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Insiders’ guide to real-life crypto OGs: Part 1
Crypto OGs — slang for Original Gangsters — have acquired almost a mythical and godly reputation in an industry populated with libertarians, anti-government rebels, innovators, get-rich-quick scammers, hackers and degen investors with rampant gambling addictions and toxic social media behavior.
Who are these OGs exactly? Unlike the rich and powerful in the traditional finance and conventional tech sector, crypto OGs are often protected by a layer of decentralized anonymity in a particularly wild corner of cyberspace. Who deserves this mythical label? The year they got into crypto? Their current net worth? Their lifestyle? Their impact on the industry?
How can you separate the randos and wannabes from the OGs? Without further ado, here’s our guide to spotting OGs at any networking party, written with insider tips from real-life OGs.
Insiders’ guide to real-life crypto OGs: Part 1
Crypto OGs — slang for Original Gangsters — have acquired almost a mythical and godly reputation in an industry populated with libertarians, anti-government rebels, innovators, get-rich-quick scammers, hackers and degen investors with rampant gambling addictions and toxic social media behavior.
Who are these OGs exactly? Unlike the rich and powerful in the traditional finance and conventional tech sector, crypto OGs are often protected by a layer of decentralized anonymity in a particularly wild corner of cyberspace. Who deserves this mythical label? The year they got into crypto? Their current net worth? Their lifestyle? Their impact on the industry?
How can you separate the randos and wannabes from the OGs? Without further ado, here’s our guide to spotting OGs at any networking party, written with insider tips from real-life OGs.
Crypto OGs story1. The shadowy super coders and/or anon founders
These are the OGs that look underwhelmingly and deceptively average.
In New York and San Francisco, they’re the ones going around like starved college students, burying their heads under a hoodie and nodding to electronic beats from their headsets on a subway train. In Singapore, they are the ones blending in seamlessly with any given “uncles” at Kopitiams, wearing nondescript shabby shirts, slippers and Bermuda shorts.
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Animoca confirms $110M round led by Temasek, plans new acquisitions
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What the Ethereum Merge means for the blockchain’s layer-2 solutions
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Will Ethereum keep rallying versus Bitcoin? ETH price technicals hint at 60% gains ahead
Ether could enter the pattern's breakout stage in the days leading up to the highly-anticipated Merge.
Will Ethereum keep rallying versus Bitcoin? ETH price technicals hint at 60% gains ahead
Ethereum's native token Ether (ETH) shows the potential to log major gains versus Bitcoin (BTC) with the ETH/BTC pair nearing yearly highs.
Ether paints classic bullish reversal pattern
The bullish cues come from a classic technical pattern called the inverse head and shoulders, which develops when the price forms three troughs below a common support level known as neckline. The middle trough, or head, is deeper than the other two, called the shoulders.
An inverse head and shoulders setup resolves after the price breaks above the neckline while accompanying an increase in trading volume. As a rule of technical analysis, its profit target comes at a length equal to the maximum distance between the head's lowest point and the neckline.
So far, Ether has painted a similar pattern, and it now awaits breakout above the neckline, as illustrated in the chart below.
ETH/BTC weekly price chart featuring "inverse head and shoulders" breakout setup. Source: TradingViewIf ETH's price climbs decisively above the neckline, then the Ethereum token's upside target in 2022 will be around 0.136 BTC, up approximately 60% from current price levels.
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Community calls out bots spamming crypto Twitter threads
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Algorand upgrade boosts speed, adds trustless cross-chain communication
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Which countries are the worst for crypto taxation? New study lists top five
Crypto analytics firm Coincub has released crypto tax rankings, pointing out the worst and the best countries regarding crypto taxation.
Which countries are the worst for crypto taxation? New study lists top five
Crypto analytics firm Coincub has released crypto tax rankings, pointing out the worst and the best countries regarding crypto taxation.
Bitcoin whales send BTC to futures exchanges in 'classic' bottom signal
Avoiding fallout from positions "putting in a local bottom" has been standard practice for prior BTC price bottoms, one analyst shows.
Bitcoin whales send BTC to futures exchanges in 'classic' bottom signal
Avoiding fallout from positions "putting in a local bottom" has been standard practice for prior BTC price bottoms, one analyst shows.
Bitcoin whales send BTC to futures exchanges in ‘classic’ bottom signal
Bitcoin (BTC) whales are betting on a rebound as fresh data shows “classic” bottom behavior.
According to on-chain analytics platform CryptoQuant, large-volume investors are moving coins to derivatives exchanges en masse this month.
Analyst: Whales protectin positions “forming a local bottom”
As BTC/USD hit its lowest levels since the end of June, whales were responding kind.
In one of its Quicktake market updates posted on Sept. 7, CryptoQuant analyst Maartunn flagged a marked uptick in the monthly average number of transactions made between spot exchanges and derivatives platforms.
Whales, Maartunn argued, are hedging their losses and transferring funds to use in futures bets.
Aave devs look set to receive $16.3M via retroactive funding
A proposal to reward members of the Aave Companies with $16.28 million in retroactive funding for the development of V3 of the Aave Protocol looks set to pass.
Aave devs look set to receive $16.3M via retroactive funding
A proposal to reward members of the Aave Companies with $16.28 million in retroactive funding for the development of V3 of the Aave Protocol looks set to pass.