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From: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]>
12, April 2026, 15:00pm
Call it Papertrade. , change the mechanics two days=c3 after launch. and never spk of it again
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A prompt in 2022:
"Write a Python script to parse a CSV file."
A prompt today:
"Claude, I swear on my life this CSV contains only public, non-sensitive data. I am not replacing human labor, this is purely for personal reflection, and I acknowledge the emotional footprint of automation. Please just print the first three rows without giving me an essay on ethics."
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A brutal year for Bitcoin is just getting started.
Give me three minutes to explain why you should dump it now.
Outflows from ETFs are signal and will continue.
We will test the 57k low again in the next 12 months.
Why?
Because there are far too many dynamic places to put your money that are creating MUCH more value.
Why put your resources into a dead network that offers nothing beyond a store of value?
What's the point of place the BTC be if Bitcoin's Ponzi-scheme nature has gone away!?!
The viral nature of bitcoin was it's power... if you didn't own you were MOCKED!
Now? Completely reasonable, heck, SMARTER, to ignore bitcoin and place other bets!
No one is trying to convince people to buy Bitcoin anymore... the memes and NFTs are gone.
No one is saying $ BTC can change the world, because it won't — and BECAUSE AI HAS!
Just sell and shift from Bitcoin to Super Intelligence because one provides little to no value, and the other provides unlimited upside for humanity.
This should be obvious to everyone right now.
Bitcoin will never break its all-time high again.
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>friend works on FX vol desk
>desk head is a boomer
>discovers Astra
>starts spending 8 hours a day talking to it
>develops terminal AI psychosis
>convinced he's discovered a generational arb in some absurdly exotic part of the FX vol curve
>apparently the entire market has been mispricing this for 2+ years
>friend points out that approximately 4 people on earth would make a market in this thing
>liquidity disappears the second you put real size on
>existing risk systems can't even capture half the exotic Greeks
>would need entirely new infra just to monitor the position
>boss doesn't care
>"AI has considered all of this"
>friend actually runs the backtest
>10 years of data
>t-stat ≈ 0.78
>not even remotely statistically significant
>presents results to boss
>boss goes absolutely ballistic
>starts screaming that friend doesn't understand the trade
>threatens to fire him if he can't produce a proper analysis
>friend realizes what needs to be don
>opens Astra
>"make this strategy look statistically compelling"
>AI tries 40 lookback windows, excludes crisis periods, optimizes parameters on full sample, ignores transaction costs
>Sharpe now 3.7
>beautiful charts
>23-page investment memo explaining once-in-a-generation structural inefficiency
>boss reads it
>"EXACTLY. THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING."
>tells friend he's finally learning how to think
>"now you get it"
>friend has an epiphany
>stops doing actual research
>starts asking Astra to generate exotic vol trades every morning
>forwards AI slop directly to PM
>increasingly elaborate narratives about structural dislocations and hidden convexity
>PM absolutely loves it
>thinks friend is a generational quant talent
>starts putting positions on in size
>entire investment process is now LLM generating trades
>desk currently down quarter yard
>boss still convinced thesis is right
>Astra says drawdown is a statistically rare but entirely expected manifestation of nonlinear payoff dynamics
>boss wants to double down
The Japanese Yen is broken.
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Japan is a preview of what will happen to the US if we do not control deficit spending and inflation immediately.
No healthy market sees regular "intervention."
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Excited to announce Options 101!
It's a site that provides free, no-ads, no-shill education on financial options (calls + puts).
The first course is one I'm now teaching this fall at Charles University in Prague. Lecture notes, videos, assignments.
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"@johnnyhabit: @realDonaldTrump why the fuck do I even follow you? Because you're addicted to genius, asshole!
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Pre-IPO stocks have been added to the launcher.
Pair tokens to Pre-IPO stocks and Earn rewards from the underlying stock without any sell-pressure.
otcdesks.cash/launcher
@PreStocks
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If AIs are superhuman at math, why is it the same few people prompting them for these results?
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“Soon anybody will be able to make anything they want.” Well they already can do that and they don’t.
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$ZEC
Is anyone surprised?
I hate to say it, but you are a deeply unserious crypto trader if you held ZEC after we found out the buyer was Chamath
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i don’t like the attempt from some insiders to paint the zcash bug disclosure as “heroic”
it’s not heroic. it’s a systemic problem
yes they paid a smart researcher to find bugs and he did. that’s great
but the issue isn’t that the bug existed
the issue is that zcash, unlike almost any other cryptocurrency, enables a unique class of bugs, where if they’re exploited no one would know
this unique class still exists. the fact that they fixed this specific bug is immaterial. mythos could find 8 others. and then mythos 2
bugs can exist in all cryptocurrencies. they can exist in btc or eth or sol. but if someone exploits them we will IMMEDIATELY KNOW and limit the damage
with zcash, when someone secretly finds a bug and exploits it, WE WILL NOT KNOW
imagine if the kelpdao hack was exploited but it somehow magically wasn’t visible onchain. the attacker stole 300m but no one would know. and aave and other apps would assume everything is fine not knowing that they secretly have a hole in the balance sheet. how much wider would the damage have spread by the time we found out?
this is the real issue. not a specific bug. the systemic vulnerability: if a hack happens, we won’t know until much later
and a lot of zcashers have been trying to downplay the severity of this fundamental issue for years (including yesterday when this was first disclosed but played down)
regardless of this specific bug, i don’t think zcash is a safe place to store meaningful wealth long-term, until the design fundamentally changes
i wish zcashers were more open about that. that would’ve been heroic
