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I have to admit I’m tempted to nibble.... they are the leader in their industry and it doesn’t seem like crypto is going anywhere.
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You might want to read Larry Swedroe's book "Rational Investing in Irrational Times". It covers 52 different types of mistakes common to investors.

If you read it, you'll realize you're asking how to go about making Mistake 51 "Do You Chase the IPO Dream?"

In this chapter Larry goes through all the evidence that picking an IPO is the winning strategy...for the underwriters on Wall Street who generate great fee income and insiders who sell their shares on unwitting retail investors. The retail investors (OP) are buying lottery tickets.

The evidence of underperformance? Paraphrasing from Larry's Book:

Journal of Finance 1995. Study covering 1970-1990 looked at returns from buying every IPO at the end of the first day's closing price and holding for 5 years. The return was just 5% per year and it was 7% LESS than a benchmark of companies of similar market cap.

Wall Street Journal Feb 24, 1999. U. of Florida prof. Jay Ritter looked at 1006 IPOs that raised $20 mil 1988-1993. The median IPO underperformed the Russell 3000 by 30% 3 years after going public and 46% of IPOs produced negative returns.

Fortune Nov 23, 1998. How did IPOs issued in 1993 do through 1998? The average IPO returned 1/3rd as much as the S&P500 index. 1/2 traded below the offering price. 1/3rd were down over 50%.

Wall Street Journal March 30, 1999. U.S. Bancorp Pier Jaffray study looked at May 1988 - July 1998 (4900 IPOs). The outcome? Less than 1/3rd were above the IPO price, 1/3rd weren't even trading anymore due to bankruptcy, or were acquired or no longer trading in an active market.

And on and on for another four pages. The persistent underperformance continues.

Larry writes:
In the face of this poor performance, why do investors continue to chase the latest IPO? There are two explanations for this seemingly irrational behavior. FIrst, unless an investor happens to read scholarly publications such as the Journal of Finance, he or she is unlikely to be aware of the facts. Second, even when informed, investors often act in what appear to be irrational ways .In this case, it is another example of the triumph of hope over experience. Investors seem to be willing to accept the high probability of low returns in exchange for the small chance of a home run or, possibly even more important, a great story to tell at the next cocktail party.

There is an old saying in sports that sometimes the best trades are the ones you don't make. You can avoid the mistake of investing in IPOs by remembering that while IPOs have provided huge profits for the Wall Street firms that market them, they have generated very poor returns for investors.
of course, this time's different, right?

guess this time wasn't different:
Coinbase debut generates billions of dollars for early backers Union Square and Andreessen Horowitz

source:https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/14/coinbas ... -rich.html
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Yesterdaysnews wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 3:25 pm I have to admit I’m tempted to nibble.... they are the leader in their industry and it doesn’t seem like crypto is going anywhere.
They are A leader. Binance does more volume reportedly. Uniswap does equivalent volume.

Looks like biggest listing ever. I don’t think I could buy over $100B valuation and seems it will be considerably higher. I would just buy Ethereum if you want the crypto exposure...
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What price do you think it is going to open? $1k? $2K per share at least?

This could be one of the biggest opens ever. I don't know what the entry level will be.

Good luck to all of those investing in it.
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It's a really unusual IPO--it's so profitable already and it's in a space that is just exploding with activity. I'd buy it if it comes in at a $100b valuation or lower, but I'm sure it will be much higher than that within nanoseconds of the listing. Beyond that I'd rather just buy BTC or ETH directly. Coinbase is here to stay for sure though, even if they eventually have to reduce what they charge on transaction fees because of increased competition.

I should add that this is the ideal "picks and shovels" investment for those who think of the crypto craze as nothing more than a California gold rush. So even those who are skeptical of cryptocurrencies generally will probably be buying into it too. Demand will be crazy.

One more edit: I have never before been tempted to buy a stock on its IPO day, and in fact I almost always avoid buying individual stocks in favor of index or sector ETFs. The hype around this one really is something.
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Why wait for the IPO? Tokenized Coinbase shares are already trading on FTX: https://ftx.com/en/trade/CBSE/USD.
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Huygens wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 4:36 pm Why wait for the IPO? Tokenized Coinbase shares are already trading on FTX: https://ftx.com/en/trade/CBSE/USD.
I was about to say that the legality of this method of trading securities surely is questionable. But I see it's not available for US residents perhaps for that very reason.
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Huygens wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 4:36 pm Why wait for the IPO? Tokenized Coinbase shares are already trading on FTX: https://ftx.com/en/trade/CBSE/USD.
CBSE (coinbase token) doesn't seem to be avialbe on US version of FTX.
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Yes, I plan to buy some in the hopes for short term gains...will probably sell the same day....Unless I become a bag holder in which case will hold on to it longer term.
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I read a decent article trying to justify the 100 billion valuation.
It was a good read.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.co ... rypto/amp/

"To justify that number, the math shows, Coinbase would need to mushroom into the biggest financial exchange in the world.
...
"
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It got a Reference price of $250 per share giving it a valuation of approximately $65B.

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Yesterdaysnews wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 3:25 pm I have to admit I’m tempted to nibble.... they are the leader in their industry and it doesn’t seem like crypto is going anywhere.
Important to note it’s a direct listing not an IPO. Founders can immediately dump their bags on retail with no lockup period. I’d be careful and I’m staying away but good luck.
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I'm selling all my NFTs, GME stock, DogeCoin, MOON ETF and putting it all in CoinBase !
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runninginvestor wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 4:57 pm I read a decent article trying to justify the 100 billion valuation.
It was a good read.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.co ... rypto/amp/

"To justify that number, the math shows, Coinbase would need to mushroom into the biggest financial exchange in the world.
...
"
Interesting read. I clearly don't know how to value an IPO so I'll just sit this one out.
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SlowMovingInvestor wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 5:30 pm I'm selling all my NFTs, GME stock, DogeCoin, MOON ETF and putting it all in CoinBase !
There appears to be a disconnect between this statement and your username. :mrgreen:
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I would buy it if it was $50 and not$250, 5x overpriced.
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I am no analyst but in reading...most (nearly all?) of their revenue is from fees from folks trading bitcoin/ether which makes their revenue nearly completely dependent on them? we all know how volatile BC is (dropped 75% a few years ago?) so that dependence is a huge Achilles heel.

Also....thinking about stocks and how brokerages have raced to the bottom on trading fees (no cost trades), why wouldn't the same happen w/ crypto (?)....making Coinbases future revenue even more questionable

feels like crypto has the potential to be the markets next big Trojan Horse.
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F150HD wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 8:56 pm ]I am no analyst but in reading...most (nearly all?) of their revenue is from fees from folks trading bitcoin/ether which makes their revenue nearly completely dependent on them? we all know how volatile BC is (dropped 75% a few years ago?) so that dependence is a huge Achilles heel.
I think there would still be decent trading fees even if there is a drop, because of the volatility. But yes, they would decline certainly. Still, we see people in this thread saying that one should invest in Ether, BTC etc. rather than COIN. If anything, I would expect COIN to hold up better in a downturn than BTC, Ether etc.

I do wonder about competition from other exchange/brokerages and decentralized exchanges (although I think those would appeal mostly to the crypto true believers).
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Buy one share and hold.

Fun experiment.

I bought one share of Amazon a few years back. Amazed at what it’s done. I get to have an old man story one day about how I bought one share and Amazon ruined mom and pop stores, yada yada yada.

I think I’ll do this with Coinbase too : )
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Nope.

I'm already capped on my individual stock holdings.
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Yesterdaysnews wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 3:25 pm I have to admit I’m tempted to nibble.... they are the leader in their industry and it doesn’t seem like crypto is going anywhere.
No, because as soon as Schwab or Fidelity offers this service I’ll kick them and their fees to the curb.
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UNI is a better purchase. Its market cap is around 19 billion USD. It's comparable to Coinbase in volume, but UNI's addressable market is so much larger. And of course its cost structure is a small fraction of Coinbase. Total no brainer. Buy UNI.

Unfortunately, UNI is not as interesting as it was in December when I said here at Bogleheads that UNI was massively undervalued at 3.50 USD, but Ok, at 36.50 today it's still a very good buy, and will likely be worth much, much more than Coinbase one day. In December my thinking was we'd see UNI at 40 once Coinbase IPO's, as I had assumed Coinbase would IPO around 40 billion USD (and people would wake up to UNI). Now I think we'll see 100 UNI by year end, as Coinbase will attract many more users to crypto, and UNI will be one of the first applications they use.

The beauty of crypto is that once intelligent and open minded investors start to actually use these protocols, they immediately see the potential. Just holding USDC in Aave and watching your balance rise every second is revolutionary. Swapping assets on UNI, or earning fees at UNI by providing liquidity, is mind blowing. You start to realize how badly we retail investors have made out from traditional finance, that the vast majority of profits have gone to the privileged few. And you start to realize those dark days are coming to an end.

So to summarize, Coinbase may or may not be a great buy at 100 billion USD market cap. But I believe UNI is still interesting at 36.50.
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Prahasaurus wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 11:57 pm UNI is a better purchase. Its market cap is around 19 billion USD. It's comparable to Coinbase in volume, but UNI's addressable market is so much larger. And of course its cost structure is a small fraction of Coinbase. Total no brainer. Buy UNI.
Where can someone with decent understanding of blockchain learn more about UNI and its value?
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UncleLeo wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 1:35 am
Prahasaurus wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 11:57 pm UNI is a better purchase. Its market cap is around 19 billion USD. It's comparable to Coinbase in volume, but UNI's addressable market is so much larger. And of course its cost structure is a small fraction of Coinbase. Total no brainer. Buy UNI.
Where can someone with decent understanding of blockchain learn more about UNI and its value?
Coingecko for basic stats, crypto twitter to follow the developers and news relating to UNI, be active on their Discord channel, Bankless podcast had a great interview with the UNI founder on v3 just last week, etc., etc. You should also follow very closely Ethereum, as UNI is very much linked to the success of that project.
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Coinbase doesn't have enough Moat.

They don't have a unique product. It's just an exchange and there are plenty of other exchanges and will be plenty of more.

If you couldn't get into pre-IPO seed rounds, then I don't see logical sense to buy on IPO.

IPOs are for early investors to get 100x of the sheeple herd flowing in.

If you wanted to buy Coinbase stock, why did you not go and buy it before IPO via EquityZen or other similar platforms?

Makes no sense.

Who wants to be a laggard?

Either you are a full on 100% indexer or if you DO stock picking then go where there is high barrier of entry: seed rounds and angel investing.

With IPOs its just a way for early investors to cash out on the gullible.
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If anything I'm tempted to short it.
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I’m 100% getting in hoping to make a quick buck and no one is talking me out of it. :greedy
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QuestioningWanderer wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 4:24 am Either you are a full on 100% indexer or if you DO stock picking then go where there is high barrier of entry: seed rounds and angel investing.
I think many people, even here, aren't so committed to indexing (*) that they wouldn't put a little play money into an IPO.


(*) This seems to me to be the reverse side of the coin (pun intended) from those crypto true believers who disdain COIN because it's not DeFi.
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Corsair wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 11:35 pm
Yesterdaysnews wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 3:25 pm I have to admit I’m tempted to nibble.... they are the leader in their industry and it doesn’t seem like crypto is going anywhere.
No, because as soon as Schwab or Fidelity offers this service I’ll kick them and their fees to the curb.
But Robin Hood (despite its glitches) and being a direct competitor to Fido and Schwab, with a far smaller range of offerings seems to have thrived, and will likely have a successful IPO soon (GME or not). If a direct competitor can thrive, then COIN can too.
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SlowMovingInvestor wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 6:46 am
QuestioningWanderer wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 4:24 am Either you are a full on 100% indexer or if you DO stock picking then go where there is high barrier of entry: seed rounds and angel investing.
I think many people, even here, aren't so committed to indexing (*) that they wouldn't put a little play money into an IPO.


(*) This seems to me to be the reverse side of the coin (pun intended) from those crypto true believers who disdain COIN because it's not DeFi.
This doesn't make sense.

If you want to go pick individual companies you are very aware that IPOs are a cash grab for early investors who will make 100x, 1000x returns.

So what reasons do you have for choosing IPO over going for seed rounds?
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QuestioningWanderer wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 6:50 am
SlowMovingInvestor wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 6:46 am
QuestioningWanderer wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 4:24 am Either you are a full on 100% indexer or if you DO stock picking then go where there is high barrier of entry: seed rounds and angel investing.
I think many people, even here, aren't so committed to indexing (*) that they wouldn't put a little play money into an IPO.


(*) This seems to me to be the reverse side of the coin (pun intended) from those crypto true believers who disdain COIN because it's not DeFi.
This doesn't make sense.

If you want to go pick individual companies you are very aware that IPOs are a cash grab for early investors who will make 100x, 1000x returns.

So what reasons do you have for choosing IPO over going for seed rounds?
It's not easy for most of us to go for angel investing or seed rounds in promising companies (I know there are new platforms, but I think it's the sketchiest companies that are available for non VHNW types).

Yes, early investors and employees would make tons of $s, but that's no reason not to buy an IPO later. [Maybe not on IPO date to avoid the frenzy]

95 % of my non legacy investments are in index funds (excluding the occasional VG fund that is left over from the distant past with huge gains that I can't liquidate). But I don't believe that the choice is between 100% index or go full seed rounds
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If you can get access before it is on the exchange, get in and sell it on the first day it is listed.
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SlowMovingInvestor wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 6:48 am
Corsair wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 11:35 pm
Yesterdaysnews wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 3:25 pm I have to admit I’m tempted to nibble.... they are the leader in their industry and it doesn’t seem like crypto is going anywhere.
No, because as soon as Schwab or Fidelity offers this service I’ll kick them and their fees to the curb.
But Robin Hood (despite its glitches) and being a direct competitor to Fido and Schwab, with a far smaller range of offerings seems to have thrived, and will likely have a successful IPO soon (GME or not). If a direct competitor can thrive, then COIN can too.
The fees were the biggest draw for RH, plus instant margin, and addictive trading/UI.They had a competitive edge on fees. But a lot of people went out of Robinhood to the other brokerages after the brokerages dropped fees and their less than ideal business practices came to light . They will likely stay in business from the first mover advantage, but their valuation isn't the same as what it was. It's a similar thing for coinbase. I don't think people are saying that it's not valuable, it's just not worth what it's valued at.

You can justify high margins from competitors if you have a competitive advantage (think Apple computers) , but if there is no competitive advantage, high margins are usually whittled down as others enter the market build upon existing ideas.
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runninginvestor wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 7:15 am
SlowMovingInvestor wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 6:48 am
Corsair wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 11:35 pm
Yesterdaysnews wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 3:25 pm I have to admit I’m tempted to nibble.... they are the leader in their industry and it doesn’t seem like crypto is going anywhere.
No, because as soon as Schwab or Fidelity offers this service I’ll kick them and their fees to the curb.
But Robin Hood (despite its glitches) and being a direct competitor to Fido and Schwab, with a far smaller range of offerings seems to have thrived, and will likely have a successful IPO soon (GME or not). If a direct competitor can thrive, then COIN can too.
The fees were the biggest draw for RH, plus instant margin, and addictive trading/UI.They had a competitive edge on fees. But a lot of people went out of Robinhood to the other brokerages after the brokerages dropped fees and their less than ideal business practices came to light . They will likely stay in business from the first mover advantage, but their valuation isn't the same as what it was. It's a similar thing for coinbase. I don't think people are saying that it's not valuable, it's just not worth what it's valued at.

You can justify high margins from competitors if you have a competitive advantage (think Apple computers) , but if there is no competitive advantage, high margins are usually whittled down as others enter the market build upon existing ideas.
For years and years and the world said that Apple had no competitive advantage because anybody could built a phone. :D

To this day many still argue that Apple has no future.
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If it trades at $250, that is a pretty tempting price...
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txhill wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 7:59 am If it trades at $250, that is a pretty tempting price...
It will almost surely open higher than that based on recent prior direct listings. 300-350ish is what I’m reading.
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txhill wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 7:59 am If it trades at $250, that is a pretty tempting price...
No way it will.

Coinbase is interesting. They have higher fees than almost everyone else. They also have trust. I suspect they will really be a bank disruptor with an opening value higher than most banks. They have not yet ventured much into the yield game. If they offer even 2% on USDC as a publicly traded company it will be insanely popular. They can make boatloads on that offering and it would completely hedge their business against any crypto crash. As crypto crash would result in huge move to stablecoins. They also have Ethereum staking coming any day which will add significant revenues to their balance sheet.
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VTSAX about to get even more exposure to crypto. Never even have to pay the point and a half in and out of them.

That Bogle guy, almost like he had it figured out.
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Prahasaurus wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 11:57 pm UNI is a better purchase. Its market cap is around 19 billion USD. It's comparable to Coinbase in volume, but UNI's addressable market is so much larger. And of course its cost structure is a small fraction of Coinbase. Total no brainer. Buy UNI.

Unfortunately, UNI is not as interesting as it was in December when I said here at Bogleheads that UNI was massively undervalued at 3.50 USD, but Ok, at 36.50 today it's still a very good buy, and will likely be worth much, much more than Coinbase one day. In December my thinking was we'd see UNI at 40 once Coinbase IPO's, as I had assumed Coinbase would IPO around 40 billion USD (and people would wake up to UNI). Now I think we'll see 100 UNI by year end, as Coinbase will attract many more users to crypto, and UNI will be one of the first applications they use.

The beauty of crypto is that once intelligent and open minded investors start to actually use these protocols, they immediately see the potential. Just holding USDC in Aave and watching your balance rise every second is revolutionary. Swapping assets on UNI, or earning fees at UNI by providing liquidity, is mind blowing. You start to realize how badly we retail investors have made out from traditional finance, that the vast majority of profits have gone to the privileged few. And you start to realize those dark days are coming to an end.

So to summarize, Coinbase may or may not be a great buy at 100 billion USD market cap. But I believe UNI is still interesting at 36.50.
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ohboy! wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:12 am
txhill wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 7:59 am If it trades at $250, that is a pretty tempting price...
No way it will.

Coinbase is interesting. They have higher fees than almost everyone else. They also have trust. I suspect they will really be a bank disruptor with an opening value higher than most banks. They have not yet ventured much into the yield game. If they offer even 2% on USDC as a publicly traded company it will be insanely popular. They can make boatloads on that offering and it would completely hedge their business against any crypto crash. As crypto crash would result in huge move to stablecoins. They also have Ethereum staking coming any day which will add significant revenues to their balance sheet.
Yeah it doesn't look likely to actually trade at $250. If it does I might jump in a tiny bit in a retirement account that I can't otherwise use to buy bitcoin/ether directly.
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What time can you start buying it?
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dsasdg wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:41 am
Prahasaurus wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 11:57 pm UNI is a better purchase. Its market cap is around 19 billion USD. It's comparable to Coinbase in volume, but UNI's addressable market is so much larger. And of course its cost structure is a small fraction of Coinbase. Total no brainer. Buy UNI.

Unfortunately, UNI is not as interesting as it was in December when I said here at Bogleheads that UNI was massively undervalued at 3.50 USD, but Ok, at 36.50 today it's still a very good buy, and will likely be worth much, much more than Coinbase one day. In December my thinking was we'd see UNI at 40 once Coinbase IPO's, as I had assumed Coinbase would IPO around 40 billion USD (and people would wake up to UNI). Now I think we'll see 100 UNI by year end, as Coinbase will attract many more users to crypto, and UNI will be one of the first applications they use.

The beauty of crypto is that once intelligent and open minded investors start to actually use these protocols, they immediately see the potential. Just holding USDC in Aave and watching your balance rise every second is revolutionary. Swapping assets on UNI, or earning fees at UNI by providing liquidity, is mind blowing. You start to realize how badly we retail investors have made out from traditional finance, that the vast majority of profits have gone to the privileged few. And you start to realize those dark days are coming to an end.

So to summarize, Coinbase may or may not be a great buy at 100 billion USD market cap. But I believe UNI is still interesting at 36.50.
The interest rates on BSC are much better.
The interest rates on what on BSC are much better?
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Never heard of it until 5 minutes ago when I read a WSJ profile on the guy - and decided I liked him. I'm in - for a share.
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bg5 wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:49 am What time can you start buying it?
i would like to know too

going to toss my 6k roth contribution into coinbase
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Prahasaurus wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:49 am
dsasdg wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:41 am
Prahasaurus wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 11:57 pm UNI is a better purchase. Its market cap is around 19 billion USD. It's comparable to Coinbase in volume, but UNI's addressable market is so much larger. And of course its cost structure is a small fraction of Coinbase. Total no brainer. Buy UNI.

Unfortunately, UNI is not as interesting as it was in December when I said here at Bogleheads that UNI was massively undervalued at 3.50 USD, but Ok, at 36.50 today it's still a very good buy, and will likely be worth much, much more than Coinbase one day. In December my thinking was we'd see UNI at 40 once Coinbase IPO's, as I had assumed Coinbase would IPO around 40 billion USD (and people would wake up to UNI). Now I think we'll see 100 UNI by year end, as Coinbase will attract many more users to crypto, and UNI will be one of the first applications they use.

The beauty of crypto is that once intelligent and open minded investors start to actually use these protocols, they immediately see the potential. Just holding USDC in Aave and watching your balance rise every second is revolutionary. Swapping assets on UNI, or earning fees at UNI by providing liquidity, is mind blowing. You start to realize how badly we retail investors have made out from traditional finance, that the vast majority of profits have gone to the privileged few. And you start to realize those dark days are coming to an end.

So to summarize, Coinbase may or may not be a great buy at 100 billion USD market cap. But I believe UNI is still interesting at 36.50.
The interest rates on BSC are much better.
The interest rates on what on BSC are much better?
Pancakebunny and belt finance

It is much better to buy XVS or even CAKE/BNB.
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bugleheadd wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:14 am
bg5 wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:49 am What time can you start buying it?
i would like to know too

going to toss my 6k roth contribution into coinbase
:shock:
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dsasdg wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:43 am
Prahasaurus wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:49 am
dsasdg wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:41 am
Prahasaurus wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 11:57 pm UNI is a better purchase. Its market cap is around 19 billion USD. It's comparable to Coinbase in volume, but UNI's addressable market is so much larger. And of course its cost structure is a small fraction of Coinbase. Total no brainer. Buy UNI.

Unfortunately, UNI is not as interesting as it was in December when I said here at Bogleheads that UNI was massively undervalued at 3.50 USD, but Ok, at 36.50 today it's still a very good buy, and will likely be worth much, much more than Coinbase one day. In December my thinking was we'd see UNI at 40 once Coinbase IPO's, as I had assumed Coinbase would IPO around 40 billion USD (and people would wake up to UNI). Now I think we'll see 100 UNI by year end, as Coinbase will attract many more users to crypto, and UNI will be one of the first applications they use.

The beauty of crypto is that once intelligent and open minded investors start to actually use these protocols, they immediately see the potential. Just holding USDC in Aave and watching your balance rise every second is revolutionary. Swapping assets on UNI, or earning fees at UNI by providing liquidity, is mind blowing. You start to realize how badly we retail investors have made out from traditional finance, that the vast majority of profits have gone to the privileged few. And you start to realize those dark days are coming to an end.

So to summarize, Coinbase may or may not be a great buy at 100 billion USD market cap. But I believe UNI is still interesting at 36.50.
The interest rates on BSC are much better.
The interest rates on what on BSC are much better?
Pancakebunny and belt finance

It is much better to buy XVS or even CAKE/BNB.
Oh, it was a joke. A good reminder why I'm wasting my time discussing crypto at Bogleheads. Thanks.
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Re: Coinbase IPO - anyone tempted?

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dsasdg wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:43 am
Prahasaurus wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:49 am
dsasdg wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:41 am
Prahasaurus wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 11:57 pm UNI is a better purchase. Its market cap is around 19 billion USD. It's comparable to Coinbase in volume, but UNI's addressable market is so much larger. And of course its cost structure is a small fraction of Coinbase. Total no brainer. Buy UNI.

Unfortunately, UNI is not as interesting as it was in December when I said here at Bogleheads that UNI was massively undervalued at 3.50 USD, but Ok, at 36.50 today it's still a very good buy, and will likely be worth much, much more than Coinbase one day. In December my thinking was we'd see UNI at 40 once Coinbase IPO's, as I had assumed Coinbase would IPO around 40 billion USD (and people would wake up to UNI). Now I think we'll see 100 UNI by year end, as Coinbase will attract many more users to crypto, and UNI will be one of the first applications they use.

The beauty of crypto is that once intelligent and open minded investors start to actually use these protocols, they immediately see the potential. Just holding USDC in Aave and watching your balance rise every second is revolutionary. Swapping assets on UNI, or earning fees at UNI by providing liquidity, is mind blowing. You start to realize how badly we retail investors have made out from traditional finance, that the vast majority of profits have gone to the privileged few. And you start to realize those dark days are coming to an end.

So to summarize, Coinbase may or may not be a great buy at 100 billion USD market cap. But I believe UNI is still interesting at 36.50.
The interest rates on BSC are much better.
The interest rates on what on BSC are much better?
Pancakebunny and belt finance

It is much better to buy XVS or even CAKE/BNB.
Please excuse my ignorance. I looked up Pancakebunny and see that CAKE is paying 319.62% APY. Where does this come from?
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Corsair wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:45 am
bugleheadd wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:14 am
bg5 wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:49 am What time can you start buying it?
i would like to know too

going to toss my 6k roth contribution into coinbase
:shock:
It usually takes a couple hours after market open to start trading. It's already being reported that the price will open around $350.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/14/coinbas ... sting.html
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