In What Way?
That is exactly what Taraz asked me this morning. Well, crypto, in general, is on a sharp correction, and it is common to get frustrated. However, volatility is something that comes with the rewards of crypto. So, getting to BNB, I think it is getting interesting because it is coming down to a level where it will be attractive to buy.
I reached out to a post I published only about a month back on BNB, and I see that all the levels I thought was interesting there are still valid. As of thing writing BNB is trading $253. It did break the $336 level, but didn't quite get to $185 yet. Also, I must point out, that BNB was $47 on Feb 01, 2021 :) We often forget that. What magical things happened in the last 3 months? Yeah, 50 more new yield farms on BSC. Only probably 2-4 of them are innovative, rest are just copies.
You know the major problem with copy project? Well, if there is a vulnerabilities that is detected, the same vulnerability exits in the copy. Unless the developers of that project deliberately fixed it earlier, or reactively fixed it quickly after the vulnerability is exploited in some other similar project. Obviously you understand that I am talking about the Pancakebunny exploit. The trouble is before that is dealt with in any meaningful way; yesterday there is another similar exploit in Bogged Finance. It is obvious that defi and yield farming is new and providing incredible returns, but so far, there are serious issues with security of the investor funds.
Security is Basic
Let us for a few minutes get away from the the chart and BNB and BTC and what Elon said, what he should have said....all these junk. This is a basic finance. If a project take money from an individual for investment purposes, the project don't promise any return, but the project have to promise the security of the investor funds while they remain in the project. This is very basic. I have accounts in multiple centralized brokerages and banks over last 30 years. Not once have a dime of my money has been stolen. Not just that, I haven't heard any other person close to me that their brokerage account is compromised. Have you?
Yet, within the last week alone there are multiple example of exploitation of security within the BSC chain! There is a official list of yield farming project in BSC, can be found here:
https://bscscan.com/yieldfarms
The first thing now you see when you go there is the pop-up message below...
I am comfortable, still, with BSC chain project, but I am here in crypto for 4 years. Please tell me if the first thing an external investor sees is 'rug pull' when he/she comes in to BSC, what kind of confidence that person will get to put their hard earned money? Even me, I hesitate to put any serious money there. Crypto still is less than 5% of my net worth, and likely will be for a long time to come, until these kids grow up!
If decentralization can't give me security, my hard earned money will remain in various wall street brokerages. I know they are crooks, but at least they have never lost my money. I don't need anyone's help to trade, I just need a platform. If these juvenile morons from BSC can't provide that, then they will never get a seat at boardrooms and will always be ridiculed!
Disclaimer: This is NOT professional advice, this is all just my own opinion and experience. I am NOT a Certified Financial Adviser. Consult professionals for any financial, accounting or legal related questions you have.
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As we have spoken about this on numerous occasions in the past, total decentralization is not a viable option, yet.
BSC is still relatively new, and with such security threats could actually define the future of whether DeFi will be here to stay or will it become another "ICO Bubble."
The latter is easy to understand....too many rug pulls...people dumps all their bsc holdings and POP goes the baloon!
But on the flip-side, this could very well result in people searching out trustworthy, reliable names in the crypto space, who may have been away from spotlight for a long long time. There will be much fewer, but much more solid projects and DeFi could in fact be here to stay for good.
We'll see how things pan out :)
Obviously I am hoping for the second choice; but someone told me "hope is not a strategy"
but then someone else said: "you must be new!", and I like that someone else very much :)
if you feel bored, forward to 5:30 :)
It is obvious that this bull market along with various Defi projects moved BNB price. I was just dreaming to buy it but the price was continuously rising. Don’t know actually how far it will dip now. But I will buy some BNB because it is necessary either for trading or jumping into Defi. Although the recent exploits of various Defi projects is really scary. But the this is crypto and we are living with it.
BNB is something I need day to day, for the obvious BSC transactions that you mentioned. That's why I am buying some; I don't have enough.
This is right Dada. That’s why I will buy some.
💥 Boom! 💥
Strange (or not?) things I see here...
And interesting post, made 5 hours ago, holding above 200+ upvotes, and yet zero comments . ZERO !?
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such is life sometimes. people are busy trading I am guessing :)
I am not.
I'm not trading.
I quit this years (5) ago.
HODL is the best game.
It even saves some time to leave a comment
😀
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I don't trade much myself, but old habit die hard. I trade almost exclusively S&P500 or Nasdaq futures when I feel like it. Rest I hold mostly. Crypto I don't have much, but I spend way too much time on it, because I like it and I think it has potential. Also if there is even a long shot chance on giving conventional financial houses some hard time, I am all for it.
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why is this reminding me of Comos?
Shaking my head
talking about volatility... it pains me to look at Bnb now... No, I didn't buy any recently
Nah, BNB is no Comos. CZ has billions of dollars and this is his flagship project. BNB will be fine. It just went up too fast and people got to take profit. Also the recent mess on multiple projects on security of client fund is not helping.
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There's no way that bnb is comos... it's not going to to being zero... it's invaluable for many reasons and for those reasons we'll buy it even when it becomes 20$ or 2000$ but the market has become volatile in these past few weeks
7th comment i guess:33 so far im enjoying the dip.. In any case, ill try to keep trading for the next five years and make time to leave comments:33
P.S, i just started learning how to trade, and so far, for me its proven more worthwhile than hodling😁😁
P.P.S, nice post dada:33
so you can get several alarm clocks; so that I don't have to wake you up every morning when Koreans start buying Hive! LOL
Yes sensei:vv
ha ha ha... perfect!
I remember you writing that post and then the price of BNB pretty much went up and we never saw that level. I agree with you that it is going to get harder and harder not to want to buy some here pretty soon. It is crazy to think it was less than $100 not too long ago. Unfortunately, I think until they get some regulations out we are always going to have to deal with rug pulls. If you find a way to secure it, it likely won't be decentralized anymore. I hope we get there one day, but right now there is just too much gray area. Especially in the US.
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and it is up nearly 40% off the low already! highly volatile.
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A rug pull of the type where developers steal valuable coins by minting unlimited numbers of valueless new couns on a DeFi platform is only possible if the liquidity is not locked into a smart contract. There probably are other attack vectors and mitigations to them.
This is a young industry where the industry standards are evolving.
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BSC is not safe at all, but as it is the fastest way to collect money invested, there will be millions who want to invest despite the risk, and also do not read anything or check if the site is safe.
Of course, when I see for example that a farm of a BSC defi has an APR of 2400% I obviously walk away, because as good as it sounds sooner or later it will have a carpet pull and all that we have invested will be gone.
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I actually stayed of many 2400% APR and was moderately successful, its all about the timing. They typically have those APR early on into a project.
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But isn't it too risky?
You have to be very attentive to know when to go out.
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yes it is risky.
driving my car to work is risky...
taking public transport is risky... :)
Yeah, i get your point haha.
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I for one am a big believer in Binance Coin and Binance Smart Chain. A cool initiative has come out and all in all an interesting competition for the Ethereum ecosystem. The only thing that continues to hurt me is those transaction prices. Even though they are still relatively low, free transfers like on Hive is still something!
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But the security of the chain concerns me a lot
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Yes this can be an aspect that is always worth raising. I hope it will be a very secure blockchain though.
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BNB is something today.
Tomorrow it may be Matic.
Everyday we got something popping in the air.
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A lot of projects on BSC are just copy paste & are by anonymous teams. So people take huge risks getting in early for huge gains which comes on the cost of new people joining in. gains are not sustainable as well. So all the associated risks including team can run away with funds make it less attractive, but still we see a lot of unexperienced new users jumping in and then crying for losses.
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Ha! I still remember reading about Bogged Finance on r/cryptomoonshots. I can't see the news about the hack on that sub either...that just shows how important the team is behind these defi platforms...I'm always paranoid about inside jobs, outside attacks etc.
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I will buy some BNB because it is necessary for trading or jumping into Defi.
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You say they never lost your money, but in reality in 2008 we all payed for them losing our money. Ofcourse it's possible you started owning assests after the 2008 crash and in fact they never lost your money. This happend before 2008 and will happen again in the future, unless we decentralise the financial market. Centralized banks can become to big to fail.
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Incorrect on 2008. We did pay for the bailout, but brokerages never lost client money, also that money is insured.
If you lose money while investing in a stock, that is your responsibility.
If a brokerage lost your money then it is their responsibility (that never happened) can't happen, as the money is insured.
Centralized bank ARE too big to fail. They still never lost client funds.
I am a huge fan of BNB. I bought more, not at this most recent dip, wish I had, but shortly after. haha.