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Bitcoin-Explain to me how to buy these things (2 Viewers)

Chaos Commish said:
Why is minting bad? I once had Super Bowl tickets. I was in college in NoCal. Niners were playing the Dolphins. I called local law firms, doctors offices etc. Told the receptionists I was selling the tickets. My phone went crazy. Quadrupled the face value in a bidding war. 

What's stopping us from taking great moments in sports - The Catch (thinking of rich 9er fans) - making/minting a pixilated nft of Montana throwing to leaping Clark with Walls a step behind? There's hundreds of these. And tens of thousands of rich 9er fans.
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SportPunks - Gibson's fist pump rounding second after his epic walk off.

 
Moved some BTC and ETH into SOL.  Probably bought high but I’d say there’s more potential for SOL to grow 10x in the near future than there is for those 2

 
You guys need to up your game.  10x or 100x over the next few years is nothing.  Just started laughing when I did a sort by % change over the last week.

"The price of Glitchy has risen by 318,957,248.18% in the past 7 days."

 
beer 30 said:
Both my "holdings" are at all time highs. I was looking to pull some profits and dump into some other up and comer but the majority of my investment is in Bitcoin/Etherium/Algo/Cardano/Polygon/Solana. I don't see a real reason to rock the boat at this point. If anything I need to dig up some more cash and dump it into those mentioned.

I am still big on Amp, maybe Polkadot? Alchemy? Nothing really jumping out at me right now that I gotta have.
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That looks solid to me.  although I did buy ACH on a dip

 
Captain Cranks said:
Metahero having itself a couple of days.  You still in that one @Chaos Commish?
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Oh yeah. I've said many times I don't think it is going to stop. 765% up for me. My 5th largest holding. This is a very long-term project wih nothing else like it. I bought pre-sale. Let out a big wooot in this thread the hour it became available to the masses. They've barely begun with the imaging centers. Long long way to go. We're 6-7 years out from this idea being the norm for people. 

Also big Cake news today. They're opening an NFT market place to compete with OpenSea, and partnering with Harmony. One reason why I didn't care for that dude in your vid yesterday. I know he's very successful, but he sounded very uninformed with the sol/ada sol/ada eth/dead eth/dead pounding. Cake/Binance NFT space ftw. Gonna flip Uni someday. And other ecosystems will do fine, but he gave Polygon a hat tip. Meh, that one's in trouble. And ada is losing projects to Sol at a pace to make Eth check it's rearview mirror. 

Also also, Ecomi retweeted this, which I am about to dive into. Eth ain't dead or dying. NO GAS ! And that looks like some juicy info. 

Man the space is exciting and full of non-stop bullishness coming fast and furious. I'm a little confused which thread to use. Software gone eat da world.

 
Chaos Commish said:
Oh yeah. I've said many times I don't think it is going to stop. 765% up for me. My 5th largest holding. This is a very long-term project wih nothing else like it. I bought pre-sale. Let out a big wooot in this thread the hour it became available to the masses. They've barely begun with the imaging centers. Long long way to go. We're 6-7 years out from this idea being the norm for people. 

Also big Cake news today. They're opening an NFT market place to compete with OpenSea, and partnering with Harmony. One reason why I didn't care for that dude in your vid yesterday. I know he's very successful, but he sounded very uninformed with the sol/ada sol/ada eth/dead eth/dead pounding. Cake/Binance NFT space ftw. Gonna flip Uni someday. And other ecosystems will do fine, but he gave Polygon a hat tip. Meh, that one's in trouble. And ada is losing projects to Sol at a pace to make Eth check it's rearview mirror. 

Also also, Ecomi retweeted this, which I am about to dive into. Eth ain't dead or dying. NO GAS ! And that looks like some juicy info. 

Man the space is exciting and full of non-stop bullishness coming fast and furious. I'm a little confused which thread to use. Software gone eat da world.
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It's broad and it's moving fast.  Too much to keep up with, honestly.  I keep hearing the same thing from the more wise YTers (AB is one of them although you correctly assessed that he shoots off on uneducated soapboxes sometimes) that success is about specializing in one arena.  I'm going to settle in on the gaming arena.  From a business standpoint, it's the logical next step for the industry and will give me access to tokens and NFTs. 

To that end, I watched some more stuff on ILV this morning.  A couple weeks ago, Kieran announced that top management was extending their token unlock from 12 to 36 months as a gesture to the community that they're in this for the long haul.  Land sales (via dutch auction) are to begin at the end of Oct/early Nov and it sounds like they'll have a ton of utility built in.  The sales revenue gets distributed to ILV stakers.  Here's some more detail on the land sale if you're interested.   

Land Sales 

 
Captain Cranks said:
It's broad and it's moving fast.  Too much to keep up with, honestly.  I keep hearing the same thing from the more wise YTers (AB is one of them although you correctly assessed that he shoots off on uneducated soapboxes sometimes) that success is about specializing in one arena.  I'm going to settle in on the gaming arena.  From a business standpoint, it's the logical next step for the industry and will give me access to tokens and NFTs. 

To that end, I watched some more stuff on ILV this morning.  A couple weeks ago, Kieran announced that top management was extending their token unlock from 12 to 36 months as a gesture to the community that they're in this for the long haul.  Land sales (via dutch auction) are to begin at the end of Oct/early Nov and it sounds like they'll have a ton of utility built in.  The sales revenue gets distributed to ILV stakers.  Here's some more detail on the land sale if you're interested.   

Land Sales 
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I fomo-d ILV and don't regret it. I really like your focus on gte/nft. I'm probably to schizo to do something like that. :)

I'm going to shut out everything I can to focus on NFTs through the weekend. I could drop 40 links from this morning's twitter feed into this thread. Focus focus focus. 

But first I'm cost averaging several middlin' to loser coins in my index fund to OMI asap. It's been quiet, so not a fomo, just up 10% since early July. All my matic, all my feg, all my telcoin, all my wsg, all my theta and theta fuel, all my nim, and all my octopus. This is going to take awhile. Housecleaning and homerun swinging with NFTs in the mix. 

I'll use Cake as much as I can, and put some of this into the new nft project (give a little liquidity to it). And I'll buy my first nft through Veve/Ecomi. 

 
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Any ideas why GDLC (Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund) dropped 21% today?

It's comprised mostly of BTC and ETH with some ADA and other stuff sprinkled in.

Odd given the upward move by GBTC & ETHE (Other grayscale BTC and ETH funds). 

 
[icon] said:
Any ideas why GDLC (Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund) dropped 21% today?

It's comprised mostly of BTC and ETH with some ADA and other stuff sprinkled in.

Odd given the upward move by GBTC & ETHE (Other grayscale BTC and ETH funds). 
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Over a dozen Greyscale assets have a higher percent of the port than ada. It's up 4.25% atm. Also if you're in Greyscale you're sleeping with the enemy. Centralized custodials are not the idea. DEFI everything until the old guard is crushed. Not your keys, not your money. Be your own bank. 

 
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Chaos Commish said:
Over a dozen Greyscale assets have a higher percent of the port than ada. It's up 4.25% atm. Also if you're in Greyscale you're sleeping with the enemy. Centralized custodials are not the idea. DEFI everything until the old guard is crushed. Not your keys, not your money. Be your own bank. 
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When I can buy ADA with my Roth IRA and 401k, let me know. Until then, Greyscale it is in those vehicles :)  

And sorry, I don't understand your comment in relation to why GDLC dropped so precipitously today 

 
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When I can buy ADA with my Roth IRA and 401k, let me know. Until then, Greyscale it is in those vehicles :)  

And sorry, I don't understand your comment in relation to why GDLC dropped so precipitously today 
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 You can set up a self-directed roth and put any crypto you want in it. Been discussed a bit in this thread. I did it with a solo 401k, but you may not qualify for that. My comment wasn't addressing your question because by the time I looked it had recovered losses. My comment was just noting how common it is for "ada" to be mentioned even when it is one of the smallest positions. 

Lots of crypto iras out there. I did some research and preferred.... well here is my quote from a couple months ago.

 Broad Financial had the lowest fees and a great reputation. The crypto IRAs I've seen sponsoring influencers and advertising heavily are all custodial, not self directed. Being custodial makes them like a wallet with limited assets supported. ITrustCapital is the biggest name out there, and they only have ten or so cryptos supported. Broad Financial allows you to invest in any crypto you want. They were terrific to talk to. After completing this exercise, I can probably answer questions here, but if you're serious, dyor, and I recommend Broad for IRAs, Nabers for those who qualify.
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Hope you give it a go. 

 
UOFI_316 said:
You guys need to up your game.  10x or 100x over the next few years is nothing.  Just started laughing when I did a sort by % change over the last week.

"The price of Glitchy has risen by 318,957,248.18% in the past 7 days."
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Just fyi (if you thought that was real), this never happened. CMC has these glitches every couple days, which made this one kind of ironic. Glitchy (GLY) began life at .00010 two days ago, and it's ath over 48 hours is .00020 - 100%. It is dipping at the moment. It's a Cake/Binance project, obviously ground floor, and I almost bought a couple million gly for 1 bnb. 

Then I remembered I need to clean house not clutter it.

 
Captain Cranks said:
Metahero having itself a couple of days.  You still in that one @Chaos Commish?
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just hit 10x for me in two months. 1000%. So sweet. It's flipped eth in my port and now my #4 holding. Cake is in it's sights. Not the explosive growth of Cake (or doge or ada or or or) from last Spring but just a beautiful steady rise and still 2600+ in market cap. Just look at this glorious chart. to the mooon :)

Also, I made all the moves I said I was but one... those moves were housecleaning and giving up on matic and telcoin and the thetas. Cost averaging into under-performing Ecomi. haha... Ecomi took off within hours. This isn't pure luck (I put in hours every day), but some good luck indeed. 

I did hold one of my ####coins though. Feed Every Gorilla. Mr. Feg started a massive social media push and begged us holders to help. So I did. It dropped more. :)  It really looks like they've done what they said they would and built a fantastic DEX with the best features of the best DEXs and UI to beat them all... but they just can't attract asset listings. So it's more of a diy swap, like Swapz, but with neato and useless features. Anyway. They get another month. 

 
Captain Cranks said:
I wonder how many people invested with ETH have actually used ETH.  It's not a great experience.  
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yup, not sure if you recall all my earliest posts this year, but i was dumping it and eating the gas for all these homerun swings. i was just sick of it. then tking was only paired to it and paid off big.... in more eth. so i got sucked back in, quite nicely. and now happily. it was a year out from PoS. Well, now it is just 7-8 months out and looking good. eth miners are going to get forked by Vitalik. It's his only choice, but the brand appeal of eth to the retail market is really strong. It's gonna be interesting. 

 
KGB said:
MY HEX update $232K  

My HEX update.   $498K 🥩

I've added about 50K into it in the 20's.

current price  $0.321802
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I'm still not looking until xmas '24. I have it isolated in a ledger file with pulse. I don't discuss it as part of my holdings. If Richard ends up in jail, and it all goes to hell in a handbasket, I will laugh.

But I can do the math. I'm in at .13. Plus the rewards. Fantastic. I never thought I would be a rich man. I retired early from complete burnout in my early 50s. Dumped a business, sold a home on 20 acres of avocados, moved to the desert where I knew I could live comfortably, maybe indefinitely, lower middle class neighborhood, near family...

Now I seriously look at islands for sale every day. lol, it's not an unrealistic dream. I lived in Panama as a kid. Always said I would go back. The tax and citizenship advantages are pretty sweet. Being an old global nomad sounds fun. 

 
Chaos Commish said:
I'm still not looking until xmas '24. I have it isolated in a ledger file with pulse. I don't discuss it as part of my holdings. If Richard ends up in jail, and it all goes to hell in a handbasket, I will laugh.

But I can do the math. I'm in at .13. Plus the rewards. Fantastic. I never thought I would be a rich man. I retired early from complete burnout in my early 50s. Dumped a business, sold a home on 20 acres of avocados, moved to the desert where I knew I could live comfortably, maybe indefinitely, lower middle class neighborhood, near family...

Now I seriously look at islands for sale every day. lol, it's not an unrealistic dream. I lived in Panama as a kid. Always said I would go back. The tax and citizenship advantages are pretty sweet. Being an old global nomad sounds fun. 
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Nice!  Im also in the desert.  AZ.

If this and pulse do well, Im going to sell my biz and retire.

 
Chaos Commish said:
 but the brand appeal of eth to the retail market is really strong. It's gonna be interesting. 
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I'm not so sure I agree with this.  I see people complaining about it left and right and are welcoming alternatives with open arms.  The retail guy who is going to spur mass adoption are not going to pay $100 in fees to buy $50 NFTs (and that's under current load).  Yes, PoS fixes this, but that's a lot of time for SOL, ADA and others to steer retail demand their way.  

 
Captain Cranks said:
I'm not so sure I agree with this.  I see people complaining about it left and right and are welcoming alternatives with open arms.  The retail guy who is going to spur mass adoption are not going to pay $100 in fees to buy $50 NFTs (and that's under current load).  Yes, PoS fixes this, but that's a lot of time for SOL, ADA and others to steer retail demand their way.  
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I know. Like i say, it will be interesting. But i have a different perspective from a couple angles. The retail whiners we can see are online, like us, a little nerdy and better informed on what's available. But we're not the greater percentage of the retail population buying. That group isn't participating in the online crypto discussion. That vid you posted had retail buyers all wrong. They drop a hundred on dinner and a movie. They toss 100 bills around left and right. They don't hesitate to fill arenas for 3-400 bucks a game. 100 bucks to them is what 20 used to be to us. And they are all in on the ETH nft market. "Look what i got for $80! Well, 180 included the fees, but it's going to be worth $1000 soon anyway." Much more realistic take on retail buyers than. "Omg $100???" No one frets over $100 in the digital revolution.

Then there's eth's overwhelming advantage in the enterprise space. Name recognition goes a long way there. And it is a patient space, cautious. A year flies by.  Eth has all this benefiting enterprise:

14K+ live nodes (nothing comes close, and Harmony is 2nd, my current crush)

40M+ unique addresses (again so far ahead, and these addies represent commitment)

10B daily API requests served by Infura (it will take years for a blockchain to compete)

$1.5B+ daily trading volume (it is a popularity contest in many ways)

1,900+ decentralized applications (ada has about 100, sol 400, but theirs are babies, eth's mature mostly)

90% of top 200 blockchain projects are built on Ethereum (very few are migrating, some exploiting interoperability, most patient)

250K+ developers (more than all other blockchain communities combined, ada might have 3000)

500k+ daily transactions (more than all other blockchains combined)

Eth is adding projects faster than any other blockchain. It's losing faster too, but losing less than adding.

Developers love eth, it is their home, where they cut their teeth, where they do their best work. Many despise ada. Ada just put smart contracts on the testnet and ooops, big fail. Again. Lots of lies from Charles and others trying to defend it. Sundae Swap basically said, hey give us a break, this stuff happens, the criticism is exaggerating. Pfff. Several blockchains have rolled out smart contracts seamlessly. The scientific rigor peer review failed because it's fallacy, lies, marketing, not rigor. After 7 years the criticism is warranted. Before I drift to ada bashing, I'll stop. After dumping half my ada it is still my 2nd largest holding. More than my Eth. They're both here to stay and excellent investments. 

 
KGB said:
Maybe we go in halvsies lol
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Get off my lawn. Buy your own dam island. :)  

There is three giant building pads on that one. Each above it's own private beach. Fresh water forever. A great spot for a greenhouse, veggie gardens and solar panels. Ahhh, I can almost feel the tradewinds.

 
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Chaos Commish said:
I bought a surfboard for five sol. I've never felt stupider. The real solana beach in san diego is one of my favorite places in the world. 

edit - if you want sol nfts you have to get a solana wallet. there's 4 to choose from.
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I'm hoping to make my first SOL and ADA NFT purchases this week.  With SOL running like it is, they ain't getting any cheaper.  I'm hearing Phantom is the best wallet to go with for SOL.  Let me know if you've heard differently.

 
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KGB said:
Start: 2K

MY HEX update $232K  

  On 8/26/2021 at 5:47 PM, KGB said:

Hex update:  We hit .20! 

$280K  50K in 10 days.  

My HEX update.   $498K 🥩

I've added about 50K into it in the 20's.

current price  $0.321802
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Sorry to be spammy, 

Just very excited!

My HEX - $616K 🥩

Current price $0.40095

No way we dont get to .50!   Woot!

So, what do we do next...  I have 150,000 HEX that have an ending stake (contract) in 30 days.

I plan on taking out at least $65K to pay off debt,  Right now its worth $95K.  Then maybe reinvest the extra hwatever is leftover. :banned:

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also for into SOL for $4800 and now worth $6300 , woot! 

 
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Jesus.  Just getting started with DeFi and buying some stuff beyond what you can get on coinbase.  $105 gas fee to buy $592 worth of HEX?  Is that normal?

 
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