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Jan 25 10 tweets 4 min read
Well, the total market capitalization of the crypto market is down 41% on the month.

Is it finally time for a bear market thread from croissant? Let’s give it a shot… (1/x) 🐻
With tokens reaching several year lows, surely there are other great investment opportunities arising in the real world…

Let’s take a look at stocks.

Oh, the Nasdaq is down 12.7% this month, wiping out many months of single digit gains?

That’s okay. that’s just one example…
By now you’d think all these people would stop using Ethereum so much with gas fees so high & block space getting so undesirable, right?

Mmm, no. Despite extraordinarily high fees, a growing number of users continue to bid to get their transactions included in the next block…
Okay, okay. So there’s a lot of people spending ETH to transact on the network…

How much of the fees are going to miners!?

Only a tip!? Now you’re going to tell me the rest is burnt.

Oh, it is? Resulting in upwards of $3,903,405,539 worth of $ETH being burnt in under a year?
If Ethereum is suffering from this much congestion, surely other DeFi protocols on top of the network are worse.

Has a black swan event, or any major DeFi protocol failed in all the stress tests?

No? Better than ever? Coordinating with backstops + failsafes with no regulation?
Fine, but you can’t say people are still buying stupid jpegs, can you?

Wait, more so than ever? Even after a massive crash? That would be 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 compelling if they were growing back with actual use cases and legitimacy now…
People have got to be getting bored of this ecosystem.

With no innovation and crabbing people will lose interest…

What’s that about ETHGlobal hosting a hackathon with a record 250+ projects built on $ETH being submitted from 800 different devs across 68 countries? Cool…
Is China banning Bitcoin and destroying Bitcoin miners on the streets again?

Surely the United States government is taking action too, right!?

They hate Bitcoin and every crypto in existence.
What about macro?

Is foundational trust in the United States government growing along with confidence in the dollar? Are workers happy with their wages not keeping up with inflation?

Is there anywhere safe to store your assets and outperform the central bank balance sheet?
Ramblings from a croissant who tweets about magical internet money aside, narratives change quickly in this market

Nothing has changed these last few months except the fact we got 40%+ more early.

When it comes to it, fundamentals won’t care about your “technical analysis.” 🥐

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More from @CroissantEth

Jan 26
Ever since I started to get a large following on Twitter, I have been trying to refrain from dropping lots of alpha irresponsibly…

I am always wary of promoting any small projects, aware of the impact I may have.

Today, however. That’s not going to be the case… Image
Why? It’s time to introduce you to .@theBakeryDAO.

The BakeryDAO is a cumulative effort by a handful of pastries, that we hope will change the NFT and web 3.0. ecosystem as we know it today.

The magic begins with our website: bakery.fyi
If you look closely, this isn’t just your ordinary website.

Using some web3 trickery, we have integrated accounts into the back end via NFTs.

This allows us to monetize special pages across the website, locked to only members of the BakeryDAO (holders of the NFT)

Check it out:
Read 25 tweets
Jan 24
Think the building + hype behind NFTs and web3 is slowing down? Think again.

Last week an ETH hackathon led by ETHGlobal broke all previous records

It showcased 255 projects built by more than 800 devs in 68 different countries

I’ll describe some of the best projects below! 🥐
1. Creativerse

Creativerse is a Minecraft server that is connected to the Ethereum network.

Users can purchase plots as NFTs, with block data of each plot stored in the NFT.

This means that anyone (even you!) can run a server, & no matter what, your build cannot be censored 👀
2. Duomint

Want to onboard a friend into web 3.0 without worrying about the gas costs?

Duomint makes this easy. Anyone who wants can cover the gas fees for a mint

It adds a DuoMint function that, when called, mints 2 NFTs, one to the msg.sender and one to another account(s)
Read 24 tweets
Dec 22, 2021
Here you go .@elonmusk

For more than a year now I have been working on a cumulative effort to showcase the unique features of web3 & NFTs.

Allow me to explain my experience with this… 🥐
First off, writing for a living sucks.

Writers have few options to choose from when it comes to platforms, all part of a larger monopoly who picks and chooses what can be said on the internet.

I didn’t even start writing with crypto, my first gig was writing in politics…
Every day in high school I would work my ass off building my Facebook and Twitter pages up to the hundreds of thousands of followers…

Until that all came to an end.

I will never forget the day that Facebook permanently banned my pages for what could only be political reasons..
Read 25 tweets
Dec 9, 2021
The recent Congressional hearing was one of the most bullish events for crypto in all of 2021.

It represented a clear change in momentum, as legislators begin to understand the true magic of the blockchain…

In this thread I’ll compile the best highlights from the hearing! 🥐
I couldn’t help but begin this with Mr. Sherman, a Democratic House member.

In this clip, he claims that Bitcoin is at risk of being replaced by Hamster coin, Mongoose coin, among many other ridiculous names.

This one is just hard to watch.
Next up, we have Republican Congresswoman Ann Wagner agreeing with Coinbase CFO Ms. Haas about regulatory clarity on digital assets.

The clip ends with the Congresswoman firing shots at Gary Gensler. 👀
Read 13 tweets
Dec 7, 2021
The market capitalization of Axie Infinity is at an astounding $6.4B right now.

For comparison, Ubisoft has a market capitalization of merely $5.85B.

Let’s take a look at a bit of a little thought experiment for this thread, shall we? 🥐
Ubisoft is one of the largest video games companies in the world boasting top-selling game titles such as:

-Assassins Creed
-Far Cry
-Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege
-Watch Dogs
-Just Dance 2
-Riders Republic
-Star Wars

So… why is there such a discrepancy between the two?
Is Axie Infinity more fun to play than ALL of the titles mentioned above?

No.

𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘥.
Read 11 tweets
Nov 30, 2021
ETH is well on its way to becoming one of the most productive assets in the world.

Don’t believe me? Just have a look at this thread… 🥐
The Ethereum blockchain began in 2015, offering 72M $ETH to over 10,000 #Bitcoin addresses who participated in the ICO.

Fast forward to today, there is now 118M $ETH from block rewards across 135,734,686 recorded wallet addresses.
Of the initial ICO participants:

-81% of these wallets have only 1% of their initial balances or less

-9.5% have an unchanged balance (lost?)

-only 64 have actually increased their ETH holdings

h/t .@ASvanevik

So… where are all of the tokens now?
Read 18 tweets

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