Yes pls!

I was on my phone at the time but this was the Vitalik rollups article I was referring to. Podcast version here.

Wow there's some reading in there. Very nice website, the simplicity is refreshing, I don't know vitalik but just that makes me interested in reading asmuch as I can.

Thanks

He's reading and willing to learn. Good for him. Not something to mock or make fun of.

alright, that's fair.

kekeeke, vitalik is the creator of ethereum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalik_Buterin

Yeah, I'd much appreciate a farming guide. I am tentative to allocate big positions to farming as it still feels like focusing on rakeback in poker; however at a minimum, longer term positions might be best simply kept in beginner-level pools, rather than having so much btc & eth in hardware. If these defi systems black-swan, the eth I have offline wouldn't be worth as much anyway.

As for B) - in my experience polygon is a great way to just get a feel for things. Whether other zk rollup protocols become the "winners of the space", for now it is possible to simply put a few dollars on polygon and learn-by-doing. Pool two tokens for $100 and come back a day later and add more liquidity with the yield, just treat it like a game. Given tiny gas fees you could do this with like a $10 bankroll or less if you really wanted. Either put your assets on aave's polygon offering, or provide liquidity on quickswap. Once you get the hang of it you get more confident, just like playing on various poker sites over the past 15 years. If anyone has better advice than this for learning-by-doing, please let me know.

Lol I know vitalik is the founder of ethereum, I mean I never read anything he wrote or any of his opinion or vision.

I had some ethereum when I was first learning about crypto but traded it back to BTC because I didn't like a crypto with a leader. I had a few **** coins I got rid of for the same reason. Could ethereum thrive if vitalik gets murdered tomorrow?

Yes. Read The Infinite Machine. Obviously it'd be less than ideal. But Vitalik doesn't have the whole program revolve around him. It's community-led. For better or worse.

Yes all of the ETH core devs are amazing people who aren't going anywhere. Guys like Tim Beiko and Justin Drake, just to mention two, but there are many other insanely talented people involved with ETH. It's already very much a communal effort.

Aight I'm in, I'll soak up on this as much as I can.

it does have glowing reviews

Wen 3k

Lmao yeah

Asset falls 20% and people are complaining that the IL is "killing them".

Two Shae,

Could you talk a bit about your thoughts on staking Eth? Have you done so or do you think the opportunity cost is too high? If so, are you running your own validator or staking in a pool? Which pool do you recommend for more passive investors? I've heard that some pools are issuing staked eth tokens to stakees so that they have liquidity. IS Eth > sETH subject to short term capital gains? Is now a good time to begin staking or do you think there's a better time to do it in the future? If you don't feel like answers, could you point me to some resources that will help me decide the best course of action for myself? Basically I'd be acquiring the ETH now with no plans to sell for years. I'm also a U.S. citizen.

Thanks for all of the time that you put into these forums informing clueless people like me.

There's tons of ETH yield opportunities if you're looking.
SharedStake
Lido
Saddle
...

Christ I was buying through all of this too but only $25 a week up until the price hit $600 and then I started dumping every dollar I could get my hands on into it. I've done well all things considered but I feel so incredibly stupid for not upping my weekly orders. I literally set a recurring order in coinbase and forgot about it until I saw it was mooning. Like, the least efficient trader ever. Paid all sorts of fees. lmao

If one is already running staking validators on their own presently, two questions:

Can they be collateralized in any way to participate in DeFi?
Is there any way to take present validator rewards to create more validators?

.. Or are they just stuck as is somewhat indefinitely?

The staked coins are locked up in a smart contact for a yr, and not liquid. So 1) not that I know of 2) no the rewards go into the staking address and add to that validator

What do ya'll make of this graph?



https://twitter.com/skewdotcom/statu...42226459099138 probability of ETH going to values by given expiry dates according to the options market

Everyone being so bullish on ETH now seems to contradict the options markets having it less than 50% chance to reach even $3k on each of May 21, June 21, Sep 21, Dec 21 expiries...doesn't it?

Thanks Bucktotal

As a graph I think it is awful, it presents the data in a hard to understand format. Would give it a ‘C’ grade, must try harder

May isn’t on here? The gray line is September.

Less than 50% probability for a 10% move up for eth by the end of the year seems really wrong though.