Put a BTC vs CC chart up this morning and CC seems inversely correlated to BTC since around the beginning of this year - why is that? Not complaining (at least not yet lol), just curious.

Whats CC

Canton coin

I'd exercise extreme caution with any crypto that has a "foundation" making decisions

A few months back I asked about ZEC in here and the general consensus was that it was a "****coin."

Genuinely didn't know much about it then and still wouldn't claim to be an expert now.

But it did get me thinking:

How much of our conviction (positive or negative) in crypto is actually rooted in fundamentals vs. sentiment, narratives, or timing?

ZEC's focus on privacy is either:
- a real long-term differentiator, or
- a regulatory overhang waiting to happen

…and I can see both sides of that argument.

Curious how people here view it now:
- Has anything materially changed in how you evaluate ZEC?
- Or is this just another example of price moving independently of underlying value?

Anybody got $RAVE coin? It is going to the moon. $0.50 to $9 buck dollars in a few days

Hyped for HYPE

Privacy coins will always catch a bid every once in a while. Think they are pretty solid to trade.

As for the privacy aspect... I understand the allure of it for sure, but if governments were actually at risk of losing control or sizeable tax income to a privacy coin I'd think they'd get smashed through pretty quick. I don't see them letting that fly.

But Idk maybe

BREAKING: Bitcoin extends gains to +5% on the day and rises above $74,000. pic.twitter.com/UUlOPzObJV

— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) April 13, 2026

This was a pretty good listen on the mechanics of STRC and a bit of sobering outlook on DeFi

https://t.co/ZfRNhN7ufQ

— Flood (@ThinkingUSD) April 12, 2026

I cant get link to work.


Whats the sobering part on DeFi

TOM LEE AT PARIS BLOCKCHAIN WEEK

BITMINE already owns 4% of ETH supply. They expect to reach 5% this year.

But the bigger point is MAVAN.

BITMINE is already staking over $2B of other people’s crypto, including ETH, HYPERLIQUID, and SOLANA.

TOM LEE says MAVAN will be the… pic.twitter.com/aAw4qg96HN

— BMNR Bullz (@BMNRBullz) April 15, 2026

Monthly average daily volume for STRC:

Dec: 571,882
Jan: 1,218,507
Feb: 1,200,511
Mar: 2,576,430
Apr MTD: 5,132,188

jamey said:

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I cant get link to work.


Whats the sobering part on DeFi

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Let's put it this way

Defi yields are now lower than treasury yields
Add in the risk of existing protocol hacks, the real risk rate is way lower

Now add in Mythos which is apparently powerful enough to put bullets in legitimate infosecurity. Yea, take your money out of there and run.

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Monthly average daily volume for STRC:

Dec: 571,882
Jan: 1,218,507
Feb: 1,200,511
Mar: 2,576,430
Apr MTD: 5,132,188

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This is my first turn on it. Currently running down near $99/share.

Assuming they are increasing the yield to commensurately buy the price back up to $100?

Or they just stop issuing new shares for a bit. Both work. It will get back to $100 relatively quickly

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“Getting the Clarity Act done is the next step to finish the job.”$RLUSD 🤝 #XRP pic.twitter.com/np1PCAaAAo

— Rep. Hugh Blackwell (@TrueRepHughB) April 17, 2026

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Anybody got $RAVE coin? It is going to the moon. $0.50 to $9 buck dollars in a few days

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And rug pull complete back to $0.50

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/world-liberty-investor-justin-sun-claims-trump-crypto-venture-secretly-installed-tool-to-freeze-user-holdings/ar-AA20N1eK?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=69dd9d67844d406f891aff0d0e311146&ei=38

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A major investor in U.S. President Donald Trump's World Liberty Financial crypto venture has claimed that the firm "secretly" implemented a tool to unilaterally freeze and restrict private holdings of its WLFI token.
In posts on social media platform X on Sunday, crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun said, without offering evidence, that World Liberty had embedded what he described as a "backdoor blacklisting function" in the blockchain-based contracts used for the tokens.

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It generated more than $460 million in income for the Trump family during the first half of 2025, according to a Reuters analysis https://www.reuters.com/investigations/inside-trump-familys-global-crypto-cash-machine-2025-10-28/ published last year.
Sun in late 2024 became the largest publicly known investor in the then-fledgling World Liberty, spending tens of millions of dollars on the WLFI token and being named as an adviser to the firm. He later upped his holdings to at least $75 million of the tokens, according to his social media posts from January 2025.
In 2024, Sun told a New York Times reporter his investment was a vote of confidence https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-crypto-world-liberty-financial.html in what he called the Trump family's "excellent project".

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For those more in the know about crypto, is it normal for crypto currencies to "freeze, restrict, and effectively confiscate the property rights" of any token holder, without cause and without recourse."?

For ****coins, yes

More news from the Trump boys and crypto.

Link

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Eric Trump has been quietly scrubbed from the public leadership of a small financial technology company closely tied to his family's cryptocurrency venture.
As recently as March, the president's second-oldest son was listed on the leadership page of Alt5 Sigma Corp., a Las Vegas-based firm that shot to national prominence last year after it began stockpiling tokens from World Liberty Financial, the Trump family's crypto venture.

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Alt5's own finances paint a troubling picture. Shares in the company have shed roughly 90 percent of their value since it announced the World Liberty token stockpile last August. The firm lost more than $341 million in its most recent fiscal year and warned investors it had "substantial doubts" about its ability to stay afloat another year. As of December, it had 16 employees.

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Witkoff's son is also involved in this one.