Why ser are you so enamored with crypto derivatives? Is it just KYC, you dirty degen?
KYC (and the fact that crypto derivatives can't be shut down) is a huge ideological reason for me. But there are other benefits, too
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- On-chain verifications, so you're not depending on a broker
- 24/7/365 markets
- Powered by smart contracts so with a hardened system there shouldn't be outages (we're some time away from that perhaps but it will come)
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- Product selection: if you can dream you can build it in DeFi and your audience will be global... no more walled-off, segregated islands of liquidity
- Composability might be the biggest reason, though: imagine posting a synth as collateral for a loan, for example...
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...then using the borrowed proceeds to park in an interest-bearing account. That's the simplest example, but these things will be mashed up and mixed together in ways we can't conceive of yet
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Lastly, there are also nearly 2 billions humans without bank accounts. Much like many countries skipped landline internet and went straight to mobile internet, many countries will skip the legacy banking system
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And they will arrive in the land of decentralized money... a place unencumbered by the mental burden of a dying system of centralization and trust
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Do you want to know the absolute worst people in the world to talk #Bitcoin with?
Bank tellers are pretty bad. They're so beat down by compliance and rules and regs that they think EVERYTHING that doesn't involve reams of paperwork and identification documents is a scam.
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But no. I get where they're coming from. Their experiences are valid
Maybe you're thinking it's the friendly investment advisor at Edward Jones
tbh they seem to be warming up to crypto (I think we can thank the millennials for shoving it like hot dogs down their throats)
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No, the worst people I've ever tried to talk crypto with are econ professors
They get this smug fucking look on their faces like I'm fucking peon with no "credentials" who would deign to talk them about something they've pigeonholed as a ponzi
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The vast majority of people think they can beat the crypto markets even though they're something like a full-time dentist and they play squash twice a week and they have two kids and a wife and they get about 30 minutes a day to study crypto
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But sure, they've read @benmezrich's Bitcoin Billionaries. They listen to @APompliano's podcast. They understand blockchain
That means they can compete with the OG 🐳s who've owned $BTC since Gox died + still spend 12 hrs a day reading, learning + experimenting in crypto
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It's especially laughable when that sort of person thinks they can short-term trade. Like the right entry and exit points are always between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Thursdays when they actually have a minute to look at the markets lol
But if it has, let me tell you this: what's about to happen just might defy belief
Bull markets are full-body experiences....
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During the last crazy run-ups (2013 + 2017), I checked my phone like a gd slave. In December 2017, it was weeks of my positions going up double-digits every 24 hours. I'd check my phone before I walked into the store to buy some bologna....
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By the time I walked out I'd have some good ass bolgna + be $10k richer. I'd watch an episode of Silicon Valley... check my phone... $10k richer
I'd log into Binance like a kid running around at the arcade with a bucket full of quarters. Just throwing money at stupid shit
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Why, ser, are you so bullish on decentralized derivatives?
Well, for one, I'm an American. I can buy assault rifles + shoot myself up with heroin, but JFC, the boot will be on my neck if I say I'd like to trade some crypto derivatives
DeFi does not ask to see "my papers"
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For two, I think most investors are underexposed to decentralized derivatives (with the possible exception of $SNX). That coupled with the fact that they're finally getting useful AF is why they currently make up about 50% of my crypto portfolio
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One helpful way to allocate your portfolio is to consider the size of tradfi markets. For bitcoin, you can do something like this:
Store of value in the real world (gold): $7.5 trillion
Store of value in digital world ($BTC): $300 billion