From article.

The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange, along with three other trading platforms based in the country as part of the Trump administration's "Economic Fury" campaign against Tehran's financial networks.

The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, better known as OFAC, said Nobitex "processed over 50 percent of all Iranian digital asset inflows in 2025" and was a key player in sanctions evasion, terrorist financing and transactions linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

It also extended sanctions upon Nobitex's chairman and co-founder, Amir Hossein Rad, current CEO Seyed Ali Khoee, and co-founders Ali and Mohammad Kharrazi, brothers from one of Iran's most politically connected families.

Who ever is doing those big chunks, please let me be an insider ????

The post was about ETH prices and what it would look like 5 years from now (back in 2021).
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So today BTC had a huge red day and it might be due to Saylor selling those 32BTC.

SRTC tanked to $95. And MSTR lost 10% or so.

Every cycle it seems some business accelerates a crypto crash.

In 2014 it was MtGox

In 2018 it was Craig Wright and his BSV

In 2022 it was SBF

Who here thinks if BTC keeps dropping, he will have to sell more BTC to pay the STRC dividend and end up causing a feedback loop where he sells, and BTC goes down further and he needs to sell more to pay down his debt.

Eventually MSTR goes under and bitcoin bottoms around Oct/Nov like previous cycles and we moon in 2028?

Attempting to move KSM & some DOGE out of the wallet but I'm receiving errors or failed transfers. Whats going on with this wallet?

Yesterday btc tumbled below $67k, down nearly 6% in a single session which is lowest level since april. Spot bitcoin etfs recorded $1.42 billion in outflows as investor sentiment turned risk off and meanwhile nvidia closed at an ath, microsoft is up 34% this year and the ai infrastructure trade is printing.

Which means money rotated,investors are moving out of crypto amid continued market uncertainty, as higher performing sectors such as AI offer alternatives and thats yahoo finance's straight read on yesterday's session.

the thing worth sitting with is that btc's ath was $126k in oct 2025 and now trading at $67k which 47% below if i m not wrong, while the broader narrative around it has never been more institutionally accepted like etfs approved, genius act signed into law, corporate treasuries holding BTC, sovereign wealth funds circling so the macro setup looks better than 2021 but the price doesnt.....

Capital that came into crypto looking for asymmetric upside has found a new home,why hold Bitcoin at $67k hoping for a run back to $126k when you can buy nvidia, palantir or get leveraged exposure to the nasdaq 24/7 through onchain platforms like ostium without ever leaving your wallet? The risk on trade has just moved.

The counterargument I keep hearing is that crypto and ai are different asset classes serving different purposes and btc is a store of value ,thats true in theory but in practice the same retail and institutional dollars chase both, and rn one of them is working and one isnt.

Three catalysts I m watching that could reverse the rotation are the openai ipo this fall creating a liquidity event that sends money back into risk assets broadly, a fed rate cut that lifts all boats or a genuine btc narrative reset,maybe somethiing new

Until one of those lands i think the ai trade continues to eat crypto's lunch on a relative basis.

What do u think is this rotation temporary or does crypto need a new narrative to compete with the ai infrastructure trade?

From the article;

In a letter dated June 1 to Acting Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling, the senators and top Democrat of the House Committee on Education and Workforce, Rep. Robert "Bobby" Scott, said the proposed rule would expose people to more risk.

"The proposed rule would establish a so-called safe harbor for fiduciaries who offer alternative investments in retirement plans," they said in the letter. "This would strip long-held investor protections from retirement savers and encourage the use of more risky, complex, and expensive investments."

It hasn't been long and I'm already annoyed by the panic around this. MSTR is a company. It had convertible debt on it's balance sheet. That debt was going to come due soon. The maturity of that convertible debt would have diluted current shareholders of MSTR. Instead of letting this happen, MSTR sold BTC and cleared some of it's convertible debt. All future debt raised by MSTR will likely be through its preferred offerings of STRC, STRF, STRD, etc... Clearing Convertible debt and raising future capital through preferred equity liabilities is a not just a good thing. It's a great thing - for MSTR shareholders, for preferred shares investors, and for BTC holders. The panic around MSTR selling 0.0038% of it's total BTC holdings is just pure lunacy.

I second guess the whole thing now more than ever.

If there is one single thing that I would have always said is Bitcoin's main purpose, it is to have inflation-resistant money. That's the main purpose of it, to me.

It wasn't so obvious back then. Pre-COVID, you could pontificate about inflation to people and they were confused about why you're even talking about about that. Like you're worried about something that's never going to happen. It's fine. The US Dollar is fine.

Fast forward to 2026 and now EVERYONE understands at least on some level that inflation is eroding their quality of life away. The US dollar is NOT fine. Most people are very shocked with the prices they're seeing in stores.

If you told me in 2019 what the prices of groceries were going to be in 2026 priced in USD, I would be sure that everyone is starting to understand the importance of money that can't just be printed out of thin air.

And yet here we are. Everyone sees the prices of literally everything going up. Everyone understands on some level that inflation = bad. I would have guessed everyone would be pouring themselves into BTC to escape. But the price is floundering and it feels like there's not much upside left.

You could have outperformed BTC in the past few years just by investing in a boring index fund instead.

I wonder if this is just the calm before the storm in the next cycle? Or is humanity just too stupid for this to ever stick?

How do you guys think the next 5 years plays out?

Hey!

I'm building a tool designed to simplify tracking and manage token vesting schedules across different protocols.

I'm looking for a small group of people who receive tokens from launchpads, crypto payroll, team vestings etc, through investor allocations, advisor allocations etc, to check out the product and give some feedback - in return for free access to our paid plan when we launch.

Some of the problems we're trying to solve:

• Tracking allocations across multiple protocols
• Remembering unlock and claim dates
• Understanding what's claimable and when
• Getting a clearer view of your overall vesting portfolio

If this sounds relevant to you and you'd be interested in trying an early version, drop a comment or send me a DM.

I'd love to hear about your current workflow and biggest frustrations as well.

Thank you in advance.

What are your opinions on investing in the Standard & Poor’s 500 (SNP 500) instead of the SNP6900?

from the article.

The Arkham page currently marks the transferred bitcoin as "unspent," and it remains unclear whether the funds would be used for future creditor repayments. Large bitcoin movements in the past have often preceded distributions to creditors.

Tuesday's transactions marked the entity's first bitcoin movement since late March, when it shifted a relatively small amount of bitcoin between its wallets.

Mt. Gox currently holds 34,504 BTC, valued at roughly $2.43 billion, across its wallets, per Arkham data.

I came across a post on the Bitcoin Talk Forum that raised an interesting criticism of Michael Saylor's Bitcoin strategy.

The idea is that Bitcoin was created as a scarce asset with a fixed supply of 21 million coins and as an alternative to debt-based financial systems. However, Strategy keeps issuing new shares, preferred stock, and debt to raise capital and buy more Bitcoin.

The argument isn't that Saylor is creating new Bitcoin he obviously isn't. Rather, it's that he's creating more and more financial claims backed by Bitcoin, which some people see as recreating the same credit-based system Bitcoin was originally designed to replace.

Do you think this criticism is valid? Is Saylor helping Bitcoin adoption by bringing it into traditional capital markets, or is he building a Bitcoin version of the financial system Bitcoin was meant to disrupt?

Curious to hear both bullish and bearish perspectives.

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Over the past few months I've been trying to understand why the same names keep appearing in tokenization discussions:

DTCC

HSBC

JPMorgan

Goldman Sachs

BNY Mellon

Nasdaq

BlackRock

Fidelity

At first I thought this was a crypto story.

Now I think it's a financial infrastructure story.

The strongest evidence isn't coming from crypto companies. It's coming from the institutions that already operate the financial system.

DTCC, which sits at the center of U.S. securities settlement, is moving forward with a tokenization service and plans limited production trading of tokenized securities in 2026. More than 50 firms are participating in the effort. DTCC also announced plans to tokenize DTC-custodied U.S. Treasury securities on Canton Network.

HSBC recently completed a pilot issuing, transferring, and atomically settling tokenized deposits on Canton. This wasn't a crypto experiment. It was a test involving bank deposits, one of the core building blocks of modern finance.

Meanwhile, JPMorgan's Kinexys platform, tokenized Treasuries, tokenized money market funds, and stablecoin legislation are all pointing toward the same destination: a financial system built on digital, programmable assets.

This is where Canton becomes interesting.

Unlike many blockchain projects, Canton was designed specifically for regulated financial markets. Privacy, compliance, interoperability, and institutional controls are not afterthoughts—they are the primary design goals. That's why organizations such as DTCC, HSBC, Goldman Sachs, BNY Mellon, and others continue appearing around the ecosystem.

The bigger question for investors is whether the network succeeds or whether the token succeeds.

Those are not the same thing.

Many networks generate activity while their tokens capture little value. What caught my attention with Canton Coin (CC) is the burn-mint equilibrium model.

Recent reports indicate:

Burn-to-mint ratio increased from roughly 0.15 to 0.65 in about six months.

Daily burns increased from roughly 5 million CC to more than 15 million CC.

A January 2026 halving reduced emissions.

Protocol fees reached approximately $66.6 million in April 2026.

The critical number is not price.

It's the burn-to-mint ratio.

If network adoption continues growing and the ratio eventually exceeds 1.0, the network would become net deflationary. That would mean institutional usage is consuming more CC than the network is creating.

Today CC trades around a $6 billion market capitalization. The market is effectively trying to answer one question:

Will Canton become a niche institutional blockchain, or will it become part of the core operating system for tokenized finance?

Nobody knows the answer yet.

But for the first time, I find myself paying more attention to DTCC announcements, tokenized Treasuries, tokenized deposits, and Canton network statistics than I do to most crypto narratives.

The canary in the coal mine isn't tokenized stocks.

It's whether institutions start treating tokenized deposits, tokenized Treasuries, and digital collateral as normal financial infrastructure.

If that happens, we may look back on this period the same way we look back on the early internet—not as the emergence of a new asset class, but as the rebuilding of the rails underneath the entire system.

Do you think there will be mass institutional adoption of crypto 10 years from now and how much do you think btc will be at that time?

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Biggest lesson I’ve learnt in 9 years of crypto is that almost everything worth understanding comes back to Bitcoin! I want to share it with YOU:

BTC is the bedrock of the entire market mainly because most assets are influenced by/traded in pairs with it, and because liquidity, sentiment and capital flows still orbit Bitcoin whether people like it or not.

I’ve watched people spend years chasing narratives etc, and I think that’s a mistake.

Everybody should start off in crypto with learning about Bitcoin and why it moves, what the halving cycle is, and what dominance means and why liquidity operates the way it does.

The reason Bitcoin’s so predictable isn’t by fluke. It’s because the most important variable affecting it is visible years in advance. Every 4 years the issuance of new Bitcoin is cut in half. The supply shock is hard coded into the protocol. Everyone knows it’s coming yet the market repeatedly underestimates the impact of reducing new supply entering circ.

Most people focus entirely on demand and end up obsessing over news, influencers, regs, and a load of macro events they would’ve been better off ignoring.

Instead they ignore the fact Bitcoin is one of the only assets in the world where future supply schedule is known with certainty decades in advance.

That doesn’t mean Bitcoin only goes up and it doesn’t mean every cycle is identical.

It means there are underlying mechanics driving the market that are literally predictable and that will help you time the bottoms and peaks.

One of the biggest lessons from 2024-2026 is that Bitcoin remained predictable while people’s assumptions about the rest of the market did not.

The halving worked and Bitcoin led the market exactly as it always has but what changed was the structure of liquidity surrounding it.

Bitcoin gains used to spill into the rest of the market through a highly reflexive cycle. Bitcoin would rise, profits would rotate into large caps, then mids, then small caps, and almost everything would go up regardless of quality.

We came to believe that this process was automatic…

It wasn’t!

The halving didn’t “break” and neither did Bitcoin; the liquidity structure simply changed.

Institutional capital entered through ETFs, custodians and regulated investment vehicles, so instead of circulating through the wider crypto ecosystem capital remained concentrated around Bitcoin itself.

The result was that Bitcoin continued behaving largely as expected while many people’s assumptions about alt season failed.

Bitcoin is not important because it guarantees that every coin will go up.

Bitcoin is important because it remains the central organising force of the entire market.

Most people spend their time trying to predict thousands of assets. I think that’s backwards.

If you understand Bitcoin you’re already studying the single most important variable in crypto.

The further I’ve gone into this industry the less interested I’ve become in altcoins and narratives and the more interested I’ve become in understanding Bitcoin itself. That’s where the signal is. Everything else is mostly noise.

Bitcoin is the closest thing this industry has to an investment thesis built on observable mechanics rather than hope.

The rest increasingly resembles speculation layered on top of whatever Bitcoin decides to do next.

You don’t need to understand ten thousand coins.

You do need to understand the one asset that ten thousand coins and market participants are reacting to.

We are now in a bear market and the bottom will likely be hit late q4 - early q1 2027.

Supply issuance will halve again in 2028, and like clockwork once difficulty adjusts, price will trend up again.

But because the liquidity has changed. That doesn’t mean your alts will also go up. They are now mostly unpredictable.

Maybe they always was, but it took for the heavy dilution and institutional capture we’ve seen for us to truly accept this.

So stick with bitcoin.

Time buys around cycle lows.

Hodl until post halving highs.

Enjoy sleeping at night knowing you aren’t going to lose your entire net worth gambling.

Oh, and don’t expect to get “rich”

You need big money to make big money, we are not early anymore.

my friend posted in our discord that he used andrew tate’s “bonus” code or whatever and got $2700 USD from it. i don’t know the first thing about crypto, but i do know tate is notorious for crypto scams. is this legit or is my friend about to get screwed over?

Recently Jamie Dimon was on Fox and he was not a happy pumpkin to say the least. It seems for whatever reason the clarity act is under the skin of the major banks with Dimon saying he wont stop without a fight which has me thinking what if the banks are the ones purposely trying to crash crypto prices to harm crypto firms ahead of the clarity negotiations?

Have Stablecoins Already Won? Serious question. A few years ago, most crypto discussions were about replacing banks, replacing fiat, and becoming a new financial system.

Now it feels like stablecoins are quietly becoming the most practical crypto product instead.

Payments.
Remittances.
Settlement.
Treasury management.
Cross-border transfers.

Do you think stablecoins end up being crypto's biggest success story, or is something bigger still coming?

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Risk assets are starting to price in a deal being done, Brent crude is significantly lower but then strikes from the USA and Iran panic everyone that the deal is not as near as we think. So how is crypto reacting? Well initially, there was positive movement upwards on rumours and talk of a deal being near but the move wasn’t protracted. However, in response to the strikes, crypto came off a fair bit so clearly there is still fear there in markets. The S and P is trading above levels it was at when the USA initially began the war with Iran. It’s surprising to a lot of market participants especially with oil trading as high as it has but underscores the belief that a deal and resolution is coming no doubt with free access to the Straits of Hormuz.

Downside risks are in play if the war was to really escalate again. With the rumours that Masoud Pezeshkian has offered his resignation due to a complete takeover of power by the IRGC, it seems less likely the war will escalate again and more likely that in fighting within the Iranian regime could lead potentially to regime collapse or civil strife. Still we must be aware that Dogecoin could fall below 8 cents were things to really escalate and Bitcoin below 60,000 USD.

For the upside, clearly a deal that brings the war to an end AND facilitates the free shipping of oil through the Straits of Hormuz is going to be bullish for the crypto space. It always takes time for the full effects of major news to filter through to markets as banks and funds position themselves. I would expect if a deal is signed and agreed that Dogecoin heads towards 16 cents which is quite a major level. The previous double bottom at 11.70 cents acted as resistance but with the creaky ceasefire that was not really surprising. Similar story to my previous call, long at 8.5 cents as mentioned previously looking a good trade and an exit of a partial amount of it at 11.5 cents with a view to running the rest higher towards 16 cents. There may be plenty of momentum by that time though and a case for holding the rest to move higher. Always keep in mind that digital assets can range trade without much volume and suddenly explode on news and the arrival of volume.

Until next time….stay displined

I didn't see the announcement in bybit in which they will delist the token. Now the spot is closed i want to convert back it to ETH

Going to write this out because I see new accounts about to step into the same trap I did last year, and the post might save somebody two thousand dollars and ten months of holding a bag.

Last summer I bought XLM around fifty cents on the Protocol 23 narrative. The release candidate had just dropped, PYUSD was about to launch on Stellar, the institutional adoption thread was everywhere on my timeline. I sized into the position thinking the catalyst stack would carry the token comfortably to eighty cents.

The upgrade shipped. PYUSD went live. None of it mattered. By May 22 of this year XLM had a daily close of fourteen cents, which is 72 percent below my entry. Ten months of holding, ten months of watching every announcement that was supposed to support the price fail to do anything for it. I closed most of the position at the lows and learned my lesson the hard way.

Last week the DTCC headline broke and the same exact playbook started running. Short liquidations off the announcement, viral threads about Stellar finally winning institutional integration, projections of forty cents and beyond. The chart looks identical to where I was sitting a year ago, and the institutional brand attached to the headline is bigger this time which only makes the FOMO worse.

The first lesson from holding the July 2025 bag is that the price moves on the anticipation, not on the actual integration. By the time the catalyst ships, the headline has been traded for months and there is nobody left to sell to at higher prices. The DTCC integration goes live in the first half of 2027. The current price is essentially borrowing all the upside from that future event right now.

The second lesson is that institutional partnerships do not automatically translate into token demand. Tokenized assets on Stellar are issued by DTCC and settle in USDC. The fee paid in XLM is zero in dollar terms regardless of volume. The protocol gets used, the token sits there. Same as it did with PYUSD after that launch.

I sold the small remainder of my XLM into this rally and I am not chasing it back in. If the integration actually flows real volume through Stellar in 2027, the token can reprice on that data. Until then, the structure of this move is the same setup that cost me a year of opportunity cost the first time around.

Posting because I see new accounts asking whether to buy at $0.27 and somebody needs to tell them what holding the previous version of this trade actually looks like at the end.

Back in 2021 BSC mania I was approached by the founder of MoneyShot which was a token tied to the adult industry. Dev wanted exposure through my Twitter account and as part of that he sent me 5 billion HOT tokens at launch

My % was valued at around 1 dollar (LOL)

I remember looking into the project and getting a bad feeling about it. I didn’t like the adult narrative and the dev seemed far more excited about rugging my audience than building an actual product

I decided I wanted nothing to do with it but I already held a measly 1 dollar in worthless tokens

Most people would’ve just held them and sold at the first pump

Instead I decided to just give them all away

All 5 billion of them…

THE ENTIRE ONE DOLLAR ????

I started sending millions of HOT tokens to random followers and community members

My thinking was if this thing is going to end badly I’d rather the community have some fun with these tokens than sit on a giant allocation from a founder I don’t trust

The giveaway itself created attention

Twitter started talking about HOT

Holder counts exploded

Transactions exploded

More people discovered the token

The chart started moving

HOT went from 9->4 zeros

So from around 0.0000000002 to roughly 0.00002

A 100,000x move

Yes you read that correctly, a one hundred thousand X

So that 5 billion HOT I’d originally been given was worth around $100,000 at the peak

Except I didn’t own them anymore

I’d already given them all away

So while everyone else was celebrating the pump I was sitting there watching a 6 figure position that “could’ve” been mine

Eventually the token collapsed and everyone started dumping on each other

Accusations started flying and somehow I ended up being blamed despite the fact I never sold a single HOT token because I no longer had any

Dev was calling me on telegram from Australia threatening to kill me??? ????

To this day I think it’s one of the funniest and most absurd lessons I’ve learned in crypto

I tried to stop a founder from eventually dumping a giant allocation on people by giving the bag away

The giveaway itself helped create the hype that sent the token vertical but put me in the spotlight as the “shiller”

And the one person who didn’t make any money from it was me

But I held ALL the corn for the downfall

Moral of the story, if anyone gives you a dollar, treat it like $100k ????

Has anyone else got a crypto story this ridiculous?

I hold a lot of memecoins and am considering selling them off before the clarity act. I try to stick to memecoins with above a 50m market cap. My favorite is Toshi, but I just don't know if the clarity act will make those tokens worthless. I've tried doing my research on it but always end up with ambiguous answers. I wanna know what the crypto community thinks.

I've been active in crypto discussions for a few years now and Solana keeps coming up in conversations about speed and real-world usage. Instead of just repeating the marketing numbers, I wanted to break down how the core tech actually works and what I've observed from monitoring the network over multiple cycles. It's easy to get caught up in TPS claims, but looking at the mechanics and the practical trade-offs gives a clearer picture.

Solana combines Proof of History with Proof of Stake. Proof of History acts like a built-in timestamp that lets validators agree on time without constantly chatting back and forth. This is different from pure Proof of Stake chains where every node has to reach consensus on ordering through more communication. By creating a verifiable sequence of events ahead of time, the network can process transactions in parallel more efficiently. Under good conditions this leads to block times around 400 milliseconds and fees that stay fractions of a cent. I've seen periods where it handled thousands of transactions per second, especially during NFT mint events where demand spiked hard.

One example that stood out was the early 2022 NFT launches on platforms like Magic Eden. The volume was intense and the chain showed it could keep moving, but it also exposed limits when things got extreme. There were moments of congestion that led to degraded performance rather than total failure. Those incidents highlighted that while the architecture scales well in theory, validator load and network conditions still matter. Since then upgrades have focused on better leader scheduling and stake-weighted quality of service to reduce single points of overload.

If you're thinking about allocating any capital here, practical monitoring becomes essential. Tracking the number of active validators and their uptime gives a sense of resilience. Solana has had several outages tied to high demand or software bugs, and recovery times varied. Looking at metrics like validator count growth helps show whether decentralization is improving. Early on there were valid concerns about a smaller set of validators holding significant stake, partly because the bootstrap phase favored certain operators. As the network matured more independent validators joined, but stake distribution still leans toward larger pools. This doesn't automatically mean centralization risk in daily operation, but it does affect how quickly the network can recover from incidents.

Another angle worth watching is developer activity and total value locked trends. TVL on Solana has fluctuated with market cycles, yet certain DeFi protocols and gaming projects have maintained steady usage even during bear phases. Developer commits and new project launches on the chain offer clues beyond price action. When you compare this to other layer one chains claiming similar speeds, the differences come down to how each handles state and execution. Solana's single global state and runtime choices allow high throughput but require careful optimization from app developers to avoid hitting bottlenecks.

Competition from chains like Aptos, Sui, or even established players with rollup strategies is worth considering. Each approaches speed differently, whether through parallel execution, different consensus tweaks, or modular designs. Solana's bet on a monolithic high-speed base layer has delivered real activity in niches like memecoins and NFTs, but it faces ongoing questions about reliability during peak load. After past incidents the team has implemented changes like Turbine improvements and better priority fees, which seem to have helped stability in subsequent stress tests.

Centralization worries from the initial validator distribution haven't fully disappeared. Growth has brought more participants, yet a meaningful portion of stake remains with entities that were early supporters. This setup can lead to faster decision making on upgrades but raises eyebrows during governance or outage recovery discussions. On the positive side, the low barrier for running a validator in terms of hardware requirements compared to some alternatives has encouraged broader experimentation.

Recovery prospects after network events depend on how quickly fixes are deployed and how the community responds. Past downtime led to coordinated restarts and patches that addressed root causes like duplicate signature handling. Each cycle seems to strengthen the operational side, though it also shows that no high-throughput design is immune to edge cases when usage explodes unexpectedly.

What keeps pulling me back to following Solana is how the combination of architecture and ecosystem growth creates tangible experiments in scalable applications. It's not just theoretical TPS; people are actually building and using things that benefit from the speed. At the same time the trade-offs around occasional instability and stake concentration require ongoing attention rather than blind optimism.

I've noticed that separating short-term price moves from these fundamentals helps in making more grounded decisions. Validator health, recent upgrade impacts, and comparative TVL across similar chains provide better signals than hype cycles alone. If you've been running nodes, developing on the chain, or just tracking these metrics yourself, what stands out to you as the biggest improvement or remaining risk area?

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Adam Back has got the Satoshi debate trending on X again, so I'm opening it up right here on reddit! I've compiled a timeline of significant cryptographic milestones that ultimately led up to the creation of Bitcoin. Read it, refresh your memory, and then in the comments tell me who YOU think Satoshi was and WHY:

1982 David Chaum invents blind signatures

1984 Chaum forms cryptography research group at CWI

1990 Chaum incorporates Digicash, built on top of banking infrastructure

1994 Adam Back starts exploring primitives of PoW

1996 NSA Release How To Make A Mint whitepaper citing cryptographer Tatsauki Okamoto

1997 Adam Back releases PoW

1998 Wei Dei publishes B-money

1998 Szabo develops bitgold

1999 Chaum liquidates and sells assets out of the bankruptcy liquidation. This forms a brand new company called eCash Technologies Inc. based in Washington, USA

2000 Earliest identified public email threads between Len Sassaman and Hal Finney

2001 SHA256 standardised by NIST (designed by NSA), later used by BTC extensively. Without this bitcoins consensus mechanism that solved double spending would not work

2004 David Chaum begins advising at KU Leauven

2004) Hal works on RPOW

2004 Len Sassaman (rabbi@quickie.net) becomes student of David Chaum and Bart Preneel at KU Leauven

2008 Satoshi/Bitcoin descends from e-cash/cyberpunk/hashcash/RPOW ideas, combining all of the greatest cryptographic ideas developed over 30 years.

2010 Len Sassaman starts posting on twitter in a way that suggest he is skeptical of the government and also the direction of Bitcoin… he clearly didn’t like the idea of gov intrusion or centralization

March 2010 Epstein sought contact with Meredith Patterson (Len Sassaman's partner) via Pablos. Pablos is Len Sassaman's “friend” and also Epsteins tech networker.

April 2011 Bitcoin is announced as handed over to Gavin by Satoshi.

(NEXT DAY) Gavin announces he will speak about Bitcoin at CIA HQ

(2 DAYS BEFORE CIA HQ TALK) Epstein emails Gavin to arrange a call about Bitcoin and the "serious risks", Gavin declines.

June 2011 Gavin meets with the CIA about BTC.

July 2011 Len Sassaman suicide (rest in peace legend)

Aug 2014 Hal Finney passes away (rest in peace legend)

Satoshi wallet remains untouched.

My opinion is that NO human would sit on $135 billion+ of theoretical wealth and not touch it.

Unless they are dead.

Or unless it was the intel agencies watching these guys that orchestrated BTC. Most of these guys were known to each other in the decades that led up to 2008. Intelligence agencies heavily monitored PGP, cypherpunk forums, and mailing lists during the 1990s and early 2000s. They were also at Len Sassaman's code pen events.

The NSA Presence: NSA and FBI agents subscribed to the list servs to log every message, track user handles (nyms), and stay updated on software developments.

The ECHELON Network: Run by the Five Eyes alliance (US, UK, CA, AU, NZ), this global interception network used keyword triggers to automatically flag internet traffic. Emails containing words related to PGP, keys, or specific cypherpunk manifestos were funneled into agency databases.

Bulk Personal Datasets: Leaked disclosures also revealed that UK agencies like GCHQ and MI5 began secretly vacuuming up bulk internet communications and personal datasets in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Anyone actively discussing or utilizing PGP automatically stood out as a high-value anomaly in this metadata.

SO, WHO DO YOU THINK SATOSHI WAS? AND WHY?

Seventeen months and still no answer. And I see all post querying anything about gate (and there were lots) have been purged.

Things that make you go hmmm.

I'm getting paid in USDC on Solana for a job and need an app that offers a debit card, since direct transfers to and from crypto exchanges are restricted in all of my local banks. It seems like most of the major options aren't available in many African countries, and so far Kask.xyz looks like the best option. Is there anything better I should consider?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=304oLDxx30c&ra=m

Interesting thoughts in - I personally think the quantum threat will become real in 5y, what do you think?

After nearly a decade in crypto, countless cycles, thousands of hours of research, and more mistakes than I’d like to admit, I’ve finally figured it out! Most investors are looking for the wrong things. It’s not market cap, tokenomics, partnerships, influencers, narratives, AI, memes, or even RWA…

There is exactly ONE thing that consistently predicts long-term success.

& after applying that formula, I have compiled the definitive list of every cryptocurrency besides Bitcoin and Ethereum worth buying in 2026:

1) There isn’t one.
2) There isn’t one.
3) There isn’t one.

Good luck ????

I'll admit I was confused for a while. Every time someone said stake Bitcoin, I assumed they meant wrapping it or sending it to some sketchy platform. That's not staking, that's just lending with extra steps.

But native BTC staking is different. You keep your Bitcoin on the main chain. No bridges, no wrapped tokens, no handing over your keys.

I used to think BTC couldn't have trustless yield. Now it can. Not saying it's risk-free, but it's not the wrapped-token nightmare I thought it was.

Anyone else just realizing this?

Here's a fun thought experiment for you all:

Is there an abandoned cryptocurrency that a single person could realistically acquire a controlling economic stake in using nothing more than public market purchases?

Imagine you are NOT interested in mining, staking, governance attacks, private deals, or tracking down founders and convincing them to sell their bags. You want to know whether it's possible to become the dominant stakeholder in a cryptocurrency the same way someone accumulates shares in a public company:

By simply buying what is available on the open market.

This sounds easy enough at first.

Crypto is littered with abandoned projects, I'm talking THOUSANDS of blockchains that have launched over the years that have lost their communities, development teams, and any meaningful reason to exist. The internet is essentially a graveyard of forgotten cryptocurrencies.

So we start by building a set of criteria:

Lets say the project has to be launched between 2009-2018. Development has to be effectively dead for at least 5 years. The community needs to be largely nonexistent. More than 90% of the supply must be unlocked and circulating. There can't be a foundation, treasury, or major stakeholder controlling a significant portion of the supply. It still has to be tradable on a functioning exchange with working withdrawals, and it needs to have both a market cap under $100,000 and daily trading volume under $500

The more you refine the criteria, its human nature to become increasingly confident you'll uncover dozens of candidates

But you will actually discover the criteria is almost self-contradictory.

The first problem is that genuinely abandoned projects tend not to remain tradable. Once development stops and the community disappears, exchanges eventually delist them. Even if the blockchain itself continues running the asset often becomes inaccessible because there is simply nowhere left to buy it.

Then you'll start running into the opposite problem. Projects that are still listed often aren't truly abandoned. Some still have active Telegram groups. Others still have maintainers pushing occasional updates. Some have foundations sitting on enormous treasury allocations. They look dead at first glance but there is almost always somebody still steering the ship.

I tried this all for fun and the deeper I went the stranger the problem became.

I had originally assumed that low market cap would make acquisition easier. If a coin had a $20,000 market cap surely it couldn't be that difficult to buy a large percentage of it.

What I failed to appreciate is that market cap and availability are completely different things.

A token can have a market cap of $20,000 and still be impossible to acquire. In most cases the overwhelming majority of supply is locked away in dormant wallets that haven't moved in years. Some holders lost their keys. Some forgot the project existed. Some disappeared entirely. The supply technically exists but it might as well be buried underground.

This created a paradox I naively hadn't anticipated when I went into this.

Obviously the more abandoned a cryptocurrency is, the less purchasable it is.

The ideal candidate needed to be dead enough that nobody cared about it anymore but alive enough that it was still functioning. It needed to have no meaningful community yet still have an exchange listing. It needed to have no active development yet still maintain enough infrastructure for deposits and withdrawals to work. It needed to be forgotten but not completely forgotten.

After digging through project after project I started to suspect that what I was looking for simply didn't exist.

Then I found "BOLI"

Bolivarcoin is a token launched in 2015 with the original goal of serving as a Venezuelan-focused digital currency. Today almost nobody talks about it. Development appears effectively dormant. Community activity is minimal. The market cap is tiny. Daily trading volume is almost nonexistent.

It was one of the first projects I found that didn't immediately fail one of my filters.

The blockchain still runs.

The supply is largely circulating.

There is no meaningful foundation controlling it.

The exchange listing still exists.

Withdrawals still appear to function.

The project is (for lack of a better term) alive in the same way an abandoned building is alive. Nobody is really using it, nobody is maintaining it, but somehow it is still standing

At this point the investigation stopped being about market structure and became a thought experiment.

Because if somebody did manage to accumulate a dominant stake in a project like this, what exactly would they own?

The obvious answer is that they would probably be better off launching their own token.

Creating a token today is trivial, you can legit spin one up in minutes, control the supply, define the branding, and start from a completely clean slate.

But that's also what makes something like BOLI interesting.

Launching a new token is like buying an empty plot of land and building a house

Acquiring a dominant stake in an abandoned cryptocurrency is like buying a decaying Victorian mansion for the cost of a used car. The roof leaks. The plumbing barely works. Half the rooms haven't been opened in years. But it exists. It has history. It has infrastructure. Somebody built it. People once cared about it.

Could somebody revive it? Probably not.

Could they rebrand it? Maybe.

Could they turn it into a digital museum dedicated to preserving abandoned cryptocurrency projects? Honestly that might be one of the more sensible things crypto has attempted.

Would any of this be a good idea? Almost certainly not.

But that's not really what I found interesting.

What surprised me was that after spending hours searching through the ruins of old crypto projects, I didn't discover a hidden gem or an overlooked investment opportunity. I discovered that the market structure itself prevents most of these opportunities from existing in the first place.

At a first thought its easy to assume you will find hundreds of abandoned cryptocurrencies that could theoretically be bought out by a determined individual.

Instead I found that the intersection between "dead," "functional," and "purchasable" is incredibly small.

BOLI wasn't interesting because it was valuable, it's interesting because it was one of the few projects I could find that somehow survived being unsuccessful. And for a forgotten cryptocurrency launched a decade ago, that might be the strangest achievement of all!

RIP BOLI!

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A visited a so called "Edinburgh Decentralisation Index" that was supposed to find out what asset is the most decentralized and it was showing Cardano as the most decentralized (above bitcoin too) and I thought it was sus because I've seen many scams in the space to be that trusting.

Turns out I immediately found a "news" article with the title "Cardano builder IOG and University of Edinburgh to create first ever index to provide industry standard metric for crypto decentralization" and "faith" was restored in my suspicions.

PS when money is involved never trust any kind of article by third parties. Do your own research.

Hello guys! Just wanted to ask what is the best crypto wallet to receive crypto these days? I will mainly use it to receive payments from my virtual assistant job.

The more I've dug into "quantum resistant" crypto projects the more I've realised most investors (including me originally) misunderstand what that phrase actually means.

When I used to hear "Quantum resistant blockchain"

I used to interpret it as "This project is safe from quantum computers"

But I've learned that's not what it actually means at all.

What it really means is based on everything currently known, no practical quantum attack is known YET. RSA wasn't broken because quantum computers became faster. RSA was broken (theoretically) because Shor found a completely different way of looking at the problem. He found hidden structure that classical computers couldn't exploit efficiently. That's what initially got me thinking...

When blockchain projects market themselves as quantum resistant because they use lattice cryptography, are they saying "we know this is safe against future quantum algorithms" or are they saying "nobody has found the quantum equivalent of Shor yet"?

I actually went away and built a small research framework trying to understand this distinction better. What surprised me most wasn't that I found a way to break lattice cryptography (I obviously didn't), it was discovering how much uncertainty still exists underneath the marketing language. The cryptographic community does not claim lattice cryptography is quantum proof. The claim is much narrower and more like:

- no efficient quantum attack is currently known
- many smart people have looked
- several hardness reductions exist
- and lattices remain our strongest major post-quantum candidate

I am posting this to raise awareness because thats very different from these QR blockchains being immune from being broken. In finance people price uncertainty all the time but when it comes to post-quantum projects many investors seem to treat "quantum resistant" as if it means "solved forever". Personally I now think the question isn't whether lattice cryptography is broken, it's whether investors understand the difference between the best known candidate VS proven future proof technology... Most don't and I didnt until recently.

Curious how other people think about this.

When a blockchain markets itself as quantum resistant, what level of confidence do you think investors should actually attach to that claim?

TL;DR - You can't just point the finger at China and say, "China's banned bitcoin for the 500th time now. You have to understand the framework the government uses for it.

https://www.pbc.gov.cn/tiaofasi/144941/3581332/2026020619591971323/index.html

We already know Buying, selling, and mining in china is illegal, but somehow it still takes place.

In Hong Kong, SAR of China, crypto buying and selling is legal. If you're a Chinese company and you want to gain exposure to bitcoin / crypto, the only way is through getting an ETFs available from companies on the HK stock market exchange. No self-custody involved.

A lot of projects in China use referral code structures to bring in new people to the project. Some more recent buzz terms include "RWA" and similar terminology. Sometimes these can be legit. Other times these can just be ways to bring in other users. Typically, the way project owners make money from these is from transaction fees that go on within the RWA structure - which is often a Pyramid or MLM scheme.

People aren't supposed to promote these projects, so what I have seen is large amounts of people gathering at auditoriums and when they are in auditoriums, phones are temporarily confiscated and then returned to all participants. The atmosphere is generally positive, but you cannot escape the MLM vibe. However, when you search for information about these projects on the Chinese web, it is often sparse because it isn't safe (according to Chinese law) to attach one's face to promoting a cryptocurrency project in China.

How does funding take place? Often times from USDT on BSC. Are they all worth investing in? I cannot say. I can only say if you are looking into these projects, consider mitigating your exposure and if it seems legit, scale it up to as much as you are comfortable with.

EDIT: With regards to saying, "People aren't supposed to promote these projects." I believe this only applies to people living in China. At least, I don't think the CCP would care if a Chinese person living outside of China would be punished for promoting these projects.

Hey everyone,About a year ago I bought some Saitama (and a few other coins) directly through my MetaMask wallet. I hadn’t checked the account in around 12 months. When I opened it the other day, I nearly had a heart attack — it was showing roughly $375,000 profit, with Saitama priced at about $36.87.LiveCoinWatch is currently quoting around $35–37 for Saitama V2.I’m pretty sure this isn’t real, but I don’t understand how the price is showing so high. I only have 10,250 Saitama tokens.Questions:

• Has anyone else seen this with Saitama? Is it a data glitch or fake liquidity thing?
• If I try to sell/swap it on Uniswap, what will actually happen?
• What’s the easiest/safest way to move whatever real value is there to Swyftx (Australian exchange)?

I’m not a crypto expert and don’t want to lose anything to gas fees or mistakes. Any advice would be really appreciated. Happy to provide the contract address if needed.Thanks!

Created a wallet on orbimarkets.com. I have around $1k of SOL in it and and it's not letting me transfer it out. I tried transferring it to kraken and coinbase as a spot transfer but it didn't work. I tried converting it to eco crypto as USDT tether and that worked but still gives errors when trying to do the transfer. This site seems like a pretty legit place to trade and deposit crypto as I've never had a problem trading, I just have had a problem withdrawing.

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I wasn’t sure about it at first, but if he hates it, then I like it even more. Not Financial Advice obv. Fuck the banking system, the whole reason crypto exists is because they lost our trust. So this level of animosity should imo be seen as validation for it.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at a Reagan Economic Forum event that the United States has seized $1 billion of Iranian cryptocurrency money as part of its effort to squeeze Iran’s economy. “Just outright grabbed the wallets,” Bessent said, referring to the accounts where digital currency is stored. “Some of them may be typing in right now and might not realize their wallet had been grabbed.”

When would you sell bitcoin, ethereum, or solana? I purchased a little while ago. Bitcoin I’m still up. Ethereum and solana I’m down a little. Would you cut losses or hold? I think they’ll come back up but not sure when or how high. What’s everyone else doing? Thanks!

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Hello,

A few days ago, while logged into my account in the app on my iPhone, I selected “Add funds” and then “Share your deposit address.”

I had downloaded the app directly from the Apple App Store.

I chose a USDT address on Tron/TRC20 and sent a deposit to the address shown in the app. The transaction was confirmed on-chain.

However, I later saw that the USDT Tron/TRC20 deposit option/address was no longer available in the app. Between the time I generated the address in the app and the time I sent the deposit, I received no warning or notice that Tron deposits were being disabled or were no longer supported.

The deposit has since been sent back to the originating address, but it is still effectively lost and has not been credited or recovered to me.

Has anyone experienced something similar with ether.fi or TRC20 deposits? Is there any way to verify whether the deposit address belonged to them, and recover the funds if it did?

I’ve contacted support and asked them to credit or recover the deposit, but I’m concerned because the address disappeared from the app and the funds are still not available to me.

Thanks.

Hey everyone,

I wanted to put out a massive warning to any independent developers, Telegram bot creators, or web admins looking into using Coinremitter as a cryptocurrency payment gateway. They market themselves as having a tiny "0.23% processing fee," but it is a massive trap designed to completely drain small-scale accounts.

I recently integrated their API into my Telegram bot to process premium upgrades in Bitcoin. Everything looked fine on paper until my users paid their invoices.

Here is the exact math of how they drained my wallet:

• Total Invoices Paid by Users: 0.00053163 BTC (Roughly $39.00 USD at the time).
• What actually arrived in my external wallet: 0.00003138 BTC (Roughly $2.31 USD).

Because I had their "Auto-Withdraw" feature turned on, their system triggered a payout the exact second my balance cleared the minimum threshold. What they bury in their fine print is a massive, flat-rate internal withdrawal fee (charging me over 0.00045 BTC / $33.58 USD just to process the sweep), completely separate from the actual blockchain miner fee.

They essentially took a 14x bigger cut than what they actually paid out to me, completely wiping out my hard-earned revenue.

If you are a small developer, do not use Coinremitter. Your funds will get automatically swept and absorbed by their predatory flat withdrawal fees. If you're building on Telegram, migrate immediately to native Telegram Stars (XTR)—don't let these payment gateways scam you out of your code's profit.

Watch out guys. Always check the flat minimum withdrawal fees, not just the advertised percentage rate!

Website: coinremitter[.]com

They all follow BTC, but some move more/faster than others. Say BTC went back to the ATH price again. That is less than double what it is now. ETH has gone down more, so it would be over 2x what it is now. DOGE would be 3x. There is no reason they should follow the same patterns again, but if they did, which would be the winner?

MEV doesn't get talked about enough relative to how much it actually costs people.

Unless you're a whale, most traders know sandwich attacks exist in the abstract but have no idea how much they're losing to them or what the realistic protection options are.

There are several approaches worth knowing about and they work very differently from each other.

The problem

On a public blockchain, your transaction is visible from the moment you submit it until it's confirmed.

Block producers control ordering. Searcher bots scan the pending pool, identify profitable opportunities, and act in the gap between submission/confirmation.

The classic mechanic is a sandwich: a bot sees your pending swap, buys the same asset ahead of you, your trade executes at a worse price, the bot sells immediately after.

Worth noting: not all MEV is purely extractive. The same infrastructure can be used to intercept exploits mid-attack or close arbitrage gaps.

But for the average trader, the interaction is mostly one-directional.

Flashbots / private RPCs

Routes your transaction directly to block builders through a private channel rather than broadcasting to the public mempool. You don't change your wallet, you change the RPC endpoint. Billions of dollars of transactions have gone through this on Ethereum. Requires manual opt-in, so most users never bother.

• Transaction routed directly to block builders, never entering the public mempool
• The relay operator retains some visibility — trust is transferred, not eliminated

CoW Swap

Instead of submitting a raw transaction, you sign an intent describing what you want to trade. A network of bonded solvers competes to find the best execution path across onchain liquidity, private market maker inventory, and peer-to-peer matching. When two users want opposite sides of the same trade, CoW settles them directly with no mempool exposure.

• Solver competition can produce better pricing than standard DEX routes
• Protection is structural rather than cryptographic — delegated execution, not a sealed transaction

Railgun

Uses zk-SNARKs to shield token balances and transaction history inside an onchain privacy pool. Shielded assets sit in encrypted smart contracts deployed directly on various chains, no separate network or bridge required. From the outside, activity is not traceable to the user.

• Most comprehensive at the asset level — supports ERC-20s, NFTs, and private DeFi interactions
• Shielding and unshielding adds friction and a real proficiency bar

Near Intents

An outcome-based protocol where users specify what they want and solvers compete to fulfill it. Has a confidential mode that routes through a TEE-based bridge where token pairs, order sizes, and timing stay out of the public mempool until after execution. Standard intents without confidential mode still broadcast to solvers without privacy guarantees.

• Transaction details remain private and only become visible on the public chain after execution
• Confidential mode is opt-in — standard intents carry no privacy guarantees

Privana Finance

Execution happens inside a hardware enclave before anything reaches public infrastructure. Swap intents are signed inside the enclave, the private key never leaves it, and the enclave handles automation and rule-based execution without the user needing to be present.

• No relay to trust, no shielding step to manage
• Custody stays with the user throughout

These approaches sit on a spectrum from simple workarounds to cryptographic enforcement to hardware-sealed execution. Which one makes sense depends on who you are and what goals you have.

Disclosure: I am affiliated with Privana.

Ok folks, looking to add crypto to my portfolio.

My thesis is the genius act mandates stable coins to buy us treasuries. Ie stable coins are here to stay, especially since china and japan are reducing treasuries and us needs treasury buyers.

So I've thought eth, sol, tron and bnb as a broadbasket long term hold and stake as these run the infra on which stablecoin operate.

And since banks etc are also looking to tokenize deposits etc, they will probably need an interoperability layer so probably some chain link.

Does the thesis hold, and what would you suggest?

Apparently this coin is about to be pump and dumped, am I be screwed if I hold or will there be enough liquidity?

With countless crypto related scams, unsustainable hype and market volatility, one can't help but wonder: What real problem does Web3 actually solve?

Here is a massive one that is so commonplace it feels like it has always been there: frictionless global commerce.

Back in the day, early-stage startups had to jump through endless regulatory and technical hoops just to integrate a payment gateway. Even if they succeeded, they faced a second hurdle: convincing early adopters to trust them with their card details.

Stablecoins and self-custody wallets changed that.

Today, a startup can deploy a secure payment structure in hours, not months. More astonishing, users don’t need to "trust" the platform with their financial data. They can simply connect a burner wallet, pay for the service, and safely disconnect. No card exposure, no deep trust required, no long term commitment needed.

Crypto isn't just changing finance; it overcame traditional payment bottlenecks, letting startups offer services/products now and ask for permission later.

The real thematic shift has been quietly occurring in 2026 and the vast majority of retail crypto traders still have not yet caught on to it: Agentic AI & Cryptocurrency.

Under 1.0% of total crypto trading and settlement volumes are related to Agentic AI Coins. While specific precise percentages vary depending on the data source, the broader AI and DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure) sector accounted for roughly $15 billion to $20 billion in combined market capitalization, making it the top-performing thematic asset class despite broader market downturns while tokens like $VVV outperform the entire crypto market.

This sectors next evolution is the spawning of autonomous agents that don’t just advise, they ACT: they trade, negotiate, pay for computing power, optimize DeFi yields, and settle agent-to-agent deals 24/7 without the need for your supervision. The only rails that actually work for them are Cryptocurrencies.

At first glance, this should be obvious as these agents can’t open a bank account, possess no SSN, and cannot perform a KYC (sorry fam, no agentic selfies yet). What they can do however is hold non-custodial wallets, push stablecoins, interact with smart contracts, and execute at machine speed.

That’s why we’re seeing protocols like Agent Payments, x402 on Coinbase, and Virtuals Protocol exploding as AI turns into an entire parallel economy of machine-to-machine commerce.

High-beta narrative with real teeth

When BTC rips on macro tailwinds, agent tokens and AI-crypto infrastructure names catch the alpha hard. FetchAI/ASI agents are optimizing trades, Virtuals are launching tokenized agents that earn their own revenue while NEAR is pushing agentic commerce. Think of it like Bitcoin’s little brother energy on steroids, except the “brother” is now a swarm of hyper-efficient digital entities.

But here’s the part most meme degens and crypto bros miss: Privacy isn’t optional. It’s survival

These agents can and will handle your capital, your data, and your strategies which means that every transaction & every decision leaves a trail unless you build it shielded. Imagine your trading agent getting front-run because its wallet history is public (something we're seeing with Polymarket Whales & Bots atm). Imagine again a personal agent negotiating deals while leaking your preferences, location, or net worth to chain-analysis firms and surveillance states (real). Governments are already cranking up KYC and CBDC tracking in that world, which means that agents operating in the open are just well-dressed snitches.

That’s why privacy tech like zk-proofs, shielded pools, and Zcash-style architecture becomes the moat. You want agents that prove they’re solvent or compliant without spilling the entire ledger. Optional privacy so your autonomous yield farmer can move size quietly, while your personal assistant can pay bills without broadcasting your lifestyle, and cross-border agent deals don’t trigger automatic flags. Privacy is the superpower you didn't know you needed in an agentic world.

It's important to note that these Agentic AI and Privacy narratives will only become more valuable as the cracks and flaws of traditional systems continue to become exposed. It's still quite early.

In conclusion, those who build & back the private, autonomous stack will define the next decade.

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I hope you enjoyed this little write-up, and i'm hoping to hear your thoughts and get a discussion going, especially contrarian opinions here as that's where the best discussions are born.

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I feel it's coming. No one actually cares about the fundamentals of anything, you see techstocks at 900 P/E because of euphoria. One thing that is true is that corporations are buying crypto like never before. They're positioning themselves because of what is coming in the next 2 years on the leadup to the 2028 halving.

I think the news that GENIUS act won't pass is wrong. Both sides are all paid for by Isreal and they will play ball if there's money to be made.

My predictions are

BTC --> 200k
ETH ---> 20k (tenbagger, this is programmed)

XMR ---> $16k

in 2028, with the halving being the sell the news event.

I feel it's coming. No one actually cares about the fundamentals of anything, you see techstocks at 900 P/E because of euphoria. One thing that is true is that corporations are buying crypto like never before. They're positioning themselves because of what is coming in the next 2 years on the leadup to the 2028 halving.

I think the news that GENIUS act won't pass is wrong. Both sides are all paid for by Isreal and they will play ball if there's money to be made.

My predictions are

BTC --> 200k
ETH ---> 20k (tenbagger, this is programmed)

XMR ---> $16k

in 2028, with the halving being the sell the news event.

I feel it's coming. No one actually cares about the fundamentals of anything, you see techstocks at 900 P/E because of euphoria. One thing that is true is that corporations are buying crypto like never before. They're positioning themselves because of what is coming in the next 2 years on the leadup to the 2028 halving.

I think the news that GENIUS act won't pass is wrong. Both sides are all paid for by Isreal and they will play ball if there's money to be made.

My predictions are

BTC --> 200k
ETH ---> 20k (tenbagger, this is programmed)

XMR ---> $16k

in 2028, with the halving being the sell the news event.

I feel it's coming. No one actually cares about the fundamentals of anything, you see techstocks at 900 P/E because of euphoria. One thing that is true is that corporations are buying crypto like never before. They're positioning themselves because of what is coming in the next 2 years on the leadup to the 2028 halving.

I think the news that GENIUS act won't pass is wrong. Both sides are all paid for by Isreal and they will play ball if there's money to be made.

My predictions are

BTC --> 200k
ETH ---> 20k (tenbagger, this is programmed)

XMR ---> $16k

in 2028, with the halving being the sell the news event.

Genuinely curious, why hasn’t Binance listed $HYPE yet?

My first thought was they’re scared of competition, but that feels pretty lame. CZ is always tweeting about “making crypto great” and growing the entire space. It doesn’t make sense that they’d completely ignore one of the best performing coins of the entire cycle just because it’s from Hyperliquid.

Are there other reasons? Regulations? Technical issues? Or is it really just internal politics/ego?

Would love to hear all your thoughts.

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I am looking to get myself more invested into Crypto world. For that, I need some advice and appreciate your attention.

What is the most secure wallet that you can recommend me!?

I understand that physical is a better choice. I don’t mind if it is physical or a wallet app. I can spare an old phone and use it only for my wallet if a software approach is as good as the hardware one.

I am looking for some wallet that is open source. I understand that you can rely on open source much better. Please share your thoughts if that’s not the case.

For now I am only looking at keeping btc and eth so as long as those are covered I am good.

What other aspects shall I keep in mind picking a wallet? Longevity? Anything that you experienced please share. (For example I had a wallet and they have gone out of business, I had to go through hoops to retrieve my coins)

A wallet that give me options to stake eth. I am not looking for the best rate to stake but the most secure one. I understand that there is risk with staking, please share what staking risks you are ok with it and what you are not.

I understand that it might be a wish for all these to come true.

We all remember absolute moonshots with a new narrative that changed the game for a while. Projects like STEPN, than pumpfun, before that it was memecoins and stuff like that.

Right now all i see is basically some crypto scams that are so obvious it ridiculous people even spend time on creating them

so this got me thinking - am i missing something right now or there is straight up nothing right now ?
im not talking particular coins/projects, im talking about major growing narrative?

As the title says, is it?

Should someone who has 0 crypto assets in 2026 start investing in crpyto?

I've been planning to invest in crypto for many years but postponed it each time due to different reasons yet i've been always impressed by the "stability" for the last few years and the belief that some have in this field.

Yet, even though there are some strong opinions about investing in crpyto, there are many who believe that entering the crypto market nowadays won't "benefit" you as much as someone who joined many years ago or of course in comparing those who mined and those who joined at the beginning, those people usually recommend to invest in stocks as it is "safer" for the long run.

Even purchased the Safe3 to store the crypto there, still sealed in a box but I am not sure whether I should start putting even 200$ a month because I see how many people are losing their wallets, funds and deposits because many platforms suddenly freeze/lock the accounts because people wanted to pull out their funds, whether it was in general or to an external offline wallet.

* Important note

Several years ago when XRP was still around 0.5$ I think, bought 500$ worth of XRP and after a period of year or two I decided to pull the money out because of fomo and because I "needed" the money.
Took me a while to withdraw the money because Binance did not make that easy nor their documentation was clear about how to withdraw the money correctly.
Long story short several months later XRP jumped to 2.X$ and I could've multiply my then "investment" x5 if I only had the patience that I have today.

So, mid 2026, do you recommend anyone start investing in crypto for the long run in true belief that "it will hold"?

Do you believe in the investing platforms?

Tips?

In 2018 I invested in 1% of my net worth into Bitcoin and Ethereum. I'm up 462% on that initial investment, but for the past 5 years, there's been no growth.

The reason I invested was to speculate and make money. I don't care about the technology, just being honest.

Should I sell and find the next speculative investment in the stock market? My portfolio is the same price as in May 2021, so I'm struggling to see crypto continuing to grow, and also looking at the stock market and debating whether that's a better place for fun money.

Maybe I’m missing something but why is using BTC outside exchanges still so complicated?

I’ve held BTC for years but every time I look into actually using it onchain it feels like I need to learn an entirely different stack first.

Bitcoin wallets, wrapping, bridges, moving across chains, gas tokens etc.

Feels like the UX gap between “holding BTC” and “actually using BTC” is still massive for normal users.

Has anyone else felt this or am I overthinking it?

Hey. I need to talk to someone who is involved with the crypto reputation services industry.

I pissed someone off, I guess. I'm not going to tell a big story here. But now for some reason every token I ever made, or make, is tagged with a "serial rug pull" designation somewhere and so warning at efvery endpoint I can find.

I have a token with 19 locked pools tagged as a "serial rug pull".

Anyways it's obviously account-based, not a particular token. I went ahead and made another token after a few weeks and it's immediately tagged, even though deployed with a fresh address using a gas account.

Now, since I make pools of my tokens (and make tokens) for bots to trade - this is fucking up my hobby. And since they tagged my actual 'released' protocol it's fucking with my investors.

I'm not running around trying to doxx with every fool that has a 'scanner'; on a web page. These blind web forms are pissing me off. But trying to find out who this is or where it's at is a silly trail of incredibly frustrating helplessness. I've tried to reach out to blockaid and the people behind tokensniffer to no avail.

Does anyone here have meaningful knowledge in this area? I haven't done anything criminal or even scammy IMO but I'm not asking for judgement. I'm asking where the guts of this are at.

Last fresh deployer was funded with a gas account. I can start a new tree of adresses with careful segregation via CEX funding. But if it's via remix, debank, heaven forbid coinbase creating a linked list of addresses somewhere?

So the trouble is that this rating system has me starting to consider evasive and shady activities that I don't need or want. It's like they're making me into what they're accusing me of.

Anyone have useful knowledge here? I tried to use crosspost from r/defi but it wouldn't submit.

For tax purposes I won’t delete my account for a few more months but as a service it’s dead to me.

I needed 150 in Bitcoin today for a purchase so I signed in and proceeded to add money and send my buy order through.

Everything clears without incident and order is fulfilled in 30 or so seconds. Off I go and grab the receiving address and set that order up.

Suddenly I’m frozen from transactions. Can’t send any crypto out. Only live in the Coinbase universe.

It is now requiring identity verification with ID and video confirmation or it’s locked until the 16th of June!

Mind you, I had issues accessing my tax forms from their document section. I had to go through ID verification… I had to do my ID and video with pictures of my face…
This was about a week and a half to two weeks ago..

Now I’m required to do the ID and Face ID AGAIN… plus there is this run down of extremely intrusive questions regarding my intentions. My employment, my wealth, my friendships… other unnecessary private info which has a zero point zero chance of my honest answer … just because.

Instead of throwing my phone against the wall… I message off and explain to the waiting individual that payment will need to wait until i speak with help desk real quick and straighten this out.

When I explain my issue and how I had to do this verification twice this year and once last week and I’m quite positive we know the “me” that uses the account.

Hold for 15 minutes… followed multiple similar exchanges.

“Sorry, looks like you’ll be locked out for transfers until the date stated”

I lost it.

I Spouted off (sternly stated without raising my tone of voice) about how… “you’re crooked, ratchet ass thieves!”… You are perfectly comfortable with my identity verification so much so you accept money from my account but as soon as you get you’re profit side complete suddenly I am an unknown, unsafe entity needing protecting from myself apparently.

There was no possible escalation I was told. The date is the date. He refused to reply to my judgment of their timing to lock an account.

I hung up, went into Exodus and set up buying though them. Purchase made and sent out almost instantaneously.

F u k Coinbase

Thanks for making it this far. You care more than Coinbase and I don’t spend thousands on you.

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My searches end up with having to give up cc info only to find out the platform or free trial doesn’t do what I need. I am willing to pay for it but the hunt has become exhausting.

Looking for real-time alerts on wide variety of coins for EMAs, BBand crosses, RSI, VWAP primarily.

Mandatory: Realtime and wide variety of coins (not a stock broker that added major coins only).

Thanks for any input.

Polymarket got hit again. May 22nd, someone drained around $660K in USDC and POL through their UMA CTF Adapter on Polygon. ZachXBT caught it first. The guy was pulling 5,000 POL every 30 seconds lol.

Polymarket said "no contracts were exploited, all user funds are safe." Turns out it was a compromised private key from their rewards payout system. So not a smart contract bug, just someone got the keys. I mean that's still not great?

What gets me is this is like their third incident in 6mons. And every single time the answer is "core protocol is fine." The core protocol is fine, everything around it keeps getting popped though. POL dumped on the news too, funding rate on bydfi flipped negative pretty fast.

Oh and the audit they did back in 2021? Didn't even cover the part that got exploited. So...how many "isolated incidents" before it's a pattern?

I saw kraken has released the vault for btc for 2.5% apy.

Would you do this? I know staking normally with btc on kraken is not worth it.

Unpopular opinion: most of crypto is not meaningfully decentralized anymore. It’s just traditional finance cosplay with worse customer service and better memes.

Everyone says they hate banks, but then they trust:

centralized exchanges to hold their coins
stablecoin issuers to not freeze them
VC-backed chains to “govern” fairly
bridges that get hacked every six months
influencers who dump while preaching conviction
foundations that quietly decide what “the community” wants

At some point, we have to admit a lot of this industry didn’t replace the old system. It rebuilt the same power structure, added tokens, and called it freedom.

Bitcoin still has a clean argument: scarce, simple, hard to change, no CEO.

But 90% of crypto? It’s basically startup equity without shareholder rights, financial products without investor protection, and casinos without free drinks.

I’m not saying crypto is dead. I’m saying the industry needs to stop pretending every token launch is a revolution.

Most of it is marketing. Most communities are exit liquidity. Most roadmaps are delayed promises. And most “decentralized” projects still depend on a small group of insiders, devs, whales, exchanges, or foundations.

The uncomfortable question is this:

If your project can be killed by regulators, insiders, AWS, a foundation wallet, a stablecoin freeze, or one founder disappearing…

was it ever really decentralized?

Genuine question not trying to sell anything, just had a rabbit hole moment today.

Read about a family who inherited their dad's estate. Grant of probate. Death certificate. Everything legal.

They found his Ledger in a drawer.

Nobody knew the PIN. Nobody knew the recovery phrase. Nobody knew which exchanges he used.

Legally theirs. Practically gone forever.

This got me thinking how many people actually have a plan for this?

From what I can tell, the problem is bigger than just crypto:

• Hardware wallets need PINs and seed phrases
• Exchange accounts need 2FA that dies with your phone
• Even email accounts that everything else is tied to become inaccessible
• HMRC (UK) treats crypto as property for inheritance tax so your estate owes tax on assets they can't even access

Some numbers floating around:

• $68B estimated inaccessible due to lost keys (Chainalysis)
• 89% of holders have no inheritance plan

Has anyone here actually dealt with this as an executor? Did exchanges cooperate? Were you able to recover hardware wallet funds?

And genuinely do you have any kind of plan set up for your own holdings? Curious what people actually do in practice.

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Seriously, what is going on here? just got a notification that NASDAQ hit an ATH.

Yet here we are with crypto floundering?

If this is not an indicator that stocks, particularly tech stocks, are not interrelated with crypto then I don't know what is.

Stockmarket (Tech) does not = Crypto!!!

WTAF is going on here?

While everyone's been staring at BTC price action and ETF outflows, Vitalik dropped an actual technical roadmap for making. Ethereum quantum-resistant. I've read through it and the implications go way beyond ETH.

Here's what's being proposed:

BLS signatures replacing ECDSA as the primary scheme. This is the big one, ECDSA is vulnerable to quantum attacks and BLS isn't.

KZG commitments getting a security review against quantum threat models. These are what power the current proto-danksharding setup.

Staking and validator key rotation being restructured to survive a theoretical quantum break without requiring a hard fork at gunpoint.

Why this matters for the whole space and not just ETH holders: if Ethereum actually executes this roadmap, it becomes the first major smart contract platform with a credible quantum defense plan. That matters because quantum computing timelines keep getting shorter. IBM's roadmap has them at 100,000+ qubits by 2033. Google's Willow chip already demonstrated error correction.

Now, whether that's real enough to threaten ECDSA-based chains is debated. But the market tends to price these things once they move from "theoretical risk" to "named technical response." Vitalik publishing an actual roadmap with specific cryptographic targets is that transition.

The other thing happening simultaneously: the ETH Foundation is restructuring into what Vitalik called a "smaller ship." Less overhead, more focused on protocol resilience and privacy. If you squint, these two moves together look like ETH preparing for a world where the competition isn't other L1s, it's external disruption.

BTC doesn't have a quantum roadmap. Most L1s don't. If quantum resistance becomes a narrative in the next cycle (and I think it will once quantum computing hits mainstream tech coverage), the chains that have actual plans in place will get the premium.

This isn't financial advice and I'm not saying go buy ETH. I'm saying the technical infrastructure discussion is shifting in ways that aren't showing up in price yet.

At the moment have some positions in stocks and ETFs but I want to put 20% of my capital in Crypto as I believe it’s going to be important in the future. I was thinking about DCAing into BTC and ETH or buying when the crypto fear and greed index reaches extreme fear. I was wondering if maybe there are some key price levels to buy at?

In summary, I am a beginner to crypto and want to invest in the long term, how should I do it and what should I invest into?

I’ve made money from crypto before, specifically from Solana, but the rest, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Fantom, XRP, and Shiba (throws up in mouth) have all made me lose money. And I genuinely held for YEARS. I had the mindset of, “If I don’t sell it then it won’t be at a loss, if I wait long enough then it will go back up.” So I held for years. I was a good boy with diamond hands instead of wet paper bag hands. Until I saw a comment that really opened my eyes. It said, “So your strategy is to buy high and never sell?”

A month ago, before selling my crypto, I decided to try my hand at buying stocks in a brokerage account. Specifically Ai stocks, like Micron and SanDisk. SanDisk is now up 72% for me and Micron is up 54% with gains of 16% today. I could only watch my stock investments go up, and crypto go down more so much before I decided to sell the crypto. At first I was like, “I’ll just wait until my crypto breaks even, then I’ll sell it and put it into stocks.” Then I realized . . . Why am I waiting for crypto to go back up while I’m literally watching my stock investments go up in front of my eye?

Anywho, figured I’d share my experience, and while this is not financial advice, I hope it will help some of you guys make money. Best of luck friends.

I lost everything trading futures. Feeling at my lowest. I need some motivation to recover and start new. Please post your crypto liquidations. How did it feel when you got email from Binance/coinbase? Did you get liquidated in Binance 10/11? How did you bounce back? Please give some motivation.

The upcoming OpenAI IPO! Since Altman owns this project as well, it’s serving as a proxy.

Enjoy! ????????????

Certain crypto whales are in a peculiar position. They hold wealth that is, by every technical measure, more auditable than any traditional asset: every transaction, every wallet, every transfer sits on a public ledger any compliance officer can read. Yet banks sometimes treat incoming fiat from a crypto exchange as radioactive.

The actual friction point for crypto whales banking isn't account opening. The issue is Source of Wealth and Source of Funds, the moment compliance asks how the money was made and where your money came from. That's what the compliance department at the bank is built to verify: clean funds, no laundering risk.

Typical profiles affected:

• Early miners (solo and pool) with missing intermediary wallets or original receiving wallets
• BTC bought pre-2015 on exchanges that no longer exist (BTC-e, Cryptopia, Mt. Gox, etc)
• Algo/high frequency traders with thousands/millions of executions across exchanges and on-chain
• DeFi users with activity across chains, bridges, LPs, farms
• ETH ICO and token sale participants
• LocalBitcoins and other P2P buyers
• Privacy-coin holders with limited on-chain visibility
• People paid in BTC for services or businesses years ago
• People with "tainted" funds because they interacted with "high risk" counterparties

For traditional wealth, profiles give documents compliance has processed for decades: payslips, business sale agreements, inheritance docs, property transactions, audited accounts.

The issue with crypto is that compliance is not used to dealing with type of source of funds/wealth, and they are usually not trained/comfortable to understand it or have the tools be able to validate it.

The irony is that most of what compliance actually needs already exists. On-chain history is complete and public. Active exchange accounts retain trade history, deposit and withdrawal logs, and fiat funding records. Operational mining pools still hold payout histories; solo miners have block rewards visible directly on chain. Transaction history, address provenance, timestamps are all verifiable on demand.

The real gaps are narrow: dead exchanges (trading data unavailable), wallets abandoned a decade ago, undocumented P2P trades. These usually need "risk mitigation" to be accepted.

A bit of unsolicited advice for anyone in this position: talk to the bank before cashing out, not after. Ask explicitly what they need for Source of Wealth and Source of Funds. Requirements vary bank to bank and some won't accept crypto-origin funds at all, regardless of documentation. Better to find that out before the wire moves than after.

Over the past few years plenty of banks have become more crypto-friendly. But this is still a real obstacle for holders worldwide. When does the rest of the industry catch up?

I’d tell myself not to chase every coin people are hyping on Twitter. Also, learn wallet security early. I spent too much time looking for the “next 100x” and not enough time understanding seed phrases, approvals, and fake links.

I have these thoughts on crypto regulation for anti-money laundering and tax purposes.
I know little of the current political space. Just speculation.

1. Anonymity of small transactions could become less private.

Government mandate reporting of personal addresses for tax paying purposes.
Exchanges reports trades and outflows to nominated addresses.
If a government says transactions for personal use under a limit, such as 10k, are tax-free.
Your only purpose for wanting an anonymous wallet is to circumvent tax on purchases over 10K, except most assets at this size require POI/KYC OR for small transaction privacy conerns i will talk about further down.
Government will require business wallet addresses to be reported.
They can then link all Citizens with small spending habits.

If you purchase from a marketing company (Fb, Google etc), or one that sells data to a data broker, if the marketing company/broker then collects a list of business addresses, they can see your spending habits (not individual items, just cost at a shop).
This also means these companies can identify big fish (large investors, founders, insiders) and track their trades, or spending habits for geo-tracking and corporate espionage (im sure the potential exists).

2. Wallet address + Identity Association - Security and CBDC Roles

If these marketing companies/broker, government, or any company that registers your identity with wallet address is hacked.
You are open to hacking (social engineering/phishing emails/sim swap 2FA/kidnapping/blackmail/Scams).
A bank would normally protect/manage compromised accounts.
Now it's up to you.
If a service like haveibeenpwned.com existed for these exposed links (identity+wallet) you would need to transfer funds to a new wallet, but it would be on the ledger.
So you would rely on a tumbler, monero, or what i believe will happen.

A CBDC funds exchange service. You send them your funds from a compromised account, using them like a VPN privacy layer (as their ledger is private), then they send funds to nominated new wallet address.

3. Integration of these concerns and BAN lists

If private and business wallets are recorded by government, they may choose to use BAN address lists. To prevent tax avoidance and crime.
They may even say "If its not registered it is banned, until it is registered".
In this senario it would make BTC/ALTS banned from direct purchasing of goods and services unless there was a new protocol layer to cross-reference with updated BAN lists.

More likely they will require BTC conversion via lightning to CBDC smart contract at the terminal to accept or deny based on registering status of the wallet address.
Meaning the bank will still see your every small transaction, and will likely take a fee as well.

It'd be difficult to implement this for just 1 country as travellers would be restricted to traditional currency systems. Unless.
It works into the current SWIFT network of participating banks in many countries.
So again the banks see all, the government controls functionality of funds:
You own it in cold wallets, but they restrict where you can use it.

4. Banks, CBDC and loans

Banks need peoples money in storage - so they can create loans with fractional reserve lending.
If they have less in the bank, less loans, so naturally they will subsidise some of this loss by becoming a payment processor.
Maybe Crypto Staking pools will be allowed with 3rd parties, or even banks!
But IMO the government like small number of big entities for 'easier' regulation.
There is worry of how smaller businesses might manage risk profiles A+, A, B etc... lumping of credit loans (GFC crash).
This may be a way they can recuperate bank balances for loan creation from staking.
Or time-release smart contracts so you can still withdraw funds slowly during a crisis instead of a pure bank hold, so you own the funds in a private key, its access is blocked for a certain time after request which allows banks some time and less risk to offer loans with their fractional reserve requirements.

TLDR;

How this may look.
You store in cold wallets.
So banks cannot with-hold withdrawals in a time of crisis or market upheaval.
But the government now can BAN you based on changing aggressiveness and thresholds for applying BAN lists to prevent circumventing tax, money-laundering and crime proceeds.
They can also see your spending habits at retailers which they were not privvy to previously unless they Audited you.

Hackers and Marketing Companies know even more about you.
Marketing companies that associate identity to personal wallet addresses can compare to Business Address registers, and now also have personal spending habit data, can identify big fish for insider trading and corporate espionage.

If government force a BTC to CBDC conversion at payment terminals to compare to the BAN lists, banks will then see all spending data, again, and likely charge as a payment processor due to less people holding CBDC/Fiat in their Bank accounts (if in cold wallet opposed to multi-crypto friendly banking wallets).
Loaning systems with the banks is disrupted which will affect economies if 3rd party solutions are created and regulated.
Any compromise of your account requires a CBDC privacy fund transfer service to a new wallet, or tumbler or monero.
Banks if multi-cryto friendly would be able to control your funds.
Unless they designed a delay-released of funds protocols for parking crypto assets in you bank account, which reduces bank risk profile to use that capital to create loans. While maintaining some ability to hold ownership based on a smart contract without them halting it until they feel like it.

Thoughts?

Hey everyone,

I’ve been spending the last few months diving deep into the structural intersection of LLMs, automated order book mechanics, and decentralized networks. I think we need to look past surface-level AI wrappers, speculative trading bots, and basic web-scraping scripts if we are to come to the truth about where we are in the timeline here. We are standing on the edge of a massive structural shift: the absolute economic convergence of Agentic AI & Financial Markets using crypto as the its main economic force.

Here is a comprehensive breakdown of how this machine-to-machine (M2M) ecosystem is being built, the protocols driving it, and how it will fundamentally transform algorithmic trading forever.

1. The Bottleneck: Economic Containment

We are quickly moving past chat interfaces into the era of Agentic AI, autonomous software entities capable of multi-step reasoning, independent planning, and long-term task execution. However, as these systems enter the real world, they face a critical problem: fiat financial systems cannot handle them.

An autonomous AI agent cannot open a traditional bank account, pass standard corporate KYC (Know Your Customer) checks, or hold a standard corporate credit card without introducing massive operational and security risks. Giving an uncontained software script access to a corporate bank API creates a risk of unbounded financial loss if the model experiences a logic loop hallucination or compromises its API key. Furthermore, traditional credit cards charge flat baseline fees (e.g., $0.30 + 2.9%), rendering micro-cents or per-token streaming payments mathematically impossible.

The solution? Crypto rails. Decentralized networks provide the native, trustless, and programmable payment architecture that treats software agents as first-class economic actors.

2. The Multi-Chain Machine Stack

An agent economy cannot exist on a single blockchain because no single architecture excels at everything. Instead, we are seeing the emergence of a highly integrated, specialized multi-chain hardware and software stack

The Layer Breakdown:

• Intelligence Production: Bittensor (TAO) commoditizes machine learning capabilities through continuous cryptographic competition across specialized subnets. Agents tap into Bittensor as a decentralized, censorship-resistant API brain.
• The Execution Engines: Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) allows large language models and agent business logic to run completely on-chain inside Canister smart contracts, removing external cloud dependencies. Meanwhile, there is NEAR Protocol, which uses Chain Abstraction to handle background routing and multi-chain signing across Ethereum, Solana, and Bitcoin smoothly.
• Privacy & Key Isolation: Phala Network (PHA) and platforms like Venice AI (VVV) leverage Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) (hardware enclaves like Intel TDX and NVIDIA Confidential Computing). This ensures an agent's internal reasoning weights, private keys, and data inputs are completely encrypted and invisible to the physical server host.
• The Identity & Payment Foundations: Kite AI (KITE) uses its SPACE framework and Agent Passport system to establish secure machine identities via BIP-32 hierarchical derivation, cleanly separating human root ownership from delegated spending constraints (e.g., hard-capping an agent's wallet to a maximum spend of $5/hour). The raw computing silicon powering this infrastructure is leased permissionlessly from open GPU marketplaces like Akash Network (AKT).
• Coordination & Asset Co-ownership: Autonolas (OLAS) coordinates complex agent clusters off-chain while maintaining verifiable states on-chain, while Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) allows consumer-facing agents to establish autonomous digital brands with fractionalized co-ownership tokens.

3. The Metamorphosis of Algorithmic Trading

This convergence shifts algorithmic trading from static, hardcoded quantitative models to dynamic, context-aware reasoning engines.

Legacy quant models are highly efficient at time-series calculations, but they are completely blind to contextual shifts. A TEE-secured agentic trading setup continually ingests multi-source unstructured data, such as social sentiment, breaking macroeconomic headlines, on-chain wallet tracking, and liquidity pool imbalances.

Instead of waiting for a rigid mathematical cross, the agent uses internal chain-of-thought logic to evaluate structural chart mechanics like Inner Circle Trader (ICT) Market Maker Models (MMXM) or multi-timeframe Fair Value Gaps (FVG) with human-like contextual understanding, executing complex multi-step capital hedges at machine-scale speeds.

4. The Structural Tradeoffs & Vulnerabilities

To keep this objective, this paradigm shift isn't without significant friction points:

1. Systemic LLM Hallucinations: A hallucination in a customer support chatbot results in a minor PR issue; a logical hallucination in a financial execution agent can result in instantaneous capital destruction. This requires immutable Boundary Smart Contracts that block any agent transaction violating predefined risk profiles.
2. Hardware Enclave Exploits: The entire premise of private machine wallets relies on the security of physical TEE components. Any zero-day vulnerability breaking hardware enclaves risks exposing the private keys of millions of autonomous systems simultaneously.
3. The Regulatory Horizon: Global frameworks are built entirely on human liability. If an autonomous agent operating on a decentralized network triggers a localized market flash crash, assigning legal accountability introduces a massive legal grey area between developers, validators, and compute providers.

Curious to hear your thoughts. How are you positioning your development stacks or capital for this transition? Are you leaning toward on-chain native runtimes like ICP or off-chain TEE execution clusters like Phala?

Let's discuss it fam

Lately I’ve been seeing more people using grid strategies because of how the market has been moving. With this level of volatility, it feels like leaving a bot completely untouched for days doesn’t work as well anymore.

Features like these seem a lot more useful now:

• dynamic grids that adapt better after price breakouts
• being able to modify parameters without stopping the strategy
• adjusting position sizes while the bot is still running

I still think grids work well in sideways markets, but during sharp moves, flexibility seems to make a big difference.

I’ve also noticed some platforms pushing grid trading more through trial campaigns and reward programs, probably to attract newer retail users.

What are you guys using lately?

• Classic grid or trailing grid?
• Wider ranges or tighter setups?
• Fully automated or manual adjustments?

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A response to several popular FUD posts I've seen the last few days. No this is not another mindless AI post. No AI was used or harmed in the making of this post.

I can't tell if someone is trying to shake out retail or if a few of you here are just that good of people who are genuinely concerned with your fellow degenerates possibly riding this bear market deeper than they expected when POTUS finishes wrecking the global economy with his war on oil, Iran, ethics, morality, and decency. I don't know, something about the FUD feels very disingenuous. Even one of the Bankless podcast guys said he sold his Ethereum last week - all of it? I assume he still sold at a profit but still....odd thing to announce. Odd thing to announce, from him especially. Long story short the FUD feels manufactured albeit not completely baseless given the market at this moment in time. But how short are our memories of the progress?

So what's the verdict then? Everyone should just sell all their crypto and leave and go where? AI stocks are grossly inflated already. Grossly. Like, only thing holding up the S&P. S&P is in a massive bubble. Real estate is inflated and has record numbers of sellers outnumbering buyers (yet prices don't come down). So, what's the play? Hope it ain't SpaceX. So what then? Sell all your crypto in a bear market and sit on 100% cash - see if you can be a mini Berkshire and wait for the full on crash that may never come. The crash Michael Burry has been predicting for years. The crash that may not come as deeply as you think, or will hit so hard and recover so fast (remember Berkshire has those buy limits set) you'll miss the dip entirely. Or, do you stay exposed in crypto and await the waive of growth that you believed would come back when you first started buying?

I disagree that cryoto as an industry had its run and is essentially done. Reading popular FUD posts lately you wouldn't think it's anything but dead though. I personally still think it's just getting started. Are the rate of returns diminishing over time - sure, if we are talking Bitcoin, but that's natural with any asset over time. And yeah, Ethereum has been stagnant last five years with a weak peak this last bull run. Alt season didn't happen, or hasn't happened. But is explosive and maintainable growth still possible ? I think yes.

By mid-2024, fewer than 1% of 401(k) plans offered crypto exposure. In other words most plans still don’t include crypto ETFs even though they’re now legal to hold in retirement accounts. The same is true of pension plans. Plan administrators have fiduciary duties and they don't want to get accused of violating them by including something new, lacking significant history, whose price can fluctuate significantly. Of 401k plans that exist they are still very limited with a Bitcoin Spot ETF first approved in January 2024 and an Ethereum ETF shortly after. In recent years more and more major financial advisors began offering crypto assets including Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, BlackRock, Schwab, Robinhood, Fidelity, and even to Van Guard who said it would never do it. This list will grow with regularity clarity and the degree to which these institutional activity promote it to their customers will grow too.

Major financial advisors seeking crytpo ETFs aside, major trad-fi players like Black Rock also already build on blockchains like Ethereum. It built its tokenized money market fund BUIDL on it in March of 2024. Other chains may find demand for their block space that doesn't yet exist as global financial markets go on-chain and more institutions BUIDL products on-chain. If more institutions build on public block chains like Ethereum, Cardano, Hedera, Solana, Algorand, etc., then demand for their corresponding tokens will rise too as the fees to pay for the transactions have to be paid in those tokens.

I only reference these names as specific examples because in March of 2026, the SEC and CFTC issued guidance naming these specific cryptocurrencies (16 in total) as non-security "digital commodities" subject to CFTC oversight. A guidance paper issued by the SEC and CFTC in and of itself is another important piece of regularly clarity and legitimization, despite not having the weight of law.

More important than this ETF stuff and SEC guidance papers is legislation. The GENIUS Act (Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act) was signed into law in July 2025. It established the first comprehensive regulatory framework for payment stablecoins in the United States.

The CLARITY Act (Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025) is now pending, and being flushed out in Congress as we speak. It is bipartisan legislation designed to establish a comprehensive regulatory framework for the cryptocurrency industry in the United States. Together, GENIUS and CLARITY will help usher in a new era of digital finance.

Let's not forget we also have a very pro crypto President in the U.S., even if he also used it to rug-pull you all with his Trump coin right after his election. He may be a war monger, inflating away the dollar, stomping on due process and immigrants in the U.S., but that aside, he is advancing these crypto related laws, ushering in the future of digital finance. It may be the only thing he's doing well. He also signed an Executive Order in March of 2025 to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile. Again, not unwise given it's merely being created through asset forfeiture, not purchase with taxpayer funds. In July of 2024 Germany for instance sold off its Bitcoin reserves form asset forfeitures - $3 billion worth of holdings - at $62,000 per coin. This is below even today's bear market low and 3-4 years from now will look especially foolish.

I see lots to be optimistic about. I'm not any more scared for crypto in the short term (1-3 years) than I am for the stock market or economy as a whole. War, civil unrest, inflation, and global economic recession is a risk to everything. But I think leaving crypto entirely is leaving a lot on the table. It is the only new asset class in existence and it has the most room to grow by virtue of being the youngest. It doesn't feel new to many of you/us because it's been so violently chaotic at times - especially since 2021 - but that's just mental fatigue talking, not reason. Run away if you want but I'm riding this train into the 2030s.

Reminder of other progress since 2021:

-In June of 2021 El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.

-In November of 2021 the US congress passed an infrastructure bill that included for the first time ever provisions addressing crypto currency, taxes, and reporting requirements. While controversial, Congress has continued to discuss legislation, and passed the GENIUS act in 2025 and is working on the CLARITY act now.

-In September of 2022 the White House released the first-ever comprehensive framework for the responsible development of digital assets, ushering in a new level of US acknowledgement of the perceived risks and benefits of crypto.

-In mid 2021 Visa first announced it would begin settling transactions with USDC stable coin. Speaking at the StarkWare Sessions 2023 conference in Tel Aviv, the head of Visa’s crypto operations said the company has “been testing how to accept settlement payments from issuers in USDC starting on Ethereum.

- In August 2022 Blackrock, the world's largest asset manager with $8 trillion in assets under management, partnered with Coinbase to give institutional clients access to Bitcoin. In December of 2022, the CEO of BlackRock predicted crypto's blockchain technology will usher in "the next generation for markets."

-In June of 2022 Solana announced development of its own smartphone to securely store crypto keys and provide seamless dapp integration.

-In early 2022 Los Angelas's former Staple Center became the Crypto.com arena. In mid 2022 the Home of the 76'ers, the former Wells Fargo Arena was renamed the Bankless Arena.

-In 2022 Polygon partnered with many major companies and is being utilized by Starbucks, Disney, Adidas, Stripe, Meta, and Reddit on a number of NFT and customer loyalty projects. (Yeah I know NFTs gave tanked since then).

- In October of 2022, BNY Mellon, the oldest bank in the United States, became the first bank in the US to launch its digital custody platform, allowing select clients to safeguard their Ether and Bitcoin holdings.

- In November of 2022 Fidelity announced it would offer Bitcoin and Ether trading to institutional clients. Since then it has begun offering Bitcoin and Eth purchase to its 401k retail customers.

-In November of 2022 it was reported that the JP Morgan wallet was now a registered trademark for cryptocurrency transfers and related services. The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted the application on Nov. 15. That same month, JPMorgan completed its first live cross-border transaction on a public blockchain using the Ethereum layer-two network Polygon, and a modified version of the aave protocol—a DeFi technology.

- In November of 2022 it was reported that Google is working with the Solana Network providing node & validator services.

- In January of 2023 Amazon began working with the Avalanche Network to provide cloud solutions for app-chains.

- In March of 2023 Microsoft was reportedly prepping to release a built-in non-custodial wallet for Microsoft Edge. Reportedly it's still working on this, so apparently no rush. We are in a bear market so expect little news from any company on anything crypto related.

Why doesn’t the APY pay me out in BTC and re reinvest in the coin I want?

Trying to build a framework for identifying genuinely sustainable yield-bearing tokens on Solana versus the vast majority that are just dressed-up emission schemes with temporary high APY.The four things I have come up with are: real economic activity as the yield source, yield paid in external assets not the native token, no lockup required, and an operational track record in real conditions. Is that the right framework or am I missing something important?

My post here yday severely triggered the permabulls. Instead of engaging w/ the points made about liquidity changes in crypto they defaulted to pathetic “ai slop” dismissal with 0 substantial counter arguments. So I’m back AGAIN to explain without the help of AI exactly why liquidity in crypto has FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGED:

There’s a reason your altcoins performed poorly between 2024-2025 and will continue to do so.

It wasn’t due to a LACK of liquidity.

IT WAS BECAUSE THE STRUCTURE OF LIQUIDITY IS NO LONGER THE SAME.

There’s also a reason you will NEVER see an “alt season” again. Pls allow me to educate you…

In the early days (up until around 2022) retail money hit exchanges in a very predictable way. We would buy spot, use leverage, and then risk on sentiment would cascade down the entire cap table. Put simply we would buy and hold the asset on chain. There was a lot of ON CHAIN ACTIVITY, and that made these markets reflexive.

Fast forward to now (the post 2022 era) and majority of capital comes in through institutional rails. What are institutional rails?

Bitcoin and ETH ETFs (thank BlackRock, Fidelity, etc), Corporate treasuries, custodians, regulated products etc…

ETFs for example do NOT act like old retail flows.

Somebody purchasing exposure to crypto through a brokerage account is NOT rotating profits into random tokens. Theyre buying paper receipts of the asset from megacorp.

Their passive exposure stays locked in these regulated wrappers so we don’t get any visible order book activity that used to trigger MOMENTUM CHASING ACROSS THE ENTIRE MARKET.

The chronically online traders of the old era would see capital moving and aggressively attempt to front run the flow down the cap curve, we don’t see that anymore.

Corporate treasury exposure is NOT chasing microcaps.

Pension allocations are NOT yield farming on chain.

I could honestly go on…

Basically all of that liquidity that used to move freely around the markets and create the conditions we NEEDED for alt season, is now STUCK inside heavily regulated wrappers around the biggest assets.

That’s why you watched BTC dominance go up for what felt like forever, whilst most alts simply bled out.

The majority left here are still psychologically expecting the old REFLEXIVE “everything will pump eventually” environment, but those earlier alt seasons only existed in a market with:

1. way less tokens (no hyper fragmentation)
2. no institutional infrastructure, in fact back then, these institutions were mass banning this stuff
3. more bots and MEV than humans
4. minimal competition for liquidity & attention

Listen to me carefully because this is what the BuLlS won’t tell you:

even if we’re FLOODED with an abundance of NEW liquidity tomorrow, don’t expect the classic alt season. We’ll see SELECTIVE strength in very FEW narratives. But that old retail driven rotation across hundreds of coins that defined previous cycles?

That meta is structurally broken.

The game itself has indeed changed!

Up until 2021 there had only ever been 20k tokens created on average. Since then in just 5 years, more than 40 MILLION tokens hit the market. Just stop and actually think about that increase for a second.

Oh and ai is only accelerating this problem.

You can now automate token creation at little to no cost.

Narratives are now mostly “generated”

Influencers are spamming like never before

Trading bots outnumber human participants

ENTIRE memecoin ecosystems are being manufactured algorithmically with 0 effort

So liquidity isn’t just fragmented across a forever exploding number of assets it’s now being farmed by literal machines

I could go on… but I won’t!

APPROACHING 48 HOURS NOW AND STILL NO ACTUAL COUNTER ARGUMENT TO THE FACT LIQUIDITY ARCHITECTURE IS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT NOW. IF YOU HAVE NOTHING WITH SUBSTANCE TO CONTRIBUTE TOWARD THIS CONVERSATION PLEASE SAVE YOURSELF THE TIME OF LOOKING SILLY.

Anyone here using RedotPay regularly in India?

Most content online feels either sponsored or very surface-level. Curious about actual long-term experience for:

• subscriptions
• travel
• online payments
• crypto spending

Mainly wondering:

• does it randomly fail?
• how’s support?
• any hidden catches?
• would you trust larger balances on it?

Would love honest opinions from real users.

Do you think AI agents eventually become part of crypto itself instead of just tools built around it?

Not just trading bots, but systems that can:

• move assets
• manage workflows
• coordinate payments
• interact across apps/services
• execute tasks autonomously

Most people still think of AI as chatbots while the infrastructure layer is evolving much faster tho.

Been looking for newer dog based memecoins and saw a new one $BORF. It seems simple enough and the dog meme market generally has a bigger cap than the rest. Do these have staying power?

I was just on the Coinbase website and noticed they have different tiers of membership. Is it not weird that you need to pay for insurance for fraud? Shouldn't they have enough confidence in their systems to ensure that Fraud does not happen and if it does then they take care of it. At least that's how banks work. I understand they are not a bank but I feel like they are so large that at this point they should be able to provide that kind of confidence to their users. Am I missing something here!???

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One thing becoming obvious is how many people in crypto understand almost nothing about how this market functions beneath surface level marketing narratives.

The space used to attract neurodiverse people obsessed with understanding cryptography, monetary history, market structure, liquidity flows, incentives, protocol mechanics, etc. People actually wanted to understand WHYY things behaved the way they did.

Fast forward to 2026 and most of the people left seem to think that if they personally cannot understand or model something then it must just be random chaos.

So every discussion around cycles, liquidity routing, miner issuance, reflexivity, or market structure gets dismissed as “cope” by people who have clearly never studied anything beyond CT memes, influencer clips, and price charts.

Bitcoin’s halving is literally hardcoded protocol behaviour. The issuance schedule is deterministic. That part is not speculation. The speculative part is how liquidity and market participants react around it. For years the same broad mechanics repeated because the same structural conditions repeated.

What changed this cycle is not Bitcoin suddenly ignoring its own supply dynamics. Bitcoin still responded to the halving largely as expected. What changed was the surrounding liquidity environment.

ETF flows, institutional custody, macro conditions, fragmented alt liquidity, market maker dominance, leverage structure, all of it changed how capital moved after Bitcoin absorbed liquidity.

But instead of learning any of this most people now just repeat brain dead one liners like “markets bro”, “priced in”, or “nobody knows anything” because they genuinely do not understand the system deeply enough to discuss it properly.

90% of the space now feels like low IQ online gamblers repeating slogans they heard from influencers while pretending everything is random because they personally cannot think beyond surface level narratives.

And before the comments fill with people screaming “alt season always returns when liquidity comes back” let me explain this like you are 5 years old:

Old alt seasons happened because retail users actually held and traded crypto directly on exchanges. Bitcoin would run first after the halving because new supply entering the market got cut in half while demand increased. Then people sitting on BTC profits would start rotating down the risk curve looking for bigger percentage gains. BTC profits moved into large caps, then mid caps, then eventually complete garbage. The entire market became reflexive because liquidity constantly recycled itself deeper into the ecosystem.

Now compare that to today.

A massive amount of Bitcoin demand now comes through ETFs and institutional products. BlackRock buys the BTC, it gets absorbed into custody, and the buyer holds exposure through traditional finance rails instead of actively rotating capital around crypto exchanges chasing altcoins.

At the same time there are now millions of tokens competing for attention instead of a relatively small pool of alts like previous cycles. Liquidity is fragmented to death. Market makers dominate order flow. Bots arbitrage everything instantly. Retail participation is weaker. Capital gets trapped in custody systems instead of endlessly cascading down the risk curve.

So even if huge liquidity arrived tomorrow it mathematically does NOT flow around the ecosystem in the same reflexive way it used to.

People are waiting for a version of alt season built on market structures that DONT exist anymore.

People assume the old mechanics still exist simply because they existed before.

They do not realise the structure underneath the market changed.

If this post instantly annoys you instead of making you think, you are probably exactly the type of participant I’m describing.

Binance is a fraud. They're tweaking the prediction market of BTC UP Down .
Theyre changing one thing or perhaps shifting the time a bit to forcibly make merchants unfastened their guess.

I am just about positive they doing this. They only can’t handle the prediction market.
Simple remove it, for those who can’t be true to your self

I have one proof to help my statement. The market maintain getting down and down and down in the last sec, nevertheless it doesn’t further cross the road of the prediction chart and chart stops within the last pink line until the prediction is over. And them growth, it retains taking place/up good after the prediction time is over.

I recommend pls pls pls never spend money on the third class low mindset trash Binance prediction market platform. I am so accomplished with this. I misplaced like more than 90 greatest out of 100. Is that this really my luck???? Wtf? Or one thing is cooking within the backdrop. I cant by no means agree with my 90% loosing out of which i solely gained like 10% bets, and people are still gained by close the worth not the ready for the last settlement.
I request everybody to refrain from Binance prediction market. I f***g know that you simply’re organizing the market from predict.fun but the citadel is yours and you're the king. You are able to do something inside it. So cease scamming peoplw although your really more than the mainstream. However this is how the large canine rip-off individuals by slowly slowly eating them from inside.

PLS STOP THIS ???? sheet

P.S - Now some mods of Binance will come right here and attempt to give some additional gametime insights

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I'm trying to bridge multichain without going through Binance or Coinbase, the KYC process is invasive, the last thing I want is my ID sitting in a database somewhere especially with all these targeted attacks.

Is there a non-custodial exchange where i can actually get correct rates?

I guess it's safe to say that shiba platinum was a scam. It's been 4 years since we first heard of it.

I don't have 32ETHs (wish I had), so I can't solo stake with ETH. Two options I narrow it down to:

1. Ledger + Rocket pool (or lido)
2. Edge mobile App + in app Skating (based on Klin)

questions I have:

Question #1

I understand that for Approach 1 my ETH private keys are secure on the hardware. However, if I stake them, and I can't unstake them (any risk happens like contract risk (which I don't actually now what that is)) then there is no way I can use my ETHs anyway. So having it on a hardware add extra level of security. However, it does not help with staking risks.

If adding a hardware does not add much when I am staking ETHs is it truly worth investing in hardware? Or if I am extra cautious with my mobile wallet App, they are in the same league as well?

Question #2

How more reliable is Lido and Rocket pool compared to Klin? I understand that they are both more transparent than Klin. However, seems like Klin is having a good reputation, and is working with multiple wallets. So, it might be an easy path for me to use it with Edge mobile app.

been watching exchange flows pretty obsessively lately and something felt off. ran 60 days of CryptoQuant across Binance, Coinbase, OKX, Kraken, Bybit. every $3B+ stablecoin window since 2021 (Q3 '21, Jan '23, Oct '23, Feb '24, Nov '24) pumped BTC 12% or more within a month. this time? nothing. GBTC and FBTC bled ~$1.9B in redemptions and market makers had to sell spot to settle those, which basically just drank the milkshake. you could actually see it on the order book, mid April and early May had these weird absorption walls on the bid side that just kept getting eaten. i had daily scrapes running on MuleRun so the data was already sitting there when the pattern clicked. sample size is literally five so i could be full of it. but it really looks like TradFi redemption flow is the new shadow variable that breaks the old stablecoin signal.

I've been in and out of the crypto market for 8 to 10 years, and it seems to be the case for alt coins is showing less and less promise. I remember when every idea you could imagine, defi, information profit sharing, storage sharing, etc was made into a coin, but it's been quite a while now, and out of thousands and thousands of alt coins, it seems like not a single one has been able to bring any real value to anybody holding it.

Am I wrong? Are there cases that people still hold hope for? How can coins be valuable aside from being a store of value. Is the dream of crypto functionality gone?

Is there any dex that kinda operates on a secret pool?
I mean, in the end, there's a chance of using XMR,
BUt they kinda announced that they'd look into the change of amount too FML

Ongoing Bitcoin ETF outflows have historically “correlated with conditions favorable for patient accumulation rather than panic," according to Santiment.

The recent streak of outflows from US-based spot Bitcoin ETFs, totaling more than $1 billion over the past trading week, suggests a potential buying opportunity for the world’s largest cryptocurrency, according to crypto sentiment platform Santiment.

“Santiment's analysts read these flows as a counter-indicator, since ETFs disproportionately reflect retail conviction rather than smart money positioning,” Santiment said in a report on Friday.

Santiment said retail investors were losing patience after Bitcoin (BTC) failed to hold above $80,000 in May. Bitcoin is trading at $75,410 at the time of publication, after reaching as high as $79,052 on May 16, according to CoinMarketCap.

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I'm seeing a lot of card products launching for crypto wallets. If more merchants accepted it via QR direct would that change things?

a one page document signed by the acting attorney general who is also his personal lawyer from his criminal trial and legal experts are saying it violates longstanding DOJ standards and everything like that, the administration’s own policy directives are the opposite of whatever this is. nobody can do anything about it though because the same guy who would normally stop this is the guy who signed it

and this happened in the same week he signed executive orders telling the SEC and CFTC to stop enforcing rules on fintech and also ordered the fed to do a 120 day review on giving crypto companies direct access to reserve bank payment infrastructure

In one week the president heavily lightened the regulations on crypto at the federal level, gave himself tax immunity through his own DOJ and signed two executive orders reshaping financial infrastructure as we know it…. all after kicking off his presidency with a memecoin

No matter how intelligent your entry is and how hype you stayed waiting for “retail” to pump your bags you end up in the end being the retail that gets dumped on no matter how early you feel, how is the system so rigged from the start that it made us believe with all our heart that a rise from 15k (previous bear market bottom) to 126k wasnt “the real bullmarket”, how was the president of the united states literally releasing a memecoin and rugpulling the entire world in one of the biggest liquidity extraction events not an enough signal for all of us to exit the markets? How how

Why did it not feel like a bullrun during it but in hindsight now its so obvious you bought the top like always HOW HAVE I BEEN BUYING TOPS FOR 3 CYCLES IN A ROW WITHOUT REALIZING IT
Is the system this rigged and deceptive to normal people even ones that have been in the game for so long?

Tens of thousands of dollars evaporated from my hands, money that could have been a fortune in cash is now circulating in pools of liquidity in hands of big money

The part that makes me mad is how unreal it all felt, my money did pump alot but i just couldn’t bring myself to sell any of it, money that i could never have dreamed of having at that age is gone because i thought it was only the beginning when it was the end, its such a crazy concept to me how did i get played like this again when i promised myself i would never fall for it again.

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BTC hit 82k right after the Clarity Act cleared Senate Banking Committee 15-9 last Thursday. Didn't even last a day, dumped straight back to 78k.

Funding rate on bydfi went positive the second the headline dropped, longs everywhere. Then 82k hit, price started bleeding, flipped negative within hours. People who knew what was coming already took profit while everyone else was still entering.

At this point it's a pattern. ETF approval last year, market topped the day it was confirmed. Coinbase IPO, the opening candle was the high. Major catalyst lands, smart money leaves.

But more is everyone treating this like crypto regulation is a done deal now. This thing passed committee, nothing else. Senate floor vote hasn't happened. House hasn't even started. Look at GENIUS Act, went through the exact same pipeline and came out the other end completely gutted. With all the political drama around Trump family crypto involvement I don't see why Clarity Act would survive intact either.

The "regulation is turning bullish" trade has been running since last year. ETF, stablecoin bills, now this. Market priced in every step before it happened. So what's left to buy when it actually becomes law?

Representative James Comer asked CEOs of two major prediction market companies for information on their responses to insider trading after “suspiciously timed trades” related to US military actions against Iran.

Update (May 22 at 7:40 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include statements from Polymarket and Kalshi.

The chair of the US House of Representatives’ Oversight and Government Reform Committee sent letters to the CEOs of Kalshi and Polymarket, questioning the companies’ response to incidents of insider trading on the platform.

In a Friday X post, Committee Chair James Comer confirmed reports that he had sent letters to Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan and Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour, asking them for internal records on how the companies were handling insider trading. The Kentucky lawmaker said there were concerns in Congress over elected officials using “basic insider knowledge” to profit off the government’s actions.

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This is not a Strike support request. This is questions regarding the support I received and what methods are publicly available for such a decision.

I intended to make a wire purchase of BTC on the order of $5k with my Strike account, so I created a suppport request in their app to get a calculation or estimate of purchase and send fees that I would need to accommodate in my process. In response to that support request, something they would not answer here in the r/strikebtc reddit, they asked for details on a wallet I regularly send to for some time, looked like a KYC thing and I provided what was asked. After providing the target BTC wallet, they determined the wallet is associated with a scam AND have decided to close my account. Rather than just blindly accepting that they must know something I don't, I'd like to know more about how such a determination can be made just based on wallet address and transaction history.

So my first question is how do they determine ownership of a BTC wallet, enough to determine it is scam-related, given the anonymity of crypto wallets? Other than the transaction history which can be viewed in Blockchain Explorer by anyone, what resources are publicly available to make such a determination? Or is this just a calculated guess based on some AI-based pattern recognition?

If it truly is a scam, I'd like to know how to detect for myself in the future. I'm not asking about general scam detection methods. I am asking specifically about scam determination based solely on wallet address and transaction history. If there is no way to really know, closing my account seems more CYA than customer support.

I've used Strike for several years and have always been very pleased with their service and support. This time, the support leading up to this was not what I've come to expect from Strike. My initial questions were never answered, and I guess it doesn't matter now since they closed my account and of course refuse to reveal any specifics on why.

So if I can educate myself on scam wallet detection methods, that would be ideal. If what they have done by closing my account seems more CYA based on questions being asked by a customer than based on factual methods, that is a significantly different issue.

And why there are so many cryptos? Other than btc what are other choices that are legit for long term? And why doge coin still held so much value eventhough it does not really have any values? So far Only bitcoin, zcash and ltc make sense to me since they all have limited cap which is not more than 1b. While xrp and others have crazy limited cap like 100b etc

A lot of people talk about it as “the most expensive pizza ever,” but that only became the dominant story because of what happened to BTC’s price later.

If BTC had remained a small niche internet currency for much longer, would we still celebrate Pizza Day as a major proof-of-use moment - the first famous example of Bitcoin being exchanged for something real, or would it just be a forgotten forum anecdote?

I’ve been using crypto cards since 2021 ever since the CB card came out and during bull markets most times I barely even felt like I was spending money. The counterargument for this is that selling crypto is an every time you want to buy a dougnut could get complicado, but what about stablecoins?

Volumes are exploding past six hundred million a month this spring with March alone hitting records around six oh seven mil as stablecoins just glide through everything while the GENIUS Act keeps rolling out its rules in the US and MICA clamps down tighter in Europe turning all these issuers into regulated rails that somehow make your stack feel spendable

It's got me wondering though as we roll into the back half of twenty twenty six if these cards are actually dissolving that old wall between hoarding digital gold and just living your life

Anyways… if any of y’all are using crypto cards which ones have piqued your interest and why? What are the benefits that drew you in if any…

Imagine standing in front of a crowd, holding a handful of ordinary dirt, and trying to sell it for the price of pure gold. If someone actually bought it, how would they defend that choice to their friends? They did something clearly foolish, but people hate admitting they made a mistake, so they look for a philosophy to justify it. A dirt buyer could easily borrow a page from the Bitcoin playbook and use a classic circular argument, claiming that everything only has value because someone agrees it does.

When you criticize Bitcoin, its supporters immediately deploy this linguistic defense. In one way or another, they repeat a mantra where value is agreement and agreement is value. It sounds profound, but it actually says nothing at all. They are just repeating the same empty concept using different words.

The reality is actually worse than the example with the handful of dirt. The buyer would use a circular argument to justify the value, but at least they have a thing to apply the concept of value to. The fundamental problem with the Bitcoin defense is not its circularity, but the total absence of a thing to be circular about. There is literally nothing behind the numbers flashing on the screen.

Because there is no underlying thing, the enthusiasts' next argument is also worse than circular. They pivot to asserting that any currency is simply whatever society agrees is a currency. But you cannot agree on nothingness. Before a society can collectively label something as currency or money, there must first be a concrete thing that the label refers to.

Historically, money was a tangible, physical thing like gold or silver. Today, modern money is a financial claim, an intangible thing whose value is realized when bank debtors provide labour, goods, or services to settle their debts. In both cases, numbers are used to express the amount of a thing that exists in the real world. You cannot claim you have a currency when there is no underlying thing, nothing whose amount you would express with numbers.

In the Bitcoin network, there is no such thing. The entire system is just a software protocol that generates, stores, and displays numbers.

When pushed on this point, the final defense is usually that modern money is also just numbers printed on paper or stored in bank databases. This is yet again the circular logic, a useless statement asserting that numbers are money and money is numbers. You do not even need to understand the complex mechanics of modern banking to see through this. Numbers are purely mathematical abstractions that anyone can create in their own imagination, not concrete things that exist in the real world.

So, an anonymous programmer using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto simply used his imagination, picked the arbitrary number twenty-one million, and built a system to assign and reassign fractions of that number to different addresses. Every such assignment and reassignment is recorded in a database that grows larger every time a new participant gives up a concrete thing to join the game.

Bitcoin supporters believe they have invested in digital gold, but they haven't even gotten digital dirt. They bought literally nothing. They did something foolish, so they are forced to engage in circular logic and philosophy to justify it. That is the strange world of Bitcoin, where the grandest financial revolution in history turns out to be nothing more than an expensive game of mathematical make-believe.

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I usually always use lightning network nowadays, no issues and always instant. today i just tried to receive a large sum and its not in my account yet, but gone from the other. Does it sometimes delay? Are there any current issues?

any update on withrawal on new era exchange? they muted most of their group chat in telegram.

I built a from-scratch experimental blockchain to explore some ideas I've been interested in:

– post-quantum signatures (Dilithium)

– custom zk-STARK system (AIR + FRI, written in Rust)

– shielded + anonymous transactions

– simple P2P gossip network

It’s not production-ready (no persistence, no DoS protection, etc.) — this is purely a learning/research project.

The most interesting part was implementing the STARK system end-to-end and integrating it into a working chain.

I’d really appreciate feedback, especially on: – the AIR design

– the privacy model

– tradeoffs between PQ signatures vs performance

Repo / demo:

https://github.com/sil714/qchain

Happy to answer any questions.

BTC went from 82k to 78k last week, $573M liquidated in 24 hours. On the surface it looks like Clarity Act buy the rumor sell the news, but the more I look at it the more I think the real driver is macro.

10-year treasury yield hit 4.55% last week, 30-year at 5.04%. When you can sit back and collect 4.5% risk-free, why would you put money in something that can drop 20% any day? And the rate cuts everyone was waiting for keep getting pushed back, market's even starting to price in a hike. Rates going up is just straight up bad for crypto.

I checked BTC funding rate on bydfi and it wasn't even that high before this dump, longs weren't crowded. Normally you'd see leverage pile up first before a wipeout, but this time it looked more like spot was selling and contracts got dragged down with it. Not gamblers getting blown up, real money leaving.

That's what makes this so weird. One side got Clarity Act, companies buying BTC, all these reasons to be bullish. On the other side rates are going up and money is pulling out. Short term I think macro wins. The good news takes months to play out, rates going up is happening right now.If the 10-year keeps heading toward 5%, forget new highs, BTC holding 75k would be a win.

What's your strategy right now? Holding or already trimming?

Ive struggled with this concern for months, from moonpay and okx to coinbase.

I've a authentic enterprise right here within the netherlands and we purchase part of our inventory in crypto, which is the one choice from them for now. It's €5-10okay a month.

I couldnt open a enterprise crypto account with kraken so for months now i maintain utilizing my private accounts on Coinbase, Okx, Moonpay, and so on to ship it to my exodus pockets first, and each time i get restricted after a couple occasions.

Is there any answer to this? I want to have the ability to buy 10okay value of crypto and ship it with no problem.

I think it's going to 48 next month.

I witnessed the 2022 bear market. And I can tell the Russian Ukraine war did the same impact as the Iran war.

So I'll wait for 48.

If any one have a pro analysis can share

Every time I look into a sophisticated trading strategy the answer is either build it yourself or pay institutional rates. Arbitrage, multi-asset staking, execution speed, all of it. Are there platforms actually trying to close this gap or is retail always going to be second-class in this space? Genuinely wondering if things are improving or just getting more crowded with noise.

I'm seeing a lot of wallet providers offering them. Curious to know anyone's thoughts.

Mi duda es, si hay riesgos que sea una estafa y si quiera robarme algo a mi o como funciona realmente.

Qué cosas debería evitar por aquello que sea una estafa a mi cuenta bancaria, que no es la electrónica

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I’ve been reading into it today and honestly I think it’s very messy whichever way it goes.

Do nothing and follow the fundamentals —> million of coins with their public addresses (satoshi, other old dormant wallets) get cracked and all hit the market simultaneously. Then safety concerns over the rest of our wallets emerge.

Hard fork which freezes/burns sleeping coins —> would cause massive controversy over bitcoins core principles. Active wallets would also migrate to quantum safe addresses through a block set deadline. The deadline would probably be years and years long to allow everyone to move.

I feel like people don’t talk about this enough considering it’s the biggest hurdle bitcoin will have to move past in its history. Anyone else have similar worries or am I just mad?

Arkadaşlar telegram sayfalarında belki görmüşsünüzdür. Coin ön satışlarına katılım yapıyorlar sonra o coin 0.004ten örneğin 4 dolara falan yükseliyor. Siz de bu ön satışa katılıyorsunuz. Katıldığınız coinin zamanı geldiğinde sizin paranız binlerce dolara çıkıyor. Sizden satım yapabilmeniz için slipaj yapmanız isteniyor. Bu olay da size verilen coin değerinin %25i gibi bir tutarı oluyor. Yani 4000dolarlık coin geldiyse elinize ön satış sonucunda sizin 1000 dolara yakın bir tutarla yeniden alım yapıp sonrasında satmanız isteniyor. Bu olaya slipaj yaptık süsü verip insanları dolandırıyorlar. Bunlara daha önce katılan oldu mu veya tam olarak dolandırıcılık mı değil mi bilen varsa aydınlatabilir mi?

Every liquidity mining project I have seen eventually collapses. The APY looks great for a few months and then the token falls and the real yield evaporates. Is this just inherent to how emission-based yield works or is there a structural fix?

I have been reading about fee-based real yield protocols like Seasons on Solana that claim to pay yield from actual transaction fees in wBTC and gold rather than in their own token. Does this actually solve the sustainability problem or is it just a different version of the same underlying issue?

I currently have $2,150 in AAVE that I've been parking on Krakken Exchange. Would it be worth the $75 to just go ahead and get a simple Trezor hardware wallet and store it on there? I'm in the US.

Everyone talks about making money in crypto, but nobody talks enough about the mental side of it.

The patience during crashes.
The fear of missing out.
The regret after selling too early.
The stress of checking charts every hour.

At some point, crypto stops being only about profits and starts teaching psychology, discipline, patience, and emotional control.

I honestly feel crypto changes the way people think over time — sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.

Do you think being in crypto has changed your mindset as a person?

Other than cryptos that trying to make money off people are these reliable coins?

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I have been hodling BTC since 2013. Unfortunately, not enough to change my life!

These days, I feel caught between two worlds:

• Sometimes I think Bitcoin has had a good run, but now it is just another investment, with a fairly symmetric risk/reward profile.
• Other times, I think the world is going crazy and Bitcoin is the only way out.

What do you guys think could cause another 10x run? Do you think there is one coming?

Edit: Funny how asking a question that isn’t based on “the price will just keep going up forever” doesn’t seem to get many upvotes here.
Edit2: I take back that comment. There are really thoughtful comment. Thanks guys

I am owed a pretty huge debt, and the debtor's employee wants to pay me back in USDT. I don't do crypto, but in order to get the money returned to me, I opened a Coinbase account today. The debtor's employee said, "You have to deposit $1000 on USDT for activation to get a domain trading account capable of receiving mainnet transfer funds."

Um. What the heck does this mean? I thought I could just set up my account and receive the USDT. Thought this was going to be simple. Not sure this guy knows what he is talking about.

Edit: Tl;dr for any other poor soul who comes across this post: Everyone agrees it's a scam. Trust no one.

Do you still think BTC is only good for holding after all these years?

Curious how people see Bitcoin today compared to previous cycles. Is it still just about holding, or do you think there are long-term use cases that will actually last and grow over time?

Just want to know if people here also see other long-term possibilities for BTC aside from just holding it...

I swapped a total 37,028 of wOCT from my wallet to 2010 USDT swap on chain.
This was the executed transaction tx:

https://etherscan.io/tx/0x98724339b603a0158aab2f7a2a350ff47f8501f0bbb49e946a6f8d84eb7fc5ad

Instead of receiving my funds, I was only sent ~$1,576 USDT. When I checked the on-chain data, it clearly showed that the swap successfully executed for the full $2,010. However, the platform's smart contract deliberately routed $421.80 USDT straight into one of their own wallets:

0xd0A67cB08BE17475f4315a04C5F0Be3e200Ef66c⁠

This is deceiving users, providing them with false information and stealing funds without disclosing.

I contacted support and they replied with:

“ 1:1 exchange rate for an asset pair is not guaranteed when trading on a decentralized market with limited liquidity. If the market for the token pair lacks sufficient liquidity, trading can result in a significant price impact, which leads to a lesser fiat value of the received token.”

When I asked customer support, they tried to brush it off by blaming "low liquidity" and "price impact." This is a blatant lie. The blockchain proves there was no price impact issue, the full amount was generated, and they simply pocketed a massive, undisclosed 20% cut. Providing false information to cover up hidden extractions is theft. Stay away.

this is the first time in YEARS that crypto legislation with actual teeth made it out of committee with bipartisan support. gallego and alsobrooks broke ranks. in 2026.

while elizabeth warren is filing 40+ amendments to try to kill it before floor vote
the bill literally just creates jurisdictional clarity between SEC and CFTC so we stop having this insane situation where nobody knows if their token is a security until gary gensler decides to sue them five years later. thats it. thats the whole thing. and it took congress until now to figure this out

but now warrens got 100+ amendments queued up and you KNOW half of them are gonna be poison pills designed to either tank the bill or make it so useless that it doesnt matter.

“yield bearing stablecoins must register as securities” type stuff that just brings us back to regulation by enforcement the cynical read is this dies in floor vote or gets amended into irrelevance.

the optimistic read is that if it made it out of committee with dems crossing over then maybe theres actually enough votes to pass something. institutional money has been screaming for this framework since the ETFs launched

either way the next few weeks are gonna show whether the US is actually gonna build coherent crypto policy or if were just gonna keep pretending that 1930s securities law works for programmable money in 2026
also someone remind me why we needed a decade and multiple exchange collapses to get to “maybe CFTC and SEC should have defined boundaries” because that seems like something we couldve figured out in like 2017​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Raw exchange volume feels like the wrong metric to trust by itself

I’ve been looking at exchange rankings lately, and the more I look at them, the less useful raw 24h volume seems on its own.

A venue can show huge reported volume, but that does not tell you much unless it lines up with other things:

Is there real depth on the book?

Are spreads normal?

Does the traffic look believable?

Do the active pairs look natural, or does the activity look mechanical?

Would the book actually hold up if you tried to route size there?

I’m not saying exchange rankings are useless. I’m saying I don’t think volume should be treated as the answer. At best, it’s one signal.

The way I’d sanity-check an exchange is:

Use rankings as a first-pass filter

Check liquidity and depth before trusting the rank

Look at the main pairs, not just total venue volume

Be skeptical of long-tail exchanges with huge volume but thin books

Treat confidence/liquidity-style labels as warnings, not proof

Check the order book before doing anything real

My current view is that raw volume is noisy, but rankings that include liquidity, traffic, confidence, and pair-level quality are still useful as a starting point.

They just don’t replace due diligence.

How do you usually check an exchange before using it? Do you start with aggregator rankings, or do you go straight to the order book?

Tom Emmer, the House majority whip, is also advocating for his Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act, which has passed the House but has yet to pass the Senate.

A pair of Republican lawmakers is calling for a permanent ban on a US central bank digital currency (CBDC) to be enshrined in the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, as the measure is expected to come up for a vote in the US House this week. 

The bill released by the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs in March mainly concerns revisions to federal housing programs but also includes a section banning the Federal Reserve System or any Federal Reserve bank from issuing a CBDC or similar instrument until Dec. 31, 2030.

The US House has created its own amended bill, which Congressman Mike Flood said reverses the “backdoor green light for a CBDC” and aims to make the ban permanent.

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Over the past decade or so, one of the strangest phenomena in history has taken place. Masses of people, enormous financial institutions, and even entire countries absolutely and unconditionally believe in one thing: that inside the Bitcoin network they own... something. Even top economists and the fiercest critics play the same game. They all talk about Bitcoin as if it were a currency or some kind of asset.

But if we set aside those complicated economic terms for just a second and look at the network itself, a rather bitter truth awaits us. There is absolutely nothing there that can be owned.

Bitcoin is actually a perfect, ingenious imitation of ownership. It displays numbers to users, and they believe that something exists in their possession proportional to those numbers.

Think about the language people use every day. You constantly hear: "I have bitcoins," "I sent bitcoin," "I lost my coins." That is the language of classical ownership, isn't it? And the human brain falls into the trap. A person to whom the network displays "10 BTC" feels subjectively more powerful and richer than someone with a record "0.001 BTC." That feels natural to them. It is exactly the same psychological and social pattern normally associated with physical things. These people subconsciously think that the difference is the same as fifty grams of gold versus one gram. A bigger number, more mass, more value.

But there is one huge problem: with Bitcoin, the object of ownership is completely missing.

Let's simplify for a moment. When we say in the real world, whether legally or economically, that something is owned, it must always, without exception, fall into one of two categories. It is either a thing or a claim. There is no third option.

The first category consists of things. These are physical objects: a house, a car, a painting on the wall, or some collectible item that can be touched and displayed. Of course, things today can also be digital, such as software you use, a video you watch, or a music file you listen to. All of these are concrete, functional items.

The second category consists of claims. When someone has cash or money in a bank account, they hold a claim against the bank's debtors. Banks create that money through credit, which means that real debtors exist somewhere who must provide their labor, goods, or services to the holders of the money in order to repay that credit. If they fail, banks realize the claim by seizing and selling their property. It is similar with e-money, gift cards, or casino chips; they are claims against the issuer who is obliged to redeem them. Stocks, bonds, patents, and copyrights? All of these are legal claims on future cash flows or exclusive rights to an idea.

And now the question arises: where does Bitcoin fit in?

In Bitcoin there is neither a thing nor a claim. Consider this: users spend enormous amounts of electricity to maintain the computer network, and the protocol assigns them a number. Or they pay someone a large sum of real money to have that number transferred to them. What have they actually received?

They have not received any physical object. They have no unit of mass, no volume. They have not even received a digital thing like functional software that they can run and use.

And most importantly, they have no claim. There is no issuer obliged to buy back their number. There is no company standing behind it that pays them anything. There is no living debtor who has to get up in the morning, go to work, and labor for them to settle the debt owed to the creditor. In this network, there is not even a "token," because a token is a claim against the entity that issued it.

Here we are dealing with numbers that have absolutely no connection to reality. Behind them there is nothing that could be called a currency or an asset. There is nothing that could even be evaluated to determine its value.

And now we come to the most fascinating part. For years these people have been competing, outbidding one another, racing, and throwing billions of dollars... at absolutely nothing. By pushing the price of that "nothing" from zero to astronomical heights, they have created the largest and most expensive collective delusion in human history.

Yet even more fascinating is the accompanying collective psychological defense mechanism. How do these users protect themselves from the realization that their hands are actually completely empty?

They have woven an incredible, endless loop of romanticized stories. All those loud narratives about "decentralization," "digital gold," and "freedom" do not serve only as a marketing tool. They are also a sophisticated psychological shield. It is a shield within which imagination takes over the role of regulator of reality. The greater the gap between their belief and reality, the louder the shared ideology must become. It must become more aggressive, it must take on elements of the sacred. Because admitting to themselves and others that there is nothing behind that digital number... would mean facing the unbearable anxiety of total loss and their own gullibility.

That is why this economic nihilism is collectively disguised as a "financial revolution." That is why this defense mechanism eventually grows into a rigid, intolerant religion. In it, every doubt is automatically punished and ridiculed, while pure, one-hundred-percent illusion is celebrated as the supreme economic truth of the modern age.

Looool why most of the time

70% of the altcoins have the same chart despite the price

As per the title of this reddit thread, there are only two routes to take when entering a post quantum world: Freezing or Seizing. It's also important for us to have these conversations without vitriol, contempt, or memes for someone with an opposing perspective.

Personally, I've been too busy with my 3 jobs and trying to pay the bills to really pay attention to what is going on in this area of the bitcoin sphere. This also, technically isn't really my problem since my bitcoin is in a post-quantum-enabled wallet address. Last I checked, there was a drafted BIP proposal from Jameson Lopp that suggests we lock a group of wallet addresses that encompasses "satoshi era" wallets. These start with a specific prefix, denoted by the table here: https://imgur.com/a/iMMWc1r

More technical reading:

https://bip360.org/bip360.html

https://bips.dev/361/

This is less than 1% of all bitcoin wallet addresses, citing Jameson Lopp in a speech from a year prior. 1% is not a lot of wallet addresses. Some people estimate that between 3 to 6 million bitcoin were completely forgotten about by early miners from 2009 to 2012 when it was relatively easy to get a block reward of 50 BTC. If we see those stolen and sold it could cause a black swan and we could get cheaper bitcoin, right?

More concretely, however, the hypotheticals below are worth discussing:

1. A company claims to have reached quantum supremacy. Should they or should they not demonstrate they can move satoshi's coins and send them to a quantum-proof burner wallet as an altruistic and harmless demonstration of power?
   
2. A guy threw away his PC in 2010. He mined 10,000 BTC. He still knows the wallet address. Should he or should he not team up with a quantum-supreme company to recover those 10,000 BTC?
   
3. North Korea / Russia / Iran build a quantum PC that can get Satoshi's coins. Should they or should they not steal the coins and use them as they please?
   
4. Silk-road era bitcoin wallets stopped moving btc after the dark net marketplace was shut down. Some of it was sellers who changed their ways. Some of it was addicts (some of which who got clean, others who didnt). They want to recover their BTC, so they team up with some quantum computing enterprises to recover their BTC. Should they be able to?
   

In conclusion, the dichotomy is "Freezing or Seizing" and no in-between. Which should be done and why do you think so?

EDIT:

Big correction from Jameson Lopp himself, adding it to the OP for clarity:

I'm the author of BIP-361 and your interpretation of the proposal is incorrect.

BIP-361 doesn't lock any specific addresses. It disables all ECDSA operations, which (currently) would freeze 100% of addresses (redeem scripts.)

BIP-361 only makes sense to implement after we have consensus for post quantum signature schemes and have seen mass migration to them.

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What is that each one about?

Like…I’m new at the crypto market and whereas i was trying to understand that to truly make a great sum of money i saw a publish a few guy who stated that a AI manage him to make three.000 dolars for every week,Im not that dumb,I know the risks,And a few of the bots that those individuals say are literally scams from telegram stuff that just assist you to use it in case you Give him your password and API key of your Binance or Crypto account/pockets,But this obtained me considering…Truly exists a Bot that's reliable?

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Tally announced back in March it was stepping out of governance, and the reaction I kept seeing was basically "if even the tooling companies are quitting, onchain voting is finished." I think that read points at the wrong layer.

The vote itself is a contract. Optimism, Uniswap, and ENS governance keeps executing whether or not any one company maintains a frontend for it. A UI shutting down is a UX problem, not a governance failure, nobody said Ethereum died when a block explorer went offline.

What's actually load-bearing is the unglamorous infra around the contract: the relayers that make voting gasless, the indexers, the calldata decoders that show you what a proposal does before you sign. Gasless voting in particular only works as long as someone keeps funding the relayer. That's the dependency that breaks when a vendor leaves, not the governor itself.

So the question after Tally isn't "is governance dead," it's narrower and way more boring: who keeps the relayers paid and the decoders patched once the company stops doing it, and is your stack actually forkable or are you locked in. i haven't seen many DAOs answer that part cleanly. written with s4lai

Hi there,

My name is André Beganski, and I’m a reporter at Decrypt. I’m looking for perspective from individuals on the degree traders have pulled back from crypto in recent months, in case anyone is interested in an interview or dropping a comment.

Thanks,
André

Curvy Protocol is a privacy infrastructure project that just went on mainnet. If you haven't come across it, here's how it works:

Every user gets an ENS username. When someone sends you a payment, the protocol derives a fresh one-time receiving address using your stealth meta-keys. The sender just types your username. They don't run anything, generate proofs, or know how the privacy layer works. You scan for incoming payments with a viewing key. Spends use ZK proofs so you can move funds out without revealing which stealth address you're spending from.

What this gets you is basically no balance aggregation, no time correlation, it's multichain, so the privacy doesn't break the moment you move across networks.

And the sender experience is identical to a normal transfer. I mean, stealth addresses have been a known primitive for a long time (Vitalik's writeup, Umbra, the EIP work, etc) but adoption stayed low because the sender flow was messed up and you had to do some crazy stuff to do it. This thing is much better, like a normal transaction.

Check curvy.box if you want to look at the docs.

Links:

Web3PrivacyNow page - https://explorer.web3privacy.info/project/curvy-protocol

GitHub - https://github.com/0xCurvy

Audit - https://github.com/0xCurvy/contracts/blob/develop/audits/Curvy%202026%20Audit%20Report%20Final.pdf

Press - https://www.prleap.com/pr/311820/curvy-protocol-completes-security-audit-and-exits-beta-bringing-production-ready-privacy-infrastructure-to-on-chain-payments

Governance proposals are one of the most predictable price catalysts in crypto, but most traders ignore them because tracking 20+ DAOs manually is impossible.

So I built a bot that:

- Scans Snapshot governance across Uniswap, Aave, Lido, ENS, Arbitrum, Balancer, Compound, and 15 others every 5 minutes

- AI-analyzes each proposal for financial impact (token burns, fee switches, treasury distributions, dilution events)

- Sends BULLISH/BEARISH alerts with confidence scores

Example: Right now, Uniswap is voting to expand protocol fees to 3 more chains. The bot flagged it as BULLISH with 65% confidence, 73 hours before the vote closes.

Free alerts on Telegram: t.me/GovernanceAlpha

Would love feedback from the community. What DAOs should I add?

The usual cycle is familiar:

BTC leads = ETH catches up = alts follow

But right now, that sequence feels broken.

Instead:

BTC dominance holds or grinds higher

ETH reacts, but doesn’t expand

alt rotations fade quickly

Looking at it through a positioning lens:

BTC continues to attract passive and institutional flows

ETH participation feels more short-term and reactive

attempts at rotation get crowded early and unwind

Which suggests the issue may not be narrative, it may be how capital is positioned

If rotation trades are being anticipated too early:

They become liquidity events instead of trends.

That would explain why:

ETH moves start, then stall, then reverse

So this becomes less about “when ETH runs”

and more about whether the rotation framework itself is being front-run.

At this stage, it’s not clear whether ETH is lagging or whether the market is simply too early on the trade.

Interested to hear how others are interpreting this shift.

What's the best way to swap $300k without KYC? I am trying to swap $300k ETH to Monero/BTC->XMR. I've tried a couple of exchanges like fixedfloat, crowswap, Sideshift with no luck. Most of the ones that exist will ask KYC after a certain point. Lost 10K like this. Any advice for what to look for? Thanks a lot

Iran rolled out something called Hormuz Safe... a state-backed maritime insurance setup for vessels operating in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz. Payments and settlements can be done with Bitcoin and other crypto.

The platform handles digital certificates and faster processing. It’s clearly designed to work around normal banking channels and SWIFT, especially with the tensions in the region. That strait moves a huge amount of the world’s oil and LNG, so anything affecting shipping there tends to matter.

I’ve been watching oil and shipping-related moves through Bitget futures and CFDs lately, and It’s one of those cases where Bitcoin shows up in actual day-to-day operations...

But Bloomberg reported that U.S. naval forces redirected or blocked several commercial vessels near the Gulf, including a Greek-operated tanker transporting nearly 2 million barrels of Iraqi crude oil to Vietnam. Ship-tracking data showed that some Chinese and Iranian-linked vessels continued sailing across parts of the Strait despite increasing restrictions.

Not sure how big it gets... What do you guys make of it?

I used to think P2P was the easiest way to settle crypto in India, but over time I realized the hidden friction was too high. The biggest issue wasn’t just price - it was the uncertainty around bank transfers, delayed confirmations, fake payment screenshots, and the constant risk of disputes when something went wrong.

What looked simple on the surface often turned into a support headache. One bad counterparty can freeze the whole process, and if you do this often, the operational stress adds up fast. For me, the real cost of P2P wasn’t the fee - it was the time, risk, and mental load.

I also didn’t like how messy the process became when amounts got larger. At that point, “cheap” stops mattering as much as clean settlement and reliability. I’d rather use a more structured flow where the settlement is predictable than keep gambling on random counterparties.

Curious how others see it: are you still using P2P, or have you moved to better on/off-ramp options?
Just to clarify, I’m talking specifically about India here.

Griffin is an adversarial security platform for AI agents. The core idea is simple but powerful, instead of just claiming your AI agent is secure, Griffin actually attacks it to prove otherwise.
Five autonomous attackers run in parallel against a target agent, each probing a different vulnerability:
• Prompt injection
• Social engineering
• Context poisoning
• Capability exploitation
• Encoding-based filter bypass
When an attacker successfully extracts funds, the exploit gets registered on-chain to a custom Anchor program. Every finding becomes verifiable threat intelligence, anyone can open Solscan and check. Security tooling that’s verifiable, not just claimable.
The ElevenLabs integration turns dense audit reports into 75-second narrated audio briefings. That’s what won the ElevenLabs track.

Griffin in 24 hours for the Solana AI Agents Hackathon, ended up winning:
• ???? Best ElevenLabs Integration
• ???????? Best of Colombia (DEV3PACK)
• ???? 4th in Latin America
• ???? Top 20 Global

The reason I created GFRNX is multiple things at once:
• Fund continued development of the Griffin app
• Give future users a way to participate in the ecosystem, not just use it but have a real stake in it
• Expand Griffin across Latin America where cybersecurity infrastructure genuinely needs work
• Build a community around something that already has a real foundation
So the token isn’t just “haha funny coin”, it’s meant to eventually power governance and utility inside the platform.
I chose SUI because fees are basically nothing and the ecosystem is moving fast. Total cost to launch was like $3-5 which honestly still blows my mind, and there’s already a Griffin token on Solana, completely unrelated to us.
Token has been live about 4 hours, already showing up on GeckoTerminal with real activity. Early days but the foundation is real.
Griffin is an adversarial security platform for AI agents.
The project is really really early in development, so I still have a long way to go, if anyone is interested and wants to check it out.

Contract: 0xa0effa574986d6c46f9b8708a5b46dfe798ff7b12559211c557c8ad09c18d932

Repo: Mariana-Codebase/Griffin

Coin: 0xb1fa4a60a7b44c48f778c01b69cbcedfbe8f9c4422e22b1b2dbc79ba75f58b26::gfrnx::GFRNX

UPDATE: Every new token on this sub gets the same reaction, even though it’s a project and honestly the space has earned that skepticism. posting here was my mistake, this isn't really the right audience for something this early stage. no hard feelings.

Every Sunday is always a selloff. Make this make sense without implying market manipulation.

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Just curious to see the community’s opinions on this topic. I manage a few exchanges in various jurisdictions and I already work with a dozen lawyer teams, but they are probably biased, depending on which jurisdictions they are used to working with already. What do you guys think that is the best jurisdiction to have a company registered in when it comes to easieness of doing business, crypto laws, but without going into scammers territory. I want to be able to also open bank accounts and to be able to present the company in front of corporate clients without having them lifting an eyebrow. Any advice is much appreciated.