r/CryptoFolks

Satoshi called it "peer to peer electronic cash". No banks, no middlemen, no permission needed. That was the whole point.

But 16 years later almost nobody actually spends Bitcoin. Most btc hasn't moved in over a year. People hold it, they don't use it. It bacemae scarce, portable, globally valuable, basically digital gold.

Lightning is trying to push Bitcoin back toward payments and it's doing real volume tbh. But the bigger story is still that most people treat btc like an asset, not like money.

Ngl the cypherpunks say we lost the plot. The institutions say the plot was always wrong and this turned out better.

So did Bitcoin solve the money problem, or just create the best asset in crypto?

Everyone has that one moment where it just clicked. For me it was realizing that no government, no company, no single person can print more of it or shut it down. That was it.
Everything else came after.

Some people get it through the tech. Some people get it after getting burned by a bank.
Some people just bought it because someone told them to and figured it out years later tbh.

Curious what your moment was. Was it something you read, something that happend to you, or did it just click randomly one day?

Sushi did $10M+ in revenue in 2024 across the AMM and aggregator. They're profitable, which puts them in a club of basically Uniswap, Aave, and a handful of others in Defi. Synthesis came in with $3.3m in december and Alex McCurry took over as ceo from jared grey, Katana integration is at $100M+ TVL on the sushi app alone.

Then in February they launched on solana via jupiter's ultra api, strategically interesting because they didn't try to compete with raydium or meteora. They plugged into the best aggregator on the chain and use it as their routing layer, Lowercost expansion and no liquidity death spiral risk.

And now coinbase is rolling out a SUSHI perp. coinbase is conservative on listings ,they don't put perps on protocols they think are dying. So either they see something the broader market doesn't, or I'm reading too much into the listing.

The token is still down 95% from ATH. Volume is recovering but slowly and the disconnect between fundamentals and price feels real to me, but I've been wrong on this kind of thesis before.

The bear case I can construct on my own that the december emissions vote tripled the annual emission rate from 1.5% to 5%, dominated by a single wallet. That's both a dilution risk and a governance signal that's hard to ignore and they're inflating their way to deeper liquidity, which works until it doesn't.

What I can't tell from the outside is how sticky is the new liquidity actually going to be, is katana TVL real demand or mercenary and does the new leadership have the technical depth Grey did

Anyone here been following the governance forum or onchain flows closely? trying to figure out if this is a turnaround story or a value trap

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share something I’ve been building called Rebalify, it’s for people who set targets for their crypto (e.g. X% BTC, Y% ETH, …) but don’t want to constantly redo the math and babysit orders as prices move.

What it does

- Connects to your exchanges like Kraken or Coinbase and tracks your holdings vs the percentages you set.

- Calculates the buys/sells to get you closer to those targets, with sensible guardrails (min trade size, slippage tolerance, etc.).

- You can dry-run/preview what it would do before anything goes live.

- Scheduled rebalancing (daily/weekly/monthly, depending on plan) so you’re not manually triggering every swing.

- There’s also a cash reserve feature where you can easily put money in or take it out from your investments while maintaining your targets in just 2 clicks.

Security/custody

Funds stay on your exchange. The product is built around trading for rebalancing, not custodial wallets, and we don’t ask for API permissions to deposit/withdraw your funds. Therefore, the funds never leave your exchange.

 

If this sounds useful, happy to answer questions in the comments.

Short answer, yes and no. Depends what you mean by "banned".

Reports say Monero survived 73 exchange delistings in 2025 alone. Binance removed it in early 2024. Kraken restricted it for European users under MiCA pressure. Dubai's DFSA prohibited privacy tokens in its regulated zone in January 2026.

Despite all that, XMR went up roughly 195% from early 2025 lows. Ngl the market doesn't seem to care about delistings.

Here's what most people get wrong. Nobody is banning the Monero network itself. There's no company to shut down, no server to raid, no CEO to arrest.

What governments can do is pressure exchanged to drop it and make buying or selling XMR through normal channels as inconvenient as possible. And tbh that works on most casual users.

But for people who actually care about privacy, the network keeps running. Nodes still up, wallets still work, peer to peer transfers still happen.

The IRS put up a $625K contract for software that could trace Monero. A firm claimed succes, the Monero community disputes it, no public evidence the core privacy has been broken.

So Monero can't really be killed. But it can be pushed underground.

Does delisting it from exchanges prove it works, or slowly kill it?