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Living life in the slow lane. UTXO connoisseur.

Joined April 2020
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
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Prior to BTC, we had things like WoW gold, Linden dollars, egold, liberty reserve, etc.. The digital currency space is constantly evolving. The breakthrough of #Bitcoin is that it's decentralized. It wont be the end, improvements always come. Welcome them & evolve with.
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@iluminatibot When I was in 6th grade, I told my social studies teacher that the government was the one that pulled the towers. She scolded me for it.
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@AhmedAbouhalawa @MKBHD All your cancelled subscriptions return ๐Ÿ˜‚
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I am sponsoring $100k USDC to anyone who can get #Decred listed on #Thorchain I can provide $DCR liquidity for that effort, and i'm sure many others in the decred community would as well. DM me if interested!
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My parents put me in charge of their portfolio. They are about to retire, so I went with a conservative approach. 3 coins only: BTC, ETH, and RUNE $BTC: Cost basis $19,740 $ETH: Cost basis $1,421 $RUNE: Cost basis $1.42 Not too shabby..
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I pledge when $XMR hits $200, I am filling 100 backpacks with cheap tablets, notebooks, and pens and donating them to the elementary school I went to which was primarily low income students. A computer and a internet helped me succeed, I'd like to see that replicated.
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@FLOTUS You're awesome, First Lady!
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@theemrsmcafee @EyeSupportAnon If this is true, John Mcafee is a legend. Imagine trolling the Feds thinking they caught the real man, when the real @officialmcafee is sipping piรฑa coladas with his wife.
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I don't even like Bitcoin anymore and I don't know why I hold it. Especially when there are many other coins that have superior technology and more decentralized than 3 mining pools securing the chain.
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4 years
@Breaking911 Fake news... He just said on Twitter he is feeling well
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@CollinRugg Officer was probably vaccinated. A bit of a scuffle with the suspect increased his heart rate and then he #DiedSuddenly is my guess. Seeing it a lot more
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@MKBHD In reality, the whole thing about blue checkmarks was a way to censor the anonymous accounts from having their voice heard. People that got blue checkmarks got doxx'd via phone and credit card billing info. In the name of "free speech", they are essentially preventing it.
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In my business balance sheet, the last 2 years, we put all our profit into #THORChain . Every month, we pay our expenses, and anything left in the bank over $30k, we bought $RUNE with it. Now we're shopping for new properties and reinvesting those gains in staff's benefits.
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Dev spinning up some DCR <> BCH, DCR <> RUNE transactions on a privatenet #decred #thorchain Lots of work going into this with many moving pieces. But eventually we'll get to mainnet swaps. But not tomorrow. Follow the work, and the challenges:
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I think i'm one of the few people that use @THORChain $RUNE and $ETH to run my commercial real estate business. We buy, and we sell when big expenses come. The business is positive cash flow, so it allowed me to reduce my cost basis over the bear market. When next bull market
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@xHibou_ @iluminatibot Right next to you!
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@RampCapitalLLC ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ ๐Ÿ’ต ๐Ÿ’€
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The investment thesis' that I justified my original investment in @THORChain 's $RUNE are stronger today then ever. 1. Organic Liquidity - A good coin must allow large quantities to be bought and sold. The way the liquidity pools work for all the assets ensures you can always
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@PeterMcCormack RIP John Thank you for all the inspiration. Be easy on the other side, ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿฝ
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People were using Anchor Protocol to earn 20% yield on UST in 2021. In the end, it was unsustainable due to LUNA and constantly refilling the reserve. In 2023-2024, the stablecoin yield go-to place is @THORChain . USDT and USDC currently earning 13% in real, organic, yield.
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There's nothing i'm excited more about in crypto than THORChain The power to switch between utxo<>erc20<>cosmos<>other coins, without kyc, and high liquidity is very interesting, game changer. 1 token grants you 1-click access to any other coin, without third-party. #utility
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@ButtCrackSports Steph Curry be like, "Time to play the game"
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It's inevitable #Bitcoin
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This is where I see the dex space heading: Many forks of #THORChain , bootstrapped with RUNE pool and dex aggregation. It doesn't take a whole lot of liquidity to become usable for large trades due to streaming swaps. 2 forks of THORChain that I hope to see: Private Chain -
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Man, thank god for crypto. Took profits in the last bull run, bought a hotel. In the bear market, refinanced that property, bought my crypto back. So the property was essentially free. Next bull run, 2024-2025, I'll do the same, except on a grander scale.
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Happy to say, I just got back from the doctors appointment with my wife. I'm gonna be a father. ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜Ž
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@CaitlinLong_ @BlockFi This is one of the few times I've seen that regulation actually protected investors. Wyoming residents protected from the BlockFi collapse.
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I use #Decred more than any other cryptocurrency. I have a large enough stake to where the rewards act as a nice income for me. It pays alot of my expenses. I bought $DCR, stake it, and the staking rewards I get, I convert it to USDC and use that to load my Bitpay card
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Monero is the closest thing to the original vision of cryptocurrency. Nothing has changed for me, and any responsible investor would have already factored in today's events into their risk analysis. The show goes on! Viva la #Monero !
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Monero will never compromise on privacy. You can trade Monero on other exchanges, on DEXs, and with atomic swaps. Please self-custody your XMR.
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@GoldTelegraph_ Heard this like 20 times the last 2-3 years
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Here is my Citadel, it's a work in progress. 13 acre farm - Cattle, poultry 1000 ft water well - 100gpm+ Hybrid solar w/ grid backup - 2 SolArk 15k inverters, 30kw solar + battery bank 1600 sqft manufactured home 2 ISP + satellite comm redundancy #Bitcoin and #Monero mining
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@Califas619 @Fxhedgers Cancel all taxes, let people save their money. The Fed can print the money they need. They are doing that right now anyways.
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Scooped some more #Monero $XMR today at these cheap prices. ๐Ÿ˜Ž And straight into my wallet. Thanks @krakenfx #NotYourKeysNotYourCoins
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Awesome to see people excited to add liquidity for the Decred pool/integration which is being worked on for Thorchain. @THORChain twitter said utxo chains gonna get the love they deserve. ๐Ÿ’ช๐ŸฝLove to see it, Stable, utxo coin, low attack surface, privacy w/ auditability. #Decred
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if you own decred you should do your part to help and add some liquidity to thorchain dex to help @fst_nml 's efforts. I will be contributing.
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@tbr90 That sounds like @THORChain Permissionless DEX No oracles Lending (Stagenet) Stablecoin (TOR used internally) Decentralized collateral (BTC & ETH) The scaling part, well, that will take some time.
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Monerotopia > Bitcoin 2022
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@Ashcryptoreal I am surprised this much sell volume is being absorbed relatively well..
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Bought a chunk of #Monero just to pull it out of an exchange and participate in the #Monerorun Who leaves their coins on exchanges anyway? $XMR baby
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"Popular" or not, #Decred has some of the best architecture in regards to resiliency and stability in my opinion. The PoS/PoW hybrid consensus makes it very difficult to attack. The lightweight nature of this UTXO chain makes synchronizing and running full nodes easy. The
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I'm in everything for the gains, besides Monero. Monero is the only coin I will hold based off principle, everything else is for the dinero.
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@satrinity402 It's not a shitcoin Monero probably has more PhD's, cryptographers, hackers, and governments auditing it more than any other project.
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RUNE was in-line with BTC and ETH, but then it rose so much that it overwhelmed my portfolio. But this is what I'm riding in the 2024 bull market.
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Today, at 2:30am, my wife gave birth to our beautiful daughter! Both mom and baby are doing well. New chapter in our lives, very happy. ๐Ÿ™‚
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My niche investment sector for this bull market is native, cross-chain, swaps. I acquired stakes in THORChain, Maya, and Chainflip. The only 3 protocols that currently provide this service. I'm not betting on a single horse, i'm betting on DeFi as a whole.
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@APompliano I remember my dad showing me a million dollar house when I was young, and it was like a mansion, oceanfront property. Now a million bucks buys you like 2000 sqft house in some places.
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Might be the only person that has $RUNE on the hotel's balance sheet, and we are irresponsibly long. LOL YOLO, come bull market, might just be able to buy 1-2 more properties. We've been DCA'ing for years now, and our cost basis is in the high $2's
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@notsofast Anything but a ghost chain I use Decred more than any other crypto. It's literally a cashflow for me. I stake, make DCR, sell that DCR income to load my bitpay card. Literally been living off my staking rewards for a year.
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@btcvalgardena This only works for Monero because it's private. Because if you "lost all your BTC" and it moves on-chain a week later, you have some explaining to do.
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The Bitcoin-only people are gonna have the least gains the next bull market.
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#Decred is the best yield-generating, decentralized cryptocurrency right now, with high stability. Provides annual yield, of approximately 3-6% varying, in dcr. With no counterparty risk. #proofofwork secures hashrate, mining #proofofstake secures yield, voting rights, privacy
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Had to sell some RUNE today ๐Ÿ˜ญ Renovating the hotel, and the new carpets costed $90k. Bank reserves covered most of it. That's the nature of running a business on crypto. At times you have excess capital that goes into RUNE, and sometimes expenses that require you to sell a
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Few thoughts about the new crypto tax snuck into the infrastructure bill: - This is why #Monero , #Decred , and privacy coins are important. - If they can't ban crypto, they will tax it to death. - #Thorchain having anon devs is a good thing. - Tough decision: comply or go dark.
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The best moments of 2020 was spending it with y'all. The Monero community. The Decred community. The Bitcoin maxis. I follow a small set of people in the crypto community. But it's quality people. And if you're reading this, I wish you a wonderful 2021
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@RonWyden Adderall is basically pill-based meth.. with terrible long term side effects for children and adults. Shame that you're pushing it. The real epidemic is the number of doctors prescribing it.
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Just got a huge task done at the farm. Got all the solar panels installed, 18.2kw solar + 60kwh battery bank. When excess solar is there, miners power on. When batteries run low, the miners power off. The house, water well, AC, miners, all powered from this.
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House got delivered, set, and leveled. Big step! Tomorrow, electrician and septic completing their installation. Friday, water well should be complete and ready to trench a line to the house. Spectrum installing internet after electricity connected. Last, solar install. ๐Ÿค ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿฝ
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#Thorchain is underpriced for it's current functionality and future goals. Utxo-chains going live again in the next few days.. The project has support from many orgs and individuals, and high morale. #61 on CMC, 500m cap, 224m emitted. Market cap has plenty room to grow. #Gems
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I don't trust that banks won't steal my money. I don't trust that the stocks I own are actually mine. I don't trust that governments will protect property rights and titles. I don't trust the court system as a trusted third party. I do trust my full node. $btc $xmr $dcr
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@ihatecodee Bitcoin -> Monero -> gambled it (sorry ex-babe) -> "your honor, I have no crypto" -> divorced -> get a fishing pole and a boat and enjoy your life
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Sold 15% of all my stacks at 50k Don't even care what happens to crypto anymore, took enough profits to buy a house, and retire, and have my children retire.
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Currently, there is no other #cryptocurrency which allows for private #staking other than Decred. #Cardano and #Solana both have staking, but not privately. It's the users choice of what they report.. User choice for the win. #Decred for the win. Stable, secure, private
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I remember when @CaitlinLong_ was discussing this with @Mashinsky and others on a podcast, about fractional reserve crypto assets, and Alex was writing it off. Seems like that entire podcast is very relevant with whats happening with @CelsiusNetwork Worth the listen again..
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That interview that @danheld did with @stephanlivera was a very nice listen. In regards to hodling, lending, housing, tax, etc..
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Someone's buying some DCR ๐Ÿ˜ˆ
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#Decred 's decentralized exchange will be functional with #Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens. #Bitcoin <--> ETH/DCR/USDC "There is an existing Go implementation developed for Decred's atomicswap tools and Go Ethereum libraries that can be leveraged to get this functionality into DEX."
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I'm cool holding a diversified portfolio of crypto. Not stressing over some coins performing better than others. But sheeesh, my $RUNE and $SOL bags have been outperforming mostly everything ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿ”ฅ $BTC leading, hopefully $ETH catches up, I just started solo staking my ETH too.
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Cool project i'm working on irl: 60kw off-grid solar Plenty of fruit trees, gardening, water well Communication redundancy - Satellite, Fiber, multiple ISP A sign at the entrance that says "Come back with a warrant" Want to run #Decred asics and a #Thorchain node offgrid.
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Got fiber ran over 2 miles to my farmhouse. We now have: Dedicated Fiber Internet Starlink as failover All devices connected to UPS backup 18.2 kw solar w/ 60kwh battery Happy with the connectivity and energy build.
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Have y'all noticed Monero is just killing it while Bitcoin is dropping? My theory is that #BIP119 is threatening the #fungibility of #Bitcoin , and people are starting to realize this. Also, too much PoW fud from institutional ESG propaganda. And #Monero is immune to it all.
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I'm Monero, Zcash, Decred, Haven. I'm long privacy. Because for me, that was the ethos of cryptocurrency. I invest in freedom providing tools.
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Privacy always survives, this is the only thing that matters for a free society. Privacy will be always a trending & narrative. Thatโ€™s why Iโ€™m Zcash.
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@StopAndDecrypt @Breaking911 It had nothing to do with race. It was purely police brutality, but rather than the state/police taking accountability for their actions, they will blame the cop and say it was a racist incident.
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Considering the selling points of #Bitcoin we're: P2P Electronic Cash Hedge against inflation Keeping your money private Decentralization It's ethos hasn't held up well. In fact, #Monero is a superior alternative in most of those categories. $XMR is what $BTC aimed to be.
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@mrjberlin @BitcoinMagazine Depositors are unsecured creditors Meaning, it is basically the same thing as blockfi owning customer funds
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Honestly, if there was a nobel prize for best technology within the last 10 years, i'd say it's #Monero . Because it allows people to hold their own value, in a way which provides many features such as privacy, plausible deniability, scarcity, e-gold, good security, development.
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Zcash is a good candidate for the next chain added to THORChain ๐Ÿ’ช ๐Ÿ™Œ
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@CBarraford @THORChain Sure, I could get down with ZEC over Polygon as a fast follow to BSC.
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The only alts I'm holding are DCR and XMR and I am rebalancing that to do a 50-50 split BTC 60% DCR 20% XMR 20% I'm not interested in any other cryptocurrencies. I don't play in the erc-20 flavor of the month, nor do I trust holding those tokens as much as I do with my picks
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This new $600m defi hack makes you realize that only native assets, on-chain, should be considered secure. As soon as you wrap, pool, stake (off-chain), and interact with other protocols, funds are at risk. Risk probability? Unknown. But the possibility remains. #PolyNetwork
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There's a high chance that lightning network, atomic swaps, privacy, and staking will be more user friendly on #Decred 's network than any other network. If you want to reduce PoW sha256 risk, hedge w/ Decred. If you want privacy, use DCR. If you want interoperability, use DCR.
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@DailyLoud Someone got the shot..
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Let's go $XMR! YESS
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1/ You know, the #Decred community and developers have been way ahead of the game. The ethos that the development team has had from the start is true cypherpunk ethos. Through the last 2 year #crypto bear market, the devs were working diligently. The community was growing.
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Most altcoins dumped, but DCR and XMR held up relatively well. It says something..
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@playnewworld Noone will even care about this game by the time you actually release it
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Don't sleep on #Decred Stable PoW/PoS hybrid consensus Staking rewards / #DeFi Privacy, watch out #zcash coming for you #LightningNetwork built into the wallet Atomic Swaps, trustless decentralized exchange Decentralized treasury, spending voted by stakeholders 2M chart sexy
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Even Satoshi is probably regretting not adding privacy to $BTC because everyone is snooping on this 50BTC UTXO moving. This is why we $XMR.
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@binance #Decred - Features including, governance, staking, privacy, decentralized exchange, and a sustainable funding mechanism, Decred stands out amongst other cryptocurrencies by having a flow of incentives which align well with each other.
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On Bitcoin, coinjoining is probably the most popular form of mixing. Although, it faces challenges of continuous liquidity. Decred solves that, via integrated staking, providing continuous coinjoin liquidity through purchasing tickets that are all the same price, every block.
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Man i'm feeling myself today. Sitting at a beer garden, jamming music, new Macbook Air, watching #Decred at $75, #Monero hanging around $150, #Bitcoin at $37k Feeling myself. Toast to the good life. Digital gangstas.. Our communities changed finance.
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@LayahHeilpern Go to Fredericksburg first. Beautiful hill country area. Great rolling geography. Then take a quick drive to San Antonio. Visit the Alamo, the River Walk, etc.. Then go south to the border, go visit South Padre Island on a summer weekend and have some fun. Thank me later ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฝ
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1/ Here is the real bull case for #Decred in my opinion. It's maybe one of the few investments you can make with this type of risk reward in the entire #crypto space. There is a good chance Bitcoin is gonna moon in the next 12 months, and it will bring
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Staking Decred, taking rewards and converting it to XMR, send to @cakewallet , buy Chili's gift card, eat good Private earning and private spending
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#Monero is holding very strong in the downturn.. i'm quite pleased. Probably the coin i'm least worried about in my portfolio.
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Current savings rates on @THORChain $BTC - Only place in town that provides a sustainable, yield on native #Bitcoin . $ETH - Higher APY than #Ethereum protocol staking, with the bonus feature to be able to withdraw. The yield is generated from fees collected from swaps.
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Monero is about to eat everyone's lunch. Regulatory whitepaper = More listings, more liquidity, opportunity for GBTC like funds for Monero Atomic swaps = Trustless trading and interoperability with other chains
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People sleep on #Decred 's privacy features.. It's usability is much better than mixing #bitcoin . The reason is because of staking. Coins get continuously staked, the mixing is built into the staking mechanism. This solves the problem of mixing liquidity, and output sizes.
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@katie_martin_fx @ParikPatelCFA Well the first 3 letters say cry
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$DCR we deserve this!
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