Alien Worlds didn't defeat bots, but the loss of value of its token TLM helped reduce some botting. Farmers World is heavily botted and people still play, botters on top, humans on bottom in terms of earnings. It is almost an economic issue, not a technical or governance of game issue. If the reward ceases to reach a certain threshold of desirability, botters will move on as there's no sense in trading nfts or game altcoins that hold no value. Some games botters don't touch.…
Optimism airdrop went out the other day... And as usual, people dumped the tokens. Here is the response from the community of OP and the devs, presumably: "such accounts are counter-productive for our stated goals." + "cancel their eligibility for future airdrops." - A big ouch if this takes place for people who wanted to pocket their $2k - $300 of Optimism tokens in a largely bear market #optimism #L2 #governance #tokens #tokendumping #dumping #bears
Bitcoin does its thing -6%. #btc
Optimism team appears to be poorly represented. Cobie appears to be a figurehead for the 'movement' and has either sarcastically posted various medieval punishments against sellers of the Optimism airdrop, or he really means it. Guess 'anything goes' and professionalism is the last thing to expect from Optimism token devs: https://twitter.com/cobie/status/1531999706452267008
Not well know: Wax Market Cap (waxmarketcap.com) is a great way to view nft collections and their trading volumes, top trades off marketplaces like AtomicHub, NFThive, Neftyblocks. #wax #statistics #sales #markets #collections #nfts
CoinDesk lightly touching on only one of the issues with Solana's outtage in last 24 hours, claiming the current issue stems from cold storage "niche transaction" operations : https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/06/02/solana-halted-by-bug-linked-to-certain-cold-storage-transactions/ But Solana devs stated there are more than a single issue that remains to be resolved to reduce congestion. It can't be blamed solely on botting of candy machines. Nor niche transaction pipelines.…
With Solana's 8th outtage now, Ethereum is a clear 'winner' by order of vitality. Fees be darned, Ethereum lets you move your ETH. Solana is a big question mark now and all eyes are on the industry to decide whether to continue pumping into SOL or move on. Enough scandal and outtages, no one will trust their brands to it. Moving forward, devs of games and dApps should take an optimistically cautious approach by building not only on one chain but try to build out gently into…
WAXP is recovering a little bit now, unstaking in preparation for any unexpected climb to 30 cents. #wax #unstaking
Reclamator: Turn Unwanted NFTs into Better NFTS: https://www.publish0x.com/wonder-a72/reclamator-turn-unwanted-nfts-into-better-nfts-xnnerkx
Splinterlands continues to be one of the biggest blockchain games around with 3.9 million battles (a low for SPL) recorded yesterday. #SPL #Splinterlands #blockchaingames
NBA Topshot is doing a common and rare nft pack sale. Common packs are $10 as usual and $89 for rare packs. https://nbatopshot.com/ Good luck to everyone that tries this time around! #NBA #topshots #nfts
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol seems more comedy than spy action thriller. Tom Cruise seems shorter somehow, too. Then again, Gwyneth Paltrow, Will Smith, Simon Cowell, Spacey and even the Queen have seen better days. All the substance of Budweiser beer is here to stay, I guess.
#bearmarket
#workfromhome #covidera #memes
#chips #potatochips #memes #familysize #wholesome
TLM USDT pair will be delisted from Binance soon and a new listing with TLM BUSD will go public. Unfortunately I haven't seen any posts by Alien Worlds to assuage concerns so there is FUD going around. #TLMBUSD #TLMUSDT #Delisting #Listing #FUD #AlienWorlds
Markets remain bearish, already part into May 2022 and no $100k highs were ever reached EOY 2021 or early 2022. #bears #predictions
CryptureWorld's fire pack sale is on now - moving slowly so there's plenty of opportunity to grab a pack. $15 is the cheapest one without whitelisting, and currently the game is #4 and climbing on AtomicHub: https://wax.atomichub.io/drops/90437+90438+90440+90441+90443+90444 #cryptureworld #drop #packs #nfts #sale #atomichub
Smaller NFT projects, if they've survived the latest crash, won't survive another crash. NFT markets as a whole doing pretty badly with virtually anything dropping in value, exceptions are few. Even projects with the best prospects are finding it hard to retain people's interest as BTC's drop in value has sapped confidence in markets overall. If this goes on any longer, we can expect bigger stories than Terra and bigger scandals around valuable NFTs going under. My eyes are…
Brief update on Million on Mars. I'm not too happy about the removal of daily rations but it is what it is, lots of games being less generous lately. 1) To play and withdraw Dusk you need to own land nft, free to play has been effectively shut off. 2) Minimum withdrawal is 100 Dusk and currently they've removed daily rations(energy needed from rations is used for Scavenging, like mining in Alien Worlds), this means you'll need to acquire Dusk to buy Brewed Coffee Cup. 3)…
Jeremy Renner and Simon Pegg effectively bastardized Mission: Impossible franchise. It's kind of incredible how different the tone of the original MI movie was. It had substance and a tone unmistakably based on some truthfulness about secret agencies and agents ... But Tom Cruises' image doesn't fare well with these sidekicks. Jeremy can't be taken seriously and Pegg is just a clown. Incidentally, Jeremy sent 'di** pics' to cast, goes to show where M:I 5 is in terms of…
The Arrest of Opensea Executive for Insider Trading of an NFT or NFTs: https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/05/the-arrest-heard-round-the-crypto-world/ - At large, NFTs are not considered as traditional assets like Stocks but the framing of charges and his arrest signal the Feds want NFTs to be securities and considered securities. - Taking on a high profile executive from one of the biggest ETH markets shows Feds want to drive this narrative, posing NFTs as stocks, essentially or…
Bitcoin swinging around 5% + and 5%- down days. Is there a major bull day we are about to see? The possibility exists for a 10-20% day for Bitcoin as it may very well be oversold. Provided nothing contrary published by SEC or FEDS, bull could be likely in next few swings. Watching alts now for lukewarm rallies or, perhaps, confidence.
Splinterlands may have damaged its Rental marketplace by the recent changes to the game rewards and stipulations on which cards must be used for earning Dark Energy Crystals (DEC) rewards. 1) Initially people would rent cards or have them delegated (borrowing a card from a friend for example) and earn DEC. It worked great as the market for rentals was bustling with activity. 2) Under the new system, you have to OWN the cards to earn DEC rewards. This removes any reason for…
CryptureWorld has instated a 0.20 WAX fee to all adventures. Adventures don't pay you any crypto you can withdraw or swap, they just give you resources you can exchange for some crafting-style nfts (commons or abundants, basically) that aren't worth that much. They posted a long explanation which I think is good for them, but I don't know if this will help save them from botting. Botting using free Starter Hut NFTs has exploded according to the CW team... 1) Rewards go to…
Million on Mars botting is picking up despite countermeasures. The net effect is prices of items falls, for example, brewed coffee cup items needed for Stamina to play the game. Botters automated MoM using Puppeteer probably, it's only a matter of time in a bear market for a huge explosion of botting on the platform that strictly forbid multi-accounting and botting/automation. Take your gains while you can! Bear season is also bot season! #bots #milliononmars
More bridges to Cash deposit and Gift cards need to be created to mainstream crypto as a liquid form of assets. For example, DEXs should offer bridges and services with P2P crypto-to-USD and other national currencies, matchmaking. This way no middle man, credit union or bank can make any profits from transactions and the DEX can reap tons of traffic to itself. 1: 1 to 1 trades between users for USD and crypto, matchmaking automatically dealt via smart contract. 2: Easy cards…
Million on Mars - key things to know about this blockchain game: 1) Withdrawal period is 15 days, so make it count. 2) You may be able to get Land NFTs and they immediately get minted to your wax wallet, so you could cash out that way alternatively. 3) There are many ways to advance and increase your land ownership and daily occupations. Training Halls let you upgrade but at a cost. Mushroom Tea, for example, is extremely desirable and growing Mushrooms could be a niche to…
Use the Daily Ration claim and scavenge on Tharsis - Lat/Lon: 6.012149/-105.478348 For some reason, I've been getting some pretty good loot here that's worth well over 10 Dusk. I believe your scavenging level / xp plays a role in chances of rewards you may mine. Link rewards me: https://bit.ly/3mOKOa1 #milliononmars #tharsis #momgame #blockchaingames #waxgames #nft
The Fractal Shard event on Million on Mars is well into 24+ hours now. Scavenge or Advance Scavenge for Fractal Shards that are redeemable for Uncommon Lands and much more. I got a land doing this event, probably a $20 value NFT. My earn link: https://milliononmars.io/register?recruiter=3ahb2.wam #milliononmars #waxmainnet #blockchaingames
Market collapsing further with Bitcoin and additional news on Neon gas exports by Russia being limited. Neon is used during the development stages of microprocessors. Additionally, huge pressure due to record inflation across Europe and the US. Rumors about under-reporting of national inflation rates in US by White House. To add more fuel to the fire, Celsius is locking up swaps and signaling a very troubling indicator to its users. The next ones to keep your eyes on would…
Solana down below $30 now, trading at $28. As one of the biggest ecosystems for NFTs, it is down more than 70%+ from its highest price ranges last year. - Dampening demand for NFTs due to high risk and low long term advantage, after several repeated crashes in price - Ethereum gas fees indicate dampening demand, $15 at time of writing. A good sign that the Ropsten (correction: testnet went live, not the actual merge) merge went live, but to bears:…
One of the most laughably self-serving comments by the Reserve chair: If you want to get Bitcoin to hold it through all the storms and see where it goes, that's your choice. Don't follow Yellen's silly suggestion: after all it was she who said that inflation wasn't here to stay. Blaming an unrelated country for mass overprinting of US dollars under your supervision is the signature of denial, not authority.
#COMMENTARY #OPINION #WRITING #POLITICS #2022 #2023 #NEWYEARCELEBRATIONS We are already half way through 2022! Let's remark on the amazing events we witness and are left unastonished by daily: After the death throes of the WSJ, ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC (Twitter scandals, eviscerating leaks of their practices by a oft-maligned youtube channel), and more, the US government turned to Tom Hanks' credibility as a recognizable name to broadcast an image. -- But Tom Hanks is fleeing from…
Solana at $26 now, will we see $10 Solana this month? It might happen if there are further downtime issues with this centralized coin. #CBDC #SOL #Solana #CentralizedCoinFails
Bitcoin may be heading toward 19k shortly as major liquidations occur. News of mass layoffs may be being mediated this week among major corporations -- from Amazon to eBay and more. All these companies have holdings in the stock market and crypto to one degree or other and some have even overleveraged via proxies. That push over the cliff is probably not an underestimation of the disaster we are about to witness.
MicroStrategy is losing $1b on their BTC purchase. Once $21k is breached, a margin call will occur supposedly: https://fortune.com/2022/05/04/michael-saylor-microstrategy-margin-call-bitcoin/ #michaelsaylor #btc #btcleadership
Do you believe that Congressmen and Senators should disclose all their crypto addresses and stock trading on a public ledger? 'Substantial Changes' to stock trading by congress servants: https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-stocks-trading-stock-act-money-2022-6 In the past few years, Nancy Pelosi and her husband traded, as many have presumed, on critical insider information on laws and statutes and profited from it. This has also become a running joke that Nancy is a…
3AC is very powerfully interwoven with many other funds and lenders. When these forces tug and pull at one another, we will probably see a major catastrophic deleveraging across these 'legs' in the crypto and tradfi markets. Historic stuff, far beyond Luna Terra collapse! #3AC #cryptocollapse #catastrophe
https://twitter.com/DeFiyst/status/1536986595890454529?t=b4_YyvbsGC18b4xwNj__Cg&s=19
Although this position is now only worth $42m and is on the verge of being liquidated, it's hard to fathom how much ETH this is. At ETH ATH of $4.8k, this positions collateral was over $1bn.
Three Arrows Capital liquidations indicate the worst is incoming for major lending companies and funds. Crypto is about to really explode and Bitcoin headed for $10k territory shortly. #btc #meltdown #catastrophe #btccollapse
The only thing that can add fuel to the bonfire of crypto markets is a major hacking scandal or vulnerability exploit left behind by accident or inexperience in smart contracts. Stressed, out of hope and waiting for bulls, many teams are not operating at their best rn - the ideal conditions for social engineering and other exploits by criminals. - Expect criminal activity in crypto on a large scale, focused on teams and devs individually (discord, gmail, sms, etc) - Massive…
Rekt's take on CEL: https://rekt.news/celsius-rekt/
Ironically, Celsius wrote in 2019 that if you don't have free and unlimited access to your funds, are they really your funds? As of today people can't move their funds freely and in an unlimited fashion from Celsius..... *doh*
Bitcoin poised to crash below $20,000, causing mass collapse of crypto -- as it is in the best interest of fiat-aligned banks and international interest groups like IMF and WEF. Federal Reserve and SEC will likely also stamp on additional sanctions against crypto developers to fulfill the 'prohibition' framing they have prepared for this moment via mass media and their affiliated crypto news outlets. If you aren't out of crypto markets right now, it will probably hurt more…
Bitcoin falls below 20k, 19,000 levels attained! #BTC #bears #bloodbath
#BTC #bears #2022 #devsdosomething
Bitcoin going to 18k in a few minutes to an hour.
We speculate that those that stand to gain the most from a massive crypto crash were the same parties who staged a fake "financial crash" of unprecedented scale, incidentally the same group of parties that were involved in "covid like pandemic" striking the globe. We've noised about this topic before and have links if you're interested. - The abrupt cliffs are unnatural and don't register like normal trading activity and they precede major crashes of Bitcoin - Other crypto…
Bitcoin at $18k, signaling further drop to $15k is now possible, too. This is happy news for the Feds who are readying to announce CBDC to save the world because its so scalable (just like Solana with its centralized architecture).
Ethereum at $945. Some said it couldn't happen!
ETH's collapse below $1k happened around midnight (not sure what zone according to Coinmarketcap).
Liquidations are more and more frequent as BTC dips further and further. #BTC
Million on Mars - Update - skip to end if you want the brief. Been playing MoM for about 2 weeks daily, scavenging turned into preparing various coffee ingredients and selling those off in batches. It worked well for 2-3 days before market prices shifted and made it too expensive to brew, eating up profits rather aggressively. Here's an example: You need 2 power cells to brew / prep coffee grounds = 20+ DUSK Then you need 5 coffee grounds = 6 DUSK You resell the empty power…
Million on Mars - Update - Additional Game comments. The UI changed but doesn't seem to make it easier to navigate. The icons got smaller but I still confuse the market vs the other market buttons, and so on. The game doesn't seem to run too fast due to the Google Maps plugin they use here and some other framework. It's too bad. Lastly, probably worst of all, is the distance you have to travel with your mouse to open your lands and buildings. This seems a rather large…
How to DYOR (basic video) if you want a very basic primer on researching new NFT projects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU7jxo8EvcI&feature=youtu.be
Bitcoin dipping into 17k territory soon, 18.3k ~ is its range now.
Do you want to know what a "decentralized" blockchain looks like? NOT like Solana! Here is the dilemma in a nutshell but you can read the full below -- 1) Whale on Solana holds a huge leveraged position that will cause liquidations when Bitcoin and Solana crash below a certain threshold 2) The risk is so great to Solana as a blockchain to total outtage -- that the teams and investors are suggesting to 'take control' of the address in question. That's right, they will take…
6/19/22 is the day Solana was truly defeated and represents all that is wrong with pseudo-decentralized blockchains. Users voted on a measure to hijack a whale's account because they deemed it necessary. What is to prevent them from hijacking further and putting in place further ways to control speech by certain accounts, or certain brands? You can see where this is headed!…
This leveraged position is what resulted in Solana's ultimate demise and a reputation as a joke among blockchains. Users determined it was the "right thing to do" to enact a measure to hijack the whale's account and "save Solana" from liquidation problems (mainly due to its atrocious design as a centralized unscalable crypto).
Centralized finance at its finest. Couldn't have put it better. #solana #ded
Solana is ded: #centralized #finance #cefi #dedcefi "Grant emergency power to Solend Labs to temporarily take over the whale's account so the liquidation can be executed OTC and avoid pushing Solana to its limits. This would be done via a smart contract upgrade. Emergency powers will be revoked once the whale's account reaches a safe level." Yeah, sure.
To add a farcical nature to the Solana demise, the Solend vote was won by themselves. That is to say, the proposal was submitted by Solend Labs and also passed by their massive voting power. The DAO had no say virtually and it wasn't even marketed widely even via emails afaik. So DAO wasn't informed for the vote and the proposer passed their own measure for the entire blockchain! #solana #ded #cefisucks
https://twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1532360549857693697?t=94y9hVt3VKyf1AVLdN6yrA&s=19
Most people are not ready to run a blockchain development team. It requires a certain kind of ego that can take criticism and knows rules are extremely important. There are lines you do not cross when you "tend to" the efficiency of a blockchain that is "live" for public users. Watch this video as co founder of Solana speaks about governing: twitter.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1532360549857693697?t=94y9hVt3VKyf1AVLdN6yrA&s=19 ~ - Unfortunately, egotists cannot make any…
Astounding $6,600,000,000 burned of Tether (USDT). https://whale-alert.io/transaction/tron/18563b580635ff79642b3fe2986fe5522e31fa65130e2cd3d9b7771d3da6eaa5 #tether #burns #usdt #defi
Wow, just wow. $6.6bn burned USDT at Tether treasury.
I'm looking at Luna Classic and it would seem there may be manipulation happening there or actual popularity of the coin is resurfacing. I would bet the former, but it is interesting to see this. Considering Do Kwon is being pursued for criminal activities of the blockchain variety...
For a show about Star Wars, Obi Wan Kenobi by Disney, is curiously themed around trafficking children and the methods of traffickers. Obi Wan seems to have it out for Leia the child, often snapping at her, and scenes suggestive of torturing children even come up. Disney, true to color: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhedIsYfSOo Related: 100+ Disney employees charged in trafficking in Mar 2021 and last week in 2022 another bunch of Disney staff.…
Research paid for by DARPA (research division/weapons for US) regarding the centralization and vulnerability 'choke points' of blockchain tech, including bitcoin, revealed several vulnerable points beyond a 51% attack. 1)ISPs can delay or prevent communications related to the blockchain, effectively a ddos. Tor and a handful (3-4) ISPs could potentially prevent certain proof of work mechanisms to fail, also ddos-styled 2) software primarily used by miners is often outdated…
DAO's continue to fail - the biggest point of failure are the teams and individual personalities behind the DAO's. Case in point: https://twitter.com/cobie/status/1537220039522545664 After an exploit harmed its users, Tribe DAO held a vote that resulted in a largely "for" vote on refunding some $80m to users. But rather than honor the vote, the team put up another vote and made sure the vote was "against" the refund. Furthermore, they used the platform to confuse the…
Bitcoin appears to have had a momentary relief, but the hurt probably isn't over. NFTs also picked up the pace the last few days, but the hurt probably isn't over....
Wax now has a gas fee for going over your daily allotted actions. This way you can pay gas fees on the network that claims there are no gas fees on it. According to their statement, this was to simplify things for new users from other networks -- but that's laughably not right. Introducing gas fees goes against their eco-friendly marketing as they are now needlessly imitating ETH's form. Furthermore, the cost cutting announcements have been coming in steadily from Wax devs…
Another one by Wecan gets delisted! No more whitelist status on Atomic Hub! Mining Network is over. For those of you who played this one, sorry... I didn't touch Wecan after my acquaintances warned me about "the Wecan pain" about a year ago. Wecan is a group that doesn't do good faith, and this additional burn to Wax gamers will hopefully inform them of the type of people behind this name. Just don't buy their stuff, period. -- I don't have any connection on their Discord to…
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Follow up on Mining Network delisting on Atomic Hub: They were delisted because they lied about being a partner with Atomic Hub on their website. That is, they falsely characterized themselves with an affiliation which was made up. So, AH took away their whitelist status. Usually, you let people make up their own minds about your game project and don't need to say you're working with or alongside people you don't actually have a partnership with. Wecan will do 'anything it…
Goldman Sachs reportedly trying to raise $2bn to buy out Celsius' distressed crypto service / app. Yeah, that will go over really well for legacy fin averse investors. #goldmansachs #legacyfin #legacyfintech #centralization
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