My advice to anyone who has recently made life changing money, or hopes to one day. 1. Recognize when you’ve won. Don’t become so obsessed with making more that you fail to appreciate what you’ve already accomplished. The pursuit of more can turn a life changing win into a never ending game. 2. Don’t risk your freedom chasing another win. Once you’ve made life changing money, your priorities should change. You don’t need to gamble seven figures in memecoins trying to turn a fortune into a bigger fortune. Protect what you’ve built. 3. Stop trying to look rich. Focus on becoming wealthy. Status symbols are liabilities disguised as success. Put your money into productive assets instead. If you don’t know how to invest, keep it simple: diversified index funds, quality individual stocks, and real estate you understand. 4. Enjoy the world without needing to own the most expensive parts of it. Visit the hyped up cities. Enjoy the luxury experiences. Have fun. But understand that you don’t need to live in the most expensive neighborhood or maintain an extravagant lifestyle to prove you’ve made it. Live below your means. Give your money room to grow, and give yourself room to breathe. 5. Know when to walk away. You don’t have to keep trading, chasing the next narrative, or putting your capital at risk just because you made your money in crypto. There’s nothing wrong with taking chips off the table and moving into assets that align with your long term goals. The ultimate goal isn’t to die with the biggest portfolio. It’s to build enough wealth that money no longer dictates how you live. Don’t let the pursuit of more cost you the freedom you’ve already earned.

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Every time I step away from crypto for a few weeks and come back, I realize how absolutely fucking insane this shit is. We’re really all just gambling degenerates pretending this is normal. 💀 Fuck it, I’m in too deep now.

I got cooked on solana:CSocnzcRpgSCr1naKcNTieWZUxb6rABe45j844m7pump 😂

Hodlers are being punished.

$Bitcoin coded.

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I went to sleep, and woke up to solana:CSocnzcRpgSCr1naKcNTieWZUxb6rABe45j844m7pump. When the fuck did this happen?

Pump.fun won.

I’m about to snitch on all you niggas and retire 😂 Disclaimer: This is satire.

Think for yourselves. Practice critical thinking. Question the narratives you’re being sold and ask who actually benefits from you believing them. We waste far too much time blaming platforms and players, allowing people with vested financial interests to manipulate our outrage and redirect our attention away from the real issues. Stop letting people with competing agendas dictate who the villains are. Imagine what we could accomplish if we spent half as much time developing solutions as we do arguing over who’s to blame. The goal shouldn’t be to tear down whoever is winning or pretend one platform is morally superior to another. It should be to build a better ecosystem, one that levels the playing field, aligns incentives, and creates more opportunities for everyone to win.

The vast majority of you are sheep, and your herders are disingenuous hypocrites, serpents and vipers. They tell you one platform is evil while the platform they’re invested in is supposedly the light we need to save crypto. In reality, most are simply promoting a different shade of the same incentives while pretending their preferred platform is somehow morally superior. I don’t think these platforms are evil for trying to make money. They’re for profit businesses, and they’re entitled to build products that generate revenue. The hypocrisy lies in pretending one platform is inherently virtuous while condemning another for operating under similar incentives. The uncomfortable truth is that much of the innovation in this space is extractive by design. Trading is inherently competitive, and in a zero sum market, one person’s gain comes at another’s expense. These platforms aren’t necessarily incentivized to encourage patience, conviction, or long-term holding. They’re incentivized to encourage hyperactive trading, gambling, and constant speculation because that’s what generates revenue. But here’s the part nobody wants to admit, these platforms didn’t create our worst impulses. They simply removed the friction that kept them in check. They gave us the tools to act on our existing human nature faster, more frequently, and at a greater scale. The result is an accelerating cycle of speculation, extraction, and dilution that continues to erode the very culture that made crypto interesting in the first place. And I’m not mad at the broccoli haired kids and their $20K toppers. They’re not the problem. They’ve simply adapted to the incentives of the environment they were handed. You can hate the players all you want, but the players are responding rationally to the game.

thank you cz @cz_binance

Some people accept the world as it is. Others imagine what it could be and dare to make it happen. Sitting here getting a manicure and pedicure in a country we Americans might casually refer to as “third world,” I can’t help but reflect on how unfair life is. The stark contrast between our realities is sitting right in front of me, smiling warmly as she takes care of me. It’s a strange feeling to enjoy a level of comfort that, for so many people, is completely out of reach simply because of the circumstances they were born into. I refuse to accept that the freedom to travel the world, experience different cultures, spend your time as you choose, and wake up without an alarm is a privilege reserved for a fortunate few. Some people inherit wealth. Others inherit opportunity by virtue of the country they’re born in. And others spend years figuring out how to navigate a brutal economic system just to buy themselves a little freedom. Meanwhile, billions of people spend their lives trading their time for survival, following schedules they never chose, waiting for the weekend to escape the very lives they return to every Monday. And perhaps the saddest part is how normalized it’s all become. We’ve collectively accepted this as the way life is supposed to work. But why? Why should the circumstances of your birth determine how much of this world you get to experience? Why should freedom be something you have to be lucky enough to inherit or spend your entire life trying to earn? I don’t have all the answers. But I know I don’t want to spend my life simply accepting things as they are when I can imagine what they could be. Maybe that’s naive. But I’d rather dedicate my life to expanding what’s possible for myself and others than accept that the world’s opportunities should remain concentrated in the hands of a fortunate few. Some people see the world as it is and ask why. Others imagine what it could be and ask why not. I want to be the latter.

This $Kolshi thing sounds interesting, I’m bullish on novel tek.

This definitely sounds sustainable.

If I’m going to lose money on a memecoin, I’d rather it be on a friend’s deploy. At least the money stays in the family 😂

We’re so back!

This is exactly why we have guns in America.