The other crypto threads have a lot of talk about bitcoin, and perhaps rightfully so given its market cap relative to other projects. However, in my opinion it makes it difficult to have discussion about other crypto projects, thus the reason for this thread!

I'm personally very curious how avalanche vs solana will turn out, and whether the ETH merge actually solves the scaling issues. Vitalik's post saying that layer 2s are necessary for scaling ETH is pretty interesting compared to some of the other chains that are trying to scale on L1.

ETH 2.0
1. Will not be soon
2. Will not fix multiple issues
3. Will set them back in other areas because of the underlying architecture. You can't shut it all down to make improvements/corrections so fixing one problem will add to another.

ETH will tey to evolve while others pass it up. ETH will rely on L2 to keep it in top 5 MC.
ETH will get more centralized woth their "improvements".


Sol - VC controlled and centralized

LatinAggie1997 said:

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ETH 2.0
1. Will not be soon
2. Will not fix multiple issues
3. Will set them back in other areas because of the underlying architecture. You can't shut it all down to make improvements/corrections so fixing one problem will add to another.

ETH will tey to evolve while others pass it up. ETH will rely on L2 to keep it in top 5 MC.
ETH will get more centralized woth their "improvements".


Sol - VC controlled and centralized

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Thanks for building in this thread!

I agree with a lot of what you are saying. I'm worried for the future of ETH. Gas fees are so high right now as to make it totally unusable for most people.

I think ETH will have 'a' future, and will grow from here. But I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was surpassed by other L1s in the next few years. Particularly since there are alternative EVM chains that developers can easily switch to.

Content will win.

SOL / AVAX / LUNA appear to be moving into a league of their own

Contrast that with dino coins like TRX / ADA / XTZ / XLM which are slowly fading away with no use, and no developers.

ATOM and DOT are some darkhorses that have been lagging.

Recently I've been wondering if ETH/SOL/AVAX will start to surpass BTC strictly because of the greater utility.

TxAG#2011 said:

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SOL / AVAX / LUNA appear to be moving into a league of their own

Contrast that with dino coins like TRX / ADA / XTZ / XLM which are slowly fading away with no use, and no developers.

ATOM and DOT are some darkhorses that have been lagging.

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Your post made me think of this recent tweet from Hsaka (SOL/AVX/LUNA vs ADA/DOT/TRX)

The flippening nobody noticed. pic.twitter.com/7k5BhMh3Fh

— Hsaka (@HsakaTrades) December 21, 2021

Yea that's where I got it from. No denying he's right at this point. The 3 arrows guys basically have confirmed all the devs they talk to these days are building on those chains.

Careful of what you're told and how they tell it.
Magicians can make a house of cards look very tempting and with the angles they use it is easy to believe it is solid.
You seem well versed so use caution with someone's "pump" material as an indicator of future success.

I've got a few thousand dollars from a bonus at work. What should I buy out of the options below?

BTC
ETH
SOL
RVN

Would be useful if you could tag posts similar to Reddit flair so y you could filter out posts you aren't interested in.
I've suggested this in the tech support/feedback before.

capital markets said:

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The other crypto threads have a lot of talk about bitcoin, and perhaps rightfully so given its market cap relative to other projects. However, in my opinion it makes it difficult to have discussion about other crypto projects, thus the reason for this thread!

I'm personally very curious how avalanche vs solana will turn out, and whether the ETH merge actually solves the scaling issues. Vitalik's post saying that layer 2s are necessary for scaling ETH is pretty interesting compared to some of the other chains that are trying to scale on L1.

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I'd put 90% in BTC and play with the other 10% personally.

I'm looking for the biggest gain. I already have 90% BTC.

Your answer may be the same, however.

And I don't think I would necessarily disagree with you.

mrmill3218 said:

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I've got a few thousand dollars from a bonus at work. What should I buy out of the options below?

BTC
ETH
SOL
RVN

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The biggest gain is not coming from this list. It doesn't matter the timeline but especially in the next 2-4 months.

Look at smaller cap tokens that have major news/developments/partnerships coming in the near future.
Imo, Harmony One (3-5x) is still a buy but do it sooner than later.
Next on my list would be a Lotto like Shiba. It is a risk but with two exchanges listings in Q1 2022 it could eat a zero and perhaps a half (10-15x).

I like harmony and have a small bit. However, I'm not in to buying shib. Ravencoin is smaller than both of those though.

My answer is the same. Playing the ****coin roulette wheel with all of it seems ill advised.

mrmill3218 said:

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I like harmony and have a small bit. However, I'm not in to buying shib. Ravencoin is smaller than both of those though.

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Ravencoin has been around since 2018 and is not accomplished imo.
I don't know a lot but they seem to be lagging in important metrics. For example - One has-been around half the time and is doing more already and is currently priced at the ATH for RVN.


Friendly wager - my crap coin lotto Shib will 8x in price before RVN passes it's ATH.

Just watched my year in crypto on crypto.com
Harmony One was my biggest holding at 59% of my portfolio on crypto.com
Jeez, at the current price (not even at the ATH) my decision to sell all my LINK and ETH to buy more Harmony was the right move and it isn't close.
Link was about $30/ETH was around $3,500


LFG Harmony!!!

LatinAggie1997 said:

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Just watched my year in crypto on crypto.com
Harmony One was my biggest holding at 59% of my portfolio on crypto.com
Jeez, at the current price (not even at the ATH) my decision to sell all my LINK and ETH to buy more Harmony was the right move and it isn't close.
Link was about $30/ETH was around $3,500


LFG Harmony!!!

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What information led you to decide to swap from LINK/ETH to Harmony? Not questioning if it was right decision, just love hearing other people's thought process who are in the space.

I researched the team and the road map. It was less than a penny at that time so it seemed like a no brainer. My first buy was at 1 penny.

I began liking Harmony even more the more I read, heard, and watched.
I began doing the math. I knew Harmony was going to do well based on the fundamentals and their plans.
I got in on LINK pretty early not so much on ETH.
I had already sold some of each for big profits so, I did some calculations as to whether to hold or move the remaining money into ONE. I sold at
90 LINK tokens at $30
1.5 ETH at $3,500

I used a plausible best case scenario for both LINK amd ETH. Should they both reach high price marks compared to what could happen with ONE.
90 LINK at $500 = $45k
1 ETH at $20k = $20k (the other half ETH token went into ADA)
What ALL the talking heads were predicting

Those funds into Harmony at $.04
90*30=2,700
1*3,500= 3,500

$6,200/.04= 155,000 ONE tokens

I guessed ONE could reach between $.30 - $1.50
My instincts told me it was a smarter play to bet on ONE getting to $.30 than LINK over $400 and ETH over $20k.

Had I kept my LINK (currently $20) and my (ETH currently $4k) - my account would not look nearly as good as it does with ONE anywhere over $.08

I believe ONE will approach $.60-$1.30 prior to Q2 2022.

LatinAggie1997 said:

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I researched the team and the road map. It was less than a penny at that time so it seemed like a no brainer. My first buy was at 1 penny.

I began liking Harmony even more the more I read, heard, and watched.
I began doing the math. I knew Harmony was going to do well based on the fundamentals and their plans.
I got in on LINK pretty early not so much on ETH.
I had already sold some of each for big profits so, I did some calculations as to whether to hold or move the remaining money into ONE. I sold at
90 LINK tokens at $30
1.5 ETH at $3,500

I used a plausible best case scenario for both LINK amd ETH. Should they both reach high price marks compared to what could happen with ONE.
90 LINK at $500 = $45k
1 ETH at $20k = $20k (the other half ETH token went into ADA)
What ALL the talking heads were predicting

Those funds into Harmony at $.04
90*30=2,700
1*3,500= 3,500

$6,200/.04= 155,000 ONE tokens

I guessed ONE could reach between $.30 - $1.50
My instincts told me it was a smarter play to bet on ONE getting to $.30 than LINK over $400 and ETH over $20k.

Had I kept my LINK (currently $20) and my (ETH currently $4k) - my account would not look nearly as good as it does with ONE anywhere over $.08

I believe ONE will approach $.60-$1.30 prior to Q2 2022.

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Thanks for sharing! Am I understanding correctly that it was part a market cap play? IE much easier to move a small market cap up than a big one?

Also do you have an exit strategy on ONE? Sell at 0.6-1.3?

Precisely.
A great team with great vision and experience with a small cap. Easy move based on those factors. It did help my thinking when Charles Hoskinson praised the Harmony ONE team, their approach, and tech.

As of now I am 50/50 with my strategy.

1. Hold
A. I believe they will keep growing and become more known and used than Matic quickly.
B. Afraid that cycles have changed too much and we won't see 80-90% drops in bear cycles for alts.

2. Sell
DCA out 5% beginning around $.50 stair stepping at every nickel.
OR
Sell 25% at no predetermined intervals but based on news and updates.

LatinAggie1997 said:

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I researched the team and the road map. It was less than a penny at that time so it seemed like a no brainer. My first buy was at 1 penny.

I began liking Harmony even more the more I read, heard, and watched.
I began doing the math. I knew Harmony was going to do well based on the fundamentals and their plans.
I got in on LINK pretty early not so much on ETH.
I had already sold some of each for big profits so, I did some calculations as to whether to hold or move the remaining money into ONE. I sold at
90 LINK tokens at $30
1.5 ETH at $3,500

I used a plausible best case scenario for both LINK amd ETH. Should they both reach high price marks compared to what could happen with ONE.
90 LINK at $500 = $45k
1 ETH at $20k = $20k (the other half ETH token went into ADA)
What ALL the talking heads were predicting

Those funds into Harmony at $.04
90*30=2,700
1*3,500= 3,500

$6,200/.04= 155,000 ONE tokens

I guessed ONE could reach between $.30 - $1.50
My instincts told me it was a smarter play to bet on ONE getting to $.30 than LINK over $400 and ETH over $20k.

Had I kept my LINK (currently $20) and my (ETH currently $4k) - my account would not look nearly as good as it does with ONE anywhere over $.08

I believe ONE will approach $.60-$1.30 prior to Q2 2022.

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Well, well, well, would you look at the big brain on Brad?

LatinAggie1997 said:

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mrmill3218 said:

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I've got a few thousand dollars from a bonus at work. What should I buy out of the options below?

BTC
ETH
SOL
RVN

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The biggest gain is not coming from this list. It doesn't matter the timeline but especially in the next 2-4 months.

Look at smaller cap tokens that have major news/developments/partnerships coming in the near future.
Imo, Harmony One (3-5x) is still a buy but do it sooner than later.
Next on my list would be a Lotto like Shiba. It is a risk but with two exchanges listings in Q1 2022 it could eat a zero and perhaps a half (10-15x).

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You dog ETH yet shill Shiba - you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

In reply to NTXAg10
"I'm looking for the biggest gain. I already have 90% BTC"

I know the question was which is likely to have the biggest gains.


Prove me wrong arsehole.

"What ain't no country I ever heard of, do they speak English in what!?"

LatinAggie1997 said:

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In reply to NTXAg10
"I'm looking for the biggest gain. I already have 90% BTC"

I know the question was which is likely to have the biggest gains.


Prove me wrong arsehole.

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Looks like y'all already need some pretentious BTC maxi discussion to keep things civil around here

ThreatLevel: Midnight said:

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LatinAggie1997 said:

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I researched the team and the road map. It was less than a penny at that time so it seemed like a no brainer. My first buy was at 1 penny.

I began liking Harmony even more the more I read, heard, and watched.
I began doing the math. I knew Harmony was going to do well based on the fundamentals and their plans.
I got in on LINK pretty early not so much on ETH.
I had already sold some of each for big profits so, I did some calculations as to whether to hold or move the remaining money into ONE. I sold at
90 LINK tokens at $30
1.5 ETH at $3,500

I used a plausible best case scenario for both LINK amd ETH. Should they both reach high price marks compared to what could happen with ONE.
90 LINK at $500 = $45k
1 ETH at $20k = $20k (the other half ETH token went into ADA)
What ALL the talking heads were predicting

Those funds into Harmony at $.04
90*30=2,700
1*3,500= 3,500

$6,200/.04= 155,000 ONE tokens

I guessed ONE could reach between $.30 - $1.50
My instincts told me it was a smarter play to bet on ONE getting to $.30 than LINK over $400 and ETH over $20k.

Had I kept my LINK (currently $20) and my (ETH currently $4k) - my account would not look nearly as good as it does with ONE anywhere over $.08

I believe ONE will approach $.60-$1.30 prior to Q2 2022.

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Well, well, well, would you look at the big brain on Brad?

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Oops.

What are y'all's reason for putting in on non-BTC, other than to take a flyer? Is there a coin out there that is less centralized than Bitcoin and doesn't have a public team pushing it?

I only speak for myself.

1. For gains. Picking very specific ones.
2. To hodl tokens I believe will be around in 5-10 years.

Comeby! said:

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What are y'all's reason for putting in on non-BTC, other than to take a flyer? Is there a coin out there that is less centralized than Bitcoin and doesn't have a public team pushing it?

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BTC has been a pretty bad trade this year.

There are tons of alts running laps around it.

Comeby! said:

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What are y'all's reason for putting in on non-BTC, other than to take a flyer? Is there a coin out there that is less centralized than Bitcoin and doesn't have a public team pushing it?

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Great questions!!

My biggest reason is that, at least currently, in my current opinion there are several other networks better suited for smart contracts etc. IMO the value of well functioning smart contract platforms is in the trillions.

Decentralization is a spectrum. I think that ETH is already 'sufficiently' decentralized. Others like AVAX/SOL are very centralized currently, but are working towards decentralization.

Great and necessary thread! I still want a "crypto trading thread" where we discuss trading alts and such as in day, week, or monthly trading.

I put money in a very small coin called Saitama. Went up 6x and then fell to where I'm up 2.3x.

If it goes up again, I'm gonna take my initial investment out and let the rest ride.

Looking at charts, sol may move In a day or two.

LatinAggie1997 said:

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In reply to NTXAg10
"I'm looking for the biggest gain. I already have 90% BTC"

I know the question was which is likely to have the biggest gains.


Prove me wrong arsehole.

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How are you getting and holding "One"? What exchange are you using?