Davide

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In all honesty I do not recommend it, unless you create a large network of refs (at least 50 active) because if you do not have many refs...you earn very little (payout is also 0.0003 BTC that without refs...you reach in 1 year). It brings me gain because I have a hundred active refs for years. Then if someone wants to try it, I leave the link but it is not worth it, IMO.

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If you invest in BTC it is impossible not to make money. If you invest in altcoins or NFT it is actually very difficult.

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Through taxes, governments can defeat BTC adoption. Today rates at 20%, tomorrow at 30%, in 5 years at 70%. If you don't use exchanges, many services now allow you to pay directly in crypto (on chain). For large fiat "cashouts", it is always better to move to countries with 0% or low taxation (living there for at least 1 year, obtaining residency). Taxes are a form of control/extortion (if you don't offer a service).

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In my opinion, governments should have no claims: the blockchain is global, it is not located in any specific place. Furthermore, there are no guarantees or refunds in the event of exchange scams. I could understand (perhaps) a form of taxation, if I bring back in fiat more money than invested but if I buy an object (house, car, etc.) paying directly in BTC or ETH I should not be taxed.

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🔹Some Hardware Wallets have functions to "destroy" the wallet remotely even via SMS (the problem is that if you are threatened it is almost impossible to do so). 🔹Mixer: CoinJoin for BTC or TornadoCash for ETH can anonymize addresses making it almost impossible for anyone who "knows" you to track you. 🔹Devices such as SilentBeacon are wearable buttons that in case of emergency can send your GPS location to trusted people. 🚫Wallet Multi-Sig (2 of 3) and Shamir's Secret Sharing (seed splitting into multiple fragments) are useful for generic thefts (house) but not for physical threats, as the criminal can still force you to provide the composition of the seed or to sign the transaction to the other holders of your Multi-Sig. ⚠️Be careful when Government scammers demand your KYC for AML, they only care about your tracking/control (exercised through exchanges), not your health!

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👤5️⃣💲 Stealing the seed or hacking the platforms is not out of fashion but today there are even bigger risks: the "5$ wrench attack" (threatening/kidnapping someone in real life in exchange for the seed/private key). These attacks are possible both if you are a privacy fanatic and by "coercion" (KYC). Main tips: 🔹Have many wallets: provide the wallet with few funds (it always depends on how "doxxed" you are, if they know you have 20M dollars, you can't provide a hardware wallet with 300$). 🔹Emergency PIN: some wallets (Blockstream Jade) have emergency pins that divide the wallet into multiple "departments". By providing the "real" pin you have access to the funds, providing the "emergency" pin to a wallet with a modest balance (however if the criminal knows that your wallet has 20M dollars, he might not trust 3k that he finds in the "emergency" wallet).

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Yes, exactly. This faucet if I remember correctly was born around 2016. I'm not sure but it's many years: not "super-early" but an age where BTC was worth around 1k. Obviously at the time you didn't earn much (like all faucets), however then BTC "exploded"... so the "little" became a good sum. I haven't used it for years, however some of my refs still use it so I get some free satoshi.

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₿ Ok, this is not the faucet from 2011 that gave you 1 $BTC by solving CAPTCHA. However, 0.23 $BTC free, just commissions from referrals is not bad, what do you think? I was one of the first to use/advertise this faucet (still active), as you can see I have 1435 ref. I have not used it for years, however today I still have a few hundred active ref, nothing transcendental as gain but are always Satoshi free.

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Good day and good weekend!

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For payments, the Tron mainnet and Ethereum still dominate. Polygon and BSC follow, while Solana is spreading. Finally we find Stellar, Base, Celo and Optimism. It is possible to notice how in all continents, the most used chain is Tron (USDT). Since Tether is accumulating more and more reserves in BTC, it is not to be excluded that in the immediate future it could suffer a de-peg from the dollar, starting to be worth more than the dollar (imagine $1.02, $1.03, etc). An "adjusted" stablecoin that fights the inflation of the "real" dollar (fiat) with BTC reserves. Basically, banks fail because they buy Treasuries (US government bonds). The growth of interest rates desired by the FED causes their value to collapse (remember the failure of Sillicon Valley Bank).

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💲In 5 years, the supply of stablecoins has grown from 10B to 240B. Artemis and Dragonfly (VC) have published a report on the use of stablecoins, focusing on B2B (Business-to-Business) transactions. Essentially stablecoin payments between companies. In February 2025, the B2B volume exceeded 3B, compared to about 1.5B of P2P (on-chain transactions between private users). Payments via Crypto Card have reached about 1B. Annualized: B2B (36B), P2P (18B), Crypto Card (13.2B). Finally, Business to Consumer B2C (3.3B). If the choice is between BTC and USDT, go with BTC. If the choice is between USDT or real dollar/euro/pound/yen, go with USDT. USDT is centralized but will always be safer than holding funds in the bank both in terms of "risk" and yield. USA, Singapore and Hong Kong dominate as flows. The most used stablecoin is USDT (90% market share), while USDC is mainly used in Argentina, Mexico and India.

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🔹Banking giant Banco Santander is reportedly considering expanding into the digital assets space with the launch of its own stablecoin. 🔹Bitget has launched its RWA-backed stablecoin BGUSD, offering a 4% annual yield. 🔹Bybit has obtained the MiCA license.

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🔥 Crypto Weekly Recap: 🔹Circle (USDC) has officially listed on the NYSE under the ticker CRCL. 🔹Paris Saint German has decided to invest in BTC and put it on its balance sheet. 🔹Trump Media And Technology Group (DJT) has announced the raising of $2.5 billion to finance the creation of a “Bitcoin Treasury”. The operation involves around 50 institutional investors. 🔹The French company Blockchain Group (listed on EuroNext), imitating Michael Saylor’s Strategy, aims to accumulate up to 1% of the total BTC supply by 2033 (between 170k and 260k BTC). 🔹GameStop has purchased over 4,700 BTC. 🔹The Central Bank of Russia has given the green light to the creation of financial products linked to cryptocurrencies, starting with derivatives. Investors will be able to gain exposure to Bitcoin but without holding the assets directly in their portfolios.

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💼Since Donald Trump continues to manipulate the market based on when Eric Trump opens/closes his positions (long/short) or buys/sells spot, well find your way into the crypto world:

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This airdrop if it had been closed yesterday would have been similar to Hyperliquid, now it will lead not only to huge dilution of XP but also to bots, sybil and controversies. The “not knowing exactly what to do” thing would have made Opensea perhaps the biggest airdrop of all time (similar to Hyperliquid) but the Voyage phase will greatly negatively impact this. 🔹"Old school" airdrops reward smart people who understand how the protocols work. 🔹"Guided" airdrops also reward sybils/bots.

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🪂⚓🌊Opensea, after a perfect management of the Beta phase, starts to do stupid things. It really seemed like the anomaly (similar to Hyperliquid) in a sea of "greedy" protocols but they also took a bad path. First of all, they closed tiers by not giving the last 2 craters (serious stuff that negatively affects airdrop for those who should have received them): 1) Abstract Chain NFT Trading 2) Beratone Mint The founder Adam says that XP will be distributed in the live "Voyage" phase but it is not the same thing because it seems that: 1) XP is very inflationary in the second phase. 2) Those who should have received those 2 craters (Beratoners mint and Abstract NFT trading) will find themselves in a lower tier (which can no longer be changed). Trivially 500 XP in the "Beta" phase is very different from receiving 500 XP today in Voyage.

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🐻Summary thread on the "hedging" strategies mentioned in the past months:

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🪂Nansen airdrop has been anticipated for months, they should be crediting retroactive points soon (whitelist, staking, platform usage, subscriptions, etc). I don't like the "points" narrative, however this airdrop is completely free for anyone using their validator node. Don't underestimate it. Remember Arkham.

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I don't use exchanges but good thing for Bybit.

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