NEAR will need to update their nodes after this hard fork. Node software with the remediation is publicly distributed following the full disclosure above. We're working closely with ecosystem partners and will keep everyone updated.

In all honesty investing in stocks feels easy after 8 years in crypto I seen someone post 'I hate to say it but Mag7 companies will fall another 10% from here' -10%? Is that it? Not -90%? Not going to rug pull? Sounds bliss 🙏 Jokes aside, investing in companies with genuine fundamentals and figures to back it up is a lot more comfortable

What will be the next big Bitcoin narrative? - Post-cycle maturity where BTC is fully embedded in the financial system with an emphasis on relative value instead of big retail-led gains (not as appealing to retail). BTC becomes a normalized as an uncorrelated asset and becomes a useful part of a multi-asset portfolio (seems unlikely given current market moves) - Anti-surveillance reserve assets where BTC becomes the asset you own precisely because it sits within a murky legal perimeter and outside official rails (But again, BTC now looks pretty entangled with politics rather than outside of it) - A yield play as restaking infrastructure gets built up (but multiple layers tend to fragment and confuse the potential new buying base. People just want a simple "Bitcoin will yield X% story" as opposed to something about L1/L2/wrappers etc.) - Something about AI - Nothing

I doubt it but if it will I’ll double the bag

if you're uncertain but bullish privacy, just get both (or neither until you build your own conviction) imo my money personally is on zec because it uses the strongest encryption guarantees known to man, will be quantum proof (so you won't be able to retroactively decrypt past activity), and has a massive surge of new talent carrying it now xmr uses things called ring signatures to hide 1 real transaction among 15 decoy transaction, zec encrypts everything so there's no obfuscation necessary to begin with. I feel pretty uneasy about obfuscation because in theory you can have someone introduce a bunch of decoy transactions on purpose to give you the illusion you're hiding in a crowd with pure encryption, there's no such risk they have different network effects, xmr is used for payments on darknets and it's better at that, and zec is more used as a private store of value akin to bitcoin with similar tokenomics (and also zcash pioneered zk and zk was quite hard to use in the early years so it never took off until now, now that the tech has caught up) zcash will soon get a 100x performance upgrade and has a few new core teams working on a bunch of exciting things which will make it much better suited for payments going fwd finally, some ppl might tell you silly shit like "zcash is optional privacy" but it's actually optional transparency since new coins are born private and the wallets shield by default imo this is necessary because it's a trojan horse for growing the shielded pool and gaining adoption for the asset to scale to planetary scale instead of it remaining a niche on internet corners (first line of cypherpunk manifesto: privacy is not secrecy. it is selectively revealing oneself to the world) so while I can't tell you what to do, this is what im doing