
Merlin.Fi🪄
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Merlin.Fi🪄
@MerlinFimerlin
Conjuring hidden crypto opportunities
In Profits Katılım Şubat 2016
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HOW TO LOSE IN CRYPTO 2026
Are ya winning son?
The bear just rolled into Crypto Town.
Market down. Morale down. Portfolios down.
Two months ago, anyone predicting this would’ve gotten cursed out.
Most people have blown accounts. Others are hanging by a thread. Many are in shock from the brutality. Dreams deferred. High hopes flushed.
If you’re licking wounds right now, know this: you’re in the majority.
I’ve been in this space for over four years. Full-time for most of it.
I’m nowhere near the success I imagined when I jumped in.
I got here on early wins: one fat airdrop for basically nothing, a random coin that 100x’d, a lucky gig.
Then… sporadic hits. No consistency. Just enough to keep hope alive, never enough to change my life.
The stories I hear are the same loop: onboard via airdrop / meme / web3 class → one or two wins → lose, lose, lose → tiny win that stops you from quitting → repeat.
Missed opportunities. Profits not taken. Airdrops faded that printed. Memes sold too early or too late.
No real stack. No life-changing money. No liquidity to hold conviction plays long-term.
Time slips. Hope turns bitter. You keep injecting fresh fiat, but nothing ever comes out.
You’re exit liquidity.
The worst part? You know this industry has real promise. One breakthrough and the upside is insane.
But the “secret formula” keeps dodging you.
If this stings, good. You’re not alone.
Don’t let CT gaslight you—far more are losing than winning. By a lot.
I’ve spent the last two months digging into why.
Here’s the brutal truth:
Doing what everyone else does is the fastest way to lose.
“Only a fool does the same thing over and over and expects a different outcome.”
It’s a new year. Fresh opportunities incoming.
Let’s break the loop. Let’s actually win.
THE GAME
What they don’t tell you: It’s all a game.
Everyone here wants profit—projects, VCs, KOLs, influencers, you.
It’s zero-sum. Player A wins because Player B loses.
Money isn’t printed on-chain; it’s transferred.
No one cares about you. Everyone wants your money, time, or engagement.
The niches? Run by cliques. They can pump, dump, or kill projects on a whim.
This isn’t conspiracy—it’s structure.
Understanding it is step one.
Luck carries you only so far.
To win consistently, you must stop being blind.
Veto every “alpha.” Question every opportunity. Assume they’re trying to milk you.
That single mindset shift pulls you out of the gambler herd.
The house always wins.
But there are still winners—people who found an edge, built systems, refused to follow the crowd.
The crowd is usually wrong here.
To print, be different. Think different. Walk the path least traveled.
When you start stacking consistent wins, the big boys notice. Cliques reach out. Doors open.
But first, you must win.
How do you become different?
How do you approach opportunities smarter?
Let’s go niche by niche.
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"so you staked your ETH on the Ethereum blockchain to earn yield?"
"yes, Dave"
"except you didn't want your capital to be locked up so you actually staked it with a liquid staking protocol called Lido?"
"that's correct, Dave"
"and Lido gave you a liquid staking receipt token called stETH in return?"
"yes, Dave"
"and then you didn't think that was enough, so you juiced the yield even further by depositing your stETH receipt tokens into a restaking protocol called Eigenlayer?"
"you are correct, Dave"
"and now you didn't want to lock up your capital, so you actually restaked with a liquid restaking protocol called KelpDAO who provided you with a liquid restaking receipt token called rsETH?"
"you got it, Dave"
"and then that was surely not enough juice, so you then deposited your rsETH tokens into a lending protocol called AAVE so that you could open a leveraged looping position that borrows ETH against the rsETH collateral and restakes the ETH into rsETH which is then deposited as collateral, except it turns out rsETH used a cross-chain bridge called LayerZero whose security is held together by a 1/1 toothpick, which was obviously hacked by north koreans causing rsETH to become undercollateralized and now these looping positions are stuck and unprofitable, and everyone is pointing fingers at each other, and also DeFi is a very serious industry"
"you are 100% correct, dave"
jfc.

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Ok @elonmusk you've completely lost it if this stands. There's more to this space than just politics. Y'all doing everything to kill this place. Another reminder to the rest of the world what happens when you build on/or trust American systems.
Nikita Bier@nikitabier
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@nikitabier This is just lame and stupid.. American politics affects the whole world, the American government is in everyone's biz! Their actions affect directly/indirectly every country in the world. They poke their noses in everyone's business, but we can't opine on their politics😂😂??
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Starting Thursday, we'll be updating our revenue sharing incentives to better reward the content we want on X:
We will be giving more weight to impressions from your home region—to encourage content that resonates with people in your country, in neighboring countries and people who speak your language.
While we appreciate everyone's opinion on American politics, we hope this will disincentivize gaming the attention of US or Japanese accounts and instead, drive diverse conversations on the platform.
We invite creators to start building an audience locally. X will be a much richer community when there's relevant posts for people in all parts of the world.
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@RobProvince @ugo_likemike @nikitabier @aaronp613 And yet you and your government is in everyone's business trying to control and decide how everyone's life goes, but they can't opine on your dealings that effect their respective countries directly or indirectly?
There's no greater hypocrites than Americans.
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@ugo_likemike @nikitabier @aaronp613 No… you can still share them. With actual people in your country.
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@USS_Murica_1776 @itsmrkemji @nikitabier Like anyone does propaganda like the US and it's delusional citizens
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@itsmrkemji @nikitabier You can still lie and spread your propaganda, you're just not getting paid for it.
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@nikitabier The Internet is supposed to be a global village, what's all this crap?
Is politics the only thing ppl talk about on here?
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@buperac We all know what they said happened isn't what happened
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So you mean to tell me, an airplane can go right through the World Trade Center that had steel structure beams of 4 inch plate every 40” using 12 different grades of steel with a yield strength of 100,000 psi but if the same plane were to run into a firetruck on a runway the plane is completely destroyed.
Got it!

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dude computers are actually so fucking insane when you really think about it. we literally figured out how to write some fake-ass rules called code and somehow convinced rocks to follow them. like actual rocks. sand, melted, purified, carved into tiny pathways where electricity just flows in patterns. that’s it. that’s the whole magic.
and yet from that we get operating systems, compilers, kernels, networks, distributed systems, machine learning models, entire virtual worlds running inside other virtual worlds. billions of tiny electrical decisions per second, all because we defined some abstract logic.
humans basically invented a language of instructions and taught matter itself to execute it.
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