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1  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: The rise and fall of NFTs. on: June 09, 2025, 06:28:13 PM



Who knows. The thing is that almost no one even tried to explore possible benefits. The vast majority of art-related NFT efforts assumed that throwing NFT on some random piece of of art will magically create something like ownership, fully ignoring that, no matter whether you're talking about fungible or non-fungible, a blockchain won't solve your counterparty risks.
Some are already exploring the benefits though, through ownership and airdrop identification, most of the NFT that still has value also has underlying use, to access certain community and to be eligible into a project.
Almost all of NFT which value purely derived from the value of the "art" are already going to zero.

Yes, there are interesting mechanisms being explored. Just saying most art-related NFTs seem to forget that. To be interesting, NFT-based art should not only use the blockchain as a vehicle to try to capitalize art from other media, but should embrace the medium (blockchain / NFT) itself (see Reichert, 2021 for a more in-depth exploration of that matter).

On a more general note, many NFT-related efforts are based on PoS blockchains, posing an inherent centralization risk. In the worst case, there is no huge benefit compared to openly centralized tokens.
Whenever you do decided to step your foot into this market then the primary thing that you should be that considering is on the risks involved about it. Always put up into your mind that once hype is gone or lets say the community support then expect that everything would go to the ground. I do remember up into those years that even just that putting up your own picture and making up some pixelated effect can be placed up on the marketplace with some value then someone would be buying it and once it do make out some hype then the price goes in the roof and same goes when the interest and hype is gone then it would drop. Now that NFT hype is gone then its not shocking that majority or lets say all of those shit picture or any NFT out there dropped its price into the floor. We are now on a new trend on which its not that shocking anymore that there will be something that would be replacing into that current trend.

Feel sorry for those who had been burned up by their crypto investment on NFT's on which some people been saying or here comes a time that we do even speculate that it is part of some money laundering thing on which its not that also an impossible thing or lets say its probable but since it hadnt been that proven out then it do remains speculative. In regarding about into other trend out there or lets say on the present then it wont be that totally be that different and this is why as an investor then you should be that careful on what you are that dealing into and always consider about risks management and always invest into the amount on which you can afford to lose so that if ever the market becomes shit then you wont be ending up on being totally blown up with the money that you had invested.

Most coverage on NFTs around pictures could be boiled down to: Someone paid $someamount for this, but we can't explain why. I don't feel too sorry about people taking such thin statements as an incentive to pour money therein. Before buying, understand what you buy. I do feel sorry about all the wasted chances to fill all the vapor with some substance.
2  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: The rise and fall of NFTs. on: June 01, 2025, 03:42:34 PM
Who knows. The thing is that almost no one even tried to explore possible benefits. The vast majority of art-related NFT efforts assumed that throwing NFT on some random piece of of art will magically create something like ownership, fully ignoring that, no matter whether you're talking about fungible or non-fungible, a blockchain won't solve your counterparty risks.
Some are already exploring the benefits though, through ownership and airdrop identification, most of the NFT that still has value also has underlying use, to access certain community and to be eligible into a project.
Almost all of NFT which value purely derived from the value of the "art" are already going to zero.

Yes, there are interesting mechanisms being explored. Just saying most art-related NFTs seem to forget that. To be interesting, NFT-based art should not only use the blockchain as a vehicle to try to capitalize art from other media, but should embrace the medium (blockchain / NFT) itself (see Reichert, 2021 for a more in-depth exploration of that matter).

On a more general note, many NFT-related efforts are based on PoS blockchains, posing an inherent centralization risk. In the worst case, there is no huge benefit compared to openly centralized tokens.
3  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: The rise and fall of NFTs. on: May 25, 2025, 09:59:46 AM
The main problem of that failure is that people have used NFTs for the wrong purposes. The technology behind NFTs has many potential applications, and digital art is not the intended avenue and it does not even bring any benefits to that.


Who knows. The thing is that almost no one even tried to explore possible benefits. The vast majority of art-related NFT efforts assumed that throwing NFT on some random piece of of art will magically create something like ownership, fully ignoring that, no matter whether you're talking about fungible or non-fungible, a blockchain won't solve your counterparty risks.
4  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Testnet Has Value. Testnet Should Be Considered An Altcoin. on: May 16, 2025, 03:14:26 PM

It's kinda too fucking bad tbh... people are free to do what they want with this type of cryptocurrency by design.  You know... permissionless and boardless...




Sure, but at the point where people assign value to tokens from a testnet, they create the need for another testnet facilitating innovation that relates to technical aspects and not token scarcity. At this point, the previous testnet is just another, maximally boring altcoin. So, people might apply their freedom to something more meaningful. But yes, no one is in the position to forbid others to do something that doesn't make sense...
5  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: If Bitcoin was the currency of a country on: May 09, 2025, 10:39:22 PM
Many mechanics people are used to are not designed for deflationary currencies, most importantly fixed income. So, there might be much that would have to be re-invented in some way.
6  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Testnet Has Value. Testnet Should Be Considered An Altcoin. on: May 03, 2025, 01:03:27 AM
In order to be most useful for testing, a testnet should copy the technical characteristics of the tested blockchain as much as possible, including the PoW scheme.

So, attaching a value to testnet tokens would mean that two blockchains would compete over the same hashing resources, but without any innovation that could possibly stem from that competition.

I don't see how this could do anything but harm these blockchains.
7  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Ether’s Deflation Promise Continues to Remain Unmet on: April 21, 2025, 09:18:08 PM

That's because Vitalik Buterin is close to a woman, it is rumored that a man if he is close to a woman or unmarried he will not focus on what they should do for the development of their business, and this happened to the genius maybe, we often see memes about Vitalik on X about why Ethereum is experiencing a bad leadership crisis and their price development is down, also with several L2 projects that are also carried away, now developers are building more on the Solana network than ethereum or on other networks as a better means in terms of network facilities for their projects.

No matter what's the cause for the lack of leadership, but it proves that the last few years' steps towards centralization did not do the user base any good. If there is any interest left in keeping the technology alive, it's likely important to decentralize quickly. Restoring PoW would be a first step.

Yes the decision was indeed not a good choice and the industry became the main backfire for the growth of developers and users of the Ethereum teaching teaching, and I thought it was from the results of the leader who made the wrong decision, because basically the project leader was deciding what should be curved for the future of a project and it would have good and bad impacts on the project itself, it is very important to have a leader who can bring great opportunities in the development and progress of Ethereum for the long run.

Maybe so, but if leadership fails for too long, stakeholders might have to make a decision on whether to fork and fix the platform, or move to another one.
8  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Ether’s Deflation Promise Continues to Remain Unmet on: April 17, 2025, 06:11:36 PM
Ethereum is going through a deep crisis. I still believe it's the most dangerous it's ever been, and there's a significant risk it could lose a significant portion of its value.

What I've noticed when I've talked about Ethereum a few times recently is that there isn't as much engagement in the discussions as there was when Ethereum was in a better position.

Switching to PoS didn't brought any good for Ethereum price. Ethereum was also not able to perform well during the recent bitcoin bull run where bitcoin crossed 100k. Ethereum also had a crisis leadership in ethereum as warned by ex engineer of Ethereum. If you are investing in Alts then you must be aware of such cons associated with them. Ethereum is looking not much attractive these days for investment.

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It’s worth mentioning that Ethereum has lost a significant portion of its user base due to these crises. This has created an opportunity for other networks to attract users, as Ethereum struggles with instability and recurring issues.

In many of my previous posts about Ethereum, I’ve highlighted centralization as its core problem. Mr. Vitalik still believes in his ability to lead the project much like Mr. Musk, but he may have overlooked just how competitive this market has become.

That's because Vitalik Buterin is close to a woman, it is rumored that a man if he is close to a woman or unmarried he will not focus on what they should do for the development of their business, and this happened to the genius maybe, we often see memes about Vitalik on X about why Ethereum is experiencing a bad leadership crisis and their price development is down, also with several L2 projects that are also carried away, now developers are building more on the Solana network than ethereum or on other networks as a better means in terms of network facilities for their projects.

No matter what's the cause for the lack of leadership, but it proves that the last few years' steps towards centralization did not do the user base any good. If there is any interest left in keeping the technology alive, it's likely important to decentralize quickly. Restoring PoW would be a first step.
9  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Malicious packages in PyPI module. on: April 14, 2025, 07:49:19 PM
It's nothing new, using library programming distribution is common way to spread malware.

Unfortunately this is true, and we can do nothing to cut off this way.


We can recognize that PyPI's review processes don't suffice to fence off supply chain attacks, and look for software distribution mechanisms that do this better.
10  Economy / Economics / Re: The Trump Dump on: April 11, 2025, 08:34:12 AM
People are not stupid.

I don't really see how people would have learned anything. Back then, they complained about Musk, saying: "Oh, but that was market manipulation!" Today, people again complain: "Oh, but that was market manipulation!" But does it have any consequences?
11  Economy / Economics / Re: The Trump Dump on: April 07, 2025, 08:04:55 PM
No obvious relation between tariffs and BTC comes to mind, so this might just be trigger-happy people on the buy (November) and sell (now) buttons.
12  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: The EU is about to outlaw and restrict some of the most prized features in crypt on: April 06, 2025, 09:17:15 AM
As soon as you (try to) exchange your crypto into fiat you will be screwed because your assets have no proof of origin.
Who says you can't figure out a way to prove how the assets have been earned? No sane country will say no to recognizing income it can tax.
13  Economy / Speculation / Re: Liquid staking on BTC, what's your take? on: April 03, 2025, 08:21:38 PM
If the staking involves giving up control over the BTC, the question is which token would possibly be valuable enough to justify the risk.

Building more complex functionality on the top of BTC is certainly exciting, but a better option to limit token supply might be to track temporary commitments of the BTC.
14  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: MiCA and certain cryptocurrencies on: April 02, 2025, 07:03:20 PM
Anyway, about these two coins, I guess your favorite CEX saw them as a risk because they are related to on-chain securities. It's a very wild interpretation of the law but if an exchange saw very little revenue from keeping markets in these currencies open then you can understand that they might have even used the law as an excuse to close the markets.

Sounds like the famous "we have to do this for security reasons" as an excuse for literally anything. Revenue doesn't seem to be the issue here, though, considering that they had quite some volume on XDC/EUR. Maybe indeed something related to on-chain securities, considering that interpreting what is a security and what is not still seems to be a legal gray area in crypto space.
15  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: The mining activity under the PoW mechanism is not an offer of securities on: March 31, 2025, 06:43:43 PM
As far as mining goes, there is no 'solving' -- it essentially is simply very high speed random rolling the dice to find a matching hash.

I can't see why this could not be considered as solving an equation. Brute force being the best known solution algorithm doesn't change that, nor does applying a randomized algorithm.
16  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: The Most Underrated Crypto Advantage: Owning Real Assets in a Borderless World on: March 29, 2025, 10:12:29 PM
Which jurisdiction would allow to enforce this kind of ownership?
17  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: If Bitcoin was the currency of a country on: March 27, 2025, 06:02:35 PM
☞If Bitcoin was the currency of a country then what will happen?☜

Cryptocurrency is known as the fastest transaction medium for people around the world. Bitcoin is most commonly known and used token in cryptocurrency. Suppose a country began to use Bitcoin instead of their currency. Then, what will happen?

The price of Bitcoin is unstable. Its price may increase or decrease. If a country accepts Bitcoin as their currency, then there will be an economic revolution in that country.

Bitcoin will be operated without the control of the central bank or government of that country. It is capable of preventing inflation. Because it is not possible to print any additional bitcoin. For this, the people of that country can do their transaction easily, transparently & faster and will have the potential to reduce corruption rates. However, when all transactions are completely dependent on online, it will be mandatory for all of the country to gain skills in this regard. 

Finally, if Bitcoin is the currency of a country, it will start a new economic age of that country. This will improve the economy of that country and some damage. So these positive and negative aspects of that country should be noticed equally.

When a country completely sacrifices control over money supply, there might be parts of the services commonly expected from a government that would be hard to provide.

It might be interesting to investigate that effect on countries that already partially sacrifice that control.
18  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / MiCA and certain cryptocurrencies on: March 25, 2025, 12:46:16 PM
Why would an Europe-based cryptocurrency marketplace delist cryptocurrencies like FLR or XDC due to MiCA concerns? Is there any particular technical characteristic that might require this step?
19  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Have We Been Deceived on The Purpose of Bitcoin? on: March 20, 2025, 05:00:20 PM
The purpose, if there has been any, is almost irrelevant because what can be done or not depends only on the protocol and on what is considered to be a good policy by those who operate mining hardware.
20  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Real Estate Goes Digital: Own Property Like You Own Crypto on: March 18, 2025, 03:17:14 PM
To what extent is this expected to work in jurisdictions where property ownership is regulated and possibly has to be documented in public registers?
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