible'' tokens.

I'll take a look. Thanks! Seem interesting at first sight.

Do you also know what the best way of entry is ? Buying its token? Buying an NFT of them? Signing up for a whitelist or anything like that?

I think they last in some ways. But i'm wondering if the hype is ''already'' over. I mean the mentions are getting less, and more jokes are about how they're just tokens that aren't really unique.

I kinda see Ethereum killers in groups.


SoLunAvax

Solana is the cheapest
Luna is the most decentralized and allows you to choose what you use as gas (love this one)
Avax is in between and generally more serious than Solana


Mathematical ones
Cardano (first mover advantage, but programming language too hard for normal people)
Algorand

Upcoming Killers
Harmony (quite decentralized, great theme, don't know enough about it yet)
Fantom (don't know shit about this one yet but it's more decentralized than Sol and Avax)
Probably many others


Then there's the Centralized bullshit
BNB (You all know BSC)
CRO  (Copycat of BNB really, but slightly less centralized, and at least they do proper marketing)
other exchange smartchains (I doubt any other stand a chance, but BNB and CRO could overtake ETH simply because the exchanges are so fucking profitable and invest billions in their chain, and billions in marketing)

I think one of these mentioned is going to overtake Ethereum one day, although I'm not certain as a newer one might be better than all. Personally I like Luna the most, for using, but its community isn't that good yet, and its already so high. I'd stay away from Solana especially.

Hey I keep hearing about a lot of DAOs that are actually ponzi schemes. How do I know whether a DAO I'm in is a ponzi? And what mechanisms do I need to understand so that I don't become a victim to it.

Like there's often this game theory thing about staking and bonding or something, I don't even understand what Bonding is, but any dao I stake I seem to lose value. Am I just an idiot?

I think that whenever a game becomes good and earnings become good, it will quickly be saturated by new players. Then there will be high sell pressures from the new supply going into the market.

So it's such a weird price mechanism. First price goes up cuz hype, then players join, price stays stable as hype increases but sells too. Then hype wears off and sells keep on increasing, now not just from players but also hodlers who lose interest.

But some big games like AXS somehow manage to keep their coin superhigh. I guess that's cuz the players dump SLP and not AXS, hmm.

AT this point XMR feels like proof that TA rarely works. So many TA'ers have shown big moves on XMR, yet it barely does anything and just goes down with Bitcoin and ethereum, but not upwards.

But I still believe in it, surely the vast majority of weak hands are out by now.

It's a shame, almost every project used to be on BCT, but now half of new projects don't even have a topic at all. This used to be the go to place to find new things, now it feels old and slow.

Then again, this is still much better than reddit, fucking hiveminds and crazy upvote corruption with pumpndumps.

Not completely sure about this, but probably SCRT and SEFI. SCRT is a working anonymous smartchain, and SEFI is its Uniswap with a great name, SecretSwap.

SCRT Nfts are very interesting. Imagine NFTs with hidden data that only the owner can read? One could sell stories, poems or quotes that only owners can read, and buyers can publicize those or keep them for themselves.

SCRT is ofc also useful for private transactions in general, good for criminals. Then again, Monero hasn't pumped well this year.

NYE always feels like a special event. We're going to 2022, a year that might not be dominated by covid-19 anymore. I'm always expecting something big to happen to volatility, especially with crypto. Will it pump again? Will it dump? I don't have a clue, but I doubt it stays linear.

By the way is there some kind of VIX index for crypto?

Thanks for this tip, I had no idea CMC had such a list. Do you think coingecko has one too?  Did you find a good one yet? Thanks again!

What do you guys think is the most simple yet original metaverse game? I'm not expecting a game with years of development. I'm looking for something very simple that works, but isn't just a copy from an already existing game. So no Tetris, but something that's similarly simple, but works and is original.

I remember this coin from back then! I wonder if I still have the privatekey somewhere? no clue how many I had back then, it's a shame those lawyers really fucked us. Bet they would embrase it if done today.

Since python is the only programming language I know this might be interesting. But I feel like there's many reasons other crypto purposely didn't use this language!

Not without doing a tokenswap to a lower supply version, or something similar to that. It's just a crazy marketcap with that supply, unrealistic. Bitcoin to 1 million much more likely!

This coin totally surprises me again and again. Still should have some in cryptopia that I can't access. But I was an early investor but sold most of them long long ago. And had some on exchanges that exit scammed or get hacked, I'm an irresponsible investor.

If the PoW is really revolutionizing it's such a waste with that shitty name. Photonic? Really? And stealing Bitcoin's name is dumb too. That's only fine for projects like HarryPotterObamaSonix100inu or something like that.