There are many projects asking investors to stake their tokens for APY but they collapsed later for example Midas, they offered 17% APY on USDC, the token went from 38$ to 0 and their swap feature is shut down..

I am just trying to warn you about Centralised Finance tokens and platforms, avoid taking big risks with CeFi Platforms.

APY can be tempting at times, powerful enough to make you turn your back on the vital parts of the project, do not compare APY of a CeFi project with others especially when the project is not that popular.

Now that we are even in a bear market, any projects offering high yield is a big red flag, this is not the time to focus on earning rewards.

Former U.S President Donald Trump has recently issued his own NFTs called Trump Digital Trading Cards. The purchasing perks are abundant such as a dinner with Trump, access to his community, golfing with Trump, Zoom calls etc. It looks as normal as other celebrity's NFT issuance but also seems more than that. Personally I think it is also political and deeply related to his political campaign. The majority of potential buyers must be his political supporters and fans. This NFT thing may be another digital means to connect him with his vast fanbase. What is your opinion on this and why ?

To be honest FTX happened when bitcoin was already at 18-19k levels, got up to 20-21k when people heard Binance may take over, and then crashed to 16k levels when that failed, but the price was at around 18k or so before that. Right now we are above 17k, which means we haven't fallen even 10% since that day, barely 5% to be fair, probably less.

This is a huge proof that, we dropped from 68k to this price, hence FTX can't be responsible for anything at all, all these other names, other companies, or ftx, nobody is responsible for it. Bear run started last year and whatever caused it was the reason and since then we are still feeling the waves of it, that's it.

С сегодняшнего дня стартует конкурc!

P.S. Кто нить подскажите новичку как выкладывать картинки, чтобы их сразу видно было. я все варианты ссылок уже перепробовал, не получается

Я думаю можно обратиться к модератору и он вам поможет.

Поставит картинку так, что она будет отображаться.

TBH, with the current bear market, I only think of Bitcoin as the coin that I want to buy. I mean we are in a bear market, and we know that if we are in a bull market, altcoins tend to give more profits to holders than Bitcoin is right? We always see altcoins that are going x5 or x10 or even x20 in a bull market.

What are my plans? Just accumulate Bitcoin and maybe Ethereum for the rest of the bear market. I might buy some other top altcoins as well, but I'll be focusing more on the 2 coins that I said.

The phrase "not friendly to" - I would say the opposite, it has been way friendly to the opportunistic users who were looking for rock bottom prices and they had a good time accumulating. That is how you can restructure your thought process to keep the optimistic outlook, lack of which because the reason of gradual attrition from trading.

I see a lot of whales are accumulating their crypto at this point and they will sell when the next bull run starts and then wait for the next bear run to buy again - a cycle that might take more than a couple of years, but they possess that level of patience. Still this is what we all crypto traders should aim for.

New altcoins should always bring in the salt of caution. Projects may aspire to be huge and they might succeed, but this is difficult in this sector so be careful. A new year does not always mean a good year for any new project.

Dogecoin doesn't need Elon Musk to survive in the long run. It has been there before the crypto hype, so I'm confident it won't go away just like that. Prices may fall, but at least the blockchain network will be active. That's thanks to the community supporting it every step of the way.

I wouldn't use Dogecoin seriously anyways, especially when it's a "meme" coin. It's value is driven out of pure speculation. With a huge supply that constantly grows over time, there's no reason to believe DOGE will sustain high prices in the future. Who knows how much will the cryptocurrency be worth by then? Just my thoughts

That's certainly true, mate. Most underlying blockchain networks aren't as decentralized as one thought they would be. They're extremely vulnerable to hacks and/or manipulation because of their focus on performance instead of security/reliability. There's no guarantee your balance will always be there on a "De-Fi" platform of your choosing whose underlying blockchain network is centralized. While Ethereum is the most decentralized blockchain network after Bitcoin, that doesn't mean it's perfect.

You're going to have to decide whenever you'd want to put all of your money on "De-Fi" or banks. The latter is a much safer option, although rates are lower than those provided by "De-Fi" platforms. At least, we have an alternative to traditional banking. As long as we have Bitcoin, nothing else matters. Just my opinion

even though solana took a lot of hits from the various trials they faced. even a few crashes like FTX had a huge impact on Solana. because FTX does sell the solana they have in bulk. and it sent panic to solana investors. so the decline is unavoidable. But so far I still have hope for solana. at least in the upcoming bullrun solana will most likely follow the trend and could just return their ATH. so I took the risk of holding some solana as a risky investment.

What will perform well in the future is bitcoin

That's for sure because bitcoin will surely attract the attention of many people, especially if the price can go up very high, even higher than the last ATH.

Meanwhile, other coins will compete with each other and DOT and Mana have the potential to increase compared to the coins you mentioned. But I can't be sure either because next year is still a mystery to me and I can't yet feel where the market is going next year.