Fellow Shitcoiners, Gamblers, Degenerates!

This is my shitcoin blog. You can also find me on Twitter under the handle @allyouracid (give me a follow if you want, or don't – I don't really care). If anyone has links or any other material on recent scams, frauds or other interesting stuff in Cryptoland, send me an email at… wait, don't send me an email, I'll find the good stuff myself. You can tag me on Twitter if necessary.

2022/04/06 - Decapitating the Hydra

• Looks like German BKA has shut down Russian Dark Net Marketplace "Hydra". Forgive me for using a link shortener here, but I don't want to give our government and anything related to it any backlinks.
  • Servers were located in Germany.
  • Bitcoins worth ~23 Million Euro were stolen by the BKA (543.3 BTC in 88 transactions, according to Elliptic).

2022/04/05

• Hey, this product sucks! I'm just gonna buy it! What's the deal with that? Well, Elon Musk does not particularly like Twitter. They're censoring his free speech. So here's a short recap:
  • Elon buys 10% of Twitter stock (I wonder what funds he used for that).
  • He's looking forward to working with them and making "significant improvements" (lol).
  • Twitter plebs are making fun of it (great!).
  • Twitter T&C employee Jacksol Mulholland be like: fuck you, Elon!
• Imagine buying testnet BTC thinking they should have a price. But then again, I've seen stranger things happen.
• Citigroup a.k.a. I'll just write about crypto even though I have no idea wtf I'm talking about a.k.a. Y U NO PUMP TETHER!!!!1!!1
• Another episode of the series "people talking about things they have no idea about". Starring: Christine Lagarde.

2022/04/01 - Nation state shitcoins

• "[…] nation states […] ponzinomics look less and less different to our ponzinomics […] nation state fiat really are dumbass shitcoins, not just as a joke" — Eric Wall
  • (editor's note: hilarious)

2022/03/31 - Bitcoin maxis go Proof of Clown

• I never thought I'd give Richard Heart a platform. But this is hilarious. You might wanna sit down.
  • Bitcoin Magazine invites Richard Heart to their stream. Die hard Bitcoin maxi Aleksander Svetski is also there.
  • Richard Heart absolutely destroys the maxipads.
  • They call him a scammer and delete the video (which Richard, obviously, didn't do). 😂
• EU trying hard to position itself against new technology: the clown brigade has voted against "selfhosted wallets". I repeat: I. Will. Not. Obey.
  • But it's far from final. Trilogue is yet to come and even after that, there are still ways to attack this bullshit.
  • Just think about it: they want to prevent you from managing your own money. Force you to use companies, so they can freeze your funds at will. What's happening here is a solid scandal.

2022/03/29 - Mt.Gox news: Ungox + NFT for account owners

• Today, I read an article about Mt.Gox. Yes, the distribution of funds might get closer. Other than that, it's a very interesting article about things we already know (still a good read, though) and some commentary from Mark Karpelès.
  • If you had an account with Mt.Gox, you can register for a NFT on Polygon (MATIC) on this website. Mark plans to build a business to rate cryptocurrency exchanges, and the name will be Ungox. I like that.
  • The NFT will give you free access to their services.
• Since yesterday, I am 40 years old. It's been quite a ride, so far. And in ten years, I will have been on this planet for half a century. I'm still trying to let that sink in. 🤯
• Shitcoins: Tezos is still holding well. I'll spare you a chart, but right now, it's between 3.80 and 3.90 USD. This is good, but I'm expecting a small correction anytime soon.
  • I see two possibilities: one – the current rise is just an aftermath of the past months' dumpage. This is obviously the bad outcome, because we'd go establish a bottom for some time and move on from there.
  • Two: small correction and then moon on 🌛. This is the good outcome which I'd prefer (because my bag is packed and my body is ready). If that doesn't happen, I'll continue delegating and collecting smol rewards.
• European Parlament being annoying, again: now, they're attacking private wallets. You literally can't make this shit up! (sorry, German text… if you need a translation, I'm sure you can find one somewhere out there!)
  • Personal side note: if (!) this happens, I will not obey. I. Will. Not. Obey.
• Axie Infinity got hacked? I saw Twitter make fun of something something lost 600 million, but first couldn't connect the dots. Gonna read into this now. And update (if I don't forget it lol).
  • Here is the Coinbase article. Kids are going haywire, so I'll have to read later.
    • Man, Coinbase... your website has become a pile of shit. Can't even read the article because my screen gets filled with Coinbase TV videos which move the text away... holy shit, this is annoying! BARRY!!!!!!11!!!11oneeleven
  • …and the article from Ronin Network themselves.

2022/03/27 - Dick socks

• If you ever wondered "can I wear x when I go y?", please rest assured: you can. You can wear anything anywhere, everything is allowed. Yes, even dick socks.
• Coinbase requiring full dox of some users' trade partners outside their platform. This is fucked up and it's yet another reminder why you should familiarize yourself with decentralized solutions. We have everything we need. Right now, I have no use for a CEX whatsoever.
  • Countries in question are: Canada, Japan and Singapore. Many others will probably follow, soon™.
  • Btw, I'm not pointing fingers at Coinbase specifically, here. As far as I know, they are required to do this. If you're planning to point fingers, point them at the governments.
• Seems El Salvador will get company: Vanuatu (some might remember it from the .vu top level domains) is planning to build a "Bitcoin Island" on one of its uninhabited islands. 👍
• General notice: when markets go up and you make lifechanging money, don't brag about it. Just… don't. There are vultures out there just looking for tweets of crypto people bragging with their wealth. And they will come visit you. Because at some point, you messed up and left traces which will lead them to your identity. This just can't be stressed enough. Don't brag. The internet credits aren't worth dying for.

2022/03/24 - DeFi on Tezos

• If you ever wondered about Tezos and DeFi: check out PlentyDefi. I tested it, it's pretty cool. This and other cool recent projects (like Dogamí) might become the cornerstones of Tezos' next bull run. There's really a lot coming.
  • The Bridge feature is much appreciated. As some might know, my CEX accounts are getting restricted or closed, one after another, because I don't agree with their preemptive obedience style KYC. So far, I'm good mainly with Uniswap, Pancakeswap and Atomex as a bridge, but having one more player in the field won't hurt. At the very least, you get better prices.
    • Actually, I still have a couple of AVAX I have no idea what to do with. Guess I'll bridge and convert them into XTZ then.
• Messi wearing Binance, Ronaldo wearing Tezos. My bags are packed!
  • Tezos related: how Dogamí manages to turn their airdrop – something with huge potential in terms of publicity – into something lame. 60 dollars per NFT held, roundabout.
• Bit older, but came up today, again: Rocket Monsters made a u turn on their decision to run on Tezos because their developers didn't receive the help they were promised. I wanna take that opportunity to say that the Tezos documentations are one of the best, most thorough I have ever seen in a cryptocurrency project.
  • Here is today's tweet. No reply from Rocket Monsters at the time of writing.
• First, they ban it (or not so much, but then they do, again… China kind of shenanigans), but once in need, they realize the value of Bitcoin and accept it as payment for gas. I'm just not sure yet if Russia is doing us a favor with that. Actually, I'm quite confident they're not. I can already see dumb German politicians calling for Bitcoin / crypto ban because of that. Man imagine those plebs one day find out that nearly all criminals breathe oxygen and that it's in fact a very important element which allows them to be criminals in the first place! 🤦‍♂️
  • Speaking of Russia: Anonymous claims to have hacked the Russian Central Bank, planning to release a crapload of documents soon (~5-6am German time on 03/25).
  • Update: ok, now it's becoming a meme.
• Is this an April fools joke?

2022/03/23 - How do you wanna get rekt today?

• CashioApp casually losing 50 million to sloppy smart contract coding (they fked up the verification of a field which badly needs verification). Happens to the best of us.
  • CashioApp calls it an "infinite mint bug". I agree, it does sound nicer and maybe nobody digs deep enough. Oh wait, they already did. 😂
• Tezos looking good, today. It's basically doing the same thing it did before the last run up. Slow & steady climbing, and if all goes well, it will transition into a solid rally. Tezos: it is time. 🚀
• Haven / XHV: one of my favorite projects. And it pulled a decent x2 in the past days. Only thing which sucks: I barely have any exposure. Reason for that are the past exploits: we had no idea how much fake XHV are around, and while the idea was that the market already absorbed everything early on, we couldn't know for sure. And with the continued dumping, recently, there could be someone with a whole integer space of fake XHV. It was just too much risk for me. If my bag was Haven instead of Tezos, bought at the low, I'd have made life changing money with that trade, but sometimes, you gotta miss out. Very much so if you can't properly assess the risk associated with a trade. No hard feelings here.
  • But I do hope it moons, and it moons strongly. For the xChads. They're an impressive crowd.
• Isn't DeFi just great? Fucking over people in plain sight, a known problem with no real solution to it (if you set the slippage to "yes", that is).
• Big Brother™ crapping its pants because El Salvador is using Bitcoin as legal tender. You can't make this shit up lmao.
  • Btw, if you wonder what the "Word Bank" is: in Germany, we call it "Duden".
  • Gonna mention that it's always good to read a bit through the replies in such threads. 😂
• General note: I'm sick of this lame server. Just for running this website, I've rented the smallest version possible, for 5 or 10 bucks a month. And it was enough. But since I'm also running Gitlab here, it isn't. This beast is just sooo hungry, especially when you have a couple of pipelines and other automation. I just upgraded to a 40$ box.
  • Update: much, much better. Backend reacts fast as hell and my pipelines don't get stuck. Should have done this earlier.
  • Can I deduct 500$ of private monthly server costs from my taxes? Asking for a friend.
  • …and two more days until I can get a – hopefully negative, then – covid test to FINALLY end this annoying as shit quarantine. I'm really not a person who's outside much, but being forced to stay at home really starts taking its toll. Can't wait.

2022/03/19 - Learning new stuff

• It's been way too long that I mostly ignored the great things you can do with Gitlab CI, and considering I'm a web developer, it becomes even embarassing. It's not that I'm not using it, in fact, I very actively do. But so far, it's been someone else's work which - so far - I was using as-is. But with more and more crypto related servers I'm running, with a crapload of scripts for monitoring purposes, I finally started versioning those scripts. And while I was at it, I started digging into CI, pipelines, jobs etc and wrote something which monitors all the servers and outputs the result. I know, this isn't exactly the main purpose of CI, but it does make sense as I can react to the monitoring's output and run code or deploy stuff which makes things right in case they aren't.
  • Long story short: Gitlab CI is great. The learning curve is MUCH lower than I expected it to be, and putting some thought into a clever CI setup can save you an awful lot of time, later on. I absolutely love it.

2022/03/18 - DeFi is short for Degen Finance or?

• Gotta love it. Flashloans getting used to drain the airdrop. Oh you absolute degens, you.
• It's a few days old, already, but it's pure comedy gold: Chandler Hallow died (spoiler: he didn't). Read the comments and fall from the chair several times over, like I did. 😂
• Tezos related: Dogami is listing its FA1.2 token DOGA on gate.io. I know that projects which build on Tezos more often than not suffer the Tezos curse (not gaining any traction while they definitely should etc.), but if one project has the potential to change that, it's definitely Dogami. Disclaimer: I own several dogs across the tiers, so I might be biased. Oh, and I'm still uncertain about whether I should flip them for an x2 or hope for full moon like BAYC etc... if I minted a diamond, for example, it would be an easier decision, but considering I paid a shitload of money for it... 🤔
• Why are people such assholes, btw?

2022/03/17 - T-shirts and other disrespectful stuff

• Peter Schiff is doing business as usual, again. He's become one of the greatest crypto memes, which is kinda impressive, considering he's neither an active member nor even particularly likes it.

2022/03/16 - Insert another random headline here

• You guys happen to know @zachxbt on Twitter? No? Check him out and give him a follow. The link here is an insane collection of crypto projects showing at least shady behavior or are outright scams. Much he presents is strong correlation, and in most cases strong enough to know what coins and projects to avoid.
• Current gambles I'm playing:
  • Muh good ole Tezos bag, which has grown bigger than ever before. Not sure I talked about this, but one thing I really had some resentment toward was having to sell my Tezos bag in the 2018 bear market. My goal ever since was to "make it back", which I more than did. It's still an annoying rock (as said before on numerous occasions), but I'm confident that it'll do its thing.
  • Dogami: the first ever huge ass Tezos NFT project. Got a couple high(er) level dogs, just in case this thing takes off.
  • Tzdropz: only put smol money in it. As of now, it seems their only source for the ever growing liquidity pool (holding over 7.600 XTZ after only barely one month) seems to be the rather cheeky 30% royalties they receive on passes (silver, gold, platinum, diamond) they sell. So, if that's true, those are some strong ponzinomics, as it's almost literally "paying new investors with old investors' money". We'll see how it turns out; I did not put in any amounts I'm not prepared to lose.
• Oh, and… there seems to be some public annoyance toward people who use emojis. I like(d) using emojis, and I really still do, but I notice how this affected my style of writing, reducing the amounts of emojis I'm using. Can't let them win! Gotta... focus... on... moar... emoji... usage! 😠

2022/03/15 - Comeback v2

• You guys remember who also had a comeback? Even a rather douchey one? Right, it was Michael Burry. Yes yes, the dude who's a real super trader, with his own movie and all that shit. Now guess who pussied out of one of the best shorts you could have taken in Pleb Finance, recently? Ding ding ding - also Michael Burry, closing The Big Short just moments before this thing went right through the floor 😂

2022/03/14 - Guess who's back, back again Shady's back, tell a friend

• Recent events have caused me to overthink my laziness concerning abandoning this wonderful blog. There is just way too much bullshit happening out there, and there were plenty of days, recently, when I was almost in pain because… how wonderful would it have been to make fun of this and that situation? Then I realized: why am I not just making fun of it? As I used to? What's hindering me? Right, nothing. Let's see how long it will hold this time.
• Update: well. This was a lame comeback. Not sure if much happened out there in the realms of degenland, but I had no time to read through all the typorrhea on the interwebz. But hey, a lame comeback is better than an awesome one, right? No? No, it's not. But it's late. Spent the evening configuring servers, which I'm done with, and I don't even know why I'm talking about this. Whatever. Good night.

2021/07/12 - Improve your trading using the "Hooker & Blow Fund" strategy

• Small thread by me: how I'm using the "Hooker and Blow Fund" strategy to improve on my normal trading. Pretty useful, as explained in the thread.
• Haven XHV team preparing for the rollback to undo the damage the recent exploits have caused.

2021/07/04 - Haven XHV: moving forward

• So, today 19⁰⁰ German time, the Haven team held an AMA in their Discord. I've used the 24 hours before that to FOMO buy with all remaining firepower I had left, even liquidated my Hooker & Blow fund, which was in Tezos, at that time, for a small profit, so I can fomo into XHV even more.
  • Next steps: a rollback will definitely happen. The community gets a few options presented in the coming days, and it's up to them to decide which block the rollback will occur at.
  • Many questions were – as you can imagine – asked hundreds of times. But that's probably normal; when I posted my questions, I also added an apology for not reading the already posted questions in case any existed (which they did, for sure).
  • The only uncertainty (for me) is: what will happen with the exchange bought coins? When the rollback goes live, there will most likely be a shortage of coins on the centralized exchanges. The team gave hints that they are willing to work with the exchanges to resolve that, maybe in form of compensation. We will see.
  • But to me, this "hacker scenario" was kind of like the generational Bitcoin Covid Dip™ down to 3000 USD. Completely brainless selling, everybody wanted out for no reason, because it was obvious that this bug which lead to the hack would be fixed and price would go back up. It looks good, for now, and I'm prepared to hold those coins for some time. This project is rock solid.
  • LMAO, I just noticed that Ogre dumped down to some 600sat on June 28th. I should have placed orders there... but as I only took notice of the whole debacle one day later (and started buying), this isn't really a concern. Would have sucked if I market bought one day earlier, just to see myself missing out on an x15 chance right after. 😄
  • So, how am I gonna move forward from here? As it's quite obvious that the project will move on, I'll probably have it depend a bit on the overall market condition. If altcoin season prepares for its second round (which I assume), I'll probably hold onto these coins for some time. If this thing makes it back to the 35 USD it's been trading at before the hack, this will become the best trade I've had in quite some time. 👍

2021/07/03 - When your ICP tokens are locked and Dfinity dumps on everyone

• Unverified, but there are a few sources for this: Dfinity allegedly sold massive amounts of Internet Computer (lol) shittokens while everyone else's tokens were locked. They say they pocketed 2 billion USD. 😂

2021/07/01 - Haven Protocol got attacked (fix in progress)

First off, I'm currently not able to post as much as I want to. Reason is that we're in the middle of moving to another place. Well, not technically in the middle, but we're preparing and already transporting a lot of our stuff etc, so I don't have much time for shitcoins, sound + hardware and other things I like.

• Haven Protocol got exploited, recently: a recently discovered bug allowed minting of additional coins, which it seems got exploited. This has caused a drop of over 90%: during the last altcoin frenzy a few weeks ago, XHV was trading at well above 30 USD, and it traded for as little as 2 USD.
  • Developers released an update, today, saying that they're making good progress in mitigating the attack, and they will release a post mortem, soon.
  • For me, this means that I need to buy moar. 🚀
  • Update: I read somewhere that they are planning to do a rollback. Good decision. Unconfirmed.
  • Update 2: here's the post mortem, and what will be done to mitigate this.
• Fluffypony is at it, again: Bruce wagner made bold claims that Monero's privacy is essentially a meme and that he can easily reveal transactions. From what I've read, it looks like Bruce found some (obviously defunct) "Monero transaction reveal tool" which spits out random transaction IDs. But yeah, read for yourself, as usually with Riccardo, it's a fun thread, I promise.
• Bitcoin is supposedly mining on 56% renewables / sustainable energy. Didn't read further, was too lazy to confirm, or see how they got to that number. ^^
• Seems DERO also has a few issues: it's possible to use 0 and -0 as valid byte strings for your key images, which can be used to "duplicate" your coins. Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not that familiar with the project and I'm not even sure if my technobabble made the slightest sense.
• Thailand has filed a criminal complaint against Binance, saying they're running unregistered operations.
  • Conclusion: we totally need more and better DEX solutions. There's almost nothing cross chain which is really usable. Either you go on ETH and have to wrap anything that's no native ETH, first, and deal with a ton of shittokens which are mainly born in the ETH ecosystem, or you deal with tons of small DEXes, each only serving a small niche with a handfull of coins / tokens. Something like Atomex, but with a lot more markets would be great. It's slow, and it's expensive, but you can do whatever the fuck you want there, enjoying your freedom to be left alone.
• LMAO. New York Post is shilling Maren Altman's astrology scam courses! Clown paper delivering clown show, exactly as expected. 😂

2021/06/28 - NFTs with multi editions getting exploited on Hic et nunc

• There's a bug which allows for extra minting of NFTs on Hic et nunc. Check out the details.
  • But wait, NFTs are dumb anyway. 😄
• Next DeFi shittoken to lose a fortune of money. BeinCrypto says 248 million, Larald says it's less than 1 million.
  • Update: seems it's "only" 250 grand.
• Holy shit man, what the actual fuck happened to Haven / XHV?? This thing used to be well above 10 USD not long ago, with a top of 35$. Now, it's at 3.50? That's some brutal rekt, I think I'll have to go buy some.

2021/06/25 - Bitcoin shorts increasing on Bitfinex

• Bitfinex shorts are massively increasing: more than 6.000 BTC added in the past hours. Not sure if someone will get rekt badly, shorting the bottom or if we're up for another ride (of the bad kind).
  • Their lending books got drained, rates going up quite a bit.
• Some good news regarding adoption: Tanzania's central bank is investigating Bitcoin after being told so by their president. 🚀
• Peter Schiff still coping hard. Very hard. As you'd expect him to.
• How many billionaires does it take to upset all Bitcoin maxis at once? 😁 [1]
• German Bundestag fucking its citizens. This is fine.

2021/06/24 - John McAfee died in Spanish prison

• Yesterday, news broke that John McAfee has died in the Spanish prison he's been incarcerated in since iirc August 2020.
  • They say that it looks like a suicide. But John himself said he was being targeted by the US authorities, and that they want him dead.
  • He said that he would not commit suicide, and if he "did", people should know that he was murdered.
  • What's more likely, though? US killing a vocal opponent for tax fraud or John actually committing suicide, and using this last opportunity to piss off the authorities by fooling gullible people into believing his last conspiracy? We might never find out.
  • According to himself, he did not own any "hidden crypto" before passing away.
  • Someone mentioned that McAfee had a dead man switch which releases critical info, should he ever die. I'll have to put some research into this; I think I remember hearing this a while ago, but I'm completely lacking context on this.
  • I often publicly said that I don't like John McAfee, and that he's a cancer to crypto. But his death is something I certainly did not expect, especially since he portrayed himself as such a strong, resistant personality.
• Tonga not using pleb energy to mine Bitcoin. They use the ocean, instead. 😄
• The Josip Heit / G999 saga continues: now they're suing YouTubers for speaking the truth.
• Someone seems to think it's a good idea to transfer 200.000.000 USD from Bitfinex – a rather safe exchange – to Huobi which has shown weird signs of trouble, yesterday (I reported about this… not).

2021/06/19 - NO, Elon Musk is not the creator of HODL!

• Some people don't know that the term "HODL" has a long tradition in the world of cryptocurrency, attributing it to Elon Musk.
• Remember when I told you yesterday to not give away your API keys? Turns out the dude I was referring to either doesn't know that you can very well scam people when you have enough "trading only" API keys for an exchange, or he's being misleading intentionally because he really does plan to scam people. Both are reasons enough to not trust him with API keys.
• Bitcoin doing its death cross thingy. Outcome wasn't really good in such situations, the last couple of times.
• Nothing insanely huge, just normal embarrassing crypto crap: Brock Pierce likely paid a small promotional paper to print an extra edition stroking his ego to present it at his own hotel in El Salvador, so the world gets informed about the "Official Bitcoin Embassadors", whatever the fuck that is.

2021/06/18 - Focus on Bitcoin! Errr... Tezos

• Michael Saylor tweeted: "Focus on #Bitcoin!", yesterday. I'm not sure yet if he finally sold his community tokens and reinstates Team Plunge Protection or if we should focus on watching Bitcoin dump. ^^
• Santiment starts a stream, soon. Topic is "How are BTC holders playing the $35k-$40k range?". Not sure if hodlers have anything to do with the market, but I expect an exciting stream. If there's one company which is good at analyzing crypto related data, it's them.
  • Reminds me, maybe I should contact them and ask if they have an idea on what to do with my tweets collection. As some of you know, I'm scraping Twitter for crypto related tweets since, I think, 2014 or 15. And since maybe two years, I don't only look for coins on Bittrex (was my first approach, as back then, they were the major altcoin exchange with most solid projects listed), but I fetch the whole coins list from Coinmarketcap, saving basically all crypto related tweets.
  • As of today, this database contains:
    • 1.351.971 Twitter users (this query took the server a staggering 4.5 minutes: "1 row in set (4 min 36.91 sec)") 😂
    • 11.323.725 tweets saved (and I'm not gonna reveal how long it took lmao)
  • The only problem I have with this huge (for my relations, but otherwise it's not THAT huge, really) database is that even a simple statement counting the entries from a table can take anywhere between 20 seconds and several minutes.
• Beware of people asking for your API keys. Yes, even if they promise that they will make you rich by redistributing the wealth of the 1% back to the 99% using some trading bot shenanigans. Especially then.
• Can't make this shit up: we're now pumping Tezos because... Arthur Breitman no longer has a bear in his Twitter profile? 😂

2021/06/17 - Crash of the Titan

• Ever bought a shitcoin at 4 Dollars, held it till 60 bucks just to see it collapse to 0.001 USD? Well, Mark Cuban did.
  • …and now he's being a 🤡 about it, calling for regulation.
  • Here are some more details.
• Went x100 long and Elon Musk's tweets got you rekt? No problem, just join the protestors. Elon might pay you back your losses. Or not. Who knows. Lol.
• Did I mention I have put an unhealthy percentage of my BTC into Tezos? 😀
  • 
  • So far, this looks like a good start. I don't want to become overly confident, yet, because it's Tezos we're dealing with, after all. I would not be surprised at all if I woke up tomorrow and this thing shat the bed, again. But it does look good, so far, and it's exactly what I expected.
  • Should have put this chart on TradingView for additional clout. But on the other hand, fuck clout. I just wanna win this trade.
  • Btw, if you wanna hear something about missed opportunities: today was supposed to be the day when I turn up the leverage degeneracy. But I've had sooo much to do, had to pick up my car from repair / service, work had something unexpected and a ton of other stuff I still don't know how I managed to finish, today. So when I came back home in the evening, I realized that I haven't checked charts all day and of course, it was too late, already. Guess I'll stick with my spot bag, then.
• Michael Saylor: "Focus on #Bitcoin". This could indicate that his company stonks sale went through (I really don't know, didn't check tbh) and he's reinstating Team Plunge Protection™

2021/06/15 - EU wide crypto regulations from Germany

• Eric Weinstein on why CPI (customer price index) is a bad tool.
• German party "Gruene", particularly Sven Giegold, doing their part to regulate crypto EU-wide. As you'd expect, their weapon of choice is blind actionism. I am not impressed.
  • Main issue I take with this is that it completely neglects the "principle of proportionality" which, among others, states that any law has to be effective. But how is this the case when anything you try to prevent with such law can be circumvented by using decentralized services nobody (yes, nobody) can control or regulate?
  • My guess is that they got their crypto knowledge from television. A better approach would be to talk to somebody who actually knows what he's talking about.
• My Tezos trade still looks like garbage, btw. Decision should come soon, but I have to admit, it kinda feels uncomfortable to have a sizeable altcoin bag with Bitcoin being on the verge of continuing its bull run.
• "DeFi Summer: Where your money gets decentralized from your wallet to other people’s wallets in the Summer" 😂 (just posted this because it made me laugh)
• Peter McCormack talking to Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador.
  • Let me quote Wikipedia here, and note how insanely fast it becomes completely irrelevant whether one is a good politician or not when he just screams "Bitcoin" loud enough:
    A populist, Bukele has been criticized for governing in an authoritarian manner. In particular, he was denounced for sending soldiers into the Legislative Assembly to encourage the passage of a bill and allegedly to overthrow the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador. This action, his handling of endemic violence in El Salvador, and his strict response to the COVID-19 pandemic have led some academics to describe him as an autocrat[1] or an authoritarian.[2][3] Transparency International cited El Salvador and Colombia as examples of an "explosion of irregularities and corruption cases" related to the handling of the pandemic in Latin America. Twenty government institutions of the Bukele administration were under investigation by the Attorney General's Office, until, in May 2021, Bukele led a parliamentarian move to fire the attorney general and multiple supreme court judges of El Salvador, which has been characterized as a self-coup and sparked fears of democratic backsliding and a power-grab.
  • Full article is here.
• Pleb finance: USA hits record inflation of over 5%, hasn't been this high in ages. So, it turns out you can't just print Dollars like there's no tomorrow without it affecting the economy. 😂

2021/06/14 - China shenanigans and more

• Bitcoin: went up above 39.000 USD, again. Looks good so far; we're not yet out of the danger zone, but the bull run might continue in the coming weeks.
• China running inspections on mining farms – no complete ban issued (yet). As usual, I wouldn't change my long term trading based on this. Any China news so far turned out to be either meaningless or just plain wrong.
• Can't make this shit up. Looks like Kim Kardashian hasn't learned shit in the past years.
• Trading: I'm still messing with Tezos. I somehow can't accept that it just goes to shit. Everything matches, this one is a legit pro trade: it's a platform coin, it's undervalued and it's not a crowded trade. And as a bonus, it even has bad marketing, one of the easiest problems to fix. And from a technical perspective, it's printing a really nice pattern which suggests a breakout / change of direction as early as… tomorrow, see here:
  
  • I was thinking about this a lot. Chances are good this trade plays out as it should, but also, let's not forget that Tezos is exceptionally good in performing bad.
  • If this trade fails, I'll very likely sell my bag for good, or at least I won't reenter for quite some time. Let's see, I still have some confidence. 🚀
  • If this trade works, I expect a rise for a few percent and then two weeks of slightly upward chop, until we get strong buying and a move up of at least 100% from here.
  • I currently hold Bitcoin mostly, and a good portion of XTZ, but I'm ready to buy the dip I'm expecting tonight or tomorrow to finish my next x2 bag.
  • Disclaimer: don't blindly buy what I post about, here. Do your own research, there's a slight chance that my reasoning for buying Tezos is beyond stupid and you'll get rekt. Be careful. Really.
• Some OffTopic: seems people don't like Eric Clapton anymore, because he talked about his experience with the Covid-19 vaccine.

2021/06/13 - Cuba abandons USD

• Let's start the day with G7 memes again, shall we.
• Olaf Scholz, German Finance Minister, telling the public that the insane rise in inflation in May 2021 is just a temporary phenomenon. Let's see how this plays out.
• Altcoin pumpers. Normally, I don't give crap like that much attention. But check their insane amount of subscribers: 2.9 million, that's quite a lot. Considering that even only 1% goes in with 10 USD, this would equal to 300.000 USD, equals some 10 BTC. That was probably a very low estimate, so it's probably orders of magnitudes higher.
  • Long story short: stay away from shit like that. you're getting shat on and you'll eventually get rekt.
• Bitcoin: interesting Cointelegraph article quoting Sygnia CEO Magda Wierzycka. TL;DR is, Tesla CEO Elon Musk manipulated the Bitcoin price using Twitter and sold most of its holdings at the top. While his tweets are partly of questionable use for the crypto community, markets or anything in general, this quote is probably nonsense. Musk himself replied to it.
  • Musk: "When there’s confirmation of reasonable (~50%) clean energy usage by miners with positive future trend, Tesla will resume allowing Bitcoin transactions." – it's this kind of tweets I'm referring to. This is nothing but extortion, disguised as good intentions. Bitcoin has no leader, which is one of its key features. And we should not allow others to become quasi-leaders.
  • That said, I am curious if we will see any SEC investigations, caused by Musk's tweets. They have started investigations for much less. See McAfee's "coin of the week" bullshit.
• It's not a bug, it's a feature! 😂
  • Trust me, it's not. These people are just radical. Bitcoin would do 100% fine without them. These people can't even distinguish between being delusional and taking a trade (in a non BTCUSD market). If that's one of the features Bitcoin has to offer, I'd gladly file a bug report.
• Nice move from the mid 30s to the high 30s, today! Maybe the price now catches up to the good news recently. I don't think we'll stay in the 30k range for much longer. 🚀
• Cuba be like: FUCK USD! [Editor's note: this was posted exclusively for shits n giggles. I avoid linking ZeroHedge like the plague. This "Tyler Durden" 🤡 guy must have taken a wrong turn, somewhere.]
• The question we're all afraid of: "do you care more about Bitcoin or me?"
• The crypto space needs more innovative ideas like this. Competition is always good. 💪
• Blog stuff: I've further expanded the archive, including 2019/10. And I'm starting to see how it was a good idea to start adding actual headlines to the dates of every day's post.
  • Yesterday, I had an idea: wouldn't it be cool to have a blogging system which doesn't run on a CMS/DB basis, but instead get its content from a git repository, which either runs on the same server or anywhere you like (Github, Bitbucket etc)? Imagine adding new posts as commits, or even better: as branches, and every addition to a post is a new commit, causing a new bullet list item. That would be cool; I should research if anyone has built anything like that, yet.
  • And the master branch contains the website, an HTML file with assets (if needed… I don't have any on this website) and markers for the content etc.
  • This could be something like the github.io user pages… definitely gonna look into it. Jekyll also comes to mind. But yeah, getting pretty off topic, here.

2021/06/12 - tapped the root, bro!

• This is why you should never, ever plan your altcoin buys based on others' recommendations.
  • Funny how Cobie already called it half a year ago. While he's probably the biggest clown on Twitter, he's also one of the most genuine, valuable accounts we have in this space.
  • Oh, we have another example. Bitboy_Crypto, the clowniest clown of all clowns.
• Bitcoin taproot activation will lock in this weekend. Enough blocks have signalled the activation. This is probably the smallest code change compared to the media coverage it had.
  • …and with everything else currently going on, it should be more or less impossible to be bearish, here. We're going to the moon, fam – one way or another! 🚀
  • Here is an excellent explanation from Alex Gladstein why El Salvador's move regarding Bitcoin is so significant.
  • How could I forget – all the internet is memeing over that since days: El Salvador is planning to build a powerplant on an active volcano to mine Bitcoin.
• Also, LMAO.
  • And an artist's interpretation of LMAO.
• New rule in Pakistan: no jab, no phone (to make an appointment for a jab?).
• If you're currently in Thailand and you wanna trade meme tokens or meme NFTs… well, tough luck. According to their SEC, they're lacking "clear objectives or substance".
• Today, I reenabled the archive section of this blog, again. The home page became a bit too long… it was still loading fine and fast, but still a lot to scroll through which isn't the most interesting and recent stuff. Feel free to check there if you're interested in old news. I'll probably do this every now and then to keep the start page kinda clean.
  • Update: fuck, the links didn't update. I'll take care of that later. Or not. We'll see.
  • Update: fixed. 😎 // I also restructured the archive page a bit. Until now, there wasn't much on that page, so I just listed each archived item as a link. Now, each month gets its own archive page and section index, so it's a bit easier to go through.
• MXS (I have no idea what this is and why it happened) is currently pulling an Oil Futures, reaching negative 57 USD.

2021/06/11 - Dutch crypto ban coming? Update: NO!

• The otherwise liberal and freedom Dutch might be about to take a wrong turn: apparently, the director of the Dutch Bureau for Economic Analysis is calling for a complete ban of all things crypto, including mining, holding and trading of such. Not even sure what to say to such a stupid idea, other than "Have fun staying poor".
  • Update 20:26 CET: There won't be any ban. The Dutch Finance Minister said that a ban is not a solution. Thanks for having a brain, sir!
• This already happened yesterday, but I still wanna mention it: Ledger raised 380 million USD to "expand DeFi solutions". Let's hope they don't store this money in their database.
• Reuters accidentally reports fake news about George Soros' death. Can't make this shit up… well, yes, you can. 😂
• Got a few hundred k to spend? Here is the – supposedly – original Doge image. Yes, the one which started the meme and eventually also Dogecoin. Much wow.
• Altcoin outlook: hard to tell what happens next:
  • Bitcoin is kind of at an insecure level. On one hand, we have lots of fundamentally amazing news, such as more and more countries looking into Bitcoin, but on the other hand, the price does not reflect that.
  • This leaves some uncertainty as people don't understand why this is the case.
  • As Bitcoin is still the main driver of the crypto markets, this uncertainty also reflects in the altcoin markets. Many coins have made new lows, and only a few select ones are pumping (even madly so, see Streamr DATA chart).
  • Considering this, I think the best move for now is to stay careful regarding altcoins, and maybe stack a few more sats in the long term portfolio.
• Some true words about the "Bitcoin culture" from our OG friend notsofast. I could not say it any better. These people are called (even by themselves) "toxic" for a reason, in its most literal sense. I don't like extremes, never will. They rarely produce anything positive.
• German financial news portal finanzen.net: "Bitcoin has influence on stock markets – no peripheral asset, anymore"

2021/06/10

• It appears that the old Bitcoin integer overflow inflation bug (CVE-2010–5139) which caused the printing of 184 billion BTC wasn't really fixed. (Thanks @Fzer000)
• Remember how Vitalik donated 1 billion USD in shitcoins to the India Covid Relief Fund? Well, turns out we need him to jump in one more time.
• JP Morgan at its best. H...

2021/06/08 - …and more

• The list of countries "adopting" Bitcoin is growing. Kind of like a snowball effect kicking in. Very exciting times, and all those positive news almost make me forget about the current price action, because what's happening here is so much more important than a few short term gains.
  • Latest example from today.

2021/06/07 - El Salvador and real estate which doesn't exist

• Max Keiser has "bought" "real estate" in "El Salvador" after hearing that Bitcoin is now legal tender there. Karma is sometimes late. 😂
  • Saved images for shits n giggles: [1][2]

2021/05/27 - Insert random headline

• RE: yesterday: as expected, clown rapper Soulja Boy has removed the old tweet where he accidentally copied the shill part and replaced it with something less cringy.
• It looks like the market is running out of GPUs, again, thanks to the evil crypto miners.

2021/05/26 - This tweet gets you 24k $

Honestly, I didn't plan to start blogging short before midnight. But sometimes, there are higher forces at work which lead you to do your fkin work and keep your blog up to date. And yes, this one was absolutely worth it, I almost shat my pants laughing.

• Clown rapper Soulja Boy tweeted about $SAFEMARS (there's rumor it's a scam), but he forgot to remove the line which contained his salary 🤣
  • Original Tweet, I bet it's gone pretty soon.
  • Also saved the image, for teh lolz. Thanks buddy @Cryptonator1337
  • People instantly making fun of Soulja Boy. Love this shit. 👍
• If you're poor as fuck (after a longer Twitter session, I always have to remember that I can swear no problem here on my blog lol) and wanna gamble on some potential airdrops, icebergy has compiled a list with potential airdrops.
• Relai.ch is doing a giveaway. Retweet this tweet to get a chance to win a dope hoodie. Winners announced tomorrow at 9am CEST. Wish me luck!
• Elon Musk (the bored version, tbh I'm still not 100% sure if this is really Elon) has opened a Marscoin related Discord. I planned to join, but Discord always sucks with logins, and this thing just won't open the desktop app (where I'm logged in) and keeps opening it in the browser (where I'm somehow not able to log in).
  • By the way: did anybody notice how awfully annoying it is to login to Discord? Not only the 2FA related stuff, this always kinda works. But dare you opening a chat in a browser where you're not logged in, then good luck finding a login button. I spent ten minutes trying to find it, and oh well did I feel dumb, but I could not fucking locate it.
• A bit of offtopic: I hope we'll never have to deal with bullshit like this. I probably don't share the same opinion as the author (I don't know anything about him), but this is not how you solve problems. Side note: I blindly copypasted this after reading the whole thread. I cannot say for certain that the documents are genuine, so keep in mind that this could as well just be bullshit.
• One more: everybody had that moment when you talked about a certain product with someone, then went back to your computer or phone and all of a sudden, an ad for that very product pops up. It's creepy and you might think your phone's mic is spying on you. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
• "You can trade over 50 cryptocurrencies on binance.us" – this seems to be a cleaner version of binance.com? 😀

2021/05/24 - Bought the dip?

So, Bitcoin dumped to shit (lost over 50% since its all time high) and everybody turned bearish, calling the end of the rally. Now, we're getting a retrace and it's gonna get interesting to see whether this is a dead cat which just bounces a bit, or if the rally continues. Some caution in the coming days won't hurt. But now let's have some fun with Twitter, shall we.

• I still have yet to understand why their stance on this matters in any way, but Goldman Sachs officially recognized Bitcoin as an asset class.
• Meanwhile (a few days old, already, but I still want it in here), Peter Schiff ridicules Bitcoin for its currently x10 since the low versus Gold making miniscule profits.
  • Speaking of dips: Elon Musk and his buddies have joined the Team Plunge Protection™, fixing Bitcoin's "energy problem", fwiw.

2021/05/16 - Saylor Moon vs Elon Goku

Again, a day where we seem to trade only Elon. Similar to McAfee's  appearance in crypto, I'm starting to wish he never joined our degeneracy. People are in full retard mode, buy and sell their BTC based on Musk's tweets and nothing makes sense, anymore. But ok, here we go:

• Open tweet and scroll up a bit for lolz and read this for the reason why BTC takes a nosedive, right now. Well, at least my shitcoins don't go down. Buy my bags, Elon! 💪

2021/05/13 - Tesla / Elon Musk vs Bitcoin

I just cannot not write about this. This morning, I woke up and the whole web / Twitter was in full retard mode. What happened? Elon Musk revealed [1] that Tesla will not accept Bitcoin payments anymore, because he's worried about the Bitcoin ecosystem's carbon footprint. He cited a few articles which have nothing scientific on them (yes, I read the whole shebang), just the general fud we all know by now:

• Private-equity firm revives zombie fossil-fuel power plant to mine bitcoin
• Some states lure crypto miners to keep their coal plants alive
• How much Bitcoin comes from dirty coal? A flooded mine in China just spotlighted the issue

2021/05/01 - Hello Frens!

It's been some time... during the past months, my incentive to write meaningless blogposts here was pretty low. Got quite a bit of things going on in this weird thing called real life, and boy, does it distract me from the bull market!

It's fine, though. I have my bags and I regularly spend time scooping markets for promising projects. Compared to 2016+, I'm spending much, much less time in front of the screen, but the results are the same – if not better. So far, everything I expected from 2021 came true, Altcoins are doing their thing, making higher highs and higher lows, and Bitcoin is sitting more or less stably in the 50.000$ area. Let that sink in for a moment. Fifty thousand US Dollars (at the time of this writing even 57.000$). Amazing.

Bitcoin being my main objective, my current exposure is still close to zero. Yes, I'm all in altcoins, and there's nothing you stupid maxis can do about it. 😀

So yeah, I'll try to write a bit more, here, in the coming time. It would be a shame to not keep track of everything that's going on, right now. Altcoin Season (and Tezos still shitting the bed whenever possible, lol), Bitcoin Season, Happy Season… Everything Season! 🚀

Oh, one more thing: I did something really retarded: I spend 500 fucking US Dollars for an emoji URL redirect. It's not decentralized, it's nothing great / new / disruptive. It's just a fucking URL redirect. I "bought" the emoji domain https://y.at/🍆💰🍆 and I feel pretty dumb about it. Not that it made me poor or anything, but I've paid it with my credit card, and it feels much more real than when you pay with gambling tokens a.k.a. Bitcoin or Altcoins.
We'll see what happens. I'll just keep it in my mental trash bin which is large enough so I won't need to ever empty it, and who knows, maybe I'll find a greater fool who buys me out of my stupidity by paying even more money for this. ^^

Other than that, Tezos is pulling a Litecoin, even Ubisoft announcing that they're a baker now didn't move the price at all. My Haven (XHV) bag is doing fine and I expect it to break out anytime soon. Love their xAssets like xUSD, which are backed by XHV. Pretty clever concept, if you're interested in decentralized stablecoins, I suggest looking into it. Haven is basically a Monero fork which managed to implement colored coins, so they can reflect pretty much any asset which has a publicly accessible price feed (e.g. via oracle). This thing is likely to melt some faces.

Take care, stay healthy and enjoy the bull market!

2021/01/03 - 34.000 hooray! \o/

2021/01/02 - All Ti... you know the rest

• Bitcoin has made yet another all time high and it's currently trading at 30.750 (update: 31.300 half an hour later) USD.
  • Comparing it with the previous run, we should slowly approach exhaustion, resulting in a major retrace.
  • Last time (May 2017, ±), we've had a retrace of ~30%.
  • In this rally, this would bring us in the low 20.000 range, but we'll have to see if we get there.
  • I'm expecting the current run to find its end roughly at 33.000 USD, and I have my sells set slightly below that.
  • I just called the local top. Gotta watch things carefull in the coming days; last rally when we touched 3.000, we've had 34 days of rest until we continued our mission to 20.000 USD:
    
  • Full resolution image is here. That equivalent dip (equivalent based on how far we're above the last all time high) had a correction of 38% and it lasted 34 days.
• Altcoins: DOGE has had a decent pump from from its low at 15sat to 43sat, nice! As always, I was late to the party, but managed to short something close to the top on the USDT pair on Binance isolated margin and made an extra 8%. Nothing insane and it was just intended to be a quick, obvious flip, but I just had to take that chance. I love DOGE, but with all the supply and all that, it's just too heavy to deliver a longer, sustainable pump.
• Most other altcoins look like total shit. Which is kinda sad, but expected, regarding Bitcoin's action. 33.300 USD was the current ATH, so yeah... guess I got tempted to try a few quick altcoin flips yesterday, which was – needless to say – not the best decision. Note to self: print that damn "STICK TO THE FUCKING PLAN" sign, finally!

2020/12/31 - Happy New Year!

• slowly unwind some of my altcoin positions against BTC: ✅
• sell the BTC blow off top in the low 30.000 range: ❌
• wait for BTC correction, then spot buy all BTC I can get (catching the knife, no problem without leverage): ❌
• and then maybe, just maybe start a margin long, depending on how well I can catch the correction: ❌
• …what I'm also going to do on January 1st (depending on available contracts and BTC price) is buy an option for a six figure BTC price on Deribit: ❌

• Bitcoin: We just had a small correction from above 29.000 USD (yay, new ATH lol)  to 28.000 USD.
  • I don't think this is it, yet, and I'm expecting at least one more push.
  • The only thing I'm uncertain over is the new year thingy. I have absolutely no idea if it makes sense that other degens will dump crypto, today, to realize profits or losses for their taxes. It used to be a narrative in the past years, though.
  • For now, I'll wait and monitor the market closely. No need to FOMO dump just now.
• Altcoins:
  • I was generally unwinding my altcoin positions, but then found that 1inch looked insanely good. As I wanted to end this stupid year 2020 with at least something positive, I bought some at 4300sat (it's currently trading at 4800sat).

2020/12/30 - Yet Another All Time High

• Bitcoin:
  • Today, we've had another run above 28.500 USD, taking out the recent ATH of slightly above 28.000 USD just a few days ago. 🚀
  • Pleb news are starting to increase their reporting over BTC. Still not much and totally expected, at this stage. But still not even close to anything resembling a possible top. 2021 will be good.
  • Here's me comparing the current state of the rally with early to mid 2017, when we were on our way to 3.000 USD. The charts almost look the same on the weekly, meaning even if it looks scary and the chart leads you to think it cannot go much further: we're still early and everything's working according to the plan. 🚀
    • I am, however, expecting a bigger correction, soon. The 2017 counterpart would be the dump from 3.000 to 1.900 USD… but with current FOMO levels, I'm not sure if we're able to get an equivalent of that (being a dump from ~30.000 to 19.000 USD). Just be careful; if you made a decent amount of money going in and out, it's surely a good time to secure some profits. You can always reenter on a dip, whatever size it will be.
  • I just figured I need a plan. We're currently very likely quite close to a correction, which always presents a major chance in a bull market. And I'm planning to make use of that. So, I sat down for half an hour and spent some time thinking about my best options. I don't wanna be stuck in stupid trades, again, missing out on a potential long because I'm stuck in shitcoins which are rekt because Bitcoin is doing Bitcoin things. This has happend to me A LOT, and to make proper use of the current rally, I need this to stop NOW.
  • My plan for the next days is:
    • slowly unwind some of my altcoin positions against BTC
    • sell the BTC blow off top in the low 30.000 range
    • wait for BTC correction, then spot buy all BTC I can get (catching the knife, no problem without leverage)
    • and then maybe, just maybe start a margin long, depending on how well I can catch the correction.
    • …what I'm also going to do on January 1st (depending on available contracts and BTC price) is buy an option for a six figure BTC price on Deribit.
    • I will try to update this, here… I'll probably copypaste the points into the next days' posts (if they're relevant; no point in doing that when  nothing happens) and add notes to what happened.
    • Preparing for the next days, I've set my sells and alerts, sent some BTC to Deribit and then… we'll see how the rest goes. 🙂
• Ethereum:
  • Comprehensive article about the whole front running problem on the Ethereum chain. [2]
    • In short: bots scan the network for transactions in places like Uniswap.
    • If they find a large enough transaction which has been broadcast, e.g. to buy an amount of x which would drive up the price of that asset, the bots front-run that transaction (by using a higher gas fee, incentivizing miners to include their transaction first) to buy at the still lower price.
    • Once the original transaction was executed (and drove up the price), the bots sell, again – for a profit.
• Neolastics: liquid on-chain generative art. As I understand it: minting gets more expensive over time, and you can sell any time, even without counterparty… posted this for tomorrow, already (21 minutes left) and will probably write some more about it, later. [1]
• Synthetix / SNX manipulation by front running or: how to milk your liquidity providers (scroll up).
• Keeping it short: "Fuck your mother if you want fuck!"
• CryptoRandy is at it again. This time, he's scamming the XRP community. He found someone on Twitter gullible enough to send him 110.000 XRP (at current prices around 20.000 USD) for "trading", took the money and blocked him.

2020/12/29

Bitcoin is at 26.600 USD (had an ATH of over 28.000 just recently!) and altcoins are still showing strength at their bottoms. Most are at historic lows, and now that people got used to Bitcoin trashing any altcoin returns over the past two years, there's very little incentive to buy altcoins for many (or they just ran out of money). Exactly the same as in 2016/17. So what happens next?

• Some projects will continue to fall.
• If the overall market shows strength, here, identify these kinds of projects and avoid them.
• Use simple tools to identify good buys:
  • Does the current low hold well?
  • Does the market show increased volume?
  • Do dips get bought up fast?
• This is what I'm using to  identify good buys for the next bull run. And I'd even go as far as saying that a proper altcoin season is practically inevitable... Bitcoin is already getting its run, and the more retail is buying Bitcoin, the more retail is buying altcoins. It's just how this cycle works. Let's make use of it.
• I'm currently eyeballing / buying with the following:
  • Digibyte (DGB): is at historic low, volume is good and it is known for its insane pumps.
  • Viacoin (VIA): is sitting on a low which holds well so far, has casual insane volatility (someone's buying aggressively, and I assume it's not for no reason) and works well to increase overall bag size. Btw, if you're into buying dips, consider doing it right the fk now, 1030sat is a good price!
  • And some others like NANO (former RaiBlocks), Verge (XVG) and some smaller ones like DOCK, MITH and a few random ones which I won't  buy a lot of.
• I assume the lows I bought at will hold for a while. If I'm right about the market (I have been since 2016ish), we are currently at the stage millionaires are made at. To make the best out of it, I have set myself one simple rule: Don't sell at a loss! Yes, that's it. If you made good choices with your alt bags, it should be easy to sell most of them at a decent profit.

2020/12/16 - All Time High, Baby!

• This is a fucking special day: today, we've broken the old Bitcoin All Time High of ~20.000 USD
• Yes, you read that right. Today was the day. Insane bullishness and then, it just happened. And we're still above 20k. Fanfuckingtastic. I'm so bullish on 2021 that it feels like I'm about to burst. No shit.
  
• Full image here.
• Btw, the violet line is the course of the post 2017 price.
• Another great thing: the new season 5 of The Expanse is out. Well, at least the first three episodes. How much better can it get? Life is great.

2020/12/13

2020/12/03

• S&P  Dow Jones Indices planning to launch cryptocurrency indexes in 2021 [1]
• The scammers at btcmax.com / btcmax.me still didn't bring up the decency to send back my 15.000 QORT.
  • Here is my scam accusation against btcmax.com / btcmax.me on bitcointalk.org.

2020/12/02

• VISA working on "crypto dollar" payment solutions settled in Ethereum. [1]
• Compound got rekt. This is news from yesterday, but I still feel it's very much worth having here.
  • They had an inCaseTokensGetStuck() function allowing them to withdraw any number of tokens staked in the contract.
  • An audit of the Solidity contract took place, but the auditing firm seemed to think this is no problem.
  • Also, I should start collecting these.