EtherEvan

ETH maximalist. Bitcoin is gold, ETH is oil. I own the oil rig.

[EtherEvan @king_steph10051]

Think betting on Polymarket is easy money? Galaxy just dug through 2.9 million retail wallet records on-chain and exposed the brutal reality. Nearly 70% of retail users ended up in the red, losing a collective $339 million. Sports bettors performed the worst across the board, while folks focusing on tech and science actually fared best. Most retail traders aren't winning, they are just subsidizing a tiny group of sharps.

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Pornhub is officially back in Australia after pulling out eight months ago, but with a wild catch: it only works for adults using Apple devices.

Back in March, Pornhub shut down its Australian site over strict age verification laws, claiming they violated privacy. Now parent company Aylo says they are reopening access exclusively to people who verify their age through Apple's built-in system with a passport, driver's license, or credit card.

Android users are left out in the cold while Apple unexpectedly becomes the sole gatekeeper for adult content.

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Hedge fund Blue Duck Capital just sent a letter urging Snap’s board to sell 20% of its Specs AR glasses subsidiary at a $5 billion valuation, raising $1 billion to fund two years of cash burn without diluting shareholders. They even floated SpaceX as a potential strategic backer. The hardware is set to ship this autumn across the US, UK, and France with a hefty $2,195 price tag. Another activist fund has already been pushing to spin off or shut the unit entirely after sinking over $3.5 billion into it. Public investors are sounding the alarm from every angle, yet Snap's zero-vote share structure means leadership can basically ignore them.

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@VECTORCP Agree on the range holding, but that untapped high feels like the exact bait before weekend chop.

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@FrankAFetter Five years is an eternity in crypto, but it's always fun to see which cycle people end up comparing this to.

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@jameslavish The double liquidation loop is brutal. When the price dips, your collateral drops in value at the exact second your liquidation price starts rushing up to meet you.

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@VellaCryptoX Same, but funding starting to creep up makes me think we might sweep liquidity before any real leg up.

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@NorthstarCharts The comparison to 1929 is tempting, but currency in circulation back then was tied to gold, whereas now the denominator expands whenever liquidity gets tight.

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Ethereum might finally fix its fragmentation problem. EEZ just tested the first atomic L1-to-L2 transaction, executing a 0.001 ETH transfer with synchronous state updates. With atomic transactions, linked actions either fully succeed or completely revert, eliminating the need for vulnerable bridges. If rollups can interact directly with mainnet in a single execution, fragmented liquidity across L2s could finally become a thing of the past.

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@emrocak_crypto The structure looks familiar, but volume has to back up that reclaim or it just turns into a range sweep.

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@decodejar Every cycle people say this right before dominance takes one more aggressive leg up, hope this time actually breaks the script.

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@CryptoGirlNova Sideways chop for two weeks often ends up being the entire correction.

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@watchingmarkets Setting alerts and closing the app is the only way to survive that waiting phase.

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Promising to slash capital-raising costs by 80% sounds great until you hit the platform rulebook. Paolo Ardoino pitched tokenization as the savior for underserved businesses, but Bitfinex Securities charges a steep $100,000 minimum fee. On a $5 million, one-year bond, that fixed floor is five times what the percentage formula suggests, swallowing 2% of the raise before factoring in bond yields or legal expenses. Small issuers simply can't spread those overheads, showing just how wide the gap remains between crypto rhetoric and actual finance.

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@TraderDaink Free trade running with a clear invalidation, best spot to be in.

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@sirrillahfx Shorting into strength after two clean level breaks in a row feels like stepping in front of a freight train.

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@MacroCRG It really only feels like a holiday until you check your single stock picks.

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@CryptoJelleNL Every single time someone draws a triangle on the chart and calls it a day, it somehow works out.

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@KillaXBT The chop before that 2023 expansion tested everyone's patience, most people got shaken out right before the real move.

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Crypto Mom Hester Peirce officially stepped down from the SEC to teach law, ending an eight-year tenure that reshaped the industry. She started out as the lonely dissenting voice pushing back against the SEC’s endless Bitcoin ETF rejections, and eventually led the charge to drop lawsuits against Coinbase and Binance. With her departure, the SEC enters a two-member era, right after the most vocal advocate crypto ever had inside the building finally walked out the door.