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I'm a Crypto angel investor since 2017 having invested in 100+ startups. Many failures, few unicorns. Follow me for👇 Narratives and Guides: youtube.com/virtualbacon0x Trading Alpha: t.me/vb_trade Community: virtualbacon.com

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8 YEARS OF CRYPTO TRADING ADVICE 🧵 I've been trading crypto full-time for 8 years. Three complete market cycles. Portfolio peaked in the high 7 figures. Also watched it drop to a couple hundred thousand. Got rug pulled for over $1M in a single day. Here are 13 things I wish I knew from day one. 👇

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☕️ GM! Here are the most important market events over the last 24 hours: 🌍Market Overview: 🔸 OPEC+ agreed Sunday to raise June output 188K bpd, the third hike since Hormuz closed. Most of that oil still can't ship past the blockade, but it signals more supply when the Strait reopens. Brent ~. 🔸 OpenAI missed its Q1 internal revenue and user targets per WSJ. CFO Sarah Friar warned the firm could struggle to fund future compute contracts without faster growth. AI infrastructure names slipped on the news. 🔸 Senate Banking Committee voted 13-11 to advance Warsh's Fed Chair nomination Apr 29 along party lines. Full Senate floor vote expected week of May 11; Powell exits May 15. Warsh could be sworn in before then. 🔸 AMD reports Q1 2026 results Tuesday May 5 after market close. Analysts expect .84B in revenue and .27 EPS. Data-center AI chip guidance will be the key read for the broader AI infrastructure trade. 🔸 April NFP releases Thursday May 8 at 8:30 AM ET. March came in at +228K. The first post-Hormuz-conflict labor reading; any softening adds pressure on the Fed ahead of the June 16-17 FOMC. 🔸 ISM Services PMI for April and the Fed's Beige Book both land this week, two more data points before the June 16-17 FOMC decision. 🪙Crypto Updates: 🔸 Reuters investigation: Iran's Nobitex (11M users, 10%+ of population) was founded by sons of the Kharrazi clerical dynasty. Processed sanctioned transactions for the IRGC and Iran's central bank. 🔸 Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko warned that accelerating AI development could break post-quantum cryptographic protections, leaving most cryptocurrencies vulnerable ahead of quantum-capable hardware. 🔸 Hyperliquid HIP-4 prediction market integration goes live Monday May 5, bringing on-chain election, sports, and macro outcome markets to the protocol. HYPE is on the active whitelist. 🔸 Coinbase and Glassnode's Q2 2026 "Charting Crypto" report (April 29) found 75% of global institutional investors view BTC as undervalued at current levels, little changed from December 2025's 71%. 🔸 BTC spot ETFs ended a 9-day inflow streak on April 27 with M in daily outflows per SoSoValue, as macro pressure from Iran tensions and a stronger dollar reversed the April rally flow. 🔸 Roundhill's 6 prediction-market ETFs go effective Monday May 5 per its SEC 485APOS filing. The lineup covers Democratic/Republican President (2028) plus Senate and House (2026 midterms). #Bitcoin #Crypto #Markets

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#Gold is the one asset that wins in every macro scenario right now. Recession? Flight to safety. Inflation stays hot? Hard asset hedge. Rate cuts? Real yields drop, gold rallies. Even in the soft landing case, central banks are still buying at record pace. I've been saying for months that gold above $3,000 is not the ceiling, it's the floor.

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☕️ GM! Here are the most important market events over the last 24 hours: 🌍Market Overview: 🔸 S&P 500 surged 2.51% to 6,782 on Wednesday, Nasdaq +2.80% to 22,635, Dow +1,325 points. Biggest single-day gain since April 2025. Tech and airlines led; energy lagged. 🔸 FOMC March minutes: 11-1 hold at 3.50-3.75%. "Some participants" saw a "strong case" for hike language. Sole dissent: Miran, who wanted a 25 bps cut. 🔸 Iran ceasefire is already cracking. Iran re-blocked Hormuz Wednesday evening after Israeli strikes on Lebanon. VP Vance will travel to Islamabad this weekend to lead talks. 🔸 Oil reversed hard. Brent bounced from a $90 intraday low back to ~$98 by Thursday morning. Spot-futures backwardation hit $30, reflecting acute physical scarcity. 🔸 Meta launched Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs (led by Alexandr Wang). Near-parity with Google/OpenAI on reasoning. META rose 6.5% to $612. 🔸 Anthropic restricted Claude Mythos to 40 companies for cybersecurity use, calling it too dangerous for public release. $100M in credits pledged via Project Glasswing. 🪙Crypto Updates: 🔸 BTC is at ~$71,234, drifting lower as the ceasefire rally fades. Fear and Greed Index dropped to 14 (Extreme Fear) despite the equity surge. 🔸 Iran will charge ~$1/barrel in Bitcoin for Hormuz transit during the ceasefire. ~$2M per supertanker, paid in seconds. The IRGC vets vessels by "friendliness ranking." 🔸 MSBT Day 1: Morgan Stanley's BTC ETF pulled $33M and traded 1.6M shares, top 1% of all ETF debuts. All inflows from MS's own 16,000-advisor network. 🔸 Ethereum Foundation is converting 5,000 ETH (~$11M) into stablecoins via CoW DAO's TWAP feature to fund grants and R&D. 🔸 LINK rose 5.22% after Swift completed CCIP cross-chain trials with major banks. Chainlink now has $18B in monthly CCIP volume (+62% QoQ) and 18 new integrations. 🔸 BitMine moved its listing from Nasdaq to NYSE and expanded its stock buyback to $4B. The company now holds 4.8M ETH (3.98% of total supply), 79% toward its 5% target. 🔸 Treasury Secretary Bessent published a WSJ op-ed calling the CLARITY Act a national security imperative. Senate markup is expected when Congress returns April 13.

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The SEC formally clarified that mining and staking rewards are not securities transactions. This is a bigger deal than people realize. It means validators and miners aren't accidentally running unregistered securities operations every time they earn block rewards. For $ETH stakers especially, this removes a cloud that has been hanging over the network since the merge.

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Joining @Neo_Blockchain live AMA now with @dahongfei and @Tanzeel_Akhtar. Was on the first one in March, back to dig into the restructuring proposal. Come ask your questions. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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The SEC just released a framework that explicitly classifies 16 tokens as non-securities, including most major Layer 1s and several DeFi governance tokens. After a decade of regulation by enforcement, we finally have actual written guidance. The list reads like a who's who of blue-chip crypto. This framework is what the industry has been asking for since 2017, and the market hasn't fully priced in what it means for institutional allocation.

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🪙Crypto Updates: 🔸 $BTC is at ~$72,148, holding post-ceasefire gains into CPI. ETH at $2,218 (+1.3%). Fear and Greed still at 14. 🔸 Circle launched CPN, a full-stack USDC settlement layer for banks and payment providers. CEO demo: $68M settled across 8 entities in under 30 minutes. 🔸 XRP led all crypto assets with $120M in weekly global ETP inflows. XRP-Tokyo 2026 drew 3,000+ attendees and announced 12 new ODL currency pairs. 🔸 SOL ETF AUM crossed $1B, with Bitwise BSOL holding 78% market share. Jupiter launched Offerbook and Manifest options on Solana. 🔸 TAO crashed 27% ($900M wiped) after Covenant AI exited Bittensor. Sam Dare accused founder Steeves of centralized control, sold 37,000 TAO, and pulled Subnets 3, 39, and 81. 🔸 CLARITY Act update: Hagerty targeting late-April Senate Banking markup. Lummis says the stablecoin yield dispute is "99% resolved."

☕️ GM! Here are the most important market events over the last 24 hours: 🌍Market Overview: 🔸 March CPI printed 3.4% YoY (in-line), the hottest headline since mid-2022. Feb core PCE hit 3.0%. Gasoline surged ~30% MoM. Core CPI stayed contained at 2.7%. 🔸 S&P 500 rose 0.62% to 6,824 Thursday, its 7th straight up day. Nasdaq 100 +0.72%. Amazon led the Mag 7 at +5.61%. Dow back in the green for 2026. 🔸 Iran ceasefire Day 3: only 22 ships through Hormuz in 3 days vs. 129/day pre-war. Trump warned Iran to stop the toll regime. Brent at $96.50. 🔸 VP Vance arrives in Islamabad today for the highest-level US-Iran talks since 2013. Indirect format; expert sessions today, principals Saturday. 🔸 Meta and CoreWeave expanded their AI cloud partnership to $21B through 2032. The deal includes early deployments of Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform. CRWV and META both rose. 🔸 Cerebras is in roadshow for an April Nasdaq IPO at $22-25B, raising ~$2B (Morgan Stanley-led). Wafer-scale chips, $10B OpenAI deal, claims 20x faster inference than Nvidia.

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Apple is rebuilding Siri from the ground up with on-device LLM inference and deep system integration across every Apple product. When Siri can read your emails, check your calendar, control your apps, and reason across all of it locally, the ChatGPT standalone app becomes a detour. Apple doesn't need the best model. They need a good enough model with the best distribution, and they have 2 billion devices.

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Every major AI lab is spending billions on compute, and virtually all of it flows through Nvidia. The Blackwell architecture is sold out through 2027, margins are above 75%, and the data center segment alone is growing faster than most entire companies. I keep hearing that $NVDA is "priced in" but the earnings revisions keep going up, not down. At 25x forward earnings for a company growing revenue 90% YoY, this is still the safest AI bet in the market.

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13/x My Q2 game plan in plain terms: 🔸Gold is the best risk-adjusted bet. 🔸Ceasefire is fragile, watch oil, not headlines. 🔸Next 2-3 inflation prints will all be bad. 🔸 $BTC could see $52K if macro deteriorates. 🔸Clarity Act and new Fed Chair are the two big wildcards.

My Q2 game plan for $BTC and the Stock Market🧵 Q1 2026 is done. $BTC dropped 23.8%. Worst Q1 since 2018. Stocks had their worst quarter since 2022. All of it in 32 trading days. Driven by one thing, oil. Here's my full Q2 plan. 👇

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9/x The S&P 500 is still below the 200-day SMA. That's the line between bull and bear territory. Every previous time the S&P stayed below it for more than 8-10 days, it led to bigger drawdowns. 13% to 16%+ in recent cycles. If it doesn't reclaim that level soon, base case target is ~5,700.

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7/x That means the Fed stays trapped. No rate cuts until at least June. Probably later. Jerome Powell's final FOMC meeting is April 28-29. He won't have the numbers to justify a cut. The earliest anyone could hear anything positive from the Fed is the August Jackson Hole meeting.

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6/x Core PCE also excludes gas prices directly. It picks up the secondary effects, delivery costs, transport, supply chain a quarter later. So the damage keeps flowing through even after oil drops. Bottom line: expect the next 2-3 inflation prints to all come in hot.