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@gothburz @MuseumofCrypto Why is early in bad?

@louachu2 @MuseumofCrypto Early in. Late out. The timing was perfect in the wrong direction on both ends. That takes talent.

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.

@DarrigoMelanie The limit is $3,500 now.

The maximum an individual can legally donate to a candidate in an election is $3300. Elon donated $277M to Trump in 2024 because of loopholes rich people use to buy elections. If you care about election integrity — overturn Citizens United so our elections aren’t auctions.

@AdamWeitsman @Captain_Rugsy @hvmtl2 @Gabrielesm1 Is there a deadline for this? Almost missed last deadline.

Huge news ….. let’s go @hvmtl2 !!!!! Lots of hard work went into this for our community. You have no idea 😂 Congrats @Gabrielesm1 !!!! Proud of you brother !!!!

@Fityeth Running

People who don't drink and smoke, how do you manage stress?

@TheMiamiApe Check out partnering with a PEO like Insperity. Worth every penny.

If you run your own business in the U.S., what do you do for health insurance?

@spark888 I don’t have any of that. I’m just looking to not over complicate cost basis calculations

@louachu2 Will you encounter the issue of ill-gotten money when trading stable coins on centralized exchanges？

This is going to be all I do from now on.

@Feld4014 Love it

We gotta launch a project with whitelist for the down bad crew. The never sellers. The algorithmically proven bag holders who are here for straight vibes. If you had to launch a project in this space and give whitelist to 2000 people who you think would never sell, could you?

@CryptoTaxGirl Pro tip.

If you want to make your taxes simpler in 2026, only use centralized exchanges as on/off ramps for stables. If you keep the rest of your crypto activity elsewhere, you can just report your crypto taxes as you normally would and don't have to worry about reconciling to 1099-DAs.

@tedcruz I mean Claude totally ignores Hinduism, which is the world’s oldest living religion and the third largest religion in the world, so I would say it still has a lot to learn and the analysis is incomplete at best.

Every Christian should read this. Every non-Christian—especially—really should read this. It’s powerful, insightful & beautiful. 🙏🙏🙏

@accounting @SenLummis please look into this.

We just obtained a NEW form the IRS is sending in crypto audits. It lists 100+ exchanges: Coinbase, Binance, Kraken, FTX, Mt. Gox AND self-custody wallets like MetaMask, Ledger, and Trezor. You have to check YES or NO for EVERY SINGLE ONE. Then sign it. Under penalties of PERJURY. The IRS isnt auditing your trades in a single year. They want a COMPLETE MAP of everywhere your crypto has ever been, going back YEARS. Forget a platform you used once in 2017? That’s a problem. Disclose too many? You just opened new lines of inquiry. Don’t respond at all? They’ll issue a summons. This is a trap dressed up as paperwork. DO NOT sign this form without a crypto tax attorney. We’re watching this closely. More analysis coming on our blog.

@BitcoinUndisc Claude seemed to have entirely missed Hinduism despite it being the third largest religion in the world …

@ChrisDJackson Dems weren’t bullied into dropping him. They made a cynical choice to bully HIM out and anti-democratically install Kamala as the nominee without a single vote after a horrible debate performance.

Joe Biden should be in year six of his presidency right now. Instead, Democrats let the media bully them into dumping their own sitting president over a manufactured health panic. Today he’s still standing. Still fighting. Still the same Joe Biden we have all known and loved for decades. History will not be kind to the summer of 2024 or those who stabbed him in the back and helped propel this nation into utter destruction.

@BoredApeYC @MonroeKapital Two of my favorite things — Jimmy Buffett and BAYC!

Bored Ape Yacht Club

@AndrewKaufmanMD This is why I do mine totally unsedated. Super easy procedure, no sedation risk, and more likely to stop perforation before it happens due to feeling too much pressure. With colon cancer on the rise, important to screen, but minimize your risk.

Let’s pause and think about what actually happens during a colonoscopy. You’re sedated. A flexible tube with a small camera is inserted into the colon so physicians can examine the lining and remove abnormal growths at the discretion of the doctor. That lesion may become cancerous in 15-20 years or it may never become cancer. In the meantime, poking a little too hard with the instruments can make a hole, leaking fecal matter into your abdominal cavity. So you could end up with emergency surgery for a possible lesion that could possibly become cancerous someday. Now, instead of reacting emotionally or projecting the program you’ve been given, step back and think logically. Does this sound like a good idea? When a procedure can lead to death or permanent damage, don’t you think it’s time to rethink our approach?

@SawyerMerritt Bummer especially on the loyalty bonus

NEWS: Tesla has removed the Model S and Model X from the referral program. New owners also no longer get a $1,000 referral discount on a new Cybertruck Premium AWD or Cyberbeast. Instead, you now get 3 months of FSD (Supervised). Additionally, Tesla has reduced the loyalty discount to $500 (from $1,000) that existing Tesla owners get when buying a new Model S, Model X or Cybertruck (Cybertruck dual-motor AWD not eligible).

@BarackObama @printdough If you were serious about solving this, you would go after it on both sides rather than turning it into a partisan attack/gimmick for more Democrat gerrymandering.

Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack. Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections. Now Virginia has a chance to help level the playing field. If you live in the Commonwealth, early voting begins March 6, and Election Day is on April 21. Vote YES.

@CongruentAlways @saylordocs When the business fails, the employees lose their job too, but yet had none of the upside when things were good. I’ll take owning all day.

@saylordocs Just look at the percentages of businesses that fail. Owning a business is not a flex

hot take: 9-5 with a high salary is better than owning your own business.

@SawyerMerritt @Tesla Yup. Super dumb they are discontinuing it.

Sean Hannity on the @Tesla Model S Plaid: “It is the greatest car I’ve ever had in my life. When I put it in auto drive (FSD Supervised) and people are with me, they’re freaking out. They just can’t belive how great this technology is. It’s the greatest rocket ship, kickass car I’ve ever driven.”