@CryptoGirlNova The sit tight on your capital part, until all the batshit crazy goes away 🙄
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@shanesek1 You can always find the time if youre motivated enough - it's just about priorities in the end
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What I preac every day to friends and those that want to listen 😁
"Poor people have big TV's. Rich People have big libraries."- Jim Rohn
Most people think compounding is just a finance concept.
It’s not.
It’s a life multiplier.
We all understand compounding when it comes to money...invest, wait, reinvest… and over time it grows.
Here is another part though -
Your time compounds the exact same way.
You finish work.
You go to the gym (good...non-negotiable).
You come home, eat, unwind…
Then comes the decision window
Netflix for 1–2 hours?
Or…
Level up for 1–2 hours?
Let’s break it down simply:
1 hour a day = 7 hours a week
30 hours a month
90 hours in 3 months
90 hours.
You’re telling me you can’t:
Learn a new skill
Build a side income stream
Deepen your knowledge in your industry or
Start something that moves your life forward.
All from just one hour a day?
Now stretch it:
2 hours a day = 180 hours in 3 months
3 hours a day = 270 hours
Even replace 3 months with 6 months or 12 months.
That’s not small anymore.
That’s transformation territory.
My experience showed me that life doesn’t change in big moments. It compounds in small, consistent ones.
The same way money grows quietly in the background…
so do skills, discipline, knowledge, and opportunities.
The difference between people isn’t talent.
It’s what they do in that 1–2 hour window every day.
That’s where trajectories change.
Compounding isn’t just how you build wealth.
It’s how you build a life.
#Compounding #SelfDevelopment #LevelUp
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The 10 steps of becoming a Bitcoiner:
1. Buy $200 worth because “it might be a good hedge.”
2. Watch it go up 11%, immediately develop a messiah complex, and start calculating what your portfolio will be worth when Bitcoin hits $13 million by Christmas.
3. Watch it drop 22% in two days, stare at the wall in total silence, and tell yourself you’re “thinking in four-year time horizons” while your stomach is falling through your ass.
4. Start pirating Austrian economics PDFs to read while you eat your Scooby Doo Kraft Mac & Cheese.
5. Begin saying phrases like “sound money,” “Cantillon effects,” and “monetary premium” to people who were simply trying to enjoy a burger in peace.
You are totally not autistic AT ALL by this point.
6. Realize every purchase now has a shadow price in sats. That burrito isn’t $14.
That’s 11,000 sats, you absolute animal.
7. Develop a completely normal habit of checking the Bitcoin price at 3:17 AM with one eye open like a divorced Civil War general waiting for updates from the front.
8. Become physically incapable of hearing the phrase “diversified portfolio” without smirking like a schizophrenic medieval peasant who buried the king’s gold under his floorboards.
9. Lose the ability to talk to normies entirely because they’re excited about a 4.3% savings account while you’re internally screaming that the money is made of theatrical fog and central bank dementia.
10. Arrive at the final form: calm, dead-eyed, spiritually detached from the matrix, and weirdly comfortable knowing that everyone will call you insane right up until the exact moment they call you lucky.
That’s the Bitcoiner journey.
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@shanesek1 Perhaps big money boosts the market for some exit liquidity before selling at the end of May and going away for their hols...
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Yep...8 weeks + a 2 week extra buffer for any late rotations...basically Q2... 99% sure it happens.
No TA was used for this conclusion.
🙂 🫡
⚡Shane_S⚡@shanesek1
Only takes a short burst of liquidity and momentum, and I still think we get a selective alt run in around 6–8 weeks… yeah it sounds crazy or like bullshit, but reflexive pumps across the market can happen fast. I’ve been saying this timeframe for a while...if it doesn’t happen, then my speculation missed. Still better than paying for a sub and being fed the same moving goalposts for over 2 years.
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@CryptoGirlNova Ignore this idiot. His life will be worse than yours in the long run, x
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Okay things like these do get me sometimes. Simply because it draws upon the most of emotional trauma I had in my life.
Yes my mom died. This guy knows.
I know I can usually look beyond this as I know there are simply just bad people in the world.
But how can you be so rotten in life? So utterly rotten to the core that you wouldn't even believe people like these exist?
I literally wouldn't even say this to the person I hate most in life ever (I mean this). My conscious literally wouldn't allow this as a human being.
And the worst part? You know the reason?
Because I posted a chart that might suggest we could still see lower targets. That is literally it.
So yeah, even just quickly scrolling through my comments and even trying to ignore it, the moment I see a comment like this the damage is already done.
I instantly get tears in my eyes because it reminds me of the most intense trauma in ever had in my life (my mom died in her late 40s of cancer and it was terrible).
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@CryptoGirlNova Yep, down to mid $50's, then up only forevermore 😁
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Usually don't pay much attention to moving averages in terms of picking tops or bottoms but it actually won't be far off imo.
Early February I did foresee a relief rally that could extent up until $80k max.
The current wave eventually ended up topping at $76k and came slightly short from that.
But if all goes well as I think the next sweep of the lows and new range will likely be the true bottom range.
So with how it is currently progressing the 200 MA on the weekly (which is a historically popular one) will not likely be to far af imo.
Nova@CryptoGirlNova
Slow weekend behind us yet the early thesis remains the same. Current wicks / diminishing sell pressure show we're likely going into a further recovery wave that can extent up to ~ $80k. As bottoms take time to form and V-shape recoveries to Valhalla and beyond almost never happen we'll likely revisit the local bottom from there again. Maybe even tap in the ~ $50k range. From there I believe Bitcoin will bottom (if not earlier) and outperform most other markets again and move up and beyond like it has always done. You know by now that I'm not a big fan of predicting the market so yes there is a high amount of speculation involved this early. (I almost always work level to level and jump in or out based on what I see) Nonetheless if I had to give a thesis on the most likely scenario to me it would be this one.
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@shanesek1 Why learn to think for yourself when others will do it for you (for a fee) 🫣
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Very true...unfortunately it still won't register with most as they continue to pay monthly subs as a form of comfort blanket
gyj@goyounj_
hard pill to swallow. every paid sub on this platform is a marketing business to fund their lifestyle. no matter how many connections they seem to have, it's all just high-level branding.
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Finish this statement. Best answer gets $500
Stop Losses are for _______
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@shanesek1 I like this- It's not always simple to keep it simple!
It would be nice if the downtrend was about done now, but 'sell in May' is fast approaching so lets see what the summer brings
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Here is some very very advanced cycle analysis phasing for you 😁
Since last Q4 Ive always said irrelevant if $BTC makes new ath or not or just decent solid recovery I expected selective altseason to be Mar/Apr and changed that as needed to be a little flexible with in all fairness what has been happening around the world with macro and geopolitical events so Q1 to Q2 flexibility.
I still say we are soon entering the green zone and rock n roll soon. This is crypto, and I have seen many times how fast and explosive shifts happen.
If countries can break out in close to a war and talk of peace deals within 3 weeks, then crypto can pump in a short timeframe also... we are living in fast times now... Let's see soon amigos!
⚡Shane_S⚡@shanesek1
Only takes a short burst of liquidity and momentum, and I still think we get a selective alt run in around 6–8 weeks… yeah it sounds crazy or like bullshit, but reflexive pumps across the market can happen fast. I’ve been saying this timeframe for a while...if it doesn’t happen, then my speculation missed. Still better than paying for a sub and being fed the same moving goalposts for over 2 years.
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@shanesek1 Possibly, but it could also be the first signs of the beginning of the end of the fiat currency experiment. People forget this fiat currency rubbish has only been around for a paltry 55 years:
"1971, President Nixon ended the direct convertibility of the U.S. dollar into gold"
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Just for fun, this is my interpretation -
The world isn’t breaking...it’s being rewired.
Power, money, tech, and politics are all being reshaped at the same time.
Look at the chaos. but it’s still contained in a circle.
This means...this isn’t collapse. It’s a controlled transition.
2026 = transition year, not peak euphoria
Liquidity rotates aggressively (gold -> oil -> risk -> crypto, etc.)
Capital rotation is disguised as chaos and flows selectively.
The Economist@TheEconomist
The World Ahead 2026 offers analysis, predictions and speculation for the coming year, whatever it might bring. Read our annual issue econ.st/49dbUAW
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@ZssBecker Yeah, turns out hard work can be quite dull
(but nothings achieved without it)
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The first 20% and the last 10% of executing an idea are super exciting.
The middle 70% is awful and boring.
This is why very few achieve anything.
When you start something go into it expect the passion to and drive to crash as you get closer to the finish line. Prepare for it. People that can do this absolutely slay life.
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@shanesek1 There was always going to be an inflection point where bitcoin changes from a risk on asset, to a risk off asset.
Is it possible that big money is only now just thinking, 'where is somewhere I could park my money, which is as safe as gold, but also has big upside potential...?'
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I'm finding this very interesting atm.
Gold and silver have always been the go to when things get messy...war, inflation, uncertainty...that part hasn’t changed.
What does feel different now is how long that money sticks around.
Before, fear would push capital into metals and it would stay there for a while. Now it feels more like a quick stop...money flows in on the headline, then rotates back out pretty fast once markets start thinking about liquidity again.
We’re not just in a fear-driven environment anymore, it’s way more liquidity-driven. Gold still gets the first reaction, but it’s not holding that bid like it used to.
And this is where it gets interesting…
You could argue that parts of crypto...not all, but selective assets ...are starting to act like an extension of that hedge in a different way. With better frameworks, more clarity, and ETFs now in place, it’s not the same wild west trade it once was.
So instead of capital just hiding in gold, some of it is thinking:...park in safety first… then rotate into something with upside once the dust settles is what I'm feeling.
That’s a big shift and when you see metals starting to roll over even with tension in the background, it’s not that the narrative is broken...it’s just that capital now has more options, and it’s already looking one step ahead imo.
Interesting times ahead...
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I know rich men who are miserable. I know middle class men who are happy. I also know the vice versa.
The unhappy ones are the one who chose their life based around money. Whether out of pursuing excess of it or making enough to just get by.
People that work jobs they hate are JUST as controlled by money as a person driven by endless greed.
The happy ones are the ones who found their passion in work regardless of the $$ amount.
Don't get me wrong. More $$ is better than less $$.
But it won't replace the real point. A man needs a purpose.
The happiest men work for purpose. Kobe would of played ball for minimum wage and would have lived a perfectly happy fulfilled life
If you find that purpose and a way to make rent. You've won. The end. You've won. You've won hard.
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@shanesek1 Cool, im well up for a new patreon. As long as it's reassuringly expensive
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I’ve now taken on crypto TA… might even launch a sub group... stay tuned.
⚡Shane_S⚡@shanesek1
@castifao_kh To be fair, in crypto you’re sometimes better off flipping a coin...heads for up, tails for down
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@CryptoGirlNova Proper insurance is what's needed. Get the insurance companies involved and they'll soon sniff out whether there are any risks with a protocol or not (it's what they do!).
Once this becomes the norm, retail will only invest in insured defi protocols
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DeFi is still so casual today when it comes to risk. It's like we almost accept it just because we've never known anything different.
There’s so much focus on yield and liquidity, but when something breaks (and it does), the default is still:
Users take the loss. No real built-in protection layer at all.
Is there literally anything being done at all to try and fix it at the infrastructure level.
Still forming an opinion but @Firelightfi is yes.
They’re actually trying to make it part of the system:
- capital gets staked
- that capital backs defined risks
- protocols can pay for coverage
- and if something happens, there’s actually capital there to respond, or to partially reimburse users
Also interesting is the capital efficiency piece where stakers get a liquid token (stXRP), so the same assets can secure risk while still being used elsewhere.
Not saying this solves everything, but it does highlight a bigger gap.
If DeFi keeps scaling, it probably can’t rely on audits + trust alone. At some point, protection needs to be part of the core design.
Yes I know, pretty dull market today but that doesn't mean improvement has stopped.
Also:
25% of the firelight cap is already raised which generates points while putting it to work across Flare DeFi.
Firelight@Firelightfi
The deposit cap for Firelight has now increased! Following strong demand, users can deploy $FXRP into the Firelight vault, receive $stXRP, and generate Firelight Points while putting assets to work across @FlareNetworks DeFi.
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