Banks doesn't really care how much Kimchi actually made on the Trump trade, the point is he hit big and logged off and living his life. “I did my very best to scrape the internet for any mention from Kimchi directly about this $40M Trump trade, and at no point has Kimchi himself ever said that he made $40M on Trump” “this was something that was labeled onto him by orangie and CT natives to farm this moment” “he clearly hit a big trade, whether it was 10M, 20M, 30M, 40M, it doesn't really matter, he hit a big trade, he logged off, and now he's living this lifestyle” "thats was he is doing, at 22 years old"

Banks doesn't really care how much Kimchi actually made on the Trump trade, the point is he hit big and logged off and living his life. “I did my very best to scrape the internet for any mention from Kimchi directly about this $40M Trump trade, and at no point has Kimchi himself ever said that he made $40M on Trump” “this was something that was labeled onto him by orangie and CT natives to farm this moment” “he clearly hit a big trade, whether it was 10M, 20M, 30M, 40M, it doesn't really matter, he hit a big trade, he logged off, and now he's living this lifestyle” "thats was he is doing, at 22 years old"

ansem explaining the importance of having a life outside of trading “you have to have a life outside of trading because if you don't have that life outside of trading, you're gonna fuck up eventually” “like even if you're locked in 24/7, you're making a lot of money, if you don't have the ability to turn that switch off, you're gonna lose a lot of it” “there are periods in the market where you should be trading a lot and there are periods in the market where you should not be trading a lot” “learning that was like a big lesson for me”

ansem shares how speculation and financial gain have been the primary drivers of crypto's value and adoption, arguing that pure utility alone wouldn't have propelled Bitcoin massive growth. "as much as people say that speculation is like oh it's bad and it's not good, like that's what's driven a lot of the value in crypto." "if Bitcoin was just like a network where you can send money back and forth, it would never, crypto would never have done as well as it did if you weren't able to like hold Bitcoin and benefit from Bitcoin increasing in value."

ansem shares his respect for Arthur Hayes, highlighting his massive influence on crypto trading as the pioneer behind perpetual futures and BitMEX. "i feel like arthur's like my dad on CT, bro." "everybody learned how to trade perps because of BitMEX." "that's crazy, he created fucking the 24/7 perpetual swap."

manye shares his observations on how retail market culture has evolved, discussing the modern mindset shift toward hyper-speculation for financial mobility. "winning the lottery was... part of their retirement plan. like that was a legitimate thing." "i feel like that's been replaced with, you know, sports betting and speculation now." "like there's a lot of young people who i think legitimately believe their only way like to have upward economic mobility is to hyper-gamble their way out."

austin federa discusses the challenges of building in a space where existing infrastructure cannot support the demands of new financial technologies. "the internet was never built for mission-critical data." "the beauty of the internet is you can spend 10 or 15 or 20 bucks a month and you can reach anyone anywhere in the world, but that's not a high-performance experience." "we really wanted to open that up, democratize it, make it possible for traders anywhere in the world to get the same type of high-quality data and high-quality networks that the biggest trading firms in the world have."

.@blknoiz06 shares his perspective on why robinhood is a major sleeper pick for this market cycle, highlighting how they are publicly supporting onchain activity and successfully listing tokens faster than others. "i think, um, i think robinhood is something that is not going to go away and i really like how vlad and them have been very like publicly supportive of all the activity on their chain, whether it's like meme stuff or rwa stuff." "and they're also like quick with the listings. like cashcat getting listed that fast is fucking crazy to me." "and it kind of like shows that if there's more stuff that pops up, they're going to be supportive of that too. so i definitely think robinhood is a sleeper for this cycle." "especially because people are kind of like defaulted to sol right now."

ansem breaks down why being active onchain in crypto right now puts you right at the front of the next wave of attention and capital influx. "but what i think people don't understand is like you don't need majors to be at all-time highs for certain alts to do well, especially ones that are like doing well with their PMF in the market and pump is one of those coins." "but if you're active right now onchain in crypto, you're kind of front running a lot of that activity and attention coming back to crypto, which is why i think it makes a ton of sense to be paying attention onchain because these are the conditions that the billion dollar runners spawn in."

ansem shares his thoughts on @papertrade_xyz, explaining why he considers it one of the most interesting and unique protocols launching in crypto. "papertrade's like 1000x leverage, zero slippage, no funding cost, self-pushing lp. and it's a really cool mechanism." "when you lose, get liquidated on your trade, you get airdropped this paper token." "i think this is really cool. it's like one of my favorite... things that's coming out soon in crypto, and i haven't seen that many people talking about it, so it's interesting."