amin gopalani

CHAMPIONS IN MAY 👏🏆🥳

‘Governments that mutely line up behind the US as it prosecutes a sinister, illegal war that threatens to destroy their citizens’ ability to cook and eat aren’t rational actors, they are lemmings’

@akm1410 So cool 🤩

We got the 1950s, early editions of The Famous Five for six. The illustrations by Eileen Soper are incredible!

Trust issues.

@MorningContext @Harveen_A @akm1410 Controlling / making the narrative / propaganda that is fed to the people is far more important than any profit number could ever be .

Losses continue to mount at NDTV and Network18 under Adani Group and Reliance Industries. Both depend on promoter support to stay afloat. @akm1410 Writes: themorningcontext.com/business/adani…

@izakaminska Don’t mean to bring up an admin issue , but I’ve sent @theblindsp0t an email about my renewal but haven’t got a reply as yet . Apologies again but I do miss the daily input

Greetings from beautiful Hay-on-Wye where I’m about to chat stablecoins with Russell Napier and Paul Greatbatch at their annual Weekend of Mistakes gathering. This year the weather is on our side and doing wonders for the Welsh tourist effort. “You’re talking to the only man who left the Cayman Islands to come to Wales in March,” says Russell as I stand next to that said man.

@RPMComo @EntertainedAre @ttmygh Bloody brilliant 🤯🤯🤯😂

@amingopalani @EntertainedAre @ttmygh youtu.be/Q_LFtdLVhQ0?is… I’m annoyed I got the details wrong. Santiago. Not Montevideo. This game is what Mr Keane enthused over. He had more than whiff of intense violence about his teaching. You took zero liberties with him.

Growing the global fanbase. Realpolitik. “Forget the ball and get on with the game” Jack Keane RIP @ttmygh

@RPMComo Next time we meet , I’ll look forward to more stories 👍

@amingopalani @EntertainedAre @ttmygh Jack Keane would have loved your note here Amin. He was a fiercely individual man. Working class. Intensely bright. Deeply cultural, loved English literature, loved his football. Scotland used to produce that combo of man every day. mcilvaney, shankly, busby, stein, Fergie.

@Tahas_Takes You spelt my name wrong . At the end . After all these years 😉. Eid Mubarak to you and your loved ones

Eid Mubarak ho!

And to think once upon a time I thought this was one politician that made some sense . Oh well . Shame on me

Rumours flying round that Alisson's injured...

@ptgorst Is he turning into the new Gomez ? Albeit in a deeper role

Alisson Becker to miss tomorrow’s trip to Brighton. Giorgi Mamardashvili is set to deputise with #LFC not prepared to the take the risk with their No.1 goalkeeper.

@suchetadalal Do a duopoly in any industry and there’s only inconvenience to the customer and minimal impact to the corporate

This explains it all. Looks like @airindia is out of control!!

'Fear Not!' Says Chuck Norris To Calm Trembling Angels buff.ly/P32kH4g

In any other country, Deepak Kumar would have been awarded by the govt and the Police. For Standing by an elderly Muslim Shop keeper, Mohammad Deepak received death threat and a 5 Lakh bounty by Hindu Raksha Dal's Uttarakhand Chief Lalit Sharma. Instead of protecting him, The court refuses to quash FIR against him and passes gag order restraining him from posting on Social Media.

@TechCharts In my experience , shorting is a much tougher skill .. even though the same rules of charting apply . Maybe cause the pullbacks are so much more violent and in my trading career , since the mid 90s , markets have been trending higher most of the time

You are more likely to get chopped anticipating a trend reversal with a short position then acting at the time of weakness in the middle of a trend... Be patient. Short if the price is already in an established downtrend.

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.

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