Monday, March 29, 2021

Can you write-off a loss in value of interest earned?

(I live in the US)

For example:

I earn $100 in interest (in the firm of bitcoin) in 2021.
I pay $30 in taxes on the interest earned above at the end of the year.
By some supernatural event, in 2022, the price of bitcoin plummets to roughly $0.00

In the example above, if I sell my bitcoin interest for ~$0.00 (which was taxed at a value of $100), am I able to write this off as a loss on my taxes? Or would I just be out the $30 paid to the government with nothing to show for it?

Strategy: I'm out of anything that looks wonky right now.

BABA? Out. Too much uncertainty with China.

BND? Out. Bonds are being sold off like crazy and real yields are negative.

GE? Out. Going through a restructuring right now which seems to look promising, but they're doing wonky things like a reverse stock split that I don't like.

GME? Out. Yeah it might go to the moon, and Ryan Cohen might save it, but then again I might also be dead by the time any of that happens.

(I was holding all 4 of these at one point)

Other hypothetical examples: ARKK? Pass. If I had bought in 12 months ago, great play. But right now? It's not something I'm sure I want to be holding, and definitely don't want to be buying at this price. Cathy Wood did great, but her God talk is wonky to me and anyone who was heavy in tech had a great year, not just her. I don't know if I trust her abilities going forward.

ARKX? Pass, for same reasons plus I don't understand why she picked the stocks she did at all. Wonky. God talk, etc.

TSLA? Pass. Way too expensive right now even if future earnings might (keyword might) justify this P/E ratio. Too volatile, too.

XXII? Pass. You probably haven't heard of this one, but someone recommended them to me because they might be the future of smoking with their "zero nicotine cigarettes". That's just wonky, folks, even if there might be a small market for that, ugh, maybe.

Bitcoin? Out. Not a real currency and way too volatile and uncertain.

I probably triggered some people. Feel free to explain why I'm wrong about any of these.

And of course, no risk, no reward. So if you want to put a little bit into Bitcoin or Tesla, by all means. But my current philosophy is that we can just avoid all the wonkiness and go for the straight forward plays. You know, the Apples, Microsofts, Costcos, Phillip Morris, etc. Or hell, go ahead and stick it in VOO. I didn't, that's not my style, but it's a safer play than probably everything I listed at the beginning.

I'm new to this so take what I'm saying with a grain of salt. But I think I understand why they say that "most people lose money in the stock market". It's because they're always chasing performance (buying ARKK at ATH) and picking winners based off some vague notion like "Elon Musk and Tesla are the future". It's not smart, and it's a recipe for disaster.

If you are like Mr. Keith Gill and can truly identify deep value, more power to you. But you don't find deep value by buying the same stocks that everyone else is.

TL; DR: the markets are pretty weird and uncertain right now. So, IMO, why make things any more uncertain or wonky? Just stick with good businesses that will do well in the sort, mid, and long term.

Or do index funds. I chose individual stocks because with my picks I think I will be safer in the event of a correction. The market can be kinda wonky sometimes, too. But that's just my style based on my current risk tolerance.

So far I am slightly up on the month and on the YTD, with a look for the long-term.

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USA Mephisto Mondays Mega Thread March 29th

Use this thread for questions, comments, issues, shit posts, and anything else drop related. Please read the FAQ if you are new here. Be civilized you filthy animals.

All low effort posts on r/MephHeads will be removed.

US Store - 10:00AM Mountain Time

More info about the US release

AVT, Sour Crinkle, Forgotten Cookies & Grape Walker Kush will be available for individual purchase in 1,3,7, and 18 pack sizes.

Terms and Conditions Mephisto Mondays

Please be aware that postal services are still is experiencing shipping delays. For this reason, we have decided to limit the amount of orders we take through the store.

Our hope is that this will allow us to process orders in a timely manner, but also have the bandwidth to follow up with customer service issues that could result from extended shipping delays.

The store will close when we hit our order limit, this does not mean all items are sold out. We expect to hit this limit in the first few hours of store opening, so be sure to place your order as quickly as possible.

The payment methods available for this event are limited to Debit/CC and Bitcoin. Info about payment methods - https://www.mephistogenetics.com/info/payments
Please allow 10 BUSINESS days for your order to process and ship. An order status of processing means your payment has been approved and is awaiting shipment. You will receive a tracking email once your order has shipped.
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Reserva Strain: Alien vs Triangle

Genetic Heritage - Ripley's OG x Triangle
Seed Type: F5 Feminised Automatic

Project introduction and Overview:

Originally only produced as an F1 Limited Edition hybrid between our Original strains Ripley's OG and Triangle Kush, this variety was so well received by customers we had no choice but to reproduce her as an F2 and add to our Originals lineup. Now, after years of unflinching popularity, Alien vs Triangle has found her permanent home here in the Reserva line.
The combination of two of our original OG based strains, having Alien OG from Cali Connection and the Triangle OGK cut as part of her heritage it’s hard to go far wrong. Seasoned growers of both autos and photoperiods have made statements like 'the strongest weed I've ever grown' - Alien Vs. Triangle has also repeatedly tested over 20% THC, with samples testing at over 25% on a continued basis. This automatic variety is no joke! It was also part of a comparison grow across several forums and social media platforms, so it's also one of the most widely tested and publicised varieties.

Strain behavior and structure:

Alien Vs. Triangle is an incredible all-rounder, she ticks so many boxes. Potency? - Check! - our highest tested ever u/25.5% THC Size and Yield? - Check! - she loves to grow big and wide, producing multiple colas of outstanding quality herb. Speed? - Check! - she is ripe around 75 days from sprout, which for her size is amazing. If you've ever been sceptical about autos - please give this lady a try, as she truly is a game-changer. As a single plant she routinely ﬁnishes between 90-120cm in height, and she will spread wide if allowed, otherwise, she will push those branches up for multiple colas. A great option for heavy training, supercropping, scrogging, LST, she can handle it all. A good option for outdoors, her more open structure allows good airﬂow around the ﬂowers and proves decent against mould and mildew, and given a big container or straight into the ground in prepared soil she can become a hefty plant. She yields very well, can grow to over 1.2 meters tall, but also can complete the full automatic cycle within 75 days. Any auto-sceptics should give this lady a whirl.

Strain figures and info:

Size - 90 to 120cm Structure - Tall and bushy Indica/Sativa - 40/60 Cycle Time - 70 to 80 days from sprout Yield - 120 to 150 grams Aroma & Flavour - Spicy, skunky, high-grade aroma with a fruity-zesty to piney taste Effect - Very Strong, balanced Medicinal Benefits - Mood enhancement, appetite stimulation Cannabinoids - 25.5%

Reserva Strain: Grape Walker Kush

Genetic Heritage - Grape Crinkle x Skywalker
Seed Type: F3 Feminised Automatic

Project introduction and Overview:

Summed up beautifully by our co-founder Tim: "What's not to like? It's grapey, it's kushy. Fair enough, it doesn't walk anywhere. But you can't ask for more, really."
Grape Walker Kush graduated from our Illuminautos 2017 line-up to become a Limited Edition in 2018. Now, selectively bred, she is back with a permanent home in the Reserva line.
She combines two of our favourite strains from past and present, Grape Crinkle and Skywalker. The final product is simply outstanding, in flavour, effect, it's grapey, it's kushy it's exactly what you want. If anyone’s looking for an ultra-frosty, ultra-potent variety, doused in flavour, beautiful to grow and toke then look no further.

Strain behavior and structure:

Grape Walker Kush has a nice balance of Sativa in her, and the structure reflects that. She grows quite openly, with not too much foliage and takes well to training. As a minimum, we would recommend paying attention to leaf tucking in order to expose the shoots below and aid their growth. She can quite easily become a multi-cola'd plant. She's fairly stress-free to grow just treat her well and she'll reward you handsomely. The quality of the flowers really is next level, we can't stress enough how much of a nice combination this hybrid is. Flowers are totally encrusted in a sticky white resin. Yield is solid and resin production is very high if you like to dabble in extracts, very little of this strain will go to waste. She's a versatile plant, with good training you can squeeze them in and have a very full canopy, but likewise give Grape Walker Kush space in a lower plant density grow and she will perform very well also. She's harvestable from 70-80 days from sprout, which is on the longer side of the spectrum, but absolutely worth the wait. Essentially we can't recommend this strain enough, she'll be cycled through our MG garden for many moons to come.

Strain figures and info:

Size - 60 to 90cm Structure - Open and branchy, potential for multiple colas Indica/Sativa - 65/35 Cycle Time - 70 to 80 days from sprout Yield - 90 to 120g Aroma - Dank OG with musky deep grape overtones. Taste - "Grapey, kushy." Effect - Medicinal, balanced very potent high. Medicinal Benefits - Cannabinoids - TBA Extract information - High medicinal qualities, eases sleep, aches and pains and appetite inducing.

Reserva Strain: Forgotten Cookies

Genetic Heritage -Genetic Heritage: Forum Stomper (Girl Scout Cookies x Sour Stomper) x Fugue State (Amnesia Haze BX1 x Walter White)
Seed Type: F4 Feminised Automatic

Project introduction and Overview:

Forgotten Cookies: Dude, where's my cookies??
Whenever we are producing a round of Artisanal strains, we get the opportunity to comb through a lot of plants; and running 4 strains together really helps to assess the full qualities, similarities and differences between them. Two strains we thought would blend exceptionally well and be highly complementary to each other were Forum Stomper (Girl Scout Cookies x Sour Stomper) and Fugue State (Amnesia Haze BX1 x Walter White). Forum Stomper grows in a bushy freestyle manner, whilst Fugue State is more traditional and regimented in its shape. The effects of each are also very different, the Fugue State has a traditional sativa up, electric and soaring high whilst Forum Stomper is certainly more stoney but highly pleasurable. The end result is a lovely blend between sativa/indica growth patterns and end effect.
Originally released as a Limited Edition strain in 2018, Forgotten Cookies is back and better than ever. Selectively bred to retain all the qualities of her parent strains we loved, she's here to stay as part of our Reserva line. Definitely one to give a go, we recommend her highly.

Strain behavior and structure:

Forgotten Cookies is a pretty easy autoflower to grow, she has a nice vigour and growth rate and with some simple leaf tucking between weeks 2-4, you can easily convince her to bush out nicely for you and get an even canopy. When she gets into her stride and goes through the pre-flower/stretch stage, she will turn those branches into tall vertical colas. Predominantly she makes a large nugget on the end, but you can trace nicely spaced out flowers all the way down to the base of the branch. She lends well to different training techniques and doesn't create much foliage to allow for good penetration of light down to the lower levels. Overall we'd class her as a medium-sized strain that has very good yield potential when grown in a loving environment. She can take up to 80 days from seed to mature, especially if you hit upon a more sativa phenotype, however, it's more than worth the wait. The quality of this hybrid is really something special. She isn't difficult to trim and is rich in terps and has a smattering of resin all over her which makes her an ideal candidate for extract works.

Strain figures and info:

Size - 60 - 90cm Structure - Average height but bushy and branchy Indica/Sativa - 45/55 Cycle Time - 70 to 80 days from sprout Yield - 90 to 150 grams Aroma - Complex combining sweet biscuits to sour lime zest Taste - Just like it smells! Effect - Positive, euphoric, clean high can initially be racey but it tapers off to be a relaxing and social effect. Medicinal Benefits - Appetite stimulation and gives you wings. Cannabinoids - TBA Extract information - Very rich in terpenes and high frost level on fans and flowers makes for a great extract candidate.

Resources:

Grow Thread

Smoke Report

Reserva Strain: Sour Crinkle

Genetic Heritage - Sour Crack x Grape Crinkle
Seed Type: F4 Feminised Automatic

Project introduction and Overview:

Sour Crinkle was originally Illuminauto #21 released back in 2017, after more breeding development and progression with her we are delighted to bring her back under the new Mephisto Reserva collection.
Sour Crinkle is the mating of two of our sauciest, greasiest strains. Both Trichome and terpene production is out of this world. She is a fantastic all-rounder for a personal stash of sublime quality meds, being both a fast and not too fussy strain once established in a nice environment.
Definitely a Mephisto in house favourite, and one not to sleep on!

Strain behavior and structure:

Sour Crinkle is by no means a monster producer or monster plant, although we have seen good growers achieve up to 190g per plant, she really excels in a medium to high density volume of plants.
She can grow as a main cola dominant plant in a SOG style grow easily, however, a bit of light training such as leaf tucking will go a long way to promote clusters of even nuggs. With the fast, squat Indica influence of Sour Crack and a small injection of sativa from the grape part of the Grape Crinkle, the result is a manageable strain that creates compact, resin encrusted buds very quickly. Total cycle time is short at 65-75 days from sprout for very well developed meds.

Strain figures and info:

Size - 50-70cm Structure - Squat, naturally main cola dominant with satellite branching, however, with a little leaf tucking and light training it’s not difficult to create a more even bush. Indica/Sativa - 80/20 Cycle Time - 60-70 days from sprout Yield - 50-100g average in good conditions. Aroma - Fruity, grape soda with added fuel Taste - Earthy, sweet, piney with hints of citrus and summer fruits to red grapes. Effect - Initial strong, euphoric high which levels off to be a supremely relaxing good vibe. Medicinal Benefits - Helps massively with insomnia and muscle pain. Cannabinoids - TBC Extract information - Super oily, and high terpene level results in very high returns rates for producing extracts.

Flixxo $FLIXX - Low market cap token with huge potential

Flixxo is a decentralized video distribution platform with low market cap/circulating supply. While the current price of the token is low, the project is very much alive. During 2020 they did the first official launch of the platform focused in LATAM and currently have around 70k users and many ongoing plans

Market Cap:3.8M

Supply:51M/189M

Current Price:$0.06

2021 upcoming Milestones:

- Signed a partnership with one of the 5 majors in Hollywood. Content will be available in August 2021 for Argentina, Chile and Uruguay as a first stage of the partnership.

- Flixxo will launch tools for creators to upload and manage content and an improved p2p client. They have grown dev team and they are working with a second team on a white label version of Flixxo with an innovative mixture of Subscription VOD and Transactional VOD. They will bring the token to new exchanges this year and will improve liquidity on DEX.

- New platform will include a marketplace for NFTs and will be publicly released worldwide in Q3-Q4 2021.

- Partnering with RSK to bring up a new DeFi ecosystem on top of Bitcoin, that will include Flixx token.

- Hosting the festival Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre was a huge success. And they have been reached out by other festivals (some of them HUGE) to host their events in 2021 in Flixxo.

You can read about this and much more here:

https://flixxo.medium.com/flixxo-2020-and-beyond-1f75a9ef8654

https://flixxo.medium.com/flixxo-state-of-the-project-august-2020-26e0eb93f227

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BCHA wallet - Official wallet for Bitcoin ABC. Split your BCH and BCHA coins

Individuals have posted a couple of various approaches to split coins and Hayden Otto, distributed a video on the best way to split tokens in a simple style by utilizing the Coinex trade. Look at his video underneath as the cycle is less difficult, however remember, Coinex is a custodial trade.

The strategy I followed, initially originated from the web-based interface however I chose to do it simply a hair in an unexpected way. Days before the fork, I moved bitcoin cash (BCH) from an equipment wallet over to a noncustodial Bitpay wallet. After the split, I downloaded a noncustodial Wallet and Electron Cash (EC) rendition 4.2.0 from the undertaking's Github storehouse.

The 4.2.0 adaptation of EC permits the client to switch between workers, which offers individuals the chance to split their coins. In the wake of starting up the 4.2.0 EC discharge, I chose to make another wallet called "Splitting Time." I utilized the 12-word seed state given to me when I made my Bitpay wallet to reestablish my BCH assets into the recently made "Splitting Time" wallet. In the event that you don't have to reestablish your wallet and you as of now influence the Electron Cash wallet rendition 4.2.0, at that point you can jump to the splitting segment of this article.

I essentially chose the "document" tab at the upper left half of the wallet and looked down to "new/reestablish." From here I named the new BCH wallet "Splitting Time" and chose "standard wallet." After squeezing "next," I at that point chosen "I as of now have a seed" and again squeezed "next" to proceed with the cycle. Presently various wallets have various ways to deal with inference ways, yet I knew that Bitpay use the BIP39 adaptation of mental aide seed phrases. In the wake of choosing "I as of now have a seed," the subsequent stage was to type the 12-word express into the container with spaces.

You ought to never do this cycle on the off chance that you are anxious about the possibility that that your PC has malware or if others are near. It is insightful to be totally alone while doing this interaction as the 12-word memory helper word list is fundamentally your private key, and it can give anybody admittance to the assets. Prior to composing the seed, realizing that my Bitpay wallet use BIP39, I chose the "choices" tab beneath the window to flip a BIP39 rebuilding measure.

BCHA wallet - Official wallet for Bitcoin ABC. Split your BCH and BCHA coins

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) carries sound cash to the world. Shippers and clients are enabled with low expenses and dependable affirmations. The future sparkles brilliantly with unlimited development, worldwide appropriation, permissionless advancement, and decentralized turn of events. All Bitcoin holders as of square 478558 are presently proprietors of Bitcoin Cash. All Bitcoiners are free to join the Bitcoin Cash people group as we push ahead in making sound cash available to the entire world.

The Bitcoin Cash blockchain went through a planned update yet additionally the cutting tool an agreement split, and the organization divided into two. After the split, various clients have been searching for strategies to split their coins to store them independently or sell the undesirable tokens on a trade. Coming up next is a bit by bit manage on the best way to split forked tokens by utilizing a couple of various instruments.

Splitting Coins from the Bitcoin Cash Network Fork Using Electron Cash Version 4.2.0

In mid-November, very much like each year prior to, the Bitcoin Cash network redesigned to fix the trouble change calculation (DAA). In any case, very much like in 2018, there was a significant conflict, as the full hub customer Bitcoin ABC chose to carry out the framework subsidizing plan (IFP) into the hub's codebase. Since this choice didn't adjust well to the local area and mining members, the ABC favorable to IFP chain forked away from Bitcoin Cash and turned into its own organization.

At the hour of distribution, the ABC favorable to IFP chain is as yet anonymous, and it is regularly alluded to as "BCHA" or "BAB." For consistency and clearness inside this guide, the ABC supportive of IFP chain will be alluded to as "BCHA." Following the fork and the new run of void squares from a puzzling digger, I chose to split my coins into two, so I can sell what I don't need in a week or thereabouts.

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What is an Asset Token or Asset Based Tokens ( ABT )?

With the emergence of Blockchain, the concept of ‘Tokenization Blockchain’ is becoming mainstream. Lets go back a little and start with Cryptocurrency. The era of crypto witnessed many coins being born ( Bitcoin, Ether, Neo, Zcash etc. ). It became clear to the world that anyone can create a coin based on an algorithm and pre-defined logic ( There are 4000+ coins at this moment ). This trend shifted to people creating Utility tokens, which are again a cryptocurrency that was used to facilitate an event or transaction in a business logic ( Ex: XRP is used to transfer money across borders ). These coins or tokens were priced and traded. This gave launch to something called the Initial Coin Offering ( ICO ).

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But then many ICO’s crossed the barrier of being just a Utility token, to being a share of the issuing company. The regulatory bodies across the globe took notice and started issuing strict warning on this. So, was born the Security Tokens. These Security Tokens were created with the prime Moto of issuing shares or stocks of the company. It followed all regulations the bodies like SEC required. It gave rise to the Security Token Offerings ( STO ) via. Which people were able to raise funds for their business idea from across the globe seamlessly. Think of it like a normal IPO, but more scalable in nature.

As Security Tokens and STO became a trend, there was more research going into tokenising more assets. People wanted to tokenise other things like Commodities, Real Estate, Gold, Agriculture yield, Art, Credit Card… anything …you name it. Soon was born the concept of Asset Tokenization. These tokens were backed by real world assets. They were called as Asset token or Asset Based Tokens (ABT). Investors who bought the Asset Tokens were given Proof of Asset Tokens which they can hold or trade these tokenized assets in Asset token exchanges. Also was born the trend of Token Generation Event (TGE) or Initial Token Offering (ITO). Since any Asset of any form was tokenised, this trend also got to be known as ‘Tokenizer for X’ or ‘Token for X’ ( where X can be substituted by any Asset or commodity etc. ).

How does Asset Digitization work?

In the modern world, digitizing assets of any type is possible in a snap. The Asset can be anything ( Real Estate, A High Rise, Apartment, Gold, Art, Agriculture, Cannabis, Textile etc.). Using an Asset Tokenizer, you digitize the asset by splitting it into any number of Asset Tokens. Once the Asset Digitization is done, you can price each asset token and sell it. Using an Asset Tokenization Platform, you can sell the Asset Based Tokens ( ABT ) to investors world wide.

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BCHA wallet - Official wallet for Bitcoin ABC. Split your BCH and BCHA coins

Splitting Coins from the Bitcoin Cash Network Fork Using Electron Cash Version 4.2.0

BCHA wallet - Official wallet for Bitcoin ABC. Split your BCH and BCHA coins

Splitting Coins from the Bitcoin Cash Network Fork Using Electron Cash Version 4.2.0

BCHA wallet - Official wallet for Bitcoin ABC. Split your BCH and BCHA coins

Splitting Coins from the Bitcoin Cash Network Fork Using Electron Cash Version 4.2.0

Wallet proprietors can likewise follow this progression as the noncustodial customer additionally utilizes BIP39. The choices window permits you to choose "power BIP39 understanding of this seed and if the seed expression isn't right the checksum will say "fizzled." However, after I entered the seed expression effectively, the Electron Cash customer revealed to me the checksum was acceptable.

The Splitting Process by Leveraging Both Networks

Roger Ver - I got your back

Just watched a video where you discuss bitcoin with an blockstream engineer who attended a bch event in Korea. To say you hulk smashed him is an understatement, more importantly, you made so many valid arguments that I now know BCH is going to be successful, honestly put a smile on my face knowing I'm in the right boat and not the titanic (bitcoin). Thank you mate and I got your back bruv

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Cardano Rumor Rundown 03.29.2021

Hey Everyone!

I've been obsessively consuming all the Cardano news and media on a daily basis for years now. I figured it wouldn’t hurt to share a list of what I'm seeing for anyone else who's interested. Feel free to make additions as you see fit. Many of your additions from yesterday are in the “Newly Covered” list for today. Also let me know if you think any of the “Previously Covered but Still Interesting” items are no longer interesting and should leave the list.

Check out the youtube companion to today’s post: https://youtu.be/1C6Ka-n2P-0

Let's go....

Newly covered today:

Every once in a while, I like to take stock of where the rest of the crypto space is on Cardano. So, let’s do a little review of what a few of the larger youtube crypto and other influencers are saying about Cardano right now.
The biggest crypto youtuber with 717k subscribers says “shame on you, Cardano community” for talking so badly about EIP 1559 (the latest Ethereum Improvement Proposal). Then in the same video he says he may tell people to sell their Ethereum for Cardano & DOT if things don’t improve by the end of April (with a bunch of caveats). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1OdprEpHfU.
Another youtuber with 587k subscribers posted a video called “Why I'm Dumping Ethereum For This Coin” and said that ETH would have “massive problems” if Cardano hits its deadline for smart contracts on mainnet. He’s actually recommending some other coins that aren’t ETH or Cardano, but made his lack of confidence in ETH in the face of Cardano’s challenge very clear if Cardano achieves its goals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p8LgjMQbyE
Lark Davis (256k subscribers) released a video called “Don’t Buy Cardano” in which he lays out the devil’s advocate argument against Cardano and then responds to those arguments. He finished by saying “I think that Cardano will prove the haters wrong this year…but...it will simply be a piece of the bigger picture of the cryptoverse.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-bB8gzUCMo This followed a video a few days ago that seemed to identify the delay of Ethereum’s layer 2 scaling solution as “probably the biggest crypto fail of 2021”. https://youtu.be/QCo5egQmiG8
That’s a collective 1.56 million subscribers. Of course, some overlap there. But, that’s a lot of potential viewers. It seems like the message being delivered to them is a lot of playing both sides of the fence. From my view, this is what it looks like when you hit a tipping point and the herd starts slowly capitulating on a consensus position.

Previously Covered but still interesting:

Charles posts a pic of a taxidermy African bird called a Turacos. He follows up that post by saying "Guys sometimes a stuffed Ethiopian exotic bird next to an old identity book is just a stuffed Ethiopian exotic bird next to an old identity book. Stop reading into things". Everyone enjoys speculating what exactly this could mean with the obvious implication being that the African bird announcement involves digital identity in Ethiopia. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1369397063583227911 https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1369402020067766275
Famed crypto enthusiast and billionaire Mike Novogratz asks the Cardano world "Can anyone make a real bull case for $ADA? Does anyone build on it? Use it? Why is market cap so high? Should it be a funding asset? It’s one of the few cryptos I haven’t traded in my life." https://twitter.com/novogratz/status/1369255782462746624
It's announced that 591 different assets have been minted on Cardano in the last eight days. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1369347294324162561
Catalyst Fund 3 Voting is ongoing, it looks like the Yoroi team has worked out the voting problem in the Yoroi wallet. https://twitter.com/YoroiWallet/status/1369050858546200585
Charles was on Real Vision earlier this week. https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI/status/1367804256783372288
Cardano SPO Schweta Chauhan was profiled by Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommywilliams1/2021/03/08/meet-30-inspirational-women-this-womens-history-month/?sh=383b28405208
UAE Fund FD7 Ventures says ADA could 20x in next 2-3 years https://twitter.com/CardanoPoolXYZ/status/1367927864658690054/photo/1
Charles will be speaking at the Blockchain Africa Conference this week which may or may not give us more clues as to the African Bird announcement. https://blockchainafrica.co/
SingularityNet collaboration with Cardano going down. How else is Skynet gonna pay the Terminators? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWdp33bYJpQ https://www.youtube.com/c/SingularityNET/videos
Wolfram Alpha collaboration with Cardano. What will it look like? Mentioned in several recent AMAs. Sounds like Charles and Stephen Wolfram want to be best brohs. That feels good broh.
~~What did Charles actually do (if anything) on the day of the recent Thanos Infinity Gauntlet snap pic? Just general or was something specific happening behind the scenes?~~ https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1367874091722694656/photo/1 RETIRED!
Alonzo hard fork (non)event to complete Goguen and add smart contracts in Q2. You’ll barely feel it broh. Not even an event. Lots of combinator broh.
Actual target date of Alonzo hardfork combinator event (smart contracts) will be revealed at Cardano 360 show at end of March. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1366519588519731203
Charles claimed Elon was trolling Cardano with “meta for k” on twitter. Can anyone argue one way or another on this? https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1364350825271685122
Ourobouros omega is slated to bring significant innovation to the Cardano consensus protocol. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1357364560504709120
Possible Soulja Boy Cardano collab on NFT. Maybe Soulja Boy could be best brohs with Charles and Stephen Wolfram broh? https://twitter.com/souljaboy/status/1355770383396347907
~~Coinbase Listing of ADA. Will the DCG Mafia ever allow ADA to compete on an even playing field with “their precious” (read in Gollum voice) ETH? Maybe we don’t even need them?~~ RETIRED!
Twitter revamp via Cardano? Charles did a whole vid on fixing social media curation. ~~Other hand: they won’t even give Charles a blue check mark.~~ (Retired: he finally got it) Other other hand: Jack has a mutual love of Africa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JilEb42q-CI&t=2325s
In the Protocol Parameters vid, Charles suggested they will introduce a CIP (Cardano Improvement Proposal) to change the inflation model to accommodate pay for stakepools for processing transactions/data from the ETH, IELE, and Catalyst sidechains. We’ll get to vote on CIPs like this. Kablam! Democracy! Kablam! Voltaire! Kablam! More duckets for staking! Don’t worry broh. They’re gonna stay serious here broh. Charles squinting real hard/blinking/talking slower/using hands a lot here broh. Not planning to violate the things learned from the long Oxford research arc and the input of the Prism Group (Harvard dudes) broh. Snake still eats tail broh. Kablam! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJorRPk767s
~~Charles mentioned a seven person anti-corruption committee reviewing the Ethiopia project. Hopefully no shenanigans there broh.~~ Retired!
Charles is scheduled to appear on Lex Fridman’s Podcast in June. Lex seems like a nice guy broh. He’ll probably end up best brohs with Charles, Stephen Wolfram, & Soulja Boy. Ben Goertzel is also in broh. Lex needs a girlfriend but no paying ADA to romance the androids. Just take lion’s mane, maybe some ‘83 Gordon & McPhail, and solve global issues together broh.
Will a Joe Rogan appearance follow this? It was always ”Goguen before Rogan.” They both love meat and you can barely tell they’re both filthy rich. Match made in heaven?
100% Decentralization of block validation incoming this month!!!!
~~Liquidity bird to land sometime soon? What is it?~~ RETIRED!
What about the whispers of a telecom deal? Part of the Ethiopia project?
What about paying for utilities and transportation? Part of the Ethiopia deal?
Academic credentialing project in the nation state of Georgia. Lots of mentions of this over the years.
Mongolia project. Also lots of mentions of this over the years.
Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana, & South Africa. It seems like there have been a decent number of indicators over the years that these governments are also already in play or targeted for the pan-Africa strategy of 100 MM users in 5-10 years.
In the recent Cardano 360 show there was talk of Emurgo possibly being in the process of building something that sounded kind of like a Metamask for Cardano. Sebastian building stuff works good broh. If not, what will fill the Metamask role in the Cardano ecosystem as a sort of universal(ish) bridge for users of smart contracts? Daedalus? Or something new that would be standalone?
Justin Roiland knows about Cardano. What if they ever mention it on the show broh? https://twitter.com/JustinRoiland/status/1363000121248473088
There is also the looming possibility of a Bitstamp listing. https://www.bitstamp.net/article/bitstamp-continues-exploring-support-additional-di/
Yoroi reaches 100k installs! https://twitter.com/YoroiWallet/status/1369952496307736578
Cardano tattoos are starting to get elaborate. https://twitter.com/BloomPool_io/status/1370148734177325056
There will be a “Mastering Cardano” book. No author signed on yet. Hopefully he or she will have a hairline that is even more dracula than Andreas Antonopoulos. I kid. Love Andreas.
Cardano reached 550k wallets in half the time it took BTC https://twitter.com/nierop_pieter/status/1369933366368362496
Cardano now has it’s own thirst trap twitter accounts. I won’t list them. But, you probably already know which ones those are if you follow #cardano. It’s probably bullish that we are now big enough for them to target us.
We can now claim that Catalyst is the world’s biggest DAO! Luckily, I think it is safe to suspect that ours is less susceptible to recursive call attacks than ETH’s first big DAO. https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1369961368946946053
IOHK releases a good article contrasting the various blockchain accounting methods: EUTXO (Cardano) vs. UTXO (Bitcoin) vs. Account Balance (Ethereum). This is one of those nice articles where the British guy pleasantly reads it to you if you want. Use this one to convince all your friends you are the ultimate blockchain expert: “listen Kyle...the shortcoming of UTXO accounting is....” https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/03/11/cardanos-extended-utxo-accounting-model/
Cardano devs at IOHK are the most productive in the industry! Already 3,170 commits and climbing this week! I sleep better at night knowing they are not allowed to sleep. Kidding….kidding. https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1369589307720269825
~~Actual spycam footage of Brian Armstrong watching Coinbase customers discover ADA.~~ https://twitter.com/ArmySpies/status/1370516335298420736 RETIRED!
Novogratz follows up that he’s bearish for now but will jump on a call with Charles next week. https://twitter.com/novogratz/status/1370482108553105408
Apparently the first $1200 stimulus check if invested in ADA would be $44,800 now. https://twitter.com/CryptoIRELAND1/status/1369426234883645443/photo/1
Charles gives us that real talk about why a young billionaire would devote his life to this Cardano thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Da6sFAxuI
Cardano uses a tiny fraction of the energy some other top-ten blockchains use. This factoid alone should allow you to hook up with eco-obsessed nature people. https://twitter.com/RichardMcCrackn/status/1370571904969551875
Now you can drive your drinking buddies crazy with your ADA obsession without even saying a word! https://twitter.com/KenzieByrne6/status/1370566690073935872
Will Babel Fees in Cardano lead to delegators receiving an almost index fund like assortment of native tokens? Will SPOs be willing to accept a wide assortment as payment for transaction fees? Will the economics of the delegation/staking landscape require SPOs to share those Babel Fee tokens with their delegators?
Will NFTs be a glaring exclusion from Babel Fees? Will I have to pay for the transaction fees on my NFT in ADA because I don’t want to give an SPO a small piece of the ownership interest in the digital art or other asset represented by the NFT?
There’s a new Crypto Time Traveler and this one loves Cardano. https://twitter.com/CryptoTimeTrav2
Business Insider covers Cardano among four other coins. https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/5-altcoins-under-the-radar-avalanche-cardano-polkadot-cosmos-graph-2021-3-1030187382
The “Cardano Pizza” event becomes an NFT. https://twitter.com/RichardMcCrackn/status/1370924728534376449
Bloomberg covers Cardano, Cites Charles as saying 100 Companies Coming Over https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-14/crypto-s-next-big-thing-raises-questions-while-the-price-surges
Cardano definition added to search function in Bloomberg Terminal https://twitter.com/CryptoJeromeFR/status/1371195771798884352
Commenter Report: Africa Special has finished recording
Cryptoviser apparently is not romantically in love with us. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1371097989968666626
There is a Part 2 to the IOHK EUTXO discussion we reported under item 39. Good read for verbally upstaging your ETH & BTC supporting co-workers. Be the king of the post-zoom call crypto banter! https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/03/12/cardanos-extended-utxo-accounting-model-part-2/
Commenter Report: the “metamask of Cardano” speculated about previously in item 30 is the “Yoroi dApp connector”. It’ll be rolled out “with Ergo first and Cardano once Plutus is released.” https://github.com/Emurgo/yoroi-ergo-connector
It looks like this Yoroi dApp Connector info has even been detailed by Sebastien and Rob on yt. Not sure if we can link directly to this video. But, here is the link to the link. Looks like the dApp Connector talk starts at 1:23:10. https://twitter.com/NicoArqueros/status/1353203943195734017
The visionaries among us are already thinking about advanced NFT derivative instruments (some even created by AI) in our ecosystem. https://twitter.com/NicoArqueros/status/1370150347113648132
Today is staking rewards day for Epoch 253! Let’s get those duckets!
Cardano is getting a disproportionate cut of the attention market compared to its CMC neighbors. https://twitter.com/CardanoRise/status/1371431289895665665
“Ask the Doctor” is switching from ERC-20 to Cardano. Note that Ask the Doctor is linked to FD7 Ventures in Item 7 below. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210315005744/en/Global-Healthcare-Platform-Ask-The-Doctor-to-Use-Cardano-for-World
We get another People of Input Output Global video. This one features Dan Friedman. He currently lives in Japan. But, the interview starts off with some very interesting stories about his youth in 1980s Kiev, Ukraine. His speaking and story-telling style is similar to the captain in a 1990s buddy cop movie (in a good way). Very interesting and compelling guy. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1371574441637937153
St. Patrick brings us the green today! The Liquidity Bird has landed!!!!!! We begin going live on Coinbase Pro tomorrow!!!! https://blog.coinbase.com/cardano-ada-is-launching-on-coinbase-pro-694b1cb8c778 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2gcNkeJ4Rk
Native Token Minting Workshop released on the Slack Dev Community Channel. https://files.slack.com/files-pri/T01G2PY2E1M-F01RF61QVQS/download/minting_native_tokens.mp4
This Minting Workshop above is a follow up after a previous Native Token Workshop from 03.04.2021. https://iohkdevcommunity.slack.com/files/U01H7BUQAKS/F01Q3GT4GP7/native_tokens_workshop.mp4
The Coinbase News is allowing us to retire rumors 11, 17, and 41 above.
Today is Coinbase day! Finally! Rejoice. Trading on Coinbase Pro is supposed to open at or after 9am Pacific! https://pro.coinbase.com/ https://blog.coinbase.com/cardano-ada-is-launching-on-coinbase-pro-694b1cb8c778
Charles finally gets the blue check on twitter. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1372182831430955008
Perceptions are shifting on which platform will be #1 for smart contracts over the next decade. Here’s the biggest crypto youtuber asking his co-host if he’s losing faith in the traditional #1. If you’re in Cardano, you can guess which coin his answer is shifting away from. https://youtu.be/4jRCmdWva40?t=3270
Even septuagenarians are getting in on Cardano. https://twitter.com/Emini_Scalper/status/1371061383975030787
Coinbase Pro did actually happen yesterday morning. Congratulations everyone. It’s been a long road and it was beautiful watching those initial candles build on the chart after all these years. https://pro.coinbase.com/
The Crypto Time Traveler mentioned last week (Item 49) has apparently left us and now gone back to the future. It definitely adds a touch of realism when they actually leave. https://twitter.com/CryptoTimeTrav2/status/1371492636884865029
Charles delivered his pre-recorded keynote address at the Blockchain Africa Conference. His remarks support the rumor that the initial Ethiopia project will be around identity. He specifically mentioned Atala Prism. There was talk of the digital identity being able to be linked to wallets, payment systems, and property. He also reasserted that the deals on the table in Africa would bring “millions of users” into the Cardano ecosystem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGEs99I6qV8
If you haven’t seen it in the past, the Atala Prism website has a demo that works with the mobile app showing how the identity solution (along with academic credentialing, health insurance, and proof of employment) would run on Cardano. https://www.atalaprism.io/
ADA is now live on coinbase.com as well as Coinbase Pro! So, you don’t even need to understand orderbooks to buy ADA now. https://blog.coinbase.com/cardano-ada-is-now-available-on-coinbase-dd30c1e0d93a
Tim Harrison of IOG sums up this week perfectly: “Glass of nice red tonight, I think. Quite a week.” https://twitter.com/timbharrison/status/1372985361794760705
Never imagined there would be a holiday light display that flashed “Screw Doge Coin; ADA is Best” to the original Doge music. Friendly rivalry is probably good in crypto. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM135pv72mY&t=31s
Charles doubles down on the declaration that Cardano’s defining moment will be when it can provide the rails for micro finance from the developed world to the developing world not as a form of charity but as a profitable financial activity for both lender and loan recipient. He thinks it will be the biggest transfer of wealth in the history of the world. He says the base infrastructure for this is being rolled out over the next 24-36 months. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMRGUCLQPYo
The ADA adoption numbers are looking really good lately! https://twitter.com/nierop_pieter/status/1372686310901747712
Max Keiser is also not romantically in love with us. Charles lays down the stick pretty hard on this one. I’m saying good. If you can’t take the heat...stay out of the Cardano kitchen, my man. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1373027224509542403
Cardano releases an infographic that sums up all the partnerships, deployments, startups, and functionality in the entire ecosystem. We got a lot going on! https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1373313974616215557
Here’s a really good article discussing decentralization in the context of Cardano core code maintenance. Really good job on this by cardanians.io. https://cardanojournal.com/who-will-maintain-cardano-129
The Cardano tattoo phenomenon continues to proliferate. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1373354182124531713
BlockFi to add ADA “as soon as we can.” https://twitter.com/SugarZeusCrypto/status/1372958662805708800
ADA Heart Pool made an awesome infographic guide to staking: https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1373310895544229892
Awesome comparative chart showing how much more decentralized Cardano is already compared to BTC. https://twitter.com/PoolGrow/status/1373492994645450752
Transactions are way up over the last several epochs! https://www.adatainment.com/index.php?lang=en&page=charts_onchain_metrics
Cardano 360 going down on Thursday March 25th. This is the big monthly streaming event where they tell us what’s going on. Save your spot here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/cardano360-march/register
Critics think that lack of burned fees is a valid complaint against Cardano. But, good outcomes at scale only come with good incentives and free competition. So, if the fees aren’t paying the costs of transactions in these other protocols, the question goes begging: who is? In the end, the answer always turns out to be that the transaction costs have just been obfuscated under the guise of inflation via coin emission or some other hidden tax on someone in the ecosystem (usually the coin holders). https://twitter.com/avaxholder/status/1373336728010956801
We are starting to see cracks in the psychological armor of the Ethereum crowd. This anti-Cardano post was at 0 upvotes (at time of writing) while the fairly pro-Cardano response received triple figure upvotes. https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/maktuy/ist_charles_hoskinson_the_new_justin_sun/
When smart contracts go live with Alonzo (the final HFC event in Goguen), and we eventually have Babel Fees, it’s going to make almost zero sense for any developer to choose ETH over Cardano. This will apply especially to any project that sends tokens to its customers (e.g. NFT projects) and any project that involves significant computation or transaction loads on the network (e.g. DeFi projects).
Emurgo is thinking about supply chain solutions for the seafood industry. https://emurgo.io/blog/how-can-blockchain-deliver-benefits-to-the-seafood-industrys-supply-chain
Check out this very cool relay node global tracker form monadpool! Thanks for building this! https://monadpool.com/cardano.html
We now have a Backstreet Boy. Might not seem that important, until you notice he has 600k followers. Network effects...network effects. Thanks, Nick! https://twitter.com/nickcarter/status/1374347860834062340 https://twitter.com/nickcarter/status/1374466486018842624
A guy tried to use Charles’s reaction to the King Soopers tragedy in Boulder to criticize Cardano. Charles told him to go f*** himself and then auctioned off the tweet with proceeds going to the families of the victims. The auction price quickly hit four figures and closed at $7k. https://v.cent.co/tweet/1374207862646304773?s=u_a
Thursday is Cardano 360 and Friday will be “Get ADA Day” as staking rewards for Epoch 255 close. Gonna be an action packed close to the week. Enjoy!
Here was my favorite moonboi tweet of the last few days. Old photo, but excellent captioning work here. https://twitter.com/MaximilianXCIX/status/1373471841449304066
Great new interview with Sebastien! In this one he explains a lot about the dApp Connector being built by Emurgo. As reported by a commenter in one of our earlier threads, it will work with Ergo first and then Cardano. A very interesting tidbit was Sebastien’s explanation of how the Emurgo dApp Connector will actually be safer than Metamask (which fills a similar role in the ETH ecosystem). Very good info. Thanks to Sebastien and the Cardano Podcast! https://youtu.be/Dkw7hvFP6dY
Today is Cardano 360 day!!!! Watch it here at 10:30AM Pacific, 17:30 GMT, 18:30 CET. This is the live monthly streaming show from IOHK. Watch this one. Hopefully we’ll get a target date for Alonzo. That’ll tell us when we get smart contracts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQt7AjimaAg
Looks like the Cardano 360 show may highlight how Cardano will not experience some of the shortcomings that leading blockchains have in the past (like the time that bitcoin accidentally issued 184 billion BTC in one block). https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1374783084881608706
Catalyst Fund 5 will have a $2MM total budget! Included will be a very interesting $50k Metadata challenge in Fund 5. Metadata can be used to prove the existence of a certain document or event to third parties without necessarily revealing the data contained therein. This means you can do cool things on the blockchain without using smart contracts as in the prior New Balance anti-counterfeiting and Beefchain traceability Cardano projects.The winners of this challenge are actually going to be incubated and supported by the IOHK Metadata team! People waiting for Goguen and smart contracts are definitely sleeping on what can be done with metadata on Cardano today. https://www.crowdcast.io/e/fund4-6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjg_u7Oeel0
There is a Catalyst Dashboard available that gives you all the stats on the current projects in Cardano’s multi-million dollar decentralized innovation fund (the world’s biggest). https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15R-Vbajy4t4fGs1TipNMfL1pEO9cwdn6WV13lKviX4Q/edit#gid=40774150
Charles says they are going to end up spending $15-30MM this year on research and they will hire 100-200 people. That’s an investment in the future of the ecosystem! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLwyFADws8w
Cardano 360 was yesterday! The big news first: it sounds like the Alonzo (smart contracts) testnet will launch around end of April or early May. It’s looking like Alonzo HFC event will happen on main net late July or August. The stream was over three hours long. They covered so much! Now, let’s get to the other details revealed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULBLgPgxtN8
Grigory Rosu from Runtime Verification gave a big rundown on the universality in programming languages that will be provided by K framework in Cardano. He said he should have some kind of proof of concept around six months from now.
Michael Peyton Jones and Manual Chakravarty (the architects of Plutus) talked about 1) the benefits of Cardano’s modern approach to designing Plutus TX and Plutus Core and how Plutus Core basically being lambda calculus allows for mathematical verification of software written in Plutus, 2) how UTXO (and EUTXO in Cardano) are much more battle proven than other ledger accounting systems like account balance system (e.g. ETH) which have had problems, 3) how non-fungible role tokens will be a thing, and 4) how they are now laying out a real development platform for builders instead of just throwing Plutus out into the world.
Lars Brünjes (Head of Education) laid out how they are going to train a group of developers through the Plutus Pioneers program. That group will help test the Alonzo test net after it launches.
Lars has also cloned Uniswap in Plutus with a graphical user interface and completely automated price discovery in the liquidity pools. He did this as a proof of concept to show the capabilities of Plutus. That was demoed right on the stream.
They then brought on people from three different Haskell development firms who will be building things on the testnet as a sort of “red team” test of Alonzo. They all seemed to be very capable in terms of Haskell development (note here that Plutus is basically Haskell).
Tom Lindeman (Chief Security Officer at Runtime Verification) then laid out how disastrous the last few years in Ethereum have been for smart contract security. But, Cardano has a solution. IOHK and Runtime Verification will partner to certify smart contracts as to security. Runtime Verification will do the security audits. This program will be called “Alpha Frontier”.
Charles then laid out the details of the timeline for Alonzo as described above. It sounds like they are targeting to be totally done and hit a code/feature freeze at the end of June. But, it will take Coinbase, Kraken, Binance et al. at least four weeks to update their systems before they can actually launch smart contracts on mainnet.
Collin Edwards and Duncan Couts then gave us an update on the stake pool world as we approach “D DAy” or d=0 which is full decentralization of block production. A stake pool operator Shawn McMurdo has made some Cardano Improvement proposals as to 1) a non-linear curved basis for a0 (pronounced a-naught, represents stake pool operator pledge) to affect rewards more greatly, 2) non-centralized rankings in Daedalus, and 3) an adjustment to minimum fees from fixed to variable. Collin and Duncan clarified there will be no changes to a0 (pledge) or k (max pool size) at the d=0 (full decentralization) event coming up. Duncan also laid out how they are going to launch P2P node testnet in early Q2. This will allow for information to flow directly between nodes and will accomplish automation of things like peer discovery that are currently manual on the network.
Dor Garbash then gave an update on Catalyst. As covered previously here, Catalyst has become a monster. There are 17k people in Ideascale and the treasury is worth more than $400MM. You heard that right, almost a half billion dollars in the Catalyst Treasury. We also heard from a bunch of the previous catalyst winners.
Someone paid $23k for the notorious “Your telling the CEO of IOHK…” tweet. https://v.cent.co/tweet/1374769078519300097?s=u_a
IOHK is rolling out a new team that will fight the scammers in crypto. In my mind this involves guys in polo shirts with popped collars and Ledger Nano Xs around their necks carrying these and hunting the bad guys while ‘90s action movie music plays. Probably Dwayne Johnson is their commander. Maybe that’s not what Charles has in mind. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1375473873651568640
Cardano is the Tesla of crypto. We’re just in that early stage right before the Model 3 launch where the Ford and GM guys are at peak fear/peak shit talking but we haven’t made that big move yet. “It’s an illusion, they’ll never release a sub $40k car.” We’ll see shortly, gentlemen...we’ll see.

~Army of Spies

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1. Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, KLAY, VET, SOL, KSM

Bitcoin appears to be preparing for a move toward $60,000, while KLAY, VET, SOL and KSM are attempting to find bullish momentum.

In trading, selling a position is as important as buying it at the right time. Therefore, the big question that could be troubling traders is whether or not Bitcoin (BTC) price will enter a bearish phase or will the bull run continue after this week’s pullback.
PlanB, the creator of the popular Bitcoin stock-to-flow model, recently tweeted that the crypto bull run has only started and is “nowhere near the end of it.”
PlanB is not the only voice that is hugely bullish on Bitcoin. Mike McGlone, the senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, believes that if previous behavior is considered, Bitcoin’s 2021 peak could be nearer to $400,000.
One of the main reasons that could be drawing institutional investors to cryptocurrencies is the possible debasing of the U.S. dollar. In an interview with Bloomberg, Soros Fund Management chief information officer Dawn Fitzpatrick said the 25% increase in the U.S. money supply over the past 12 months has ensured that Bitcoin no longer remains a fringe asset.
The fund recently participated in the $200 million funding round held by NYDIG and also invested in crypto accounting firm Lukka. This shows that institutional investors are broadening their perspective and are looking at investing opportunities other than Bitcoin.
Let’s study the charts of top-5 cryptocurrencies that may resume their uptrend in the short term.

2. NY’s Blockchain-Based COVID-19 Passport Is Now Live

The pass will be used to confirm an individual’s recent negative PCR or antigen test result or proof of vaccination to help fast-track the reopening of businesses and event venues.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced its IBM’s blockchain-based digital health app for proving COVID-19 vaccination and test results is now live.
According to a release by the governor’s office, individuals will be able to either print out their pass or store it on their smartphones using the Excelsior Pass Wallet app much like a mobile airline boarding pass,.
The pass will be used to confirm an individual’s recent negative PCR or antigen test result or proof of vaccination to help fast-track the reopening of businesses and event venues.
Madison Square Garden and Times Union Center will said they will implement the pass. Other locations will be added as the program expands.

3. SNL Skit Uses Kate McKinnon as Janet Yellen and Slim Shady to Explain NFTs

The skit clearly shows how NFTs have captured the public’s imagination. Here’s where you can find out more.

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the buzziest segment of the cryptocurrency universe, made it to Saturday Night Live last night in an explainer skit featuring Kate McKinnon as U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Pete Davidson channeling Eminem.
While the skit clearly shows how NFTs have captured the public’s imagination as stars like the NFL’s Patrick Mahomes, Rob Gronkowski and others have created and sold the tokens, sometimes for staggering amounts, it also could be a sign of a market top, or simply the approach of one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Still, there’s no doubt NFTs have gone mainstream.

4. Facing Financial Crisis, Can Argentines Look to Bitcoin?

Few countries have as deep and long-lasting a history of financial crises as Argentina.

Given how otherwise blessed it is with natural and human resources, Argentina is Exhibit A in the argument that repeated monetary mismanagement will do lasting harm to long-term prosperity. A century of such crises, which has bred profound mistrust of the institutions of government among Argentines, took their country from being the seventh-richest nation on earth to the 75th.
Now, with the advent of cryptocurrencies and blockchains, some finally a way out of this trap of mistrust. It’s no coincidence that Argentina has a relatively high level of bitcoin adoption nor that it has contributed a disproportionately high number of successful developers to the global crypto community.
But is crypto the answer, or should Argentines continue to work within the system to get the accountable government they deserve?
We explore that question, along with a deep dive into just what it is that explains Argentina’s uniquely dysfunctional economic experience, in his week’s edition of “Money Reimagined.” We’re joined by Lucas Llach, a professor of economics at Torcuato di Tella University in Buenos Aires, and Santiago Siri, the founder of Democracy Earth, a radical, blockchain-based solution for democracy inspired his struggles to reform government in his native Argentina.

5. Why Bitcoin Is a Better Risk Bet Than a Stack of Penny Stocks

Volatility is a measure of risk, and that’s often measured in relation to returns. By that measure bitcoin is a beast so far this year.

Bitcoin is getting boring at a time when annualized 30-day volatility as of Thursday’s close has seen a sharp downward dip, in a March with its own type of (weather) volatility.
To emphasize the point, have a look at the chart above, which shows the volatility of bitcoin daily returns for the past month. To be fair, I’m employing a little chart crime here, starting the y axis at 40% in order to accentuate the drop between March 24–25, as all but the last days of February have disappeared from the 30-day look-back on the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index.
The boredom engendered by a tame month sparked a mild disagreement with “First Mover” show host Lawrence Lewitinn about penny stocks versus bitcoin. We were discussing the benefits of using indexes weighted either by price or by market cap. Price-weighted indexes can be more volatile because smaller-cap components can have a greater impact. I said a crypto index doesn’t need more volatility because crypto assets already have the volatility of penny stocks.

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