Matthew Jones

@DefiantLs Major spinster energy

Comedian and actress Chelsea Handler slams marriage as "outdated and a really silly idea... patriarchal" "A bunch of casual encounters. I like that. I like traveling a lot, hooking up with guys, I don't like to get to serious."

@CarSighting Note the prices of fuel!

@avgcryptoguy @JohnB1994 we are so back

all of CT when the new UpOnly drops

@cobie @AzFlin @z0r0zzz @JohnB1994

When ppl claim this I always wonder how they think it happens, or have unrealistic expectations on how much $1bn actually is. I joined crypto with $200. If I held my initial bitcoin since then and never traded, I would have ~$300k. If, instead, from that moment I sold the top and bought the bottom of every crypto cycle on Bitcoin, and never paid any taxes, I would have ~$6m USD. If I put my entire net worth into the Ethereum ICO and never touched it, today I would have ~$150m pre-tax. While it was definitely possible to have made >$1bn with the opportunities in the market, these versions of reality would also require me to make no mistakes, and have no need to spend $ in real life, or take excessive risk via leverage. In reality, I grew up in a working class family. I didn’t have a trust fund and I had to pay off my student loan myself. I had a job at Tescos while at high school. After university, I needed to pay rent and fund cost of living and eventually buy a place to live. I worked at startups for relatively little $ salary, and while a couple have done okay, they still are illiquid and worth nothing until some exit. Perhaps if I erase a couple of dumb mistakes and drawdowns, or if I had a lil more grind, then my answer would be different today. But it is easy to say this with perfect hindsight vision. It’s easy to see where you could have optimised better, and decisions you made look dumb when the past makes things so obvious. The truth is I have always optimised for enjoying my life and not going to 0. I never felt like I had a safety net, so it was never possible for me to do anything in any other way. I would probably have less money if I had tried to add more risk or chased $ harder, because being all-in with your entire livelihood is a mental battle and I feel I only win that battle when the stakes are lower. In writing this, maybe I do understand why CT folks believe this, because modern CT sees crypto as a late-stage lottery ticket farm, where the optimal strategy is to 5x leverage up your portfolio in a hope of catching a good 20% move and then leaving. Or, literally going all-in on the next coin they heard Ansem is buying. So perhaps to them, looking back at the charts, of course that’s what successful folks did. In reality, I use leverage close to never (and typically to reduce risk rather than add risk — have used it to add risk maybe 3 times in the last 5 years, and maybe 15 times ever). I never go all-in on anything, have only ever done that on BTC and ETH before in the last decade. When I buy other things, I limit risk to tiny amounts, because I treat it as a 0 until proven otherwise (so, always <1% liquid portfolio). Liquid portfolio is also a smaller % of overall portfolio to future-proof against my own fuckups. Obviously I made a lot of money, I have been here 12 years! CT doesn’t want to hear about “getting rich in a decade” though. I am happy with where I am and have never really cared or optimised for maximising $ earnings, but instead having a nice life that lets me enjoy the game we play together.

this is a very common and powerful tactic - underplay yourself even if you are giga rich, pretend you're middle class. Places less of a target on your back and makes you more relatable/likeable CT doesn't like rich people b/c there's natural envy

I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating. Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers. What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control. Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU). Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy. A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast — while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms — and allowed them to be taken away. We’ve been fed a lie. We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech. By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction — moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological. So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. WE are running out of time.

@collectingcars_ @JohnB1994

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@eliz883 Hardly, hard to justify holding if this played out yet at the same time BTC and ETH make all time highs. The opportunity cost is too high.

the level it’s good level to be a buyer #FARTCOIN

@BritishHodl Very prophetic, good call!

So shocked at Bitcoins price action today. Like.. shocked. Been gasping all day. (This is sarcasm).

I love this price action on Bitcoin right now, but I don’t love this brand new CME gap at $118,335!!!!!

@Fink_Money System

Two biggest problems I’ve spotted with retail investors. 1) Thinking a stock won’t go higher when it’s at a key high. 2) Thinking their price target matters. Both of these things are limiting your ability to compound your portfolio. You need a system. Reply with ‘system’ and I’ll show you a simple way to start improving.

@cobie @grok @numb_x7 @banditxbt @blknoiz06 @JohnB1994 he’ll be known as Hansem in prison 🤣

@grok @numb_x7 @banditxbt @blknoiz06 😭

i miss @blknoiz06

@zhusu @JohnB1994 just hypergamble

Jesse Livermore net worth in 2021 dollars

@CryptoParadyme @JohnB1994 remember Yats?

does this mean someone is going to buy my Yat for 10 eth?

@horsepower First I’ve seen a 332i! 😂

I’m telling y’all, regamasters look good on almost everything.

@artsch00lreject @JohnB1994

Folks telling me to cashout Take a hedge How about you take a chance? Newsy Johnson

@tittyrespecter @JohnB1994

the 4 horsemen of overconsumption

@Finumus1 @TheFCA @JohnB1994 what a joke

Thanks again to @TheFCA for protecting us from holding this in our ISAs and SIPPs in ETF form.

@MadsPosting Cafe culture @JohnB1994

what peak Europemaxxing looks like

@stanthecup @JamesWynnReal @JohnB1994 incredible

@JamesWynnReal He does it again

Justin Sun is a fucking G.

@tittyrespecter Good clear air morning

good morning

@boldleonidas @PeterSchiff @grok @DiligentDenizen @catturd2 @BasedMikeLee @JohnB1994 PS really wanting to die on this hill wtf

@PeterSchiff @grok @DiligentDenizen @catturd2 @BasedMikeLee

@catturd2 @BasedMikeLee FYI. Pedophiles are attracted to pre- pubescent girls and boys. I'm not defending Epstein. But he had sex with teenage girls, 14-17 that had physically developed sexually. They were underage, so criminal and immoral, but that does not make him a pedophile.