huge unlock for me in 2026 has come from increasing the time between noticing a potential trading oppty and actually putting it on

waiting creates this cognitive dissonance (i like this idea but i dont have a position, i should do smth NOW) that leads to…

Last time I remember crypto twitter feeling this dead was in early 2019. There was practically no volatility, nothing interesting being developed, and the price of everything was down 80-90%+.

It was also the pico-bottom.

Difference is - back then, there…

Should you quit a 9-5 job to focus 100% on crypto?

This is a topic I've touched on earlier as well, but crypto is changing all the time, so here are my current thoughts:

Tbh, it has become substantially harder to make it in crypto since I started full…

"Pepe was launched in these conditions"

No, it wasn't.

Pepe was launched when hundreds were paying attention to memes, not tens of thousands

Pepe was launched on LPs that did not have extractive fees on every swap

Pepe was launched when web3 was flush…

founder of solana hard shilling a $50k market cap shitter the exact minute it launched

what the fuck are we doing here

Quite sobering tweet.

I think crypto's "easy money era" lasted 6 years from 2017 to 2022.

There were less people & tickers. Less exchanges & less markets. Liquidity + attention was more focused.

After FTX collapsed, the crypto we knew died imo. Binance…

THEY MADE $3 MILLION MANIPULATING $XPL

7 accounts deposited a total of $1.85M to Hyperliquid to manipulate XPL.

They pushed the XPL price up with leverage longs, then they withdrew a total of $4.63M from their collateral balances at exactly the same time…

ok, so with the help of @lukecannon727 (his tweet below) it seems like what happened is

1) someone hacked a whale's binance API key (trading only, no withdrawal permissions)

2) bitget funded accounts (presumably the hacker) deposited $1.5M to hyperliquid…

seeing a lot of regret on ct and people trying to relive past cycles and past coins, ofc i’m guilty of it too

but u have to adapt to new meta’s instead of waiting for old ones to repeat - they never do

2017 bull cycle was not like 2021 was not like 2025

I think we’re in the late stage of the dot-com equivalent cycle.
Max extraction already happened. Most retail has left.
Exchanges are now listing TradFi indices and commodities instead of new tokens.

But if you think back to dot-com, some infrastructure…

EthCC 2026 Takeaways 👇

VC and Fundraising:

• Extremely low VC attendance, used to be the biggest crypto VC event just 1-2 years ago
• >90% of founders are out of touch with valuations (still) - hurting their fundraises
• We're in the early innings of startups…

The weirdest "side effect" of being full-time in crypto/market for many years now is connecting/understanding my IRL non-crypto friends & family and the inevitability of "disconnect"

I feel like I have spent last 5 years being effectively nonstop online…

ive seen people go from 0 to millions of $, back to 0 many times

those people always make it back. it takes a certain level of risk tolerance and degeneracy to turn 1k into 1m+, that same degeneracy will make u lose it all till u lock in risk management…

I beg everyone in crypto to read this in full.

I expected this to be another case of social engineering, likely some recruiter/job offer shit.

I was very wrong.

And the depth of the operation and personas makes me think they already have multiple other…

This is why the most serious people about crypto never attend crypto events.

This was never an issue when crypto was underground.

Not only is personal safety at risk and just one more vector to manage, but apparently your customers are at risk too.

Less…

the next crypto cycle is coming

if there's one advice I could give to people during these market conditions

..it's to listen to your own systems and intuition

cut out the noise, influencers, news, group chats, media

sit your ass down and do a fuckton of isolated work. no other way. no…

if you’re asking me a question about how to improve opsec you should def check out SEAL Frameworks

https://t.co/S3wQ24DAXG

literally all of this was written by real people in this space, for real people on this space.