u/Junior-Anything4495

Started posting a litRPG serial on RoyalRoad in December, moved advance chapters to Patreon in feb once I had a following built up

here's where I'm actually at, not the survivorship bias version

patrons: 61

monthly revenue: roughly $210 after patreon's cut

royalroad followers: 1,840

average views per chapter on the free tier is 380 to 450, dropping off sharply after chapter 40 or so

rising stars: hit it once for four days in feb then fell, never got back on

61 patrons took about four months to accumulate and growth has mostly flattened the last six weeks post 3 chapters a week free, patrons get access 5 chapters ahead. I know some serials do 5 or 6 chapters a week which apparently matters a lot for royalroad's algorithm, I just can't sustain that pace with a day job

what actually moved the needle was getting featured in a royalroad weekly rec thread bumped follows noticeably for about a week. a tiktok video someone else made about the story, completely unprompted, brought in maybe 15 patrons in two days, more than four months of my own effort. I have no idea how to replicate that and I don't think you can

def not quitting the day job anytime soon obviously but it covers my editor now which feels like a real milestone

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Most of the discourse treats "CEX counterparty risk" as an abstract argument like exchange goes insolvent, gets hacked or a government bans crypto outright. The Binance eu situation is none of those which is what makes it a better test case than the usual examples.

Mica licensing became mandatory for any exchange serving eu users as of today, binance withdrew its greek application about a week before the deadline, reportedly right as the regulator was leaning toward rejecting it with the fit and proper scrutiny tied to the company's own aml/sanctions guilty plea and its founder's criminal history in the US. So the risk that materialized was a single company failing a compliance bar its direct competitors cleared and every user of that specific company eating the consequences regardless of their own conduct.

Its meaningfully different risk shape than what usually gets modeled,it's counterparty specific, correlated entirely to which company you happened to pick and triggered by something almost totally opaque to the end user until it resolves one way or the other.

Worth noting this is also a live advertisement for the RWA perps/onchain brokerage category specifically( not only DeFi) platforms like ostium or hyperliquid doing onchain FX/gold/equity perps exist precisely because broker's licensing status in a jurisdiction you dont control shouldnt gate your ability to hold a position

does an event like this actually move real volume from CEXs to onchain venues or does it just get absorbed by other CEXs

Like just whatever you've held the longest. Doesn't have to be your biggest position or your best performer, could honestly be something you forgot you even had

Mine's some small ETH position from years ago. Wasn't a big buy, wasn't part of any plan, I just never sold it and kind of forgot it existed for a while

Was going through some old transaction history the other day and realized it's quietly survived a bunch of cycles at this point. Survived the whole ""ETH killer"" wave, survived people calling it dead more times than I can count, survived me almost selling it during a dip back in like 2022 for no good reason at all

Funny thing is I think about my other positions constantly. Check them, second guess them, move stuff around every few weeks. This one I just never touch. Kind of forget it's even there half the time honestly

Makes me wonder if that's actually a pattern. The stuff you spend the least mental energy on just quietly sticks around, meanwhile the things you obsess over get traded in and out constantly

Curious if other people have a similar experience here, or if everyone's rotating into new stuff all the time and nothing actually sticks around long enough to become ""the old one"""

I owned a roomba for three years before this and have been using a matic for about two months now and wanted to write something with actual specifics since most of what i found before buying was either a paid review or a one line comment.

so navigation is the biggest difference,the roomba used bump and adjust sensors and basically would lose its map fairly often especially after i moved furniture or it ran low on battery mid clean. The matic uses cameras so its building something closer to a live model of the room rather than reacting to contact.I had fewer stuck incidents and better handling around cables and my cat's water bowl.

Cleaning quality is good in the middle of rooms with either one and the difference is corners and edges where the matic is just more consistent about finishing instead of skipping them. my roomba never mopped at all so i had manually mopped my floors regularly in years. The matic vacuums and mops in the same routine switching automatically depending on the surface, and I havent touched a mop myself in two months and quiet enough.

Now the annoying parts because every review I read before buying conveniently skipped these. Its slower than a roomba so if you are used to a 25 min clean cycle, the matic's pace will bother you for the first week or two. It occasionally misjudges where a thick rug edge starts so I have had a couple of false starts on mopping near my bedroom rug. And at last its genuinely expensive so it costs meaningfully more than a standard roomba.

If you have got pets, rugs or you are just tired of manually mopping two months in I wud say its a real upgrade but if your space is small and mostly clear floors i m not sure the price difference is justified.

Happy to answer specific questions if anyone's on the fence

CZ posted this on X this morning that “its sad to see eu cutting their users off from the best liquidity in the world. Liquidity is the best consumer protection. Hope to see things change in the future."

This comes days after binance withdrew its greek mica application and began notifying eu users that crypto services will stop in their countries from july 1 after failing to secure authorization anywhere in the bloc before the deadline.

Well this reverses the usual argument,the eu's position has been that mica protects consumers by requiring verified compliance, custody standards and accountable management before a platform can serve clients. CZ is arguing access to deep liquidity is itself a form of protection and that losing it is a net loss for eu users regardless of the compliance question.

He doesnt address why the licence actually stalled though ,reports indicate greek , irish, and latvian regulators raised concerns specifically about binance’s past legal history and corporate structure.

Meanwhile platforms that built clean compliance records from day one didnt have this problem. Bitpanda, Kraken and Coinbase already hold EU licences.

Has anyone gotten more specific guidance from binance beyond the general we will contact you messaging and tbh i really want this to pull off?

With Binance pulling its greek licence application and restarting authorization in an unspecified EU country heres a more detailed look at where things stand

**Bitpanda**

Austrian based, holds full MiCA authorization, passported across all 27 EU states and beyond crypto, it also offers stocks, etfs and physically backed precious metals (Swiss vault storage) in one acc. it supports SEPA for EUR deposits/withdrawals and really good option if you want crypto and traditional assets in one place rather than juggling separate platforms.

**Coinbase**

Licensed through Luxembourg, also EU passported. It is one of the most recognized global exchanges, generally considered straightforward for beginners with a wide range of supported coins and decent liquidity on major pairs. Fee structure is a bit higher than some competitors on basic trades unless you use Coinbase Advanced.

**Kraken**

also a confirmed mics authorized ,known for strong security track record and being one of the older, more established exchanges. Its has good range of trading pairs, generally solid for both casual and more advanced traders

**Bitstamp**

One of the longest running European exchanges with smaller coin selection than Binance but historically reliable, good for people who want a simpler, more conservative platform.

**OKX**

It has larger coin selection and derivatives options, more geared toward active traders but there are other great options than okx

If anyones recently moved funds off binance to one of these, sharing how the actual transfer and verification process went would be useful for others navigating this right now