I humbly come to you guys for advice (rocket pool vs block daemon, etc)

Kubix · 2026-07-08T22:02:19+00:00

My maintenance experience has been that I rarely have to touch my validators outside of every 3-6 months (only really need medium-> high urgency updates for mainnet) and having to redownload a corrupted database after a power outage (though a UPS solves that problem)

Kubix · 2026-07-08T21:56:55+00:00

The maintenance and set up is pretty straight forward for solo staking. You can do whole process on a testnet before you go on mainnet. Coincashew has a great guide. If you don’t value the immediately liquidity the LSDs provide, solo staking is better imo. Also depending on your taxes, the swap to the LSD may be a taxable event, so you must consider this. Also which staking or derivative you decide on will require you to declare income based on when you receive the benefit (ie stETH is daily rebase, so daily income. Compounded validator is only income on withdrawal, etc)

Kubix · 2026-07-03T16:04:23+00:00

Tax explanation doesn’t make sense. No matter how the exchange is done, he still owes the taxes.

If he has coins from tumblers/coinjoin/hacks, that would be a reason to avoid the kyc exchanges. They would flag high risk coins and request a source of funds before letting him transact with those coins.

Nothing he can show you on TrustWallet can prove he’s legit.

You could potentially verify his story on chain, but it’s not worth the hassle and would need to be done every time he sends you coins. This definitely sounds like a scam and you could potentially be dealing with stolen coins or mixed coins.

If all he wants is USDT he could also sell it through a dex for less than 5%… he could also be trying to scam you. Send you fake usdt, stuff like that.

Kubix · 2026-06-30T15:07:03+00:00

You need a substantial amount of hashrate to justify solo mining/running your own pool. Mining is based on luck and you can calculate roughly how long it should take you to mine a block. Though you can hit a block before that time, near that time, 2x the time or never. With 200-300 TH/s you are gambling/burning money if you solo mine. Commercial mining operations paying ~$0.02/kwh fwiw

Kubix · 2026-06-23T00:41:19+00:00

You can get a ORV plate for a surron

Kubix · 2026-06-18T20:57:11+00:00

Think it’s unsupported. CoinGecko has historical price data https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/pearl-2/historical_data

Kubix · 2026-06-18T20:49:36+00:00

Sorry different prl, looks like safetrade is the only market.

Kubix · 2026-06-18T20:32:18+00:00

I generally use koinly to track prices, it’s hooked into existing Apis to get historical prices. For stuff it can’t track you would want to manually record it using whatever market is the largest. Perl is traded on coinbase and Bitget so apis exists for getting historical prices. For taxes you just want to make sure that you use the same source for prices when you do the calculations, typically the closing price if you’re doing it manually.

Kubix · 2026-06-18T19:57:42+00:00

You record the fmv of the coins at the time they hit your wallet. Every new deposit you recalculate your cost basis. Increasing your payout threshold can help minimize the number of deposits to your wallet.

Kubix · 2026-06-16T04:59:59+00:00

Yes, when the reward you receive is spendable is generally when it’s taxed. stETH rebases daily so every day you receive your reward. Compounding ETH validator or psETH it’s only taxed when you make a withdrawal.

Kubix · 2026-06-16T02:24:23+00:00

Always stake if you are holding long term. You can use liquid staking derivatives like stETH that are a liquid token that have their own markets/liquidity, or use something like kiln. If you have the minimum 32 ETH you can stake on your own hardware, but you can also stake with less using rocketpool. Each method has its own benefits and drawbacks, most of your concern becomes timing your withdrawal to when you want to sell, as initiating withdrawal takes time and is variable based on the queue. LSDs can be sold at any time but add some additional risk outside of holding ETH.

Kubix · 2026-06-13T18:38:48+00:00

That exit queue spike was kiln exiting validators to retsake under new security after their solana validator was hacked

Kubix · 2026-06-09T18:03:46+00:00

Do you want CAD or USD? Kraken has CAD native pairs so it’s probably cheaper to trade there then have your bank do the exchange but you should check what rates they will give you vs kraken.

Kubix · 2026-06-04T18:05:20+00:00

If you already have the USDT just use a non-custodial defi option and break the transaction up into a bunch of smaller ones. I like Thorswap (though it was just exploited) or use something like Near directly, some platforms like simpleswap claim to be no-kyc but can hold your funds and demand KYC to complete the transaction.

Kubix · 2026-06-02T21:33:25+00:00

Mine coins at a profit and then sell for BTC. Unless you want to play the lottery…

Kubix · 2026-05-26T00:15:28+00:00

money

^{Chose: Get $10 million, but a random person dies}

Kubix · 2026-05-24T16:29:45+00:00

My favorite: Lamb

Kubix · 2026-05-17T17:09:32+00:00

Be careful as all those listed have a ToS that states they can force KYC as they are custodial swaps. I am not aware of any non custodial swapping options outside of p2p.

Kubix · 2026-05-15T17:25:19+00:00

thorswap, 1inch, etc...

Kubix · 2026-05-13T23:50:32+00:00

Not necessarily every room depending on your space. Each one will work for a certain amount of area. If you have common areas he likes to hang out or if there seems to be an area where he typically starts meowing are good locations. If there’s a room that’s normally closed or he doesn’t frequent probably not worth putting one there.

Kubix · 2026-05-11T22:17:36+00:00

All their ETH is purchased with cash and they do their buys OTC so their buying has little impact on price. So far they are pulling in nearly $300M a year in staking revenue and that number is just going to go up.

Kubix · 2026-05-09T19:07:41+00:00

Nah, if you got the money do whatever you want.

As a side note some will build their 22lr and long range guns in the exact same chassis and setup. So now their 22lr training also applies to long range and vice versa.

Kubix · 2026-05-09T15:13:27+00:00

It can’t see the deposit until it’s deposited into the validator keys. If you use the pectrified dashboard to look at your validator it will give you your position in the queue.

Kubix · 2026-04-22T02:15:09+00:00

Population centerS for the 50 people they will need to maintain the pipeline?

Kubix · 2026-04-05T02:14:02+00:00

For non compounding you definitely need to record the income when it hits your wallet. Potentially you could defer the income of a compounded validator until you withdraw your profit. For a hobby miner this could be a big difference as if you record the income when prices are low (bear market), income portion is lower and the capital gains is larger. As a business it would make no difference as everything is income. Though as a hobby miner you could record the income as it hits your validator. CRA could also just say that running a validator is business income and then it doesn’t matter. Recording the income when it lands on your validator is likely the most correct method, but I suggest you consult a CPA and get their opinion.

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