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johnmark

johnmark

@johnmark4367

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The White Whale Meme Official
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The White Whale@WhiteWhaleLabs·
It was with great sadness that I learned earlier today of the unexpected passing of the legendary Chuck Norris. I wanted to share a personal story about getting to spend a weekend with one of my childhood heroes, and the life lessons it taught me. Several years ago, I participated in a charity auction. One of the items up for bid was “A Weekend at the Chuck Norris Ranch.” The first lesson I learned: auctioneers do not know blackjack hand signals. As I mentioned, Chuck Norris was a childhood hero of mine, so naturally I was very interested in winning the auction. I bid aggressively, but once the price climbed to $60,000, I decided I was probably out. Every time the auctioneer came back to me, I waved him off using the same hand gesture you’d use at a blackjack table to tell the dealer you don’t want another card. Apparently, the auctioneer interpreted that as another bid. So, almost $100,000 later, I found myself the accidental winner of the auction. Thankfully, it was for a good cause, so I didn’t lose too much sleep over it. When the time finally came to enjoy my weekend at the Norris ranch, I traveled to Texas. After being buzzed in at the gate, I drove up the long driveway to the ranch house, which struck me as surprisingly modest considering all Chuck had accomplished in life. I parked, stepped out of the rental car, and was greeted by his lovely wife, Gina. After exchanging pleasantries, she said, “Carlos will be up in a minute. He’s just down at the pond killing a water moccasin.” Without missing a beat, I replied, “Did he kill a water moccasin, or did a water moccasin see Chuck Norris and commit suicide?” Once I got settled into one of the guest cabins out back, I began what turned into a very memorable weekend - one that taught me a couple of valuable life lessons. Lesson #1: Never judge a book by its cover. Before spending time with them, I made the easy assumption - one I’m sure many people might have made - that his much younger wife was simply arm candy. The benefit, perhaps, of being a successful man. Nothing particularly remarkable. Boy, was I wrong. Not only was it obvious that she absolutely adored him, she was brilliant. Many years ago, they discovered an ancient aquifer on their ranch and decided to build a bottled water company, CForce. As it turned out, she ran the company. When I was taken on a tour of the bottling plant directly across the road from the ranch, it was obvious this was her baby. She knew every part of the operation, and she ran the company day to day. As someone who spent much of my life in consumer packaged goods, I naturally had a lot of questions, and she answered every one of them. Even Chuck freely admitted she was the brains behind the operation. Young arm candy? Not even close. Brilliant businesswoman is more like it. I was embarrassed that I had privately prejudged her. Lesson #2: Live a life so full that you forget your own résumé. As an act of love, Gina had turned one of the outbuildings on the ranch into a museum of Chuck’s accomplishments. The most interesting part of the museum tour was that Chuck himself didn’t remember half of it. Watching his amazement and excitement as he was reminded of different things he had done - things that had escaped even his own memory - I found myself reflecting on what that really meant. What a life. In that moment, I realized that if you could accomplish so much in your lifetime that you couldn’t even remember the full extent of your own résumé, that was an accomplishment all by itself. That weekend gave me more than a story about meeting a childhood hero. It gave me perspective. Don’t underestimate people. Don’t reduce them to appearances. And above all, live so fully, build so boldly, and do so much good that one day even you can’t quite account for all of it. Rest in peace, Chuck. And thank you for the memories. 🫡 From the depths — The White Whale 🐋
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The White Whale@WhiteWhaleLabs·
Many of you have wondered why I haven't been online as much lately. I'm dealing with a personal family crisis that requires my attention. I appreciate your understanding and patience. Much love to all. 🤍🐋
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The White Whale@WhiteWhaleLabs·
It’s ok if you don’t like me, but I’m sure there are some ideas we can agree on. I’m not going to be everyone’s favorite personality. I don’t even like myself some days. It’s part of being human. But I’m sure we share some of the same values. If we spent time focusing on what brings us together vs what tears us apart we would be unstoppable. The elite benefit from division. The people benefit from unity. Every post spent tearing someone down is playing right into the hands of the Apex Predator class - they are the only ones that benefit from the distraction. Have a cup of coffee with any person from any walk of life and you’ll discover things you have in common. At my core? I care about integrity and being a voice for the voiceless. About doing what I can to end the max extraction in this space. Despite our differences or personality clashes I’m guessing most of you want the same thing. 🤍🐋
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Lipe Solana
Lipe Solana@LipeSolana·
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The White Whale@WhiteWhaleLabs·
It’s a big day. @zachxbt about to unveil some shady stuff and @WhiteWhaleMeme is about to give away $250,000. Thanks for overshadowing the occasion, my friend. At least it’s for a good reason. We hate corruption.
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The White Whale@WhiteWhaleLabs·
You think you're trading an asset on price. The existing system is built to profit from volume & volatility. You are playing checkers. The Apex Predator is playing chess.
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Lipe Solana@LipeSolana·
solana is hitting a new all-time high in stablecoin market cap within its ecosystem. Is everyone just sitting and waiting for the best opportunity? in the meantime, I’m sticking to my DCA and scouting for new opportunities. This ecosystem has many with protocols offering huge yields.
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johnmark@johnmark4367·
@LipeSolana What would be those protocols?
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The White Whale@WhiteWhaleLabs·
I called the absolute top and saying I wanted to short Penguin on January 24th. The day of their ATH. And telling my whale group the things I now tried to share publicly that I’m also seeing on another coin. Just to show I’m not full of it. Because I always have receipts.
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The White Whale@WhiteWhaleLabs·
Here's two of my biggest red flags on $Punch Let me clarify - the project and project dev is most likely not behind the things I'm warning about here. The project may or may not be a good project. But this is cabal action. Plain and simple. 1. Bubble maps is too perfect. Too clean. Real life is messy. 2. Liquidity does NOT look like this. In fact it simply cannot look like this due to how distribution takes place on the idiotic constant product pools. Almost 6x "support" in equal distance below than resistance above? It's fake, guys. No coin gets that much support organically with liquidity just sitting around on the books in case of a dip. It's all done through Meteora which is where the cabal loves to play these games because its so easy to outpace traders and move liquidity around before it ever gets touched. It's there for show, plain and simple. Am I saying it will rug in the next five minutes? No. Am I saying it won't continue to run higher? No. It may, or it may not. What I'm saying is this shit isn't real. It's the exact same picture I saw painted on Penguin. No meme attracts liquidity this way just because people believe its a runner. Or are we all supposed to believe that magically the trenches pivoted from dopamine hits of smashing the buy button to strategic THICK LP bands below price to show support...you be the judge.
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johnmark@johnmark4367·
@__Jho Morning morning morning
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GWW
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The White Whale@WhiteWhaleLabs·
Necessity is the mother of invention. More to come.
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The White Whale@WhiteWhaleLabs·
As a former Moonwell customer (I’ve since moved almost all of my on-chain life to Solana) I’m a little concerned and see parallels to 10/10. I do take issue with their dramatic language, tho. “As a direct result liquidation bots immediately targeted cbETH collateral positions” No, liquidation bots did exactly what they were programmed to do. They serve an important role. They executed their mission. What’s eerily familiar? People getting liquidated on prices that aren’t real. Different cause, same result. And we wonder why trust in crypto has been shaken. Our entire playground is built on much more fragile of an infrastructure than anyone wants to admit.
Moonwell@MoonwellDeFi

forum.moonwell.fi/t/mip-x43-cbet…

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The White Whale@WhiteWhaleLabs·
Nope. That was not the solution. *sigh* you all are really going to make me do something about this, aren’t you?
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The White Whale@WhiteWhaleLabs·
I came to the trenches as an outsider. I talked with countless people. I listened. I understood some of the very real problems that needed to be solved. But understanding a problem and having real life experience with it are two different things. So yesterday I spun up a fresh wallet and played in the trenches. Tried various strategies. Small amounts on freshly launched tokens. Larger amounts on tokens already between a six - seven figure mcap. I made money once. Every other time I got rugged. Unless I was just glued to the screen, I didn't stand a chance. $300K to zero by the time I checked it again. Even one case of $2M to zero. One of the things I've most often heard my holders say is that "$WhiteWhale is the only meme I can go to bed holding" but I always took it as nice words from bag-holders. I never really understood how real of a problem that was. I didn't even go to bed with any holdings. My 2M to zero happened in just the time it took to watch one episode of a TV show with my wife on the couch. I even drew a line on a meme coin chart for the first time (what have you people done to me? 🤣). Now one could say I was simply a bad meme coin trader. This might be true. Although if you look at the PnL of most meme traders you'll see I'm not alone. In fact the vast majority of people lose money on memes. But the more I'm in the trenches the more I have grown to love this space. It's honest. I wrote a long article on this a while back, but the trenches recognized early that it's all about attention and liquidity. No fake cases for utility, adoption narratives, protocol revenue used to calculate token value (which I've always said is crypto's attempt to cosplay as stock market traders)...the trenches cut through all of the nonsense and lies we like to tell ourselves and strip it down to the real, the raw, and the authentic levers that move all of crypto: attention & liquidity. Is it ugly (most of the time)? Yes. Does it need improvement? Hell yes. But is it real, raw, unfiltered and authentic? Absolutely. I'm very glad I took the time to walk a mile in the shoes of the average trencher. It was very informative and further informs my role as steward moving into the future. 🫡 From the depths — The White Whale 🐋
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johnmark@johnmark4367·
@WhiteWhaleMeme Good for the long health of the coin. Respect sir!
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The White Whale Meme Official@WhiteWhaleMeme·
🚨 The Treasury has detected that one of our private holders has just locked 2M tokens until Jan, 2027 and an additional 5M tokens until Jan, 2028. Not to be outdone, the Treasury has locked 8M tokens of our own until February, 2028. 5% of supply burned...an additional 7.4% of supply locked with over 150 participants. Whaleish. whitewhale.watch/locks
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The White Whale@WhiteWhaleLabs·
This space needs a lot of healing - but real healing won’t happen until changes are made. Publicly raising these issues matters. It spreads awareness and helps people understand what’s happening. But ultimately, the only way forward is to be part of the solution.
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johnmark@johnmark4367·
@__Jho Yes you can😂 GWWWWWWWWWWWWW
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Can I get a GWW?
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