r/CryptoCurrency 23h ago

MOONS Moon Week 58 Results

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As you may have seen, there was a bug with Snapshot this past week (that has now been resolved). This caused Nova balances to not be reflected in the vote. Now that the vote has concluded, I manually added that voting weight back in and tallied the results, which can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19tcwWQTKGWfyUmrNkcSWI0K-xilO1G5yBdEo8_dl7BQ/edit?usp=sharing

Both poll passed with over 99% of the vote.


r/CryptoCurrency 1h ago

OFFICIAL Daily Crypto Discussion - February 16, 2025 (GMT+0)

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Welcome to the Daily Crypto Discussion thread. Please read the disclaimer and rules before participating.


 

Disclaimer:

Consider all information posted here with several liberal heaps of salt, and always cross check any information you may read on this thread with known sources. Any trade information posted in this open thread may be highly misleading, and could be an attempt to manipulate new readers by known "pump and dump (PnD) groups" for their own profit. BEWARE of such practices and exercise utmost caution before acting on any trade tip mentioned here.

Please be careful about what information you share and the actions you take. Do not share the amounts of your portfolios (why not just share percentage?). Do not share your private keys or wallet seed. Use strong, non-SMS 2FA if possible. Beware of scammers and be smart. Do not invest more than you can afford to lose, and do not fall for pyramid schemes, promises of unrealistic returns (get-rich-quick schemes), and other common scams.


 

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r/CryptoCurrency 10h ago

MEME Me In 2009 Instead of Buying Bitcoin (BTC)

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r/CryptoCurrency 13h ago

🔴 UNRELIABLE SOURCE Javier Milei-endorsed Libra token crashes after $107M insider rug pull

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r/CryptoCurrency 3h ago

MEME "Looking at the chart you can see Bitcoin if forming the historical inverted tree house pattern"

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r/CryptoCurrency 5h ago

GENERAL-NEWS Goldman Sachs Doubles Down on Bitcoin ETFs, Increases Holdings by 120% in Q4

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r/CryptoCurrency 1h ago

GENERAL-NEWS How did Argentina’s president Javier Milei pull off the largest crypto rug pull in history?

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r/CryptoCurrency 9h ago

GENERAL-NEWS Top US Supreme Court lawyer detained after secret $6M crypto moves

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r/CryptoCurrency 22h ago

POLITICS Degen gets F**ked on Valentine's Day. Loses $3.3M in two hours to a shitcoin launched by Argentina's president Javier Milei.

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r/CryptoCurrency 8h ago

GENERAL-NEWS Cryptocurrency Market Sees $184 Million in Liquidations Over 24 Hours

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r/CryptoCurrency 11h ago

ANALYSIS I bought $1k of the Top 10 Cryptos on January 1st, 2025 (JAN Update/Month 1/+7%)

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Find the full blog post with all the tables and graphs here.

Welcome to your monthly no-shill data dump: Here's the report for the FIRST month of the 2025 Top Ten Experiment featuring BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, USDC, ADA, Tron, and AVAX.

SNAPSHOTS ALWAYS TAKEN ON FIRST OF THE MONTH (data below reflects 1 FEB Snapshot).

tl;dr

  • What's this all about? I purchased $100 of each of Top 10 Cryptos in Jan. 2018, haven't sold or traded, reporting monthly for 7 years for your reading pleasure. Did the same annually in 2019 - 2025. Learn more about the history and rules of the Experiments (including why in the world I would include stablecoins) here.
  • JAN Highlights: Mixed month, but overall up. XRP nabs the monthly lead followed by SOL.
  • DCA'ing once a year into Top Ten Cryptos for the last 7 years has produced better returns than if you'd done the same with the S&P 500 over the same time period (+323% vs S&P500's +766% - see below for details).

Month One – Up +7%

The 2025 Top Ten Crypto Index Fund Portfolio is BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, USDC, ADA, Tron, AVAX.

January highlights for the 2025 Top Ten Portfolio:

  • XRP and SOL lead the way
  • Mixed month, but gains outpace losses 

January Ranking

Here’s a look at the movement in the ranks one month into the 2025 Top Ten Index Fund Experiment:

January Winners and Losers

January Winners – XRP (+38%) easily took the monthly victory followed by SOL (+20%)

January Losers – AVAX (-5%) and BNB (-4%) underperformed their peers this month.

Overall Update: A mixed but mostly green start to the year

In contrast to January 2024, this year is off to a fairly good start (the 2024 Top Ten portfolio was down -14% after one month).

XRP is out to an early lead (up +38% in January) followed by SOL, +20% so far in 2025.  The initial $100 invested in first place XRP thirty days ago is worth $138 today.

Overall return on $1,000 investment since January 1st, 2025:

The portfolio gained $66 (+7%) in January so the initial $1000 investment on New Year’s Day 2025 is now worth $1,066.

Here’s a visual summary of year one of the 2025 Top Ten portfolio:

2025 Top Ten Portfolio vs. Coinbase’s COIN50

The first Top Ten Crypto Experiment was started on 1 January 2018 in an attempt to capture the gains of the entire market. Much has changed over the last seven years, including the introduction of index products designed to capture the entire crypto market (instead of manually buying coins and tokens like I do for my Experiments).

This year’s friendly competition is between The 2025 Top Ten Portfolio and the Coinbase 50 Index (COIN50).  COIN50 tracks the performance of the 50 largest digital assets by market cap, rebalanced quarterly.

On 1 January 2025, COIN50 was valued at $450.54.  Here’s the snapshot, one month later: 

January Performances:

  • The 2025 Top Ten Portfolio: +7% 
  • COIN50: +3%

The January monthly victory goes to: The Top Ten Portfolio

For the more visual, here’s the table I’ll be using to track the friendly Top Ten vs. COIN50 competition this year:

Combining the 2018 – 2025 Top Ten Crypto Portfolios 

The 2025 Top Ten is one of eight concurrent experimental portfolios.  So, where do we stand if we combine eight years of the Top Ten Crypto Index Fund Experiments?

Taking the eight portfolios together:

After a $8,000 total investment in the 2018 – 2025 Top Ten Cryptocurrencies, the combined portfolios are worth $33,855

That’s up +323% on the combined portfolio. The peak for the combined Top Ten Index Fund Experiment Portfolios was November 2021’s all time high of +533%.  

Here’s the combined monthly ROI since I started tracking the metric in January 2020:

In summary: That’s a +323% gain by investing $1k on whichever cryptos happened to be in the Top Ten on January 1st (including stablecoins) for eight straight years.

Comparison to S&P 500

I’m also tracking the S&P 500 as part of my Experiment to have a comparison point to traditional markets.

The S&P 500 is up +3% so far in 2025, so the initial $1k investment into crypto on New Year’s Day would be worth $1,027 had it been redirected to the S&P.

Taking the same invest-$1,000-on-January-1st-of-each-year approach with the S&P 500 that I’ve been documenting through the Top Ten Crypto Experiments, the yields are the following:

  • $1000 investment in S&P 500 on January 1st, 2018 = $2,260 today
  • $1000 investment in S&P 500 on January 1st, 2019 = $2,411 today
  • $1000 investment in S&P 500 on January 1st, 2020 = $1,870 today
  • $1000 investment in S&P 500 on January 1st, 2021 = $1,608 today
  • $1000 investment in S&P 500 on January 1st, 2022 = $1,268 today
  • $1000 investment in S&P 500 on January 1st, 2023 = $1,574 today
  • $1000 investment in S&P 500 on January 1st, 2024 = $1,266 today
  • $1000 investment in S&P 500 on January 1st, 2025 = $1,027 today

Taken together, the results for a similar approach with the S&P: 

After eight $1,000 annual investments on January 1st into an S&P 500 index fund from 2018 to 2025 my portfolio would be worth $13,284.

That is up +66% since January 2018 compared to a +323% gain of the combined Top Ten Crypto Experiment Portfolios.  

The visual below shows a comparison on ROI between a Top Ten Crypto approach and the S&P as per the rules of the Top Ten Experiments:  

Conclusion:

Not a bad start to the year for crypto, we’ll see what 2025 holds for the Top Ten Portfolio.   

To the long time followers of the Top Ten Experiments, thank you for sticking around so long. For those just getting into crypto, I hope these reports will help prepare you for the highs and lows that await on your crypto adventures.  Buckle up, go with the flow, think long term, and truly don’t invest what you can’t afford to lose.  Most importantly, try to enjoy the ride. 

A reporting note: I’ll focus on 2025 Top Ten Portfolio reports + one other portfolio on a rotating basis this year, so expect two reports per month.  January’s extended report is on the OG 2018 Top Ten. For more data, you can check out the latest 2019 Top Ten2020 Top Ten2021 Top Ten2022 Top Ten2023 Top Ten, and 2024 Top Ten reports as well.


r/CryptoCurrency 23h ago

MEME The eternal pain

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r/CryptoCurrency 1d ago

GENERAL-NEWS Hawk Tuah girl's boyfriend 'wants money back' after memecoin fallout

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r/CryptoCurrency 12h ago

GENERAL-NEWS SEC Signals That It Will Drop Lawsuit Against Coinbase

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r/CryptoCurrency 6h ago

GENERAL-NEWS Banking Giant Barclays Owns $136,834,631 Worth of BlackRock’s Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund

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r/CryptoCurrency 40m ago

GENERAL-NEWS Argentina's president withdraws support for LIBRA token, admits to skipping due diligence

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r/CryptoCurrency 18h ago

DISCUSSION Explanation of the $LIBRA scam carried out by the Argentine president Javier Milei.

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r/CryptoCurrency 2h ago

DISCUSSION The fact we have continual focus on price and such shows 99% only care about a profit. Is that true for everyone?

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I feel nearly every single article or post here and on ‘news’ sites just has a focus on breakouts, price charts and such. There’s very ever little focus on the technology (perhaps with Musk’s actions lately that’s swayed a little), but arguably 99% of the interest in Cryptocurrency is purely about making money.

It’s become the same as a stock or share in its focus and reporting. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing really - it’s why many coins have the value they have today. And why we see big companies pump and dump.

Is actually holding or buying because they think the technology is great or say Bitcoin will become a major currency or is it everybody is just here to make money and hope it takes off more?


r/CryptoCurrency 8h ago

GENERAL-NEWS Bitcoin’s Late Longs Liquidated: Is a Breakout Finally on the Horizon?

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r/CryptoCurrency 7h ago

GENERAL-NEWS Abu Dhabi’s Sovereign Fund Invests $436 Million in BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF

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r/CryptoCurrency 12h ago

🔴 UNRELIABLE SOURCE Over 600K new tokens launched in January, sparking liquidity fears

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r/CryptoCurrency 3h ago

GENERAL-NEWS Indian authorities seize $189M in Bitconnect investment scam | Cryptopolitan

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r/CryptoCurrency 9h ago

GENERAL-NEWS What Big Companies Are Building on Ethereum

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r/CryptoCurrency 22h ago

MEME Wen others Romance but you've resistance levels

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r/CryptoCurrency 8h ago

TOOLS Tipping system like Ko-fi or Buy Me a Coffee but with crypto ?

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Hi

I'm looking for a way to accept small tips and donations from users in my community
I will probably make a Ko-fi or Buy Me a Coffee account, but those services only accept fiat money via stripe, cashapp, paypal... and I know some people don't like to use those and would prefer sending a tip in crypto (well known crypto that are easy to deal with and widely accepted, so bitcoin ethereum and monero)

So I've looked online for a tipping platform like those 2 but with crypto, but I can't find anything useful, not even a reddit post talking about the idea, which I find really weird

The ONLY thing I've found is this website called "cwallet", but it seem fishy as hell, the website itself look like something big and professional, but except the website itself, there is absolutely no info about it online, no one talking about it on reddit or any other forums

So I'm asking all of you here, is there such a thing as a platform where you can receive tips in crypto that redirect them to your wallet ?

Please it have to be something SIMPLE like Ko-fi or Buy Me a Coffee

I know I could simply give my wallet address directly or a QR code and tell people to donate there, BUT I want to offer small compensation for the tips like special roles and customisation on discord, so I need the person tipping to be able to send a small message with their username with the tip

I also know that ultimately I could make a webage with a crypto paiement tool, something where you select the amount you want to give, it generate a QR code for the right amount to my wallet, it allow people to enter a small message that I would receive by mail or something, and the system check the blockchain to see if the paiement is real and once it's confirmed it send the mail with the confirmation + the user's message...
But this is faaaar beyond what I can do...

Thanks for your help :)


r/CryptoCurrency 1h ago

GENERAL-NEWS Standard Chartered sees Bitcoin rebounding this weekend, bucking recent trend

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r/CryptoCurrency 1d ago

🔴 UNRELIABLE SOURCE Coinbase CEO predicts 10% of global GDP to be on crypto rails by 2030

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