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  1. johnarb

    (Bitcoin) Rune protocol (Ordinals) - opportunities?

    I think your post is very important to this Bitcoin NFT's, Runes BRC-20 discussion, but please do not lose get lost in the weeds Bitcoin is the hardest money in the history of mankind, full stop Hard money means exactly what the words mean How difficult is it for you to acquire through...
  2. johnarb

    Bitcoin Price Thread

    It's a very good buying opportunity, same as in March of 2020 It's a very good buying opportunity, same as in March of 2020 It's a very good buying opportunity, same as in March of 2020 It's a very good buying opportunity, same as in March of 2020 It's a very good buying opportunity, same as in...
  3. johnarb

    (Bitcoin) Rune protocol (Ordinals) - opportunities?

    I finally got around to start looking into Ordinals and Rune, yesterday, with all the buzz and ngu happenings, (ngu always the best marketer) I'm very late to this party, but I might just be in time for the Rune protocol activation First of all, NOT FINANCIAL ADVISE, as it is, I've already put...
  4. johnarb

    Bitcoin Price Thread

    This thread suddenly became very active :D It's a very good buying opportunity, same as in March of 2020 Bitcoin as money, store of value, like a savings account Yes, you can use it as a currency to pay for goods and services, but for every day expenses, it's better to use stablecoins as...
  5. johnarb

    MSTR -- To get out or not...

    Dude, why so bearish on mstr? lol, thought you are short mstr puts (a position that benefits as mstr goes up in price)
  6. johnarb

    Bitcoin Price Thread

    Bitcoin halving within 7 days, HK approval of bitcoin spot etf's possibly within 6 days $100k/bitcoin is just about a given some time this year. Anyways... Oh and WW3 is about to start, prolly nothing though...
  7. johnarb

    Synthetic $ - USDe crypto native internet money by Ethena

    Whoa! mind blown ----- Correct me if I'm wrong in my understanding of Copper as it was in a passing video ad on Blockworks and I made assumptions on the mechanics So, the ad mentioned that Copper is a solution to not giving up ownership of the digital crypto assets, meaning still...
  8. johnarb

    Synthetic $ - USDe crypto native internet money by Ethena

    On a very related note to the USDe synthetic $ is the Ethena governance token $ENA, it's like a stock ownership for the crypto project That's the naive take on it Truth be told, during the bull market, governance tokens, airdrops, liquidity integration, yield farms, staking, and much more...
  9. johnarb

    Synthetic $ - USDe crypto native internet money by Ethena

    From my limited knowledge of USDe, the trust but verify, everything transparent and published is the main value proposition, Arthur Hayes even pointed to this on one of the interviews I watched Ethereum blockchain Copper shared-private key ownership digital asset custodian, heard on a youtube...
  10. johnarb

    Tether Now Holds Over $5 Billion Worth of Bitcoin to Back USDT (But Should It?)

    I appreciate all your work into looking at the details... and your concern that Tether is a walking time bomb But have you played it out exactly how Tether would fail? Like what would it take putting all those details as part of the failure-scenario? If I tell you that over 70% of the total...
  11. johnarb

    Synthetic $ - USDe crypto native internet money by Ethena

    Crypto defi yields are very high right now, lots of crypto people are taking on leverage in many forms The 37% APY is a variable rate But to answer your question, it comes from the Eth native staking yield, and perpetual futures funding rates...
  12. johnarb

    Synthetic $ - USDe crypto native internet money by Ethena

    https://app.ethena.fi/stake https://ethena-labs.gitbook.io/ethena-labs USDe was launched recently, it's an interesting project to create a crypto native money equivalent to the US $, a synthetic US $ It's not a stablecoin like usdt or usdc, it is not backed 1-to-1 USD It might be (unfairly)...
  13. johnarb

    Tether Now Holds Over $5 Billion Worth of Bitcoin to Back USDT (But Should It?)

    Your comparison does not hold water, since the French Mississippi existed when there was no internet or cell phones, can you imagine telling someone back then of a company called Facebook that sells advertising and is worth over $1 Trillion or a company called Apple that does not sell any...
  14. johnarb

    Bitcoin Price Thread

    the price of bitcoin going up in fiat terms is very very good for us... but I should not forget how important Bitcoin is for all the reasons Bitcoin is digital property, but it is also a decentralized currency I should not advocate for the removal of the latter in order to increase the fiat...
  15. johnarb

    Is the crypto winter over?

    Not surprisingly, bitcoin is above $71k again, dunno why I'm even posting this, it's a bull market, you know
  16. johnarb

    Is the crypto winter over?

    Solana blockchain is shit right now started with the $W Wormhole airdrop, too much load on the blockchain, takes me 3-5 times just to do a transfer, but surprisingly, some of the dex smart contracts have good blockchain optimization, the transactions are successful over 90% on Jupiter I...
  17. johnarb

    Cat Tokens

    Cat coin trending on Coingecko https://catcoin.com/?gt=1#googtrans(fil)
  18. johnarb

    Bitcoin Price Thread

    American Hodl again on WBD For all the ET people "concerned" about Bitcoin's shortcomings as a currency (MoE), there's a discussion on the video Combined with Baron's Bitcoin as global transfer of (significant) value on another thread... Bitcoin will go to $1,000,000 and higher without it...
  19. johnarb

    What's the cheapest way to buy USDT in the USA?

    Ethereum network tx fees have to be paid... I doubt Coinbase Pro will pay for the fees, but who knows, I haven't tried, I lost Coinbase Pro as it became Coinbase Advanced Trade for me, but maybe it's morphed to the big money accounts i.e. insititutional investors, althought I thought their...
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