#Ethereum#Bitcoin WANBr é um validador da rede PoS da Wanchain com administradores na Europa e Brasil.
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I was walking with Vitalik the other day. We were just commenting on the latest Solana outage and I took the chance to ask him: how can we stop the world computer? I will never forget his answer…
“We can’t, we don’t know how.”
everyone can use the world computer
everyone can build on the world computer
everyone can trade on the world computer
everyone can raise money on the world computer
this is Ethereum
@benjamincowen The problem is that history has shown that since DAO all Ethereum bad events will turn into an amazing one. That's Ethereum's magic! We can't forget that!
My 2025 predictions for Ethereum:
- ETH hits $15k
- ETH ETF net inflows hit $50bil+ for the year
- Staked ETH ETFs are filed for and approved
- More major TradFi companies/institutions start to build on Ethereum
- BlackRock (and partners) launch a layer 2 tokenized RWA platform on Ethereum
- Multiple nation states reveal that they hold ETH as a treasury asset
- Pectra will go live in March/April 2025 with more blobs and then soon after, blobs will be saturated again
- Fusaka (the upgrade after Pectra) scope blows out and becomes the biggest Ethereum upgrade ever (goes live in 2026)
- The mainnet gas limit will be increased to at least 50 million by end of year
- Ethereum DeFi thrives more than ever thanks to friendlier crypto regulations in the U.S
- Base spins out from Coinbase and announces token/decentralization plans
- High performant L2's like MegaETH, Rise and others launch and eat the high performant L1's lunch
- Arbitrum One becomes the first major rollup to reach stage 2 decentralization
- Many other rollups reach stage 1 decentralization
- A based rollup enters the top 5 as measured by TVL
- A major optimistic rollup becomes a zk rollup
- Total ETH bridged into L2's exceeds 10 million
- AI agents will stay the main meta for all of 2025
Ethereum will turn 10 years old in 2025 and I'm very confident that this year will be Ethereum's most bullish year yet!
Ethereum is the world computer; ETH is money.
Amazon Shareholder Statement requesting the Board consider buying #Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset.
Bitcoin Treasury Assessment
Supporting Statement:
In periods of consistent, and often rampant, inflation, a company’s value is measured not only by how profitable its primary business is, but also by how well it stores the profits from that business.
Corporations that invest their assets wisely can – and often do – increase shareholder value more than more profitable businesses that don’t. Therefore, during inflationary times, corporations have a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value not only by working to increase profits, but also by working to protect those profits from debasement.
The average inflation rate in the US over the last four years according to the CPI – a remarkably poor measure of inflation – is 4.95%,¹ peaking at 9.1% in June, 2022. In reality, the true inflation rate is significantly higher, with some studies estimating it to be nearly double the CPI at times.² So a corporation’s assets have needed to appreciate at those rates just to break even.
As of September 30, 2024, Amazon has $585 billion in total assets, $88 billion of which is cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities, including US government bonds, foreign government bonds and corporate bonds.³ Since cash is consistently being debased and bond yields are lower than the true inflation rate, Amazon isn’t adequately protecting billions of dollars of shareholder value simply by holding these assets.
Amazon should – and perhaps has a fiduciary duty to – consider adding assets to its treasury that appreciate more than bonds, even if those assets are more volatile short-term.
As of December 6, 2024, the price of Bitcoin increased by 131% over the previous year,⁴ outperforming corporate bonds by 126% on average.⁵ Over the past five years, the price of Bitcoin increased by 1,246%,⁶ outperforming corporate bonds by 1,242% on average.⁷
MicroStrategy – which holds Bitcoin on its balance sheet – has had its stock outperform Amazon stock by 537% in the previous year.⁸ And they’re not alone. Institutional and corporate Bitcoin adoption is becoming more commonplace: more public companies such as Tesla and Block have added Bitcoin to their balance sheets;⁹ Amazon’s second and fourth largest institutional shareholders – BlackRock and Fidelity, respectively – offer their clients a Bitcoin ETF; and the US government may form a Bitcoin strategic reserve in 2025.¹⁰
Though Bitcoin is currently a volatile asset – as Amazon stock has been at times throughout its history – corporations have a responsibility to maximize shareholder value over the long-term as well as the short-term. Diversifying the balance sheet by including some Bitcoin solves this problem without taking on too much volatility. At minimum, Amazon should evaluate the benefits of holding some, even just 5%, of its assets in Bitcoin.
Resolved:
Shareholders request that the Board conduct an assessment to determine if adding Bitcoin to the Company’s treasury is in the best long-term interests of shareholders.
@BillyM2k Bity guys talking about crypto and Bitcoin in Geneva. It was the first time I truly learned more about BTC and it was the first time I bought some satoshi. From there on, my life changed.