It's pretty safe to say this week has been a trainwreck. As I mentioned, school starts for students next Monday and it has been a mad dash for 
Then you have the markets taking a big fat dump (relatively speaking) and I am actually kind of glad I have been so busy with work because it hasn't given me time to lament on the finance world. My hope is that by the time I publish this post tomorrow morning we will see a bit of a rally, but who really knows.
After that BTC new all time high I was hoping it was going to be the glorious bull that everyone was hoping for. Sadly, that either isn't the case or we just aren't quite there yet. I saw an article the other day where a "expert" was stating they think the crypto bull is going to extend into 2027. Since we aren't even finished with 2025 that seems like a bit of a stretch to me, but who knows.
I certainly wouldn't complain...
If you are a Seinfeld fan, you are more than likely familiar with this episode. You can read the synopsis here but honestly, you need to watch it because a lot gets lost in the translation to text.
The TL:DR is that you can basically use the phrase "The Serenity Now" to repress your negative emotions when they start to bubble up. Needless to say, if I thought that was the smart thing to do, I would be uttering that phrase pretty much every other breath this week. That's just how maddening it has been.
Honestly though, it hasn't been as bad as some other years, so I can't complain too much.
Along with the crypto markets, the traditional markets have been taking a bit of a beating as well. My favorite nuclear stock Nuscale has dropped down to the $30 mark per share. That's down from the $50 it was close to touching a month or so ago, but it's still up from the $10 per share I spent on it.
Like my brother in law, this is a long term hold for me. I didn't invest too much into it, so I just plan on riding it all the way to either the moon or the grave!
Despite everything else going deeply south, Fortuna Silver Mines still seems to be hanging on pretty good. In fact, it is up from the normal $4 or so it has been sitting at for a while now. The chart is actually pretty attractive over the past year with a gradual incline. Sure, there have been some big dips, but it always seems to recover.
The real problem comes when you zoom out a bit more. We are actually just getting back to where we were in 2021. Actually, looking at the max chart, it seems to be pretty cyclical that every 5 years the price climbs back up towards $8 per share or so.
I wonder if that is true for other silver/gold stocks? Can anyone from the #silvergoldstackers community speak to that?
Just a quick update to say that I am getting close to having 1.5 million ZING tokens staked in the 
Somehow I have this fear that with 1.5M ZING it still isn't going to be enough. That always seems to be the case for me. It was especially true with Splinterlands.
Speaking of Splinterlands, I still have some Riftwatchers packs for sale out on the market. You should check them out if you are in the market for some cards and you have the hankering to rip open some packs. I can't promise you will get any GFL's, but I can promise that you will get some cards.
I've been plugging along with HIVE. My next goal is 150,000 HP staked and I am slowly working towards that. I don't think I will hit it by the end of this year, but 110,000 is certainly possible. Especially if HIVE happens to see a pump. I've got some liquid HIVE I am just itching to move back into HBD when the price is right. We will see!
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