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Crypto (minus BTC) what I mean is ETH etc there's so many scams, rug pulls, and generic BS surrounding so many coins and tokens. It's just waiting for people to wake up and realise that a lot of them have zero use case.
The previous bull and the current bear is what made me a BTC maxi. I have small holdings of other coins/tokens, but those are what I think of as playing roulette, if I win, it gets converted to BTC and moved to storage. They're not serious investments they're gambling and playing.
I don't pay much attention to the altcoins. I only own small amounts of a few tokens that are used by sites I would use anyway: Minds, Odysee, Presearch, etc.
Is there enough market cap and contagion potential for cryptos to trigger a financial crash? I guess we saw signs of that last year.
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Perhaps not directly, but as you eluded to we saw a bit of it last year and (was it the year before). When FTX collapsed it wasn't just crypto that had massive sell offs to cover, but stocks and commodities, same with the collapse of Terra. Wherever there's been an issue, the financial market as a whole takes a hit whilst people cover their losses where they can. As mentioned with FTX the exposure some HFs had caused them to sell other assets to balance their sheets. Everything is interwoven I guess, and I wonder how much institutional exposure there is to the wider crypto market.
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was it the year before
I couldn't remember and didn't want to check.
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Haha me neither but I remember the event very clearly. Was all over the crypto news spaces, it was May ish 2022 I think?
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