Fuddies if you could please refrain from polluting this thread, I would really appreciate it. Practice your kindness just this once for me.I bought in 2017. Still come here every day though I don't post nearly as much. Still holding like a faithful retard. Obviously regret not selling when we were at $50, and also even when we hit $30 in December '24, but it is what it is.LINK threads have really died off though and I don't see the obvious high IQ OG posts defending against the fuddies much anymore. You guys still out there or are we actually a dying breed?
to all the 2017-2018 buyers, how does it feel to see chainlink at 15 bucks eight years into it?you all thought you would be rich in 2-3 years like early btc/eth holders. if someone from the future went back in time to an early 2018 thread and said the price nearing the end of 2025 would be 15 bucks, how pissed would you be? simply unbelievable how badly this shit has performed despite being called "critical infrastructure" and the "future of finance"chainlink labs fucked early holders so badly. if you disagree you're just coping hard and completely stockholmed
Indeed my fellow OG ICO Chainlinkers, I also am fearful, uncertain and doubtful of my investment and I will be shortly heading to unstake all my 7 fully staked 15K LINK wallets and proceed to run to the Binance cryptocurrency exchange to market sell all of my never traded Chainlink (ticker: LINK) tokens because I've made such a bad investment and I urge every other OG ICO Chainlink (ticker: LINK) investor to do the same because I, an anonymous poster, care deeply about your financial well-being.We've all held for so long, but in all honesty it's time to stop the cope and just unstake and market sell our Chainlink (ticker: LINK) tokens immediately. I'm just so tired. You tired too? Let's unstake and sell together
>>61248939here but extremely tired of the lack of price action over the past 8 years.
>>61249018It has been pretty disappointing, and we can't even discuss in peace anymore which makes it worst. Just look at the clowns replying above you.
>>61249034nothing I said was incorrect you dope
>>61249034the chainlink meme threads in 17 and 18 were hilarious i remember smiling so much while reading them.
im here with 4k link left... i got in at .23 cents is how i cope
>>61248939>You guys still out there or are we actually a dying breed?yes but there isn't really much to discuss is there? fundamentally we're going vertical but idgaf about that anymore the price is horrible and its not like any fuddies are going to get me to sell so I see no reason to post until we're above $100, I'll just continue to lurk.
i'm not smart enough to understand all this new crap they're doing. quizes. airline points. i'm fuckin out of the loop man
>>61249041Ok but how does that add anything to the discussion? How do you THINK it feels to see Chainlink at $15? You already answered your own question. I think about it like this - if there was a post here of an anon saying they're from the future and the year was 2018 and they told us>LINK has been adopted by multiple of the world's largest banks>Speakers from JP Morgan, Citi, SWIFT, The White House, DTCC, S&P etc. at the upcoming smartcon>Integrated into every major DeFi protocol>Multiple services in production, enabling cross chain interoperability, privacy, compliance and then some>Guess the priceNobody would have said $15. Probably the lowest guesses would be in the multiple hundreds of dollars. So yea, no fucking shit it feels bad.>>61249055LINK always had the best memes. Almost every other crypto meme is a derivative of a LINK meme at this point.>>61249070Did you sell any at any point? I've never sold anything other than staking gains.
>>61249083Thanks for coming out of the shadows. I have gone periods doing the same, just pure lurking. It's too much energy to post here when every thread gets bombarded by 50 fudcucks. But I admittedly am losing my patience, not getting any younger. If we go sub $10 again I'm going to have a fucking panic attack too.
>>612489395+ years of sergey dumps, and BUILD rewards only coming out now after the bull market is overof course nobody is excited about chainlink
>>61249087the first year of adoption i was happy to read about all of the partnerships and future utilization of the network. even though they didn't effect the price but at that time we all thought that it was the foundation that was being built and price action would come later so it was OK. more and more happened. I was happy for the chainlink team. slowly stopped caring about the announcements when the price tanked every time and/or moved little to nothing. enthusiasm turned into bitterness.
>>61248939High IQs don't spend time arguing with assholes and idiots. Their partnerships and developments say all there is needed to be said. Price action is abysmal, that's the sad truth and it won't change until either A.) The media covers Chainlink and regards it as critical infrastructure for our future, or B.) Integration and full operation approaches high demand. That's it, you wait. If you're so high IQ you wouldnt need to make this retarded thread.
>>61249107>>61249097Have you considered that your investment thesis is simply wrong? I confronted this fact and finally let go. It actually feels good. Walking away with profit. It’s not generational wealth, but it’s profit. And I’m alive. That’s what’s most important. I made it through this ordeal and I survived. And I’m not going to be sacrificed in another -90% bear market. I don’t even think the “fuddies” are even real anymore. If anything, it’s an elaborate form of reverse shilling. Always picks up before a market dump. Any attention is good attention must be their strategy. Who knows, could even be AI generated at this point. I’m out though. Good luck to you.
Yeah I’m here I have never been more hyped. The Smartcon announcements are going to change our lives forever bros. I think this is it. We are going to make it. THIS IS THE WEEK
hadn't come back since 2021honestly feel bad for linkies, it's worse than I imagined
>>61249107>I have gone periods doing the same, just pure lurkingI missed the v.01 staking because I didn't bother going here but got back just in time for v.02 so I won't go long periods again without checking in here in case I miss something important, like claiming build rewards even tho its a hassle because of taxes for me
>>61249358>We are going to make it.imagine
>>61248982investing must be really hard on you.you can't think like that or else you will corrupt yourself with doubt and constantly fail.yes, I get it, the memes et all. blah blah, if you can't laugh at yourself then what?at the end of the day I paid less then 80 cents per link and earning staking rewards...I've lost more potential wealth on stupider shit and blue chips. I've also spent 2 eth designing then destroying a whole NFT collection (I woke up and hated it)>>61248939We out here HODL'in still
>>61248982I think the fud from this board directly affected the price performanceredditors pump bagsredditors won't associate with racist neetsredditors ignore LINKdoesn't matter though, the slow upward trend has been quite nice compared to other alts I had that were all over the place
Ico times og here. 17 and 18 we're great here. At some point I realized this is a multi decade bet. That's the realization you should come to. Start pursuing your interests and let's see how this bet pays off. For the very early buyers it's been great already and many of us have the conviction to never sell. I don't think any project is positioned so well into the future. I would be horrified to hold a large position in any other token including BTC, eth and the rest. Good luck. I can answer some questions if anyone has any.
2018 og still here. yeh pretty tired with it its clear we're not getting the eth style speculative pump,but everything we thought and more is true. like the guys have said, theres nothing really more to say, its just a question of whether I can stay afloat for long enough and not die/get too old before it eventually goes. My only regret is we were too early.
Here since 2018 but am a stacklet. I got 2.5k link i can sell at any times and another 2k in the pool which all of it isnt really a whole much which is why I never really had any desire to sell at all reallyAs others have said, if anything the fundamentals and partnerships are more bullish than ever so why sell?
>>61249221 it feels deliberate, like they hate us
>>61249384I got in both rounds. I didn't stake my whole stack thinking I might want to sell some off when we blow past ATH. Kek.>>61249402Amen, anon.>>61249595That's a lot of opportunity cost and I'm not getting any younger. This is probably honestly my last year (2026) holding LINK regardless of performance. Either I make it and I can move on or I'm fucked and will never retire but I can't keep dancing this dance, too tired.>>61249649It's crazy that everything we thought would happen is happening and we're not rich. What the actual fuck. We saw the future and still couldn't profit from it.>>61249658In the pool is better than not in the pool no matter how much. I have a 60k stack though so the big price moves really do affect me pretty severely. Being down $600k+ in the last month is not something I can easily shrug off, even though I've done it a dozen times now it seems.
>>61248939I'm an OG Chainlink ticker LINK holder too and I too feel rather demoralized about my investment, I feel like a retard holding this shit!
>>61248939Im a late 2018 buyer. Tbqh spend most of my time fudposting because the performance has been catastrophic and there's not much else to do. Used to dream of $100 back in 2021 and now just hoping for $40 so i can leave it and never come back here.
in b4 people seething and saying "fake". I was the one posting on the livechat about abducting that blonde girl speaking at the san fran meetup in 2019. Could probably find the old images made on that on my old laptop. Can't even recall her name anymore but actual old fags will likely vaguely recall the event.
>>61248939>LINK threads have really died off though and I don't see the obvious high IQ OG posts defending against the fuddies much anymoreI think the fuddies killed the board.I visit here once a day but there's fuck all here worth looking at and they flood every thread with the same inane bullshit they've been repeating for years.
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>>61250056Yeah exactly that one. She later joined the team I think. Can't remember what I was posting exactly, something about being trapped in a car outside or some shit. Nothing too clever or notable but still just to negate the shill spam that anyone disappointed with link to date is disingenuous.
i suggest that all of you holding take the schizo pill. with time, i only believe even more in the future of a world with sergey's vision. it's revolutionary what it can do to automation in society, and in bringing fairness and openness to the everyman. it's all probably happening exactly as it should, because if you have been around here for as long as you claim, the truth of there being manipulation and fudcucks is Unironically, real. how else can a world with such large numbers be made ""real"" and verifiable in the truth system, if not through a slow pulling of the wool, as the pie is being made and distributed in front of our very eyes
>>61250108its those some stupid faggots on X. The problem for them is the more time goes by the more they look retarded and or hated
>>61250113chainlink is a nsa PRISM fork fed by the palantir gotham ledger. the only "good" thing about it will be when it goes up to $25 so the rest of us can sell
wonder whatever happened to toastertecc?greatest night in Chainlink history. its been downhill since thenhttps://twitch.tv/toastertecc/clips?range=all
>>61248939>You guys still out thereearly 2018 anon here. I lurk and sometimes post here everyday
>>61248939Still here, bought in 2017 too and tomorrow will decide if I move on from Chainlink.It's been absolutely brutal, I roundtriped 7 figs multiple times, had I just sold for Eth at the apex or anywhere near (which it was for couple of months), I'd be long set.Absolutely disgusting journey.
>>61250167There'll be nothing. Some sort of new acronym feature will be announced that will be the final final key for real and make us forget about TSIGS, DECO, CCIP, MIXICLES, VRF, ACE, CCID. The hope for link purely rests in QE coming quick enough to give some life to the market.
>>61250053the Chainlink price killed the board you dumb fuckif we were sitting at $500 there wouldn't be any fud
>>61250233Then sell, acting like a little bitch doesn't change the price you fucking tranny.
>>61250197>There'll be nothingMost likely, I'm bracing myself for this, I know nothing of substance will be announced.I know it will be hard to let go of my bag, that's why I let around 33% unstaked so it's easier to just instadump that first.Fuck man, seeing DOGE in top10 still in 2025 is seriously disgusting to me.
>>61250242I'm just giving you the real explanation you imbecile
Never sold, still holding, even if i sell at 1 dorrar im still in 3x lolSome might come and demoralize you about time and how price never moves up as anyone expected after these long years, but dud... remember 2017 18 19?? we all knew it will not be ''two more weeks''.Look at whole crypto world right now, take a snapshot of it, whos breaking doors and changing laws? all around the foken world! Its SergeyWhos dictatic standarts? SergeyWhos shaking hand with all banks, intermediaries and politicians? SergeyWho went to hardware makers and made deals? SergeyWhos absorbing startups for a Standard? SergeyWhos stomping on competition and letting them die slow death? SergeyWhos teaching world about new system? SergeySergey is everywhere, and to sell now? when teh engine starts? boi, you must have been brainwashed by all ''ex ar p'' shills aroundWho is going to verify TRUTH? You guessed it right, its gonna be Sergey!
>>61250266OOOOOH! I just felt my dick move!
>>61250262Comon man, its pretty evident were waiting for instutions to buy, so personally im only thinking about that clarity act. (my sanity is still slipping about the fucking gov shutdown delay)
>>61250266whos gay? you, bitchfuck chainlinkeverybody sell
>>61250320No don't tell them to sell. I want to make fun of them in bear market when the token price goes sub $5.
>>61250290LOREM IPSUM
>>61250320go masturbate you freak
>>61248939>I don't see the obvious high IQ OG posts defending against the fuddies much anymoreproper debate happens on twitter and has done for quite a while now (like you didn't know). Fudders get blocked on there and the only place they can make themselves heard is in here, where everyone are already link maxis anyway.They have to continually make new accounts on twitter and then they only get one comment in lol
>>61250369Duuude no way dude we are all demoralized OG Chainlink ticker LINK holders over here what are you talking about you advocate!
>>61248982Would love if it was higher but yoloing a couple thousand then, in 17/18 and it being worth enough to pay off my home now is pretty funny.Could things be better? Yes. I don't regret holding LINK though. I did diversify some into BTC and ETH at specific points and I'm comfortable with my allocations overall >>61248939Please don't use this dogshit thumbnail ever again>>61249087It's honestly pretty gay. Also still Euro/ROW only region blocked so ameribros get fucked again
>>61250359lmaoWhat a sick image
Guys it's about to hit le epic $14.88 again!
>>61250002you don't think the fudposting has hurt price action? I do, honestly.>>61250053They certainly make it hard to have discussion or shill and it all leeches out to twitter and reddit and has polluted normie sentiment>>61250233chicken or egg though>>61250157Hello, fren>>61250167Same for me. I definitely won't be dumping anything immediately but smartcon announcements will determine my 6 month strategy without question. Roundtripping 7 figs is always painful. I just fell back under $1M today.>>61250266check satanic dubs.. all true but when does price reflect these things? I'm old already.>>61251606better than $12.65 I guess
>>61248982Pretty lame..ngl. no point in selling l. Already paid off my house and condo with LINK gains though.
5k LINK since SIBOS 2017 here. I was a poorfag student so I knew it wasn't going to be easy with a mere 5k (everyone that bought around then was sitting on 10-20k stacks at the minimum), but all in all I'm doing quite well. I managed to cash out around $50k over the past years because of airdrops and random shitcoin plays, while at the same time feeling comfy with 5 sui stacks of LINK that could propel me into a bright future. I'm 29 now, still young enough to enjoy gains well into the 2030s. For now I'm focusing on my career, my family and my gf. Life is good, but I realize that this is mostly because I am fortunate enough to be living the life I wanted without needing any of the gains we were hoping to have made off of LINK by now. I empathise with the anons that feel their life is "on hold" until the singularity. Just wish you would whine a bit less, but I do get it. No respect for the absolute mind broken baggies that became vicious rabid animals though (like Thomas). Very disgraceful and unbecoming.
>>61254391>LINK isn't a total disappointment because I cashed out $50k from some random shitcoin THE STATE of long-term baggies
>>61254411Mind broken baggie detected. I invested less than $1000 in 2017 and realized a $50k profit (mainly due to rolling LINK profit into shitcoins), while still having 5k LINK. My spirit is indomitable, demon.
>>61254436based
>>61254391Quite similar for me. Was also a complete poorfag student in 2018 and the years after. Getting fucked over by greedy leverage & bancor as an early 20s retard didn't help. But the rest of my stack is staked since day 1. I think it might take up to another decade until link leaves the "pilot phase" and snowballs, and I am fine with waiting & working on my career meanwhile. I honestly hope now to see <$5 Link, this is my first year of actually having a decent paying job and I would love to be abe to finally get a 10k make-it stack or even more.
>>61254436>I invested less than $1000 in 2017 and realized a $50k profityou can do same with lock. gonna be the darkhorse privacy bluechip this cycle
It's the disconnect between the price and the fundamentals but also its the relative performance to other crypto which is the true mind boggle and pain.There's no logic that Dogecoin or cardano is worth more than link. And when you're living in such a illogical world you tend to go insane
>>61255230>It's the disconnect between the price and the fundamentalsreally? what are the fundamentals exactly that justify a $10B valuation? i think the word you're looking for is potential maybe, or your dream fantasy? this a tech company running an annual net loss where funding is about to dry up in 3 or 4 years
>>61255379This is a foregone conclusion at this point. The technology simply enables a better way of doing things that weren't possible before and it saves money and time. It works it's done.Even if chainlink were to fail somehow which it won't because it's a mutually beneficial system then the underlying ideas will absolutely be used in time. We actually don't know anything about their finances especially what revenue they've made outside of token sales apart from Sergey mentioning its in the hundreds of millions.We all expected an eth run end of story. Even the only other coin that has importance (xmr) just got overtaken by fucking zcash that went from 30 to 400.
>>61255379We're in a global market where solid fundamentals (and sometimes even pretty weak or non-existent fundamentals) create insane valuations based on extrapolation, that are completely divorced from said fundamentals. TSLA, NVIDIA, BTC, ETH, XRP. Some of these tickers have pretty solid fundamentals, none of these tickers have valuations that are justified by their fundamentals. Obviously Linkies are hoping for a similar run, and acting like this is an uncommon or crazy thing to expect to happen is prime gaslighting when we're looking at the broader market.
>>61255472none of that answered any questions about fundamentals>>61255519agree with most of that but i'll add a few follow ups - btc and to a lesser extent eth are different animals obviously from the rest of crypto. the former's use case pivoting to store of value "digital gold" in the last few years so doesn't rely on a business running in the backgroundxrp agree there's no fundamentals, or none that i can figure out. it's very hard to get unbiased info nvidia has good fundamentals, starting with their incredible $131B in rev in '25tesla is always arguably overvalued and has decreasing profit margins, but at least they have a good balance sheet right nowwith link and other altcoins, it's always so puzzling when people repeat the line about great fundamentals when their operation is a black box... i think people started using that term not knowing what it means
>>61255752When talking fundamentals in crypto people refer to tech, because there are barely any financials to go by. Bitcoin has no earnings reports or balance sheets to base fundamental analysis on, instead people look at how the fundamentals of the protocol (21m max supply, halvings, miner stockpiles etc) could impact price. Chainlink Labs is building and shaping Chainlink, but LINK is still a crypto token. For fundamentals you look at the protocol itself, tokenomics, users, parties being integrated. How Chainlink Labs' balance sheet looks is unimportant as long as they can keep the lights on and keep building, because as you have said so many times yourself, Chainlink Labs is not the same as Chainlink, the network (and by extent its token).
