How To Survive Crypto - Financially and Mentally ⬝ not overinvest more than what you are ok with losing ⬝ always have separate income stream(s) and treat this as a hobby and fun social experimentation ⬝ never go fulltime into this unless you absolutely feel a calling (i am still doing this part time, to this day, 7 years in) ⬝ at the same time, do not be afraid to go in headfirst into something and learn by doing, there is no other way ⬝ in a post-GPT AI dominated internet, having a voice is a must and having a personal brand is preferable. ⬝ curiosity in exploring new things on-chain and new apps fails 70% of the time and results in loss of time and money but the 30% more than make up for it ⬝ FOMO comes in different sizes, on a macro and a micro level. Example: Micro - omg i missed X runner of the day Macro - i am 39 years old and i will never have a million its over for me Don't fall prey to either of these, your life is your life. ⬝ your network is your (future) net worth being connected to others who are in similar situations as you are but also are better off (and worse off, for good measure) is the biggest benefit of CT and private groupchats - this will help keep you sane and grounded when everything is up 2000% weekly and also keep you motivated and optimistic when everything is -99% monthly. i am not even talking about dealflow and business opportunities that many here are talking about. ⬝ cashing out routinely will make you appreciate what you've made and help you make even more. ⬝ many people that i know on their 3rd or 4th cycle can be considered to have 'made it', but in the sense that they've not made a bank deposit from fiat into crypto since 2020 or something. this is what it means to "make it" for the average person, and you should be glad if you ever reach that level. ⬝ share the wealth with your family, especially parents who might not have much left in terms of good health to enjoy traveling with you. ⬝ compartmentalize your wallets - use a hardware wallet (@OneKeyHQ is great and on discount quite often, code below if you need it) for long term holds, and use hot wallets for stuff that you don't have much on and value flexibility on ⬝ you don't really need to invest a whole lot in terms of crypto safety - keep backups offline and keep them safe. most people have made insane amounts of money on ipads, phones and regedit sony vaio 11" laptops (shoutout to @AWice!), you just need to have clean computing habits. ⬝ macOS is safer than windows, generally, and you should have a basic used M1 Air at the very least for convenience (easy charging, lightweight, traveling). if you run command line stuff on anything you're done for - so don't that lol. ⬝ when considering longterm altcoin investments, especially before a huge momentum upwards, you might have to wait a long time before you see them rip, but when they do, they really do. ⬝ when in doubt if selling airdrops you got, consider the following: would you be comfortable buying the amount you're selling with real money from your wages? if the answer is hell no, FSH that thing right away. ⬝ most consensus investments outside of BTC feel "blue-chip" and "safe" at their peak, and "risky garbage vapor" at their lowest, make use of that (shoutout to @0xkyle__) ⬝ crypto is incredibly inefficient and you should never succumb to pessimism and bearposting because these inefficiencies (in terms of profit that can be made) only really come to surface in a bull run - everyone wins in a bullrun (vapor infra governance holders, defi governance token holders, PoW people, memecoins, vapor from 4 cycles ago, bitcoiners, defi 20% APR supply stablecoiners) except the extremely overinvested moonboys - shoutout to @outpxce for this today. ⬝ having a pen and paper to journal some quick thoughts instead of twitter drafts or telegram drafts can work better for most people, its like having a second screen anywhere you go. ⬝ many people here are larps and unemployed people with way too much time on their hands and up to no good because that's the life they're used to - CT is generally a very spiritually empty space but the people that are glimmers of hope are worth staying for ⬝ the only weapon you have against the aforementioned larps is time and experience. ⬝ the best CT accounts post sporadically and don't seek validation at every corner, these accounts are worth following and making separate lists for - don't let anyone tell you which ones are and which ones are these accounts, you will know after you've had time and experience. ⬝ automated trading strategies or something that promises that it does most of the work for you while you sit and do nothing really never work and you end up being the yield most of the time, but in a bullrun these scams print hardest and if you're early, so will you ⬝ last cycles we didn't have tools like @ethos_network to screen for things. "blockchain remembers" is indeed real now, use it if you're in doubt of who you're seeing on the timeline. ⬝ you should be emotional about investments sometimes, but the emotions shouldn't last more than 2 business days - if they are, something is wrong with you and you shouldn't be trading. ⬝ denominate your portfolio value in yearly previous job's salaries, never ETH, BTC, SOL, HYPE, or anything - if you're worth 13 best years of your healthiest and strongest period of your life, you're fucking rich and you've made it. ⬝ daytrading is generally not advised for 97% of people, if you are doing this..you should stop. ⬝ most importantly - if you've made money that is lifechanging, even if the market is falling and that investment is worth 30% of what it was a few weeks ago, you should absolutely sell. GCR expunge your mind of your peak net worth quote goes here. ⬝ bonus GCR quote: if you've won your freedom, secure it.

Regarding the prices discourse, at this point really the only thing left is to accept it. The Trump tariffs announced yesterday sealed the deal. Every single video game publisher has been wishing behind the scenes to increase game prices, they were just afraid to be the first and have to face all the initial backslash. Well, Nintendo was the first now, and we assure you the rest will follow soon. Inflation is a thing yet video game prices remained mostly static for decades, in hindsight is incredible we had the same prices for so long. And now with those high tariffs, those costs will also be passed down to customers. Remember how outrageous the PS5 Pro price was when it was announced? Have you thought that in around 2 years PS6 will be announced for even more than that? Even with all the discourse the most likely thing is that the Switch 2 pre-orders will sell out in minutes, and that's what really matters in the end. This will just become the new reality of our hobby.

I hooked up this little ESP32-CAM to my wifi. It takes a picture every 30s and sends it to flash-8B with a prompt like 'is there a person in this image?'. If the model says yes (with structured outputs), it turns on an LED. If I left this on for a month it would cost about $1. Obviously this is the worst security cam ever, BUT I think it's a compelling demo. You can put some 'intelligence' in the loop of a hobby project with <$10 in hardware and fractions of a cent per API call. You can 'program' it in natural language like 'if there is an orange cat playing with my plant'. And with LLM help, modifying the code is possibly as easy as 'make this send me a discord notification if the alarm is triggered twice in an hour'. Anyway, now that I know this thing works it has other projects it is destined for. But cool to know how easy it is to whip this up :)

And here it is: This is how Democrats overthrow democracy: the State of Arizona, Illegal aliens caught on camera, one by one, admitting that they are registered to vote and voting for Kamala Harris. And as it was discovered Katie Hobbs inserted over 10,000 illegal aliens using the same exact Social Security number who had already voted in the 2020 presidential election.

This person just built an 8bit computer out of a kids toy! Shadowman39 has made a hobby out of building complex structures out of plastic K'Nex parts. but this might be his most complicated one yet. https://t.co/uwYBomViuL

美国亚利桑那州州长 Katie Hobbs 否决了一项旨在设立州级比特币储备的法案（SB 1025）。该法案原拟将被扣押资金投资于比特币，并由州政府管理数字资产储备，此前已以 31 比 25 的票数在州众议院获得通过。Hobbs 在声明中表示，亚利桑那州退休系统因其审慎投资而表现稳健，州政府不应将虚拟货币这类“未经验证的投资”纳入公共资产管理。(CoinDesk) https://t.co/yu1n2XI0jY

虽然亚利桑那州的SB373法案还在等待州长Katie Hobbs签署，但它已成为美国历史上首个由州议会两院共同通过的Bitcoin战略储备法案。 州长有最长5个工作日决定签署、否决或默认通过，但由于霍布斯州长此前因发展障碍部门拨款问题誓言否决所有法案，SB373面临被否决的风险。若被否决，立法机构需三分之二多数推翻，但难度较大。 目前BTC价格波动不大，换手率低，投资者情绪谨慎，83,000美元支撑区在减弱，93,000到98,000美元的支撑则更为稳固，市场焦点即将转向30日公布的GDP数据。 本推文由 @ApeXProtocolCN 赞助｜Dex With ApeX

吴说获悉，亚利桑那州众议院通过了两项比特币储备法案，SB 1025 和 SB 1373，现已提交州长 Katie Hobbs 签署。SB 1373 设立由州财政官管理的数字资产战略储备基金，资金来源包括扣押资产和立法拨款，每财年最多可将 10% 投资于比特币等数字资产，并可在不增加风险的前提下进行借贷。SB 1025 则允许州财政和退休金系统将最多 10% 的可用资金投资于虚拟货币，重点为比特币。https://t.co/DlKcI8itJd