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📁 BTC drops below $44k after Fed minutes re-confirm plans to hike rates. The Fear & Greed Index is 15 - Extreme Fear 👀

📁 El Salvador prepares 20 bills to provide legal framework for Bitcoin bonds for the $1-billion Bitcoin bond issue, known as Volcano Bonds 🔖

📁 Martial arts icon and philosopher Bruce Lee is memorialized in the NFT Collection endorsed by Family Company 🔖

📁 Open Sea have raised $300 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion post money valuation with leading of Paradigm và Coatue 🔖

📁 BTCS First-ever Nasdaq-listed Company to Offer a Dividend Payable in Bitcoin 🔖

📁 Australian Open release 6776 NFT along with a virtual event for the competition on the metaverse platform Decentraland 🔖

📁 Canaan Expands Mining Operations in Kazakhstan Amid Power Deficit, Protests 🔖

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Bitcoin mining hashrate drops 13% following Kazakhstan internet shutdown

Following fuel protests in Kazakhstan, the country reportedly experienced internet blackouts on January 4, leading to a nationwide communications disruption on January 5. Although the country’s presiding cabinet resigned, the internet blackout dealt a severe blow to Bitcoin mining activity.

Kazakh Bitcoin miners witness internet blackout

The Kazakhstan government removed price caps on liquefied petroleum gas used for fuel which doubled its price instantly. The sharp fuel hike sparked protests in the country, as protestors stormed into government buildings, leading to the country’s largest telecommunications provider to shut down access to the internet. 

Kazakhstan currently ranks second in the world in terms of Bitcoin mining hashrate, accounting for about 18% of the network’s hash activity. 

Following the shutdown of the nation’s internet, the overall BTC hashrate fell 13.4% from roughly 205,000 petahash per second to 177,330 petahash per second.

Jaran Mellerud, a researcher at Arcane Research stated that in theory, miners could mine without the internet, “but in practice, all the machines in Kazakhstan should be turned off because of the internet shutdown.” 

He added that btc.com estimates that Antpool, Poolin, F2Pool and Binance Pool witnessed massive reductions in their hashrate during the time the internet was shut down in Kazakhstan. He stated that “these are the pools widely used by Kazakh miners.

Larry Cermak, the VP of Research at the Block who tweeted about the recent drop in hashrate suggested that the event is unlikely to lead to a decline in crypto prices. He highlighted that “it matters to estimate the impact of an unprecedented event like this.”

Despite recent protests, hardware manufacturer Canaan is looking to expand crypto mining operations in the country, as the company is looking to cooperate with mining firms in Kazakhstan. 

Canaan recently announced that it has deployed over 10,000 AvalonMiner units in the country. 

Bitcoin price slides 9%

Bitcoin price dropped 9% following the Kazakhstan internet blackout, reaching a swing low of $42,642.

The leading cryptocurrency dropped below a crucial ascending support trend line on the daily chart, and is now searching for a reliable foothold.

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Bitcoin price action commentary with couple of key day trading concepts

     Point of this thread is to emphasis the importance of day trading futures or at least paper trading it if you’re unfamiliar. It is also to get you guys thinking in terms of probability and as a passive trader. It's not about how being right or wrong. It's about taking the best trades you can while minimizing unnesccary risk during market volatility. The commentary provided below applies to all types of markets and for intra-day trading, as well. Futures market, at least from my experience, is where bad trading practices are often realized sooner than other markets. So if you are a pro/prop future day trader, you know trading something like bitcoin can be very straight forward and you find “sniping” entries much easier.

     My goal by the end of this thread is provide some sense of hope and optimism in a sense where anyone has the ability to read a chart. Trading takes practice, but if you know the rules of the basketball game, you can at least practice the right way; you can then bend those rules in your favor so you can become a successful player.

     Today, I want to talk about bitcoin’s price action since November of 2021 to today. I will not talk in debt from a TA perspective since I’m working write up that is much more intuitive with quizzes and such. Anyhow let’s begin with the commentary!


     November 16th 2020, BTC tested 57.6K on daily. I said it can’t close below that region, because it invalidates any long plays above 57.6K since it’s the lowest price point BTC attempted before making a new ATH around ~69k. So far this should be simple.


     What do I mean when I say “closed/s below/above”? Essentially what it means.


     So this tells me several things: if BTC does close below 57.6K, I should be worried if I have any long positions open. If BTC doesn’t close below, I should not be shorting anytime soon. This is what it tells me. This also tells me that I need to be ready for a possible long or short depending on what price action does next.


     November 20th 2020, BTC closes below 57.6K on daily. Okay now it tells me some a bit more. Through back testing this “concept”, I am aware that the odds of BTC closing below 57.6K is significantly higher in the future than making a new ATH. Wow, that’s powerful information to have. Wouldn’t you agree? So then, wouldn’t it be wiser to get out of longs and look for shorts now? I thought so too.

     So I decided to go short at a level (59.5K) in my playbook I call “HOLT”. Okay, holdup, what the fuck do you mean by a HOLT level? It essentially means “high of leg top”.

     Warned some twitter followers and how the bulls kept on retesting but they kept being rejected with a lot of liquidity provided from sellers as shown by how it wicks right off. Now if we tested for the 3rd time and it was rejected hard, wouldn’t you agree that short plays definitely look much more optimistic compared to when BTC just closed below 57.6K? If you answered yes in your head, you better have a good reason.

     Not too long ago I said that through back testing this “concept”, I am aware that the odd of BTC closing below 57.6K is significantly higher in the future than making a new ATH”. So why was I confident enough to go short? It has nothing to do with HOLT or anything specific. It’s a combination of information gathered over a period of time that led me to confirm that we will have a higher degree of one event happening over another. What was that missing information that pulled the short trigger? In the free trading course, this would be under multiple time-frame analysis chapters. In order words, I simply just zoomed out. A simple weekly candle stick told me to go short. Course will cover what a candlestick can mean aside from what's already known the general trader. When you have both higher and lower timeframe in sync, you better listen to them. Now the probability of a short play occurring is even higher than before. We see that on the weekly chart.


     December 1st 2020, I made a bold prediction of this BTC move happening. 3 days later, we see the shorts paying off big time. Not only did we hit my first PT at 52K, but we also hit my second PT target (43K) where I also had buy limit orders synced up with alt coins. You will just have to take my word on that.

     Now refer back to this this figure for a second. I want you guys to think critically here: what part of the leg structure did BTC test when it hit 43K? What does that tell me? If BTC bounces back up, how far would you expect BTC to go up before bulls are back in control? And why? If shorts were to remain control, what should we look out for? Where should we see price action close below or above? These are the questions I ask myself every time I trade futures market. I trade based on information already provided. I highly suggest googling “information vs. opportunity” in the world of trading.


     Okay let’s fast-forward a bit. BTC is above 47.3K and it’s a good sign so far for bulls since we havnt closed below it, yet. Simply because, I think that as long BTC is close to 50K region and trades above 47.3K, we at least have a chance to revisit our “HOLT” level. Which is tested 3 times and we then can talk about higher levels once we see how 59.5K level reacts. Ah, so then if you caught a long when BTC dropped at 43K, congrats. You should be now thinking where to take profits. Or if you missed out on a short, and odds are still in your favor of a bearish market on LTF, then you need to consider when to get in.


     December 10th 2020, we see BTC close below 47.3K. Déjà vu After several days, we see BTC just going sideways. We see it close below and above 47.3K. People that want to get into a short are confused and scared. People that are long are worried that it’s closed below 47.3K several times. But man, it’s been several days and I need to make a trade.


     December 10th we see bullish divergence forming on LTF.


     December 18th, I post a good level for longs to take profits and for shorts to enter (~51.9K) Price action is sideways now. During the entire Christmas week, we start to see a bearish divergence occurring on LTF. We are also losing bullish momentum on a higher frame. Okay, so it’s déjà vu all over again.


     December 28th, we see 47.3K tested. Keep in mind, this level has been tested a lot. So the odd of price action holding it on another retry seems lower than it not occurring. With HTF and LTF in sync again, is it safe to assume there’s a significantly greater probability of price action revisiting 43K? Yes.


     Today. Remember 43K is tested already.


Transacting Your Crypto Assets with the Big Banks is a Betrayal and a Disrespect to Satoshi's Work

We all know that Bitcoin was a project that was heavily inspired by the events of 2008 financial crisis. As the result of this crisis millions lost their jobs, life savings, pension funds yet the top executives of the big banks who had caused this crisis pocketed millions of dollars and financial institutions were bailed-out by billions of dollars of the tax-payers' money.

It is safe to say that these events really inspired Satoshi (assuming that it was 1 person) who was disgusted by the greed of the banks and the incompetency of the government in dealing with this problem. Although it was not the sole reason but it sure was a great influence on creation of bitcoin, given that the work on BTC and such cryptocurrencies had been under progress for a long time.

Yet in these past years as the result of the recent boom in crypto popularity, especially BTC, big banks have started to adapt these assets. These financial institutions will surely find ways to steal from the poor once again through these assets and get richer and gain more influence.

Not only is it not a stupid idea to enrich and empower the big, greedy banks but I think it is a disrespect to the Satoshi's work to transact cryptos with big financial institutions.

P.s. If you're interested in 2008 financial crisis (you should be), research TARP and if you are into movies, The Big Short is a great movie.


[US] -- Taxes -- Cro rewards, reimbursements, defi, etc

Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere.

Are Cro rewards for staking, purchases, reimbursements (like spotify) etc -- is this considered income? As I've gathered elsewhere, staking and defi token rewards are generally considered income, like mining. Further, if I use crypto for purchases, say Bitcoin for example, every time that spurs a taxable event? This seems like a huge impossible hurdle to using this card for anything.

This may be a very harsh interpretation of this, but as far as I can see it's pretty grim. I hope I'm wrong.


I FIGURED IT ALL OUT. Wrinkle apes please corroborate my dd.

The US Government and it's corrupt officials were colluding with each other since the very beginning. They all are aware of what they did and what they continue to do. The US CEC and DTCC is infiltrated by current citadel employees(one you are and citadel employee, you are always on their bankroll). The same is said about the politicians, as you can see that they are paid very well for very few public speaking. They have all colluded with each other. That is why in an unprecedented event ensued on January 27, 2020, they prevented the buying GME and kept the sell button so people would mass panic sell. They knew that the securities (Short Swaps) were in trouble because it was backed by the federal reserve. 

The MOASS will not be just GME going tits up, but also: some other stocks. Can't name because of the censorship of this subreddit. These greedy fucks are not only fucking with one basket but others as well. The marijuana stocks have been heavily manipulated and I think they are in a swap of their own. I'm speculating but there must be more baskets.

These Swaps baskets are designed to bring the company to bankruptcy so their competitors can buy what ever assets they want. For example Trade patents and the like.

That's why you see new CEO being brought,  hired for almost dead companies. These CEO's then pillage the companies. Look at the ex CEO of Sears and how he handled that company. This has been happening all around the world including in the Canadian Stock Exchange.

All these hedge funds are colluding with each other, including the Federal government and reserve, in the name of pure greed. Fuck the American Tax payey. The rich don't pay there fare share so I guess they figured they can get away from fucking them more.

For example a stock in Vancouver that is being heavily manipulated is Netcoins(Digital Brokage), a direct competition of Coinbase. Coinbase is backed by these hedge fund because they are using coinbase to print fake tokens from bitcoins. This is another method these fuckers have been gaining capital. They have been manipulating the market to the extent of the federal reserve. This is why Powell is printing as much fake money as they can, while he still can. 

I think the current adminstration is aware of this and is trying to prevent a total economic collapse, they have been kicking the can down the road and getting ready for the MOASS, then an economic recession or depression worse than the 2008 recession but with different securities. 

The same people that are in power are still using the same corrupt methods to maintain power and rob the American Tax payers. The same banks the caused the 08 collapse will cause the next meltdown

Hopefully this time, the corrupt fucks get heavy jail time for their crimes against humanity and the world. Because the US currency is the main currency, this shit trickles down across the world

Edit: So I decided on who would be interested in shorting Marijuana Stocks, the conclusion I came are Investment companies/ hedge funds that share interest with pharmaceutical companies. I believe they are shorting the stocks so they can take over the Marijuana making process and distribution, as it is too expensive for these pharmaceutical companies to start from scratch. I believe that they foresee(insider knowledge) the legalizing of Marijuana in the united states. This year maybe? So that's why you see heavy manipulation of these stocks. For example Canopy Growth, HEXO Corp and others. Right now this multi billion dollar company is 88 cents a stock. This price is not reflective of it's business considering it owns a lot of subsidiaries relating to Marijuana.

For example the process of making high quality strains is expensive and these companies already own the knowledge. These companies have large loans. So once they have to meet their obligations, they will sell their assets to the highest bidder, or a close friend who is high up in this company. Depending on the value of the stock. These companies might not be able to take loans as before.

Edit 2:

I have heavy suspicion that the Vanguard Group is heavily entrenched in this style of illegal take over. The Vanguard group is heavily entrenched with the economy. If some wrinkle brain apes can do more research into this, that will be heavily appreciated. As it the third highest shareholder of Amazon. HOLY CRAP They are in deeper shit than I ever expected. When MOASS hits it will have world economical repercussions. The only solution for the US government is to bail them out. Then ride the wave of the consequences of severe corruption. After the us should transform the federal stock exchange and include blockchain technology to stop the illegal short selling and other manipulation of the free market.

Edit 3. I did more digging. The shit really gets interesting. Looks like all the asset management companies are owned by each other. I decided to see who has huge owner ship of amazon. Turns out it is The vanguard group, Advisor Group Inc, Blackrock Inc, T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc, SSgA Funds Management, Inc Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC ( YES that is right, they are lending the shorts owned by Fidelity to these short sellers), Geode Capital Management LLC, Northern Trust Investments, Inc, Norges Bank Investment Management, Amundi Ireland Ltd.

Now the mutual funds that own amazon include: Vanguard Total Stock Market Index., Vanguard Institutional Total Stoc, Vanguard 500 Index Fund, SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, Invesco QQQ Trust, Government Pension Fund - Global . Fidelity 500 Index Fund , Nordinternet, American Funds The Growth Fund of America® Class A, iShares Core S&P 500 ETF.

Here is where it get's fucked up. Who owns Vanguard group? Well the very same mutual funds that the Vanguard group created. So the working class.


that's why we should buy memecoin on fantom! --about $rip's explain.

Public Chain Competitive Landscape and the Underrated FTM

The battlefield of public chain competition is fierce, but eventually the dust will return to dust, according to the current situation, the competitive battlefield as a replacement for Ether is no longer possible, but as a replacement for the overflow of Ether is very much in the air, currently it is obvious to see these public chains.

  • solana
  • fantom
  • terra
  • avalanche

Perhaps solana can be decided at a glance, but the remaining three are still in fierce competition, whether from the technical level or in the TVL, Holder, solve the problem, etc. have merits, single analysis of the advantages and disadvantages, from the price of their public chain tokens can also be seen so

  • FTM: $2.43$ -> $2.7993$ -> $2.8328$ -> $2.084$
  • LUNA: $43.6$ -> $43.25$ -> $42.7$ -> $43.4$
  • AVAX: $62.74$ -> $66.03$ -> $63.39$ -> $135.84$

It can be seen that avalanche has gained the lead for the time being.

In the recent public chain TVL growth trend chart, we can also clearly see that the fastest growth is actually FTM and AVAX. Fantom is better than Avalanche in terms of rate, which is related to many imitation disk projects running on the FTM chain, but in the end, it shows that the performance of FTM is good, which is short of a popularly accepted Meme to catalyze It's not that far away.

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But eventually someone will do a careful study, the foreigner for FTM and AVAX between the quality and quantity of the comparison, also output in his twitter, interested can search his user name, go directly to see, I only post the picture: FTM compared with AVAX.

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The conclusion is that Fantom is far underestimated compared to the current avalanche chain. So for FTM, there is only one catalyst left to make him accepted by the public and become popular.

What will be the catalyst?

Think about how solana came out of the loop, think about how ETH suddenly became accepted by the masses, think about what made bitcoin the first big hit?

  • BTC → Doge
  • ETH → SHIB
  • Solana → Samo

The founder of FTX, SBF, recently made a comment that "meme is fuking important thing", so as a catalyst for FTM, it must have been caused by meme. There are a lot of faux plates on fantom that are very hot, why not them?

The reason why meme is popular is not because of the low price of the coin, but because meme is a kind of culture, a kind of consensus that can be reached by the masses in a short time. There is no cultural interpretation of this.

Dismantling shib and samo and the recent hot memecoin, whether it is squid or people.

The commonalities between them are the following.

  1. Huge supply
  2. Super large liquidity
  3. Super low price
  4. Super wealth creation effect
  5. Sexy narrative structure
  6. shib's doge killer and a social experiment of eat zero
  7. samo's solana traffic portal, helping newcomers how to use solana easily
  8. people's crowdfunding to buy the US Constitution and later community self-governance
  9. community autonomy after the squid's project party ran away
  10. The follow-up plan has at least 1 current hotspot, such as nft, decentralized DAO, gamefi, etc.

So which one is the meme that fits on fantom?

Observe down to find out is called fantom of the doge coin, the official website address is https://ripdoge.io

The most circulated memecoin on the fantom chain is currently. so if ftm has the potential to rise, then the triggers are bound to have the help of rip, and of course, the recent market also shows that rip and ftm can be said to be almost identical. The linkage is also enough to illustrate the association between the two, but ultimately it is still to take advantage of the undervalued attributes of FTM, using the low price of $RIP, violently pulling the disk to generate wealth creation effect after the event marketing to spread the meme of RIP. transfer the initiative, from FTM to RIP above, so that rip out of the independent market.

What is Fantom Doge?

Fantom Doge protocol is a community-driven, fair launch DeFi token. Three simple functions occur with each transaction: reflection, LP acquisition and burning.

5% of each transaction will be allocated to the token holder. 5% will be added to the liquidity pool.

Initially 100% of the tokens are added to the LP and the LP tokens are burned. The $RIP lasts forever!

Each transaction contributes to the permanent flow of automatically generated liquidity into the Spookyswap liquidity pool.

Holders are passively rewarded through static reflection as they watch each transfer of $RIP tokens cause their $RIP balance to grow indefinitely.

When we buy $RIP, the three functions Reflection, LP Acquisition, Burn are automatically implemented. In the first step, a 10% fee is charged at the time of purchase, half of which, or 5%, is distributed to holders who purchased before you, and the other half, the remaining 5%, is added to the liquidity pool.

Of course, the above is just the initial setting of fantom doge, but as the meme with the largest circulation on the fantom chain, this project has a long way to go and a lot more to do, so let's expect him to fulfill the following expectations.

Give the project side some time to wait for the project side to do the following things.

Keep the anticipation alive and keep the expectations up. Although the rip team doesn't have any substantial content output at the moment, but as the most circulated memecoin on the undervalued FTM chain, I believe that but where there can be upside, the team just needs to do things and it will all become a logical reality.

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Tax report says I made +$50k in one year and -$58k in the next year

In Australia, the tax year is betweem Junes.

Here is the timeline of my income:

March 2020: I started investing in Crypto, about $50k savings. There was a huge upsurge, so the value of my wallet increased.

June 2020: Time to pay tax for 2021. So far I did not cash out of crypto.

2020 onward: My wallet crashed overall.

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The Koinly report for the 2020 captured the upsurge in my crypto worth and says I had $100k income and a $50k gain for 2020. Then the report for 2021, says I had a $5000 income and -$58k gain.

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Idk if I should use a different calculation setting or something for deciding what is a taxable event, but does this kind of report seem correct to you?

I mean, does that mean I have to pay tax for a momentary upsurge that I never directly benefited, and then when the prices drop there is no cash back or something? Hypothetically say I invested $10 in bitcoin and it goes to $10 million for a few month but I didn't cash out, but I have to pay for 10 million worth of tax, and then when the price drops back to $15, and I cash out only now, I just paid 10 million woth of tax for nothing? lol...