Real G’s move in silence like lasagna. Class of '17. Seen some shit. Still here.
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I got into crypto in 2017, which means I’ve now spent almost a decade watching this market find new ways to make everyone feel like a genius, a fucking idiot, or sometimes both in the same year.
I’ve watched narratives become religions and then disappear a cycle later. I’ve watched projects everyone was absolutely convinced would change the world slowly fade into irrelevance, and I’ve watched ideas that were declared dead over and over just keep surviving.
I’ve made money. I’ve watched a shitload of unrealized money disappear. I’ve fucked around with memes, stared at more charts than I can count, and spent years following some of the best traders on this platform (Shout out to @LomahCrypto, @CryptoCred, @Crypto_Ed_NL, @BitcoinBirch, and so many others the X algo has periodically removed from my timeline, because it’s incompetent.). I love PA and market psychology, but somewhere along the way I accepted that becoming a full-time trader probably wasn’t for me. I can see a pattern forming with my eyes closed. That doesn’t mean I should trade it.
I’m probably better off hodling anyway.
That came with its own lesson though: conviction and attachment are not the same thing. You can believe strongly in an asset, a technology, or an idea without marrying your bag. Crypto has a brutal way of teaching you that lesson if you refuse to learn it yourself. And let's be real, that's usually not how it happens.
The bear markets probably taught me more than the bull markets ever did. When everything is ripping, everyone has conviction. Everyone has a thesis. Everyone thinks they’ve figured this shit out. The interesting part comes when the number stops going up.
That’s when you find out what you actually believe. You find out what a community is made of. You find out who was interested in the idea and who was really just interested in the green dildos.
After all these years, I’m probably more interested in crypto than I’ve ever been, just for different reasons.
Price still matters to me. Of course it does. I like making money; I fucking love it, lol. But I’m increasingly fascinated by the bigger picture too: what happens as money becomes more digital, AI becomes more autonomous, privacy becomes harder to preserve, and more financial activity moves onto infrastructure that never sleeps?
Some of the things crypto was talking about years ago may have been early rather than wrong. And some of the things we’re absolutely convinced matter today, probably won’t mean shit five years from now.
I’ve spent most of my time on X reading, replying, learning, and occasionally talking shit. I’m going to start writing more now.
Not because I have everything figured out. I definitely don’t.
But after nine years in crypto, I’ve accumulated enough opinions, stories (absolute bangers), and scar tissue that it feels like a good time to start putting some of it down.
Anyway. Still here, bitches.
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My algo hears me talking about cat memes on RH chain. Lol
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Lol, Saif with the hammer. $BTC
15 years ago, if you did the responsible thing & bought $10,000 of 'risk-free' long-term Treasuries, you'd have $11,072 today.
If instead you spent $9,995 on drugs & $5 on bitcoin, you'd have $42,778 today.
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Vlad (CEO of Robinhood) & Johan (Robinhood crypto lead) - “stock tokens and stock pairs are literally the future and we are going full force into this new primitive”
CT - “you probably shouldn’t buy these stock pairs I think they’re kinda mid, probably over soon”
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This is going to get ridiculously interesting over the next few years.
With Stock Tokens TVL reaching over $170M and nearly $50B in DEX volume on the Robinhood Chain, we are getting more questions about what they are and how they work.
All Robinhood Stock Tokens are backed 1:1 with real shares in secure custody. And Stock Tokens receive the economic equivalent of dividends and corporate actions returns reinvested into their holdings.
In other words, when a new Stock Token is minted, we buy a real share of the company at the same time.
What about in-kind redemption and voting rights? Not yet, but they’re coming. Step one is to scale adoption of Stock Tokens. We’re actively working on redemptions for shares 1:1 with voting for eligible Stock Token holders on the roadmap. We know how to do this well: we run a shareholder engagement platform, Say by Robinhood, which allows shareholders to participate in actions like voting.
What about the technology? We built Stock Tokens to be composable, which allows developers to build new innovative offerings like we have seen the past few weeks, with many that we have yet to discover.
What am I the most excited about? Billions of people in the world don't have access to U.S. investment assets. With Stock Tokens, that era is ending. Any eligible customer with a phone and an internet connection can now get exposure to the most exciting market in the world.
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Well said, sir.
My two cents: broad activity in our Discord and TG is down versus the last two years; no surprise there. But quality posts and engagement are up tenfold, and I put that down to curating a community that's active for reasons beyond points farming or an airdrop.
TG and Discord also aren't the right places for protocol information. In the age of AI, docs, websites, and blogs are what builders plug into. Those need to be optimized.
We've also set up dedicated channels for the people actively building, providing liquidity and running nodes. They're genuinely participating in the ecosystem, so it makes sense to give them their own space, and those groups are incredibly active, with direct feedback to most of the team rather than through mods.
Hope that helps. I think it's for the better. Trust is just found elsewhere these days.
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Can someone please launch a $TRADEOGRE memecoin on Robinhood Chain to pay respects to the fallen? Oh, and let me know when, of course.
You could pair it with RCMP, lol.
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You need to be delusional if you want to be successful because your goals shape what you perceive. You won't notice the rare opportunity or life path if your goal isn't so big that others think you are crazy.
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I resigned from Base today. I spent the last three years trading across Ethereum, Solana and Base. None of them are prepared for what’s coming. @RobinhoodCrypto is racing straight toward taking over all of crypto and I’m increasingly concerned there will be nothing left. More thoughts below.
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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This.
If you can’t hold through multiple 90% drawdowns into the depths of hell, you don’t deserve the ridiculous gains…
And then they’ll say you were lucky.
The problem with on-chain is that you can’t fake conviction.
Your favorite KOLs are writing literal essays and theses on why Shitcoin A will be a generational play only to sell it hours later.
You can only exp this a few times before the magic disappears and you become a jeet.
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In before $DECIST becomes a meme on RH Chain.
EDIT: lol, scratch that, already there.
We know a little something about the U.S. securities laws and will not “DECIST.” Send your lawyers and we’ll educate them.
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