I thought it was the one that sat in the window for a few weeks soaking up uv
This was what I 1st thought as well.
151 SIR
I win.
If you (not you specifically, just in general) like the art as the only reason to buy it why did you decide to buy it when it was pumped to 630? It’s been way cheaper for a long time? And it’s still in print. These are the investor bro type questions that I never seem to find answers to.
I always get “the art is the best it’s ever been bro” and that is it
You can’t know it’s good art until people start paying a lot for it!
Legitimatly seems like people let influencers do a lot of their thinking for them these days. The power of the YouTuber has never been higher
Yeah, it´s pretty wild. It feels like there are two seperate worlds in the Poké-investing scene now. The people that chase ´rare´ cards, and the people that chase ´hype´ cards. The latter is going strong.
Honestly I collect 9s mostly and the 9 market for modern is solid. Such great art, mint, and selling for dirt cheap. They really get overshadowed by the 10 stonk prices and I love it
Binders & 9s stay winning! 
9 moderns must be amazing…I assume little to no premium over raw since 90%+ get 10s nowadays
Sometimes they’re cheaper than raw
Exactly! They basically just go around or a smidge above raw in my experience. Illustration rares can actually be pretty annoying to grade so a lot of those 9s around with people just trying to make the cost back
I could not believe that bitcoin crossed 90k so quickly. Maybe people are trying to move funds around to simplify their riskier assets?
Bitcoin is the king of irrationality, you don’t need to look too hard into why it goes up or down lol.
As I mentioned earlier, I don’t closely track price history. I check the weekly auctions on pwcc, and whenever I spot a card I like and when I have the funds, I place a bid. I did that for a GS Rayquaza as well as for a Vending Ash. Lately, I’ve also been adding a few Tag Team cards to my collection since some have popped up on PWCC, though I wasn’t specifically looking for them (and didn’t see any hype on youtube for them 
).
The average Joe doesn’t realise how significant a landmark 2024 has been for cryptocurrency. The current market cap of bitcoin is now around the $2 trillion mark. Banks and investment funds actually bothering to learn what it is, how it works and why a currency being immutably decentralised is a new fundamental value in and of itself, has led to the creation of multi-billion dollar funds traded as SEC-approved ETFs, pensions and hedge funds integrating crypto into their portfolios, and now entire countries creating national reserves of bitcoin (eg El Salvador, Bhutan, and very likely the US under the Trump presidency). Without wanting to sound like a shiny bald headed cryptobro, I genuinely wish I’d learned more about the likes of Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana, and taken the red pill sooner, because my positions would have been a lot larger. The increase bitcoin’s seen in the last few days to me signals a lot more than general consumer confidence in it. I suspect that there are whole countries making extremely large investments now that a 4-year Trump term has been secured.