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Hive checks all the boxes

andablackwidow — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:43:27 GMT

Some time ago @small.minion wanted me to write him something about Hive, why it is better than other chains. Once I started doing the research the answer turned out to not be so obvious. Ultimately we've only discussed some aspects, but I did not make it in time for European Blockchain Conference (preparing somewhat coherent article takes me far too much time), but since I didn't want the effort to go entirely to waste, I'm writing this post.

The promise

A lot has changed since the early days of Bitcoin. The innovations tied to crypto are enormous, their adoption also grew aside mere "price go up". But it looks like something might have been lost in the process.

"Be your own bank" - that was the phrase connected to the crypto from the early days. But what does it mean?

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Clearly it is not about keeping a stash of gold and other valuables hidden in a place where no one can take it away from you. The treasure has value only if there are other people that want to exchange that treasure for the goods they produce and services they provide, and when there is a way to actually make that exchange (directly or indirectly). So being your own bank is inevitably tied to other people through some financial system, everyone just wants that system to work in their favor. People are different though - some are very wealthy, some are poor, some want to take risks, others prefer safety, some are knowledgeable in financial or technical matters, others have other interests and don't want to need to be IT experts to just spend some coin, some move their funds a lot, other just put them away for couple decades. So the system to work in everyone's favor needs to be safe, cheap and easy to use, and it needs to have little to none counterparty risks. Even if one decides they want to use it via a proxy (because they can't be bothered to do it themselves) it is still beneficial to them if they are not bound to a handful of powerful corporations that traditional banks are today. Let's see different aspects of banking:

Banks follow rules. Clear rules mean predictability and confidence.
Banks not just keep, but multiply money.
Banks keep their own records. They don't need to rely on external services to tell them what's in their books.
Banks are a utility - other businesses use them as a service.
Finally, banks keep things private.

Let's examine each point in the context of crypto. Why are those points important and how much of the "be your own bank" can an individual really achieve in today's blockchains.

Governance

One of the aspects that didn't change from the start is openness of the source code of blockchains. With AI even more people can actively check whether the rules of particular chain make sense and are properly implemented. Same goes with tools that are used to actually interact with the chains.

The openness has no practical impact if one group of people holds exclusive rights to apply the rules and also make adjustments to the code - someone else is enforcing or rewriting law and you have no say in it. Transaction exclusion is within natural rules of all blockchains - not all valid transactions will make it to the blocks, for various reasons, technical or deliberate censorship, it gives block producers power over individual users, even if no changes to the code are ever made and they all run only official code. Even if that power is widely distributed, but limitted to large corporations, it is still not comfortable situation. Such entities are easy targets for external pressure (f.e. regulatory from governments), their interests might not align with interests of smaller holders. While reviewing this aspect of blockchains we'll be looking at who produces blocks, who decides who can be one of block producers and what are practical limitations of that decision.

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Important aspect of block production is the incentive structure - does blockchain reward producers correctly in relation to the requirements put on them? The higher the costs or knowledge and time required, the greater the reward needs to be. The opposite is also true - blockchain can be run solely by enthusiasts if it is very cheap to run. If incentives are not alligned, there is a danger of the chain stopping entirely, or that producers will seek revenue elsewhere, which decouples their interest from interests of the blockchain and its users.

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Trade3 - Finally Sold #COTi - To BUY BTC - Target 0.1 BTC - Lets Explore...

gungunkrishu — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 07:22:15 GMT

Hey All,

Finally its done and dusted. I have exited my stake from #COTi and ALL of it has been swapped for Bitcoin #BTC... Yes its ALL done now. This is my Trade3 towards accomplishing my GOAL of having 0.1 BTC in my DEX [Decentralized Exchange] wallet i.e. Pancakeswap on BNB chain. I moved ALL my #COTi ERC-20 tokens to Binance exchange and swapped it for CAKE to move it over to PancakeSwap and finally swapped ALL the #CAKE tokens close to 1K+ of them for WBTC [Wrapped Bitcoin]. It may sound complicated, but when you do these sorts of swaps and transfer tokens from an exchange to a DEX, there is a lot of learning involved. If by chance any step is wrong, you can lose ALL of your tokens. So I recommend doing these kinds of swaps only when you are fully comfortable with the process, understand every step, and are ready to take the risk. So now what NeXt?

Trade3 - Finally Sold #COTi - To BUY BTC - Target 0.1 BTC

ALL these trades is a step forwards to having 0.1 BTC in my wallet that I plan to #HODL for long tem. For me, every trade is not just about moving from one token or swapping it to for another token it is also about the learning experience and get to know different types of blockchains being involved and how they function. And this time my GOAL here is pretty SIMPLE - keep accumulating BTC and slowly move towards my 0.1 BTC target. So its time to now update my BTC accumulation trade history to add the Trade3 and hence here is the updated table now..

My ₿ BTC Accumulation — Trade History...

Trade	Date	Tokens Sold / Swapped	BTC Trading Around	WBTC Received	Value at $84K BTC	Cumulative WBTC
Trade 1	28 September 2026	1,000 AVA	$84,000	0.0029600 BTC	$248.64	0.0029600 BTC
Trade 2	29 September 2026	5K+ VET + 24K VTHO	$84,000	0.0007710 BTC	$64.76	0.0037310 BTC
Trade 3	3 October 2026	COTI	$84,580	0.02965975 BTC	$2,491.42	0.03339075 BTC
TOTAL				₿ 0.03339075 BTC	$2,804.82	₿ 0.03339075 BTC

As per my last tarde i.e. trade2 I had progressed 3.73% and the remaining BTC to be collected was 0.096269 BTC. And with todays trade here is the overall summary 33% of BTC Goal is accomplished...

₿ Current BTC: 0.03339075 BTC
Value at $84K/BTC: $2,804.82
0.1 BTC Goal: 33.39% completed
Remaining: 0.06660925 BTC

Overall, I am happy how things are progressing with my trade for BTC and if I continue to invest and swap other tokens for BTC, I will soon be a proud owner of 1/10th of a BTC... lets see how things progress in near future and stay tuned for the next update i.e. Trade4 to buying #BTC... Well this should be it for todays post on - "Trade3 - Finally Sold #COTi - To BUY BTC - Target 0.1 BTC - Lets Explore....." Happy Investing.. HODL..BTC as its the King of ALL the Crypto Tokens... Cheers

Have Your Say on COTI APRs - COTi Earn, #COTI, #gCOTI token - HODL Vs SELL?

Did you link your Viper Wallet to MetaMask? Are you invested in #COTI token? Did you know about this bridge on the COTI platform that lets you to transfer your COTI from centralized exchange to a DEX? Are you staking COTI vs gCOTI? Planing to buy BTC or HODL BTC? Let me know your valuable views in the comment box below.

#COTI #GCOTI #Crypto #HODL #CryptoInvestment #Blockchain #BTC

Image Courtesy:: Procanva license, ChatGpt, VeChain, pancakeswap, metamask,bscscan

Best Regards
Paras

PS:- None of the above is a FINANCIAL Advice. Please DYOR; Do your own research. I've an interest in Blockchain, Stocks & Cryptos and have been investing in many emerging projects. Also I am using ChatGpt for structing of the table content in markdown language at times...

My 5 Main Reasons for Exiting My COTI Stake - No DRAMA - Let’s Explore...

gungunkrishu — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:13:33 GMT

Hey All,

First of ALL, I want to make it very clear that the reasons I have for exiting the #COTI project is entirely my decision and are based on the articles and different X posts that I have been reading, along with the major changes that have happened within the COTI Foundation. What we have seen so far is that the CEO #Shahaf Bar-Geffen stepping down, alogn with that we saw the existing management stepping down, and the ZK Foundation, led by Robbie Vander Ghinste, coming into the picture and taking over the direction of COTI.

The immdeiate question that comes to my mind why ALL of a sudden these changes when we started to see #COTi making some noise around their technology which is PoD [Privacy on Demand] and their recent news with Avalanche blockchain - COTI Privacy-on-Demand is live on Avalanche . So yeah Why ALL this DRAMA when #COTi PoD has started to shine. I smell something fishy going on and hence finally took the call to exit my #COTi stake...

My 5 Main Reasons for Exiting My COTI Stake - No DRAMA...

As from above image, I have started to move my COTi tokens to Binance where I plan to swap it for CAKE and then move CAKE to Pancakeswap where finally I swap CAKE for #WBTC and get closer to my GOAL of having 0.1 BTC in my BNB wallet. Coming to my TOP 5 reasons for exiting #COTI, they are as follows. I am going to keep them as simple as possible without going into too much detail around each of them, as I see no reason to give an explanation or justification whatsoever. These are MY reasons and MY decision to exit my #COTI stake.

- Reason 1 - COTi team ALL of a sudden stopped the COTi treasury and the rewards around it... First doubt here and they said move your coins to KuCoin exchange to earn staking rewards as its difficult to maintain the staking platform.. How difficult it can be for a team who is building a protocol which bring in PoD [Privacy on Demand] to the blockchains...

- Reason 2 - When everything is working FINE, why make such a BIG change? I mean everything is working FINE — #COTI is getting attention, the recent COTI Privacy-on-Demand is LIVE on Avalanche, and other chains like Ethereum are also in the pipeline then who would want to make such a BIG change across the entire company? Just think about it? Do you guys smell something FISHY here or NOT?

- Reason 3 - Treasury & Wallet Transparency, right now there is are too many unanswered questions around major wallets, token movements, market maker arrangements and who ultimately controls the funds. Majority of the COTi tokens are being dumped on the exchanges and hence the price of COTi is just falling and falling.. Will it come to ZERO? Who knows.. I want to exit and take whatever I can and invest in BITCOIN..

- Reason 4 - NO transperancy in terms of how much was paid to the Foundation, in what different asset, from which address, on which date. Metamask agreement terms there is nothing or no information around this. If ALL is legit then why hide the details? ITs that SIMPLE make the information avaialble to the community..Why HIDE iT?

- Reason 5 - And finally I dont want to wait any further and continue to think that ALL is good when I can clearly see that something is wrong here and I need to ACT now before its too LATe and hence exiting my #COTi stkae for now...

And if #COTI rebounds from here, which I genuinely wish and pray that it does, so that people who are holding their #COTI do not lose their hard earned money, I will be more than happy to see that happen. I am booking my losses and moving ON..with other crypto projects invstment. Well this should be it for todays post on - "My 5 Main Reasons for Exiting My COTI Stake - No DRAMA - Lets Explore... Let’s Explore..." ~~Interested then do yourself a favor to grab some coti and gcoti tokens now before they skyrocket and thank me later....& obviously DYOR~~... No MORE Stay Coti...I will be exiting #COTi SooN... Happy Investing in Crypto Projects... cheers

Have Your Say on COTI APRs - COTi Earn, #COTI, #gCOTI token - HODL Vs SELL?

Did you link your Viper Wallet to MetaMask? Are you invested in #COTI token? Did you know about this bridge on the COTI platform that lets you to transfer your COTI from centralized exchange to a DEX? ~~Are you staking COTI vs gCOTI?~~ Would love to hear your thoughts around it in the comment box below?

#coti #gcoti #payment #rewards #treasury #staking #node #howto #transfer #crypto #cryptoofinternet #hodl #binance #bridge #currencyofinternet

Image Courtesy:: coti treasury, ChatGpt, coti, Binance

Best Regards
Paras

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3rd Weekly Green Candle is on Bitcoin Price Chart

chorock — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:48:54 GMT

This is 3rd week Bitcoin price in weekly green candle. It was dificult to see these weekly green candle series. It is good to see 3 successive weekly green candle. It is one of signal for reversing up from the bottom of bearish season.

Here you can see weekly chart of Bitcoin price. We have see a feww eekly green candle series after all time high level. After getting one of the hugest weekly green candle, Bitcoin price is still in weekly green candle serie.

There is great resistance on Bitcoin price chart, waiting to resist Bitcoin price is at 88K USD. It is hard to break uo. When Bitcoin price breaks up 100-week moving average, It will be easy to go up.

Here you can see the indicators on weekly chart of Bitcoin price. Fisher Indicator is on the top and ıt may reverse down if we see weekly red candle on Bitcoin price chart. There was great resistance on RSI Indicator and It is broken up. This is the signal of the beginning of bullish season. MACD Indicator is going up slowly and It should go above 0 level to enter bullish season.

Even it is possible to see price correction on Bitcoin price chart in next weeks, Bitcoin price entered bullish season. These major indicators needs price correction.

I will share an analysis about daily chart of Bitcoin price. We may see price correction at the end of this month. ıt is good to see price correction for long term.

Weekly chart of Bitcoin price seems so bullish.

We will see..

Heute gehe ich all in und ein Coins perfomt alle aus/Today I'm going all in and one coin outperformed everyone else.

der-prophet — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:00:09 GMT

Manchmal wartet ein Prophet auch vergeblich auf einen Rücksetzer auf 55.000 $.
In fünf Tagen beginnt der Kryptofrühling, und die ersten Sprossen wachsen bereits. Meiner Meinung nach wird es aber keine Altcoin-Season mehr geben, denn mittlerweile können auch die großen Altcoins direkt mit Fiatgeld gekauft werden. Gewinne aus Bitcoin müssen nicht mehr in Altcoins umgeschichtet werden.

Ein Altcoin aus meinem Portfolio hat jedoch alle anderen Coins, in die ich investiere, outperformt!

Bitcoin kommt im Monats Chart auf gute 9,67%

Ethereum auf gemütliche 11,58%

Solana auf ordentliche 18,15%

XRP immerhin noch auf 10,71%

Aber Hive hat sie alle übertroffen: Mit sagenhaften 30,12 % wurde sogar meine optimistischste Prognose übertroffen. Im letzten Kryptozyklus lag ich bei Hive komplett daneben und habe viel zu teuer eingekauft. Im Jahr 2025 bin ich bei einem viel zu hohen Preis von 0,41 $ eingestiegen, also kurz vor dem Kryptowinter. Somit hatte ich knapp 50 % meines Investments verloren. Jetzt ist es für mich an der Zeit, den Stablecoin HBD wieder in Hive umzutauschen. Sollte Hive dann auf 10 Cent steigen, läge ich bei +/- 0 meiner Anfangsinvestition.

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Sometimes a prophet waits in vain for a pullback to $55,000.

In five days, crypto spring begins, and the first shoots are already sprouting. In my opinion, however, there won't be another altcoin season, because even the major altcoins can now be bought directly with fiat currency. Profits from Bitcoin no longer need to be reinvested in altcoins.

However, one altcoin in my portfolio has outperformed all the other coins I invest in!

Bitcoin is up a solid 9.67% in the monthly chart

Ethereum is up a comfortable 11.58%

Solana is up a respectable 18.15%

XRP still up 10.71%

But Hive surpassed them all: With a phenomenal 30.12%, it even exceeded my most optimistic forecast. In the last crypto cycle, I was completely wrong about Hive and bought in at far too high a price. In 2025, I bought in at a much too high price of $0.41, just before the crypto winter. As a result, I lost almost 50% of my investment. Now it's time for me to exchange the stablecoin HBD back into Hive. If Hive then rises to 10 cents, I would break even on my initial investment.

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The thief has been caught but where is the money?

thelastdash — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:44:06 GMT

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We are up to speed on our so-called September crypto heist that saw the vault door being blown off and a wallet of 387.5 million dollars stolen from Bitget without so much as cracking a lock. The burglar didn't get in from snapping the vault door open and making off with the cash but by forging withdrawal slips with a leaked API key to third-party security management tools and while Bitget has since rotated their vault, reassured us they never accessed their cold storage and reactivated the withdrawal lights, our crook wasn't hanging around to wait for the 911 call.

The lesson Block Sec's team learned was that the attacker had set himself up with a three-act plan for leaving the scene of the crime and the first act played out just 41 minutes in - before Bitget even tweeted that something was off, when an estimated US$75.48 million of the kind of money that can be frozen, such as USDT and USDC, was traded for ETH and AVAX via Uniswap and 1inch because our thief knows Tether and Circle love a big red freeze button and they push it - and sure enough, when they finally did on a wallet with $318k, the money had already checked out of the hotel.

Part two was the epic bitcoin migration, where all, every single coin, from every chain was quietly migrated to bitcoin, with THORChain doing the lion's share, placing $269m across 7,804 trips, and Chainflip filling the other $37m, and on snapshot on September 29, the thief was still sitting comfortably on around $342m, or 88.3 per cent of the total, and nearly everything else, including 3,386 bitcoin was now under a bitcoin cap.

And then, the disappearing act, act three, as if by magic, because once you have Bitcoin, you need to make it forget where it came from, so that the coins can be led into the swirling coil of a Coin Join mixer, that giant washing machine where your coin gets tossed with a hundred others until neither you nor the coin are sure whether it's yours anymore, $3,944,732 went in there, and AMLBot catches 4 BTC moosing around in the Wasabi Coin Join.

Here's the punchline that makes this a comedy: 5 days into the heist, after all this beautiful tracing, only $840,000 (0.2%) is actually frozen, THORChain washed it's hands of it and said sorry we are permissionless we cannot block anyone, and the launderers are now so comfortable they are allegedly accepting orders in public on Discord and Telegram like it's a POS business.

We have caught the thief on-chain, his wallet is boiling up, with 3,386 BTC, but pockets are empty and the coins already in shoki's mixer. This is why we asked yesterday how did he steal them, and today we ask again: can we catch the thief, without catching the stolen money?

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4th Monthly Green Candle is on Bitcoin Price Chart

chorock — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:50:03 GMT

Yesterday was the last day of the last month. We have seen 3 successive monthly green candles on Bitcoin price chart after monthly close. Bitcoin price started with green candle in next month. this is 4th monthly green candle on Bitcoin price chart.

Here you can see monthly chart of Bitcoin price. We have seen successive monthly green candles after reversing up from bearish season. We have seen 4 successive green candle after reversing up from the bottom in last bearish season. We have seen also 6 successive monthly green candle in 2019 while reversing up from the bottom of bearish season. So we may see 4 successive monthly green candle in this reversing up.

Here you can see the indicators on monhtly chart of Bitcoin price. There is great downtrend line on RSI Indicator. MACD Indicator is close to reverse up. If we see more monhtly green candle, MACD INdicator will reverse up. We have seen same scenario on crypto market. We can follow these indicators to see what happened before. We may see the same scenario as before. After these successive green monthly candles, we may see price correction on Bitcoin price chart.

We may see the price correction at the end of this month. I will share daily analysis of Bitcoin price chart point these possibility.

We will see..

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SPS On An Uptrend

tobetada — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT

Trend change?

In my last post about SPS, I spoke about the double resistance at 0.4 cents. I also gave a cautiously optimistic outlook for a more bullish scenario:

However, should the 0.4 cents resistances be broken, I would expect a (short lived?) explosive movement to the upside.

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As of today, the 0.4 cents resistance has been broken on the weekly chart. While we still have to await a confirmation from a green weekly candle, it seems like we can turn a bit more optimistic for the mid term SPS trend.

Since the lows, SPS has made a 60-70% gain and sits now just above the two major resistances. As pointed out before, I think a confirmation will make it very possible for SPS to reach 0.07 cents in the near term. This would imply a 1.6x from the lows.

A possible future trend could look like this: A revisit to the 0.7 cents area in the next few weeks or months, followed by a correction taking the price back to the 0.5 cents area. If momentum holds, I think price could push up to the 1.3 cents area where price will meet a horizontal resistance. After this, a fall back to a possibly new supporting trend line at around 0.6-0.7 cents (thin red line).

SPS hodlers have had it tough. Price has been stuck in a 4 year down trend and we have yet to see a true macro reversal. This will be confirmed, should price make a higher low on the weekly/monthly chart. However, for the short to mid term I think price could develop positively, but watch out for the 0.7 and 1.3 resistances.

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HBD Managed To Stay Afloat

tobetada — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:30:36 GMT

Has The Bear Market Ended?

If the bear market is indeed already over, then HBD managed to just barely stay under the 30% debt limit. As a result, HBD has been more or less stable over the last year - at least never significantly falling long under its $1 peg. This is good news, since it means that HBD has managed to stay at peg for two consecutive bear markets. The last time it did fall below peg was as SBD before the hard fork. Since then we got several changes to its tokenomics which so far have proven to be beneficial. However, getting as close as 1% to the crucial 30% debt limit has been a very close call and it certainly could have gone the other way. In other words, we got lucky... A depegged HBD would have entailed all sorts of problems. For now at least, it seems we are out of the woods. I do not think that Hive will fall below the current support price of around 3.5 cents. ALTs have finally broken out of a multi year long down trend.

We can also see that the HBD savings share is at around 70% and has declined over the last year. In late 2025 we had around 9M HBD in savings at around 15% interest. This has now come down to around 6.3M and is more sustainable with 10% interest.

It's good that interest has come down over the last years. Hive's price simply can't handle an inflated HBD supply at the moment. Of course this means that HBD cannot really grow and get adopted. It's MC is way too low for that. I guess a possibility is that it could grow with an increase in Hive's price. But that would have to be sustainably well above 30-50 cents imo.

Conclusion

Seems like we got lucky... and that isn't really how we wanted this to play out. But it seems we will get another chance to add more value to our chain until the next bear market strikes. Personally, I would like to see HBD's interest to go up again once the debt ratio is back under 10% again. It's reputation as a safe and valuable stable coin still hasn't caught on in the crypto sphere. Although I think with each passing year that chance should in theory grow...

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Let's add another 400 to the basket...

toofasteddie — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:23:12 GMT

Why not?

As we say in my country, "de perdidos al rio!" or in english "in for a penny, in for a pound!"...
It’s ridiculous to think this isn't a good price... sure, we could still drop to "absolute zero," but... only if Bitcoin goes to hell... don't you think?
I've never held this much HIVE, and it's never cost so little to acquire it, either...
Like I said, another 400 HIVE added to my stake.

Have a great #HPUD!

@toofasteddie