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Dear Son, Let me share the true story of how I lost $2.5 million USD ☕️ In April 2020, we used our savings of $125k to buy a house 🏡 with a 30-year loan. This meant we had to pay a monthly mortgage, which was enough to rent a nice place 🏠where we wanted to stay. At that time, Bitcoin was valued at $5k. Fast forward to July 2025: after five years, our house, if we’re lucky, might have appreciated by 30-50%. That could turn our initial investment into $400k—not bad for five years, you might say. But wait. If we had invested that $125k in Bitcoin instead, it would now be worth $2.95 million (BTC @ $118k). That’s how we lost $2.5 million in five years by betting on the wrong “horse.”🏇 Don’t repeat my mistake. Here’s what to avoid and what to do differently: 1. Rewatch the video 🍿🥤we recently watched together - youtu.be/Pef22g53zsg?si… 2. Study and work hard in a field you love to learn —don’t chase a shiny career if it doesn’t make you happy. House and life long mortgage could be a trap 🪤 to make you anxious to switch career or move country 🌏 3. Invest just $100 in assets like silver, Bitcoin $BTC or other digital currencies like $ETH, $SOL, $SUI, $BNB and stocks. Take them overseas on your next trip and try spending them. You’ll figure out which asset performs best on your own. Good luck, buddy. Love you! 🤜🏻🤛🏻

Stay strong my UK friends 🤜🤛

Smart money is getting rotating to something else less overvalued

Arbitrage trend is at the highest 🤔

Amen 🙏

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You cannot believe it, can you? 🤣

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Smart move

@Cointelegraph Thanks Tim for all of your hard work

⚡️ TIM SCOTT: “The CLARITY Act process has been the most informative and challenging I’ve been through as a U.S. Senator, but also the most transparent.”

🎉🥰👏 congratulations US to set the path for the rest of the world to follow Thank @SenLummis @coinbase @brian_armstrong for making it happened

🥰 beautiful work

@ZssBecker @CrashiusClay69 Great sharing. Happy for you.

Okay. I'm ready to talk about this. It was the worst month of my life. Also ironically the greatest blessing god has ever given me. Last month I was held in the Cayman Islands facing 15 years in prison. The charge: illegal firearm importation. Here's what happened. More importantly what I learned. Short answer: no. I haven't been smuggling guns. In the States I legally carry a gun on me at almost all times for self defense. Part of this is ensuring I am trained. Hence why I routinely go to the range to shoot. When I do I pack the firearm I intend to use in in a backpack. Last month I was in a giant rush to make a private flight and didn't fully check my backpack before leaving. In it was a small firearm I missed. It was discovered when I went through immigration. At first I assumed I'd just be sent home. Then my wife did some quick research. She pointed out the minimum sentence for importing a gun is 15 years. The police who showed up confirmed it. To say I nearly pissed my pants is an understatement. This was completely my fault. I'm an idiot. The point of this post isn't to blame or complain about anything. The laws there are fair. I'm a grown man capable of checking his bag before flying. The point is: for three weeks on the island (on bail), I got to take a long hard look at my life. I've built a high net worth and a company I love, with people I love working with. I have a beautiful wife who is my best friend. I do whatever I want all day every day. My parents are alive and I get to see them almost every week. Still, despite all this, I often wake up annoyed I haven't done enough with my life. Asking myself "is this it?" In fact I'm pissed half the time, feeling I can do better. Which is ironic. I made $20,000 a year in the military. If you'd told me then I'd achieve a 9 figure net worth and all the above, I would've assumed I'd consider my life a dream. The twist truly hit me on the island as I watched everything I worked hard for in my life held at "gunpoint". Pun intended. Everything I worked so hard to get — poof. Didn't matter for shit. The way the law works there are simple : if you can't prove it was an accident, the minimum is 15 years. It became glaringly obvious. Not only was I an absolute idiot who couldn't pack his own bag. I'd also become a fool who couldn't enjoy the blessings I already had. I'd taken all the people in my life and the success totally for granted. Blind. Blind. Blind. Nothing like a 20-year potential sentence to make you realize: waking up with fun stuff to work on, then chilling on the couch reading with your wife at the end of the day — that's about as good as it gets. I should be euphoric 24/7. To go from having it all, to potentially not even having the option to piss and shit when you want — that's a wake up call if there ever was one. Luckily, the Caymans is a fair place. I was found under exceptional circumstances during my trial. AKA the judge and the courts reviewed the case and agreed it was an accident. I still love the island. It's probably my favorite place to vacation. Just check your luggage before you go. Ha. My point is this: be present. Enjoy your life. One day something could happen — even by complete accident — and yoink it all away. I have so many friends who'll read this and by all definition live a "dream life" — and yet are dissatisfied just like I was. If anything this is the default for most successful men. Not the exception. I'm writing this to help you stop. It took god slapping me across the face with my own ignorance to see it. It was painful and scary. Dark. But honestly, it was the greatest blessing I've ever received. I'm writing this from my office at home, giddy as absolute fuck about my life and everything I have the option to do today. If anything, I'm sad about how much time I wasted feeling otherwise. Don't be ignorant and stupid like me. You might not get the blessing of a 15-year prison threat in a foreign country to wake you up. Wake up. Appreciate what you have now.

Smart boy 👶 🥰

@APompliano Cannot believe you were right AGAIN. Tariff dip last year and Iran war this year. I hope your last Bitcoin and Tesla bets will be true too 🤜🤛

The bull market in stocks is only beginning. Everyone is underestimating how big the shortage of compute and power exists. The bears are wrong. The bulls are going to make money. Choose wisely.

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@DavidSacks @theallinpod @Jason @chamath @friedberg Congratulations - you guys rocked big time

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Awesome business case

Crazy 🤯

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