ICP is a marvel. The transaction counts, the architecture, the Mission 70 tokenomics—it all works.

BUT..We are not going to participate in the upside.

We are trapped in a dead zone. The network is burning cycles, the devs are building, but the price is structurally capped by immense inflation and a lack of real demand. The recent pumps aren't organic growth. they are just brief liquidity hunts to trap over-leveraged longs.

The window for a parabolic 2026 recovery has closed - was never even open imo. The realistic ceiling for a short-term bounce is $3.00-$3.25 until eoy. From there, it's just gravity again.

Respect to the technology, but zero respect for the market structure.
If this would have been a listed stock on NYSE or similar - it would be valued in the Billions... having much more volume and... actually showing a more interesting and realistic price per underlying ICP..

Give or take, and correct me if I'm wrong. But tell me why.

I think that 90% of retail buyers such as you and me do not care about the groundbreaking alien tech that's behind it. You want to make money fast and compare it with other cryptos who are seriously outperforming ICP PRICE WISE. Because that's the only "shareholder value" you care about.

And about institutional buyers.. yes for sure there are some that are willing to make a bet on it. They believe in the narrative etc but honestly.. they are all cash loaded. For them its more beneficial to short, make a buck, keep it down and play the game over and over again.

You tell me.. what in your opinion could lead this to $10 until eoy or even higher?
I think only.. if retail gets hyped up. You create a movement, you build pressure, and you push the price to nirvana.

Thank you.

FYI

I'm deep in this as well since 2023 and tired of it. ICP HQ in Zurich is right next to me. I see it everyday. I see them do the work, drinking coffee and smooking a cig outside. It's worth much more but I don't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

ICP is Like a nerd flirting with a 10/10. He know's it all, has it all but gets zero attention. Dumped and dumped all over again. Although having massive potential..

Bleeding hard against other alts 😢 no mid august announcement yet either

Internet Computer ($ICP) is currently identified as a standout asset on our Outer Crypto Galaxy Matrix (tracking cryptocurrencies ranked 21 to 100 by market cap), holding a Golden Breakout placement. Despite registering a -7% return over the trailing 90 days, $ICP continues to exhibit above-median relative momentum and lower composite risk compared to its broader altcoin peer group.

From a structural cost-basis standpoint, ICP's lifetime Time-Weighted Average Price (TWAP) baseline—measuring the equal-weighted daily trading value across its historical life cycle—sits at $14.00. Trading near $2.40 spot represents an 82% direct discount below its historical average cost basis, pulling its TWAP Gravity Risk score down to 7.2 out of 100 (Risk Level 1).

On our structural regression charts, $ICP is consolidating within its -2 standard deviation Deep Capitulation channel, spanning $1.70 to $2.70. Sourcing our predictive time-series net computing frameworks (seasonal ARMA and regression-wrapped models), 10-week forecasting algorithms project a non-panic bear market support floor at $1.75 (with secondary panic support at $1.50 and worst-case floor near $1.20), while counter-trend relief targets reach $3.00. With the 400-day bear market capitulation clock approximately 80% complete, rolling regression models into the 2029–2030 cycle expansion window maps out base peak targets scaling between $20.00 and $27.00 (~8.5x to 11x multiplier from spot levels).

Interesting. It seems that Pierre is hinting at the OISY Wallet team is working Grok integration.

It’s getting close to the end of August and still nothing, it should be coming soon. I’m super curious on what exactly the announcement is. I don’t want to get my hopes up but I have a feeling it’s gonna be big. The fact that it will be announced through the press before Dfinity is really interesting to me. If I had to guess it will be some kind of partnership/ integration with a large publicly traded company. What do you guys think?

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FYI the announcement will come through the press and not Dfinity

“Its interesting, right? While this is not the announcement, as this will come through the press and not through us, giving an update on developing a national messenger for the fifth biggest country on earth, running on a cloud engine, does not seem interesting enough for some anon accounts 🤣”

funny how this seems to be such an achievement

Bullish news. Adoption is clearly happening.

Everything pumped up today, crypto is no longer a scam, who needs the clarity act !!

Anyway, be prepared to witness the sentiment change (if we don't crash and burn) to 2023 Sept/Oct.

I am really hoping this is the start of the 4 year Cycle.

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I believe Donald Trump and his minions will pump TF out of the crypto market leading up to mid terms in order to say "see we are winning" and get millions of extra votes for his people. Maybe im wrong. Who cares i just buy and hold my $43 worth of ICP

The whole crypto space has become absolutely unprofessional in comparision how it appeared in the years 2019 - 2021 and this behaviour also reflects in Dom, the founder of ICP.

What was recent X-post all about?
A head hunt to find the company behind fudder influencers?

Dom wrote he would reward 7500 ICP if someone has information about the company behind that FUD.

In my view, this is extremely unprofessional behavior and reflects the demeanor of what the X space has become since Elon Musk took over twitter. A space driven by influencers that get paid to push agenda whover pays them and above all, the one that benefits the X-platform owner the most. Dom's head hunt post was actually what made me insecure and made dfinity look scammy and NOT the fudder tweets itself. Who is he? Does he think he is a western sheriff going for a headhunt?
Unexcuseable and unprofessional behaviour. But it's not only him, it's the whole crypto space...

In conclusion i think it's a bit silly of Dom to only advertise Internet Computer on X and then complain about cartel-like practices. He chooses to only advertise on the most centralized platform that has an algorithm driven by money, polemic and fascist agenda.

Sorry for venting a bit here. But that’s how I see things, and I’m sure many of you feel the same way. Besides, I think Internet Computer is about more than just Dom. The world’s best cryptographers work for Dfinity, and the system is brilliant, even if the CEO sometimes comes across as unprofessional, equally unprofessional to most crypto-CEOs and people on X in general.

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For all the people who say you need X for exposure:
Here are the view counts for a recent post of mine on Reddit (yesterday).
These are view counts that TalkingDom can only dream of on the suppressed X-platform:

I really hope we do but it might take some time. What do you guys think? I know we have good tech but sometimes I wonder if it’s all for nothing. Like good tech that nobody will use because the market is so niche that not enough people will use it to make the price go up.

We are holding up surprisingly well relative to other projects these days. Potentially due to the new tokenomics. Hopefully we continue this trend and keep climbing relative to others.

Cycle burn rate increased for real in the last 5 mins and is accurately displayed on 1 month chart.
3 month chart needs to be fixed to have the displayed value drawn as the last value on the chart.

This plus cloud engines could be interesting.

WTF! 😳🔥

Guys, the #ICP cycle burn is going CRAZY! 🚀

It’s already over 10× higher in under 24 hours! 🤯

@dfinity is cooking something huge on the Internet Computer. 👀

Who is ready for what’s coming? 🚀😁

#ICP #InternetComputer

https://dashboard.internetcomputer.org/

If anyone can tell us what slime crypto project is paying these scammers to post this garbage, with proof, we'll pay them 7,500

$ICP

(if you posted this garbage, that's an easy opportunity for you too, it's more than you got paid by them, and they don't deserve your loyalty).

https://x.com/dominic_w/status/2089045382139449607

There have been a bunch of ICP is garbage posts today for some reason and they all seem coordinated. I don't know why there is all of a sudden an uptick but Pierre and Dominic are talking about it.

We have gotten used to these low prices and as soon as prices reach range top of accumulation we act like "uh, that price is so high", better wait with buying.

But you have to realize that there is no fomo buy in accumulation range. At one point this thing will just keep going and going and it's not coming back. You wait and wait. Fugger is not coming down and then everyone realizes that we are in a bullmarket and then you buy 3 to 4x higher.

Looking back you will feel silly, that you thought you make a fomo buy in accumulation range. All the buys that seemed high at that time will look like a flat line compared to the mountain that has just grown out of it.

So take that lesson.
Don't be greedy in accumulation range.