You can make a lot of money just by ignoring the tariff narrative entirely. 
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Well there we go, all a big misunderstanding. Kissed and made up.
Good thing nobody was affected by this.
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Does Anybody know what happened with ZEC?
Almost forgot I had some, and It’s like back to 5 years ago, 500+% pump…
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Is anyone following the Core v30 vs Knots debacle?
It is somewhat reminiscent of our dilemma with CSAM.
I don’t know where I sit on the argument.
Pavol Rusnak of Trezor today said he is running core v30 and people are up in arms, yelling that they will no longer use Trezor.
He, Adam Back and the core crew believe knots wont prevent spam so I kinda get it, why run knots then.
But what happens to bitcoin if people start storing illegal content on it?
Does knots introduce issues of its own?
This looks like block size war 2.0 and a fork down the road.
You wouldn’t think these old guys could do one backflip, but they excel with so many of them.
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Apparently, the direct cause of the declines was Trump’s reaction and the announcement of an additional 100% tariff on Chinese goods, but it is to be expected that the verbal escalation on both sides will not be reflected in actual US-China trade.
On the other hand, such an impulsive reaction, which is more reminiscent of a correction in a strong upward trend, is most likely not the beginning of a bear market, as this usually comes suddenly when no one expects it.
If everyone is talking about these threats at the moment and has already become accustomed to D. Trump’s rhetoric, we should not expect that everyone is right and that the market will start to fall. Rather, after such an impulsive decline, we should expect the situation to cool down, tensions to ease, and market reactions (price declines) to turn out to be only a cooling of stock market indices.
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there was an API/oracle malfunction on CEX, that’s the reason why markets plummeted after the trump announcement. Some high mc alts literally went to zero (cascading liquidations that should not have been liquidated).
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I’m still curious about the BTC drop. I had just been reading how fiat/bond market gloom was causing BTC and Gold to rise.
So why such a strong BTC drop?
And why not also in Gold - have you seen the Gold price over the past 5 years?
I tend not to try and understand market moves because I think it’s pretty much impossible, but am still curious about this one.
@Josh I’ve not followed the core v30 saga. It did seem an odd thing to do, and is another thing I don’t understand the reasons for. And the question of CSAM etc will be interesting to watch. Especially as it can be unencrypted.
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What do you mean by API/Oracle malfunction on CEX? Are you referring to a specific exchange? Can you provide a link to information on this subject?
It is true that attempts are being made to put BTC on a par with gold as a comparable asset (some central banks have announced investments in BTC), something that is crisis-proof, something that, by its very nature, will always show only price increases - unfortunately, this is only the narrative of certain “market forces”. in practice, we have just seen that this is not the case. Gold, on the other hand, has reached its current level because many central banks have been consistently buying the precious metal for quite some time, including the largest central banks of China and India, which have recorded record amounts of gold in their vaults. In addition, not so long ago, Trump publicly questioned whether there is really as much gold in Fort Knox as the FED claims, which probably influenced the market’s perception of gold.
In response to the question, someone is trying to convince us that, e.g. the weakening of the bond market can be stabilised by the BTC exchange rate, but this is only an assumption/narrative. In practice, bitcoin is in the hands of many players, including funds that treat it as an investment, and on Friday, as a result of statements by Xi and then Trump, the main stock market indices fell sharply, which most likely caused some large player (e.g. a fund) to lose pressure and sell a basket of altcoins, which caused long positions on altcoin futures contracts to be automatically realised, thus triggering a chain reaction and causing such large declines.
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I don’t think it was terrible, a weeks gains really. Alts were a totally different story.
Indeed, I have been trying to understand.
My understanding so far.
It is possible to store more data cheaper via inscriptions than op _return even after the increase with v30.
op _return can be pruned, so it is a better place.
So with what I think I know 
, I am siding with core.
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Hopefully we can revisit our own privacy token at some point.
But of course if we wait for sentiment to fully change we will be at the back of the line.
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Oh my, it took at least 3 partly dead braincells to predict this one.
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How times have changed
Banger from the US Treasury Secretary.
Who would have thought.
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FIL up 60% ish today.
Big pump for a big market cap de-pin token.
This market cap for Autonomi would equal around $2 per AUTONOMI if 800m were in circulation.
Given you can’t easily stick up a video or music playlist for people too stream on Filecoin’s network, and backing up data to Autonomi is far easier, given time I expect AUTONOMI should catch up and overtake FIL, assuming the Autonomi Network remains stable, the app ecosystem keeps building momentum, marketing kicks in, and fee issues are sorted.
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In addition to FIL’s pump:
Zcash price today, ZEC to USD live price, marketcap and chart | CoinMarketCap
ZEC up 275% in the last month.
Some de-pin and privacy coins are looking strong… so if some anonymous community member manages to crack native Autonomi tokens + 2 way bridging, it might work out well 
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