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# WELCOME TO MY POST
[PROOF PHOTO](https://coindex.app/photo/AVf6IeA)
[ALBUM LINK](https://coindex.app/a/6TGStl)
Sorry for the mediocre photos, it's hard to set things up inside the lightbox right now.
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Looking to trade anything I have for AGEs, especially fractionals! Hit me up if you're interested!
***
#Gold Englehard bar
I know very little about these, but they are pretty and shiny and reflective, and this one has a serial # starting with "1".
[Englehard Photo 1](https://coindex.app/photo/ofa1sOa) - [Photo 2](https://coindex.app/photo/Faa7rnu) - [Photo 3](https://coindex.app/photo/bhavwdF) - [Photo 4](https://coindex.app/photo/fhX0I5q)
**WTT:** Prefer to swap this with someone for 1oz of AGEs (raw fractionals, 1oz MS69 slab, raw 1oz proof)
**WTS:** **$4800**
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# Silver
All 1oz slabs shown here: [Slabs front](https://coindex.app/photo/oSkUGAl) - [Slabs back](https://coindex.app/photo/3SLz3Ew)
**1oz 1994 ASE PCGS MS69 (cracked slab)** - **$68.50** (spot)
**1oz 1991 (Type 1) Libertad - PCGS MS68** - **$300**
**1oz 1985 Libertad - PCGS MS67 (40th Ann. Label)** - **$190**
**1oz 1982 Libertad - PCGS MS67** - **$150**
[Perth Mint 5oz Iwo Jima Commemorative proof - PR70DCAM](https://coindex.app/photo/Z7n0cr9) - **$390** (last sold on feePay was $499!)
***
***PLEASE READ SHIPPING OPTIONS BELOW. YOU MUST SELECT A SHIPPING OPTION IN CHAT.***
**SALE INFO**
# Basics
Please post “chat” and then PM me. I will not PM anyone first!
Multiple quantity or mint-packaged items may be random pulls of duplicates. Multiples of slabbed items will be of the same grade. Slabbed item grades are given and backed by the grader. Anything not slabbed or mint-capsuled is sold as-is.
Prices are subject to change as spot changes, until a deal is locked.
# Payment
**PPFF greatly preferred**. Zelle is a problem right now. I **do not** have Venmo!
NO TEXT IN NOTES! 🍕 emoji only! Will return money and cancel sale if any text is in notes.
# Shipping
Will ship only to USA addresses. Shipping options are below. ***No deal is final*** without buyer choosing an available shipping option.
I do my best to ship within two business days. Special shipping requests may take time.
## Shipping options:
**Uninsured USPS**: You get Gold-Standard Pony Packing, shipped **uninsured Ground** for $8; uninsured Priority +$5. ***Seller liability for delivery ends when package is with USPS***. This option is *free* at $450+ (Ground) or $1,000 (Priority).
**USPS Registered Mail**: You get Gold-Standard Pony Packing, shipped via **USPS Registered Mail** with insurance up to purchase price. ***Seller liability for delivery ends when package is with USPS***. In the event of loss I will assist with any insurance claim. Available at actual cost.
## Gold-Standard Pony Packing
**My liability ends** when the package is in the courier's hands and **out of my control**. My focus and responsibility is on doing everything **within my control** to help your package arrive safely. That includes:
* Packing tailored to protect your items, rivaling the best sellers on this sub. I've earned a reputation as a great packer, and pack to keep my reputation. Feel free to ask in comments below (or in the weekly META questions thread, or in PMs to someone you trust) "does u/GoldponyGT pack really well?" and test this yourself.
* Items will be reasonably protected against internal movement (I won't open sealed tubes, but tubes will be padded and secured).
* Items are double-packed and double-labeled.
* My packaging uses proprietary theft deterrence measures, with (so far) a 100% success rate.
* I will make sure your package makes it into the hands of a USPS employee.
* I have received reports of ponies escaping by hiding in packaging. I am not responsible for their care or feeding.

The top comment asks what happens if it dumps now. Worth knowing what the base rates say, and also what they do not say.

I pulled every daily candle across 8 majors (BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, BNB, ADA, LINK) that closed +15% or more. 253 instances. The day after: 57.9% closed red, 30.3% worse than -5%. But the mean next-day return was +0.92% against a +0.21% baseline, and the median was -1.51%. Barbell, not a drift. About one in seven ripped another 10%+ and carried the average by itself.

Then I tried to get more specific, because that is exactly the setup we are in now: the pump day was followed by a green day. Across the same sample, the second day after that pattern was green only 41.1% of the time (n=107). Nine points below baseline. That looked like a real edge.

So I split the history in half and ran each half separately. First half 38.6%, second half 52.6%. The effect reversed. Sample sizes in the second half are small, but a result that flips sign when you cut the data is not a result, it is a coincidence with good marketing.

So I do not have a call for today, and that is the honest answer. What I do have is a note about the first number: after a vertical day, red is the modal outcome, but the tail that pays is fat enough to make the average positive. Anyone quoting only one of those two numbers at you is selling something.

Method: daily candles, Binance spot, close vs open on the same candle for the pump day, close to close after.

I appreciate your willingness to discuss it civilly and know you did not name call anyone.
Everyone knows the "value" accrual hasn't been there. My issue with detractors is that they act like they've been rugged, when LINK publicly announced the schedule for selling supply to fund the project.
It's no different from AMZN being founded in 1994, going public in 1997, and not becoming profitable until 2003, nearly 10 years after being founded. Are investors mad at AMZN?
Any AI search can tell folks that, but it's easier to parrot a "rug pull" narrative.
How else are they going to pay a staff of engineers, business leaders, etc. to work on this project for 10+ years?
Would folks rather they accept a ton of VC money like Solana and others? IMO, the fact that they are selling the token to fund the growth of the project is compelling.
**The 2017 ICO:** Chainlink officially raised $32 million in September 2017 **by selling LINK tokens directly to both retail and institutional participants.**
Historical Supply Dynamics & Releases (easily researched):
* **Initial Allocation (2017):** The initial 1 billion LINK supply was divided into a 35% token sale (private and public), 35% for node operators/ecosystem incentives, and 30% for the parent company/reserve.
* **Economics 2.0 Shift (2022):** The Foundation pledged transparent periodic movements of non-circulating supply (such as capping early targeted releases to 50 million LINK) to support initiatives like staking.
* **Quarterly Unlocks:** On-chain analytics routinely track predictable multi-million LINK movements from non-circulating Foundation/Team addresses (often releasing 10M to 20M tokens quarterly) into operational or exchange-labeled wallets.
* **Current Circulating Supply:** Out of the 1 billion hard cap, approximately 748 million LINK (\~75%) are in active circulation, while the remaining balance resides across designated non-circulating or staking contract vaults

agree to disagree. This post has 0 upvotes, all the comments are about LINK holders being suckers. Keep in mind this is a single thread and I've been interested in crypto for a while.

Ripple and Chainlink are basically polar opposites. Ripple is a private company with shareholders, and XRP holders are not shareholders in Ripple. The company can sell XRP from its holdings to fund its operations, acquisitions and business activities, while any benefit to XRP holders is indirect. That creates an obvious distinction between the interests of Ripple shareholders and XRP holders.
Chainlink on the other hand, has increasingly been using revenue to acquire LINK for its reserves, directly tying part of the network's economic activity to the token itself.
And as for your 600% XRP trade, congratulations but making money on an asset doesn't prove the underlying project deserved its valuation. XRP's market cap has repeatedly priced in expectations that Ripple or XRP would achieve something extraordinary, yet the actual adoption of XRP as a global bridge asset has never come close to justifying the kind of valuation its community constantly claims is inevitable. You got lucky because you didn’t actually do any research into the company.

Imo, it’s okay to be condescending when people treat you like a moron for doing DD. 
Look- if your goal is to participate in tulip/beanie baby mania and play hot potato to see who wins and who holds a bag - go “invest” in PEPE, Shibainuobamacoin, or whatever the fuck else crops up.
Unfortunately for those who bought LINK at its highest point, they were unfortunately caught in the combo of a low circulating supply and high volume of interest.
In my experience, LINK has been one of the few projects that has pushed through the naysayers, and actually done things for the holders.
1. They announced when LINK circulating supply would be increased (sales to fund expansion)
2. Staking opened up on a priority basis for those who held LINK through price drops.
3. They are the ONLY project I’ve ever seen to buy back the token in regular intervals, using the fees they earn, in addition to the payment abstraction layer.
When people stop treating LINK investors like they’re idiots, maybe we can let up on the condescending tone. 
Satoshi himself once said, “if you don’t get it, I don’t have time to explain it to you.”

LINK's problem is there's no link between the profits the company makes and the token price, so even if the company makes a ton of money it doesn't follow that the token price will increase. That's true of a lot of crypto tokens unfortunately.
Having said that, it's up 22.4% and 32.5% in the last 7 and 14 days respectively, which is about the same as HYPE and more than you would have made with most stocks in that time. Although it's still down 80% from it's ATH in May 2021 and down 57% since August 2025, whilst HYPE is up 73% in a year. I don't know if HYPE's price is based on profits being made by the company though, or just hype.

Since the top comment is asking whether this is a bull trap, here's what the base rates actually say. I pulled every day across 8 majors (BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, BNB, ADA, LINK) where the coin closed up 15% or more on the day. 253 instances. Then I looked at the following day.

57.9% of those next days closed red. 30.3% closed more than 5% down. 13.8% closed more than 10% down.

But the average next-day return is +0.92%, comfortably above the +0.21% baseline for a random day.

Both of those are true at once, and that is the whole point. The median next day is -1.51% while the mean is positive, because 14.6% of the time the thing rips another 10%+ and drags the average up by itself. The distribution is barbell shaped, not centered.

So "is it a bull trap" is the wrong shape of question. Most days after a big pump are red, and the ones that aren't are occasionally enormous. If you size for the average you get run over by the median. If you size for the median you miss the tail that pays.

Method: daily candles, Binance spot, up day measured close vs open on the same candle. Happy to be told this breaks somewhere I didn't test.

# WELCOME TO MY POST
[PROOF PHOTO](https://coindex.app/photo/AVf6IeA)
[ALBUM LINK](https://coindex.app/a/6TGStl)
Sorry for the mediocre photos, it's hard to set things up inside the lightbox right now.
***
Looking to trade anything I have for AGEs, especially fractionals! Hit me up if you're interested!
***
#Gold Englehard bar
I know very little about these, but they are pretty and shiny and reflective, and this one has a serial # starting with "1".
[Englehard Photo 1](https://coindex.app/photo/ofa1sOa) - [Photo 2](https://coindex.app/photo/Faa7rnu) - [Photo 3](https://coindex.app/photo/bhavwdF) - [Photo 4](https://coindex.app/photo/fhX0I5q)
**WTT:** Prefer to swap this with someone for 1oz of AGEs (raw fractionals, 1oz MS69 slab, raw 1oz proof)
**WTS:** **$4800**
***
# Silver
All 1oz slabs shown here: [Slabs front](https://coindex.app/photo/oSkUGAl) - [Slabs back](https://coindex.app/photo/3SLz3Ew)
**1oz 1994 ASE PCGS MS69 (cracked slab)** - **$68.50** (spot)
**1oz 1991 (Type 1) Libertad - PCGS MS68** - **$300**
**1oz 1985 Libertad - PCGS MS67 (40th Ann. Label)** - **$190**
**1oz 1982 Libertad - PCGS MS67** - **$150**
[Perth Mint 5oz Iwo Jima Commemorative proof - PR70DCAM](https://coindex.app/photo/Z7n0cr9) - **$390** (last sold on feePay was $499!)
***
***PLEASE READ SHIPPING OPTIONS BELOW. YOU MUST SELECT A SHIPPING OPTION IN CHAT.***
**SALE INFO**
# Basics
Please post “chat” and then PM me. I will not PM anyone first!
Multiple quantity or mint-packaged items may be random pulls of duplicates. Multiples of slabbed items will be of the same grade. Slabbed item grades are given and backed by the grader. Anything not slabbed or mint-capsuled is sold as-is.
Prices are subject to change as spot changes, until a deal is locked.
# Payment
**PPFF greatly preferred**. Zelle is a problem right now. I **do not** have Venmo!
NO TEXT IN NOTES! 🍕 emoji only! Will return money and cancel sale if any text is in notes.
# Shipping
Will ship only to USA addresses. Shipping options are below. ***No deal is final*** without buyer choosing an available shipping option.
I do my best to ship within two business days. Special shipping requests may take time.
## Shipping options:
**Uninsured USPS**: You get Gold-Standard Pony Packing, shipped **uninsured Ground** for $8; uninsured Priority +$5. ***Seller liability for delivery ends when package is with USPS***. This option is *free* at $450+ (Ground) or $1,000 (Priority).
**USPS Registered Mail**: You get Gold-Standard Pony Packing, shipped via **USPS Registered Mail** with insurance up to purchase price. ***Seller liability for delivery ends when package is with USPS***. In the event of loss I will assist with any insurance claim. Available at actual cost.
## Gold-Standard Pony Packing
**My liability ends** when the package is in the courier's hands and **out of my control**. My focus and responsibility is on doing everything **within my control** to help your package arrive safely. That includes:
* Packing tailored to protect your items, rivaling the best sellers on this sub. I've earned a reputation as a great packer, and pack to keep my reputation. Feel free to ask in comments below (or in the weekly META questions thread, or in PMs to someone you trust) "does u/GoldponyGT pack really well?" and test this yourself.
* Items will be reasonably protected against internal movement (I won't open sealed tubes, but tubes will be padded and secured).
* Items are double-packed and double-labeled.
* My packaging uses proprietary theft deterrence measures, with (so far) a 100% success rate.
* I will make sure your package makes it into the hands of a USPS employee.
* I have received reports of ponies escaping by hiding in packaging. I am not responsible for their care or feeding.

The top comment asks what happens if it dumps now. Worth knowing what the base rates say, and also what they do not say.

I pulled every daily candle across 8 majors (BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, BNB, ADA, LINK) that closed +15% or more. 253 instances. The day after: 57.9% closed red, 30.3% worse than -5%. But the mean next-day return was +0.92% against a +0.21% baseline, and the median was -1.51%. Barbell, not a drift. About one in seven ripped another 10%+ and carried the average by itself.

Then I tried to get more specific, because that is exactly the setup we are in now: the pump day was followed by a green day. Across the same sample, the second day after that pattern was green only 41.1% of the time (n=107). Nine points below baseline. That looked like a real edge.

So I split the history in half and ran each half separately. First half 38.6%, second half 52.6%. The effect reversed. Sample sizes in the second half are small, but a result that flips sign when you cut the data is not a result, it is a coincidence with good marketing.

So I do not have a call for today, and that is the honest answer. What I do have is a note about the first number: after a vertical day, red is the modal outcome, but the tail that pays is fat enough to make the average positive. Anyone quoting only one of those two numbers at you is selling something.

Method: daily candles, Binance spot, close vs open on the same candle for the pump day, close to close after.

I appreciate your willingness to discuss it civilly and know you did not name call anyone.
Everyone knows the "value" accrual hasn't been there. My issue with detractors is that they act like they've been rugged, when LINK publicly announced the schedule for selling supply to fund the project.
It's no different from AMZN being founded in 1994, going public in 1997, and not becoming profitable until 2003, nearly 10 years after being founded. Are investors mad at AMZN?
Any AI search can tell folks that, but it's easier to parrot a "rug pull" narrative.
How else are they going to pay a staff of engineers, business leaders, etc. to work on this project for 10+ years?
Would folks rather they accept a ton of VC money like Solana and others? IMO, the fact that they are selling the token to fund the growth of the project is compelling.
**The 2017 ICO:** Chainlink officially raised $32 million in September 2017 **by selling LINK tokens directly to both retail and institutional participants.**
Historical Supply Dynamics & Releases (easily researched):
* **Initial Allocation (2017):** The initial 1 billion LINK supply was divided into a 35% token sale (private and public), 35% for node operators/ecosystem incentives, and 30% for the parent company/reserve.
* **Economics 2.0 Shift (2022):** The Foundation pledged transparent periodic movements of non-circulating supply (such as capping early targeted releases to 50 million LINK) to support initiatives like staking.
* **Quarterly Unlocks:** On-chain analytics routinely track predictable multi-million LINK movements from non-circulating Foundation/Team addresses (often releasing 10M to 20M tokens quarterly) into operational or exchange-labeled wallets.
* **Current Circulating Supply:** Out of the 1 billion hard cap, approximately 748 million LINK (\~75%) are in active circulation, while the remaining balance resides across designated non-circulating or staking contract vaults

agree to disagree. This post has 0 upvotes, all the comments are about LINK holders being suckers. Keep in mind this is a single thread and I've been interested in crypto for a while.

Ripple and Chainlink are basically polar opposites. Ripple is a private company with shareholders, and XRP holders are not shareholders in Ripple. The company can sell XRP from its holdings to fund its operations, acquisitions and business activities, while any benefit to XRP holders is indirect. That creates an obvious distinction between the interests of Ripple shareholders and XRP holders.
Chainlink on the other hand, has increasingly been using revenue to acquire LINK for its reserves, directly tying part of the network's economic activity to the token itself.
And as for your 600% XRP trade, congratulations but making money on an asset doesn't prove the underlying project deserved its valuation. XRP's market cap has repeatedly priced in expectations that Ripple or XRP would achieve something extraordinary, yet the actual adoption of XRP as a global bridge asset has never come close to justifying the kind of valuation its community constantly claims is inevitable. You got lucky because you didn’t actually do any research into the company.

Imo, it’s okay to be condescending when people treat you like a moron for doing DD. 
Look- if your goal is to participate in tulip/beanie baby mania and play hot potato to see who wins and who holds a bag - go “invest” in PEPE, Shibainuobamacoin, or whatever the fuck else crops up.
Unfortunately for those who bought LINK at its highest point, they were unfortunately caught in the combo of a low circulating supply and high volume of interest.
In my experience, LINK has been one of the few projects that has pushed through the naysayers, and actually done things for the holders.
1. They announced when LINK circulating supply would be increased (sales to fund expansion)
2. Staking opened up on a priority basis for those who held LINK through price drops.
3. They are the ONLY project I’ve ever seen to buy back the token in regular intervals, using the fees they earn, in addition to the payment abstraction layer.
When people stop treating LINK investors like they’re idiots, maybe we can let up on the condescending tone. 
Satoshi himself once said, “if you don’t get it, I don’t have time to explain it to you.”

LINK's problem is there's no link between the profits the company makes and the token price, so even if the company makes a ton of money it doesn't follow that the token price will increase. That's true of a lot of crypto tokens unfortunately.
Having said that, it's up 22.4% and 32.5% in the last 7 and 14 days respectively, which is about the same as HYPE and more than you would have made with most stocks in that time. Although it's still down 80% from it's ATH in May 2021 and down 57% since August 2025, whilst HYPE is up 73% in a year. I don't know if HYPE's price is based on profits being made by the company though, or just hype.

Since the top comment is asking whether this is a bull trap, here's what the base rates actually say. I pulled every day across 8 majors (BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, BNB, ADA, LINK) where the coin closed up 15% or more on the day. 253 instances. Then I looked at the following day.

57.9% of those next days closed red. 30.3% closed more than 5% down. 13.8% closed more than 10% down.

But the average next-day return is +0.92%, comfortably above the +0.21% baseline for a random day.

Both of those are true at once, and that is the whole point. The median next day is -1.51% while the mean is positive, because 14.6% of the time the thing rips another 10%+ and drags the average up by itself. The distribution is barbell shaped, not centered.

So "is it a bull trap" is the wrong shape of question. Most days after a big pump are red, and the ones that aren't are occasionally enormous. If you size for the average you get run over by the median. If you size for the median you miss the tail that pays.

Method: daily candles, Binance spot, up day measured close vs open on the same candle. Happy to be told this breaks somewhere I didn't test.

1. Payment abstraction layer converts payment into LINK- [https://chain.link/blog/payment-abstraction-svr-fee-conversion](https://chain.link/blog/payment-abstraction-svr-fee-conversion)
2. Link is using fees to buy back a strategic reserve of LINK: [https://metrics.chain.link/reserve](https://metrics.chain.link/reserve)
The DTCC themselves announced working with LINK and the major banks: [https://www.dtcc.com/news/2026/july/15/dtcc-turns-tokenization-into-reality](https://www.dtcc.com/news/2026/july/15/dtcc-turns-tokenization-into-reality)

Ever hear of Robinhood the trading platform? They use LINK: [https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/robinhood](https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/robinhood)

Ever heard of Ondo finance, one of the leading institutional tokenization companies? They use LINK: [https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/ondo-finance](https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/ondo-finance)

Ever heard of Kalshi, the prediction market - they use LINK: [https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/kalshi](https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/kalshi)
Ever heard of Kraken, one of the first cryptocurrency markets to tokenize stocks with xstocks? They migrated to CCIP after trying to use a legacy provider:
[https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/kraken](https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/kraken)
Did you know that xstocks is partnered with NASDAQ and uses LINK?
[https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/xstocks](https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/xstocks)
[https://blog.kraken.com/news/payward-partners-with-nasdaq](https://blog.kraken.com/news/payward-partners-with-nasdaq)
What about Coinbase, have you ever heard of them? they use LINK:
[https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/coinbase-cloud](https://www.chainlinkecosystem.com/ecosystem/coinbase-cloud)
Look, everyone following LINK could be completely wrong. I get that. But of all the fucking evidence/news developments associated with LINK, imo, you could not possibly place another "bet" on a crypto in the entire market.
If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But there's not a better bet in the market than LINK right now and I'll stand by that even if it doesn't take off.

Let me say it louder for those in the back:
How many of your choice cryptos are actively buying back their tokens as a reserve vs. dumping them all on retail?
[https://metrics.chain.link/reserve](https://metrics.chain.link/reserve)
How many of your choice cryptos have built payment abstraction layers that convert fees paid into the native token? [https://chain.link/blog/payment-abstraction-svr-fee-conversion](https://chain.link/blog/payment-abstraction-svr-fee-conversion)
How many of your choice cryptos have had their staking pool completely filled since the 1st day they launched the pool?
FYI: LINK staking has been at 100% capacity for the 2+ years they've launched. Any open spots get snapped up.

Comparing Sergey Nazarov to Justin Sun is pretty fucking stupid. Sergey is out there speaking at swifts SIBOS every year and working with institutions like DTCC on real financial infrastructure, while you’re dismissing everything based on “vibes” lol You don’t have to buy LINK, but at least make an argument based on something other than feelings.

LINK has potential