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@gothburz @AchingThunder This experience is worth $1.2m. So you didn’t lose anything.

My net worth peaked at $1.2 million. None of it was real. I don't mean that philosophically. I mean it was located on servers that have since been turned off. I own eleven properties in the metaverse. Three in Decentraland. Four in The Sandbox. Two in Voxels. One in Otherside. And a beachfront villa in Horizon Worlds that I bought for $214,000 because Mark Zuckerberg called it "the next frontier." The frontier closed last week. It's a mobile app now. Last year I mass DM'd 340 people the phrase "you don't understand how early we are." I have since stopped doing that. Not because I was wrong. Because most of them blocked me. I got into metaverse real estate in November 2021. Everyone was buying. Someone paid $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg's neighbor. In a video game. With no legs. The avatars didn't have legs. I thought that was bullish. "The legs are coming," I told my Discord. "Legs are a roadmap item." Three hundred people reacted with rocket emojis. I called myself a "digital land baron." I put it in my Twitter bio. I put it in my LinkedIn headline. I said it on a podcast that had eleven listeners. Three of them were bots. The rest were my alts. My virtual property has more square footage than my actual apartment. My actual apartment has furniture. Location, location, location. My most valuable asset was a plot next to a virtual Gucci store. Gucci left in 2023. The store is still there. Nobody's in it. It's like a mall in Ohio but with worse graphics and no food court. I held. Diamond hands. That's what we said. "Diamond hands." It means refusing to sell while your investment loses 94% of its value. We turned financial paralysis into a personality trait. A guy in my Discord paid $2.4 million for a 618-parcel estate in Decentraland. Prime district. High foot traffic. I asked him what "foot traffic" meant when the platform had 38 daily active users. He said I didn't understand the technology. I didn't. I still bought more. We had a DAO. A decentralized autonomous organization. That means we voted on decisions. There were nine of us. Three never showed up. Two voted on everything without reading it. The other four were me and my alts. We voted to "acquire strategic parcels." The vote passed unanimously. I voted four times. My portfolio peaked at $1.2 million. I told everyone. I made a spreadsheet. I projected 40x returns by 2025. I made a pitch deck. The pitch deck had a slide that said "WE ARE BUILDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY." The slide had a rocket emoji. That was my entire financial model. In 2023 I bought a Bored Ape for $189,000. It's worth $14,000 now. I don't talk about the Ape. I still use it as my profile picture. People ask me about it. I say "I'm long-term bullish." Long-term bullish means I can't sell it without crying in a Panera. My mom asked me what a Bored Ape was. I said "digital art on the blockchain." She asked why it cost more than her car. I said "you don't understand Web3." She said "I understand you live in a studio apartment." She's not in my Discord. Justin Bieber bought one for $1.3 million. It's worth about $90,000 now. I felt better about mine after I heard that. That's community. WAGMI. We're All Gonna Make It. We said that every day. In the group chat. While the floor dropped. While the volume dried up. While 95% of all NFT collections went to zero. We're all gonna make it. None of us made it. But we said it with conviction and a laser-eye profile picture. That counts for something. It doesn't. But we said it did. That's decentralized consensus. Meta spent $84 billion on the metaverse. I need to say that again. $84 billion. More than the GDP of Luxembourg. More than the GDP of Iceland, Luxembourg, and Malta combined. They spent it on a platform where the avatars had no legs, the graphics looked like a 2006 Wii game, and the peak user count was lower than the lunch rush at a Chipotle in Des Moines. They just pulled Horizon Worlds from VR headsets. It lives on as a mobile app. My beachfront villa is now a mobile app. Location, location, location. Zuckerberg renamed the entire company for this. Facebook became Meta. A $900 billion company changed its legal name because the CEO watched Ready Player One and said "I want that." Reality Labs lost $10 billion in 2021. $14 billion in 2022. $16 billion in 2023. $18 billion in 2024. $19 billion in 2025. That's not a strategy. That's a speedrun. They laid off 1,500 Reality Labs employees this year. Shut down three VR studios. Killed Supernatural. Put the entire VR social vision in a casket and said "we're pivoting to AI and wearables." The pivot took four years and $84 billion. I pivoted too. I'm an AI real estate investor now. I bought a virtual plot in an AI-generated world that doesn't exist yet. The founder said it was "the intersection of spatial computing and large language models." I don't know what that means. I gave him $40,000. He has a whitepaper. It's 47 pages. I read the title and the tokenomics section. The tokenomics section is a pie chart. I love pie charts. They make everything look like a plan. The project has a roadmap. Q1: "Build community." Q2: "Launch beta." Q3: "Scale ecosystem." Q4 is blank. Q4 is always blank. That's where the exit scam goes. My accountant asked me to value my metaverse portfolio for tax purposes. I said $1.2 million. He said "current market value." I said $6,400. He stared at me for eleven seconds. I know because I counted. He asked if I had any other investments. I showed him my NFTs. He stared for longer. I told him they were "cultural artifacts with long-term provenance." He asked if I'd considered a 401k. I told him a 401k was "legacy finance." He told me to leave his office. The metaverse is dead. I don't accept that. I am a digital land baron. I own eleven properties across four platforms. I have a beachfront villa in a mobile app, a plot next to an empty Gucci store, and a cartoon monkey that cost me more than my actual car. Location, location, location. The location is nowhere. But I'm early. I'm always early. That's the same as being wrong except you get to say it with confidence.

Iran Strike Back! 🤣

🧵 Binance Research Macro Brief We analyzed 8 major energy supply disruptions (1979-2019) and identified a consistent "Two-Phase" pricing pattern that markets are currently misreading. Key findings on oil, inflation, and Bitcoin's correlation regime shift below 👇

@TheBonnieChang @YouTube Could you be more specific on the “backend system crash” here? e.g. were all the comments deleted by YouTube or the 3rd party tool?

We are announcing the Lighter Infrastructure Token (LIT)! Lighter is building infrastructure for the future of finance and the native token is key to aligning incentives. In this thread, we will describe the structure of the token, broader vision, and roadmap of use cases.

Looking forward to the $LIT airdrop! I should have participated more, but happy with my 170 points for now. Not sure how much airdrop I will get, but will see... @Lighter_xyz #Lighter

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Many institutions have published their outlook report for #crypto in 2026. Here's a summary of the 10 most promising areas for 2026.

I only got $2,650 alloc, but that's still great! Very well executed public sale @megaeth (especially when compared to @stable @hourglasshq...)!

@hourglasshq wat?

Pre-Deposit Campaign Phase 2: Revised Path Forward Due to overwhelming traffic in the Stable Pre-Deposit vault, we are making the following changes to ensure fair participation and ample time for all users. Deposits: • Users can deposit via the Hourglass frontend or directly on chain (frontend recommended for safety). • Deposits will reopen for another 24 hours from this tweet, up to $1M per wallet. Minimum remains $1k. • Funds remain withdrawable 1:1 at any point until the KYC phase is complete. Non-KYC users may withdraw anytime. • If you successfully deposited earlier, your deposit remains included and will be treated as eligible. Eligibility & KYC: • Users have 72 hours to submit KYC after the deposit window ends. • After KYC review, all eligible deposits will be moved to the custodian before being deposited with our banking partner. • A pro-rata amount of eligible deposits will be sent to our banking partner, and any remainder will be claimable via a withdrawal contract. Allocation Model: • If total eligible deposits exceed $500M, allocations will be pro-rata. • Example: If total eligible = $1B, each wallet receives 0.5× its deposited amount; the remainder is claimable via the withdrawal contract. Settlement: • Final allocations (in USDT) will settle to Stable mainnet by December 31st at the latest. Contract Recovery: • Depositors that accidentally set the contract address as the owner of shares will be able to recover their USDC after the erroneous deposits are transferred to Anchorage custody via the transferToTreasury function.

@nodemonkes is skyrocketing! And @ndestrategy still has 5.3 BTCs in the sweep wallet…

@KryptoHawk17 8123

Guess below what my $ME airdrop will be! Closest one gets 100 $ME Guess must be in before Airdrop hits my wallet.

@Cata_web3 Sky is the limit!

@CryptoApeInEth WHO’S READY FOR 150K??!! 💚📈

$BTC 120k ✅

$PUMP token is coming in a few days. I asked Gemini Deep Research to give a report on it, and here's what it gave: - Avoid the ICO: The project's $4 billion valuation is exceptionally high and conflicts with its sharply declining fundamentals, including a revenue drop of over 75%. - High Risk for Investors: The tokenomics are a major concern, as insiders control 33% of the supply with no clear lockup period, creating immense sell pressure. The platform also faces serious legal and security risks. - Structured as an Insider Exit: The ICO appears to be a liquidity event for the founding team at a peak valuation, rather than a sustainable investment for the public, masked by a speculative narrative of competing with social media giants. Full report is attached.

@BenGruenbaum @MagicEden @MagicEdenComm Same here... The rank barely moves with a few thousand dollars volume.

$ME Season 2 competition is heating up. 🔥🔥🔥 Did a few thousand $$$ in swaps and still moved down a rank from 118-119. It’s challenging here. 👀 Grinders be grinding. Stay the course. End the season with no regrets. 💪

@2298 @MagicEden Thanks, followed back!

@CryptoApeInEth @MagicEden Hello boss! Like you, I've always been a big fan of the BAYC project! For our shared passion, could you follow my Twitter? I'll frequently interact with you!

Top 1% club @MagicEden

@MagicEdenComm Still on my way to 1%

We want to make sure we are following as many of the $ME community as possible. We are starting a mega follow for follow train on this post.. Make sure to follow & support! Who still needs this?!