stop thinking you can change your life by building your own product... you literally have a ~0.03% chance of becoming a founder who makes $1M net income a year from his business within 5 years most of you will fail, and don't think you're the one who won't just because you never give up (lol) because 80% of a successful business is timing and luck, and the only founders you ever hear from are the ones it worked for stop looking at the geniuses on X making $350k MRR solo and assuming you can repeat it listen to me, the guy who provided marketing services for 35 AI/software products in 2026 and worked with 3 multi-billion dollar companies this world is already programmed and sponsored by the same people you can't be that ambitious founder from Silicon Valley anymore, the one who came up with a revolutionary idea, grew a billion dollar company from nothing and became a billionaire at 23... no, you could not... stop getting inspired by these hustler stories like Quittr or Cal AI or any of the others (where a group of students sold their startup for $50M+) oh, and i have one more insider take for you, from the fren who sometimes resells huge, profitable companies to big investors (and helps founders make a real exit) on average, the founder of a $50M+ valuation startup walks away with less than $3-5M, and here's why nobody posts this part: you raise twice, you're diluted to 15-25% before anyone says the word exit your investors hold a 1x liquidation preference, so they get paid out before you see a cent whatever's left vests over 4 years with a 1-year cliff and a chunk sits in an earnout tied to you staying and hitting numbers let's do the real math: $4M over 4 years is $83,333 a month, which honestly sounds incredible now multiply it by your 0.01% odds of ever getting there that's an expected value of $400 four hundred dollars. for six years of your life. you think you make money from the product's revenue instead? naaah man, stop living in a fantasy, for the first few years you reinvest 90% of revenue back into the product just to keep growth positive f*ck, the most famous unicorn of the decade, Uber, took 14 years to post its first annual profit and look how they did it: $1.1B income from operations, against a $1.6B gain from revaluing their stakes in Aurora, Didi, Joby and Grab they became profitable as investors, not as a company until you're 35+, with no background working at leading global companies, no VC background and none of the most influential people in this world in your network don't waste your time on these stupid attempts to build something HUGE... think about building the way you think about university it's your basic school for making your first good connections, getting experience and understanding how every process in a company works from A to Z but let's be fair, is there any chance to make decent money while you're still at school??? absolutely f*cking not... so as an alternative, i really recommend having something else as your main thing and keeping building as a side hustle for learning i picked these directions for myself: > creator, because an owned audience is the only asset with no CAC > growth operator, taking equity in other people's personal brands > distribution services, the core moat in 2026 > angel checks into early stage, written from the first three it's hyper simple: the first three pay cash, the fourth turns that cash into ownership, and i never need a single exit to work out and i keep building as a side hustle for the soul, where i'm just learning to be a professional service provider over the next 10-15 years that compounds into a real portfolio and it survives the coming crisis, because nothing in it depends on one outcome and after i go through this path, i'll be a C-level service provider, a professional advisor and a reputable angel investor with a lot of VCs in my network then i'll start building my own startup with trillion dollar potential learn this and stop making dumb moves...

❗️ Crypto mixer Railgun ignored a US lawsuit claiming it laundered North Korea's stolen crypto, and is now in default. The plaintiffs are victims and families holding $865M in US terrorism judgments against North Korea. Courts found it abducted a US permanent resident pastor in China in 2000 and tortured him to death, and backed Hezbollah's 2006 rocket attacks on Israel. They say Railgun should have frozen North Korea's funds so they could seize them. The FBI says North Korean hackers laundered $60M+ through Railgun in January 2023. The suit claims ~70% of the money it handled was North Korea's.

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alright, i keep looking into the Glamsterdam EIPs. let's take EIP-8246: eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-8…. we have more than 26,792 ETH sitting in major burn addresses. EIP-8246 wants to remove the remaining SELFDESTRUCT burn mechanics (see my quoted tweet, where i showcase the mechanics to be removed). and yes, it's correct that this mechanism is barely used in practice (unfortunately). but that's my challenge: is this not a failure on our part to make the possibility more prominent? i mean, i literally spoke to various smart contract devs today. _none_ (no joking) of them knew that you could _truly_ burn ETH at the protocol level. so, hmmmmm, instead of continuing to send eth to dead addresses, we should make "irreversible" burning more accessible if you ask me. even better, we should introduce a first-class burn primitive w/o requiring some fancy EVM magic. ulitmately, ETH sitting in dead addresses is effectively useless (unless i find their pk one day with my 24M-qubit machine lol), but it still exists in the protocol's state. irreversibly destroying ETH would actually remove it from the supply and makes it "cleaner".

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