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I was part of class of ‘21. Too late for Defi Summer but was lucky enough to catch some windfall around May and studied the market since. I tried to follow accounts based on authenticity and it usually lead me to good and profitable plays. Of course mistakes were made but I kept and followed two good advice from probably @Pentosh1 or @HsakaTrades: 1. Make sure your portfolios never go to 0 because you can always live to fight another day. 2. There are many ways to profit in the market but you got to find your edge and if you happen to be profitable working in projects on a salary then THAT IS YOUR EDGE. Which happened to be mine. I went all in around late ‘22 and it was the best decision of my life so far. For someone who had been working a shitty corporate job, it’s normal for my bank account to never see more than $500. I made 6 figs throughout and traveled around then quit the market around this time last year because working on communities you help build from the ground up then realizing the everyone from VCs to founders to KOLs were just rinsing their followers and holders for pennies is the biggest redpill for me. That and the degen parties where everyone just flaunts how much they made or how important they are. Why can’t the metrics be: “How many people you helped?” Or “How many lives have you changed?”. I wouldn’t reach as far or made how much as I did if it wasn’t for the handful of genuinely good humans I can call my friends in this market where being selfish means more profit. May this life continue to give you blessings, you know who you are. If you know me and worked with me before, you know I never kept any alpha and I’d always, always tried to give equal opportunities to everyone who needs help and get you paid. Even if there’s no profit for me. Shit, that’s not even part of my angle. There were a lot of beggars and leeches and backstabbing bullshit but I’d rather help those who shared the same grit and give them a chance to earn a living. That’s why the axie scholarship model means the world to me because it gave an equal playing field to those without privilege. I said to myself if this is the path for me, to help people, then I’ll gladly give my 120%. That said, the only thing I would tell whoever is reading so far is to pay close attention to @WallStreetMoon. I said I quit the market but I never said I wasn’t in the time chamber like Goku in Dragonball Z. Photo from Singapore in a side event on Solana Breakpoint ‘24.
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🪽 Musings on S-Tier Tokenomics 🪽 cBTC = Chocolate Bitcoin cETH = Chocolate Ether ORB = Closed-Loop NAV Core CHOCOLATE = Zero-Dilution Black Hole A small window into the Void: The Protocol restoring NAV on Uniswap V2 is likely to outperform even standard NAV increases. It's an accelerant that can boost our NAV much higher in reality. Consider that people toilet paper hand native BTC and ETH on their own. They self-defeat. This week alone was full of hacks and people getting spooked. Unrelated to us at all, people may begin dumping BTC and ETH at any time. In our Protocol, they're holding our cBTC and cETH variant instead. They begin clearing our CoW Redemption Desk at current NAV: Swapping [cBTC and cETH] for [BTC and ETH], which they then dump for USD. Or perhaps they're impatient and need liquidity to chase some new donkey shitter. It's irrelevant. Meanwhile, our Protocol is chugging along just dandy. Nothing has happened other than human psychology. For proof of this effect in live markets, study historic stETH and WBTC NAV discounts despite 100% backing. For us, it's a feature that weaponizes time, patience, and boredom. ∙ 🗡️ Mechanics 🗡️ 🍫 1. CoW Redemption Desk gets emptied (which are really just resting Limit Orders at current NAV). 🍫 2. Impatient sellers then start dumping into Uniswap V2 liquidity, pushing cBTC and cETH below NAV even though our Treasury still holds 100% of the backing. 🍫 3. Our resting limit orders below NAV begin triggering at, for example, 0.90, 0.88, 0.86 to capitalize on the blood. These are instant 11.11%, 13.64%, and 16.28% gains, respectively, for the Protocol. Nevermind the Orb. Why? Because a seller just surrendered 1.00 of Treasury claim for 0.86. We burn their cBTC and cETH immediately, and that 0.14 profit remains in the ecosystem, permanently raising the NAV backing for all remaining Wizards. This can legit equal several MONTHS of Orb NAV increases captured in a single transaction, fueled by pure human psychology. 🍫 4. If Uniswap V2 is still sitting anywhere below NAV when we go to refill the CoW Redemption Desk, we simply sweep Uniswap V2 back to NAV first, burn that debt too, and put the remainder on the CoW Desk. Rinse and repeat. 🍫 5. What if other users place their own limit orders below NAV to compete with us? You mean...free liquidity? Adoption? User support? These are good things. 🍫 6. When the dust settles and new buyers want in: cBTC and cETH supply is capped forever after Genesis. There is no mint function. Our CoW Desk is a one-way redemption desk. The Treasury only buys and burns cBTC and cETH. We never sell them back. Every discounted exit we bought and burned permanently shrank the supply while ratcheting NAV higher. When new buyers want in, their only option is buying on the open market, pushing Uniswap V2 above NAV. Panic sellers fund our NAV going down + New buyers bid a shrinking supply going up. 🍫 7. CHOCOLATE cBTC and cETH holders are happy simply outperforming DeFi. All excess above their target NAV growth is diverted straight into CHOCOLATE for relentless buybacks & burns. Every time an impatient seller gets arbitraged below NAV: = fewer cBTC and cETH left to retire = stronger NAV backing = less work the Orb must perform, freeing up even more capital for CHOCOLATE Future Orbs (cBTC2, cETH2) become additional streams grinding the CHOCOLATE supply towards zero. cBTC and cETH are SS-Tier. CHOCOLATE is SSS-Tier.
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We're up many green candles since this Article was published whilst everybody else is getting rekt. And I'll pull a silent 10,000x - 100,000x price pump in front of your face. Heavenly Busted. I have no need to share the ticker with you. You greatly overestimate your own importance. You're useless and can easily be replaced by stronger investors who see the same things I do. On a technical level, it's a killshot to two established protocols. I'm genuinely impressed. My tentative goal (factors may change) is to seize a dominant supply stake and airdrop it to our own Division Ranks (Empyrean - Dawn). Rank matters greatly. This way, our ecosystem can have its own pet blockchain. And why not? It doesn't challenge The Holy Trinity at all. My dream is to resurrect "priced out" for that Memory Lane Nostalgia. It's not enough that my enemies should fail, their leprosy hands must not hold the same assets as me. SHA256 HASH: d14c92892558c64779b098b28a9b894921f5c9c45bb47859350a6fcd108a2aa7
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Some people who attempt this will catch a bullet in their brain. P2P is more dangerous in 2026 than it ever was, and the legal status is banned in multiple jurisdictions. Trusted contacts are formed over a long time frame-- some from the Local Bitcoins / Local Monero days. These merchants scale by word of mouth and vetting only. CT has nothing to "cash out", so it's Live Action Role Play anyhow.
> be me, hold crypto in EU > want to sell but don't want to pay double digit% tax > go to a chinese restaurant to eat my stress away > hear from fellow chinese who also hold crypto that there's no reason to pay these taxes because there is a way > laoban tells me of his cousin in eastern europe who also has chinese restaurant > i go to eastern europe since i had work there anyways and check out this cousin's restaurant > his chinese restaurant is also a: • currency exchange shop • job bulletin board • tour guide/concierge service • visa/immigration assistance • food import/export business • crypto buy/sell shop • a chinese restaurant (real) > inquire about the crypto part > "oh yeah we can do up to 500k-1m U for cash euro but you have to let us know in advance" > how much in advance? > at least a day > charlie_kirk_ijusthitthejackpot.mp3 starts playing > brain starts thinking: wait i cant take that much cash on me lol cant even do 20k cuz customs! > chinese guy: "oh we have contact who can give you transfer cash door to door delivery in EU its no problem" > who? > oh its the laoban from the first restaurant > mfw
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The absolute goat
Replying to @tbaszt
Gabe replies all the time.
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Remember if someone does you a good deed or favor you have an obligation to pay it forward. Make it a point to spread positive vibes 🙏
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It’s a spiritual war homie. Christ is King 🙏
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Musical chairs but with life changing money
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Class of '26 getting rinsed on RH. A tale as old as time. The 6-7 PnLs you are seeing all over the timeline are built by mountains of these portfolios in massive REDs. If you managed to get lucky or have insider information, don't be greedy and make sure to stack The Holy Trinity, BTC/ETH/USDT.
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you are about to walk into the most abundant balanced wealthy and successful period of your life. you naturally attract good fortune and you are wealthy in more ways than one. give yourself permission to prosper, and have the power to build the life that you desire
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My normie friend is asking if he should start buying bitcoin. Are we so fucking back? No brother, see you at 40k. 🤝🫡
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prediction markets and sportsbooks have paid billions in advertising to achieve this. the biggest celebrities and influencers are involved. brokerages are including sports betting. how is anyone surprised by this?? it's literally the plan lmao.
Gen Z is moving money from stocks to sports betting in wealth plans, 52% of them have redirected inv funds to sports betting and quarter of them treat sports betting as a deliberate part of their long-term financial plan, according to survey from Betterment. Wow.
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Holy fuck the Leopold guy worked at FTX and he managed to cook everyone and their dog in Korea. 💀
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What I hate about House of The Dragon is they purposely drag the story to get more seasons. Dunk and Egg’s story captures the essence of Game of Thrones’ early seasons.
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"AI is making your life more expensive," per CNN
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$6M per episode $20M per episode
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>"If i was running a publicly traded company for a day, I'm hiring straight from the ghetto." Long term winners self-eliminate into BTC • ETH • USD and move on to other things.
if i was running coinbase for a day: i'm hiring straight from the TRENCHES there's a whole generation on CT that got rich, doesn't need a job, and knows exactly what's moving onchain every single day. no resume needed side note: im looking for interns who are already doing great things on the TL, will have ways for people to contribute directly soon this week
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best seat in the house
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❌ WRONG. DONKEY ADVICE. ZachXBT is a brilliant investigator, brilliant OSINT researcher. But he's NOT a security engineer. Crypto is the WORST INDUSTRY to consult on security anything. Getting Rekt™ is the Standard Operating Procedure. Not a day goes by where crypto isn't exploited. And everybody reads the post mortem as if some lesson was learned, only to get exploited again by another exploit they never saw coming. What does that tell you? ARROGANCE. The smartest people working on security are in Web2, not Web3. That is where I defer. Google Project Zero, for example, saved your ass more times than you can count. You just never hear about it. They disclose numerous iOS zero-days that you know nothing of. Do not compare Google Project Zero to your neighbourhood Web3 firm. It's a Porsche to a Unicycle. I have read all your comments. Crypto has an arrogance problem. What business does a KOL have speaking on this subject? 1. Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) Nobody mentioned that the iPhone 17 is unique among ALL iPhones. Why? The iPhone 17 has Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE). Always on. Synchronous mode. HARDWARE level, not software. ALL OTHER IPHONES ARE INFERIOR. You and your donkey ass "muh old iphone", muh lockdown mode, muh just use it to sign, muh muh muh. ENOUGH. Software cannot patch in what the silicon doesn't have. And before you reply muh iPhone 17 is safe, NO! MIE raises the COST of exploitation. It does not remove the attack surface. Apple says this themselves. "Operation Triangulation" already bypassed a hardware mitigation in the wild, through undocumented chip registers nobody outside Apple knew existed. The iPhone 17 is the Minimum Viable Donkey. It is NOT a hardware wallet. 2. PHYSICAL ATTACKS Nobody mentioned Before First Unlock (BFU) vs After First Unlock (AFU). iPhones (and Pixels) have state-of-the-art Secure Elements, stronger than off-the-shelf chips found in hardware wallets. This is true, but it's not the reality. It's only true if the iPhone is in BFU state with data at rest. ...But to sign a transaction you have to UNLOCK the phone. Congrats, you're now in the vulnerable AFU state. Widely available forensic tools (your local police station has them) extract data from iPhones and Pixels TODAY, yes even the latest models in their AFU state. When was the last time you turned off your phone? Exactly. 99.99% of people are running the AFU state. Contrast that to a hardware wallet whose keys never leave the signing boundary. Unlocked or not. The safest state for a phone is OFF, which is useless to you as you need to sign. 3. REMOTE ATTACKS This is where you will get utterly destroyed and cry on Twitter after losing all your money. You have NO defence against zero-click exploits (with many more to come): KISMET - NSO Group FORCEDENTRY - NSO Group FINDMYPWN - NSO Group PWNYOURHOME - NSO Group ENDOFDAYS - QuaDream BLASTPASS - NSO Group OPERATION TRIANGULATION - Unknown GRAPHITE - Paragon Solutions Muh dedicated device, muh one app. DONKEY. The attack surface is the whole ass phone. Next, the following run independent firmware alongside iOS, each with their own attack surface. You can't "harden" these: Baseband/Modem WiFi Chipset Bluetooth SIM Card eSIM NFC UWB inb4 muh sandboxed. Exploits chain over boundaries. A hardware wallet gives you a TRUSTED DISPLAY. You verify the transaction on a separate device from the compromised host. Muh Phone = Host and signer are the SAME device. If it's cucked, the attacker controls what you SEE and what you SIGN. You're going to lose all your money. The list of zero-click exploits documented against iPhones keeps growing, many of which are hoarded. Every iOS update patches numerous security holes you knew nothing of. There have been ZERO documented cases of funds being remotely extracted from a hardware wallet's secure element. ZERO >inb4 muh Ledger bluetooth. The security model already assumes it's hostile. >inb4 muh Ledger Connect Kit, muh Ledger NPM. Both attacks hit the HOST. Software wallets have no defence, and your iPhone wallet IS a software wallet. Ledger users needed to BLIND SIGN. The device told them it couldn't verify the transaction and they signed anyway. >inb4 muh Secure Enclave. An exploited iPhone will lie to you, or just yoink your funds with no action required from you. The Secure Enclave only supports NIST P-256. Bitcoin and Ethereum use secp256k1. Your wallet's signing keys CANNOT live inside it. They live in app memory where the exploit is. You're not ready for that conversation though.
ZachXBT Says Hardware Wallets Are “Garbage,” With Ledger the Worst ZachXBT, one of the crypto industry’s most prominent onchain investigators, said he does not consider current hardware wallets suitable for signing critical transactions or storing large amounts of assets, arguing that a dedicated iPhone used solely for crypto management may be a better option. He singled out Ledger, one of the world’s largest hardware wallet makers, saying frequent Ledger Live updates often disrupt basic functionality.
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“hey it’s me, uh yeah sorry i have to cancel dinner again. it’s uh, it’s uh fable limits just got reset. and im just, im just worried if im not tokenmaxxing while fable is available that we’re going to get feature mogged. yeah maybe its ai psychosis we can talk about it later”
We've reset 5-hour and weekly rate limits for all users.
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