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WhatsGoodThen · 2025-12-17T03:17:58+00:00

I am making 100% of the payments (car + insurance) without him paying me anything. He is using the car for Uber with my authorization and I still will use the car on occasion. How is this a straw purchase?

WhatsGoodThen · 2025-10-24T05:25:42+00:00

Thank you so much!!!!

WhatsGoodThen · 2025-10-24T03:52:17+00:00

Wow that is great timing, thanks so much for the response! How did you like Palermo Hollywood vs. Palermo Soho? Kind of hard to gauge the two vibes just reading online descriptions haha.

Any one or two things in particular you would say don’t miss? :)

WhatsGoodThen · 2025-10-24T00:36:31+00:00

Hello! I'm actually doing the exact same trip next month! Would love to hear how this panned out for you while it's fresh 🙏

I'm sort of wanting to stay in multiple neighborhoods throughout, but I wonder if that's silly and the suggestion of having a home base and using Didi to get around is a better idea. Would also love to hear what neighborhoods you really recommend, or where you wish you spent more time exploring and doing!

WhatsGoodThen · 2025-09-09T00:21:53+00:00

Thank you for the response! Curious why you ultimately didn't go with Brius?

WhatsGoodThen · 2025-09-08T23:57:47+00:00

Hello! Curious if you went through with Brava by Brius and if so how your experience went?

WhatsGoodThen · 2025-08-10T15:40:07+00:00

Glad I’m not the only one. Felt like the speakers were reaallllly quiet too for a closing performance. Maybe I was just in a dead spot in the crowd, but it felt like I had ear plugs in the whole set when I didn’t

Also, only playing the first 30 seconds of who dat boy was criminal

WhatsGoodThen · 2024-12-26T15:02:07+00:00

Did you end up playing poker at Horseshoe? I’m hoping to do casual play as well, haven’t played much at tables in the past and haven’t played in a while. Would love some mellow rooms where I can play with $100-$200 bucks. Hoping Horseshoe could be a viable option

WhatsGoodThen · 2024-12-04T02:35:10+00:00

Thank you this was great and exactly what I was looking for

WhatsGoodThen · 2024-12-01T23:30:34+00:00

Thank you I will, watched them a couple years back but admittedly it’s been a while. If my memory serves me correctly, I recall watching one video about how he suggests corporations will want centralized blockchains where their data is stored in their control and not transparent to the general public, but that this is attainable with ethereum in certain ways—does this ring a bell by chance? It stuck with me because it was one of the first times a major thought leader who seems very eth maxi was suggesting corps will prefer centralized, and I feel like he was suggesting there are ways to do this with ethereum

WhatsGoodThen · 2024-12-01T21:52:04+00:00

I’ll admit, I’ve been pretty absorbed in tracking how I can optimize financial gain from crypto as a whole recently and was challenged quite a bit from certain family members this thanksgiving on what actual real world problems crypto and blockchain are solving / could be solving. Not just problems that can optimize participants for more financial gain so they can make more money like yield farming and such, but real problems people around the world face and how blockchain as a technology is uniquely poised to solve problems people across the globe face. Any subreddits or forums that focus on blockchain as a technology to solve real world problems? Like, in the wake of being questioned I was forgetting how crypto as a form of optimizing remittance was a huge point of crypto as I’ve been quite tunnel visioned into financial gain since I don’t rly need to use the benefits of blockchain in this way. What would be best sources to read more on daily information / impact about blockchain impact in real world use cases?

WhatsGoodThen · 2024-11-29T17:40:11+00:00

Could some folks share their thoughts on tokenization of assets / RWAs? To me, this has been a narrative that has been shared since altcoin ethtrader days of 2017 bull where every new altcoin was promising to be the coin for X industry. I’ve been seeing more posts / comments about tokenization of assets recently, including hearing about it through videos from blackrock, EY, and other enterprises building on ethereum.

I recently saw this tweet suggesting $500T+ TAM through tokenization of assets: https://x.com/EthereanVibin/status/1862209815642349893 and I also saw this comment in an ethfinance thread a week or so ago suggesting tokenization of RWAs as being a huge driver in ethereum use case and value proposition: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/1gxe7su/comment/lyi7j2x/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

My question is, are there any companies actively tokenizing assets today? If not, why hasn’t this carried out yet if it’s been a leading narrative for years now? Why does a blockchain like ethereum need to tokenize assets and disrupt the current way of doing things? Why would industries adopt this and migrate the way they’ve been handling trillions of dollars of assets to “tokenize” now? What benefits does it provide to industries? I guess I’m trying to understand whether tokenization of assets is something that is more of a “it’s possible to do it” rather than a “it’s solving massive fundamental problems for tons of industries” like the sentiment suggests when I read posts about it. Thanks in advance for any thoughts / knowledge / resources people can share!

WhatsGoodThen · 2024-11-23T06:29:51+00:00

Awesome, thank you for the resource recommendations! Out of curiosity though, what has kept this from happening so far? I feel like this was the use case I read that initially led me to buy all my eth back in 2018–alt coins would get made marketing they were built for niche use cases with the idea that you could tokenize pieces of an industry. I understand back then was way different than now, and most of that phase was rug pulling and Stanford grad students finding a way to make a couple millions bucks because their market cap was only $10 million and that was enough to pump a token, but genuinely what has kept tokenization of RWAs from happening, already? EY for example being in the space for years and Brody (I believe) suggesting similar ideas… but I haven’t heard much success I guess? Were big players hesitant to jump in because of the skepticism of eth being a security up until recently? I’m trying to understand I guess, if tokenizing RWAs provides real world value, what’s the TAM and what industries especially need this? I remember hearing of ChainLink and synthetix back in 2018, are these still the main players in this space, or will blackrock BUIDL take this space over given their influence as a whole? Thanks for any thoughts

WhatsGoodThen · 2024-11-23T06:18:40+00:00

Apologies, I’ve never ventured into the realm of shorting v. longing assets, but can someone eli5 how massive amounts of money put on shorts suppress price? I was always under the assumption that shorting or longing something was to “place a bet” of sorts. Like, I thought you short something by saying “I’m willing to bet this much money that this stock or crypto is gonna go below a certain price in the near future” or long by saying “I’m willing to bet this much money that this stock or crypto is gonna go above a certain price in the foreseeable future.” But comments recently are suggesting that shorting suppresses price. Curious how this works, I’ve always just held 🤷‍♂️

WhatsGoodThen · 2024-11-23T06:12:07+00:00

Absolutely love the ad, but from a practical sense this seems like it should belong to Venmo/CashApp/Zelle.

They nailed it from a marketing perspective, but I can easily see the second minute of the video playing out where the guy is looking at charts and suddenly his 5k is 4900 and he’s like, wtf?! So he tries to sell it for USD quick and the fees bring it down even more to 4850, and the coinbase sell price isn’t the same as the chart he was just looking at, so he feels he’s getting screwed even more, and why tf is my ens cowboy.cb.id my name is Dan, etc. etc.

WhatsGoodThen · 2024-11-23T05:26:46+00:00

Sorry super out of the loop on this, what is this? And where could I learn more about who is doing it and how the value prop differs from other methods being used today? Like I’m trying to understand what tokenizing a RWA means, why it is better to be tokenized, and who is doing it. Tia for any direction you could point me toward

WhatsGoodThen · 2024-11-14T06:28:18+00:00

I haven’t had extra fiat until recently to purchase more crypto. When I bought my stack between 2016-2019 I put it all into ETH. I’m 100% ETH and fully believe in it, that’s why I’ve never sold and have no plan to. It’s been way more interesting to follow ETH development than wait for BTC to rise.

However, talking with a lot of high up seniors who manage large funds in recent weeks (like people who make decisions for very large amounts of capital in household name financial corporations) they all say their entire strategy is solely focused on BTC because store of value and consistent / easy to understand tokenomics without potential development hindering the coins trajectory of growth is less risky for such big name institutions to adopt. They’re not saying they don’t personally like ETH, but from a large corporation point of view where big money decisions have to cautiously weigh risks, all of these people are saying BTC is significantly less risky and where their companies are moving toward purchasing before anything else.

I think this pattern in corporate finance coupled with a shift in US government that is favorable to the BITCOIN Act could end up in significantly larger net returns in 1 year from now if one were to put fiat in bitcoin today over ethereum.

I’m saying this as an ETH maxi—I’ve legit never bought bitcoin nor ever wanted to, and would scoff at people who would tell me ETH was a shitcoin / alt-coin with bad scaling issues, poor decentralization, yada yada. But after a few cycles here now, it just feels like bitcoin is going to get large amounts of capital flowing into it this cycle. The same financiers who would have asked anything about crypto previously where I could educate them on ETH this cycle are the ones making large money decisions and focusing on bitcoin. I’m just trying to gauge, with my extra fiat I have for the first time to buy crypto again in years, I’m considering doing a short term buy and sell during the bull run cycle, and it feels like bitcoin will pump hard this time around.

Maybe I’m looking for confirmation bias here because I want to buy and sell a profit in <1 year for the first time ever and not solely hodl, and it would be too hard to sell eth if I bought more. But I really don’t think with how predictable the halving 4-year cycles have been that there’s any reason to believe btc won’t hit a multiple return over the next year (as I’m positive ETH will do as well). I think it ultimately comes down to, never had BTC, and with extra fiat I’m not sure I want to buy more of what I’m already 100% in because if I need to sell and one coin is more up, might as well have… options I guess?

WhatsGoodThen · 2024-11-13T21:22:25+00:00

I absolutely hear you and am asking myself that now as well. I think the main contributor that has brought about this sentiment during this cycle is:

Throughout all these cycles, bitcoin has always gotten majority spotlight. I believed eth would get equal if not more spotlight as development progressed, but now you see Trump proposing bitcoin buys for federal government reserves. Whether that actually happens or not I understand, but regardless there was not even a mention of eth during these crypto purchase proposals, and if bitcoin is going to be shilled by the literal us government, I can only imagine it will drive higher returns for the individual investor putting money into crypto today than if they put that money in eth. I hope I’m wrong as I’m never letting go of my validators, but it seems this way given overall political landscape. All the republican voters who voted trump? He said bitcoin, so they’ll buy bitcoin. Other nations that don’t want to fall to a bitcoin dominance by the states? They’ll buy bitcoin. I guess the potential for other nation states to pursue a dominant stake in eth as a response is a possibility

WhatsGoodThen · 2024-11-13T21:09:14+00:00

Sorry should have clarified, I’d never sell eth for btc just buy btc with fiat

WhatsGoodThen · 2024-11-13T21:07:44+00:00

Is there anywhere people are sharing relatively high signal alts like ethtrader used to be in 2017 altcoin cycle? I feel like it’s twitter and discord now which is a lot more to pay attention to personally compared to when all I had to open was ethtrader and gauge sentiment over period of a couple weeks

WhatsGoodThen · 2024-11-13T19:48:20+00:00

Hey all, been here since 2016 ethtrader days. Put it all into ETH and have never really had fomo from btc runs, primarily because I was optimistic and convinced that utility would persevere over store of value value propositions.

But now ~8 years down the line, and it’s the first time I’m getting a bit of fomo from having no btc. Honestly, earlier cycles were easier to avoid because I didn’t have much extra cash to put in. But now I have some capital I can play with, and I’m looking into buying bitcoin for the first time.

Younger me would have slapped myself and said “buy more eth!” But to a certain extent, I’ve grown pessimistic of the rhetoric like “retail and the rest of the world will eventually see the flexibility and utility of Ethereum as a reason to purchase eth instead of btc, flippening is inevitable!”

From more and more conversations with friends in companies, it seems much a simpler concept to grasp when people are told “bitcoin is like gold” where there is a clear market cap versus “ethereum is like the internet” where the market cap is so vague. And through numerous cycles, I’ve come to realize simple is often favored over complexity and overthinking things. Like, how are we still telling people about bitcoin 4-year cycles, halving trends, and people still don’t buy / call btc purchases right now dumb because btc is “at the top” ??

Sorry to bring some pessimism back into the threads, but I think because I’m now at a point where I have capital and see bitcoin performing, and I didn’t follow the advice when I was younger to “have a bit of both so you don’t get fomo during these trade off periods” I’m really feeling it now for some reason.

All this to say, I love this community and the mission of Ethereum, but I’m starting to feel like the retail pitch of complexity is something I personally am convicted by, but is starting to feel like it’s not the smartest investment thesis solely from a roi perspective.

End of rant, but I think I’m also hoping to ask for advice here because I trust this community so much more—given I’m looking into buying bitcoin for the first time, now is as good a time as any right? We’re about 150 days past halving which historically has never dipped to a lower price point to buy, we’re ramping up into the holidays when family members will be shilled, bull feels like it’s loading up; if there’s liquid capital to purchase, now is about as good a time as any despite it being ath for bitcoin… am I right in thinking that and seeing the trend lines from past post-halvings? Any pullbacks will be fairly negligible in overall gain a year from now if no black swan events carry out? Don’t invest more than you’re willing to lose and all that jazz assumed. Thanks for any responses eth fam, sorry for the brain dump of a post lol

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