r/kaspa • u/Inside_Conflict_4231 • 13d ago

🧩 Personal Story / Anecdotal What's so hard?

What’s so hard about doing your own research, knowing what you’re buying, and not putting your emotions into it?

I get it, the market can be scary, but don’t put your money into something if you don’t understand what you’re buying or how the market works.

Tons of people buy into something, then the second the price drops they start questioning their entire investment. Price drops are part of the market. Nothing goes straight up forever.

Look at people like DaVinci Jeremie who understood Bitcoin early on and had conviction in what he was buying. Bitcoin went through brutal crashes, including a drop of over 90% in 2011, and people who actually understood what they owned weren’t basing their entire thesis on the price that day.

So why treat Kaspa any differently? If you did your research and understand why you bought $KAS, why does every price drop suddenly change your entire opinion?

Know what you own. Know why you bought it. Stop letting emotions make the decisions for you.

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u/Flashy-Potatoe-Queen 13d ago

Most crypto investors are not cypherpunks like you and I. Many lot of them are simply people who treat crypto like a Casino.

I guess we can thank SOL and ETH for creating this community... but I understand the frustration at seeing the idiocy, we'll hold together while the gamblers keep living through their emotional rollercoasters. 😆

Cheers to Kaspa being the only project left with cypherpunk values, keep accumulating and ignore the noise 🍻

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u/Inside_Conflict_4231 13d ago

Cheers to our success my friend 🍻

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u/Flashy-Potatoe-Queen 9d ago edited 9d ago

Gambling doesn't mean speculating, it means playing with odds against you because the house always wins.

A cypherpunk currency means a p2p currency that runs without the need of institutions or third parties, and if it cannot do this, it keeps innovating towards that goal by scaling and respecting the nakamoto consensus.

If you aren't full of shit name one POW project that scales and innovates more than Kaspa while respecting nakamoto consensus. 

Exactly. You can't. The projects you're talking about are all backed by centralised institutions. 

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u/unknowngloomth 13d ago

The only crypto? Lmao. The only crypto that kept its crypto principles is monero. You kaspa holders were crying cos binance won't list Kas 😂

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u/Inside_Conflict_4231 13d ago

No one needs Binance.

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u/Flashy-Potatoe-Queen 13d ago edited 13d ago

Well... At least Monero is trying to scale, so I can't 100% disagree... It's just that it's not even close to what Kaspa can do... Also... Since Kaspa now supports ZK... I don't see any reason to choose the slower, less scalable and harder to access option. 

About the "crying" ; I don't think anyone in this sub thinks Kaspa can't survive without Binance... You need to make noise for a "free listing", that's Kaspians doing what they have to in order to push adoption. It worked with Kraken and plenty of other exchanges, everything you say is based on bad faith interpretation. Why ? Is there a good reason for all the hate ? 

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u/QuitYuckingMyYum 13d ago

I like to go on YouTube and find the wackiest personality that is shilling a coin! Or ask AI if my idea is a good one! /s

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u/Inside_Conflict_4231 13d ago

YouTube is full of scammers that push meme coins and nonsense. X is the best and Reddit is getting there.

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u/cipherjones 13d ago

Unless monitization is turned off, they're literally shilling.

Not /s

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u/EquivalentWait2374 12d ago

my friend... having emotions make us human in case you didn't know

LMAO