Nikolas

trading is one of the most miserable career choices you can make. it’s also one of the best. because trading gives you no guarantees. you can spend 10 years in the game and still end up with less than you started with. or make life changing money in what looks like a single month.... when in reality it took 5 years of pain to get there. that’s the nature of it. > constant pressure > constant uncertainty > constant exposure to yourself some people collapse under that. some build a level of resilience most careers will never force out of you. if you are wired for self-reflection and systems thinking, trading can become one of the most transformative things you ever do. not just because of the money. because it refines you. so yes, it’s brutal. but the upside is almost unmatched. financially, psychologically, existentially. and if you cannot learn without someone holding your hand, you either build the ability to educate yourself or you choose a different path. because long-term trading and dependence on external opinions do not coexist. that is the cost... and that is also the gift.

while you’re crying about the market, winners are busy researching and buying the next 10-100xs

no one will believe this was a tweet that went from $0 to $240M in 30 minutes

I truly believe that if you’re still here reading this, you’re going to make it. Trading, improving, and learning how to get better while the market is a shitshow will make you hella rich by the time the next bull market comes. No matter what the meta will be. By now most people have left This is the time when winners are built.

I've been thinking about Bitcoin's future and I see two very different scenarios from here. Both involve something the market hasn’t fully priced in yet. A real economic reset. The signs are already there. Housing affordability at historic lows. Job market is weakening. Overly inflated stocks are starting to crack down. War, energy and oil shocks, etc. Too many threats and too much uncertainty. Something has to give. But here's how I see Bitcoin playing in all of this: 1) The bullish case Bitcoin does exactly what it was built to do. Be a hedge against a system that’s breaking down. Historically, every time traditional finance struggles, hard assets win. That’s the thesis, plain and simple. It’s worked every previous cycle. 2) The bearish case This cycle is different in one critical way. Bitcoin is no longer just held by believers. It’s held by the same institutions and governments that run the financial system it was supposed to be an alternative to. So when the economy starts cracking and portfolios start bleeding, what happens? Major companies won't sit down to pick and choose which assets they liquidate. Everything goes, Bitcoin included. We’ve already seen it happening. Every major macro shock that happened recently and crypto followed stocks down, not the other way around. That’s not how a hedge behaves. Honestly, I don’t know which scenario plays out. Nobody does. But I know we’re closer to finding out than most people think. It's only a matter of time.

Market conditions matter, but not as much as people think. There’s always a huge amount of cash waiting for the right ticker and narrative to bid. Most of the 7- and 8-figure traders who sent OG memes like Popcat, WIF, and Fartcoin aren’t gone. They still trade memes and are still here sitting on cash and waiting for the next exciting thing worth TWAP-ing liquidity into. Market has never been in easy mode. May i remind you that Pumpfun launched in early 2024 when mode was considered easy yet it took Pump over 8 months to get its first $1bn runner. The market wasnt as easy as people want you to believe. Market is always in hard mode yet fortunes are made yearly. Generational plays pop up every year irrespective of market conditions and your job as a trencher is to find them early.

Everyone's buying this dip. I'm not. This isn't because I'm bearish, but rather the higher timeframes tell me we likely spend more time at these levels or lower before any real reversal move. No trade is a trade. Sitting in cash while others force entries FOMOing into positions that inevitably go lower isn't passive it's the most active risk management decision you can make. 95% of traders lose long term because they can't sit still. Be the 5%.

anyone who’s telling you crypto isn’t coming back just hasn’t been in the game long enough will we ever get another memecoin run exactly like 2024? or a another Trump coin? no,(not identically),dynamics of the game have gotten so efficient that with the current tools we use won’t allow for the same euphoria. but the next major run will just look different to what were used to. best comparison i can make is Fortnite when it first came out, everyone was a noob, learning how to play the game, then 18 months later we had professional Fortnite players that did it for a living. market will always trend towards efficiency, and we see that in the trenches everyday. 2024 rawdog Phantom swapping -> 2025 terminal trading > 2026 multi walleting bundling > ect. The truth is, every update is just like a game. new skills, new things to adapt to. don’t hate that you can’t play the “original” version of the game anymore, it is what it is. i didn’t get into memecoins to buy and flip coins from 10k market cap, to sell them at 30k. i just think it’s really boring, yet this has become the most efficient way to play the game. saying that, i think we’re due for an entirely new game within the next 18 months or so. mainly due to AI. we saw glimpses of this at the end of 2024/ start of 2025, with the mini AI szn we had on SOL. With 99% of the most larp projects ever going to hundreds of millions in market cap. we even saw it at the start of this year with a mini Base szn with the likes of Moltbook going from 0-120m in a couple days, and even Ralph/Gas Town going to relatively high valuations while the coin was basically built off nothing. yet none of these models were perfect as it was just begging traditional developers to “claim fees bro” on some random coin he has nothing to do with. i’m also not saying were stuck to bidding AI larps to make money, memecoins will still be at the forefront of younger generations to come. just in a different format imo. my main point from all of this is that: markets and opportunities change rapidly. don’t get discouraged that the game you were used to is harder to play. there is a new game just on the horizon, and it will be a lot crazier than the last.

I think the crashout happening in the memecoin community is justified there were months and months of 100+ million marketcap coins spawning every day how could we go from insane life changing opportunities every day, to there being PVP on every narrative that pops up and everything is now a 200K topper? see, back during the bull the more you slept the more opportunity you would miss out on people were making insane money and there was unlimited opportunity I know a bunch of people who retired this cycle now that we're in a bear market, everyone is pointing fingers as to who the issue is "it's the trading terminals, it's the launchpads, it's the streamers" the reason memecoins aren't going as insane as they did back in 2024 isn't because of one specific group of people this is just part of the cycle when things slow down and things reset, and I've lived through these periods before people hate PVP, vamps, the launchpad wars, the bundles, the rugs, etc.. eventually things will reset, and the money will flow once again the last thing I'll say here is that whenever the market is going crazy, and I was making ridiculous money every day, people would join my group and say "wow how do you do it, I want to do what you're doing" my response was always the same: "I was here when everything was dead. if you really want to make a living from crypto then you need to be here when no one else wants to be and you have to put in more time than everyone else around you." per usual all those people are gone, and here I am waiting and searching for the best opportunities to come up once again you don't have to trade every single day, just stay active, wait for things to heat up again and sit back down at the table when the time comes

You didn’t prepare for the dip. You didn’t study the cycles. And now you want to quit. Meanwhile crypto can FREE your entire bloodline from poverty. Go quiet. Stop explaining yourself to people who won’t understand until it’s too late. God positioned you here early for a reason. Stay faithful

Once you make money in crypto. It’s extremely hard to ever see the world the same way.

FR - for real NGL - not gonna lie TBH - to be honest IRL - in real life FYI - for your information TGE - token generation event VC - venture capital CT - crypto twitter CA - contract address DAPP - decentralized application LP - liquidity provider/pool EV - expected value TVL - total value locked MC - market cap DAO - decentralized autonomous organization 2FA - two factor authentication RWA - real world assets AML - anti-money laundering CBDC - central bank digital currency CEFI - centralized finance EVM - ethereum virtual machine CEX - centralized exchange DCA - dollar-cost average DEFI - decentralized finance DEX - decentralized exchange DYOR - do your own research ETF - exchange traded fund FDV - fully diluted valuation FOMO - fear of missing out FUD - fear, uncertainty, and doubt GTD - guaranteed GWEI - gigawei HODL - hold on for dear life INFOFI - information finance ICO - initial coin offering IEO - initial exchange offering KYC - know your customer L2 - layer 2 NFT - non-fungible token NFA - not financial advice P2P - peer-to-peer PND - pump and dump POS - proof of stake POW - proof of work STO - security token offering TA - technical analysis TL - time line TF - time frame WL - white list ZK - zero-knowledge TMI - too much information ICYMI - in case you missed it RN - right now IYKYK - if you know you know FOMO - fear of missing out W - win(s) L - loss(es) AF/ASF - as f*ck DEPIN - decentralized private infrastructure networks You’re welcome!

Considered getting a job for the first time in like 6 years, I would love to be part of society again. But how am I supposed to interact with Shawn from accounting, when I know people made millions because a dog was wearing a pink hat? This is unfathomable for a normal person.

Fake it until you make it The strange pattern of Crypto Rover: - Daan de Rover - born in the Netherlands in 2001 - enters crypto around 2016 as a teenager 2021: the content - launches the Crypto Rover YouTube channel - begins posting daily Bitcoin and Ethereum analysis dramatic titles like “IT’S HAPPENING NOW!!!!!” the monetization starts - affiliate links for exchanges - YouTube memberships - giveaways to boost engagement around this time - co-founds a trading platform called CryptoSea - promotes automated crypto trading tools 2022–2023: the influencer business - constant bullish calls on BTC and ETH - partnerships with exchanges then the accusations start 2023 - a memecoin called STONED according to blockchain investigator ZachXBT - wallets linked to Rover buy around 9% of supply - purchases happen before promotion then the tweets arrive - calling it a potential 10x - encouraging followers to buy after the pump, the token crashes onchain analysis shows - linked wallets selling after the hype - profits moving to exchanges another claim appears a project says Rover was paid $10,000 + 1% of tokens to promote their coin - the promotion never happens - messages ignored - refund never sent February 2024 - ZachXBT publishes a full thread detailing - the wallets - the trades - the promotion timing shortly after Crypto Rover deletes his Telegram group 2025 - something unusual happens - AI chatbot Grok is asked to pick a winner - for Rover’s giveaway - the AI refuses - it cites the ZachXBT allegations and says it will not legitimize possible fraud today - around 1.5M followers on X - over 200K subscribers on YouTube - estimated net worth around $6M still posting still promoting exchanges but with a reputation that now follows him

GEN Z TURNS TO CRYPTO AND BETTING FOR WEALTH Many Gen Z investors are turning to high-risk assets to reach financial goals, according to a study by Northwestern Mutual. The survey found 80% of Gen Z feel financially behind and believe speculative investments can help them build wealth faster than traditional strategies. About 32% are invested in or considering crypto, while a similar share are participating in sports betting and prediction markets.

Gen-Z don't want to invest into stable assets 7% annual return on the S&P500 on their spare $30 each month will never accumulate into a meaningful amount of money They will choose to invest in memecoins because that is their only shot at financial freedom

I see at least one person saying they're quitting every single day The irony is that now is when you're supposed to be starting Some of the biggest winners in this space were built during the times nobody was paying attention Not when everything was pumping and it felt easy You're meant to quit at the top when everyone's euphoric and convinced it'll never end Not at the bottom when nobody's paying attention and the real opportunities are forming But people will always do the opposite

If you want to make it in crypto You simply have to hold throughout the all time highs and the all time lows That’s how I made my first million dollars. I didn’t get shaken out.

it's actually crazy to think that there was a 2 year long raging shitcoin bull run with tons of brand new coins sending to $100 mill+ marketcap basically every day then the top was in when Trump dropped his own memecoin we live in a world where this actually happened

we're on the verge of a massive memecoin resurgence there are no jobs the economy is cooked AI is replacing everyone the only real path forward is hypergambling.