@GordonGoner Avoid early vintage. If you want to rip a cool older modern set there are some amazing ones in XY and SM. If you want vintage stuff the E-reader / Gold star era has some of the best bangers.

Cooked as the market may be, this is still somehow marginally better than 9 months ago when we all had to pretend to give two fucks about eigenlayer.

@fejau_inc which time?

Don't really get the $bera fud, this is what a flourishing, diverse ecosystem looks like:

@AviFelman ooga booga

For those of you saying that the last cycle was more PVE and better I would like to remind you that: 1. Most of the excess liquidity that drove the last cycle was attributable to Luna/UST which took a unbacked algostable, strapped it to a even more unsustainable ponzi, and pollinated it through all of defi to driven even more yield and 2nd derivative ponzis. 2. Institutional actors (funds, lending desks, exchanges and cedefi) co-opted this game of musical chairs and literally yeeted lp funds / retail deposits into these yield black boxes 3. When the bubble finally burst, a small group of founders and early traders came out way ahead while everyone else got caught holding the bag with some losing everything despite being promised risk free yield So no, it was not more PVE. The last cycle was actually extremely PVP and facilitated by coordinated crime at an industrial scale. The only difference is that your counterparty wasn't a zynned up kid who is 3 steps ahead of you in the trenches but some 30 year old with a day job that thought they were getting 10% risk free on blockfi.

@DThomasStealth @sphere_labs @sershokunin I'm eagerly anticipating that - I think HYPE is a game changer. My comment on L1s/L2s tokens was more directed to the fact that the token is the product and its being marketed to people that should never be trading with lev in the first place

@JCM1117 Be glad you're missing the pain train.

@DThomasStealth This would require most crypto speculators to not live on an centralized exchange where tokens are just a number on the screen, completely unmoored from the underlying thing.

@MoonOverlord Using the get collectr price feed is the equivalent of using looksrare for nft market quotes. It dropped 500 bucks because they picked up a 1200 sale for a LP holofoil on tcg.

@MINHxDYNASTY The DPRK is able to gain control of the 4 validators controlled by the foundation which still hold the majority of governance power in the network.

@TKanoodler @MINHxDYNASTY This was my strategy but we are also a few weeks after release where product is starting to get a bit scarce with alot of chases now in the grading queue. Unsure if this is still the optimal path now.

I think the question is do you jam for ETBs at whatever market is now vs angle for preorders on the next wave of product (UPCs, bundles). I've ripped alot of ETBs because I hold the views that the promos are going to be coveted but if you don't share that view then it might be prudent to wait for the next release

There really isn't going to be a reprint because Pokemon company doesn't have the capacity and sets are printed a year head of time. What you're going to see is a gradual release of product over the course of the year that was largely already pre-planned so it feels like a reprint, but is just a release of the stockpile that was already available at distro. Any reprint will be further down the line as sets generally have a 3 year window to be reprinted. TLDR: if you're waiting for the reprint you may be waiting for awhile.

Having the largest liquidation event in the history of the industry a day after was not on my bingo card.

At the point of the market where you can move up a bunch of spots on the Hyperliquid leaderboard by doing nothing.

Previous cycle tops have been punctuated by big implosions (Luna Terra / 3AC, mt gox) that subsequently lead to a emperor has no clothes moment for the space. So far, we’ve had 2 blowups this cycle (Kujira, Thorchain) but the fallout has been extremely localized. This either means crypto has learnt its lessons and become more resilient or we’ve a bit further to run.

@Galois_Capital Is this the cad chart or the zerebro chart? I honestly cannot tell