Ok. (20 characters of trollevard)
Gonna get some. It will likely go even lower, but what the heck. At this point we all lose nothing but peanuts.
I just realized though, this has been my worst investment in more than a decade in crypto 
Unlike with most of my missteps, it can still be used though (for storing data for at least a while 
).
All good I guess.
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I really donât think this has anything to do with what someone may be doing for a couple of months. I actually believe it stems from someone not doing much for a couple of years
Fwiw, I too bought a decade+ ago, and I am still holding on to it. Not a single coin sold just yetâŚfrom that stash, for better or worseâŚThis doesnât include the small gains from selling the coins obtained from farming along the way this past year.
I am definitely not selling the original stash off coins at these prices, and it will take decades to write off the loss so thatâs not an option either.
Best thing to do is actively contribute, participate, and push the project forward.
If the product and network succeed, rest will fall into place, and hopefully the price as well!
Note: This is not any financial advice or advice in general, just my perspective.
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I told you all we are going to 1 cent while @blvd was saying $10 soon.
Glad to see I was the one who was right. 
Oh well, at least one of my forecasts were correct.. I would ride this to zero. That holds true.
No point in backing out now.
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distribution hasnât even began, these are just a few oldies selling off. 2026 will prolly be full bear, plenty of time to collect if you dare to buy trash/gamble
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Jup now we have hit my target I as predicted in June where I was ridiculed over and over for 
And no, Iâm not buying before thereâs a clear bull market for alts.
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If the external audienceâs general trend/projections was for the price to go down say from a year ago (due to whatever reasons (not going into the whyâs here or any speculation etc)) based on different folksâ comments in this long running thread, I always thought in the back of mind for many months, 2c to 5c would be the ultimate rock bottom given its historical all time lowâs and all time highâs cycle which has repeated 3 times already, if the forecasted trend was to come true.
Obviously, for those who are already invested, we all wish for a better price and outcome, including myself, but reality is a bit different today.
Old school maidsafecoin chart:
Regardless, we are here now at this price range, I am still a long term holder with (accumulated unrealized losses), but as I noted above, for US folks, who either were long term holders, or are new to the project, or want to start accumulating now, at least one is able to do so (legally) in this scenario & environment at this price range.
Note: This is not financial advice or any advice, just my perspective.
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A year after launch there is still no user friendly way to access the autonomi network. The update announcements often claim improvements - yet nothing really works well. This is after 10 (TEN) years of prior R&D. It feels like the underlying tech has been in permanent limbo, incapable of doing what it was supposed to do. The impossible futures thing seems to have stalled also. Anyone else think this project is a white elephant?
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Team is very much activeâŚ. You can see all the PR activityâŚ.
Network is actually out there in the wild⌠and at some point you have to go live, and polish up the remaining edge cases, because they could never have been reproduced internally in an ideal lab condition prior to going live in the wildâŚ
The design of the network 10 years ago is very much fundamentally different than todayâs network⌠its the outcome of prior R&D efforts⌠that required a further revision or shift in the designâŚ
Anyhow, up to you to decide on your ownâŚ.
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The big moves in the ERC-20 space are driven by automated trading bots driven by big Whale investment houses some of them BIG banks investment arms (Most of them in NYC). We are not on their radar because there is no ANT ERC-20 volume, which moves their win/loss needle in the billions , or 100âs of millions to trade. Simple really ANT ERC-20 tokens are not widely held or even recognized by these business analysts that drive the trading algorithm âmove the needle big timeâ adjustments.
Today these bots are programmed to cycle Mainly Top 100 to maybe Top 500, the former 65% of the time, the latter cherry picked for volume trade opportunities to trap speculative trade opportunities in short trading cycles, one week to 2-3 months.
That is the big time speculatorâs garden, and we are not in it. The game has changed from 2018 and even 2021.
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Iâm still buying and I have a fixed USD allocation every month. Happy to grab more at these prices. Internally, I always thought it will be at least 2-3 years after launch until we get more recognition, so Iâm okay with whatever happens during these years.
Whatâs important to me is the development, and I see progress. The data loss is unfortunate but I guess itâs okay if nobody claimed our network to be permanent yet, and itâs much better to fix this problem now, rather than in 5 years. I can upload data, stream movies and songs already, so Iâm just waiting for polishing these experiences and core features and Iâm sure the recognition will come.
So yes - good price today, maybe even better price tomorrow, I donât really care much. You can dump everything to me, my arms are wide open and pockets are well prepared 
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Projected TAM for DePIN markets by 2028 is pretty staggering. Autonomi could theoretically capture a significant share of that if a majority of the items on the roadmap are completed within a reasonable timeframe and the aversion to marketing is thoroughly excised. Given that a significant portion of the development also relies on Saorsa components and reiterating the vision, I am eager to hear from David again at some point. Year in review and goals for â26 from Bux also wouldnât hurt either.
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We are getting an extended update on Thursday with q1 2026 plans.
Feels like technology has raced forward andâwith the goal for this project being to match modern-speed of tech along with the original vision, all the while back-end/foundation still gets everything worked outâpeople have, alongside the time to get here/there, kind of checked out mentally from this space. People like me, anyway. (Of course, Iâm still on board ultimately. To add to complications, Iâm barely even starting my own life motivation/goal, as crazy as that sounds; so Iâm preoccupied with spending as little time possible focusing on things that now count as distractions against that m/g. Which, unfortunately means not checking up on this projectâs updates, and even furthering my wondering for when something will grab my attention in said modern-speed. In other words, just treat me like another one of those proverbial grandmas, though if I really focus I can be the one who works out minor tech kinks for actual grandmas.)
Some investors here still donât realize having a network based on nodes which consist out of suboptimal hardware will never capture the speed of modern blockchain. This network could be some sort of backup layer for the internet, no more no less.
There are theoretical limits, currency at scale? DEFI? Forget about it
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Really? Have you tried uploading 100 MB of data to a blockchain? And how many million times faster is it to upload it to Autonomi. They are incomparable things, the blockchain is not suitable for storing anything but hashes and that is why no data DePin uses it for this purposeâŚ
Check out the Impossible Futures!
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Iâm saying i think Autonomi will just function as a backup layer, for the most part.
All of the other possible use cases require more speed, and private centralized infrastructure is the best design for those purposes.
Yourâre not going to capture much value in all honesty, but thatâs just my opinion. Now, if Autonomi could capture some of the IPFS usage, that could change my opinion.
Okay, havenât you tested at least one of the two portals that are currently operational?
The speed of the cached data through them is indistinguishable from anything on the current Internet. There is indeed a sentiment among the small community here that Autonomi should only be used in its pure form, but the business has no such scruples.
If you can run a portal server and deliver Petabytes of data through it to your end customers, that will be monetized.
Check out the Impossible Futures!
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On this topic, thereâs an interesting concept for Arweave that could potentially be used to bring similar benefits to Autonomi: https://ar.io/
Itâs basically a network of portals that make websites on Arweave accessible in normal browsers, adds domain options & make uploading smoother, among other things.
Itâs all incentivised by itâs own token, not Arweaveâs main token (AR). A similar concept could be used to make Autonomi accessible for certain use cases if it turns out the network alone canât manage it.
I hope Autonomi wonât need this & that everything will be possible and performant directly⌠but I donât know how realistic that is.
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