Quote from: SteamGift on February 09, 2022, 06:34:52 PM

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Risk and return are always comparable, are there any other rules instead? Pooled mining is indeed less risky bc we merge a lot of miners hash rate. Am I right?

You are right if it's for the general risk profile, but it'll depend on many factors if we talk about individual risk profiles.

In the case of pooled or solo mining, if I'm doing pooled, say I mine ETH, I take hi-risk as 1/4 my rigs are AMD R9 series. What about the DAG size for my 290/290X/295 X2? (my 390/390X might still be useable on this case) even if it's not ETH, what about the power uses? I might only be able to pay all the bills instead of getting some profits, or the worst thing's I need to pay more for the bills. I rather spent more time on POW coins research to get the perfect coin for a solo that'll give me some profits instead. It's still working! trust me! (Altcoins solo miner rules no.1: Don't ever say what coin you mine currently, it'll invite a dozen miners to that coin! bc soon, the network Hashrate will grow)

I just trying to show that risk varies, depending on many factors including who's faces the risk.

Quote from: perri on February 08, 2022, 03:47:56 PM

I personally chase constant APY. From low risk (5-20%) to high risk (100 - 1xxxx%). Returns from High (currently MidasDao) will be diverted into Low risk (Crypto.com, Celsius, etc.)

Don't get me wrong! I also invest some funds in MidasDAO.
In the past, it wouldn't happen to me as I'm the kind of miner that sold all my mining profits right after coins hit my wallet at the market price, not even trade moreover bag the coins. For the last two years, I'm trying something new, using mining profits to invest (even bets - lol). I adopted my method and effort on coins research to this new thing, such as doing deep research on projects based on many factors, comparing one to others, calculating A to Z, classifying the risk, and so on.

In the case of DAOs/Rebase projects - supply inflation, printing money/tokens (bond sale - rebase), and high APY, are indeed identically to the Ponzi scheme.

But who cares? As long as it's driving us to profits

Oh boy! That's a less precise thought to invest that might lead us to the losses, I mean, we're here in the crypto spaces, the tech spaces, measurable spaces where we can find a dozen variables to measure. Let's say understanding how DAOs project generating high APYs. Bond sales - Rebase - auto Compound are the answer for this. The bond sale is an attractive way to get investors to buy tokens at a "discounted" price, it'll trigger protocol to utilize rebase mechanism to adjust staked tokens to make them equal to outstanding tokens. Since bonders get tokens, s(staked)tokens generated by rebase process will be protocol profits and distributed to Stakers as a reward, auto compound to Stakers' fund.

Then how's this high APY generated?
Rebase mechanism along with multiple compounding periods that happen can explain it!

OHM and forks use general annual return/APY equation with x variable adjusted. Its adjustment tends to increase the variable number as the periodic rate is 3 times a day.

  source: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/apy.asp

Where:
  r= period rate
  n= number of compounding periods

r/n example, one year of our deposit interest was 10%, and it was compounded quarterly (4 times a year), it'll translate to r/n value as:

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10%/4 or,
  (10/100)/4 or,
  0.1/4

This equation is purposed to find a percentage of interest for every compounding period from a total of 10% annually. This r/n equation translated to rebase rate on OHM/forks' APY formula:

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r/n= rebase rate
= (total supply x reward rate)/total stacked

Same as above, this equation is purposed to find the percentage by which our staked token balance increases on the next epoch (rebase period/around 8 hours)

"n" (number of compounding periods) shows how many compounding occurs per year. Since compound interest is added periodically on every epoch (rebase period/around 8 hours/3 times a day) value of "n" be tripled (365 x 3 = 1095) - That's how OHM/Fork projects generated high APYs. Let's applied to the formula!

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APY= (1 + r/n)^n - 1
   = (1 + (rebase rate)^n - 1
   = (1 + (rebase rate)^1095 - 1

Isn't that make sense?
All these things are protocol mechanisms, we're not talking about conventional things.

What about control of supply and token price?
Hey, there are buyback and burn mechanisms, and also treasury managing related to it.

Let's back to your strategy!
As I said above, I also join MidasDAO as you do. I have standard points to rate and classified any project based on a few things set. Let's say I need to get at least 7-9 from 10 points to decide to invest or not in the researched project, in the case of MidasDAO, this one can also be a reference as a part of measurement factors:

Quote from: gomeZLTC on February 09, 2022, 11:57:38 PM

Quote from: perri on February 08, 2022, 03:47:56 PM

In addition, it's a great way to test new, and maybe more obscure projects with "house money" (Reimagined finance, InsureDAO genesis event etc.)

Strategy seems nice, but as others have stated - more risk, more return and vice versa. I actually did InsureDAO gen event (wish me luck)
Will next look into Reimagined Finance + Cronje is releasing his baby soon! (Excited Tongue

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Reimagined Finance is a platform taking out the cumbersome nature of handling DeFi investments that fits investors of all kinds, starter to pro, conservative to risk-taker investors. Reimagined Finance is MidasDAO's official treasury advisor, and it'll make me add 2 or 3 points for MidasDAO on my scoring board.

This is might be good to be a reference, how Reimagined Finance evaluating a MidasDAO: (not as good as mine, of course)
https://reimaginedfi.medium.com/refi-farming-strategy-update-be7e21737469

This is not financial advice for sure! I just want to share my standpoint, I mean, we can't easy to judge whether something's good or not without knowing more about it.

----------ho dup!

Quote from: soureden on February 09, 2022, 07:41:34 PM

More risk more gain or more gain is greed.

actually, the secret of winning on such platforms is whether you take risks or not. you are absolutely right.

Quote from: soureden on February 11, 2022, 07:18:52 PM

There is a rule in all investment materials. Never, ever invest while rising. Investment planning can be done during the decline or while cruising on a horizontal line for at least 3 months.

Ok, I'm with you! Wink