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gainzy
gainzy@gainzy222·
nothing beats the high of being young and newly rich off crypto the exact moment u should cash out feels like the exact moment ur on top of the world and want to double down but u don’t know ur wealth was accidental until u’ve already lost cash out man
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Haseeb >|<
Haseeb >|<@hosseeb·
A very intimate 2h+ podcast with my friend Luba, where I discuss my path to becoming a VC, my thoughts on self-discipline, masculinity, and the meaning of life. We go a lot deeper than any other interview I've done. If you like long-form Haseeb, this is for you 👇
luba yudasina@LubaYudasina

BREAKING: CRYPTO IS NOT DEAD + 650M RAISE Today I'm talking to Haseeb Qureshi (@hosseeb), Managing Partner of Dragonfly Capital. Dragonfly just closed a 650M fund 4 with over 4B raised in total! Haseeb is a former professional poker player, self-taught engineer, Airbnb alum, and one of the most respected voices in crypto investing. We talk about manhood, meaning, and what it takes to build a life worth living. Topics covered - How a viral salary blog post made Haseeb the most controversial new hire at Airbnb - The genealogy of his love for teaching — and why it starts with his mother - Why he thinks VC is "kind of cringe" and how Dragonfly is different - From poker to code to crypto: how he chose his path using first principles - What makes a great co-founder partnership (and how to stress-test one) - Masculinity, strength, and responsibility in a feminized society - Greatness vs. excellence: why he stopped caring about legacy SO much more! Timestamps (00:00) Intro (01:14) How We Met at Airbnb (03:00) The Viral Salary Blog Post (06:38) Imposter Syndrome and Proving Yourself (09:14) The Airbnb Culture Mismatch (17:41) Running Dragonfly Like a Championship Team (22:00) The Instinct to Teach (26:40) Learning by Teaching: How to Master Any Domain (37:40) From Poker Player to Engineer to Crypto Investor (41:13) Why He Chose Crypto Over AI (43:47) Marc Andreessen and the Danger of Role Models (48:20) Joining Metastable and Founding Dragonfly (55:00) Why VC is Cringe (But Dragonfly Isn't) (58:00) How to Stress-Test Co-Founder Trust (01:11:55) The Search for Meaning in His 20s (01:15:00) Greatness vs. Excellence vs. Flourishing (01:18:00) Legacy — and Why He No Longer Cares (01:22:00) Personal Writing and the Need to Be Witnessed (01:32:45) Masculinity, Strength, and Responsibility (01:41:50) Society's Masculinity Crisis (01:55:30) Discipline Systems and Contracts With Yourself (02:02:10) Vipassana and the Valley of Darkness (02:07:20) Goal Setting: Outcome vs. Process Goals (02:13:45) Lightning Round: Money, Mentors, Movies, and More (02:23:20) Is Crypto Happening?

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Curiosity
Curiosity@CuriosityonX·
'Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.' - Elon Musk
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Real Life Heroes Foundation
Real Life Heroes Foundation@miguelcruz173·
I'm still looking for the $500 so my mother can start chemotherapy, but I can't let this opportunity pass without asking for help. Yonaiker, an 8-year-old boy we've helped a lot, also needs $250. He has a bacterial infection that affected his arms and leg, which had to be amputated, and now it's affecting other parts of his little body. If you'd like to support Yonaiker or my mother, I would be very grateful. 👏 (Image not suitable for sensitive viewers) Metamask 0x17eb175477ddDAf92090D5D39068D006341D744D
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Real Life Heroes Foundation
Real Life Heroes Foundation@miguelcruz173·
The total goal is $8,000. Thanks to the incredible generosity of many of you, we have raised $7,500. We are just one step away from our goal. We are exactly $500 short so she can be admitted and receive her first dose of hope. I'm not asking for a fortune; I'm asking you to help us close this gap. Maybe it's $20, or $50; any contribution brings us closer to that $500 we need. Help me ensure that the woman who has given so much to others receives the gift of health today. Help me so my mom can start her chemotherapy today. Thank you for not leaving us alone in this final stretch. Thank you for being part of my mom's miracle. 🙏🙏🙏
Real Life Heroes Foundation@miguelcruz173

Today, she needs a miracle: 8 battles for my mom's life "For the past 5 years, my mission has been to transform pain into hope for hundreds of hungry and sick children through my foundation. I have seen miracles happen when we come together. Today, life presents me with its most difficult challenge: my mother, my right hand and the heart behind every food delivery, has been diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia." "My mom is not just my mother; she is the most loyal volunteer for our cause. Now, she is the one who needs us to stand by her. To beat this cancer, the doctors have prescribed an aggressive treatment of 8 cycles of chemotherapy. As you know, the costs of cancer medications and hospitalization are beyond our means." "My mom is not just my mother; she is the most loyal volunteer for our cause. Now, she is the one who needs us to stand by her. To beat this cancer, the doctors have prescribed an aggressive treatment of 8 cycles of chemotherapy. As you know, the costs of cancer medications and hospitalization are beyond our means." "We need to raise funds to cover her chemotherapy cycles, ongoing tests, and special care. No amount is too small; at the foundation, we learned that small contributions can build mountains of solutions. How to help: Donate: Our Metamask 0x17eb175477ddDAf92090D5D39068D006341D744D Spread the word: If you can't donate, please share or retweet this. Your help can reach the hearts of those who need it and help us reach our goal. "She taught me to help children when no one else would. Today, help me so she can continue doing good by my side." (Goal: $8,000)

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Investing visuals
Investing visuals@InvestingVisual·
The Dutch government is destroying long term compounding by introducing a 36% tax on unrealized gains. As a Dutch citizen and long term investor, I’m at a loss for words about the lack of vision behind this new tax. I normally don’t post anything politically related, but what our government is planning to do is disastrous for long term investors. This is the sad truth. Most people here start investing to protect themselves against inflation and ever rising pension ages. They’re trying to put hard earned money to work, hoping they can retire before the age of 71. And they had a real shot at that before this bill. If you started at 25 with €10,000 and contributed €1,000 every month, you could compound to €3,320,000 over 40 years. If you lived prudently, you could retire early and live off it for the rest of your life. With the new capital tax? After 40 years of compounding, you’d end up at €1,885,000. That’s a €1,435,000 difference. This tax denies generations the chance of early retirement, punishes those who take risks, and introduces severe liquidity issues for people who have been compounding successfully for years. And to what end? To fill a €2.4 billion tax hole. I’m beyond words. If you’re Dutch like me, please share this visual with fellow investors to increase awareness. Hopefully we can make our politicians understand the severity of this tax, and the breadth and depth of its destructive implications. ~ Jan
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Bitcoin News@BitcoinNewsCom

NETHERLANDS HOUSE PASSES 36% TAX ON UNREALIZED GAINS As expected, the Dutch House of Representatives has approved a 36% tax on unrealized capital gains, with only forward loss offsets permitted. The proposal now moves to the Senate, where parties that supported the bill also hold a majority, making final approval likely. Critics warn the measure could disrupt long term investment strategies, weaken compounding effects, and encourage capital outflows. Several right leaning parties had publicly criticized the proposal in advance, but most ultimately voted in favor, citing fiscal constraints and the cost of delaying or revising the plan, stating "we don't like it either but we have to".

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nic carter
nic carter@nic_carter·
AI makes podcasts MORE important not less AI means anyone can sound smart in written form But you can’t fake verbal intelligence Verbalmaxxing speechmoggers will inherit the earth
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X Freeze
X Freeze@XFreeze·
Be me, Dutch investor Netherlands approved 36% unrealized gains tax WTF does that even mean Put $1,000 into stocks Year 1: • Stock goes to $2,000 • Government: "you made $1,000, pay $360 cash tax" • MFW I didn't sell anything • Forced to sell shares to pay • Everyone else forced to sell too • Mass panic selling • Stock crashes to $800 • I have $440 left after paying tax Year 2: • Stock recovers to $1,200 • Government: "you made $400, pay $144" • Forced selling again • Price drops to $900 • I have $756 left Year 3: • Stock at $1,000 • Government: "you made $100, pay $36"​ • Smart money has fled Netherlands • I have $964 in stock • MFW I paid $540 in taxes • MFW stock is back where it started (0% gain) • MFW I only have $460 left • Lost 54% on a stock that broke even MFW the government made more money off my investment than I did Government: "Thanks for the $540! 😊"
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The Kobeissi Letter@KobeissiLetter

BREAKING: Netherlands’ House of Representatives has approved a 36% tax on unrealized capital gains.

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nic carter
nic carter@nic_carter·
if you ever start worry about the "AI bubble" just stare at this chart for a few minutes. we've departed from the previous exponential trend and have gone super exponential.
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gainzy
gainzy@gainzy222·
We’re at a point where the fear and greed index is at an all time low, everyone including people in crypto from 2013 are down bad, and 99.99% of people in crypto early would have been best off taking a handful of trades from 2017 and before and stopping
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nic carter
nic carter@nic_carter·
The “we need unrestricted immigration for blue collar labor” argument was always flimsy (net impact of chain migration is fiscally negative) but it’s completely and irretrievably false now. Except now we have 30m imminently unemployable illegal residents who will strain social services
Codie Sanchez@Codie_Sanchez

You eventually start to realize, no job is safe.

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SightBringer
SightBringer@_The_Prophet__·
⚡️There is no going back. What’s happening here is a terminal shift in how humans interface with reality. When anyone can generate footage of anything and the outputs feel real in the body, the boundary between witnessing and imagining disappears. This is a perceptual severing. Memory becomes soft. Testimony becomes weak. Even firsthand experience becomes suspect. Every video becomes a Rorschach test, where prior belief picks the truth. The deeper change is metabolic. Cognition slows. People spend more cycles verifying than perceiving. Trust becomes a luxury. Certainty becomes a threat vector. And power flows accordingly. In this new regime, authority no longer comes from showing. It comes from grounding. Those who anchor belief to systems that cannot be forged - keys, chains, timestamps, recursive logic - become new nodes of trust. Those who rely on narrative fall. That’s the real transition. Not from real to fake, but from image to protocol. From illusion to invariance. From performance to constraint. AI killed the camera. And now the only defense is structure.
FearBuck@FearedBuck

An AI-generated video of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise fighting in a rooftop is going viral, with people saying AI is getting too realistic

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Real Life Heroes Foundation
Real Life Heroes Foundation@miguelcruz173·
Today, she needs a miracle: 8 battles for my mom's life "For the past 5 years, my mission has been to transform pain into hope for hundreds of hungry and sick children through my foundation. I have seen miracles happen when we come together. Today, life presents me with its most difficult challenge: my mother, my right hand and the heart behind every food delivery, has been diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia." "My mom is not just my mother; she is the most loyal volunteer for our cause. Now, she is the one who needs us to stand by her. To beat this cancer, the doctors have prescribed an aggressive treatment of 8 cycles of chemotherapy. As you know, the costs of cancer medications and hospitalization are beyond our means." "My mom is not just my mother; she is the most loyal volunteer for our cause. Now, she is the one who needs us to stand by her. To beat this cancer, the doctors have prescribed an aggressive treatment of 8 cycles of chemotherapy. As you know, the costs of cancer medications and hospitalization are beyond our means." "We need to raise funds to cover her chemotherapy cycles, ongoing tests, and special care. No amount is too small; at the foundation, we learned that small contributions can build mountains of solutions. How to help: Donate: Our Metamask 0x17eb175477ddDAf92090D5D39068D006341D744D Spread the word: If you can't donate, please share or retweet this. Your help can reach the hearts of those who need it and help us reach our goal. "She taught me to help children when no one else would. Today, help me so she can continue doing good by my side." (Goal: $8,000)
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Haseeb >|<
Haseeb >|<@hosseeb·
I've heard multiple people tell me this week that sentiment now is worse than during the FTX collapse. No. Not even close. This is pure recency bias. The FTX collapse was a depth of despair we as an industry hadn't experienced since Mt. Gox. It was a true systemic collapse. We didn't know what would be left standing--or if it would lead to crypto getting functionally banned in every country on earth. We really weren't sure when anything would come back--maybe the entire industry would have to go into hibernation. Read the QT, which I posted right after FTX collapsed. Compared to today... yeah, prices are down since October. That truly sucks. But actually the fundamentals of crypto look totally fine. The system held. Regulatory outlook looks great across the world, institutional and corporate adoption continues unabated, prediction markets are firing on all cylinders, perp DEXes just hit ATH volumes, and stablecoin adoption is in hyper-growth. Will take time. But we'll be fine.
Haseeb >|<@hosseeb

1/ Pouring one out for all those who were impacted by the FTX collapse. If you lost more money than you can afford, I'm so sorry. I promise it will get better. I'm exhausted. Have been thinking a lot about what happens from here, and what it means for this industry.

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gainzy
gainzy@gainzy222·
There’s this idea of crypto unicorn gurus that give infallible macro ideas that don’t miss, and people keep losing their net worths listening to them They were wrong about nfts, wrong about friend tech, wrong about every single meta they evangelized tbh
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