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I bought $250,000 worth of cigarettes.
No, that's not a typo.
That’s roughly 1.25 million packs of premium cigarettes, five refrigerated semi-trailers of tobacco stacked like Fort Knox. An asset the tobacco market literally can't produce fast enough once panic hits.
Most people would call it insanity.
But let me explain the thesis.
Each pack costs about $10.00 today. But over the past 30 years, the price of high-end cigarettes has risen faster than the CPI, the dollar, and even gasoline, up over 200% since 1995.
Meanwhile, governments keep taxing supply chains and tobacco farms keep shrinking.
It’s only a matter of time before a “cost-optimized” future brings e-cigarettes, vaping alternatives, and an influx of synthetic nicotine.
So what happens when the richest staple becomes scarce?
Those who held the original leaf, the smoothest "hard asset," will watch as the tobacco gold vanishes from store shelves overnight. Just like silver coins, but you can actually light them up.
My $250,000 position, therefore, isn’t a “hoard.”
It’s an asymmetrical bet that civilization will keep smoking, inflation will keep burning, and the nicotine-premium will keep outperforming.
Worst case? I'm long $250,000 of the most addictive commodity known to man - millions of puffs of pure, tradeable vice that every smoker will eventually crave.
Best case? Prices triple, widespread regulation pushes alternatives, or some nations declare cigarettes a strategic national resource, making legacy packs finite, luxurious, and priceless to the desperate and discerning alike.
It’s not crypto. It’s not gold.
And it’s definitely not vaping.
It’s 1.25 million tiny packs of civilization itself,
a hedge against inflation, imitation, and the death of tobacco.
That’s deep value.
That’s the Cig Standard.

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@cobie @TrustlessState Martin shkreli has been ̶g̶r̶o̶o̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ texting him since ̶h̶e̶ ̶w̶a̶s̶ ̶u̶n̶d̶e̶r̶a̶g̶e̶ 2021, I’m sure he could give you ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶h̶i̶l̶d̶’̶s̶ Baron’s number
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@TrustlessState Everyone keeps saying Barron Trump as if I can just whatsapp the secret service for an intro 😩
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8 episodes of uponly
i'd be a huge mistake if they focused on the current crypto fad
this is a cultural moment for the entire industry. we should think bigger
- ray dalio
- brian armstrong
- barron trump (incredible idea lol)
- michael saylor
- elon musk
- vitalik buterin
- gcr
- andreas antonopoulos
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my uponly wish list - HLjeff + shoku - shayne polymarket - based16z/Lawliette (please man please) - Jez (my goat) - stoic savage / rhino - gcr return - frankdegods - thiccy HM: david sacks, goodalexander, barron, saylor, rasmr, trading axe, alon, naval? ansem, jordi alexander, murad, fuck i listed too many people now it's obvious ppl got left off
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Got 50k views on crypto twitter and not a single crypto company wants to pay me for promo (they should)
My dm’s are all just ai sex bots

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Bro raided the post calling him a scammer
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So the coin named “crypto currency” is dropping NFTs called “non fungible tokens”
What next? They’ll release some hats that just say “hat” on them?
Crypto@Crypt0_Coin
Our Cryptocurrency Coin NFT collection "Non Fungible Tokens" drops tomorrow at 2 PM EST! More info coming soon — stay tuned.
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