At the time of writing, the crypto markets look worse than they have looked in a while. Crypto is likely, for the first time in its history, to experience an economic recession and increasing interest rates.
This has prompted critics to say that “crypto is dead!”
2/ The Apocalypse is happening
Now, I’m not gonna bullshit you, the markets are nuking and we’re in for a world of hurt. But the logical inference that because the price is lower it’s over for crypto, is a fundamental misunderstanding of the tech and its role in the economy.
3/ Crypto is a cockroach, you can’t kill it
The entire purpose of crypto is that it can sustain shocks through its decentralization. The logic is that by diversifying the number of operators/miners you can weather any storm, as you can’t possibly affect every area equally
4/ Blockchains don’t go Bankrupt
Blockchains aren’t businesses with profit margins or running costs - those are socialized to the wider community. And if the community is large enough, dedicated and rich enough to support it, it cannot disappear overnight.
5/ Centralized crypto is different
Over the last few years, there’s been a rise of centralized blockchains - Excel spreadsheets - which run on expensive servers controlled by a handful of actors. These can and do go bankrupt as they’re run-of-the-mill centralized tech businesses
6/ Running Costs
Due to the energy efficiency of Cardano and the ethos of making the requirements for running a basic stakepool modest, well-delegated stakepools can still operate and maintain the network despite low prices
Look at Dogecoin, it’s crap, it has no real purpose, yet before being adopted by Elon Musk, it was purely kept alive FOR YEARS as a joke due to merge mining with Litecoin.
IF A BLOCKCHAIN’S COMMUNITY IS STRONG IT CANNOT DIE!
8/ Cardano is strong
Whether it’s appreciating nice polls or meeting up in live events, the ADA community is active when compared to its peers in market cap
I asked the FlanClan whether they had any plans of selling now that the price is down, close to 1k people (96%) said no
9/ Government & Corporate Partnerships
One thing that attracted me to Cardano was its increasing institutional partnerships. If institutions have their data infrastructure on-chain, this will act as a permanent cushion, as they will need ADA for their essential operations.
10/ ADA’s Resilence
Despite all the nonsense happening, ADA has actually held up remarkably well. Just to make a point, the Flan Clan NFT mint over a month ago happened while ADA was $0.4. We’re actually HIGHER now than we were back then, even though everything’s crashed.
11/ ADA is a solid product
Probably beating a dead horse here, but ADA is worth the attention we give it. I've written articles a quarter of a book's length on why it's a good investment. But here are the cliff notes:
We most likely will go lower. But over a longer period, we’re likely to be fine. Many crypto projects with no use, or which are not particularly well designed, are likely to die out. ADA is not one of those.
Cardano has already survived mega bear markets before
21/ Shilling
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Catalyst is often jokingly referred to as Cardano’s VC, as it aims to collect a portion of fees generated from each transaction and use that money to fund projects that are beneficial to the community.
A funding round for Project Catalyst happens around every 6 weeks.
2/ Purpose
Catalyst is still in an experimental phase where its operating procedure is subject to change considerably
But it ultimately seeks to be a means by which to fund projects that help the Cardano ecosystem, irrespective of whether or not they’re necessarily profitable
Sorry to the people I tagged on the thread, I don’t mean you specifically, or anyone else in the audience.
I’m sure you’re all lovely and smart people😳
I’m referring to the average Joe and his habits, how despite his best intentions, he might be destined to fail
2/ Intro
If you’re under 40 you have likely never been invested during a deep recession.
We all collectively believe we’re much better at making money than we really are, it’s just that until recently we’ve had the longest bull-run in recorded history.
Sitting Tight - February 2022 Crypto On-Chain Digest
This report is an analysis of various on-chain metrics for #Bitcoin, #Ethereum and #Cardano which show a bearish trend for the markets and what its ongoing effects might be 0/6
Most important info 1/X
Throughout February, Crypto was going out of exchanges, which would imply people intended to HODL. Now though, exchanges are minorly receiving more crypto than is leaving, so people are more likely to sell their holdings. However, this trend is lessening with each passing day 2/X
Over 90% of my net worth is in ADA at the time of writing. I believe in the project enough to more or less work full-time on it.
That said, I believe anyone that invests in an asset should be able to play devil’s advocate against it if they really understand it.
2⃣ASS COVERING
I am going to be uncharitable in my assessment of both Cardano and its community. I don’t do this out of malice, but out of an attempt to temper some of the over-optimism native to Twitter that I’m sure has led people to overleverage and go bankrupt