Happy New Year for Nostr citizens. Here is hoping we can get our trading software out for customers and collaborators early 2026.

That's the hardest thing to do. Playing sport with a child to ensure you don't hurt them but let them win without losing. Harder than normal competitive sports.

This Asia Guy / silver guru is a worrying glimpse into the future of AI. My estimation shows videos are released every two hours. 25-50 minute long videos. The videos are pretty rational. If there was fine, one could spend most of their day watching these videos - on a single asset. We know that humans would struggle to create original content this fast, it appears at times, maybe a video an hour. The dystopian facet of constant reports on history and the future by AI, is enough people believe it knows the future.

Should be very close to testing our new Swing Trade Type for our automated trading software. The key difference is that we are aiming to avoid price slippage on the last executed by or sell order. We are already seeing coin gains on small portfolio sizes. Testing has more focused upon validation and gap analysis than trying to get rich in an altcoin bear market.

Silver at £53.56 paper and £73 physical. That's like buying a digital cinema ticket and turning up to find there are no seats left.

This Asia Guy and silver story is fascinating. The silver price has expectedly been slammed today. I have always said that those in Cryptocurrency have seen most market cycles in a matter of days to weeks that traditional markets experience in decades to centuries.

This Asia guy stuff is blowing my mind. Not from not being accurate, but because it fits the narratives those outside of the mainstream have been knowing for years. Obviously the Asia Guy - AI videos. China about to ban exports of silver? Much of the narrative fits. Yet we don't understand what is behind it? To summarise it feels as if the whole play was simply about using the Bear Stearns short position to accumulate physical silver. Yet it feels too perfect if not dystopian.

Silver is flying

Happy Christmas

Simultaneously getting ready for Xmas whilst adding a new trade type - Swing Trade for our software. Although this functionality can be achieved via our Buy and Sell Limit orders - it isn't as pure in the sense of swing trading as the original vision. Upcoming are more metrics for conditions to filter on for trading and bulk portfolio management. Then back onto the application side of the Zero Knowledge Trust Security - Nostr backed.

Planes, trains and automobiles. True classic movie.

Completely off topic. Am not saying this as a fanboy. I watched the Andrew Tate and Chase Demoor fight. The overriding theme, the referee was absolutely shocking. Demoor's only tactic was to hold Tate to try to wear him out. There should have been point deductions. Which then calls into question Tate buying that franchise and having referees that are so dire. I haven't heard anyone pick up on that fact but TBF, it is not something am super interested in. Glad I never paid to watch it. The second bizarre thing. I had Tate winning four rounds. None of it made sense.

I have to talk about Cardano (ADA) as a real quandary. We are adults here - should we talk of fiat price? Yet we need a benchmark. I believe in technology. Whilst am technically a BTC maxi, am a believer in true choice. Ever nail needs its hammer. According to CoinGecko, it sits at number 12 in terms of fiat market cap - £10.3bn. It reached £2.24 and now is at £0.27. 27 pence! Yet ADA is number 12 in the coin rankings. It can only make that by inflation? Yet it is claimed the inflation rate is tiny. Which means other coins have collapsed further. If we look at many influencers over the last year or so, they were banging on about Cardano reaching $6, $10. Every time Cardano goes up a few percent, no shortage of YouTubers and Twitter Crypto Shills claim this is the sign, we are early, buy now or miss out. We must also ask. Okay, so imagine - "I bought $10000 Cardano and it went back its all time high?" Well, that is too much faith. Same as XRP. The data tells you that ADA is falling lower, way lower. Are you comfortable doing that? The only way to solve this is through swing trading. Accumulate coins at their low, gain more, hoping for their rise but seeing BTC as the top dog.

SEO - Have found that DuckDuckGo is starting to provide hits to my site. Yes, DuckDuckGo appears to be one of the club for a while now - rivaling Schmoogle. Having released new content, checked our Bing Webmaster tools. Turns out it hadn't bothered to index www.cryptostatto.com since April. Am doubting search engines will be relevant for much longer tbh. Websites acting as training data for LLMs, yet sites that perform functionality still carry weight.

Still need to post the Christmas cards. Ugghhh. Why can't they all be on Nostr?

DBeaver seems to have stopped working. I hate it when software stops working.

What are your thoughts? Considering adding a Crypto Influencer Report to Crypto Statto. Don't want to reveal too much but the main premise is that YouTube influencers largely base their content off; 1. Short term volatility 2. The FED and what it does 3. Michael Saylor 4. Longer term trends 5. Cycles 6. Whales 7. China 7. Some insightful stuff Furthermore, it seems that too many of them; - flip-flop on a daily basis - Keep screaming to buy the dip - Are wrong and right at different times Some influencers lose a lot of money and just leave the space. Carrying a raft of faithful devotees to their financial doom.

We completed the workflow for zero knowledge trust/passwordless nostr backed security for our trade platform. The basics of this software is to permit nostr signing for encryption of data to pass to one or more endpoints. Our aim is to facilitate fault tolerance facilitating uptime of our trading software. However, we are looking to make this moddleware available for customers. You can read about it here...

Zero Knowledge Trust Security Technology for Cloud Applications 11 Dec 2025

Sports direct mug of coffee - Check! Docker running automated trading - Check! Start adding more trade types to the platform - Si pronto!