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It's not just subscriptions, you can also get better cash back with different tiers of WRX staking exactly like Crypto.com though cheaper and hopefully the higher tiers will give you the metal card which I've seen some pictures on X. Though I'm waiting 'til a service will give you the option to stake ADA to get better ADA cash back and not WRX.

If ADA had an actual use case, it would be going up in value regardless of what BTC does.

35k ADA will give you approximately 12-14 ADA every 5 days. That’s over 900 ADA / year. Not bad from my PoV
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Most mentions on r/cc (2025-11-14 00:00:00):
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|BTC|444|
|ETH|65|
|ZEC|23|
|XRP|18|
|MOON|17|
|SOL|14|
|XMR|14|
|SNT|11|
|IP|9|
|ADA|8|
|HOME|8|
|SAFE|8|
|FLOW|7|
|USDC|7|
|BIT|6|
|SUI|6|
|00|5|
|AAVE|5|
|BNB|5|
|MOVE|5|
[Data source and app](https://www.redditcoins.app/)

thats the point dude, staking was the last thing for an average non tech person to use, nothing new ever since from that perspective and the price of ADA reflects that

There are heuristics: is the data internally consistent, like are bids/asks progressing in price.
There is also this phenomenon that larger volumes cluster around round values, like 10 ADA, and around round prices: i woukd expect more offers at 10 eur than at 13.5
And someone can always get another sample from another source for historic data and check approximate match, or monitor the exchange for some time and compare to my data.

Pay attention to Zcash. This is a Pump and Dump used by market makers to generate Liquidity. Each Alt season has a catalyst, which is usually a random Alt that just starts mooning out of nowhere and everyone is like “Wow, have you seen XYZ Coin?”
People dump off “old tech” and pile onto Zcash, pumping liquidity. Once enough liquidity is reached, the rug pull happens and then they move over to another one (cough, cough Litecoin). It’s like a cascading effect that pumps the top 20 alts.
In 2021, it was Doge. They also use mainstream social media to pump it and Daddy Elon gave it the final push to $50 Billon Market Cap. Then it trickled to ETC, ETH, ADA, and the rest is history. Same thing will happen this time

Where is the comment saying “We are still early”?
With no offense, I think this is exactly why crypto is where it is - because everybody including us sees it as "not ready yet" or "still new" for public application. Look at other chains, even the base thing like smart contract is 10 years old, the idea itself almost 30 years. 10 years in IT and tech is very longtime. 2017 was SpaceX first reusable rocket? Seems far right? 5G rollout in 2019, seems far right? Even ChatGPT is 3 years old and used by literally everybody. So where we are standing with Cardano these days? Let's face the reality...which does not look good at all to be honest.
PS: Still hodling significant amount of ADA.

Most mentions on r/cc (2025-11-14 00:00:00):
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|BTC|444|
|ETH|65|
|ZEC|23|
|XRP|18|
|MOON|17|
|SOL|14|
|XMR|14|
|SNT|11|
|IP|9|
|ADA|8|
|HOME|8|
|SAFE|8|
|FLOW|7|
|USDC|7|
|BIT|6|
|SUI|6|
|00|5|
|AAVE|5|
|BNB|5|
|MOVE|5|
[Data source and app](https://www.redditcoins.app/)

Your crypto investment strategy is dependent on 3 things: 1. your “long term” timeline definition (2 yrs, 5, 10, generational?) 2. Your responsible investment amount (after non-crypto diversification and assessment of what you are able to lose and still maintain your quality of life) 3. Your ROI goal. (high risk-high reward, conservative-modest but steady gain, etc).
Remember the VC strategy: only 1 of 10 investments will hit the moon. 1 will likely return modest long term gains. 1 will persevere with little or no gain.and 7 will fail. But if you hit on the one winner, it will more than compensate for your loss on the 7 failures.
If you are looking to swing for the fences on that one (excluding BTC and ETH) I would propose researching the following: SOL, AAVE, LINK, and because buying lots of coins for pennies: Ondo, HBAR, SUI, ADA, APT, ALGO.
Pay attention to tolkenomics, rarity, competitive positioning, proven technology.

ADA is part of the strategic reserve what are you yapping about?

As of right now, I only hold BTC. I did hold many Alts as well, but sold them after the first crash in October. I was technically still in the green on most of them, bought Eth under 2k, Sol for $30, ADA for 0.50 etc... so I can't be too mad, though I thought they would all perform much better in 2025 lol.
I also got caught up in some shitcoins and hype this year and lost a bit of money as well.
My plan going forward is to continue holding and DCA Bitcoin. With the ETFs and growing adoption, it's hard to say just how low it will go and for how long. I will wait at least a full year before buying any Alts again. The hype will all die down, all the "newbies" will have left the Reddit subs... And before you know it, in a year or two, there'll be whispers of the next "halving" approaching. That's when it's time to load up 👍

Most mentions on r/cc (2025-11-14 00:00:00):
||Mentions|
|:-|:-|
|BTC|444|
|ETH|65|
|ZEC|23|
|XRP|18|
|MOON|17|
|SOL|14|
|XMR|14|
|SNT|11|
|IP|9|
|ADA|8|
|HOME|8|
|SAFE|8|
|FLOW|7|
|USDC|7|
|BIT|6|
|SUI|6|
|00|5|
|AAVE|5|
|BNB|5|
|MOVE|5|
[Data source and app](https://www.redditcoins.app/)

As title says, I don't think it's time to buy.
If you believe the bear is upon us why buy now? Even if you DCA, why not DCA during a prolong period of sideways action at lower price points (or do you think this is the bottom???!!!)
If you're just entering now you may get stuck with the bags, I've done that with ADA (yeah, I know...) in 2021.
If you're already holding some bags, once again, you may end up getting stuck with only heavier bags.
I guess if you're really long term like 10 years or so, then it doesn't matter, but If you trade cycle to cycle why not accumulate during bear, sell during bull?
What's your take guys?
P.S. I don't have a crysral ball and I'm not predicting anything.
I hold some bags (NEAR, INJ both 50% down) and I've had some gains (for example, sold half of my ETH at ATH back in August), so I'm not lecturing anyone on trading, just curious about what other people think.

Well, instead of saying "people don't know anything" and "people do not understand", why not tell them what ADA can so that people can see the value of it, no? Win-win situation 

Most mentions on r/cc (2025-11-14 00:00:00):
||Mentions|
|:-|:-|
|BTC|444|
|ETH|65|
|ZEC|23|
|XRP|18|
|MOON|17|
|SOL|14|
|XMR|14|
|SNT|11|
|IP|9|
|ADA|8|
|HOME|8|
|SAFE|8|
|FLOW|7|
|USDC|7|
|BIT|6|
|SUI|6|
|00|5|
|AAVE|5|
|BNB|5|
|MOVE|5|
[Data source and app](https://www.redditcoins.app/)

DReps and CC members probably shouldn't approve the reward for themselves.
It would be better if some mechanism were built directly into the protocol, or if delegators voluntarily decided on it.
Every epoch, 0.5% could be taken for governance compensation from the pot that is used to distribute staking rewards, or e.g. 10% of collected fees could be used.
I can imagine many better options than having governance bodies dictate how much they want and then approve it themselves. Stables could be a better option than ADA, but harder to implement.

rearing about ADA brings me back ages! 

I’m tired of ADA

I've said this about Catalyst funding in the past, but it bears repeating for potential Governance rewards. In my opinion they should always be estimated and paid out in a native stablecoin rather than ADA.
A native stablecoin would ensure:
* Fair and predictable payouts. ADA price can double, triple or be halved in a matter of weeks.
* Liquidity for stablecoins. Genuine demand for people to use our stablecoins.
* Better alignment between work/proposals and the requested payout.
On the topic of Governance rewards: I think there should be some, how much I'm unsure. I'm guesstimating the work is not a full-time job by any means, further illustrated by the fact that there are members that are willing to do this voluntarily.