It seems prediction markets could make this a reality.
Albanians hedging their quarterly coke margins and seize risk via poly lol imagine
More ballsy sized smuggling, more liquidity and massive bets made by low ranking members with some inside info / sabotage
One day..
DeFi has a product market fit when drug smugglers can buy trust-minimized insurance for their shipments and retail speculators can gamble on the price of cocaine in Australia the same way they do with the price of oil in Texas.
Introducing Cokex exchange! x102 lev futs
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Vix retweeted
It wouldn't be a normal day on X if you weren't reminded that you have no chance trading lmao.
I am now going to head to the nearest ballpark and tell some kids they have no chance at making it in the big leagues, they need to see these attrition rates!
Vix retweeted
Some of you guys should be forced to work construction for a few weeks so you can understand the value of a dollar
I’d pay to watch you use a sledgehammer
You’re all so keen on talking shit about people who are supposedly beneath you in society
Buddy you made money by being an influencer and taking advantage of your followers
That’s all you are, a shit influencer
if jpow doesnt move this 1 way or the other im dming him the location of the local tallest building
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If i were to play this personally, I'd add one more OTM call leg and mess with the sizing.
Don't really see a better play rn if your view is we're still bull, saves you the funding payments atleast
Kind of the perfect set up for a grind higher with exposure for a HTF breakout
The trade:
Buy a low strike, sell two middle strikes, buy a high strike.
If you’re projecting a grind up, you can shift the butterfly higher:
• buy 112k call, sell two 117k calls, buy 122k call
• profit: Breakevens at 113.1k and 120.8k. Max profit at 117k
You're selling premium at the center, while managing risk with the wings. As spot grinds toward 117k, the 112k call gains intrinsic while the 117k sold calls collect theta.
When premiums are cheap, 7-14 DTE make sense.
If expensive? Extend to Nov/Dec to make use of the good deal.
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remember when this absolute unit pumped btc on okex derivs for a month, quarterly futs slipped deep, he got liqd for mils and came to okex hq with a bottle of rat poison threatening to end his life
iirc there was a resolution to this and people were made whole
How’s everyone’s life going?
I’m not here to mock anyone — I just want to speak one last time about the topic of “XX Life.”
Everyone’s life is full of drama and brilliance, and every exchange has its own style and philosophy.
But I’ve always believed this: neutrality for a crypto exchange is not just professional ethics — it’s a legal boundary.
“Fired the shot” that took down FTX may have succeeded in eliminating a competitor,
but what followed wasn’t an expansion of their own market share —
it was a systemic collapse of the entire industry, and a series of even more dramatic “lives.”
In that chain reaction, there were no real winners.
When an exchange steps directly onto the field —
creating worthless tokens through multiple affiliated identities,
openly or covertly hyping and pumping,
using pyramid-style tactics to exaggerate isolated “get-rich” stories
and luring users into emotional, blind speculation —
it ultimately destroys not just trust in the industry,
but also itself.
The “OKX Life” has never been a memecoin.
It’s a real twelve-year journey in the crypto industry —
one filled with challenges, crises, and countless lessons.
We’ve seen heroes rise and fall,
and through it all, we’ve learned the value of staying calm and focused.
No matter how noisy the world becomes,
OKX will always stay true to its original mission —
to use crypto and blockchain to make the world better.
Every user who trusts and stays with OKX
is an irreplaceable part of this “OKX Life.” 🙏
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Glad to see everyone who called this was actively tweeting every 5 seconds throughout the nuke, while managing their positions
never change CT
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market been going up and down long before anyone here been alive and will be long after we're gone
take from it what you're able to, it's not life or death
U login, u trade, u close, u loggout, u come back another day and do the same.
Its a job. Market gives hundreds of ops each day to make money. It goes up down or in fucking circles while u sleep, who tf cares.
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Month later for BTC, nothing really has changed in my view. Compounding continue and the countdown now begins for POC builds up here. Watch the volume delta within.
Will start to add on any h8+ and hold through the highs.
117k tap and run to low range was a nice touch. gl
Vix retweeted
Prediction markets did 180% more volume than Solana memecoins last week.
(image courtesy: @MovieTimeDev)
While there is exponential growth, there is no one stop shop offering discoverability, aggregation AND a pro-grade terminal for PMs currently.
Enter Converge.
Bros crashing out instead of paying someone to figure it out for him.
You should put equal effort into tax avoidance as you do your primary income, since it's such a large portion
Expect to pay a penalty once every several years
Why work hard and then just give away half?
just got my official tax numbers i genuinely don’t understand how anyone gets rich without selling a company for 9 figures or moving to puerto rico this is actually insane im being scammed. congrats on all the profit and working so hard to make this money you now owe us FIFTY FOUR PERCENT of everything. FIFTY FOUR? oh ya short term capital gains tax is MORE congrats on not bagholding the garbage scam that is the american stock market to zero you now owe us MORE. not just fifty but FIFTY FOUR and go fuck yourself that’s what you get for living in california. how does ANYONE LIVE HERE? what do they even spend the money on? LA is disgusting the streets are an overrun disaster and i just spent $6 and fifty fucking cents on a 12 oz iced americano. how can ANYONE afford a $6.50 coffee and pay FIFTY FOUR percent capital gains tax? they can’t. they’re either not drinking the coffees or they’re not paying the taxes or they’re barely surviving. and i know for a FUCKING FACT THEYRE DRINKING THE COFFEES I SEE IT. i feel like my manhood has been violated when i received these numbers. i know im supposed to do the whole “how grateful am i to be paying this muc-“ FUCK THAT. GRATEFUL to pay for gavin newsome to spend $100k at WALLYS? even better i thought to myself fuck that i’m moving to new york city anyways who cares. i looked up the numbers. FORTY EIGHT PERCENT CAPITAL GAINS TAX????? what i really don’t understand is how this isn’t a daily conversation on here?? if you were paying 54% and i mean ACTUALLY PAYING IT i can assure you there’d be public outrage. so is just nobody paying??? are all of you scamming?? i need to take some time off to really digest the implications of this man
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