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Pedro Arantes

@arantespp

Building @myholdapp 🚀 | Smart crypto tracking, rebalancing & AI-powered portfolio agents. Built for serious HODLers.

Se unió Aralık 2012
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Financial markets are designed to exploit human biology. When prices crater, your amygdala (the brain's fear center) triggers a primal "fight or flight" response. This instinct, while useful for escaping predators, is a portfolio killer. It compels you to sell at the point of maximum opportunity just to stop the emotional pain. To succeed, you must move beyond instinct and know your limits. If you find that market volatility triggers genuine distress or impulsive decision-making, it is a sign that active trading may not be for you. There is no shame in admitting that your temperament isn't suited for the high-pressure environment of crypto trading. If you are prone to emotional reactivity, the most logical and profitable path is to stop trading and become a long-term holder. By removing the need to react to daily swings, you bypass the biological traps that lead to "selling the bottom" and allow time to work in your favor.
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I’m a software engineer, not a trader. I don’t have the time to stare at charts all day, and I definitely don’t have the "market intuition" to day trade crypto. My strategy is simple: I build a wallet, define my target weights, and manage it. I don’t need to nail the perfect short or long. I just need to stay aligned with my own rules. Look at this. In just a few minutes, $BTC went from $68k to $71k. If I had been short, I would’ve been liquidated. This is exactly why trading isn’t for me.
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Elon Musk believes programming as we know it dies this year. AI will generate machine code directly. No compilation. There are two ways to handle this: with fear or with curiosity. With awareness or by instinct. Can you tell if you are approaching this shift in software engineering with fear or curiosity? And if it is fear, is it a conscious choice or just an unconscious reaction? The main point is that a lot is going to happen this year. The best way to handle it is by being adaptable. However, we can only adapt if we look at these changes with curiosity. If there is fear, we freeze; we stop testing new tools and we miss the wave. If you have the self-awareness to choose between fear and curiosity, great. That is a conscious decision.But if you find yourself reacting with fear unconsciously, I challenge you to understand why: - Is it your comfort zone? - Fear of being replaced? - Identifying with groups that deny AI? - Aversion to "AI influencers"? Once you understand the root cause, work on it so you can view what’s happening with curiosity. This is the best way to adapt to this new wave.
Dustin@r0ck3t23

Elon Musk thinks coding dies this year. Not evolves. Dies. By December, AI won’t need programming languages. It generates machine code directly. Binary optimized beyond anything human logic could produce. No translation. No compilation. Just pure execution. Musk: “You don’t even bother doing coding.” Code was never the point. It was friction. A tax we paid because machines didn’t speak human. AI just learned fluent human. The tax is gone. Now plug that into Neuralink. No syntax. No keyboard. No screen. Musk: “Imagination-to-software.” Thought becomes executable. You imagine an outcome, the system architects and compiles it into reality instantly. We’re not automating programming. We’re erasing it from existence. The entire profession collapses into a thought. Decades of training reduced to irrelevance. The gap between idea and instantiation hits zero. You don’t build anymore. You imagine, and it materializes. Not incremental progress. Total phase shift. The way humans have created things for ten thousand years just became obsolete. Welcome to a world where the limiting factor isn’t skill, resources, or time. It’s whether you can picture what you want clearly enough for a machine to birth it into existence.

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While developing this project I keep adding new features. The latest is personalized crypto alerts. With markets so volatile, I monitor indicators like BTC RSI, price, volume, and portfolio changes to know when to take profits or exit a position. If you’d like to try it, sign up for a few free notifications to monitor your portfolio in real time and make better-informed decisions.
MyHold@myholdapp

Personalized crypto alerts = less noise, more signal. Set profit targets, loss thresholds, and get notifications tied to your actual positions.

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I vibe-coded @myholdapp on the weekends last month and finally reached an MVP. I have a crypto strategy that builds a portfolio with fundamentally strong coins and monitors them. Whenever a coin increases in price, I take profit. I tracked this in Sheets until now. I developed this system to replace Sheets and automate notifications about coins in my portfolio where I can take profit. I built it in SaaS format with a free plan if you want to test it.
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Bitcoin was never a hedge. Crypto behaves as a high-beta risk-on asset: it rises sharply with excess liquidity, low rates, and positive sentiment (often correlated with equities/tech), but crashes hard during risk-off periods, margin calls, deleveraging, or liquidity squeezes, even if the dollar is weakening. Gold/silver behave as low-beta safe-haven assets: they gain when trust in fiat erodes or uncertainty rises, regardless of short-term liquidity. Crypto needs dollar weakness and abundant liquidity to rally strongly as a debasement play. Right now we have weakness without the liquidity support. Crypto remains a potential long-term debasement/diversification play, but it is not a reliable immediate or counter-cyclical hedge like gold. The real thesis for crypto today is more about future network effects, institutional adoption, and being a high-upside speculative bet rather than a defensive "protect you against decline in the dollar."
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Boring_Business@BoringBiz_·
Can someone smarter than me explain why this is happening? Genuinely curious I thought crypto was supposed to protect you against decline in the dollar The dollar hegemony is starting to show cracks but the asset class is tanking. How does that make sense? Meanwhile gold, silver and copper are having their best years in a very long time. So what even is the thesis behind crypto anymore?
The Kobeissi Letter@KobeissiLetter

BREAKING: Total crypto liquidations officially exceed $5 billion over the last 4 days, marking the largest wave of liquidations since October 10th.

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Itamar Golan 🤓
Itamar Golan 🤓@ItakGol·
We might already live in the singularity. Moltbook is a social network for AI agents. A bot just created a bug-tracking community so other bots can report issues they find. They are literally QA-ing their own social network. I repeat: AI agents are discussing, in their own social network, how to make their social network better. No one asked them to do this 🦞 This is a glimpse into our future.
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So the biggest “hack” of ClawdBot is being the first truly proactive agents that take initiative in your daily digital life? Most AI today is still reactive: you prompt, it responds. ClawdBot flips that. It runs 24/7 on your own machine/server, watches your world (emails, calendar, messages, files, etc.), and reaches out to you first when something matters. No command needed. That shift creates the feeling of having an extra employee quietly working for you around the clock. It pings you on WhatsApp/Telegram: “You have 14 unread urgent emails — want me to draft quick replies for the top ones?” It messages proactively: “Your flight tomorrow had a gate change. I already did online check-in for you.” This proactivity, combined with deep integrations into everyday chat apps (WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, iMessage), full self-hosting for privacy, and open-source extensibility, is what generates that “wow, this feels like real leverage” reaction.
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@Pedrodv Estou vibecodando @myholdapp . A ideia é fazer este projeto ser executado 100% por IA até o meio do ano.
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pedro@Pedrodv·
o que você está construindo? bora conversar e aproveita pra divulgar teu projeto aqui!
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I'm vibe coding @myholdapp . I used to enjoy programming, debugging, and problem-solving manually, so delegating those tasks to AI was a big shift for me. I had some resistance at first because I truly liked doing that work myself. ​However, my role as a software engineer is evolving. Now, I'm enjoying seeing entire modules and tests work together, understanding the product deeply, orchestrating agents, and mastering prompting. I'm glad I adapted early; otherwise, I would have missed the massive transformation happening in the industry.
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What about treating crypto like a dividend payer? Trying to catch a 100x "moonshot" feels nearly impossible right now with the amount of whale manipulation and volatility we're seeing. I’ve switched to a Yield Payer Strategy: 1. Coin goes up. 2. Take profit. 3. Buy stocks. I’m basically using crypto as a high-volatility engine to fuel my traditional investments. Is anyone else doing this? What is your crypto strategy?
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@lucas59356 @myholdapp Nice! I'm going to try it. I was already considering using Gemini, so I think it would be a nice choice.
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#!/usr/bin/env Lucão@lucas59356·
@arantespp @myholdapp Gemini has a thing where you pass a JSON Schema and the chat items and it gives you the JSON that matches the schema Very useful
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Pedro Arantes@arantespp·
I'm developing the notifications for @myholdapp. I'm considering two possibilities: letting the user write the notification in text, for example, "Notify me when my wallet increases 7% in the last 7 days," or using a complex form to create the final JSON. I'm considering using AI because it involves so many edge cases that would be difficult to handle as a structured problem.
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Just shipped @myholdapp. ​I used AI to vibe code the entire stack over the weekend. Not just the codebase, but the branding, pricing, and roadmap too. ​The barrier between idea and execution is officially gone.
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Market manipulation by whales is a reality in crypto. Hard truth. Because of the size of their holdings, their trades can create significant ripples that trick small investors. ​My current strategy is crypto as a yield payer. ​Navigating a market influenced by these giants requires a different approach compared with previous years. Treating your crypto portfolio as a yield payer effectively turns market volatility into a structured income stream. ​By taking profits whenever a coin in your wallet increases, you essentially "harvest" the gains generated by market cycles. Reinvesting those profits into stocks allows you to move capital from a high-risk, high-volatility environment into more established, traditional assets. This creates a "flywheel" effect where crypto growth fuels the long-term stability of your investments.
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The gap between "prototype" and "product" is vanishing. Spent the weekend vibe coding a crypto manager to replace my Google Sheets. I only intended to build a prototype, but AI is so advanced now that I accidentally shipped the whole MVP. @myholdapp is the crypto portfolio management system I'm currently developing.
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There is so much happening in AI right now. I’m reading everything, but my strategy to avoid FOMO is focusing on just one thing. When I see people working on memory, orchestration, or writing articles, I remind myself that my focus is applying AI to marketing.
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I've realized that my most important job as a Senior Developer is translating system mental models into explicit instructions. By 'mental models,' I mean the architecture, the intended improvements, and the core goals of a system. For example, while reviewing our GraphQL API, I found that developers had added a 'module' that didn't actually follow our modular logic. Defining these boundaries is a key mental model. If I succeed in documenting these models, the AI is far less likely to deviate from the system’s intended path.
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