Hi guys, disclaimer.. I am currently holding Cardano. Not a fanboy, not a hater. Just trying to figure out what the real deal is with Cardano. I have mixed feelings about the Coin / Blockchain and the CEO.

There seems to be a lot of talk from the CEO, but rarely hard facts / features and deadlines. It seems more like a Theory than actually whats going to happen. ADA is presented as decentralized for months already but even until today parts of it are controlled by one company in Hong Kong (Input Output).

Diving into the Cardano community feels like a cult as well. If you dont agree with their Leader Charles, then shut up. Why is he streaming / talking so much? Wouldn't his time be better invested in developing Cardano?

Is it confusion on purpose? Let's use a whole lot of fancy names for our development stages, a whole lot of theory and confusing terms instead of hard facts?

What are the currenct features of ADA? What is coming soon? When is it coming? A lot of these answers are "Charles said a long the way".

This is not a hate thread, but I find it very hard to get any hard facts on Cardano and I start to feel like this is to be intented.

Please share your thoughts.

I am calling it today. Binance usually goes down during peak and panic trading, which makes fear and uncertainties grow bigger. Most volume is being handled by Binance world wide. We are in a sad state with all these beautiful decentralised crypto currencies, but we all went for one exchange plattform because of low fees and convenience.

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Backstory: I've bought 8 Bitcoins in March, 2015 for 230 Euros each BTC and totally ignored it since last week. I was just not interested in Crypto so far. A couple of days ago I decided to invest a total of 212k USD in Crypto. Things changed a lot since 2015, I'm completly overwhelmed by the amount of crypto currencies.

I could do weeks and months of research now, or do this experiment which I'll call "Project: 212k USD Swarm Intelligence Crypto Currency Investment". This could be a fun ride for all of us.

I'm not a day trader, and I dont want to become one. I'm invested in the stock market, bought 6 years ago and never sold. I like value investments, patience and profit in the long run. It worked for BTC so far. With your help I want to invest more and diversify to a maximum total of 10 7 crypto currencies.

Some easy conditions:

1) Everything we buy will be kept at least until Dec 31, 2019.
2) I'll keep at least 30% of my Bitcoins.
3) Only Top 50 Crypto Assets by Market Cap.
4) Vote ends on August 5, 2019.
5) If we spot good opportunities before Aug 5, we can buy coins worth 5k USD daily.
5) I wont cry if I lose all the money, but would prefer if we double it by the end of the year.
6) Voting only here, to make it easier to keep track of the results: https://linkto.run/p/3TWCU4X1

Here is a screenshot of my crypto currencies as proof, the major share is on a Exchange*, my Atomic Wallet and Monero Wallet. I'm waiting for a bank transfer to my Bitstamp account worth of 100k Euro to come through. This will give us around 212665 USD to invest. If you guys need more proof, let me know. This is serious.

*Why are my BTC on a Exchange? I was not able to verify my account properly, so they put a 5k withdrawal limit on the account. This sucks, but was actually the reason why I've never sold my BTC. So it was lucky in the end. Until Aug 5, 2019 I'll have all BTC moved to my wallet.

Thanks everyone for joining this venture. Your votes are highly appreciated.

Edit: It would be nice if someone could recommend a nice web portfolio where I can enter the transactions for everyone to follow.

Edit 2: I'm highly confused, guys. The majority of people tells me not to invest in crypto, in a forum about crypto investments. What's going on?

Maybe there is a misunderstanding. The 212k I'm about to invest do not represent 100% of my assets, they're more like 8% of my total assets. I own a 2 hectare (4,8 acre) property with buildings and infrastructure, value investments stocks from big US companies, 8% gold and the rest (40%) is liquid. I've invested 8% in gold already, and I was planning to invest 8% in crypto. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with asking users who deal with crypto daily and do a lot of research about their favorite coins, too. I'm planning to buy coins based on value (tech, usability, privacy, safety...) and prices are going down currently, it could be the perfect time to buy some.

I do understand that crypto currencies are highly volatile, don't follow rules of the stock market. I also believe if you make the right choice in technology and ignore market movements for a while, that there is a chance to succeed. Long story short, I'm willing to loose 8% of my assets.

I'd be happy if more people decided to vote. Collective intelligence is a beatiful thing. 1000-2000 Votes would be great.