My parents escaped a communist country. I was born on a refugee camp. Out of college, my starting salary was $33,500. Today, my main portfolio hit an important milestone. I showed up EVERY SINGLE DAY for the past three years to BUILD CONVICTION! And crypto changed my life.

I'm probabaly gonna sell more NVIDIA today to buy BTC.

This is what happens when a generation grows up without WoW.

This should be illegal. I will vote for any politician who abolishes technological forced obsolescence.

Talk to me when FSD pulls up to a 4-way stop and flickers its highbeams to signal another driver to go ahead. Talk to me when FSD ignores the right turn signal of an oncoming car that isn't slowing down, because sometimes people signal erroneously. I've logged over 10K hours behind the wheel. That makes me an expert driver. FSD is 7x better than the AVERAGE driver? Well, the AVERAGE person is an idiot. And so is the average driver. No need to be an early adopter of technology that can kill you. The tech will get there, eventually. Just be patient.

Just noticed there's no rumble effects when you play WoW Forever using a controller. Huge miss, @Warcraft.

The WoW Forever economy changed the way I approach investing. Before today, the level cap in Beta was 20. As you could imagine, the demand for level 21+ gear was practically non-existent. Last night, I noticed a rare blue sword on the auction house listed reasonably for 3g. My thesis was that after today's patch increased the level cap to 30, the demand for this sword would sky rocket and I could flip it for a quick 2x. Then I checked the auction house this morning before the patch. Now there were THREE more identical swords listed for 2.5g I felt like an idiot. Most people probably would have tried to resell the sword at a loss, but I decided to wait it out. Patch comes. I play for a few hours, and decide to check the AH before I go to bed. Now the sword is selling for 13g! WoW Forever is filled with tens and thousands of 40 somethings who ALL knew this patch was coming today. Regardless, they couldn't plan for a future they knew was coming within 24 hours. The Lesson: The news is never priced in. People are idiots. You don't have to be THAT early to make it big. And give your thesis the proper amount of time to play out.

Retrieving character list...

AGI is akin to the nuclear bomb. And the US wants to be the first one to drop it. Being first during WWII made the dollar the global reserve currency, and gave us the freedom to print money for the next hundred years. Being first to AGI will do the same, so I'm all for it.

Retiring is like reaching max level in World of Warcraft: Forever. If you don't pick up crafting in WoW, you won't pick up new hobbies in retirement. If you don't enjoy fishing all day in WoW, you won't enjoy fishing in retirement. Rolling a new char? Silver divorce. Raiding non-stop? You'll find yourself going back to work. How you WoW is how you live.

"Fuel efficient" cars were the biggest scam perpetrated on American consumers. Their "turbo" charged engines are like overclocked computers. They're modified to eek out another few miles per gallon, but those engines weren't designed to run hot like that for prolonged periods of time. That's why new "fuel efficient" cars break down so often. Yeah, people saved a few bucks at the gas station. But instead of having a standard V6 engine you could drive for twenty years and 200K+ miles People ended up with fuel efficient bricks that were lucky to make it to 100K.

Got a verification code emailed to me from @RobinhoodApp when I didn't request one. Don't even have a Robinhood account. Their support team proceeded to ask me for more personal information so they could confirm I don't have an account. Horrible customer experience.

What if the SI made the typo on purpose because it knew the "mistake" would be blasted all over the TL?

Surviving the 2008 Financial Crisis and COVID taught me a very important lesson. The market may dump 50%, yes. But it goes up and to the right forever because nothing stops this train. So stop stressing and just get some real skin in the game.

At 9AM EST today somebody abused a bug in Payment Processor V2 to steal 10 Meebits, 50 Otherdeeds, 10 WoW, and 235 Desperate Apewives. It wasn't until over 12 hours later that somebody reported it to me, and upon digging in I realized that a great many NFTs were subject to the same exploit. I got in touch with the team over at LimitBreak and they quickly paused Payment Processor V3, which was subject to the same exploit. Unfortunately, V2 was not pausable, so the only path towards protecting affected assets was to run a whitehat operation. Similarly, V3 on ApeChain is temporarily in a state where it cannot be paused, so ApeChain assets approved to V3 needed to be saved as well. All in all, we rescued 23,155 NFTs worth north of $5.7M USD. We later discovered that a similar exploit could be used in reverse to steal WETH. 660 WETH was at risk, which we unfortunately were not fast enough to recover. Apologies to those affected. Shout out to @Boomskite for flagging the initial exploit tx to me, and @coffeedev @0xjustadev and @whiteoakkong for acting quickly and assisting with the recovery. All NFTs are safely relocated. Soon, owners will be able claim them back after revoking the exploitable approvals. Addresses to revoke below.

This Ape has and will ALWAYS be to me the prize of my entire collection and maybe the most loved thing I own bar none. It was my first big purchase years back and means S0 much to me. 🍊 has always been my fav color and the prison jump suit was a reminder of when I was locked up by the Feds years ago. Today I’m giving it as a gift to @0xquit for basically saving the space for all of us last night. I was lucky to not get drained but many of my friends did. His selflessness and generosity is what I inspire to be. When I get home from work will transfer my orange 🧡 to him. It’s definetly going to the absolute best of humans …. I know my ape will now be in the home where he belongs 🙏

Thankfully, I only interacted with Magic Eden for Solana NFTs and I dumped all my bags above $200 SOL so I'm SAFU.

There's no such thing as a "risk free rate." The risk is that you won't beat real inflation. And that's actually one of the biggest gambles you can take.

Fun Fact: You can't have real privacy without decentralization.

3 minutes playing after the latest update for WoW Forever Beta and I they've already improved the quality of life for controller users drastically. Crosshair on the map display that tracks X:Y coordinates and allows you focus quests is brilliant. Well done, @Warcraft.

Funny how Web3 gaming was a thing and it turns out all people wanted was to play remakes of titles that are twenty years old.