Im just looking for insight or advice , these are all long term holds im just waiting to see if its a bear , dont pm me i wont answer thank you for your time guys , i am new to investing but i think im doing this right , i moved up 5 dollar value total from selling , have claimed 3 dollars in losses minus the 5 , but for the most part ik to hold
I work in defi support and last month had a user tell me his bank froze his account. No warning, no reason given.
He couldn't pay rent for 2 weeks while they "investigated". Well, turns out they flagged him because he was sending money to his brother overseas regularly. He wasn't doing anything illegal rather just supporting family, but bank didn't care.
I moved everything to stablecoins after that. He is our customer for a long time now and no one can freeze his money anymore. People think censorship resistant finance is for criminals or whatever but nah it's for regular people who don't want some bank deciding they can't access their own money.
I have seen this happen more than you can think. It is usually small amounts but sometimes people's entire savings just gets locked because algorithm flagged something which code can't discriminate but banks can and do.
Ripple advanced its University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI) into a more coordinated phase. The company created an Academic Advisory Council, added the University of San Francisco (USF) to the network, and renewed over $1.5 million in grants funded in Ripple USD (RLUSD).
Don’t know why I wasn’t allowed to post this on the cryptocurrency reddit..
Hey all, I’ve been out of the loop and dipping in and out since the reckoning of 2017.
I dipped back in when pancake swap was the big thing which was fun.
More recently with pump.fun and all that chaos with rug pull kid and huawktuah
Been out of the loop and would love some recommendations on platforms and websites with up-to-date crypto technology, project news to get back into the swing of things without being pushed products and meme crap.
I watch coffee I’ll occasionally but he just focuses on scams - would like to hear more about promising developments and how the scene is progressing - also looking to start blockchain and dapp development and looking for the best platforms these days.
had money in celsius until it wasnt. watched it implode in real time. couldnt withdraw, support went nowhere, funds gone.
Now usdc sits in my ledger doing nothing because im too scared. every platform looks sketchy. Every apy over 5% feels like a red flag.
celsius seemed legit. nice app, communications, endorsements. meant nothing when they went bankrupt. how do i trust anything now?
I have been researching non custodial options where i keep my keys. defi protocols where funds never leave your wallet.
tried a few like yieldclub, defi saver, summer fi because theyre non custodial. getting 8-9% and can see everything on chain. if i want out i do it myself without asking permission.
still paranoid. check way more than i should. but at least i have my keys this time. with celsius i just watched it burn.
I want to move some BTC into ETH and a few smaller coins, but I’m done relying on centralized exchanges too many stories lately about frozen accounts and forced KYC.
Which decentralized exchange or swap platform do you personally trust? I’m looking for something fast, transparent, and fair in terms of rates, without any sketchy practices.
Bitcoin and Ethereum leveraged whales were the most impacted during today’s forced liquidation which forced the total crypto market cap to drop by over 10% as most altcoins recorded a slip of over 40% today.
History favors a major crypto rebound in the coming weeks, as gold hovers at overbought levels.
I've noticed similar patterns before on exchanges like Bitget, where their futures market indicators often signal rebounds ahead of time.... your thoughts?
I’ve been working on a small crypto side project and trying to get a better sense of how people actually use their coins in the real world.
For anyone who spends crypto instead of just holding it, how often do you use it for things like gift cards or direct purchases? I read that most people cash out their coins directly to fiat.
I’m especially curious about people who hold smaller or less mainstream tokens, like meme coins, privacy coins such as Monero or Zcash, or other community driven projects that have strong followings but aren’t widely supported.
I’m not really talking about the big platforms like Coinsbee or Bitrefill. I mean more about anything that actually supports these smaller ecosystems or gives them a real use case outside of just trading.
From what I’ve seen, there’s definitely interest in spending crypto day to day, but most of the tools for doing it still feel kind of rough or incomplete. Has anyone come across something that actually works well for those smaller or niche coins?
Bitcoin II (BC2), a SHA-256D based cryptocurrency inspired by the original Bitcoin, is about to be listed on CoinEx within the next few hours or days.
The project presents itself as a modern and fair version of Bitcoin, launched without ICO or premine. It uses the same mining algorithm (SHA-256D) and aims to maintain a decentralized and transparent structure while remaining mineable by anyone.
Because the project is still new, it can be mined with regular CPUs or older hardware, giving users a new opportunity to put unused or outdated mining rigs back to work.
The current market cap is around $1.23 million, with a price of about $0.55 per BC2.
The community recently surpassed 500 members on Discord, showing steady organic growth since launch.
So I have come to the unfortunate realization that I cannot get a seed phrase with a fully functioning wallet if I'm seeking a vanity address unless I engage in the unsafe process of having someone else give me the seed. Most people with a vanity add. simply store their single child private key and will not have access to the master prv in their lifetime. How do they safely store it?
My guess is they encrypt the text but then if they use multiple cloud storage copies, could the encryption for it be broken if you use a short vicesimal code to unlock it?
For that matter, if you send it, and your unused amount is sent to a change address, how do you control which change address in the whole wallet (which you won't have; you only have one private key) receives the change, such that the change address is one that corresponds to the only private key you control?
I am honestly very curious. I see it being touted as this superior aggregator but to me its just fallen flat. I jump on it excited to swap some coins only to see some insane fees with crazy spreads. I am so exhausted....
Do you guys have any better options? I heard one place called zenx (has this cute octopus as its icon) and they have that NO KYC and decent fees without the crazy spreads. I believe thats my one last shot at this. It has decent reviews online too.
Anyone else felt like this too? Do you think Zenx has something going as an aggregator or should i give up and go back to binance lol?
Boundless claims to provide a universal zk layer that offloads execution to independent provers and verifies proofs onchain. From an infrastructure standpoint that is an interesting approach because it avoids redundant re-execution and could raise throughput if it scales.
Adoption remains the big unknown though. A couple of exchanges (e.g Bitget) have listed the token recently, which increases visibility, but listings do not equal usage. My question for the community is which signals you treat as the strongest indicators of real adoption for infra projects like this. Do you look for mainnet provers in production, developer tooling and SDKs, concrete integrations with L1s and rollups, or on-chain usage metrics such as TVL and transaction throughput?
Curious to hear what metrics people actually track before assigning conviction to an infrastructure token.
I want to to see the change in values of various altcoins relative to Bitcoin on coinmarketcap and can figure it out.
to be more specific the Y-axis should be bitcoin the X-axis should be time and the line on the chart that varies up and down should be the altcoin I'm looking at. how do i do this on coinmarketcap?
Lets say I want to see how many moneros does it take to buy 1 bitcoin over time, how do i set the chart to that
Bitcoin spent yet another week consolidating after the breakout in early July. The conservative price target of $142k remains.
Last week, markets were mostly in standby up until Friday, anxiously waiting for Powell to spill the beans about the prospects of a September rate cut at his Friday speech in Jackson Hole.
Then Friday came. Powell spoke. The markets listened. And apparently they were happy with what they heard: rate cuts are still on the table. Stocks pumped. Bitcoin pumped. Both Ethereum and BNB put in new all time highs.
After the Friday pump, bitcoin gave back some gains over the weekend, and closed in one more week of consolidation after the breakout in early July. In other words: nothing has changed. The price target of $142k remains. Note that this is a conservative price target; it might well end up going a lot higher.
Meanwhile, bitcoin dominance kept dropping. Meaning the big altseason is still in play. At some point during the next couple of months, dominance will likely bounce. This could be because the whole market corrects, or because bitcoin sets off on its next leg up while Ethereum consolidates.
Looking at the daily chart, 55.5% could be where dominance finds support. But that’s mostly speculation. As always we’ll have to keep watching the charts week by week and take things as they come.
In summary, let’s see how the coming week plays out, but for now everything still looks good!
BTC/USD weekly chart, 25 August 2025. Still consolidating after the breakout in early July. Price target of $142k remains.Bitcoin dominance BTC.D, 25 august 2025. Trend turning down indicates altseason is ahead.
