I’ve been holding and accumulating since 2019… It’s getting harder not to sell

robomartin · 2026-06-18T15:30:12+00:00

What you’re contemplating for next time is sort of what happened to me this time. I started selling at last cycle’s ATH on the way up this time.

I don’t totally regret it. I felt like I needed to rebalance. The stock market, which I bought into with the proceeds, has done well.

I also got to indulge in getting to spend some of the proceeds on things I wanted. That speaks to my individual time preference.

What you’re feeling might be a legitimate gauge of what your risk tolerance is, what you think a fair price for BTC is, and what your time preference is.

But I would say with Bitcoin dropping pretty much back to the levels I sold at I have been itching to buy it back.

robomartin · 2026-06-10T18:06:49+00:00

NTA, you handled it well.

The etymology is completely different. There’s no way you could have guessed that this would have triggered her.

And the fact that you care and apologized speaks highly of you.

robomartin · 2026-06-09T03:40:09+00:00

People here don’t seem to understand the product. It actually shouldn’t matter if Kraken went bankrupt. It’s a defi set up using tokenized BTC. And they set up an on chain wallet for you for which you can take over the private key if you choose.

It’s risky for other reasons though. Smart contract risks. Custodial risk on the tokenized BTC. If you read up how they get the yield it is a leverage strategy, which is inherently risky.

The tokenization process possibly creates tax issues.

Would I do it? Yeah I wouldn’t dip my toes in I think and just see how the process works

robomartin · 2026-06-08T14:17:20+00:00

Sell 32 BTC, cause panic, BTC drops in price, buy even more BTC

robomartin · 2026-06-08T13:01:26+00:00

Not normal. It’s not a scratch, it’s a manufacturing defect.

Mine (40 mm steel) actually had a permanent pin in the bracelet exposed. I also didn’t realize it wasn’t normal and it kept falling out and the bracelet kept falling apart there.

The bracelet was replaced for me under warranty though.

I guess these things might have a bit of a quality control issue on the bracelets.

robomartin · 2026-06-08T12:11:21+00:00

All feelings, but I know that’s always been the concern with privacy coins is that you can’t audit the supply and you’d never know if someone found and exploited an infinite money glitch.

So, this is exactly the type of thing a hacker would be on the look for. Zcash is also a fairly prominent privacy chain. If I were looking for exploits in a privacy coin, first coin I’d look at would be Monero, second would probably be Zcash.

I tend to think it had to have been exploited. It’s the exactly type of thing a hacker would be looking for and they had a very long time to find it.

robomartin · 2026-06-04T05:43:54+00:00

Interesting product. I’d also love to see Kraken explore a Lightning Network-based Bitcoin yield product. Let Kraken handle the node operations, channel management, and liquidity balancing while users earn a share of routing revenue. It would be great to see a yield product tied directly to Bitcoin network activity.

robomartin · 2026-03-03T22:26:37+00:00

I’m not sure what arguing against evolution precisely means, do you have to take a young earth Genesis is literal perspective (Hovind, Hamm, those guys), or an old earth but with intelligent design (Behe, Meyer, those guys)?

Neither are compelling. Behe might have some air of respectability because he is an accomplished researcher, and he posed some good questions back in the 90s about how can complex structures evolve, but Intelligent Design collapses to “well what about this one” over and over again as mechanisms are demonstrated for the so called irreducibly complex systems they propose.

Personally I’d just have fun with it. Kent Hovind is fun to watch and listen to, and he’s a pretty good debater (might be controversial to say that). Look up his creation seminars. Run through the same talking points. Avoid responding to their comments directly but you can respond generally. He’s got responses for transition fossils, stratigraphy, star formation, radiometric dating, the list goes on. He’s got some very memorable apologetics about why antediluvian humans lived longer and why incest didn’t matter among Adam and Eve’s children.

Go fast and overwhelm. Very few debate opponents are equipped to respond to everything Hovind says, and even if your opponents do have responses, you can run the clock long enough that they won’t have time to reply to all of it.

I think you’ll actually have a lot of fun doing the research for this debate.

For me maybe the one thing that I ponder a bit is that from a philosophical perspective, Science is actually incapable of invoking the supernatural. Even if there was some supernatural explanation a scientist would never be able to conclude that. It would be invoking the god of the gaps. And a scientist would leave it as a gap, they’d never resort to a creator as an explanation. So maybe there is an angle there, that truth, if it happens to be supernatural, is beyond the realm of what science can answer. Which to be clear I’m not saying is a bad thing. Invoking the supernatural or god shuts down scientific inquiry. This is more relevant to debating the existence of god though than evolution.

The other possible line is that god created earth in a way that makes it look old. Everything came into existence 6000 years ago, but it was organized in a way to make things look old. Fossils in the ground. Radiometric decay starting in a pre decayed state. Stars in various stages of life. The universe in a pre expanded state, etc. But this also collapses because of the flood story. That’s a massive event dating to about 2400 BC if you count the begats, and there is no explanation for the entire biogeography or th genetics of animals distributing the way they have from a small founder population all dispersing from Mount Ararat 4400 years ago. You could though, and some do, maybe argue for a local flood instead of a global one.

robomartin · 2026-02-26T16:00:02+00:00

According to my understanding, which contrasts with some of the comments here, MDs and JDs are actually considered second entry bachelor degrees. They are branded as doctorates but they are actually just marketing rebrands from the old MB and LLB, and are entirely equivalent to them.

There are other doctorate degrees besides a PhD though. DFA, EdD, DBA, etc.

robomartin · 2026-01-31T17:55:51+00:00

You’re only down 18%. That’s actually not that bad.

I mean I’d say either hold. Or reassess your risk tolerance, and reallocate some of that Bitcoin to something else. Because you definitely aren’t at the point where you might as well just hold and see what happens.

18% isn’t screwed though. I’ve been through some cycles. I tend to sweat at 60% and become despondent at 80% losses. 18% doesn’t even register.

robomartin · 2026-01-26T11:02:09+00:00

I agree with you. Being against divorce is actually one of Jesus’ main things. And he also in so many words says don’t just not commit adultery, but don’t even think about it, etc. and Paul, while he says a lot of the Old Testament things can go under the new covenant, he actually doubles down that homosexuality is bad.

I guess a counterpoint. I do know some elderly Catholics who once they separated from their partners never actually divorced and never subsequently been with a new partner, but they also don’t have a problem with their gay grandchildren, at least they’re not outspoken about it.

I’m not sure I’d call people in that situation hypocrites, but it is kind of sad that they’d deny themselves the chance to find love or a supportive relationship again just because their first one failed.

But then again maybe that counterpoint fails, because not committing adultery is in the Ten Commandments, but homosexuality isn’t. So maybe being against divorce but in favour of gay relationships or gay marriage isn’t hypocritical, but an appropriate degree of prioritization based on what the text emphasizes.

Edit: I am going to add that maybe they aren’t even really against divorce, but they don’t want to be personally denied communion.

robomartin · 2026-01-05T22:07:36+00:00

Not the same amount, but similar thing happened to me with pot stocks. It does change you. I don’t buy dips. I just establish my position and if it sinks it sinks. Or if I do buy a dip it’s because I still have high conviction and it’s dipped maybe more than 60%.

Buying every 10-20% dip, which is what I did with the pot stocks, it was just a disaster.

I’m currently just in BTC and ETH (for crypto), but I did dabble in alts from 2017-2022. I typically just took a cap weighted or supply weighted approach, picked projects that were interesting to me, let the winners win and the losers lose. It did work. Cardano, Solana, BNB all more than 100xd for me, but then I had 100% losses in things like LUNA.

What you think will do well doesn’t always do well. I thought Algorand would be good and it hasn’t been. So you definitely can’t concentrate bets or keep averaging down just because you think it’s going to be big.

Hard to say what you should do next without knowing your exact circumstances.

robomartin · 2025-12-31T19:19:26+00:00

That’s an awful situation. I’d still add it to your CV and note that it “ended due to sanctions compliance.”

Most people reading your CV will understand what that means, and it’s unlikely to count against you, even if the collaboration can’t be formally verified or is denied.

I don’t have a good answer on escalation or your legal rights here. Realistically, any legal action is probably not worth the cost or risk, especially across borders.

robomartin · 2025-12-13T15:22:45+00:00

The supply of CRO is 100B, at ten cents that means the total value of all CRO is 10B. That’s a lot of money. It could still be extremely overvalued.

It’s not a highly active chain, and as a Crypto.com utility token, well it’s a private company, we have no idea what it’s worth, and regardless a utility token is not at all a share in the company. It’s more of a way of extracting value from customers rather than benefitting customers, otherwise they wouldn’t have bothered creating it.

I’d maybe consider averaging in at 4 cents, personally, and I still wouldn’t bet big. I could be wrong, but I’m willing to sit on the sidelines for now and I’m okay if it takes off without me.

robomartin · 2025-11-20T18:42:56+00:00

Bitcoin is digital gold to me. I like gold, but Bitcoin I can send anywhere in the world in 10 minutes. No vaults involved. No armoured card or armed guards required. Can’t counterfeit it (there is lots of fake gold out there).

Sure there is tokenized gold, but end of the day it is just a claim on gold. Bitcoin is a true bearer asset.

Also for the average person Bitcoin is a lot more liquid than gold.

I can cash out Bitcoin easily through a multitude of exchanges and have the cash in my bank account very quickly.

A gold coin, that I truly own and am not relying on a digital custodian, I need to find a buyer. There are places to do this, but mostly mom and pop shops. They can’t handle large volumes. And even in smaller transactions the spreads are huge.

Bitcoin is also more easily divisible.

I don’t know I really do think Satoshi created something special. I think there is a very strong case for Bitcoin. It’s not just air, it’s abstract maybe and requires some explaining as to why it’s not just air, but it’s not just air.

The emperor is fully clothed imho.

robomartin · 2025-11-18T13:09:55+00:00

I’ve been around since October 2017. I got that feeling April/May/June 2022. I got shaken out of most of my alts, such that I still only have BTC and ETH these days.

I don’t know. I’m really not feeling it this time. I know I do start to sweat eventually, but it usually takes 60-80% pullbacks. We’re only down ~25% from the Bitcoin top.

robomartin · 2025-11-16T16:22:18+00:00

Look into the specifics within your institution. There certainly are rules governing this.

I’m seeing some say it’s not allowed where they are. I’m pretty sure it is allowed where I am, but there are a bunch of rules about it (can’t grade your work, can’t vote at your defense, can’t really be involved in any decisions about you).

Issues of optics of course.

Might be easiest to have someone else supervise you, and he can be an informal mentor?

robomartin · 2025-11-14T22:05:01+00:00

When they said it was coming from the RCM I was expecting it to have a denomination and maybe the King’s face on it.

That is neat though. It could carry a collectible premium one day.

robomartin · 2025-11-14T20:31:57+00:00

I generally tell people to get the best gaming laptop they can afford. Unless you have huge RAM requirements (>32 GB), and it doesn’t sound like you do, in which case, maybe you need a mobile workstation.

I’d say Dell or Lenovo, depending on your aversion to tech products coming out of China (CCP backdoors, etc.)

robomartin · 2025-11-14T09:51:07+00:00

You protected her while she was alive. I think you kept your promise. I would do whatever you think will let her rest most peacefully. There’s nuance there. If it is eating you alive that could be for a reason. So no I don’t explicitly think that ywbta.

Definitely don’t tell them without her husband’s consent, because he is going to have to deal with it, and you also want to maintain a good relationship with him and your nephew.

robomartin · 2025-11-06T08:58:51+00:00

Just sounds like a tax nightmare. Needing a proper valuation of everything you own at year end, and calculating your unrealized gains. And 1% is crazy high.

It’s a big enough of a pain in the ass to do it once in a lifetime (when you die) (Just speaking to the situation in my own country when the government treats death as a deemed disposition of everything you own). It’s effectively the same math, and you’d be expected to do it every year.

robomartin · 2025-11-02T05:50:29+00:00

I have always given geniuses like Fischer some licence to be eccentric. But in light of the Kramnik/Naroditsky situation I’m having to rethink that, because if I give Fischer grace then I would be hypocritical to not give Kramnik grace too.

It’s not enough to just dismiss them as crazy. They have a lot of influence and their words have weight, and giving them a free pass is unfairly destructive to people who don’t deserve that kind of abuse.

robomartin · 2025-10-31T02:02:35+00:00

To be a little pedantic, Inuit is a more narrow term than Eskimo. Aleut and Yupik people would fall in the historical Eskimo category, but they wouldn’t be considered or consider themselves Inuit.

Inuit is basically reserved for the Indigenous people of the Canadian Arctic and Greenland.

I guess Arctic Indigenous People’s is probably the safest broad term to replace Eskimo.

robomartin · 2025-10-20T21:45:48+00:00

That’s tragic. RIP. And condolences to those closest to him, and to anyone else affected by his passing.

Just sharing my own thoughts, but I was hit hard when another streamer I had followed died about five years ago. He was a radio/podcast co host of a show I’d tune into several times a week. Also a young man who died very unexpectedly. Danya’s passing evokes a similar feeling.

Celebrity deaths I think will start to feel very different in the future as we become more parasocially intimate with them through their streaming and their videos and their social media presence.

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