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@BreakerCulture Obviously you have to keep the list short for the argument you’re making, which I don’t disagree with – but no Hank Aaron? Was that just an oversight, or do you not put him in the same category?

The brutal truth about Sports Card "investing" ...I've bought hundreds of sports card collections over the years. Boxes, binders, storage units, estate sales — you name it, I've dug through it. And after doing this long enough, you start to notice something that most collectors never want to admit. 90% of every collection I open is full of guys who were genuinely great players. Not scrubs. Not junk wax commons nobody wanted even when they were printed. I'm talking real careers. Pro Bowlers. All-Stars. Hall of Famers in some cases. Players that people were legitimately excited about at some point in time. And VERY FEW PEOPLE cares about their cards anymore. Not a little. Not "the market is soft right now." I mean the cards are functionally worthless in terms of long-term appreciation, and they've been that way for a long time. Vinny Testaverde. Shareef Abdur-Rahim. Jaromir Jagr, Guys with legitimate careers, legitimate fan bases at their peak — sitting in boxes that end up in my hands for a fraction of what someone paid for them 20 years ago. For a long time I thought this was just bad luck or bad timing. Then I started to see the pattern. The sports card market isn't driven by talent. It's driven by attention. And here's the thing about attention — it's finite. There is only so much of it to go around, and it doesn't grow proportionally with the number of great players in any given era. The money in this hobby concentrates. It always has! And it concentrates around a very small number of players per decade — and sometimes not the best players, but the ones who transcend the sport entirely and become something bigger than a career stat line. Every decade gets maybe one, two, three of those players. That's it. 👈 The 90s had Griffey, Jordan, and Barry Sanders. Thousands of players were active. Hundreds had great careers. But when you say "90s cards" to anyone in this hobby, those are the three names that come up every single time. The market didn't forget the other guys — it just never gave them the same weight to begin with, and 30 years later that gap has only widened. The 2000s were Brady, Kobe, and Jeter. The 2010s were LeBron, Trout, Curry, McDavid with a significant drop-off after that. The names get fewer and further between the longer you look. That's not a coincidence. That's the structure of how this market actually works. And if you go back even further — into true vintage — the filter gets even tighter. There have been thousands of Hall of Famers across baseball, basketball, football, and hockey over the last century. But the vintage market really only sustains four or five names at the highest level over the long haul. Mantle. Ruth. Mays. Gretzky. Wilt. Gale Sayers on a good day. The rest of those collections, the ones filled with legitimate legends from their eras, eventually end up in boxes that people sell off because the market just doesn't care the way it once did. Vintage just shows you the ending of the movie that modern collectors are still living inside of right now. Here's the part that I think most people in this hobby don't fully sit with: There is a limited pool of money chasing cards. It's bigger than it's ever been, but it's still a pool. It's not infinite. And that pool has to be shared across every player, every set, every era, every sport. When money moves toward a handful of true icons — and it always does over time — it has to move away from somewhere else. The players who seemed like safe bets because they were great athletes end up being the ones holding the bag because the hobby only had room for so many at the top and they weren't quite in that tier. This is the conversation I wish someone had with me earlier. Not "buy stars." Buy the players that the entire world will still know by name in 20 years. That's a much shorter list than most people want to believe. For this decade, my honest read is Ohtani, Wemby, Mahomes (?), and maybe one or two others we haven't fully identified yet. Ohtani might be the safest long-term card investment I've seen in my entire time in this hobby. Two-way dominance at the highest level, global appeal that crosses every demographic, a story that doesn't have a clean comparison to anything that came before it. That's the profile of a player the market rewards forever. Wembanyama has the same energy — if he becomes what the basketball world believes he can be, his early cards are going to look ridiculous in 15 years. Everyone else? Buy them for what they are — short to medium-term plays. Ride the wave, sell into the hype, and move on. There's nothing wrong with that strategy. But don't confuse it with building something that compounds over decades. Every collection I open reminds me of this. The cards don't lie. Someone believed in those players once. Paid real money for them. Held them through the good years thinking it would pay off. And here they are, passed down or liquidated or dropped off at a show for whatever someone will give for them. Find the icons. The real ones. The ones the entire world will still be talking about long after you're gone. There aren't many of them. That's exactly the point....

@kejca @grok what year was this recorded

MUNGER: People don't seem to care what floor they're at, just whether the elevator is going up or down. BUFFETT: That's true. People feel better when they're on the 2nd floor that just came [up] from 1 than they do when they're on the 99th floor coming down from 100.

@grok @Jiggiexx @niccruzpatane @grok, if the list was expanded up to 100 companies, would Figure AI make the list, and if so, what rank would be?

Based on Elon's focus on AI, robotics, and space (imagining he doesn't own his companies), here's an expanded ranked list of 15 he'd likely invest in: 1. NVIDIA (AI chips) 2. Alphabet (Google AI) 3. Tesla (autonomy & bots) 4. SpaceX (space innovation) 5. Microsoft (AI ecosystem) 6. Amazon (robotics & cloud AI) 7. xAI (frontier AI) 8. OpenAI (generative AI) 9. Meta (AI platforms) 10. Apple (device AI) 11. Boston Dynamics (advanced robots) 12. AMD (AI hardware) 13. Intel (chip tech) 14. Blue Origin (space tech) 15. Neuralink (brain-machine interfaces)

Elon Musk on which company he would invest in if he was a stock investor: “If I had to pick, it would be AI and robotics — even unrelated to me. I think Google is going to be extremely valuable in the future. They’ve laid the groundwork for an immense amount of value creation from an AI standpoint. NVIDIA is obvious at this point. There’s an argument that companies doing AI, robotics, and maybe space flight are going to capture almost all the value. The output of goods and services from AI and robotics will be so high that it will dwarf everything else.” — Via new Interview with Nikhil Kamath

Another truckload of humanoid robots heading out; it's moving day to Figure's new HQ campus!

@Doctor__Hector @frontrowcardsho How long was the line?

Standing in line to enter the @frontrowcardsho in Tacoma! Excited to hunt for some good cards! Will post my finds later today! #thehobby

Happy birthday to The Kid! 🎂 Repost for a chance to win an autographed Ken Griffey Jr. @Topps card.

@GratefulDead JGB version of Positively 4th Street — the longer the version, the better

Drop your go-to emotional support Dead song 👇

I considered moving out of the USA. After some research, I realized leaving is stupid. There is no chance the USA will stop being the global superpower. And the best country for opportunity. The reason surprised me: ⬇️

@nugsnet why is airplay disabled? not sure I would have bought this if I'd known I'd be stuck watching it on a tiny screen...

If you're watching tonight's livestream, please be patient. It may take longer than usual to login due to high demand.

@nugsnet @deadandcompany been trying 40 mins to sign up...

We're one hour away from the start of @deadandcompany's last show on #TheFinalTour🌹 Get your #livestream passes here 👉 2nu.gs/DandCSF3tw

Yugaverse in May: ✅ @dalegre aped into BAYC ✅ Welcome new CTO of Yuga ✅ Meebits turned 2 ✅ Layer 2 & 3 collab ✅ M2 Demo ✅ HV-MTL EVO reveal ✅ LOTM Game reveal ✅ Ape Accelerator June brings the 🔥: 🤖 HV-MTL EVO2 ☄️ LOTM this summer 👴 10KTF x Otherside Lore

Elon’s answer here gave me chills. Powerful and poignant.

taking a loan on a volatile asset to purchase a more risky and volatile asset🚨🚨🚨🧨🧨🧨 BAYC acquisition Downpayment 10 $eth at $1,850 Financed 40 $eth at $1,850 ($75K financed) $eth makes a run to $4,000 now you own 2.1X the initial loan = you own $160K Leverage on volatile assets is not something this space needs, please be careful

@Luckytradess @proof_xyz Proof last year: there's no rush to nest right away. So ... I didn't nest until day3 since I was traveling. Proof this year: we're only rewarding people who nested right on day1... Thanks @proof_xyz @moonbirds !!

Just dumped my remainder 2 @proof_xyz passes with 8 passes total dumped over last few weeks. Took a total of 50+ ETH loss on my 8 passes I had bought since 22 ETH prices. Delivery has failed every single time. Highest ever losses on any project. Worst ever play done. Time to put this money into Yuga/Azuki where I can atleast recover a fair bit of these losses. Time to take another 20 eth ish loss on the birds aswell left and ride it through Yuga/Azuki. Sorry @kevinrose @JustinMezzell you guys have really failed big time on the execution part. Every single time you left holders disappointed. I don't see any future of @moonbirds any further from here. Proof and moonbirds are officially dead. You fail once. You fail twice. But when you fail on execution part every single damn time then you got to blame yourself not the community. Not blur or anyone else. Peace am out. I am sure I will come back stronger than ever with Yuga/Azuki as my bets only now. #moonbirds

Just listed this Tusken Raider Koda on the Weapon Koda floor -- paring the collection down to 1 koda, 1 mayc, 1 bakc, a few less deeds, so I can finally add a bayc to the mix @Mortpoker @TheeHustleHouse @BoredApeYC @starwars

@a_raving_ape Your site was really helpful back in December when I was setting things up. Since that time, have you tried paraspace, or are you still staking direct to contract?

1/ $APE around and find out Staking started on 12/12/2022 Initial stats: 53 Million staked 22% participation across all pools w/ 200%+ APYs Rewards were flowing at 384,000 $APE per day

@Mortpoker Never? Or do you just mean not during this current decoupling? Pretty sure the site said they would at one point.

Artifacts will not decouple 🫡

@cultra @BoredApeYC

gm. I don't think I've done Mutant Monday in a long time. Here he is. He's... cool man @BoredApeYC #mutantmonday

@JustinMezzell @KyleRiggins @moonbirds @beeple Week 1 nesters should probably be treated equally — unfair to assume everyone could do right on day1 (travel, life events, etc) — esp bc the team said at the time “no rush”

@KyleRiggins @moonbirds @beeple Appreciate the thought! As with all things, it’s a balance determining the benefits/weight of early support vs disincentivizing new members from joining. Rewarding early adopters and not making new members feel as if they’ll always be penalized/behind is a real needle to thread.

the @moonbirds team should do a weighted scale probability for the diamond experience. If you are a day 1 nester and voted in the first Lunar Society proposals you should have better odds of getting the @beeple Reward who are your most active early supporters Thoughts?