diff --git a/notes/culture-of-crypto.md b/notes/culture-of-crypto.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c203a39 --- /dev/null +++ b/notes/culture-of-crypto.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +# Culture of Crypto + +# Notes + +## Following the Leader + Line Goes Up - 2022-05-10 + +https://twitter.com/polka_ether_up/status/1524052691692908544 + +> Not sure if UST gonna be the only and the last algo stable coin to survive or not, I respect Do's leadership.. His one tweet saves so many ppls ass who are longing on Luna or holding their entire net worth in UST. Maybe it's human nature to follow a powerful leader.. + +During the [terra-crash-may-2022](terra-crash-may-2022.md). \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/notes/examples-of-ordinary-people-speculating.md b/notes/examples-of-ordinary-people-speculating.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c40a172 --- /dev/null +++ b/notes/examples-of-ordinary-people-speculating.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +# Examples of Ordinary People Speculating in Crypto + +## 2022-05-10 - panic selling in [terra-crash-may-2022](terra-crash-may-2022.md) + +In this thread: + +https://twitter.com/stablekwon/status/1524049689510694916 + +https://twitter.com/Crypto__Otter/status/1524054417594593280 + +> @stablekwon I panic sold cause i was using it as a savings account. Literally needed it for my tax and rent. I’m guessing no recovery plan for the 20% of my savings that just vanished? Serious question I’m an adult with accountability so can’t be mad at anyone but it hurts……. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/notes/terra-crash-may-2022.md b/notes/terra-crash-may-2022.md index d8e11e3..5fdc270 100644 --- a/notes/terra-crash-may-2022.md +++ b/notes/terra-crash-may-2022.md @@ -17,3 +17,22 @@ https://blazetrends.com/terra-price-collapses-after-attempt-to-rescue-stablecoin > The Luna Foundation Guard did say that they have not sold all Bitcoin and promised to update the community on the current situation. https://twitter.com/vhranger/status/1523835842573357057 + + +# Background + +https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-04-19/terraform-s-do-kwon-s-huge-bitcoin-buys-catch-crypto-billionaires-attention [@shen-regan-2022-king-lunatics-becomes] + +> Back in Miami, Novogratz sized up Kwon’s pivot to Bitcoin as a reserve asset to back up UST. +> +> “It’s not without risk, right?” he told the audience in his keynote address at the conference. “He’s in this transition right now. The plan is to buy $10 billion worth of Bitcoin. And as that ecosystem grows, that number will grow. **That’s all good as long as there’s not a run on the bank.**” + +# Tweets + +https://twitter.com/hasufl/status/1523803732173103107 + +> No matter how this ends, I don't want people to call UST decentralized again. Even the little collateral backing it has is intransparent and controlled by a single party. Used to perform discretionary open market operations. This is like 10x worse than the Fed. + +https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1523844709319327744 + +> There is a rumor spreading about Jump, Alameda, etc. providing another $2B to “bail out” UST. Whether this rumor is true or not, it makes perfect sense for them to spread. The biggest question here is, even if they can get it to $1 by some miracle, the trust is irreversibly gone \ No newline at end of file