History of bobbleheads

Dating back 180 years, bobbleheads, then known as “bobbers” or “nodders”, were first referenced to similar toys in the 1842 short story “The Overcoat” by Nikolai Gogol. He references German toy-like figurines, 6-8” tall with spring-connected heads.

Making a dive into the collectible world in 1920, the New York Knicks basketball team released limited-edition novelty bobbleheads. Their popularity became notable throughout baseball and rock and roll pop culture. Hand-made and painted, collectible vintage editions such as the Beatles and Yankees memorabilia are being sold at collectible auctions upwards of $50-$100k a piece.

Bobbleheads Today

In the 1990s, bobbleheads made the transition from ceramic into plastic, making mass production of the figurine easier and more cost-effective.

Since then, these figurines have been a fun collectible and very popular amongst sports fans, with millions of them being handed out at sporting events.

Since then, the customizable bobblehead figurine market has thrived, making fun bobble characters resembling their real-life counterparts, including characteristics such as tattoos and even scars.

Bobbleheads of tomorrow — Introducing Bobbles

Bobbles are the newest collectible in the NFT (non-fungible-token) space. Reminiscent of classic bobbleheads, Bobbles create a new digital experience full of fun traits and mesmerizing animations.

Making their way to Dapper Lab’s Flow blockchain in Q2 of 2022. Bobbles will be minting 7777 full-bodied animated PFP (profile picture), randomly generated NFT.

“Bobble Day Ones: Mint now, reap Bobble founder benefits forever”

Those that are able to mint our limited edition PFP animated Bobbles will be deep-rooted founders in the Bobbleverse.

The Future of Bobbles isn’t in PFPs. Rather, this fundraising mint will build equity and value for Bobble investors and collectors while funding the development of the Bobbleverse.

Well, you’ll have to stay tuned to learn more about the Bobbles roadmap coming soon.

Bobble on…

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目前市场的整个走势并不理想，而之所以不理想的主要原因还是在资金的进入问题，现在不要说新的资金进入，就是老的资金都有萎缩的迹象，当然一大部分原因是因为假期对于很多专业机构和投资人来说并没有结束，导致了资金不足，另一方面则是更加复杂的原因。

所以BTC可以调用的资金也在逐步的降低，1204前BTC均值的成交量单纯是Binance的USDT一个交易对就有超过20亿美金，而现在单日成交量突破15亿美金都屈指可数的几次，而让BTC占有率进一步降低的就是百花齐放的市场，越来越多的优质项目挤占了BTC原本的市场，也正是因为这样，BTC才不得不去寻求外部的资金。

而原本的计划中BTC的ETF就是为了吸引外部资金而推出的，但经过长时间的跟踪我们并没有发现大量外部资金的进入的迹象，外部的资金也在观察，尤其是现货ETF的引发的SEC对于币圈的灵魂拷问才是重点，也就是从这个时间起，BTC就陷入了尴尬的资金地步，太贵，想买的人买不起，买得起的人觉得涨的慢不如换山寨，所以现在一直在补仓的就是像MicroStrategy 这样去“用存量定价格” 来买盘的机构。

这个的概念就是BTC的数量是恒定的，而且随着时间的推移可以产出的BTC越来越少，而BTC的长期持有量则相对的越来越多，这样的结果势必会造成BTC流通量的短缺，那么到了一定程度后就会变成谁拥有更多的BTC，谁就有了BTC的定价权。

但是这些像MS这样的机构并不是BTC拉盘的主力，他们也不会太在意短期的BTC价格，因为对他们来说，目前的价格都是低点，就像是我们站在2017年看现在一样的道理，而真正拉盘的人反而是现在一直在抄底的资金和机构，他们的目的很明确，就是通过中长期持有BTC来获得盈利，比如917之后就在大量买入的这部分资金，同时这些资金也是目前出货的主力，所以目前我个人从资金层面来看，BTC目前还是处于压制期，而压制的除了资金短缺这个硬性原因外，应该还是和目前没有足够的利好有很大的关系，在没有利好的情况下，拉盘后的收益者其实是高位套牢者。

而对于拉盘抄底者来说，只是去做了嫁衣，抄底BTC的人未必是信仰者，只是更希望可以通过BTC来获利，所以目前拉盘对主力资金来说既没有需求，也没有必要，所以他们不急，这也是资金仅仅是缓慢回归的原因。但结合目前的情况，底部吸筹已经越来越难，成交量的降低也是这个原因，没有筹码愿意释放了。

这里不难理解，当初519之后为什么虽然有大量的资金抄底，但是他们很少向上吃进，就是因为没有足够的利好，快速的向上吃进只会获得更高价格的筹码，让他们的退出更加的艰难，而917之后为什么更多的资金进入并且愿意大量的吃进，就是因为他们知道BTC的第一个ETF会通过，必然会引发极大的利好，而事实也是这样。所以目前的BTC所面对的第二个问题就是，没有足够的利好支持，向上吃进没有动力。

另外通过数据可以直观的发现，现在正处于一个很奇怪的状态中，或者说现在确实就是“部分熊市”的状态，（其实我并不觉得牛熊可以形容目前的市场，后边会有解释）就是部分长期持有者在派发筹码，而短期散户除了少量购买几乎完全没有出售的意向，这一个是说明短期的散户出于被套牢的状态，或者经过长达一个月的震荡下行洗盘过程中熬不住而出货，也就是说，该出的，愿意出的其实都已经出完了。

现在的短期持有者可以不买进，但是对于卖出已经没有什么兴趣了，之所以前边说是部分熊市就是因为符合了熊市的一些条件，长期持有者出货以及资金不够充分，如果单纯从这里看确实是熊市了，但是正如开篇所说的，BTC的占比已经在逐渐的下降，不能用BTC来完全形容整个的行业，反而应该是用“板块轮动”的思路来衡量，比如说，目前ETH的资金量确实不如BTC，成交量也不如BTC，但是ETH相对BTC来说体量更轻一些，尤其是元宇宙的发展使得ETH一跃成为元宇宙的底层货币，所以目前虽然BTC在下跌，但是ETH的走势依然坚挺，能说ETH也是熊市吗？

所以目前的局面很大的可能是会继续在当前价格上下震荡一定的时间，这个时间也许并不会有想象中的那么久，当这个价位已经没有足够的资金支持和筹码支持的时候，向下并不理想的走势，只有向上才可以继续稳固，所以就目前的综合考量来看，价格上升的概率会大于继续下跌。

回归到正题，除了板块轮动的问题外，我还有一个新的发现，在部分长期持有者出货的情况下，更多的短期持有者熬成了新的长期持有者。也就是说一方面长期持有者在派发，另一方面新的长期持有者在诞生，而且新诞生的长期持有者超过了派发减持而减少的长期持有者。

这就造成了一种很罕见的情况，长短期持有者同时都在增持，而这种迹象可能也是造成PlanB的S2F理论失败的原因，而双增持又意味着市场的流通量必然会逐渐降低，形成价格低没有成交的局面，而随着利好的声音，以及资金的重新注入，必然会带来行情的调整，我没办法给出一个准确的时间。

但我想，2022年一定不会让人失望的。拿住以及拿好手中的BTC，未必会给你带来翻天覆地的财富，但是在行情激荡的时候会成为你资产的锚，在行情回暖的时候也会变成你足够的投资成本。

A hot wallet refers to any cryptocurrency wallet connected to the internet. Generally, hot wallets are easier to set up, access, and accept more tokens. But they are also more vulnerable to hacker attacks, possible regulations, and other technical vulnerabilities.

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Maybe you’ve heard people say, “Bitcoin gives you this opportunity of being your own bank”? There are advantages and disadvantages to this responsibility. Generally, cryptocurrencies have fewer middleman fees, less messy banking regulations, etc. Still, it is your responsibility to ensure the safety of your assets.

Overall, as a rule, you should leave as much money in your hot wallet as you would with a traditional leather wallet that you keep in your pocket. Think of it this way, if a thief was about to steal your regular wallet, you would only lose the money you have in your pocket, not the money in your bank account.

In short, here’s an analogy that can help you: a hot wallet can be thought of as a pocket wallet that you walk around town with; a cold wallet is a bank deposit.

Remember that if you want to trade, a hot wallet is the better option. Still, we recommend encrypting it as best you can and choosing the best software for the most significant security. On the other hand, if you are a non-trading investor and want the highest level of protection, a cold wallet will be a better choice.

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Introduction

Maximus DAO

Smart contracts are simply programs stored on a blockchain that run when predetermined conditions are met. They typically are used to automate the execution of an agreement so that all participants can be immediately certain of the outcome, without any intermediary’s involvement or time loss. They can also automate a workflow, triggering the next action when conditions are met. Smart contracts are trustless, meaning you don’t have to trust a third party: a bank, a person, or any intermediary to operate a function or transaction.

A gas fee is something all users must pay in order to perform any function on the blockchain. In regards to HEX, you must pay a gas fee to start and end a stake. Due to demand, gas prices have gone way up, and a recent security upgrade to the Ethereum network suddenly made HEX and many other smart contracts 160% more gas expensive to execute.

HEX is the first high-interest Certificate of Deposit, which rewards investors who lock up or Stake their holdings for a period of time. When you start a new Stake you burn your HEX and receive Shares (called “T-Shares”) in return. Each day at midnight UTC, every single Share accrues interest in HEX. The more Shares you have the more interest you receive. When a stake ends, you are able to claim your principle investment + the interest earned.

Built into HEX are 2 bonus structures to incentivize investors. The Bigger Pays Better bonus incentivizes investors to invest more HEX into one stake by providing a bonus of up to 10% for staking 150M HEX. The Longer Pays Better bonus incentivizes investors to stake longer by offering a bonus up to 20% per year for 10 years.

In order to ensure that longer and larger stakes pay better over time, there is a pricing mechanism built into the contract. Every time a stake is ended, the gains for that stake are calculated in the form of a share price which all future stakers will pay to convert their HEX into shares. An important note here is that HEX’s base unit is the Heart. Hearts are to HEX as Satoshis are to Bitcoin. There are 100,000,000 Hearts per HEX.

The share price at launch was 1 share per Heart. The way the share price moves is related to return on investment for a stake. For example, if on day 5 someone ends their stake and has a 20% gain, it translates into a share price of ~1.2 Hearts per share. If that user wishes to stake again, their Hearts will be divided by 1.2 to determine their number of shares.

A HEX user can terminate their stake before the committed time, but has to pay a penalty for this. The contract calculates the payout for ½ (rounded up) the days committed, e.g. 182 for a 52 week commitment, and subtracts that from the funds returned to the user. It will always apply at least a 90 day penalty. For example, I stake for 52 weeks (about 1 year) and emergency unstake after 266 days (38 weeks). The contract calculates my payout for days 1–182 and flags that as the penalty. The funds returned to me are then my Principal + (Days 183 to 266) payouts.

If the user emergency unstakes before ½ their days are served or if their stake is fewer than 179 days due to the 90 penalty day minimum, the penalty can cut into Principal.

The maximum amount of time you can Stake HEX is 5555 days, or 15.2 years. The benefit to staking this long is to maximize the amount of T-Shares you get due to the Longer Pays Better Bonus, and to maximize the amount of time you earn yield. The tradeoff is that you’re locking your funds up for a very long time with no access to your gains until the Stake ends.

Now that you have a better understanding of smart contracts, HEX, and gas fees, the first sentence of this post might make more sense.

Maximus DAO is a smart contract that facilitates trustless pooling of a max length HEX stake.

100% of the MAXI token supply is generated during a one time 14 day Mint Phase where anyone may choose to mint 1 MAXI per HEX pledged to the Maximus Contract. Once the Mint Phase ends, the smart contract will execute a single 5555 day stake with all the HEX used to mint MAXI. Once the stake has ended, users may redeem their portion of the HEX stake principal and earned interest.

As mentioned previously, when you stake your HEX, you can’t access those funds until the stake ends without paying a penalty. But what if you absolutely need to? Or maybe you would like to cash in on some or all of your earned interest to buy something you want.

Maximus gives you optionality.

Let’s say you minted MAXI, and it’s year 5 of the Maximus 15.2 year max length stake. If you had staked on your own, due to the early end stake penalty, you would be able to withdrawn $0 of your funds. But with Maximus, you’re able to sell MAXI, now worth 5 years more of interest, on decentralized exchanges.

If everyone who understood T-Shares had the ability, they would choose to stake their HEX for 5555 days to maximize the amount of T-Shares they get and to maximize the amount of time their T-Shares earn interest. Many choose not to because they can’t or don’t want to lock up their funds for that long.

Maximus provides the maximum yield of a 5555 day stake without the tradeoff of locking up your funds for 15.2 years.

While a 5555 day stake earns the most interest per HEX staked, it also costs the most gas to end. The contract must loop over each day to calculate the interest to mint, costing about 2310 gas units per day staked. In 5555 days when ending the stake, at current gas prices, that is roughly 1 ETH of gas fees per person ending a max length stake. This drastically hinders new users with balances under ~$1000 to utilize HEX as a high growth savings product because gas fees are charged per transaction and are not based on value of the transaction.

By combining many small stakes into one large max length stake, Maximus reduces many end stakes to just one, saving gas for all members.

Although solutions such as PulseChain exist to reduce gas fees, the linear scaling of faster larger blocks is only a temporary solution. If you envision $PLS running 10,000x, you’re also envisioning a situation where PulseChain gas fees increase 10,000x. The benefits of reducing the gas fee impact on max length stakes will be fruitful on both Ethereum and PulseChain.

MAXI will be an ERC-20 (and PRC-20 token when copied to PulseChain) so you will be able to use it like any other token on the market. Meaning, while your MAXI is earning HEX interest from the max length stake, you can also put your MAXI to work with other opportunities like yield farming or as a liquidity provider on decentralized exchanges. Being backed by staked HEX, MAXI is also very strong collateral to extend credit upon.

Due to its fixed supply and maximum yield earning treasury backing, the MAXI intrinsic value measured in HEX will always go up — by how much will be determined by the daily T-Share Payout from HEX.

MAXI has two values:

Treasury Value (or Redemption Value) = the amount of HEX redeemable per MAXI when the max length stake ends

Market Value = the price of MAXI on decentralized exchanges

The market value, set on exchanges, may vary widely from the treasury value, cycling between trading at a discount and premium to the underlying HEX. Below is a chart showing what the relationship between those values could look like over the period of the max length stake.

As of April 8, 2022

We just received our security audit on 4/5/22 and passed. We are currently finishing our second public test phase on PulseChain Testnet v2b. Once that is completed, we will announce the official launch date of Maximus.

To get ready for the Maximus launch, buy HEX! We will announce the official launch date on our Twitter and in our Telegram.

Please join the discussion in the Maximus DAO Telegram and follow Maximus DAO on Twitter.

Official Telegram: t.me/MaximusDAO

Official Twitter: twitter.com/maximus_dao

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XRP price today is $0.7334.

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However, there’s a shortcoming all XRP holders should know. Ripple Labs owns about 50% of all coins present in the system, from which there is a possibility to manipulate currency rates.

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