I am 52 years old. I have been working since I was 15 years old. I have no savings, no retirement, and will never own a home before I die. And there is now a trillionaire.

هندي يُدعى "دولت جیری جی مهاراج" قرر ترك الدراسة الجامعية والتحول إلى التديّن ونذر نفسه لأمر واحد فقط وهو الوقوف إلى الأبد. السبب؟ هذه العملية الدينية ستوصله في النهاية لرؤية الإله الهندوسي (ماهاديف) حسب اعتقاده. بعض التقارير تقول بأنه منذ 12 عام وهو على هذا الوضع، لم يجلس أو ينم على الأرض بل ينام واقفًا مستخدمًا دعامة. في المقطع أحد المتطوعين يقوم بتنظيف ساقيه بوضع مراهم موضعية ومطهرات للمساعدة في تخفيف التورم والعناية بالحالة الصحية الناتجة عن سنوات الوقوف الطويلة. يُذكر أن الهندي "دولت جیری جی مهاراج" لم يرى الإله المذكور حتى اليوم.

I’ve wanted to tell this story for years. Never had the courage. Here it is. I turned a presale allocation into $80 million on $OHM. Today I have $500k left. In 2021, I got a presale allocation in OlympusDAO, then aped heavily myself on top of it. The allocation got me in the door. My own conviction made me go all in. Staked everything. Watched it compound daily. By the peak I was sitting on $80 million. Then I started spending like the money printed itself. Private jets to Dubai because commercial felt beneath me. $40k weekends in Monaco. A garage full of cars I drove twice. Watches I never wore. I tipped $5k at dinners just to feel something. Every purchase was a flex for an audience that didn’t care. The casino was worse. High limit rooms in Vegas and Macau. I’d lose $2 million in a night and laugh it off because the portfolio would make it back by morning. Until it didn’t. When $OHM unwound, I didn’t sell. I doubled down. Then I leveraged. 5x, then 10x, trying to trade my way back to the peak. Every liquidation felt like a personal insult, so I’d open a bigger position. I wasn’t trading anymore. I was gambling with a different interface. $80 million became $20 million. $20 million became $4 million. I told myself $4 million was still life changing money. Then I levered that too. $500k. That’s what’s left. Here’s what I learned the expensive way: Unrealized gains are not money. I never had $80 million. I had a number on a screen and the arrogance to believe it was permanent. Getting in early is a gift. I treated it like a skill. The allocation didn’t make me a genius. It made me lucky. I confused the two for three years. Lifestyle inflation is a leak you don’t notice until the ship is underwater. The jets and cars didn’t kill me. The identity did. I became someone who needed to spend to feel like a winner. Leverage doesn’t get you back to even. It gets you to zero faster. Revenge trading is just grief with a chart open. Nobody at the table in Monaco remembers my name. I’ve carried this story alone for years. Too embarrassed to say it out loud. But $500k is more than most people will ever hold at once, and I’m done pretending the past didn’t happen. The next decade is about building slow and keeping what I make. If you’re up big right now, screenshot this. You’ll need it.

The odds of SBF getting a pardon by Trump just pumped by 100% 😳

For people who have survived multiple bear markets What’s the #1 piece of advice you’d give to someone right now?

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Reason why bitcoin had a lousy 2025 bull, decoupled from gold & equities, is in bear now ... is the complete implosion of altcoins IMO. Take ETH for example: -70% from its 2021 top and almost back to its 2017 top 📉IMO shitcoins are done, lesson learned, expensive but worth it.

Rotated some BTC to ZEC. ZEC is now my biggest bag. My STRC/BTC thesis partially invalidated due to Saylor mismanaging it in my eyes Just as HYPE is capturing inflows from overvalued L1 tokens like ETH/SOL, ZEC likely sees inflows from BTC as a quantum/privacy/Saylor hedge.

gut says large liquidation event soon

Fidelity has lowered the minimum account requirement for access to the SpaceX IPO from as much as $500,000 to just $2,000.

Here's another example showing that Polymarket is perfectly willing to allow additional time for information to emerge when it wants to. Take the market: "Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal by a certain date?" The situation is remarkably similar to the MicroStrategy market. Just as PortWatch routinely publishes traffic data with a delay of several days, MicroStrategy also reports its transactions with a delay of several days. On top of that, MicroStrategy files these reports only on business days, and May 31 fell on a weekend. Therefore, if a purchase or sale occurred at the very end of the month, it was entirely predictable that official confirmation would not appear until Monday. In both cases, the underlying event either happened or didn't happen before the deadline. The only uncertainty was when reliable confirmation would become available. Yet Polymarket appears willing to wait for delayed confirmation in one case while insisting on a completely different standard in another. This is exactly what frustrates so many users. The problem isn't that Polymarket chose one interpretation over another. The problem is the apparent lack of a consistent principle. If delayed evidence is acceptable in one market but not another, users are left wondering what rule is actually being applied. And once people start asking that question, trust in the platform inevitably suffers.