Prospector

@BNONews If this isn’t confirmation that we are living in a simulation, then I don’t know what is

BREAKING: Chuck Norris has died at 86, his family says

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.

@JackFarley96 @SquirrelMacro Great episode!

OUT NOW - @SquirrelMacro loves owning stocks but keeps seeing reasons to lighten his bag, from: - mega IPO issuance of money-losing companies - cracks in software & private credit - U.S. consumer weakening Apple shorturl.at/ZbZiN Spotify shorturl.at/gIGmL

@LynAldenContact @Rainmaker1973 So it is possible!

@Rainmaker1973 No, but then again it’s a movie about magical zombies, so…

Is this possible?

@MarketWizard94 Words to live by

Buy when the world is ending, sell when CT is calling for a breakout.

We often blame the system, hoping change will come from outside. Yet, real transformation starts within. Every choice you make, from what money you use to how you act, reflects your values. Choose an honest protocol. Align your actions with what you truly believe.

@LukeGromen Did your kid get an email and you wrote this like it’s happening to a significantly broader apartment population?

Corporate-owned apartments in a major SE US city are sending emails to existing tenants offering to hold rent flat for the next 12 months IF they renew their lease within 24 hrs. Rents in recent years had been rising 7-9%. Rental market must have turned down notably & quickly.

@Melt_Dem Agreed. PoS is a POS. ETH was much more interesting before the merge

imagine if ETH had stayed PoW - we'd have so many Coreweaves the universe always demands PoW because it is thermoeconomic - thank you for coming to my TED talk

A caterpillar doesn’t know it’s preparing to become a butterfly. It’s just living. eating leaves, crawling around, doing what caterpillars do. But something is happening beneath the surface. Something is gathering. Something is building. Your 20s and 30s are like this. You think you’re just living your life. making your mistakes, building your career, trying to figure out who you’re supposed to be. But really, you’re gathering evidence. You’re collecting experiences that will only make sense decades later. You’re learning lessons you cannot possibly understand until you’ve lived them thoroughly. When you’re young, everything feels urgent. That job rejection feels like the end of the world. That relationship ending feels like you’ll never recover. That mistake you made feels like a permanent mark on your character. Because when you’re young, you believe every moment is defining you—that every choice is setting your fate in stone, that every failure is a statement about your fundamental worth. But here’s what they don’t tell you in your 20s: all of that urgency is just noise. It’s the sound of your ego desperately trying to construct itself, trying to build an identity out of achievements and possessions and other people’s opinions. And the ego must be built. This is crucial. You cannot skip this step. You must first believe you are somebody before you can discover that you are nobody. Or rather, that you are everybody. That beneath the roles and the masks, you are the whole dance. - Alan Watts

JUST IN: Meta patents AI that continues posting and messaging from deceased users' accounts by replicating past online behavior.

@DonAlt Brain dead fanboys

Can someone give me a reason why $TSLA should be worth what it is worth? To me -The AI kind of sucks in comparison to the competition -The cars suck horrendously in comparison to the competition in China -Twitter isn't hugely successful Is it all about SpaceX? Or what else?

@palis You need to pay $20 per month to understand

Finally sat down to read it after 15 RTs and I couldn’t have been more disappointed with the lack of new information or value

What the fuck is wrong with everyone glazing this article it’s literally saying the same thing every AI gooning acc alarmist has been saying for over a year You guys need to stop filling your brains with recency-slop 24/7 and maybe try learning anything outside the ‘current thing’ for a day

@LynAldenContact There is bad and then there is this

In a context where they could record this as often as they want, and still end up with this, speaks volumes. Jesus Christ.

This comes off like a hostage video. China's exports are currently at an all-time high.

@the_freightrain Only one of these gets you drunk tho

Big alcohol is really pushing hard on big weed. Over time weed is going to obviously win. Negative health impacts of alcohol are too big to ignore generation to generation.

To put into perspective how bad we got screwed by the Trump administration. January 2025: BTC and Alts were primed to take off. $TRUMP and $MELANIA drop within the same weekend and obliterate all liquidity. February - April 2025: There was infinite tariff nonsense that churned all markets down. Believe it or not, the Federal Reserve was always lowering interest rates in 2025. Trump introduced random uncertainty out of no where. Even when other markets started to bounce, crypto started to lag like crazy. October 2025: BTC has JUST hit ATHs and Alts were recovering the first week of October. Then Trump announced some nonsense China related tariff headline late Friday afternoon. Crypto gets obliterated once again. November 2025 - January 2026: Equities and metals have their blowoff top while crypto is still reeling from 10/10. February 2026: Between the social unrest, Epstein files, and a worthless Fed chair replacement for Powell, all markets (but especially crypto) get slaughtered again. This guy has done NOTHING except line up his and his family's pockets at the expense of crypto.

@nytimes @TheAthletic

From @TheAthletic: Reports have surfaced before the Winter Olympics that allege ski jumpers are injecting their penises with hyaluronic acid to fly farther. The World Anti-Doping Agency has vowed to investigate. nyti.ms/4r10aaA

Did @coingecko really just send a rocket ship notification for bitcoin crossing 68k?

300+ former Justice Dept attorneys ask Pam Bondi to allow local investigators to probe Alex Pretti & Renee Good killings They argue blocking state/local agencies from investigating potential violations of state law in their own jurisdictions "poses a threat to the rule of law"

have literally any of the people in the Epstein files just unilaterally released their side of all of the emails they had with him and disclosed every time they met with him?? the fact that no one has (afaik) pretty much tells you all that you need to know