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5/5: So, don't go there. Leverage is a trap for most traders. If you’re in this for the long haul, owning spot assets and avoiding leverage is the only way to survive. Read our LinkedIn post for a more... voluminous view: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

4/5: December 2024’s crash saw a $1.7 billion liquidation event, with altcoins like XRP (-22%) and Cardano (-23%) hit hardest. A single ETH trade worth $19.69M was force-liquidated on Binance. History repeats: retail traders lose, institutions win.

1/5: Crypto markets don’t crash out of nowhere. When leverage builds up, it sets the stage for massive liquidations—wiping out traders while exchanges profit. We’ve seen this happen in 2021, again in 2024, and it won’t be the last time. Here’s how to prepare: 🧵👇

8/ 🚨 Final thought: • The market doesn’t care about your hopes, dreams, or bullish Twitter threads. • Policy, liquidity, and fear drive price. • Without ETF inflows, #Bitcoin is stuck in quicksand. So, buckle up. The Trump trade is dead. The Fed isn’t saving you. Institutional buyers are gone. Support at $85.6K is your lifeline. If it breaks, things get ugly fast.

7/ 🚨 What’s Next? • $85.6K-$84K = critical support. If it holds, we might see a bounce to $92K-$96K. • If it breaks? $75K is next, and fast. • MVRV ratio suggests undervaluation, but ETF outflows = no buy pressure. • @coinbase reports 30% spike in buy orders below $90K. Some are buying the dip. • Google searches for “Bitcoin crash” up 45%, “How to short Bitcoin” up 60%. • Some see opportunity. Others are getting the hell out.

1/ I’ll bet you’re still wondering what happened. Well, don’t. It’s all part of the plan I laid out for you a while ago: #HODL for at least a month after the elections until the Trump fleur rubs off, and then… Do whatever. Right now, Bitcoin tanked 9.7% in five days, crashing from $98,442 (Feb 20) to $88,863 (Feb 25), erasing $230B from the market. This was a full-blown sell-off triggered by a toxic mix of political, economic, and technical failures - something our Judeo-Christian, Austrio-Kensian, Putino-Trumpian modernity promises a lot of in the coming years. Here’s how it breaks down:

Glenn, please, PLEASE 🙏ask him about re-centralization of Bitcoin and coopting of #crypto by bigwigs like @BlackRock , @Fidelity and such. Though I do realize that these Bitcoin conferences pay very well and, as far as I can tell, public speaking is Edward's main source of income theses days, I beleive by now he should have formed an hones topinion on Bitcoin as an engine for self-soveregnity. Please ask him to give it to you! Big fan of you both.

Well, it’s all fine and good to put voting on the #blockchain, making it so transparent that every citizen can monitor elections from their phone or computer. But the problem isn’t just the technology - it’s the cost, the legal hurdles, and the sheer scale of implementation. We’re talking billions of dollars spent on technical and regulatory issues alone. And who’s going to win the contracts to build this shiny new system? Drumroll.....😎 So we’ll do this whole “freedom through technology” dance, only to end up right back where we started. The infrastructure may change, but the fundamental issue - government corruption and the disproportionate power of the 1% over the 99% - won’t be solved by simply throwing blockchain at it; Do you think the powers that be are just going to hand over their control of elections to an app? To a piece of software? Get real. And honestly, blockchain isn’t even necessary for fair elections. Plenty of countries manage just fine without it. The real issue, especially in the U.S., isn’t a lack of technological innovation - it’s money in politics. @joerogan put it plainly a while back, and I happen to agree wholeheartedly: the solution isn’t new tech; it’s getting the money out of politics. As long as elections are treated as a market and your vote as an asset, any new system - no matter how innovative - will just be another tool for whoever gets paid to implement it. So will blockchain alone make elections more honest? I really, really doubt it. Especially when the contract to build it inevitably goes to the highest bidder - @elonmusk , Alex Karp @PalantirTech, or someone just like them.

@senamakel I wouldn't buy an unsharpenned pencil from this guy. Just look at him, look at his face...

I kept this photo to remind me of that wild moment 😂 I spoke to my colleagues about this and they said this was Hayden's normal thing and I just had to ignore it. 🤷‍♂️

A funny story about the $LIBRA orchestrator Hayden Davis. A long time ago I met him to launch a NFT collection for $MAHA. Hayden invited me to a fancy sushi restaurant in LA for dinner called Nobu which was pretty famous. During the meet, we sat together to discuss the launch and Hayden ordered almost everything that was super expensive in the menu. When the food came, I never saw a person eat so much sushi so quickly. I wondered if it was humanly possible to consume that much sushi but there it happened right there in front of me. We spoke a bit, brainstormed a few things, made some promises, but nothing really valuable came out of the meeting. When it came time to pay the bill, Hayden said he quickly had to go to the washroom and so he left. The bill had just come. I waited for over 20 mins for Hayden to come back and it was getting to late. I looked around my seat and surprisingly saw him hiding far away near washrooms peaking at our table. Was he waiting for me to foot the bill? 😂 After inviting me over to an expensive sushi restaurant and eating all the food? I don't know how it's like in America, but if someone invites you as a guest, they're supposed to pay the bill or at least offer to split it with you. I decided it was getting to late so I'd pay the bill myself. It was 2000$ 😂 I was pretty broke then (ngl) but whatever I sucked it up and paid the bill. As soon as I did, lo and behold, Hayden came back from the washroom. After 30 minutes. He told me he was surprised that I paid the bill and that the next meal was on him. Whatever man... After that he then went ahead screwed up my NTF launch 😂. I should've known better.

This clip, this interview with Hayden Davis - the brains behind the #LIBRA token, the latest rug pull that occurred a few days ago and grabbed public attention simply because it was promoted by none other than the President of Argentina, Javier Milei - is basically all you need to know about investing in meme coins. The cynicism behind this - the idea that it’s perfectly acceptable to game the system simply because, unlike in public markets, meme coin investing is an unregulated scam, and openly admitting to it - is absolutely appalling. This particular scheme is what gives #crypto a bad name. Personally, I’d like to rid the crypto space of this meme coin nonsense, this garbage, this worthless brown stuff, and shift the focus to crypto’s true genius and power: decentralized cross-border value transfer through mechanisms that DO work, that DO exist and @TrastraOfficial is the brightest example. P.S. KOL - Key Opinion Leader P.P.S. Full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=EqizJT…

It IS crazy. Our take on it: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

The one way to avoid taxes completely is to do nothing. Buy your crypto, #HODL it, never move it. As long as you don’t stake it, swap it, or touch it in any way, there’s no taxable event. END.

How do we track this stuff? We don’t always. But we expect you to report it. And if we ever decide to audit you, we’ll be looking at your transactions. Centralized exchanges? Easy. Self-reported DeFi? Trickier. But let’s just say that blockchain transactions are less anonymous than you think.

• Swapping tokens (e.g., panic-swapping your #ETH for #Poopcoin)? Boom. Taxable event. • Staking rewards? That’s income, my guy. • Providing liquidity and receiving LP tokens? Congratulations, you just engaged in a complex taxable event. • Yield farming? The CRA’s watching you harvest those gains. • Selling an NFT you minted for ‘fun’? Hope you like capital gains tax.