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People who have suffered under authoritarian regimes tend to value crypto and decentralization more than anyone.
The average person born and raised in Europe or North America with stable governments and functioning financial systems always questions why we even need this place.
I got into crypto in 2021 after the Taliban regime took power and froze all the banks in Afghanistan, including my dad's life savings. To this day, thousands of people have their assets seized or made inaccessible.
My dad and my entire family now rely on stablecoins for savings. I can't even open a bank account in most countries due to my nationality - my passport is essentially a financial barrier.
Across the world, there are millions of people who wish they had alternatives and learned too late that centralized systems can lock you out overnight.
For many of you, crypto is another option. For us, it's the only one.
The average person born and raised in Europe or North America with stable governments and functioning financial systems always questions why we even need this place.
I got into crypto in 2021 after the Taliban regime took power and froze all the banks in Afghanistan, including my dad's life savings. To this day, thousands of people have their assets seized or made inaccessible.
My dad and my entire family now rely on stablecoins for savings. I can't even open a bank account in most countries due to my nationality - my passport is essentially a financial barrier.
Across the world, there are millions of people who wish they had alternatives and learned too late that centralized systems can lock you out overnight.
For many of you, crypto is another option. For us, it's the only one.
A major reason I'm still in crypto is the importance of people having control over their own money and financial systems. My family had everything taken from them by the communist government in China during the Cultural Revolution, simply for owning a business and being educated
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This ChatGPT written tweet with em-dashes is the greatest bottom signal anon.
time to lock tf in.
time to lock tf in.
A brutal year for Bitcoin is just getting started.
Give me three minutes to explain why you should dump it now.
Outflows from ETFs are signal and will continue.
We will test the 57k low again in the next 12 months.
Why?
Because there are far too many dynamic places to creating MUCH more value.
Why put your resources into a dead network that offers nothing beyond a store of value?
What's the point of place the BTC be if Bitcoin's Ponzi-scheme nature has gone away!?!
The viral nature of bitcoin was it's power... if you didn't own you were MOCKED!
Now? Completely reasonable, heck, SMARTER, to ignore bitcoin and place other bets!
No one is trying to convince people to buy Bitcoin anymore... the memes and NFTs are gone.
No one is saying $ BTC can change the world, because it won't — and BECAUSE AI HAS!
Just sell and shift from Bitcoin to Super Intelligence because one provides little to no value, and the other provides unlimited upside for humanity.
This should be obvious to everyone right now.
Bitcoin will never break its all-time high again.
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Since people seem to be enjoying my tweets about career transitions and lessons learned, here's the biggest hack:
Get a coach, folks. It's the best thing I've ever done for myself.
My thinking process about this is: after spending four years learning engineering, I can look back and see a million things I could've done differently to focus on the right things and progress faster.
That's exactly where a coach or mentor comes in.
Having a coach doesn't necessarily mean they handhold you and literally teach you how to do the thing, but more about someone who can answer your important questions, point you in the right direction, and help you focus your efforts on things that will actually move you forward.
When you're new to an industry, it's easy to spend months working on things that seem important but ultimately don't get you anywhere.
A good example is my experience with content creation. I made over 200 short videos and spent time building my brand in areas that were either too saturated, would take too long to break into, or had no clear path to monetization.
With the right advice early on, I could've saved myself months of trial and error and focused on a much better opportunity from the beginning.
I've personally spent tens of thousands of dollars getting advice on things like this, and a lot of it has been incredibly valuable.
The moral of the story: When learning a new skill or making a career transition, a good coach or mentor can make a massive difference, purely to make sure you're shooting on goal and not in the stands like Lukaku or Darwin Nunes.
Get a coach, folks. It's the best thing I've ever done for myself.
My thinking process about this is: after spending four years learning engineering, I can look back and see a million things I could've done differently to focus on the right things and progress faster.
That's exactly where a coach or mentor comes in.
Having a coach doesn't necessarily mean they handhold you and literally teach you how to do the thing, but more about someone who can answer your important questions, point you in the right direction, and help you focus your efforts on things that will actually move you forward.
When you're new to an industry, it's easy to spend months working on things that seem important but ultimately don't get you anywhere.
A good example is my experience with content creation. I made over 200 short videos and spent time building my brand in areas that were either too saturated, would take too long to break into, or had no clear path to monetization.
With the right advice early on, I could've saved myself months of trial and error and focused on a much better opportunity from the beginning.
I've personally spent tens of thousands of dollars getting advice on things like this, and a lot of it has been incredibly valuable.
The moral of the story: When learning a new skill or making a career transition, a good coach or mentor can make a massive difference, purely to make sure you're shooting on goal and not in the stands like Lukaku or Darwin Nunes.
Last night, I found myself thinking about the early days of my career, old coworkers, and why some people grew into much better roles while others seemed to stay exactly where they were and even declined.
One pattern I noticed among the people who really grew was their ability to imagine themselves doing things they weren't qualified for yet, combined with the almost delusional confidence that they'd figure it out.
I think I fell into that category myself. When I wanted to transition from engineering into sales, I realized that building a great product was only half the battle. You also had to convince people to buy it.
So I jumped on a call with @adamxlee, who was leading corporate development and business at thirdweb at the time.
I asked all the questions I could think of. We were in different departments, so he didn't know me that well, but what he did know was that I was extremely committed.
Towards the end of the call, I asked him whether he thought I could actually do well in sales and other business roles.
I don't know if he genuinely believed it or was just being nice, but he told me:
"Well, you can hold a conversation, and you're very hardworking and that's what it's all about in business"
I looked up to Adam, so I took those words to heart. They gave me an almost ridiculous level of confidence that I could make the transition.
Of course, being delusional on its own isn't enough, and it can absolutely backfire. But at that point in my life, I was putting in 14-hour days easily while still in college. Don't ask me how I managed that.
While still in college and working my full time devrel role, I started learning sales skills on the side and doing a lot of unpaid work for an agency to get some real experience.
Within 6 months of that conversation, I was brought in as an SDR to help with lead generation. Four months later, I'd already moved into an AE role at another company.
The point of this isn't to brag, but to highlight why always pushing through, looking for greater challenges, refusing to be a spectator, and having the delusional confidence that you can achieve something is a pretty darn good combination.
If you're stuck in a role and want to do something different, I'd encourage you to find that combination of ambition, hard work, AND most importantly delusional confidence. It will take you further than you think.
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My total cashback from @EthenaPay over the last 30 days is now over $420.
At this point, I should probably stop using this card because the 5% cashback is making me spend more than I should 🙃
At this point, I should probably stop using this card because the 5% cashback is making me spend more than I should 🙃
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Nvidia is going to be the biggest winner in robotics and they don't even make robots.
The microducks were trained in the cloud on Nivida's supercomputers and tested on an RTX Spark before even touching the real robot with an ai agent running most of that pipeline.
They’re building the full robotics stack: compute to train (cloud GPUs), simulate (Isaac Sim / Omniverse) and run on-device (Jetson Thor), while open-sourcing much of the software layer (GR00T, Isaac Lab).
On top of that, they agreed to buy @huggingface for 13 billion which is the same company behind the microducks.
This is the gold rush playbook. The people who got rich weren't always the ones digging for gold, but the ones selling the shovels, because everyone needed one no matter who struck gold.
Jensen is also a master of spotting these things, back in 2016, when openai was less than a year old, he personally delivered one of the first DGX-1 supercomputers to Sam and years later ChatGPT was built on Nvidia chips.
The microducks were trained in the cloud on Nivida's supercomputers and tested on an RTX Spark before even touching the real robot with an ai agent running most of that pipeline.
They’re building the full robotics stack: compute to train (cloud GPUs), simulate (Isaac Sim / Omniverse) and run on-device (Jetson Thor), while open-sourcing much of the software layer (GR00T, Isaac Lab).
On top of that, they agreed to buy @huggingface for 13 billion which is the same company behind the microducks.
This is the gold rush playbook. The people who got rich weren't always the ones digging for gold, but the ones selling the shovels, because everyone needed one no matter who struck gold.
Jensen is also a master of spotting these things, back in 2016, when openai was less than a year old, he personally delivered one of the first DGX-1 supercomputers to Sam and years later ChatGPT was built on Nvidia chips.
Totally adorable.
Jensen Huang brought four Microduck robots onstage during his keynote at NVIDIA GTC Berlin.
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The new X algo is insane.
I searched for a couple of robotics companies and accounts, and now my entire For You feed is robotics for the next 50 posts.
I searched for a couple of robotics companies and accounts, and now my entire For You feed is robotics for the next 50 posts.
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Last night, I found myself thinking about the early days of my career, old coworkers, and why some people grew into much better roles while others seemed to stay exactly where they were and even declined.
One pattern I noticed among the people who really grew was their ability to imagine themselves doing things they weren't qualified for yet, combined with the almost delusional confidence that they'd figure it out.
I think I fell into that category myself. When I wanted to transition from engineering into sales, I realized that building a great product was only half the battle. You also had to convince people to buy it.
So I jumped on a call with @adamxlee, who was leading corporate development and business at thirdweb at the time.
I asked all the questions I could think of. We were in different departments, so he didn't know me that well, but what he did know was that I was extremely committed.
Towards the end of the call, I asked him whether he thought I could actually do well in sales and other business roles.
I don't know if he genuinely believed it or was just being nice, but he told me:
"Well, you can hold a conversation, and you're very hardworking and that's what it's all about in business"
I looked up to Adam, so I took those words to heart. They gave me an almost ridiculous level of confidence that I could make the transition.
Of course, being delusional on its own isn't enough, and it can absolutely backfire. But at that point in my life, I was putting in 14-hour days easily while still in college. Don't ask me how I managed that.
While still in college and working my full time devrel role, I started learning sales skills on the side and doing a lot of unpaid work for an agency to get some real experience.
Within 6 months of that conversation, I was brought in as an SDR to help with lead generation. Four months later, I'd already moved into an AE role at another company.
The point of this isn't to brag, but to highlight why always pushing through, looking for greater challenges, refusing to be a spectator, and having the delusional confidence that you can achieve something is a pretty darn good combination.
If you're stuck in a role and want to do something different, I'd encourage you to find that combination of ambition, hard work, AND most importantly delusional confidence. It will take you further than you think.
One pattern I noticed among the people who really grew was their ability to imagine themselves doing things they weren't qualified for yet, combined with the almost delusional confidence that they'd figure it out.
I think I fell into that category myself. When I wanted to transition from engineering into sales, I realized that building a great product was only half the battle. You also had to convince people to buy it.
So I jumped on a call with @adamxlee, who was leading corporate development and business at thirdweb at the time.
I asked all the questions I could think of. We were in different departments, so he didn't know me that well, but what he did know was that I was extremely committed.
Towards the end of the call, I asked him whether he thought I could actually do well in sales and other business roles.
I don't know if he genuinely believed it or was just being nice, but he told me:
"Well, you can hold a conversation, and you're very hardworking and that's what it's all about in business"
I looked up to Adam, so I took those words to heart. They gave me an almost ridiculous level of confidence that I could make the transition.
Of course, being delusional on its own isn't enough, and it can absolutely backfire. But at that point in my life, I was putting in 14-hour days easily while still in college. Don't ask me how I managed that.
While still in college and working my full time devrel role, I started learning sales skills on the side and doing a lot of unpaid work for an agency to get some real experience.
Within 6 months of that conversation, I was brought in as an SDR to help with lead generation. Four months later, I'd already moved into an AE role at another company.
The point of this isn't to brag, but to highlight why always pushing through, looking for greater challenges, refusing to be a spectator, and having the delusional confidence that you can achieve something is a pretty darn good combination.
If you're stuck in a role and want to do something different, I'd encourage you to find that combination of ambition, hard work, AND most importantly delusional confidence. It will take you further than you think.
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The best thing that ever happened to me in my career was getting recruited by @saminacodes to intern with her at thirdweb years ago.
The company was far from perfect, but it had some incredibly competent people across business, engineering, and DevRel. The way they operated was incredible, and being exposed to that level of execution early in my career completely changed how I approached my work.
After thirdweb, I never really saw that same level again in any of my jobs, including EF. Maybe Sherlock comes close, as they also operated really well.
This taught me how important it is to join a great company early in your career. Your first experiences shape your expectations of what good looks like, how you approach problems, and the level at which you expect yourself and the people around you to operate.
I got extremely lucky, and I still wonder where I'd be today if that opportunity had never come along.
The company was far from perfect, but it had some incredibly competent people across business, engineering, and DevRel. The way they operated was incredible, and being exposed to that level of execution early in my career completely changed how I approached my work.
After thirdweb, I never really saw that same level again in any of my jobs, including EF. Maybe Sherlock comes close, as they also operated really well.
This taught me how important it is to join a great company early in your career. Your first experiences shape your expectations of what good looks like, how you approach problems, and the level at which you expect yourself and the people around you to operate.
I got extremely lucky, and I still wonder where I'd be today if that opportunity had never come along.
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For those wondering who Tim Pan is and why he's suddenly all over X:
He's spent the last decade building MediaStorm, producing some of the most ambitious filmmaking and tech content I've seen.
And now, one viral iPhone review later, millions of people are discovering him for the first time.
It's crazy to think how many creators like him we've missed simply because of the disconnect between China and the rest of the world.
If you want to see what we've been missing, here's one of his videos on Bilibili. More people need to discover this guy.
bilibili.com/en/video/BV1En…
He's spent the last decade building MediaStorm, producing some of the most ambitious filmmaking and tech content I've seen.
And now, one viral iPhone review later, millions of people are discovering him for the first time.
It's crazy to think how many creators like him we've missed simply because of the disconnect between China and the rest of the world.
If you want to see what we've been missing, here's one of his videos on Bilibili. More people need to discover this guy.
bilibili.com/en/video/BV1En…
My iPhone Duo video went viral, so I'm giving away 100 iPhones on X 😛
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With all the amazing builders India has, you'd expect them to have a better exchange than CoinDCX of all companies, which seems to be making rookie mistake after rookie mistake.
I reviewed some of their security practices post-Bybit exploit with @sammyaudits, and boy, were they terrible.
Honestly, I'd love to see some of India's best builders come together and build a proper exchange that the country can be proud of. Maybe Polygon and some of the other great teams in the ecosystem should take a shot at it.
I reviewed some of their security practices post-Bybit exploit with @sammyaudits, and boy, were they terrible.
Honestly, I'd love to see some of India's best builders come together and build a proper exchange that the country can be proud of. Maybe Polygon and some of the other great teams in the ecosystem should take a shot at it.
@CoinDCXdeposit address TQKJQ was in use by a LP for 10 months after your July 2025 incident and swept user deposits + received gas as recent as April & May 2026 to your current public hot wallet.
Meaning $15.8M in user deposits was unaccounted for by your team.
Why are Indian CEXs so untruNS
Now CoinDCX
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Sometimes I wonder what the internet would look like if Chinese platforms and creators were more integrated with the rest of the world.
China has an entire ecosystem of apps, platforms, and services that billions of people use, many of which most of the rest of the world barely knows exist.
With Bilibili (China's YouTube) expanding globally, hopefully people will get a glimpse of that world and discover some of the incredible things being built there.
I genuinely think the cross-pollination of ideas between these two internet ecosystems could lead to some fascinating things.
China has an entire ecosystem of apps, platforms, and services that billions of people use, many of which most of the rest of the world barely knows exist.
With Bilibili (China's YouTube) expanding globally, hopefully people will get a glimpse of that world and discover some of the incredible things being built there.
I genuinely think the cross-pollination of ideas between these two internet ecosystems could lead to some fascinating things.
iPhone Duo Review: 10,000 Folds Later...
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I strongly believe OP fumbled a massive opportunity with this bet.
They could've become the next Base: a consumer-focused ecosystem on top of Ethereum while they still had the momentum.
Instead, they went all-in on the stack thesis, which so far hasn't delivered the results they were hoping for.
An even bigger mistake was prioritizing the stack at the expense of their own network. A hybrid approach like Arbitrum's, where they continued investing in their own ecosystem while also supporting the stack, would've made a lot more sense.
Now they've put themselves in a position where this bet needs to work or they die a slow death.
They could've become the next Base: a consumer-focused ecosystem on top of Ethereum while they still had the momentum.
Instead, they went all-in on the stack thesis, which so far hasn't delivered the results they were hoping for.
An even bigger mistake was prioritizing the stack at the expense of their own network. A hybrid approach like Arbitrum's, where they continued investing in their own ecosystem while also supporting the stack, would've made a lot more sense.
Now they've put themselves in a position where this bet needs to work or they die a slow death.
Just like every company has its own server now, soon every company will have its own blockchain.
@jinglejamOP explains:
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Always seek advice from people who've actually been in the trenches and lived through multiple cycles.
They'll help you round-trip your entire portfolio without making a penny, and somehow you'll still feel good about your investments.
They'll help you round-trip your entire portfolio without making a penny, and somehow you'll still feel good about your investments.
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There's this new annoying botting tactic on X where people use AI bots to leave generic comments under relevant accounts' posts to promote their own account and get more visibility and followers.
@nikitabier I know you're not responsible anymore, but please get these nuked 😭
@nikitabier I know you're not responsible anymore, but please get these nuked 😭
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