@gumsays@solana It is a diff world with all the stables legislation and institutional use cases for stables, including things like the CFDC Innovation Advisory Committee starting to shape forward looking use of blockchain
@gumsays We all should see it as a sign of trenches hopium.
Let’s hope for another some hit, some miss… that’s how the FOMO snowball spins back up and meme revival can happen again.
@Defi_Scribbler Meme season had token bundling, sniping, wash trading galore. Tons of bots to do most activities. Not to mention the AI run during that timeframe with every AI agent running with wallets too.
@ThePenguinXBT Crypto has a lot lower barrier of entry - generally speaking perps are easier to trade and you can also do it with far less money.
Otherwise yes, absolutely agree!
@TurntUpDylan Your thesis is already proven. Check out that demographic of slots players and notice the loads of senior citizens pissing away their pensions and retirement savings that are not locked into their living expenses.
@ThePenguinXBT You’ve been on point lately, love or hate
The results lol.
What is your invalidation level? Is it around that $108k mark before reconsidering more upside?
@gumsays He had several failed calls last year - yes he’s often right, but calls like "ETH never trade above 4K again" were way off.
Nobody's perfect that’s totally fine, but don't pretend he's flawless.
@Shoomsol@hylo_so Like all DeFi - pay attention. I bought xSOL via DEX last week (ouch for other reasons!), but prices were better than Hylo direct. Just had to do in partials not one large transaction. Mine was much smaller than this move, but substantial enough for me to warrant DEX vs native.
@notsoeasymoney Like some others have posted - it’s not including the full search. That’s such a common beginning phrase.
I’d put money a lot of this traffic is “… refinancing at lower rates” or something like that.
@Polymarket Also “help with mortgage” leaves off things like “…refinance”, which is a MASSIVE topic right now with falling rates for the first time in years.
@gumsays Alt perspective - drone wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan radicalized countless young in both countries, feeding Al-Qaeda and later ISIS for over a decade.
There’s a brilliant Vice interview w/ Al Qaeda leadership saying of drone strikes - “you kill one and radicalize 100 more”