For those who haven't heard, anyone who used Uniswap before Sept 1 are receiving an airdrop of 400 tokens. How much is a token you ask? Only $6.66 as of this moment. (@v4vapid) I thought I was going to get two airdrops because of my main MetaMask account and my Trezor account. Turns out the DEX I used on my Trezor was "HitBTC 2"... Trezor checks them all and tells you the best one.
I distinctly remember Uniswap being the second choice and I was going to click it, which would have netted me $2500. Tough luck I guess. I also never used my wHive because I didn't realize I can connect my Trezor directly to MetaMask. Another $2500 gone. Unbelievable. I did claim one airdrop though. Small miracles.
With Uniswap token being so clearly overvalued (x10 the market cap of Hive) am I foolish for not dumping it right this second? Maybe... maybe not, but I've noticed a pattern over the years that I've seen play out dozens of times. In fact this pattern played out with Hive just last April.
Hype pump/dumps
Exchange listing hype seems to last 3 days and then crash into the mountain. Binance listed UNI at 8 PM PDT on Sept 16. Coinbase listed the asset Sept 17 at noon. If the pattern completes similarly as all the other times I've seen it happen, we should be due for one more pump up before this thing crashes into the mountain. I'm going to employ some discipline and wait until at least tomorrow to sell these 400 coins burning a hole in my pocket.
Fun fact:
12000 wallets were airdropped that didn't even use Uniswap, they simply attempted to use Uniswap and the transaction failed.
https://uniswap.org/blog/uni/
It's also important to note that not only did this airdrop push back the launch of wLEO, it also prompted Coinbase Pro to start charging for withdrawal fees off the platform. It's kind of a big deal. I've personally been ignoring it until now, as I obviously can not ignore an airdrop worth over $2500.
https://medium.com/@parzival.is.sweet/hacking-uniswaps-uni-airdrop-434543b37d9a
Obviously anyone and everyone is looking for wallets that have used the protocol so they can collect this massive airdrop.
0x0531242C5d7e00d23cfEbEE9ab0d13E700121547
This wallet is some hacker that somehow had the keys for dozens of derelict accounts. Traded multiple airdrops for 67 ETH just recently. Not a bad run.
https://etherscan.io/address/0x0531242C5d7e00d23cfEbEE9ab0d13E700121547
Conclusion
I'm pretty disappointed I was only able to claim one airdrop considering the circumstances. I was almost sure I'd get two or three. Sad. Oh well. We'll all be richer than we know what to do with soon enough. Temporarily embarrassed crypto millionaires, amirite?
This is probably the sickest airdrop of all time and certainly in DeFi's short history! Congrats on be one of the lucky ones! I also got a nice UNI airdrop or two ;)
One cool fact is that Hivers who attempted/succeeded to try out WHIVE (@wrapped-hive) in the first few days are likely to have received 400 UNI for their trouble. I made a new account for WHIVE on the right day it appears! The low liquidity of the ETH/WHIVE pair + high TX fees kept a lot of people from testing it out. Just goes to show you that it pays to experiment and play around with things. Good things happen :)
Big shoutout to @fbslo and @cardboard, thanks! What an incredible surprise!
The beast approves.
lol, forgot to mention your ongoing entanglement with 666!
I’m hodling for now. I’m trying to convince myself that there’s a good reason for it and I’m not just being greedy waiting for it to moon. My argument is that COMP mooned after they started giving it away so UNI will too.
This token is going nuts, I set a sell @10, it briefly touched 8 yesterday lol, lets see if this free money can make me more free money
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Meh, not counting my chickens quite yet.
That might be a misquote. But both the misquote and the original are pretty good:
https://hellyesjohnsteinbeck.tumblr.com/post/23486952183/commonly-misquoted-socialism-never-took-root-in
Ah well the only thing I ever quote is "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" because it applies to a much wider array of relevant topics. Socialism can suck it. So can capitalism.
I can't believe it's almost 3k USD already.
hm yeah I'm gonna sell in 5 hours... looks like it's about to crash into the mountain though I should probably sell now but I want to employ some restraint.
This was one of the strangest rewards for nothing i've achieved in my life, let alone in the wunderworld of blockchainz.
The more I try to think about the viability (or is it called "tokenomics") of my 400 UNI windfall via an airdrop for literal no work or investment, the dumber I feel.
It's surreal..
Just do the opposite man.
I'm tracking your moves and most of the time you're wrong.
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Also what's the opposite of holding for 24 hours?
Holding for 48 hours? :D
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STOPLol I get a sense of jealousy in your post. I'm not shaming it, because I always find it entertaining how you express your viewpoint. I think you represent the mind of many here right now. You bash uni but then be like "fck if only I played with it more."
I've noticed many here are holding that same sentiment. Acidboy even made a long idiotic meme claiming "Hive was the original DeFi" so it's a perplexing rant that uni sucks, but apparently Hive could have done it, so regretting that it didn't.
dalz also bashed it heavily before but now he's running stats on it and clearly impressed by their airdrop. His future predictions paint it as a positive and overall he now sees it as likely going to succeed. Regardless of future, they've nailed that "attract big money" goal which is the dream of any crypto project.
Hive-Engine wants in on that now too with the swap.app.app app... but apparently agro is going to only keep it in-house for Hive users. So then that's the overall issue I see here.. and steemit before. Ideas, ideas, ideas, but everyone here either too afraid to really reach out to a wider audience or incapable of reaching out to a wider audience. Hence no real movement in terms of price and onboarding. I wonder if HF24 will have any impact.
Please find one sentance where I did that!
It's word of mouth.. some 'hive buzz' I got onto. I think I seen them Leo boys saying you weren't confident of it holding up before this whole wrapped Hive/Leo got wind and then acidboy was also saying you thought it's going to collapse and that it's like bitconnect all over again.
Spot me 100 Hive and I'll dig through the chain and find the hardcopies...
If not then I might have embellished the truth a little, in which case I owe you 100 Hive.
Take pitty on me kind sir.
I'm just a poor nomad passing through.