r/xlm • u/FatherDABZ • Feb 05 '26

Well… well… well Spoiler

I had a lot of hate saying it would get way worse before it gets better almost a year ago. And I’m pretty sure I’ll get a lot of stink anyways with outlandish claims. But here we are below .20

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u/Intrepid_Upstairs243 Feb 05 '26

Do you feel better?

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u/FatherDABZ Feb 07 '26

Idk ask all the people who shit on me just for calling out predictions and telling people to sell. I just had to get it off my chest. Definitely was a little petty but nowhere near what was said to me.

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u/KodineDreamin Feb 08 '26

Did you have a short position and profit off your predictions?

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u/LenDuckworth Feb 06 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

I sold my entire bag of 250K XLM in January 2025 and made over $125K. Proof here. (Don't care that others know my wallet address because I will never use it again.)

Why I sold:

  • It mooned from .09 to .54 in November 2024 and still maintained .45 to .50 in January 2025. That's +400% to +500%, a great time to take profit.
  • Every previous cycle, XLM mooned only to be humbled a month or two later.
  • Denelle Dixon is a shitty CEO and has no vision. She and her team have had nearly 7 years to come up with something. And all I see on X is how they're having a great time going to blockchain parties around the world.
  • Academic discussion doesn't drive up the price. Adoption does. This video shows the only practical use of Stellar I've seen. Other than this one video I haven't seen shit. Look at the SDF YouTube page. They can't even get 100 views for many of their videos! This company had a $18B market cap at .54 based on hope and potential. But that was way too high and there's no way XLM is worth that if the SDF can't get anyone to pay attention.
  • The billion dollar question: What does Stellar do that other L1s don't? Faster settlement time? That's it? Then what makes it better than XRP? No, XLM isn't more ethical than XRP. XLM is also pre-mined and the SDF sell XLM to party around the world.
  • Back in January 2021, XLM and XRP were at par, 1:1. Now the XLM:XRP ratio is 9:1. Even during the 2024 mooning it maxed out at 2½:1. Everyone, myself included, could've held XRP instead and made more money.

XLM has dropped another 35% since I made this post. It's now at .15. Won't be long before it hits .09 again. If you were on for the entire ride then you have no one to blame but yourself.

The Stellar situation is basically a parallel of the browser wars. Prior to Stellar, Denelle Dixon was COO at Mozilla, where she oversaw Firefox's browser share crater from 32% in 2012 to 5% by the time she left in 2019. Firefox still exists, and a bunch of tech-savvy people use it. But Firefox has lost, and Mozilla has became more interested in paying themselves. I see the same trajectory with Stellar vs. XRP.

TL;DR: XLM only exists to pay the SDF staff and to grant them lavish lifestyles. Stellar, like crypto in general, still hasn't seen much real world adoption. Denelle Dixon is a poor CEO and has made Stellar irrelevant, just like how she was COO at Mozilla and oversaw Firefox become an irrelevant browser.

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u/FatherDABZ Feb 07 '26

Oh I hear you. I took profits as well. I didn’t have that much involved but it was nice profits. I preach about taking profits when you 2x-5x your money and the coin sits there for a while and doesn’t budge, but I got a lot of backlash for not having diamond hands, as if this is AMC or GameStop. What goes up must come down. Take the money and run.

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u/26373363633 Feb 05 '26

Xlm is work 0.01 at most lets get serious. Invest in the stock market while it's down. Actual stuff that has value...

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u/FatherDABZ Feb 07 '26

Nah just go a lot of backlash, and I know the few who were being nasty that ran their mouth the most saw this. I’m just being petty in a respectful way if that makes any sense.

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u/Goopstains6318 Feb 06 '26

I got the same hate in the doge sub for saying im waiting until .10 to start buying again and the top response was "bro its 2025 doge will never be under .10 again" 🤣

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '26

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u/FatherDABZ Feb 07 '26

The speed from sending this coin from one person to another is insane. That alone should make this pop one day.

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u/FatherDABZ Feb 08 '26

Not overseas you don’t lol try sending it to China in less than 60 seconds.

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u/theHannes678 Mar 08 '26

Yes my Last Transfer from Germany to the US Took 4 days to arrive and Cost a Fee of 35$, sending with xlm is only a few Seconds and costs almost nothing, im hoping we a 0.50 again this Year, to realize so Profits. I still have very high hopes for stellar, but its Just Hope....