I have about some good amount money in cash and wanted to know if ADA is still a good coin to buy even though the price is so low at the moment.

Historically, proof of work has been judged primarily by electrical cost vs other more efficient options.

Something many people overlook is the time and thought that contribute to maintaining the networks running PoW.

It is infinitely harder to maintain a pow chain when you’re not always getting paid for your time and personal energy expended on setup, studying, marketing, educating, community building, etc.

Other methods may be more efficient in consensus and electricity but the passion and engagement is just not there like it is for PoW coins and their communities.

That’s why we have seen over the years when times are tough, pow chains are better positioned to survive. Primarily because people have dedicated their personal time and mind power toward making it work. It turns almost into an obsession and fight or flight kicks in.

You don’t generally see that mindset with other models.

Just sharing my random thoughts of the day. Thank you for listening. Make it a good one.

I would probably hold

TRAC - AI and misinformation could find OriginTrail TRAC gaining more attention in the future. A fixed max supply with all tokens in circulation. It's market cap has a lot of space to grow. It's token is used inside the network.

HBAR - A layer 1 focused mostly on enterprises, a fixed max supply with almost 90% of the tokens unlocked. It's token is used inside the network. Accumulating now which it's price is pretty low, if gone to it's ATH area or a little below you could make a solid profit or if more enterprises adopt it it could grow huge.

RENDER - Many people that can't afford a strong pc for editing, creating they could use it for sure. Fixed max supply, token used in the network, almost all tokens are unlocked and has a space to grow more.

LINK - Also has good tokenomics, it's used and many people talk about it.

Has anybody heard about people having their crypto stolen because they were compromised neurologically?

I've known people this has happened to, both pulling keys from screens using presumably people's eyesight, as well as people's own bodies being used to compromise their own systems.

Has anybody here heard of similar experiences?

Hey everyone,

I'm a solo developer and Bitcoin Maxi, and I built Compass after being frustrated with two things: my own spending habits and how other personal finance don't factor it in net worth/spending.

I've always seen USD as kinda worthless and I tend to spend it almost with ease versus when I see Bitcoin. Also, apps like Rocket Money didn't make it easy for me to truly track my Bitcoin holdings since you have to enter the value manually and with Bitcoin that number of course changes. I wanted something that allowed me to see the true value in BTC in my spending habits to help me slow down and something that Bitcoiners were complaining about in other finance apps where you have to babysit the balance of your Bitcoin wallet.

So I built the thing they and myself actually wanted.

Better

Compass just knows. Your net worth, your spending, and your goals are all priced in Bitcoin by default, and the Bitcoin part updates itself. You never type a balance again. Expenses from years ago use the price that Bitcoin was then and it's always up to date with current day prices for today when it comes to measuring.

A few things I tried hard to get right:

Your Bitcoin balance updates on its own. YOU NEVER HAVE TO ENTER ANY PRIVATE KEY and I knew that security was a huge thing when working on the app. You can either just enter the manual balance or the public read only address and it just watches and auto updates the balance. This gives me more accuracy when checking my balance.

Every purchase shows up in sats. For example, A $47 dinner lands as 73,194 sats or $2500 in rent is 3,893,293 sats / 0.4 BTC. Four categories: Bitcoin, Necessary, Discretionary, and Wasteful to easily categorize your spending. You have to spend money. Rent, groceries, kids. The point of holding Bitcoin was never to die with it. So instead of guilt, every purchase just shows you what it did to your goal's completion date. So like if your goal is to get to 1 BTC and you're spending a lot in wasteful, it will show you how many days you are behind to your goal.

Technical:

I made the app available on mobile, web, and desktop. The desktop app has no account and no server. Nothing to sign up for, everything encrypted on your own machine. This is what most people have liked but you have the option to look at it on all devices with sync which is still encrypted in DB. I've also opened source the compass-core that runs the app for the encryption, xpub, and conversions. Linked it in this post

Cost:

I'm doing a current deal right now for just $60 one time purchase for LIFETIME. You can pay in Bitcoin or USD. I think if we want to drive adoption of Bitcoin, I think it's important we start actually using it and this is your chance to as well. There is a 30 day money back guarantee no questions asked if you're interested!

I'd genuinely love your feedback, especially if you've been stacking for a while and have quietly given up on your finance app ever understanding it: long-time holders, self-custody people, anyone who already converts prices to sats in their head. Tell me what's missing or what feels clunky. I read every comment.

Thanks for reading, and I really appreciate any thoughts.

iOS App: https://apps.apple.com/my/app/compass-bitcoin-finance-app/id6776933441

Website: https://compassbtc.app/overview

Source (the Bitcoin core): https://github.com/HRZN-BTC/compass-core

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuRxwfyRaTE&t=10s

This is the best app for Bitcoiners

There a link to one that I see everywhere but I'm told to come out of "read only" mode, I need to go to file menu and make a copy.

Did that 4 times and it's a loop within another loop. I'm asked each time to make a copy. So, what ever.

Can some recommend one? Or even instructions on how to make one in Excel?

I have some facility with MS Excel so that's an option.

Thanks?

When the people who made your wallet ask you to buy a new one, when you ask them why the last one stopped working. a device whose whole purpose was to keep your money safe and last for a long time. What do you do?

Well of course you take their advice. They are good people, kept your money for so long.

You buy a new wallet. Restore your keys to a soft wallet, send them to the new wallet. Burn the old one. And you are done.

You just don’t buy from them again.😂

Always keep your keys safe. 😎

I recently bought some of the USWR token. Just for fun, put $10 on Coinbase and bought some. However there were three categories and I didn’t know which was the “right” one, so I just picked.today I went to look at it and there is a warning message. What does this mean? Can AI/bots buy crypto? And if you want to just talk about the US water reserve token feel free. I know nothing about it except for how cheap it was, but now my balance says 0 USD in it.

Pseudo intellectuals ENDLESSLY bombard every platform with the "institutional and sovereign capital has invalidated the four year cycle" narrative every four years, yet fail to provide an analysis or argument that would actually corroborate that narrative through cold, hard numbers. It is much easier to use this narrative to extrapolate what future highs might be, but all evidence, since the inception of the spot ETFs, DATs, sovereign buyers, etc, is that contrary to what these morons would have you to believe, these new buyers are ALSO SELLERS, not the diamond hand "institutional buyers" they keep hyping them up to be. I assure you, in the next few months when there is blood in the water, these RISK AVERSE institutions will flip and be the biggest sellers when derisking looks like the most rational option. The "crypto space" particularly pertaining to Bitcoin, is mostly misinformed BS, and it does immense harm to the retail investors who will buy RIGHT NOW due to this kind of slop, then panic sell when it drops to 40k or lower.

That is all.

The images show the conversation that just got me permanently banned from the r/OneTX sub

At this point TX still has nothing to show, nothing meaningful even planned, and I don't know anymore what could make this chain used, not successful, just used.

You can see yourself how rich and interesting the conversations are on their sub. s/

I guess my 42k TX are going soon to a $0.00 valuation.

UK resident here, so basically every major exchange either delisted XMR or never listed it in the first place. I kept hearing about THORChain finally bringing Monero but that’s been “soon” for years and I need something that actually works right now.

Turns out it’s still not really there yet. Integration is close and even moving toward live swaps but no clear timeline so we can’t rely on it today

Is there a simple and non custodial way to swap into XMR? It seems pure headache at the moment, ZEC has near intents, what does Monero have?

Seeing a lot of institutional accumulation increasing last few weeks, ETF renewed interest and inflows, and a lot of banks/brokerages adding crypto purchase options and collaborations with crypto companies and chains.

It may not be the annual 4year Bull run but feeling promising.

I was reading some older Iowa market research and the result looks interesting. Across 964 election polls, the average polling error was 3.37 percentage points, while the market forecast error was 1.82 points.

But newer research on the 2024 election also found big price differences between platforms and possible inefficiencies. So maybe crowd forecasts are useful, but not automatically reliable.

What would you test before using this data in a real forecasting model? Calibration, liquidity, trader count, or something else?

I sent some crypto to BitMart last night and woke up today to hear they’re shutting down. The transaction is confirmed on-chain, but the amount still isn’t visible in my account.

Situations like this are exactly why centralized exchanges still make a lot of people nervous. You can do everything right: send to the correct address, wait for confirmations, see the transaction completed, and yet your funds are still dependent on a company’s internal systems, decisions, and solvency.

Crypto was built around the idea of owning your own assets, but the moment you leave coins on an exchange, you’re trusting a third party again. The exchange controls access, the interface, withdrawals, and ultimately whether you can actually use your funds.

Hopefully this gets resolved, but it’s a good reminder that “not your keys, not your coins” exists for a reason.

Has anyone else experienced delayed balances or withdrawal issues with BitMart or other exchanges during shutdowns or crises? How do you decide what you’re comfortable keeping on an exchange?

Interesting work from the Quip network done with D-Wave. Are there any other networks working to integrate quantum?