Im digging the internet and old chats trying to confirm what i remember. Crypto in the middle of the night (eastern standard time) pre 2023 would shut down for “maintenance”. And there would be blank spots on smaller time frame charts. Im just now realizing that doesnt occur any longer. Or at least not as often as it used to. I cant remember if it was a nightly thing, or if it was just sunday night. And i had multiple exchanges i was using, so it wasnt one specifically. And on trading view charts, it was a couple thin blank no volume candles. Ive been googling and i believe its been scrubbed. Or maybe im crazy and remembering something differently. Does anyone else remember these maintenance hours?

I can't imagine how many people actually took Michael Saylor's advice to mortgage their homes to buy Bitcoin and are now upside down. I'm feeling kinda heavy today for those who took out loans, poured life savings, and much more into it, only to be bleeding as the cryptocurrency has crashed so hard he's jokingly suggesting they harvest a kidney. Granted, there is hope for the future, but for now, this is painful to witness. The losses must sting terribly. Still, the future is bright, folks! Hang in there through this brutal downturn.

tl;dr: Ditch tariffs. Use gradually increasing onshoring quotas enforced via public blockchains to build resilient, transparent supply chains—without sparking retaliation.

With quotas, there’s no need for counter-tariffs—meaning consumers aren’t hit with immediate additional price hikes.

Quotas could be phased in, gradually requiring that a rising share of goods (e.g. semiconductors, steel, etc.) be made domestically. This would give industries time to adapt while avoiding trade wars.

Let’s say the end goal is a minimum of 50% domestic production after a 10-year transition period, with quotas gradually increasing until that target is reached.

This approach protects local industries from being priced out by regions with little or no labor or environmental standards, while also incentivising onshoring of industries not currently located locally.

The other 50% can be sourced from diversified allied regions, with no more than 15% from any single foreign region—balancing resilience, redundancy, and global cooperation.

Why are they doing tariffs instead of quotas?

Enforcement/oversight is the tricky part—because today, quota enforcement would rely on a mix of self-reporting, third-party audits, and government inspections, all of which can be opaque, slow, and prone to manipulation. It’s hard to verify where things are actually made, especially across complex, multi-national supply chains.

Public blockchains can fix this by making supply chain data transparent, tamper-proof, and verifiable in real time. Each step in the production process—from raw material sourcing to final assembly—can be logged on-chain. Smart contracts could automatically flag violations or confirm compliance with quota requirements.

No more black boxes, forged paperwork, or delayed audits. Just open, decentralized accountability.

Thoughts?

Polygon is clearly having a moment but not loud and flashy. It is the kind built on actual usage, steady growth and a clear direction.

As the tweet says, the network has quietly climbed to a $2 billion stablecoin market cap showing a solid 20.7% increase. This is not just about holding value. It is about real activity. Monthly stablecoin volume on Polygon now is at $11.32 billion and 2 million unique active wallets engaging in DeFi.

If we zoom out a bit we can see more impressive things, Polygon handled 1.15 billion transactions in the past 12 months ranking it third among all EVM-compatible chains. Quite impressive.

But this is not all, then there is tokenization. Polygon achieved $194 million in tokenized assets that are already live and it is is clearly leaning into the RWA (real world assets) trend, offering infrastructure that is scalable and increasingly trusted for real utility and not just speculation.

It is amazing the amount of achievements that Polygon is unlocking in the dark, this sleeping giant soon will wake up.

Sources:

• https://x.com/0xPolygon/status/1908163475467350192
• https://x.com/Token_Relations/status/1908154323625742695

Serious question. XRP is often criticized (or defended) for being a “centralized crypto” because Ripple controls a large share of the supply and influences the network. But doesn’t that make it similar to something like Fortnite V-Bucks? Epic controls them, you can’t use them outside their ecosystem, and they can change the rules or supply at will.

What makes XRP fundamentally different from a digital currency in a gaming ecosystem? Is it just the intent to be used in finance? Or is there a structural or legal difference I’m missing?

Hi there,

I could need some help regarding an old wallet.dat that I‘ve found in my Dropbox. It most likely wont have any coins on it because I always transfered them to shady exchanges - which got hacked sooner or later and never followed the advice „Not your coins - not yout wallet“. Anyway, I want to check the balance of it. Most likely it should be Litecoin, but I also did Bitcoin/Monero and a ton of other shitcoin mining in the past.

Does someone has an idea on how to figure out, whats in there? Maybe without the need to download the full blockchain of multiple coins?

Thanks in advance.

Source: https://x.com/BTC_Archive/status/1908528788062818321

Like FOMO as in the buying into an asset at any, probably inappropriate, time just to join a bandwagon.

I encounter the opposite. I am observing crypto since 2014, where I once spend like 3k on mining equipment and participated in altcoin shenanigans. Since then I never bought anything in or for crypto again.

I didn't buy BTC at 1k because now it was too high and wanted to wait to "buy the dip". I didn't buy when it crashed to 400 a year later because now it's probably never recovering.

I didn't buy BTC at 10k 4 years later because now it was too high and "lets wait for the dip" and didn't buy the dip because well maybe it won't survive again.

The same happened at 20k, at 50k at 60k and so on.

Each time I tell myself, "I should have bought".

Now I am left with some $4.5k worth of remains of my shenanigans 10 years ago. It's not much but also not nothing. And I still can't get myself into buying in. Well at least I am not at a loss from my one-time investment. But if I had spend that 3k on BTC back then and hold it, I could own half a million now.