Wednesday, December 1, 2021

BTC exempt from CGT in the United Kingdom - here's how it could work.

tl;dr

Disposals of bitcoin via exchanges which are banks may be exempt from UK Capital Gains Tax if made on or after 7 Sep 2021.

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Further to my original post (https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/pjh4r3/as_a_currency_of_el_salvador_btc_is_now_exempt/), S.35 of the Finance Act (2012) (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/14/section/35) amended the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act (1992) so that gains made on foreign currency held in bank accounts are not liable to UK Capital Gains Tax with effect from 6 April 2012 (I have changed the wording to make it more precise).

The legal wording is: [CGT] does not apply in relation to a gain accruing to a person [an individual or trustee (not a trader)] on a disposal of a foreign currency debt [owed by a bank in a currency other than sterling and represented by a sum standing to the credit of an account-holder in an account in that bank].

The steps are:

An individual [UK citizen] transfers BTC to an exchange that has a banking licence. This is not a taxable event as it is like for like. Also HMRC principle 'a man cannot trade with himself' [see Ayrshire Employers’ Mutual Insurance Association Ltd v CIR (1946) 27TC331].

The BTC is now a 'debt owed by a bank in a currency other than sterling and represented by a sum standing to the credit of an account-holder in an account in that bank'. (It has changed from being sovereign money to being debt-based money).

It only remains to argue that, since BTC is legal tender in El Salvador it is a foreign currency [currency other than sterling].

Since CGT only applies to gains when they are realised (not when they are made), CGT should not apply to gains on disposals made from banks on or after 7 September 2021, even if the gain was made before then. The bitcoin can be held in any bank (does not have to be El Salvadorean or UK).

HMRC says in its crypto manual (https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/cryptoassets-manual/crypto22550) 'HMRC does not consider cryptoassets to be currency or money. This reflects the position previously set out by the Cryptoasset Taskforce report (CATF). This means that sections 252 and 269 Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 do not apply.'

However the CATF published their opinion in October 2018 and only considered whether bitcoin was currency or money in the UK. Bitcoin was adopted as legal tender in El Salvador in September 2021.

Use this information at your own risk but don't come crying to me if HMRC shuts this loophole while you're hesitating.

See also https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/capital-gains-manual/cg78321


Cardano Rumor Rundown December 2, 2021

Hey Everyone!

Let's go...

Newly covered today:

  1. Sundaeswap is planning to hit the testnet this weekend. https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1466110936369008640
  2. We are approaching 1 million staked addresses! https://twitter.com/RichardMcCrackn/status/1465924981150208005
  3. ADA Whale drops a Top 50 Cardano dApps list.
  4. Yet another hack has occurred in Ethereum DeFi. This one is being listed at $31MM. https://twitter.com/Gr88nCardano/status/1466013936164216832
  5. Cardano increased it’s blocksize and Plutus Script Memory yesterday (12.1.21)! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1466086538207547393

Previously Covered but still interesting:

  1. People are buying luxury real estate in Portugal with Cardano. https://twitter.com/danny_cryptofay/status/1451113239669092356
  2. Over 292,000 votes were cast in Catalyst Fund 6. https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1451269575140589577
  3. IOHK announces a partnership with Bondly to create an NFT bridge so that users can move their non-fungible tokens back and forth between Cardano and Ethereum. https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1451251954496180229
  4. Interesting small thread on how further stumbles by the Chinese economy could affect the global economy which in turn might impact crypto and Cardano. https://twitter.com/i/events/1452290004433125378
  5. Here’s a very nice overview of the Maladex Whitepaper by ADA Whale that breaks down the hidden strengths of eUTxO for DeFi including programmable swaps composability. https://twitter.com/cardano_whale/status/1451835809913470986
  6. The Cardano ecosystem maps are getting so big and dense that they can’t even display logos for the projects anymore. https://twitter.com/Meapool1/status/1450576470133379072/photo/1
  7. There is a report that unstaked ADA is at an all time low of under 8MM ADA. https://twitter.com/IbanxStaking/status/1451944344294883331
  8. Check out this medium article explaining the validator underlying the Spacebudz Market. It’s very elegantly and concisely explained if you have no Haskell/Plutus understanding. It’s even more interesting if you have a tiny bit of understanding of Haskell. https://spacebudz.medium.com/spacebudz-market-71e79d1bbf34
  9. Atala Prism named a top 50 Most Influential Project by PMI. https://twitter.com/IOHKMedia/status/1452544441005248514
  10. Pavia Game Jam is coming. It sounds like they are looking to hire some Unity (game engine) developers and 3D artists. This produce interesting results in a few years. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1451596816659763213
  11. Charles is releasing some images of meetings with heads of state on his Africa tour. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1452671287977971726 https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1452672734580838409/photo/2
  12. There is currently ongoing discussion about the possibility of unexpected tax liability from participation in even Fair Initial Stake Pool Offerings where there are accompanying Initial Dex Offerings. There is even discussion about the potential of exploits that could amplify this unexpected tax liability for all participants. https://twitter.com/mikerogero/status/1452502065381404675 https://medium.com/@mikerogero/tax-implications-of-the-minswap-ido-on-fiso-delegators-and-the-cardano-community-4db219ea8932
  13. We now have a memorandum of understanding with Burundi! https://twitter.com/jjtoconnor/status/1453087264461017092
  14. Fans of certain other Gen 3 blockchains are still getting hilariously worked up when they are confronted with the Messari chart on massive VC ownership of their blockchains. https://twitter.com/TamaraHaasen/status/1452924338047496193
  15. The new IOG stake pool delegations are out. https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1453041459477819398
  16. Cardano Fans is putting out some really good pieces posed as “Conversations with a Junior Blockchain Developer”. Very educational on the technical advantages of Cardano over other Gen 3 blockchains. https://twitter.com/matiwinnetou/status/1452911202913464328
  17. ETH based platforms are still not faring well at NOT losing the money of users. https://twitter.com/Swag_Stakepool/status/1453392923672915968
  18. dcSpark is making progress on the Milkomeda sidechain. ADA transitions from Cardano testnet to Milkomeda testnet now working. https://twitter.com/Milkomeda_com/status/1453421947157716992
  19. The stark differences between being a validator on ETH and a Cardano validator are once again put on full display. https://twitter.com/evan_van_ness/status/1453133337334272000
  20. There’s a new Djed explainer video out now from IOHK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Ozaf_aGNM&t=1s
  21. Cardano 360 October Edition is now out and available! https://youtu.be/R0s3lPG8XDw
  22. The crypto time traveler is back after many months of being gone (i.e. purportedly being in the future). His first prediction after returning was about big news and a crown which was later revealed to concern the health of the Queen. His second prediction was about Cardano and gigantic success. https://twitter.com/CryptoTimeTrav2/status/1452827679300849670
  23. Charles was at the Ethiopian Ministry of Education today. He reports that the onboarding of the five million students is on track. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1453697314187534343
  24. The Ministry of Finance of Ethiopia has posted pics of the Cardano team meeting with them! This is an interesting turn of events. The ministry posted about a “readiness to incorporate avant-garde technology in areas of #Agri Tech, logistics, and digitization”. https://twitter.com/MoF_Ethiopia/status/1453717850766540808
  25. There is a new IOHK blog entry on Mithril. https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/10/29/mithril-a-stronger-and-lighter-blockchain-for-better-efficiency/
  26. You might have missed this IOHK blog entry on how dApp certification will be incorporated into the new light wallet (I know I did). https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/10/25/new-certification-levels-for-smart-contracts-on-cardano/
  27. The Cardano dApp Store is looking like it’s going to be amazing. Curation & certification without gatekeeping is a great solution to preserve decentralization and maintain censorship resistance. https://summit.cardano.org/sessions/redefining-dapp-discovery-bringing-dapps-to-the-mass-market
  28. There’s also a new update on Crypto Bisons! https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/10/28/buffalo-soldiers-march-to-the-heart-of-the-blockchain/
  29. Charles released a new AMA from Ethiopia! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5au7JEPMaM
  30. The U.S. President’s Working Group on Financial markets has published its Stablecoin Report. No surprise: they want to regulate stablecoin issuers as insured depository institutions with federal supervisors and to curtail their affiliation with commercial entities. They also want to curtail such affiliations for custodial wallet providers. https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/StableCoinReport_Nov1_508.pdf
  31. It turns out there are some big chain reorg vulnerabilities in ETH 2.0. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.10086.pdf But, maybe ETH has already got fixes planned? https://twitter.com/casparschwa/status/1450785316865024000
  32. A partnership among World Mobile, IOHK, and Zanzibar has been announced! It’s a five year plan that focuses on education, eGov solutions, the Blue Economy (sustainable fisheries), replicating the Blue Economy model in tourism | agriculture | & telecommunications. https://worldmobile.io/blog/post/partnering-with-zanzibar-blockchain-hub/
  33. Alessandro has a great idea (multi-sig) to improve NFT drops over his original model that is now used by pretty much everybody! This would help mitigate the hassle of refunds and reduce some congestion. https://twitter.com/berry_ales/status/1455473647934742530
  34. It feels crazy that we have over 2 million Cardano wallets out there these days. Our small ecosystem has become a gigantic one. https://datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/3136c55b-635e-4f46-8e4b-b8ab54f2d460/page/k5r9B
  35. The Plutus Application Backend integration process has begun! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1455905122802864138
  36. Pavia has revealed proposals for parcel size in their metaverse. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1455915006395101188
  37. Mark Stopka takes everyone to school on how “pool extractable value” can still be a thing in Cardano if dApp Developers don’t plan for designs that prevent it. https://youtu.be/0VloKsDjW70
  38. Nami Wallet will soon support hardware wallets! https://twitter.com/NamiWallet/status/1456375916918083588
  39. SundaeSwap has unveiled its own concurrency solution. https://twitter.com/SundaeSwap/status/1456338509870952450
  40. A University of Virginia School of Law lecturer outlines a crypto related “hidden felony” in the Infrastructure Bill. https://www.decential.io/features/defi-and-the-digital-asset-felony-hidden-in-the-infrastructure-bill
  41. IOG drops it’s Sustainability Report. https://static.iohk.io/green-blockchain-paper.pdf
  42. We get a view of what can actually be built on a Pavia single Parcel and news that the Pavia Map v.2 will launch soon with wallet linking and custom images. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1456667167680831491 https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1456523907280822273
  43. The Plutus Application Backend (PAB) Beta has been released! Developers of Cardano dApps can now begin experimenting on the testnet! This is a big milestone! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1456683592726233097
  44. Apparently Cardano’s transaction volume just last month in October was double all of 2020!?! https://twitter.com/CardanoStiftung/status/1456730746861748224
  45. Looks like Cardano (at least the logo) made the cover of the Economist?!?! https://twitter.com/cardano_whale/status/1457327848285376513
  46. We just saw an instance of Yoroi wallet dApp Connector integration! https://twitter.com/SundaeSwap/status/1457396024822075409
  47. We saw an all time high of +61k native assets issued on Cardano in one day recently! https://twitter.com/thinkgrowcrypto/status/1457130708300824576
  48. World Mobile just dropped a great video documenting the IOHK/World Mobile/Zanzibar visit. https://twitter.com/WorldMobileTeam/status/1457800436501467136
  49. It looks like Zimbabwe is looking into crypto adoption! https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1457703228192301058
  50. Apparently, there’s a new partnership between COTI and the Cardano Foundation. Sounds like we’ll hear details on November 10. https://twitter.com/shahafbg/status/1457665945963532294
  51. There is a Spacebudz ad running on the Nasdaq screen in Times Square right now (November 8-14). https://twitter.com/budzdegen/status/1457706024778014720
  52. The IOHK Haskell course in Ghana will include 80 students! https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/11/05/empowering-a-new-generation-of-innovators-in-ghana/
  53. A new Cardano NFT store has sprung up mentioning smart contract support and royalties for creators. https://twitter.com/jpgstoreNFT/status/1457548567032184832
  54. Terra Virtua is saying we’ll have our Cardano Summit 2021 NFTs by November 10th. https://twitter.com/TerraVirtuaHQ/status/1457800095101976578
  55. COTI is now talking about news of an IOHK Partnership to be announced on Nov. 10 in addition to the previous announcement of an announcement of the new Cardano Foundation partnership slated to be announced Nov. 10 6pm UTC. https://twitter.com/COTInetwork/status/1458129369482792967
  56. Here’s a beautiful thread explaining how one of Cardano’s big competitor’s tps claims may be HIGHLY misleading. https://mobile.twitter.com/EdnStuff/status/1457875177052643333
  57. The Galaxy Digital paper on Gen 3 blockchains is out. I think some may definitely take issue with their description of the capabilities of eUTxO smart contracts in the Cardano section. https://twitter.com/cardano_whale/status/1458271252993302535
  58. The Catalyst Natives program rolls out with a COTI ADAPay challenge to develop ADAPay plugins for medium & small businesses. https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/11/10/introducing-catalyst-natives-how-any-business-can-leverage-the-cardano-innovation-engine/
  59. The “Director of Ops” of ENS Domains runs a poll about whether or not ENS Domains or Cardano has more utility. At writing, over 30k voters had surprised him with the answer he didn’t expect.. https://twitter.com/BrantlyMillegan/status/1458268301100990467
  60. IOHK drops a blog entry on optimizing network performance. https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/11/10/optimizing-cardano/
  61. Looks like we’ll be getting both the PAB & the ERC-20 Converter in the “next several weeks”. https://twitter.com/DanielTetsuyama/status/1458209250950332418
  62. In macro news that could affect Cardano and all of crypto 30 year treasury bonds went vertical, and news of the +6% inflation in the US broke widely. https://twitter.com/CaitlinLong_/status/1458507405675880452
  63. World Mobile dropped a nice youtube AMA for us. Very interesting details came up about Microsoft Airband, Google Project X, and Project Taara. https://twitter.com/WorldMobileTeam/status/1458718340931858435
  64. Weiss highlights that Cardano addresses participating in staking have grown by 100k in two months. https://twitter.com/WeissCrypto/status/1458845224671887362
  65. The Cardano Summit 2021 Terra Virtua NFTs have arrived. Check your inventory if you did all the tasks in the Summit’s virtual worlds. https://terravirtua.io/inventory
  66. Pavia dropped a more detailed roadmap with live events scheduled for the plaza in Q3 2022. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1459246398046674945
  67. Charles is back in Colorado and has dropped a full AMA. https://youtu.be/nnDWc6uP6gs
  68. The November mid-month IOHK Development Update is now out! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1459250049414799368
  69. Seeing reports that Cardano’s 24 hour volume recently exceeded Ethereum! https://twitter.com/cardano_daily/status/1460238659098005504
  70. We’ve seen a very nice and steady rise in transactions over the last 15 days! https://twitter.com/WillyzPortico/status/1460221046112456704
  71. The January Haskell class in Ghana will include 80 students! https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1460259961313837058
  72. IOHK has dropped their new article on eUTxO dApp architecture. It explains in detail a design for an eUTxO order book. https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/11/16/architecting-dapps-on-the-eutxo-ledger/
  73. Apparently we saw over 1MM transactions in Epoch 302. https://twitter.com/ccvaultio/status/1460673461614006276
  74. Looks like Cardano is seeing a huge amount of on-chain activity. The crazy part is this is all pre-PAB. Just wait until dApps can actually launch! Unsurprisingly, some supporters of other chains were shocked to realize they didn’t understand the difference between exchange trading volume and actual blockchain use volume. https://twitter.com/cardano_daily/status/1460238659098005504 https://messari.io/screener/most-active-chains-DB01F96B
  75. Charles drops a short regulatory update letting us know about the proposed bill to fix the highly faulty Infrastructure Bill language and another new bill to lay out a pro-crypto comprehensive regulatory framework for crypto (including definitions for utility coins). https://youtu.be/AcBuk0zHLfU
  76. Here’s the announcement and the bill from Senators Lummis & Wyden to fix the bad crypto language in the Infrastructure Bill. https://www.lummis.senate.gov/press-releases/wyden-lummis-introduce-bill-to-fix-broker-definition-for-digital-assets/ https://www.lummis.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/GAI21B7321.pdf
  77. Senator Lummis reveals that she is working on a big crypto bill as expected. https://twitter.com/SenLummis/status/1461004206588968965
  78. CIP-0030 Related to the dApp Connector has been merged. https://twitter.com/stakenuts/status/1460891981417267205
  79. Be aware that fake stakepools are a thing! https://twitter.com/berry_ales/status/1460917711920414723
  80. Here is the coming onslaught of Cardano dApps summed up in just six lines. https://twitter.com/DCdoso/status/1461340919731523586
  81. Pavia says they will drop the extended land map next week and that it will include some new land types. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1461331532069711876
  82. The smaller “fix-it” bill that would attempt to remedy the bad crypto language in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill has now been introduced in the House of Representatives. https://twitter.com/jerrybrito/status/1461317078175072263
  83. Charles says input endorsers can improve the performance of the base layer by a factor of 20-40x!!!! https://youtu.be/Lf2C4fq4ZY4?t=790
  84. MSN.com runs a positive Motley Fool article on Cardano. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/in-the-world-of-crypto-cardano-could-be-a-real-winner/ar-AAQWzzf
  85. The updated list of Cardano researchers now numbers 152. https://twitter.com/DIGI_StakePool/status/1462536768658542604
  86. A new wallet has been announced. https://twitter.com/TyphonWallet/status/1462410333939658752
  87. Charles dropped a new AMA where he mentioned very briefly that they are actually going to look into read-only UTxOs. If it’s possible to have these types of UTxOs while preserving determinism, it would be a big change since transactions must currently consume inputs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJcVEJ1a6eg Some background reading on read-only UTxOs: https://github.com/Emurgo/Emurgo-Research/blob/master/smart-contracts/Unlocking%20The%20Potential%20Of%20The%20UTXO%20Model.md
  88. Apparently, we have surpassed 20MM transactions on the Cardano network. https://twitter.com/CardanoTech/status/1462805643874680835
  89. World Mobile gives a peek at their aerostat hanger where they will launch balloons to connect the unconnected in Africa. https://twitter.com/WorldMobileTeam/status/1462715361015521280
  90. Pavia has dropped some very cool images of their avatars (or at least “background characters”). https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1461713781122232327
  91. Remember, Cardano 360 is the last Thursday of every month. That means this Thursday, November 25th! https://twitter.com/InputOutputHK/status/1462793042587443206
  92. Jerome Powell is named to a second term as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-will-tap-jerome-powell-for-new-term-as-fed-chairman-11637589600
  93. We got another Plutus Application Backend (PAB) release today (11.22)! https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus-apps/releases/tag/v2021-11-22
  94. CMC is now showing Cardano native assets! https://twitter.com/matiwinnetou/status/1462902025633554444
  95. It looks like we’re getting a block size increase and a plutus script memory increase on December 1, 2021. https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/11/22/slow-and-steady-wins-the-race-network-evolution-for-network-growth/ https://twitter.com/cardano_whale/status/1463097104331468803
  96. Pavia has partnered with ReadyPlayerMe so that you can build your own avatar. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1463103151893106688
  97. Charles drops a video on the eToro user limitations. It sounds like IOHK knew nothing about this. Interacting with exchanges falls in the Cardano Foundation’s wheelhouse. It’s unclear whether the CF knew anything. He also pointed out it’s very interesting that an old line exchange like Bitstamp has decided to LIST Cardano during this same period. Charles also mentioned that they haven’t seen any regulatory activity on IOHK’s end. eToro is a relatively small source of liquidity for Cardano and there shouldn’t be much of an impact. https://youtu.be/WYQTkf8ndpY
  98. The Pavia map is expanding on Wednesday, Nov. 24th at 1500 UTC with a second land sale. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1463153632484941834
  99. Charles drops a video about the Caravan moving on despite any FUD (like eToro) that temporarily emerges. https://youtu.be/IjXkP_DGRgY
  100. The Pavia second land sale saw demand vastly outstrip supply to become (reportedly) the biggest Cardano NFT drop ever. https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1463560375442591753 https://twitter.com/Pavia_io/status/1463547885539278849
  101. World Mobile got some positive coverage in Tech Crunch! https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/23/world-mobile-group-bringing-zanzibaris-online-through-mobile-network-built-on-blockchain/
  102. Looks like COTI’s Djed project has teamed up with SundaeSwap. https://twitter.com/COTInetwork/status/1463480313506668546
  103. The minutes from the Fed’s November FOMC meeting have been published and indicate they are ready to taper asset purchases and raise rates to combat inflation. Some members felt even faster tapering than is currently planned is warranted. These are impactful revelations for crypto. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/24/federal-reserve-releases-minutes-from-its-november-meeting.html
  104. IOHK drops a new article on a tiered transaction fee system that would still preserve determinism. https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/11/26/network-traffic-and-tiered-pricing/
  105. Here’s a good concise tweetstorm inspired by the Raul Pal/ Breedlove conversation about how the last 100 or so years led us here to this macro environment and crypto. https://twitter.com/JamesRothmann/status/1464305493099393028
  106. Interesting discussion of the SundaeSwap ISO, the Scooper Model, and decentralization. https://youtu.be/94N8KXNs_as
  107. John O’Connor drops an IOHK article on “RealFi” including thoughts on the ramifications of validated identity for uncollateralized loans in markets like Kenya and the projects in Ethiopia and Zanzibar. https://iohk.io/en/blog/posts/2021/11/25/welcome-to-the-age-of-realfi/
  108. The Cardano dApp ecosystem maps continue to grow to silly proportions. https://twitter.com/Coin98Analytics/status/1463782688502915075/photo/1
  109. There is at least one “Cardano” baby. Is this the first or have there been others? https://twitter.com/Brunokarno1/status/1464762911746773002
  110. The % of total ADA staked is still over 71% (11.29). https://twitter.com/matiwinnetou/status/1464921027922866188
  111. The Cardano Community takes a moment to enjoy contemplating the circumstance that there will never need to be a “magical Cardano 2” in order for our blockchain to survive. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1465089315340488704
  112. There are three new Cardano Improvement Proposals (CIPs) related to Plutus and the dev experience. https://twitter.com/_KtorZ_/status/1465345098619760643
  113. Strong words from Philip Wadler on why Solidity is so terrible for smart contracts. https://twitter.com/cryptomaxpwr/status/1465223788144955393
  114. Interesting point by Charles regarding Cardano having the expressiveness of Ethereum and the attack surface of Bitcoin. https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1465369644408049668
  115. It looks like there is another Cardano project that says it will attempt to increase connectivity in sub-Saharan Africa. https://3air.io/
  116. Charles dropped a video with his thoughts on ISPO’s and regulatory issues. https://youtu.be/bCEYizNPptY
  117. ADA Whale makes a very good point about Cardano inflation vs. almost all of it’s competitors. https://twitter.com/cardano_whale/status/1465673768047570954

~Army of Spies


Some Thoughts on “Market Cap”

TLDR: If you somehow managed to buy the entire supply of a given coin B for a price of P each, it would be almost impossible to sell the coins back to the market for its “Market Cap” of B*P. Market Cap is therefore a clever fiction by spurious analogy but not an actually useful concept.

As I often do with concepts I am interested in - including ideas I have come to believe are true - I was trying to reason through from basic principles why Market Cap is a flawed concept for crypto currencies. I often hear people reasoning that it doesn’t apply to crypto since it is just the most recent unit price x outstanding units, regardless of volume. As this is essentially true for all asset classes (by definition, regardless of whether Market Cap makes sense for that asset), I thought it was worth looking further. Here are my conclusions:

  • For shares/stocks, Market Cap makes sense as when you buy a share of a company you are buying a proportional share of its revenues. Let’s say you buy a share for price P and you believe the individual share will achieve R% return (actual return of RP) - that means you also believe that N shares will achieve R% (NRP in actual terms), so theoretically controlling for your available capital you would also be willing to buy N shares at NP or the whole company with C shares for C*P. Therefore your purchase price is essentially an opinion on the price of the entire company, and the price dictated by the market is essentially the aggregate of those opinions.

  • For commodities, I did not hear so many discussions about Market Cap until the crypto world came along - but I’ll admit that I could have just missed it (and will be happy to hear more about how it is used in this world). In any event I do not think it is as useful a measure for commodities because these don’t give you the right to any revenues in the same way that shares do. But let’s explore it anyway. Imagine you buy an ounce of gold for price P, and the entire world stockpile of gold is G. There is a natural demand for gold since it has industrial uses as well as cultural uses in jewellery (we can ignore central bank demand as for the purposes of this argument they are just another investor trying to value gold alongside us). If you somehow managed to buy the entire world’s supply of gold for G*P without this pushing up the price (and assuming no new supply), it’s reasonably to assume you could start selling ounces of gold for at least price P since you would control the supply and you could sell at a level that ensures you achieve your buying price.

However in practice I think this reasoning is spurious as it ignores real world conditions - the ‘market cap’ is irrelevant to price or value since if the global stockpile is G but one guy owns 99%G and won’t sell no matter what, the price is dictated by the circulating supply of 1%G combined with whatever demand is. If that one guy suddenly decides to sell all, he will tank the price completely. This is different from shares as you could conceivably sell the entire company for its market cap from time to time.

  • For currencies, the analogy really starts breaking down as one of the things that makes a traditional currency is having a central bank to print it, so it would be impossible to buy the entire supply anyway. However similarly to commodities, arguably it can be useful to know what the ‘Market Cap’ or total supply is as it can be useful in judging the effects of QE programs and trade imbalances (e.g.), particularly since (as with commodities), there is a natural demand for each currency - US citizens need dollars to pay their taxes for example.

  • Here is where I conclude about crypto currencies. If the price of a bitcoin, say, is P and you gradually purchase all B bitcoins, can you sell them back to the market in an orderly fashion for B*P? The answer must be ‘no’ since, being generous and granting there are use cases, once there are no coins circulating, the use cases are severely undermined. Why would anybody accept bitcoin if nobody has or uses any? The analysis is the same if a lot of people have them but don’t use them (as now). There is no natural demand as even if they were widely used until such time as the supply went to zero, you can substitute them easily for other currencies or crypto, and my hypothesis is that the price would collapse entirely. Market Cap is therefore a clever fiction by spurious analogy but not an actually useful concept. This argument also (further) undermines the ‘Stock to Flow’ model. (I appreciate I have not fully accounted for tokens with no supply cap such as ETH - I need to do more thinking around those.)

Do let me know if you have any thoughts on this reasoning - I am not an economist so I am not fully versed in all these concepts. I have appreciated the reasoned discussions I’ve seen in this sub to date.


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Saylor said he just buys when he can, not waiting for dips

Right now I have been slowing down accumulation to ensure dry powder in the event of an actual crash.

I am confident of long term but it seems a crash in the stock market could trigger selling in Bitcoin.

But I am reconsidering after hearing him.

What are your thoughts?


MATIC has been pumping, here's why...

So, as soon as Bitcoin started to see greens, one of the coins that started to pump hard is MATIC. I mentioned this in my previous post, and I was very confident of this as well as bullish. It has had a 16% gain yesterday and will continue to go. This is thanks to the many announcements Polygon had in recent weeks. Here are some of these: - NFL announced that they are looking to issue tickets to it's sporting events as NFTs on Polygon, these will be available for select games.

  • Unstoppable Domains (like ENS which provides human readable wallet addresses) announced that it would be leveraging Polygon for it's blockchain domains, also meaning there won't be massive minting fees like ENS which uses Ethereum.

  • Polygon announced their new maiden scaling solution which uses roll-ups and zero knowledge proofs.

And still it didn't pump these days, here's why:

  • Polygon announced to invest $1 Billion in their zero-knowledge based technologies field in August. And most of the money is coming from selling MATIC token by the foundation.

  • Matic has had a vesting cliff in october, in which many might have sold the gains to take profits, which was pretty much good as the coin was launched at cents.

  • And finally we had a bearish trend for the past month.

And in my opinion I'm sure, this is just the beginning and we would see it breaking it's ATH anytime soon and reaching top 10.

And a tip finally: Using Unstoppable domains might give you a chance of an airdrop. As there have been rumours about it.


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Decoupling of Crypto from Stocks | 12.1 Crypto Market Update and Investing Report

Market Insight: Decoupling

Crypto markets continue to chug along while the stock market struggles. The S&P 500 is down -5.06% since hitting new highs on Nov 22nd. Stocks have been hit hard with news of monetary policy change and Omnicron, the newest Covid variant. A 5% decrease in stocks is considered a significant drop. Volume is increasing significantly during the selloff which adds to the intensity of the drop. The volatility index (VIX) is up to 31.13 in a 9-month high.

In the same period TOTAL (Total crypto market) has remained flat. Some major Altcoins have been strong in the past week. (LUNA +50%, ALGO +5.6, ETH +5.4%, MATIC +12.6%).

S&P 500 1D chart

Breaking from historic fashion, the crypto market is continuing to show strength despite stock market lulls. It may be too early to talk about decoupling of the stock market and crypto, but the past week has added a lot of promise to the proposition. There is growing evidence that some investors are seeking alternate investment vehicles due to stock market fears and other markets such as real estate are reaching extreme valuations. It’s early but the signs are promising. If more investors start entering the space, prices and volatility could increase quickly. Below is the SPY vs TOTAL chart (total crypto market), which will be an interesting chart to keep an eye on for the upcoming weeks. The downtrend on this chart began in Mar 2020, showing crypto as a better investment since that point. A break in this trend could help signal when a crypto bull market is over.

Spy vs TOTAL 1W chart

Market Update

  • · Bitcoin (BTC) continues to fluctuate between the 59k resistance and a well-tested trendline that currently sits around the 56k area. BTC currently at 56.8k
  • · Ethereum (ETH) is showing signs of being oversold on the daily charts after a 15% run-up in 5 days. A lot of news has been coming out of ETH recently and volume seems to be increasing. ETH has high potential of reaching new highs if the strong market continues. Expect a possible retest of the trendline at 4.2k in the short term
  • · Solana (SOL) is up 27% since Friday and is testing the $220 resistance. Stochastics is in the oversold area on the 4H charts. Just like ETH, a retest of the trendline could be in its short-term future
  • · Total Market Cap (TOTAL) is down -.69% to $2.56T. TOTAL has tested 2.63T three times in the past three weeks.
  • · TOTAL3 (TOTAL – ETH/BTC) is flat today showing more funds are moving into altcoins vs BTC
  • · Elrond (EGLD) is showing a strong breakout of a downtrend on the 4H charts but the stochastic is reaching oversold area. EGLD has gone down 31% since Nov 22nd after a large runup due to the release of the Maiar Exchange. This could create an entry opportunity.
  • · Notable Gainers/Losers from watchlist:
  • o LUNA +7.4%
  • o SOL +6.6%
  • o ALGO +6.1%
  • o QRDO +8%
  • o AIOZ +8%
  • o RADIX -9%
  • o RNDR -10%
  • o ILL -7%
  • o IMX -10%

Major Market News

· Ethereum devs are calling on the community for help in testing the merge to Ethereum 2.0. The program is seeking individuals in all skill ranges. Click here for my info on participation. The merge is slated for completion by Q2 2022.

· Crypto.com (CRO) is acquiring two US-Based derivatives platforms for $216M. Expect CRO to begin trading futures and derivatives in the coming months. Bullish news for CRO

· Fidelity Canada is launching a spot Bitcoin ETF.

· 1Inch network has completed a $175M Series Boffering to increase liquidity and increase protocol utility. Big names include VanEck, Fenbushi Capital, Alameda Researchm Celsius and Gemini Frontier. 1Inch, a decentralized exchange aggregator, had recently reached $85 billion in trade volume. This is a large sum of funding. Keep a close eye on 1INCH price and expect liquidity provider rewards to increase in the coming weeks.

· Certik (CTK) a crypto security auditing firm, raises $80M nearing CTK to a $1 billion valuation. CTK is up 38% on the news.

· South Korean venture firm Hashed has created a $200 million fund to invest into Web3 startups that focus on metaverse, gaming, NFTs and Defi. Add them on Twitter to get an idea where these funds end up.

· FTX.US (FTT) is adding support for Ethereum-based NFTs on their platform. It’s the first NFT exchange to offer both Solana and FTX NFTs.

Notable Events

  • · Coin Bureau releases a video on Crypto Stocks
  • · Astar Network has won a Parachain on Polkadot
  • · Crypto.com (CRO) will begin a 70 million token burn today
  • · Kash on Terra, will open swaps from ETH, USDT to UST

NOOBIES: Dr. Gavin Wood

Dr. Gavin James Wood is a British computer engineer and the co-founder of Ethereum alongside Vitalik Buterin. He laid the first stone in smart contracts through the creation of Solidity, which to this day, is the most widely used language in crypto. He described Ethereum as “one computer for the entire planet.” It was rumored he engineered Ethereum in a matter of weeks.

His recent work in crypto includes the creation of Polkadot and founding the Web3 Foundation. Polkadot, which has recently gone live, is described as an interconnected internet of blockchains which will facilitate the exchange of information in a trustless manner. Wood designed Polkadot after seeing the flaws in Ethereum. This past report goes deeper into Polkadot.

Web3 was created to redefine the structure between blockchain and the web. It aims to work towards decentralizing web architecture and returning the internet back to the users. Grants are awarded to projects that facilitate the grounds to a decentralized web through the Web3 foundation. Web3 foundation with the aid of Polkadot is positioned to bring on a new future with the integration of blockchain technology and the web.

Wood remains of the most influential personas in crypto and one that I recommend our community follows. If you would like to learn more about Dr. Wood, check out his self-written Zoolander-like webpage. After a good laugh, check out his some of his insightful speeches on Youtube.

I want to remind everyone that I am not here to shill any coins or projects. I wish they paid me good money to shill legit projects but that is not the case. I am going to have preferences but this in no way means these projects will outperform others, I merely mention them to bring them to your attention in hopes that you do deeper research.

Don’t forget to share what you find and help add value to our community.

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Feeling a bit out of place here but a regular person from a lower-middle class background asking about looprings..

I am new to the cryptocurrency, quite frankly, I can't understand the concepts fully. I came from a very poor family, I didn't learn about fiscal responsibility until in my mid twenties (currently 30) and started learning about investments last year.

I put money in my 401K, put some away in mutual funds and use the rest for rent, groceries, life in general. Still don't have much but I am happy to have a fridge full of food and not having to worry about getting evicted.

About a week ago, one of my close friend gave me a run down on looprings and said IF I have spare money that I can afford to lose, he would highly recommend that I buy some looprings. I managed to put away $600 in looprings and have been trying to understand how everything works.

I want to ask the community here that's more experienced than myself.. is the plan to buy looprings and just hold it for years to come? Or am I looking out for an event that inflates the prices than selling them and keeping the profit? What advice would you give to someone that's a high earner but would like to make a bit of fun but responsible investments in bitcoins?


Bitcoin crashing to 15k to 10k, what do you think of this guy's thoughts on a bearish bitcoin.

Hi, I look at most everything I can find on bitcoin on YouTube, good and bad about Bitcoin's near future. But admittedly if the youtube video thumbnail has a picture of a guy with an open month shocked look, I pass those videos. To me they have 0 credibility. Okay this guy at optical art uses a chart that I've never seen before and looking back at his older vids he seems to be right often. The most current video is a brief vetsion of the longer 2nd video, but it has a couple relevant vids of upcoming events concerning Covid 2.0 and the feeds meeting in the middle of December. Several videos down he has a video on a possible Bitcoin bullish situation, but his thoughts are that bitcoin's near future is bearish. I recommend and hope that you look at all his most recent videos and share your thoughts here. Admittedly, he has my attention right now and wondered what your opinions are of his thoughts.

Thanks for your time

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IOTA - Why I think they have completely reinvented themselves and we will see a nice Pamp within the next 24 hrs.

TLDR: There is a pump coming. IOTA and the IOTA Foundation is not the same that it was before mid-2020. We are seeing a totally new token, a new Foundation, most importantly a new team!

Here are my thoughts on why we will see a huge Pump and potentially nice consistent gains over the next month with IOTA.

  1. It has been confirmed that there will be a big announcement in the next 24 hours. As well, that the IF has been working on this for the past 18 months. This was stated by Dominik Shiener, one of the founders of IOTA and on the Board of Directors.

  2. Why will this announcement be different from the “Q” announcement from years ago? Primarily I believe that the IOTA Foundation has evolved (in a positive way) from the early days. They were known for hype without any results. They talked-the-talked but never walked the walk. The “Q” announcement was a dud and really hurt the IF’s image and reputation, especially to investors and traders. The fact was that “Q” was a great idea, but it was built on Ternary and required Ternary hardware. Will we one day see Ternary IoT Hardware chips? Maybe, probably in 10 to 20 years, though possibly never. Building “Q” was a disaster but was pushed by two particular IOTA Founders at that time. Since the IF let go of those two founders that held so strongly to Ternary development in denial that it is destined to fail, Dominik Shiener and the IOTA Foundation as a whole, has completely rebuilt the Tangle from the ground up. They didn’t just rebuild and reinvent the Tangle with Chrysallis on a technical basis, but they also rebuild the IOTA Foundation as a whole. They reinvented how they conduct marketing, announcements, and interact with the community. Saying all that, Dominik himself confirmed today that this announcement within the next 24 hours will not be anything like “Q”. On top of that, he reaffirmed that the IOTA Foundation is nothing like it was in 2018 such as with the “Q” days. I do believe they have learned from their past, let go of some of the dead weight, reinvented themselves, yet they still hold true to the vision of building a feeless, secure, and decentralized network (trilemma solved!), but a network that not only supports the growing IoT Machine economy, but also a network that takes DLTs to the next level with Web/Crypto 3.0. This announcement has been confirmed it will not be another “Q” disaster. I will make the bet that it is a chance to show the result, and will have the fact to back that statement up, “IOTA has grown and not the same foundation it was when it made the “Q” announcement”.

  3. There are times when Fundamentals (ie: technology releases, partnership announcements, etc.) align with Technical Analysis. Lately, I have seen a lot of Crypto Twitter traders stating they see inverse head-and-shoulders and a massive cup-and-handle. I’m no TA expert but I certainly know and understand the concept of network reach, especially when it comes to trading and price increases. Over the past two months, I have seen an explosion of Crypto Traders talking about IOTA and stating that it is poised for a big break-out. These profiles have 20k to 200k followers. Now that isn’t a lot compared to many of the big CT players, but it has basically gone from zero to several CT Traders with hundreds of thousands of followers. It does seem that this positive TA analysis of the IOTA chart aligns with a big fundamental announcement, and thus sets up a nice unicorn price pump moment. What I also believe, is that this announcement will show that the IF has evolved from the past days we all will know that with a factual event.

  4. As with everything, Bitcoin is the King and leads all others. Is Bitcoin set up for a short-term break out in the next 72 hrs? Will it hold steady or take a huge dump? To me, it looks like it’s going sideways, or, a breakout has a higher possibility compared to dumping to low $40k’s. If it does breakout and aligns with good a TA breakout of IOTA, combined with a big fundamental announcement, this pump could be huge!

  5. This can lead to consistent gains pushing IOTA through resistance levels. This certainly won’t be the last big announcement of the year. There is a high probability of the EBSI announcement dropping this month in December. EBSI, where the EU-Wide blockchain has signed a declaration to “accelerate the creation of cross-border services for public administrations and their ecosystems to verify the information and to make services trustworthy”. IOTA has already been accepted and chosen for round one. Any time now they will announce who will be chosen for round two. In round 2 the chosen participants will start working and developing the DLT system for the European Union. Further announcements and events that will happen, as we know staking within Firefly for the SMR token airdrop will happen soon and most likely in December. Additionally, the NFT auction will occur on December 20th. If these announcements and potentially others start dropping throughout December we could see a nice consistent price gain throughout the month as long as the market doesn’t suddenly crash and go bear.

  6. Lastly, why do I think we will see a big pump in the next 24 hours, when the announcement occurs and potentially the pump evolves into just a nice price gain throughout the month, liquidity has and will keep drying up on the exchanges. It was already announced that IOTA is building the Shimmer Network and will airdrop SMR tokens to IOTA holders through a liquid staking process. Essentially the Shimmer network is identical to Kusama is to Polka Dot. As we know, Kusama’s price has had a 10,000% increase since its creation. Regardless of if anyone thinks a testnet token should have value, or logically should have value, Kusama has clearly shown that this market will give a testnet token value. There is no reason to think SMR tokens won’t have value either. The great thing about it, you can get SMR tokens free simply by holding and doing liquid staking with IOTAs. The key point here regarding liquidity is that people must stake their IOTAs within the Firefly wallet, “Off the exchanges!” There has already been an exodus of IOTAs off of exchanges and each day we move closer to staking the more liquidity will dry up. This of course leads to a squeeze and raises the price as when people try to buy IOTA there isn’t anyone selling. This also adds to the support to the thought of a sustained and consistent price increase throughout December.

Personally, I am an IOTA holder and have been since 2017. I trade (poorly.. lol) with 20% of my IOTA holdings. The token doesn’t do much day-to-day, but during these moments, where TA aligns with a good tangible announcement, that is when a huge pump occurs. This could also be like the 2017 moment where IOTA simply goes parabolic and shoots up into the top 10. Are the stars aligning for such a move? Not sure about that one, but a decent pump nonetheless.

I hold IOTA (and soon SMR) for the fundamentals and their ambition to solve a problem despite the challenge. I really do love the vision of a feeless DLT, more so because they are building it while no one else is even trying. It’s a big challenge that brings huge risks for sure. Many may have given up when the Ternary failed. Yet the IOTA Team and community had the fortitude to get up and keep fighting. They didn’t stop when the challenges or failure arrived, they overcame and pushed forward where others threw in the towel. The IOTA Foundation, the leaders, the developers, the project managers, administrators, the marketing team, and the design team; are the team that is crawling through the mud, swimming upstream, and moving forward despite hate and anger being thrown their way daily in social media. They are the team fighting the trilemma war. Their endurance and ambition as an organization are like a few others. It’s that extreme determination within a team that changes society and makes history. Gates, Jobs, Bezos, Brin, Sage, Tomlinson, Newcomen, Savery, and Watt; changed society not just with a vision, but by completing that vision with a team that pushed through adversity and overcame failure. The “new” IOTA Foundation is one of those teams, and that is why I hold and have faith that they indeed will solve the trilemma. The Tangle & ShimmerNet will be the basic protocol for governments, global corporations, and a network that spans the earth. It will be a feeless network entangled allowing other fee-based blockchains & DAGs to interact with interoperability and most importantly, be able to scale! The Tangle will not be the only DLT that is for sure, but it will certainly be one of the major ones.

The major criticism of IOTA and the IF is that they don’t produce. I can agree with that with their past actions up to mid-2020. Until mid-2020 there really weren’t many facts to argue that stance, not much of anything was tangible or any technology really worked. However, since 2020 the IF has shown they have taken a new course. They have listened to the crypto community experts and admitted their technological faults. They reinvented their protocol while reinventing the way they interact with partners and the community, and more importantly, they did this transition from the top down. The leaders that wouldn’t follow the plan were let go. The leaders that stayed have led by example. Today there is an IOTA Devnet 2.0 based in binary, without a coordinator, running day-to-day without fees but also maintaining speed, security, and decentralization. The mainnet was transitioned from Ternary to Binary with UTXO’s to allow for present-day use! The IOTA Smart Contract Protocol was released as an Alpha version. Not only does it work, but it allows for Metamask integration and NFT drops completed “ZERO FEES”; this was completed and proven by IOTAbots. Currently, the fact that backs up the statement that Dapps can now be built using the Devnet2.0 and Smart Contracts, we this by Dapps such as: a Defi Exchange is being built by Tangle Sea (TangleSea.com) & Tangle Swap (https://tangleswap.exchange), an NFT market place (https://nftiota.org), IoT Sensors (Oracles) that payout to owners (https://govs.io), the Alvarium Project by Dell and Intel (https://www.lfedge.org/projects/alvarium/) and so much more. Through the IOTA’s Foundation and the Community development, there is now a basis for the community and partners to build on. It’s no longer about what possibly can be done in the future, it’s about what can be done now.

There is no doubt that over the past year the IOTA Foundation reinvented everything from the technology to the organization itself. They have reinvented the protocol, marketing, PR, and simply their professionalism and attitude as to how they interact with the community and partners. Before they made announcements of partnerships and technology developments that went nowhere or simply didn’t work. This year's announcements show delivery. Partnerships are moving out of the Proof-of-concept stages and being executed. Technology developments are being implemented, work, and allow for Dapp development. The facts back up these statements as we see with community Dapps (mentioned above), advancing out of Proof-of-Concept stages as we see with EBSI, Alvarium, Telco (TM Forum), Ensuresec, Trademark East Africa, EPCIS 2.0, and many other events currently progressing out of proof-of-concept stages. It’s these facts that support the new IOTA Foundation and its delivery. We aren’t seeing much anymore where VW builds a PoC but then doesn’t deliver anything. Now we are seeing partners build PoC’s and then move on to execution. That they don’t just talk-the-talk (as they did in previous years) but they are now back up the talk by walking-the-walk. I used to say, “next year will be the year for IOTA”. I said this each year since 2017… lol, but this year “was” the year for IOTA. This year they delivered and proved they have reinvented themselves with the specific focus of delivery and adoption. As they keep the current progress going every year will be the year for IOTA. They will keep delivering, PoC’s will be moving to execution, and the market adoption percentage will grow. As we have seen the broader community outside of the IOTA bubble start to change their sentiment towards IOTA and the Foundation. We see the broader community starting to trust the IOTA Foundation delivers on its promises. Now we see they believe the IOTA Foundation is walking a new path, one of delivery and adoption, we continue seeing more and more outsiders see this new view and start supporting IOTA and SMR. It won’t just be developers and partners supporting the tokens but also crypto traders and investors. I am looking forward to tomorrow’s announcement, the month of December as a whole, as well as next year. It’s not just exciting to see developments and delivery in Real-time, but I also love getting Free SMR Tokens from the Airdrop!!! Good times ahead.


[Hiring] Content Creators for news and articles focused on the darkweb

Job Description

Your job is to provide news and background articles focused on darknet market sites and the darknet scene in general. That encompasses news articles about new market sites, market closures, activity of law enforcement in relation to darknet activities as well as background stories about relevant topics related to the darknet scene.

Note that this job will not require you to actually engage in darknet activity, it is text work only which should be considered legal in almost all jurisdictions.

Your Qualifications

You should be familiar with IT and the typical tools needed to navigate darknet sites, such as the Tor browser. You should be fluent in English (additional languages are a bonus) and somewhat experienced in writing news articles or blog posts. Additionally it would be advantageous if you have either Signal or Telegram for quick and easy communication.

Working Hours

You can generally choose your own working hours but you are expected to follow the darknet scene and provide news articles in a timely manner.

Compensation

We are willing to provide you with a generally generous pay (paid in Bitcoin or Monero) which will be paid per article and amount of text you provide. Background articles that require research and other additional effort will be compensated at a higher rate than news articles about current events.

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GREE REDDITORS - PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH AND BUY THE DIP!

You are NOT going to get unbiased information from the GREE Reddit Sub. You will only get F.U.N. This information is for potential New GREE investors and delusional GREE Redditors who still drink the delusional Kool-Aid. Enjoy.

Attention GREE Redditors:

1) You believe in this company even though they have 10:1 voting power over you.

2) GREE has NOT put a single penny into its own stock. The current Stock Price is being established and supported by Retail and only Retail.

3) You admit that GREE had no duty to SPRT shareholders, what about duty to GREE shareholders? Doesn’t look like it to me..

4) Average down boys and post pictures of your buy orders. Otherwise, GREE Redditors are nothing more than delusional pumpers.

5) BTW.. the DEC has to go over 4,000 written comments thoroughly. The air permits will NOT be resolved anytime soon. But wait, the water permits expire in Sept 2022. Do you think it will be easier or harder to renew the water permits? Hmmm….

6) Go on and continue your creative writing exercises about what GREE should do to be awesome. I’m sure GREE consults Reddit boards for advice. For new people, these creative writing exercises on the GREE Reddit Sub are ways to pump you up to buy GREE stock.

7) Also, some say it’s awesome to create debt instead of dilution. For retail that is part true. From a business point of view, you always want stock offerings first. If you are desperate, then you assume debt. GREE is in trouble when they know they can’t go through a stock offering to raise money. Remember, they hold 10:1 voting power so it doesn’t matter to them if they dilute. GREE is in trouble.

8) Nobody caught on that they will replace the CFO in January 2022. You only do that if the CFO fucked up… The CFO handles the financing and Stock Offering issues…

9) Next, GREE owns a Peaker Powerplant that provides its 10,000 miners at the Dresden, NY facility with power. That is why they are “Behind The Meter” and have elements of Vertical Integration that make the filed GREE Presentation factual. This means expansion of NEW miners over 10,000, will NOT have this benefit. If GREE loses out on the Air Permit renewal, they lose the “Behind The Meter” Strategic Advantage. Remember, GREE rushed the SPRT merger to get SPRT’s $30M to purchase new miners for their South Carolina facility. They purchased the new miners in the very day the merger closed on Sept 15, 2021. GREE new the air permit renewal was a problem and thus rushed the merger to get funds for a relocation to South Carolina. As such, GREE is a scam because once they lose the air permit renewal, their marketing material will all be a misrepresentation. The merger was a scam because people who bought GREE or were holding SPRT through the merger, thought that GREE had the Powerplant strategic advantage. This was the ONLY selling point of GREE. So now, GREE is going to lose the very strategic advantage that made them recognizable. This is FRAUD.

10) Will GREE fix its problems before the 2024 Bitcoin halving? Hell the fuck No! Who know when the air permit renewal will be settled. Who knows when the pending water permit renewal will be settled. With all these “expansion” plans in South Carolina and Texas, GREE won’t likely be fully operational when this phenomenon occurs (GREE states that South Carolina will be operational in Q4 2022, but who believes them since they are now selling debt to raise money since their stock is shit).

11) The 2024 Bitcoin halving event will make it difficult to achieve a block reward as well as consume more energy costs (the strategic advantage only applies to the 10,000 Dresden miners). There is NO exit strategy here and GREE is just going to spend money on expansion when it may no longer be profitable. The longer it takes to be fully operational, there may not be anymore Bitcoin left to mine. It’s your fault for buying GREE stock, NOT Bitcoin.

12) Also, there are only about 2 Million Bitcoins left to mine. After that, no more Bitcoin. When more companies enter the market and mining capacity is increased, the last Bitcoin will be mined sooner than later. There is a timeline to GREE and that time is getting shorter. It’s your fault for buying GREE stock, NOT Bitcoin.

13) This ongoing drop in stock price isn’t caused by Short Sellers.. It is caused by Retail.. Mainly GREE Redditors pumping up the stock for day/swing trades and to convince you to buy options. Please learn your lesson and don’t buy this stock. Let GREE fix their problems first. GREE owes it to you as shareholders, to fix their problems first before you put more money into this piece of shit stock. GREE insiders CANNOT sell their shares till March 14, 2022. So they will NOT let the stock goto $0. Do you all understand this?!! This is time to put pressure on GREE and make them fix their problems.

Atlas holds the majority of Class B shares that have 10:1 voting power over Retail Common Class A shares. Basically, Atlas will take care of themselves before you. Having a small float only hurts Retail as GREE could never generate enough buying pressure to create any Short Squeeze. It’s your fault for buying GREE stock, NOT GREE.

14) Lastly, those December 2021 options look awesome (sarcasm). It’s gonna squeeze!!!😂🤩🤣😝

“It’s your fault for buying GREE stock.” Quoted from actual GREE Redditors.

XooxoxoxoxoX


Looking to get into the Canadian crypto market and had some questions.

So I'm looking to get into crypto for long holds and then, once I'm more comfortable with everything, dip into alt coins. I've looked into good ways to start and I've settled on trying to on-ramp with Shakepay to allow me to enter an exchange with either Bitcoin or Etherium.

*How does the shake feature work on Shakepay and is it as simple as it sounds?

*Do I need to worry about signing up for an exchange if I don't plan on selling for a good while?

*When looking for an exchange what factors should I be looking at past their individual spread?

*Are there other places that are good to on-ramp with that I could use in conjunction with Shakepay or will that spread me too thin?

*From a tax perspective, should I wait until the new year to start or will I not trigger a taxable event by simply buying coins and putting them in a cold storage wallet?

I'm trying to really think of my future, and I'm kicking myself for not starting sooner, but I want to make sure I have a good idea of what I'm doing before I dive in. I'm not looking to dump my life savings into it but maybe a small amount of each paycheck after my initial buy in. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide and I apologize if this is the wrong place to post this.


IOTA - why I think we are seeing a "New" IOTA token and IOTA Foundation... Just my opinion.

TLDR: There is a pump coming. IOTA and the IOTA Foundation is not the same that it was before mid-2020. We are seeing a totally new token, a new Foundation, most importantly a new team!

Here are my thoughts on why we will see a huge Pump and potentially nice consistent gains over the next month with IOTA.

  1. It has been confirmed that there will be a big announcement in the next 24 hours. As well, that the IF has been working on this for the past 18 months. This was stated by Dominik Shiener, one of the founders of IOTA and on the Board of Directors.

  2. Why will this announcement be different from the “Q” announcement from years ago? Primarily I believe that the IOTA Foundation has evolved (in a positive way) from the early days. They were known for hype without any results. They talked-the-talked but never walked the walk. The “Q” announcement was a dud and really hurt the IF’s image and reputation, especially to investors and traders. The fact was that “Q” was a great idea, but it was built on Ternary and required Ternary hardware. Will we one day see Ternary IoT Hardware chips? Maybe, probably in 10 to 20 years, though possibly never. Building “Q” was a disaster but was pushed by two particular IOTA Founders at that time. Since the IF let go of those two founders that held so strongly to Ternary development in denial that it is destined to fail, Dominik Shiener and the IOTA Foundation as a whole, has completely rebuilt the Tangle from the ground up. They didn’t just rebuild and reinvent the Tangle with Chrysallis on a technical basis, but they also rebuild the IOTA Foundation as a whole. They reinvented how they conduct marketing, announcements, and interact with the community. Saying all that, Dominik himself confirmed today that this announcement within the next 24 hours will not be anything like “Q”. On top of that, he reaffirmed that the IOTA Foundation is nothing like it was in 2018 such as with the “Q” days. I do believe they have learned from their past, let go of some of the dead weight, reinvented themselves, yet they still hold true to the vision of building a feeless, secure, and decentralized network (trilemma solved!), but a network that not only supports the growing IoT Machine economy, but also a network that takes DLTs to the next level with Web/Crypto 3.0. This announcement has been confirmed it will not be another “Q” disaster. I will make the bet that it is a chance to show the result, and will have the fact to back that statement up, “IOTA has grown and not the same foundation it was when it made the “Q” announcement”.

  3. There are times when Fundamentals (ie: technology releases, partnership announcements, etc.) align with Technical Analysis. Lately, I have seen a lot of Crypto Twitter traders stating they see inverse head-and-shoulders and a massive cup-and-handle. I’m no TA expert but I certainly know and understand the concept of network reach, especially when it comes to trading and price increases. Over the past two months, I have seen an explosion of Crypto Traders talking about IOTA and stating that it is poised for a big break-out. These profiles have 20k to 200k followers. Now that isn’t a lot compared to many of the big CT players, but it has basically gone from zero to several CT Traders with hundreds of thousands of followers. It does seem that this positive TA analysis of the IOTA chart aligns with a big fundamental announcement, and thus sets up a nice unicorn price pump moment. What I also believe, is that this announcement will show that the IF has evolved from the past days we all will know that with a factual event.

  4. As with everything, Bitcoin is the King and leads all others. Is Bitcoin set up for a short-term break out in the next 72 hrs? Will it hold steady or take a huge dump? To me, it looks like it’s going sideways, or, a breakout has a higher possibility compared to dumping to low $40k’s. If it does breakout and aligns with good a TA breakout of IOTA, combined with a big fundamental announcement, this pump could be huge!

  5. This can lead to consistent gains pushing IOTA through resistance levels. This certainly won’t be the last big announcement of the year. There is a high probability of the EBSI announcement dropping this month in December. EBSI, where the EU-Wide blockchain has signed a declaration to “accelerate the creation of cross-border services for public administrations and their ecosystems to verify the information and to make services trustworthy”. IOTA has already been accepted and chosen for round one. Any time now they will announce who will be chosen for round two. In round 2 the chosen participants will start working and developing the DLT system for the European Union. Further announcements and events that will happen, as we know staking within Firefly for the SMR token airdrop will happen soon and most likely in December. Additionally, the NFT auction will occur on December 20th. If these announcements and potentially others start dropping throughout December we could see a nice consistent price gain throughout the month as long as the market doesn’t suddenly crash and go bear.

  6. Lastly, why do I think we will see a big pump in the next 24 hours, when the announcement occurs and potentially the pump evolves into just a nice price gain throughout the month, liquidity has and will keep drying up on the exchanges. It was already announced that IOTA is building the Shimmer Network and will airdrop SMR tokens to IOTA holders through a liquid staking process. Essentially the Shimmer network is identical to Kusama is to Polka Dot. As we know, Kusama’s price has had a 10,000% increase since its creation. Regardless of if anyone thinks a testnet token should have value, or logically should have value, Kusama has clearly shown that this market will give a testnet token value. There is no reason to think SMR tokens won’t have value either. The great thing about it, you can get SMR tokens free simply by holding and doing liquid staking with IOTAs. The key point here regarding liquidity is that people must stake their IOTAs within the Firefly wallet, “Off the exchanges!” There has already been an exodus of IOTAs off of exchanges and each day we move closer to staking the more liquidity will dry up. This of course leads to a squeeze and raises the price as when people try to buy IOTA there isn’t anyone selling. This also adds to the support to the thought of a sustained and consistent price increase throughout December.

Personally, I am an IOTA holder and have been since 2017. I trade (poorly.. lol) with 20% of my IOTA holdings. The token doesn’t do much day-to-day, but during these moments, where TA aligns with a good tangible announcement, that is when a huge pump occurs. This could also be like the 2017 moment where IOTA simply goes parabolic and shoots up into the top 10. Are the stars aligning for such a move? Not sure about that one, but a decent pump nonetheless.

I hold IOTA (and soon SMR) for the fundamentals and their ambition to solve a problem despite the challenge. I really do love the vision of a feeless DLT, more so because they are building it while no one else is even trying. It’s a big challenge that brings huge risks for sure. Many may have given up when the Ternary failed. Yet the IOTA Team and community had the fortitude to get up and keep fighting. They didn’t stop when the challenges or failure arrived, they overcame and pushed forward where others threw in the towel. The IOTA Foundation, the leaders, the developers, the project managers, administrators, the marketing team, and the design team; are the team that is crawling through the mud, swimming upstream, and moving forward despite hate and anger being thrown their way daily in social media. They are the team fighting the trilemma war. Their endurance and ambition as an organization are like a few others. It’s that extreme determination within a team that changes society and makes history. Gates, Jobs, Bezos, Brin, Sage, Tomlinson, Newcomen, Savery, and Watt; changed society not just with a vision, but by completing that vision with a team that pushed through adversity and overcame failure. The “new” IOTA Foundation is one of those teams, and that is why I hold and have faith that they indeed will solve the trilemma. The Tangle & ShimmerNet will be the basic protocol for governments, global corporations, and a network that spans the earth. It will be a feeless network entangled allowing other fee-based blockchains & DAGs to interact with interoperability and most importantly, be able to scale! The Tangle will not be the only DLT that is for sure, but it will certainly be one of the major ones.

The major criticism of IOTA and the IF is that they don’t produce. I can agree with that with their past actions up to mid-2020. Until mid-2020 there really weren’t many facts to argue that stance, not much of anything was tangible or any technology really worked. However, since 2020 the IF has shown they have taken a new course. They have listened to the crypto community experts and admitted their technological faults. They reinvented their protocol while reinventing the way they interact with partners and the community, and more importantly, they did this transition from the top down. The leaders that wouldn’t follow the plan were let go. The leaders that stayed have led by example. Today there is an IOTA Devnet 2.0 based in binary, without a coordinator, running day-to-day without fees but also maintaining speed, security, and decentralization. The mainnet was transitioned from Ternary to Binary with UTXO’s to allow for present-day use! The IOTA Smart Contract Protocol was released as an Alpha version. Not only does it work, but it allows for Metamask integration and NFT drops completed “ZERO FEES”; this was completed and proven by IOTAbots. Currently, the fact that backs up the statement that Dapps can now be built using the Devnet2.0 and Smart Contracts, we this by Dapps such as: a Defi Exchange is being built by Tangle Sea (TangleSea.com) & Tangle Swap (https://tangleswap.exchange), an NFT market place (https://nftiota.org), IoT Sensors (Oracles) that payout to owners (https://govs.io), the Alvarium Project by Dell and Intel (https://www.lfedge.org/projects/alvarium/) and so much more. Through the IOTA’s Foundation and the Community development, there is now a basis for the community and partners to build on. It’s no longer about what possibly can be done in the future, it’s about what can be done now.

There is no doubt that over the past year the IOTA Foundation reinvented everything from the technology to the organization itself. They have reinvented the protocol, marketing, PR, and simply their professionalism and attitude as to how they interact with the community and partners. Before they made announcements of partnerships and technology developments that went nowhere or simply didn’t work. This year's announcements show delivery. Partnerships are moving out of the Proof-of-concept stages and being executed. Technology developments are being implemented, work, and allow for Dapp development. The facts back up these statements as we see with community Dapps (mentioned above), advancing out of Proof-of-Concept stages as we see with EBSI, Alvarium, Telco (TM Forum), Ensuresec, Trademark East Africa, EPCIS 2.0, and many other events currently progressing out of proof-of-concept stages. It’s these facts that support the new IOTA Foundation and its delivery. We aren’t seeing much anymore where VW builds a PoC but then doesn’t deliver anything. Now we are seeing partners build PoC’s and then move on to execution. That they don’t just talk-the-talk (as they did in previous years) but they are now back up the talk by walking-the-walk. I used to say, “next year will be the year for IOTA”. I said this each year since 2017… lol, but this year “was” the year for IOTA. This year they delivered and proved they have reinvented themselves with the specific focus of delivery and adoption. As they keep the current progress going every year will be the year for IOTA. They will keep delivering, PoC’s will be moving to execution, and the market adoption percentage will grow. As we have seen the broader community outside of the IOTA bubble start to change their sentiment towards IOTA and the Foundation. We see the broader community starting to trust the IOTA Foundation delivers on its promises. Now we see they believe the IOTA Foundation is walking a new path, one of delivery and adoption, we continue seeing more and more outsiders see this new view and start supporting IOTA and SMR. It won’t just be developers and partners supporting the tokens but also crypto traders and investors. I am looking forward to tomorrow’s announcement, the month of December as a whole, as well as next year. It’s not just exciting to see developments and delivery in Real-time, but I also love getting Free SMR Tokens from the Airdrop!!! Good times ahead.


IOTA - why I think they have crossed the chasm, we will see a PAMP with the coming announcement, and proof they have reinvented themselves!

IOTA - why I think they have crossed the chasm, we will see a PAMP with the coming announcement, and proof they have reinvented themselves!

TLDR: There is a pump coming. IOTA and the IOTA Foundation is not the same that it was before mid-2020. We are seeing a totally new token, a new Foundation, most importantly a new team!

Here are my thoughts on why we will see a huge Pump and potentially nice consistent gains over the next month with IOTA.

  1. It has been confirmed that there will be a big announcement in the next 24 hours. As well, that the IF has been working on this for the past 18 months. This was stated by Dominik Shiener, one of the founders of IOTA and on the Board of Directors.

  2. Why will this announcement be different from the “Q” announcement from years ago? Primarily I believe that the IOTA Foundation has evolved (in a positive way) from the early days. They were known for hype without any results. They talked-the-talked but never walked the walk. The “Q” announcement was a dud and really hurt the IF’s image and reputation, especially to investors and traders. The fact was that “Q” was a great idea, but it was built on Ternary and required Ternary hardware. Will we one day see Ternary IoT Hardware chips? Maybe, probably in 10 to 20 years, though possibly never. Building “Q” was a disaster but was pushed by two particular IOTA Founders at that time. Since the IF let go of those two founders that held so strongly to Ternary development in denial that it is destined to fail, Dominik Shiener and the IOTA Foundation as a whole, has completely rebuilt the Tangle from the ground up. They didn’t just rebuild and reinvent the Tangle with Chrysallis on a technical basis, but they also rebuild the IOTA Foundation as a whole. They reinvented how they conduct marketing, announcements, and interact with the community. Saying all that, Dominik himself confirmed today that this announcement within the next 24 hours will not be anything like “Q”. On top of that, he reaffirmed that the IOTA Foundation is nothing like it was in 2018 such as with the “Q” days. I do believe they have learned from their past, let go of some of the dead weight, reinvented themselves, yet they still hold true to the vision of building a feeless, secure, and decentralized network (trilemma solved!), but a network that not only supports the growing IoT Machine economy, but also a network that takes DLTs to the next level with Web/Crypto 3.0. This announcement has been confirmed it will not be another “Q” disaster. I will make the bet that it is a chance to show the result, and will have the fact to back that statement up, “IOTA has grown and not the same foundation it was when it made the “Q” announcement”.

  3. There are times when Fundamentals (ie: technology releases, partnership announcements, etc.) align with Technical Analysis. Lately, I have seen a lot of Crypto Twitter traders stating they see inverse head-and-shoulders and a massive cup-and-handle. I’m no TA expert but I certainly know and understand the concept of network reach, especially when it comes to trading and price increases. Over the past two months, I have seen an explosion of Crypto Traders talking about IOTA and stating that it is poised for a big break-out. These profiles have 20k to 200k followers. Now that isn’t a lot compared to many of the big CT players, but it has basically gone from zero to several CT Traders with hundreds of thousands of followers. It does seem that this positive TA analysis of the IOTA chart aligns with a big fundamental announcement, and thus sets up a nice unicorn price pump moment. What I also believe, is that this announcement will show that the IF has evolved from the past days we all will know that with a factual event.

  4. As with everything, Bitcoin is the King and leads all others. Is Bitcoin set up for a short-term break out in the next 72 hrs? Will it hold steady or take a huge dump? To me, it looks like it’s going sideways, or, a breakout has a higher possibility compared to dumping to low $40k’s. If it does breakout and aligns with good a TA breakout of IOTA, combined with a big fundamental announcement, this pump could be huge!

  5. This can lead to consistent gains pushing IOTA through resistance levels. This certainly won’t be the last big announcement of the year. There is a high probability of the EBSI announcement dropping this month in December. EBSI, where the EU-Wide blockchain has signed a declaration to “accelerate the creation of cross-border services for public administrations and their ecosystems to verify the information and to make services trustworthy”. IOTA has already been accepted and chosen for round one. Any time now they will announce who will be chosen for round two. In round 2 the chosen participants will start working and developing the DLT system for the European Union. Further announcements and events that will happen, as we know staking within Firefly for the SMR token airdrop will happen soon and most likely in December. Additionally, the NFT auction will occur on December 20th. If these announcements and potentially others start dropping throughout December we could see a nice consistent price gain throughout the month as long as the market doesn’t suddenly crash and go bear.

  6. Lastly, why do I think we will see a big pump in the next 24 hours, when the announcement occurs and potentially the pump evolves into just a nice price gain throughout the month, liquidity has and will keep drying up on the exchanges. It was already announced that IOTA is building the Shimmer Network and will airdrop SMR tokens to IOTA holders through a liquid staking process. Essentially the Shimmer network is identical to Kusama is to Polka Dot. As we know, Kusama’s price has had a 10,000% increase since its creation. Regardless of if anyone thinks a testnet token should have value, or logically should have value, Kusama has clearly shown that this market will give a testnet token value. There is no reason to think SMR tokens won’t have value either. The great thing about it, you can get SMR tokens free simply by holding and doing liquid staking with IOTAs. The key point here regarding liquidity is that people must stake their IOTAs within the Firefly wallet, “Off the exchanges!” There has already been an exodus of IOTAs off of exchanges and each day we move closer to staking the more liquidity will dry up. This of course leads to a squeeze and raises the price as when people try to buy IOTA there isn’t anyone selling. This also adds to the support to the thought of a sustained and consistent price increase throughout December.

Personally, I am an IOTA holder and have been since 2017. I trade (poorly.. lol) with 20% of my IOTA holdings. The token doesn’t do much day-to-day, but during these moments, where TA aligns with a good tangible announcement, that is when a huge pump occurs. This could also be like the 2017 moment where IOTA simply goes parabolic and shoots up into the top 10. Are the stars aligning for such a move? Not sure about that one, but a decent pump nonetheless.

I hold IOTA (and soon SMR) for the fundamentals and their ambition to solve a problem despite the challenge. I really do love the vision of a feeless DLT, more so because they are building it while no one else is even trying. It’s a big challenge that brings huge risks for sure. Many may have given up when the Ternary failed. Yet the IOTA Team and community had the fortitude to get up and keep fighting. They didn’t stop when the challenges or failure arrived, they overcame and pushed forward where others threw in the towel. The IOTA Foundation, the leaders, the developers, the project managers, administrators, the marketing team, and the design team; are the team that is crawling through the mud, swimming upstream, and moving forward despite hate and anger being thrown their way daily in social media. They are the team fighting the trilemma war. Their endurance and ambition as an organization are like a few others. It’s that extreme determination within a team that changes society and makes history. Gates, Jobs, Bezos, Brin, Sage, Tomlinson, Newcomen, Savery, and Watt; changed society not just with a vision, but by completing that vision with a team that pushed through adversity and overcame failure. The “new” IOTA Foundation is one of those teams, and that is why I hold and have faith that they indeed will solve the trilemma. The Tangle & ShimmerNet will be the basic protocol for governments, global corporations, and a network that spans the earth. It will be a feeless network entangled allowing other fee-based blockchains & DAGs to interact with interoperability and most importantly, be able to scale! The Tangle will not be the only DLT that is for sure, but it will certainly be one of the major ones.

The major criticism of IOTA and the IF is that they don’t produce. I can agree with that with their past actions up to mid-2020. Until mid-2020 there really weren’t many facts to argue that stance, not much of anything was tangible or any technology really worked. However, since 2020 the IF has shown they have taken a new course. They have listened to the crypto community experts and admitted their technological faults. They reinvented their protocol while reinventing the way they interact with partners and the community, and more importantly, they did this transition from the top down. The leaders that wouldn’t follow the plan were let go. The leaders that stayed have led by example. Today there is an IOTA Devnet 2.0 based in binary, without a coordinator, running day-to-day without fees but also maintaining speed, security, and decentralization. The mainnet was transitioned from Ternary to Binary with UTXO’s to allow for present-day use! The IOTA Smart Contract Protocol was released as an Alpha version. Not only does it work, but it allows for Metamask integration and NFT drops completed “ZERO FEES”; this was completed and proven by IOTAbots. Currently, the fact that backs up the statement that Dapps can now be built using the Devnet2.0 and Smart Contracts, we this by Dapps such as: a Defi Exchange is being built by Tangle Sea (TangleSea.com) & Tangle Swap (https://tangleswap.exchange), an NFT market place (https://nftiota.org), IoT Sensors (Oracles) that payout to owners (https://govs.io), the Alvarium Project by Dell and Intel (https://www.lfedge.org/projects/alvarium/) and so much more. Through the IOTA’s Foundation and the Community development, there is now a basis for the community and partners to build on. It’s no longer about what possibly can be done in the future, it’s about what can be done now.

There is no doubt that over the past year the IOTA Foundation reinvented everything from the technology to the organization itself. They have reinvented the protocol, marketing, PR, and simply their professionalism and attitude as to how they interact with the community and partners. Before they made announcements of partnerships and technology developments that went nowhere or simply didn’t work. This year's announcements show delivery. Partnerships are moving out of the Proof-of-concept stages and being executed. Technology developments are being implemented, work, and allow for Dapp development. The facts back up these statements as we see with community Dapps (mentioned above), advancing out of Proof-of-Concept stages as we see with EBSI, Alvarium, Telco (TM Forum), Ensuresec, Trademark East Africa, EPCIS 2.0, and many other events currently progressing out of proof-of-concept stages. It’s these facts that support the new IOTA Foundation and its delivery. We aren’t seeing much anymore where VW builds a PoC but then doesn’t deliver anything. Now we are seeing partners build PoC’s and then move on to execution. That they don’t just talk-the-talk (as they did in previous years) but they are now back up the talk by walking-the-walk. I used to say, “next year will be the year for IOTA”. I said this each year since 2017… lol, but this year “was” the year for IOTA. This year they delivered and proved they have reinvented themselves with the specific focus of delivery and adoption. As they keep the current progress going every year will be the year for IOTA. They will keep delivering, PoC’s will be moving to execution, and the market adoption percentage will grow. As we have seen the broader community outside of the IOTA bubble start to change their sentiment towards IOTA and the Foundation. We see the broader community starting to trust the IOTA Foundation delivers on its promises. Now we see they believe the IOTA Foundation is walking a new path, one of delivery and adoption, we continue seeing more and more outsiders see this new view and start supporting IOTA and SMR. It won’t just be developers and partners supporting the tokens but also crypto traders and investors. I am looking forward to tomorrow’s announcement, the month of December as a whole, as well as next year. It’s not just exciting to see developments and delivery in Real-time, but I also love getting Free SMR Tokens from the Airdrop!!! Good times ahead.