If you use Venmo, you already understand the most important fight in crypto. Every time you send money, you get a choice. Public, where anyone can see it. Or private, where no one can. Most people pick private. Nobody wants the world watching where their money goes. Here's what most people don't realize. Venmo made everything public by default. Your payments and your friends list, wide open, unless you go change it. Most never do. Reporters found Joe Biden's account in under 10 minutes. Just the search bar and the public friends list. They mapped his kids, his grandkids, senior White House staff, the whole web around the most powerful man on earth. JD Vance left his wide open too. And one researcher once pulled 208 million Venmo transactions straight off the public feed. This already happened to regular people. Therapists had patient lists exposed. Women got stalked by ex boyfriends through it. Reporters had their sources outed. All because the money was public. People are sensitive about money. They always have been. It's hard to believe anybody actually wants their salary and every single thing they ordered sitting out there for the world to scroll through. Now take all of that and put it on a blockchain. @mert's been screaming about this for years, and most of the space waved him off. Here's what he saw. On chain, there's no private setting. Everything you do is public and permanent by default, your whole financial life sitting in a ledger that anyone on earth can pull up and read like a diary. That's still how almost every chain works today. And it cuts both ways. In 2022, Canada didn't like a protest, so they went after the money. Court orders froze crypto across more than a hundred wallets, one address at a time, and exchanges were told to lock them. The donations people sent, gone. Not for a crime. For what they stood behind. Now put that power on stablecoins. USDC can be frozen. USDT can be frozen. There's a kill switch in the contract and the issuer holds it. No agents at your door. Just an email, and your address goes dead. Circle has done it. Tether has frozen billions. That's the system you're holding. And no, this isn't us in tinfoil hats. Because it's not just about getting frozen. It's about getting found. Your wallet is public. Anyone can see what you hold and watch where it moves, which means the people willing to hurt you can build a map before they ever knock. In 2025 there were 72 violent attacks on crypto holders, up 75 percent in a single year. Kidnappings. Home invasions. One founder had a finger severed over a ransom. They find these people by their on chain wealth. Public money is a map to your front door. So when people call this privacy thing a phase, when the crowd lines up to hate on it, understand what they're missing. Privacy isn't new. The cypherpunks were fighting for it back in the 90s, before most of crypto existed. Eric Hughes said it plain in 1993. Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. A small, loyal crowd carried that for decades. But it always lived off on its own island. Away from the apps. Away from the volume. Away from where the money actually moves. Easy to ignore. That's what's changing. The smartest builders are finally bringing privacy to the chains people actually use. Where the stablecoins live. Where the real money flows. It's early. Not all of it works yet. But it's coming. And whoever brings it to where the money already is owns the next cycle. There's way more at stake here than anyone thinks. So we've been working on something. Quietly. For a while now. Can't say much yet. But you know how we feel about privacy. And you KNOW what we do with a STORY this big. Soon. Keep your eyes on Wisemen. 👁️

If you are still around there are SO many opportunities to run your bag up Shit has been picking up onchain man… I love to see it! Do not lose hope!

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In retrospect, people will look back at the @Wisemenmentors journey and see it for what it actually was. Never launched a Wisemen coin. 538 Morning Podcasts (what people know as Morning Teas), only 12 days missed since November 2024. Over 100 X Spaces, 90 minutes deep each. 9 educational books written and sent to anyone willing to learn. Public investment calls with the full thesis behind them, not just tickers. Intensive deep dives on single projects, from 10 minute audio breakdowns to long form thesis pieces. Hundreds of hours of independent research on the people and projects behind every breakdown. Warned against overinvesting. Built a portfolio framework anchored in stablecoins, Layer 1s, and real projects. Took meme coin trenchers who only knew losses and turned them into actual investors. People who walked away from jobs they hated because of the financial freedom they found here. A daily campaign to pull people out of the trenches. Talented creators platformed who couldn't get reach anywhere else. Conversations with the sharpest minds in the space, all in the name of educating the community. Original artistic tributes made for communities and coins that deserved to be seen. Films and documentaries we made on the things we believe in. Mind you. None of it was paid. Not one sponsorship. Not one commission. Not one ask. The pieces that weren't cheap? Funded ourselves. All of it given freely. We came up out the mud. No connections. Knew nobody. Not plugged into anything. One mission has always carried it. Bring value. That was the mission yesterday. It's the mission today. It will be the mission ten years from now.

Yes of course. Only the Best. Thesis dropping Friday BTW