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Banff retweeted
This trader got 1,021,289 HYPE in the hyperliquid genesis airdrop
$2.04m at the first trade. $87.41m today
he's still long hype at 10x, up $4.58m on that alone
but the trade i'd watch is on entropy:
he's been short anthropic since late august
opened at a $2.07t valuation, it's at $1.73t now, +$78,797
longs even paid him $9,190 in funding while he waited
anthropic is the company behind claude. entropy lets you trade it before the ipo, long or short
0:04 in the video is that exact position
his full book, live: entropy.io/profile/0xf517639…
would you short anthropic before the ipo?
This wallet got 474,719 HYPE in the hyperliquid genesis airdrop
at the first trade that was $949k
at today's price it's $41.79m
2 weeks ago his debank showed $44.37m, now it's $48.46m
you'd think a guy like that stopped working
instead he's on entropy every day, making markets on anthropic and sandisk
his last 24h on entropy:
2,560 trades, $1.96m volume
94% of it from limit orders he leaves in the book
buys and sells almost 50/50
he isn't betting on direction, he's the one quoting both sides
that's 7% of all entropy volume coming from one wallet
so if you bought pre-ipo anthropic there today, there's a real chance he sold it to you
His positions update live here
pro.entropy.io/?r=banff_eth
This trader got 1,021,289 HYPE in the hyperliquid genesis airdrop
$2.04m at the first trade. $87.41m today
he's still long hype at 10x, up $4.58m on that alone
but the trade i'd watch is on entropy:
he's been short anthropic since late august
opened at a $2.07t valuation, it's at $1.73t now, +$78,797
longs even paid him $9,190 in funding while he waited
anthropic is the company behind claude. entropy lets you trade it before the ipo, long or short
0:04 in the video is that exact position
his full book, live: entropy.io/profile/0xf517639…
would you short anthropic before the ipo?
This wallet got 474,719 HYPE in the hyperliquid genesis airdrop
at the first trade that was $949k
at today's price it's $41.79m
2 weeks ago his debank showed $44.37m, now it's $48.46m
you'd think a guy like that stopped working
instead he's on entropy every day, making markets on anthropic and sandisk
his last 24h on entropy:
2,560 trades, $1.96m volume
94% of it from limit orders he leaves in the book
buys and sells almost 50/50
he isn't betting on direction, he's the one quoting both sides
that's 7% of all entropy volume coming from one wallet
so if you bought pre-ipo anthropic there today, there's a real chance he sold it to you
His positions update live here
pro.entropy.io/?r=banff_eth
This wallet got 474,719 HYPE in the hyperliquid genesis airdrop
at the first trade that was $949k
at today's price it's $41.79m
2 weeks ago his debank showed $44.37m, now it's $48.46m
you'd think a guy like that stopped working
instead he's on entropy every day, making markets on anthropic and sandisk
his last 24h on entropy:
2,560 trades, $1.96m volume
94% of it from limit orders he leaves in the book
buys and sells almost 50/50
he isn't betting on direction, he's the one quoting both sides
that's 7% of all entropy volume coming from one wallet
so if you bought pre-ipo anthropic there today, there's a real chance he sold it to you
His positions update live here
pro.entropy.io/?r=banff_eth
Anthropic lists in about 3 weeks. if you want in before that, there are two real places to trade it on hyperliquid
i pulled the numbers on both
78% of all anthropic open interest sits on @entropyIO: $57m, vs $16m on trade.xyz
here's why i think the money ends up there:
> the price is the valuation. 1,880 on entropy means $1.88T, the same number the ipo headlines use. no share-count math
> the spread was 0.5 bps vs 4.2 bps when i checked, so you lose less on every entry and exit
> up to 15x leverage vs 10x
> more volume too: $11.6m vs $8.8m in the last 24h
it's also where the action is. the $13.7m whale and the 15 shorts betting against him that i've been tracking all trade anthropic on entropy
if you want to watch the ipo get priced in real time, this is the market:
entropy.io/trade/io:ANTH?r=b…
Banff retweeted
Anthropic lists in about 3 weeks. if you want in before that, there are two real places to trade it on hyperliquid
i pulled the numbers on both
78% of all anthropic open interest sits on @entropyIO: $57m, vs $16m on trade.xyz
here's why i think the money ends up there:
> the price is the valuation. 1,880 on entropy means $1.88T, the same number the ipo headlines use. no share-count math
> the spread was 0.5 bps vs 4.2 bps when i checked, so you lose less on every entry and exit
> up to 15x leverage vs 10x
> more volume too: $11.6m vs $8.8m in the last 24h
it's also where the action is. the $13.7m whale and the 15 shorts betting against him that i've been tracking all trade anthropic on entropy
if you want to watch the ipo get priced in real time, this is the market:
entropy.io/trade/io:ANTH?r=b…
Anthropic lists in about 3 weeks. if you want in before that, there are two real places to trade it on hyperliquid
i pulled the numbers on both
78% of all anthropic open interest sits on @entropyIO: $57m, vs $16m on trade.xyz
here's why i think the money ends up there:
> the price is the valuation. 1,880 on entropy means $1.88T, the same number the ipo headlines use. no share-count math
> the spread was 0.5 bps vs 4.2 bps when i checked, so you lose less on every entry and exit
> up to 15x leverage vs 10x
> more volume too: $11.6m vs $8.8m in the last 24h
it's also where the action is. the $13.7m whale and the 15 shorts betting against him that i've been tracking all trade anthropic on entropy
if you want to watch the ipo get priced in real time, this is the market:
entropy.io/trade/io:ANTH?r=b…
This trader has 42 open positions and every single one is green
i scan hyperliquid whale wallets every day. last week i found the $13.7m anthropic bull who's now down $754k. this guy is the opposite
most traders try to catch the next pump. he bets against the coins that already had theirs
his whole system in one line:
wait for the hype to die, short it with low leverage, let it bleed for months
what he's holding right now:
> STRK: shorted at $0.104, now $0.046. +$229k
> SAND: $0.070 → $0.047. +$36.9k
> TRUMP: $2.41 → $1.67. +$34.6k
> MELANIA: $0.137 → $0.084. +$23.8k
> WLD: $0.537 → $0.433. +$18.7k
his worst open position: +$480
in the last 30 days, about 90% of the trades he closed were winners. +$853k, #9 on entropy's 30-day leaderboard
if you bought TRUMP the day he shorted it, you'd be down 31% right now. the coins people bag-hold are the coins he gets paid on
42 positions → 42 green → +$521k unrealized → $5.88m made on hyperliquid all-time
look at the second screenshot. that's his positions sorted from worst to best. the worst one is still green
you can see everything he holds, live, here:
entropy.io/profile/0x888e000…
send this to your friend who's still holding TRUMP
which coin do you think he shorts next?
This whale bet $13.7M that anthropic would go public. today anthropic filed for its ipo. he's down $754k
i found his wallet 4 days ago while scanning 2,067 of the biggest whale wallets on hyperliquid
everyone today is reading anthropic's s-1. i've been reading the wallets
anthropic isn't public yet. but on entropy, a crypto exchange, you can already bet on what it'll be worth when it lists. 1 point = $1B of valuation
how he got here:
-> sep 1: starts buying at a $1.93T valuation
-> sep 9: anthropic runs to $2.36T. his first buys are up over 20%. he doesn't sell
-> oct 15: anthropic drops ~9% in two days. he buys $2.5m more on the way down
-> oct 19-25: adds another $4.4m
-> today: the ipo filing hits. the price spikes to $1.98T, then crashes to $1.86T in 15 minutes
-> right now: $13.7m long, down $754k
on the other side, 15 whales are short. 14 of them are in profit
this is the most expensive lesson in trading: you can be right about the news and still lose money
he called the ipo, but the market had already priced it in, so when the news finally came there was nobody left to buy
$244k -> $9.6m -> $13.8m -> -$754k on the day his bet came true
look at the 15 minute candle on the chart. that's $124B of valuation getting repriced while people were still reading the headline
and it's not over. anthropic reportedly lists in ~3 weeks at $1.5T-$2T
the market sits at $1.88T. if it prices at $1.5T the shorts make ~20%
if it pops after listing, he gets it all back. every headline until then will move this market
you can watch his position live here:
entropy.io/profile/0x9a80d88…
send this to the friend who always buys right after the good news
with 3 weeks left, would you take his side or the 15 whales against him?
This whale bet $13.7M that anthropic would go public. today anthropic filed for its ipo. he's down $754k
i found his wallet 4 days ago while scanning 2,067 of the biggest whale wallets on hyperliquid
everyone today is reading anthropic's s-1. i've been reading the wallets
anthropic isn't public yet. but on entropy, a crypto exchange, you can already bet on what it'll be worth when it lists. 1 point = $1B of valuation
how he got here:
-> sep 1: starts buying at a $1.93T valuation
-> sep 9: anthropic runs to $2.36T. his first buys are up over 20%. he doesn't sell
-> oct 15: anthropic drops ~9% in two days. he buys $2.5m more on the way down
-> oct 19-25: adds another $4.4m
-> today: the ipo filing hits. the price spikes to $1.98T, then crashes to $1.86T in 15 minutes
-> right now: $13.7m long, down $754k
on the other side, 15 whales are short. 14 of them are in profit
this is the most expensive lesson in trading: you can be right about the news and still lose money
he called the ipo, but the market had already priced it in, so when the news finally came there was nobody left to buy
$244k -> $9.6m -> $13.8m -> -$754k on the day his bet came true
look at the 15 minute candle on the chart. that's $124B of valuation getting repriced while people were still reading the headline
and it's not over. anthropic reportedly lists in ~3 weeks at $1.5T-$2T
the market sits at $1.88T. if it prices at $1.5T the shorts make ~20%
if it pops after listing, he gets it all back. every headline until then will move this market
you can watch his position live here:
entropy.io/profile/0x9a80d88…
send this to the friend who always buys right after the good news
with 3 weeks left, would you take his side or the 15 whales against him?
Anthropic has filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC related to its proposed IPO.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/s1-sec
Legal disclaimer: A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the SEC but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold, nor may offers to buy be accepted, prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This post does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
i scanned 2,067 of the biggest hyperliquid wallets to see who's betting on the anthropic ipo
15 of them are short. only 7 are long, and one wallet alone is 78% of the whale money on the long side
> 14 of the 15 shorts are in profit, over +$1m combined
> 5 of the 7 longs are underwater, -$1.2m combined
> between them, the short wallets have made ~$99m on hyperliquid
the lonely bull is the wallet i posted about yesterday. he holds a $13.7m long on anthropic's pre-ipo market on @entropyIO, he's down over $700k, and he still hasnt sold a single contract
you can check out his position here entropy.io/profile/0x9a80d88…
on the other side is @NMTD8, who has made ~$30m on hyperliquid and traded $15.5b. he shorted anthropic at a $2.07T valuation
so the traders with the best track records are betting anthropic's $2T price tag is too high and one wallet is betting $13.7m that it isnt
anthropic's ipo filing could drop any day. curious which side folds first
$23m hyperliquid whale is betting $13.8m on the anthropic ipo
He's holding a $13.8m long on anthropic's pre-ipo market on @entropyIO, which tracks what anthropic will be worth when it lists. that's almost 30% of all open longs there
his wallet is worth around $23.7m, and nearly all of it sits on hyperliquid
you can check out his position here - entropy.io/profile/0x9a80d88…
he started building it on sep 1, added $2.5m during the mid october dip, and put in over $4m more in the last 5 days
his average entry is a ~$1.99T valuation. he's down ~$440k right now and still buying every hour
that's a lot of conviction for a company that isn't even public yet
anthropic's public ipo filing is expected any day now, curious to see if he keeps adding before it drops
$23m hyperliquid whale is betting $13.8m on the anthropic ipo
He's holding a $13.8m long on anthropic's pre-ipo market on @entropyIO, which tracks what anthropic will be worth when it lists. that's almost 30% of all open longs there
his wallet is worth around $23.7m, and nearly all of it sits on hyperliquid
you can check out his position here - entropy.io/profile/0x9a80d88…
he started building it on sep 1, added $2.5m during the mid october dip, and put in over $4m more in the last 5 days
his average entry is a ~$1.99T valuation. he's down ~$440k right now and still buying every hour
that's a lot of conviction for a company that isn't even public yet
anthropic's public ipo filing is expected any day now, curious to see if he keeps adding before it drops
Yesterday i said the crowd would run into security stocks after php2shell
it did. on the day the bug went public:
> okta +7.5%
> zscaler +7.4%
> cloudflare +6.7%
> crowdstrike +6.3%
makes sense. amazon caught the first attack 4 days before disclosure, and cloudflare is now counting millions of attempts. everyone wants the shield
but that's the scare trade. the last time ai proved it could do security's job, crowdstrike gave back ~20% in two days
the quieter move is in the labs. anthropic's pre-ipo market on entropy just bounced back to $1.97T, and open interest is up 11% in five days to $45.5m, with the ipo roadshow reportedly starting nov 9
the crowd is buying the patch. i'd rather hold the side that finds the bugs
trade it 24/7 from your wallet:
entropy.io/?r=banff_eth
Yesterday i said the crowd would run into security stocks after php2shell
it did. on the day the bug went public:
> okta +7.5%
> zscaler +7.4%
> cloudflare +6.7%
> crowdstrike +6.3%
makes sense. amazon caught the first attack 4 days before disclosure, and cloudflare is now counting millions of attempts. everyone wants the shield
but that's the scare trade. the last time ai proved it could do security's job, crowdstrike gave back ~20% in two days
the quieter move is in the labs. anthropic's pre-ipo market on entropy just bounced back to $1.97T, and open interest is up 11% in five days to $45.5m, with the ipo roadshow reportedly starting nov 9
the crowd is buying the patch. i'd rather hold the side that finds the bugs
trade it 24/7 from your wallet:
entropy.io/?r=banff_eth
Yesterday AI found a way into 70% of the internet
PHP is the language that quietly runs most websites
a flaw sat inside it since 2012, and for 13 years every
human who looked walked straight past it. openai's and
google's models found it in about a week
the obvious reaction is to buy the companies that sell
protection
a scare this big, so everyone piles into
cloudflare, crowdstrike and the rest. that is what the
crowd always does
here is the edge, and it is the exact opposite
every time ai proves it can do security's job, the market
sells those companies instead of buying them
when anthropic showed one tool that finds and fixes bugs on its own,
crowdstrike dropped almost 20% in two days
the money does not flow to the firms selling the shield.
it flows to the ai labs that just made the shield look old
the catch: you cannot buy openai or anthropic anywhere
they are private. no ticker, no app, no ipo yet.
the one place you can hold both from your own wallet is
entropy, as pre-ipo markets, 24/7. you are buying their
valuation, not their shares, but the number moves the same
the crowd chases the trade that already stopped working.
you get to be early on the one that is
entropy.io/?r=banff_eth
Yesterday AI found a way into 70% of the internet
PHP is the language that quietly runs most websites
a flaw sat inside it since 2012, and for 13 years every
human who looked walked straight past it. openai's and
google's models found it in about a week
the obvious reaction is to buy the companies that sell
protection
a scare this big, so everyone piles into
cloudflare, crowdstrike and the rest. that is what the
crowd always does
here is the edge, and it is the exact opposite
every time ai proves it can do security's job, the market
sells those companies instead of buying them
when anthropic showed one tool that finds and fixes bugs on its own,
crowdstrike dropped almost 20% in two days
the money does not flow to the firms selling the shield.
it flows to the ai labs that just made the shield look old
the catch: you cannot buy openai or anthropic anywhere
they are private. no ticker, no app, no ipo yet.
the one place you can hold both from your own wallet is
entropy, as pre-ipo markets, 24/7. you are buying their
valuation, not their shares, but the number moves the same
the crowd chases the trade that already stopped working.
you get to be early on the one that is
entropy.io/?r=banff_eth
Banff retweeted
you can't buy anthropic stock
people trade it anyway, 24/7
wall street's last price: $965B
the crowd's price right now: $1.89T
same company. 1.96x apart.
first it was a private funding round
then it got listed on a crypto exchange
now $40m+ is riding on it with zero public shares in existence
and today the crowd got nervous
~$45B wiped off anthropic since midnight
anthropic never asked for this market
it prices them anyway
how it works:
on entropy, $ANTH is quoted in billions of valuation
$1,894 on the chart = the crowd thinks anthropic is worth $1.89T
and the crowd doesn't get to be wrong forever
the ipo is the settlement
the day anthropic lists, this price has to meet the real one
lists at $1.5T -> everyone long here was paying for a story
lists at $2.5T -> everyone short fought the biggest ipo of the cycle
one of them is wrong
you can pick a side today. no broker, just a crypto wallet
50% of your trading fees back through my link:
entropy.io/?r=banff_eth
you can't buy anthropic stock
people trade it anyway, 24/7
wall street's last price: $965B
the crowd's price right now: $1.89T
same company. 1.96x apart.
first it was a private funding round
then it got listed on a crypto exchange
now $40m+ is riding on it with zero public shares in existence
and today the crowd got nervous
~$45B wiped off anthropic since midnight
anthropic never asked for this market
it prices them anyway
how it works:
on entropy, $ANTH is quoted in billions of valuation
$1,894 on the chart = the crowd thinks anthropic is worth $1.89T
and the crowd doesn't get to be wrong forever
the ipo is the settlement
the day anthropic lists, this price has to meet the real one
lists at $1.5T -> everyone long here was paying for a story
lists at $2.5T -> everyone short fought the biggest ipo of the cycle
one of them is wrong
you can pick a side today. no broker, just a crypto wallet
50% of your trading fees back through my link:
entropy.io/?r=banff_eth
this is pure f*cking treasure
10 GitHub repos with 525.6k combined stars that turn your laptop into a sci-fi lab
sharper photos. your own google photos. science papers in your language. a chatgpt that runs offline. your own search engine. a memory of everything you've seen. images, video, 3D. and your own AI trained from scratch
01 Upscayl · blurry photo -> sharp, free desktop app
▸ github.com/upscayl/upscayl
02 Immich · your own Google Photos: finds faces, search by what's in the photo
▸ github.com/immich-app/immich
03 PDFMathTranslate · translate science papers, formulas and layout stay put
▸ github.com/PDFMathTranslate/…
04 Jan · a ChatGPT alternative that can run 100% offline
▸ github.com/janhq/jan
05 Vane (ex-Perplexica) · a private answer engine you run yourself
▸ github.com/ItzCrazyKns/Vane
06 screenpipe · records your screen locally so AI can search everything you've seen
▸ github.com/screenpipe/screen…
07 ComfyUI · make images and video on your own machine
▸ github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI
08 Wan2.2 · text -> 720p video on one gaming GPU
▸ github.com/Wan-Video/Wan2.2
09 Hunyuan3D-2 · one photo -> a textured 3D model
▸ github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/H…
10 nanochat · train your own ChatGPT from scratch for about $100
▸ github.com/karpathy/nanochat
the loop:
fix what you have -> find what you saved -> read what you couldn't -> ask without the cloud -> remember everything -> make what doesn't exist -> build the AI itself
all 10 are free and open source
save this, then build your own lab
he had to jump a Formula 1 car while it drove straight at him
not a parked car. not a slow one. the car comes at the ramp at speed and he has to leave the ramp at the exact moment it arrives
go too early and the car passes underneath before he's over it
go too late and he lands on the rear wing, which he describes as razor-sharp, at the moment it's moving toward his body
that's the whole margin. one direction is nothing, the other direction is a blade
before he's allowed to attempt it, he has to land five clean practice jumps beside the moving car. miss one and the safety team pulls the plug on the whole thing
he misses. then he misses again
on one attempt he goes sideways in the air. on another he's convinced he flew too low, watches the replay, and he was nowhere near it
here's the part that gets him:
the wind
every gust changes where his body ends up in the air, and he can't feel how much until he's already committed. he calls it the hardest thing he's ever done mentally, and he isn't talking about the riding
then they tell him there are 30 minutes left on track
wind picking up, safety team watching, one or two attempts left in the entire day
he lands it. first person to ever do it
11M views on a man on a bicycle. no plot, no twist, no edit -> just a question your body answers before your brain does
that's three now. a room with no sound, a bottle with no inside, a bicycle over an F1 car. 31 million views between them, same shape every time
save this. a man spent all day being told the wind might kill him, and then jumped a moving F1 car anyway
a shape with no inside. he filled it with water anyway
pour water in and it stops almost immediately. the air has nowhere to escape, so it just sits there blocking you. tilt it and you get a little more in, then it blocks again
so he put the whole thing in a vacuum chamber
turn it on and the bottle starts bubbling. that's the air being pulled out through the neck, leaving as close to nothing inside as he can get
then he lets the pressure back in, and the water rushes up into the empty space on its own
still not full. so he runs it again, rarefying the smaller pocket of air that's left, and again after that
here's the part that breaks your head:
for a shape to have volume, it has to split the world in two. a ball does that. stretch it however you want, there's always a world inside and a world outside
a Klein bottle has no such line. follow its surface and you never cross a boundary, never pass through a wall, never end up anywhere that isn't the same side you started on
the inside is the outside. so there's nothing there to fill
he filled it anyway
that's the same shape as the room below. no plot, no payoff, just a question your brain won't drop -> can a thing with no inside hold anything at all
two videos, two impossible questions, 20 million views between them. Paone broke down why this format works in the article underneath
save this. the most watched thing today was a shape that shouldn't be able to hold anything, holding water
Banff retweeted
a 20-year-old put $1,000 on Trump saying two specific words on live TV. it paid $95,000
one question: will he say "fake news" this week?
here's the part most people miss:
he wasn't gambling. he was pricing a habit
"Trump says fake news" sounds random if you've never listened to him speak. if you have, it's closer to betting the sun comes up. the market priced a personality trait like it was a coin flip
that's the whole edge -> the crowd prices things by how silly they sound, not by how likely they are
the clip is the best part. he buys it, then can't sit still. pacing outside, checking the stream, staring at the podium. Trump opens his mouth, says it, and the kid comes off the couch
and that exact market runs every single week
the one for August 3-9 is live right now and closes Saturday:
-> "no no no" -> 95%, the crowd treats it as already done
-> "moon" -> 29c
-> "six seven" -> 18c
-> "stupid question" -> 14c
-> "epic fury" -> 13c
-> "karoline" -> 13c
the cheap ones at the bottom are where that edge lives. sometimes the crowd is right and they're genuinely unlikely. sometimes it just prices them low because they sound stupid, and that gap is the entire game
live board here: polymarket.com?via=banff
save this. the biggest edges hide inside the trades everyone else laughs at
a 20-year-old put $1,000 on Trump saying two specific words on live TV. it paid $95,000
one question: will he say "fake news" this week?
here's the part most people miss:
he wasn't gambling. he was pricing a habit
"Trump says fake news" sounds random if you've never listened to him speak. if you have, it's closer to betting the sun comes up. the market priced a personality trait like it was a coin flip
that's the whole edge -> the crowd prices things by how silly they sound, not by how likely they are
the clip is the best part. he buys it, then can't sit still. pacing outside, checking the stream, staring at the podium. Trump opens his mouth, says it, and the kid comes off the couch
and that exact market runs every single week
the one for August 3-9 is live right now and closes Saturday:
-> "no no no" -> 95%, the crowd treats it as already done
-> "moon" -> 29c
-> "six seven" -> 18c
-> "stupid question" -> 14c
-> "epic fury" -> 13c
-> "karoline" -> 13c
the cheap ones at the bottom are where that edge lives. sometimes the crowd is right and they're genuinely unlikely. sometimes it just prices them low because they sound stupid, and that gap is the entire game
live board here: polymarket.com?via=banff
save this. the biggest edges hide inside the trades everyone else laughs at
Banff retweeted
a piano holds 18 tons of string tension. guitar strings snap at 90 kilos
he put guitar strings on a piano anyway
the numbers said it couldn't work, and he listed the reasons before he started:
210 strings to buy. a professional tuner charges around $20 per string, so he was about to do $4,000 of labour by hand, having barely ever restrung his own guitar
the strings are too short for a piano, so he had to tie them together end to end
and not one guitar tuning peg fits a piano. it took him days of searching to find something that would
then he started threading. thinnest guitar string in the spot where the thinnest piano string sits, next one after that, no measurements, no math, just feel
he ran out of strings partway through, because tying them together ate more length than he calculated
but the tied ones rang clean. that was the moment it stopped being a joke
then he tuned all of it the only way he knows how -> a phone app and a guitar pick, string by string, on an instrument built to hold the weight of a small truck
and it played Wonderwall
that's the whole format. no plot, no twist, just a number that says impossible and a guy who does it anyway
save this. a piano that should have torn itself apart played the most overplayed song on earth
unrelated, but worth a read if you're into prediction markets, fresh piece from Boba:
a piano holds 18 tons of string tension. guitar strings snap at 90 kilos
he put guitar strings on a piano anyway
the numbers said it couldn't work, and he listed the reasons before he started:
210 strings to buy. a professional tuner charges around $20 per string, so he was about to do $4,000 of labour by hand, having barely ever restrung his own guitar
the strings are too short for a piano, so he had to tie them together end to end
and not one guitar tuning peg fits a piano. it took him days of searching to find something that would
then he started threading. thinnest guitar string in the spot where the thinnest piano string sits, next one after that, no measurements, no math, just feel
he ran out of strings partway through, because tying them together ate more length than he calculated
but the tied ones rang clean. that was the moment it stopped being a joke
then he tuned all of it the only way he knows how -> a phone app and a guitar pick, string by string, on an instrument built to hold the weight of a small truck
and it played Wonderwall
that's the whole format. no plot, no twist, just a number that says impossible and a guy who does it anyway
save this. a piano that should have torn itself apart played the most overplayed song on earth
unrelated, but worth a read if you're into prediction markets, fresh piece from Boba: