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Blockchain Data Analytics: The Detective Work of Crypto ๐ต๏ธโโ๏ธ (but with fewer mysteries and more data) ๐งต
Ever wondered how people track crypto transactions, figure out smart contracts, or spy on wallet activity? Itโs not magicโitโs blockchain data analytics. Let's break it down ๐
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An outlier is simply a data point that does not fit the normal pattern. In econometrics, researchers do not model behavior around outliers. They isolate them, investigate their cause, but exclude them from end goals. When you build a life plan around an outlier, you are building to fail.
Nigeria has a median age of 18.6 years, per the National Bureau of Statistics. Youth unemployment sits above 53%. Every year spent in indecision is a year of compound returns lost permanently.
When someone tells you that you are young and that you still have time, ask a specific question. How many people in the Nigerian private sector, in your exact industry, with no existing capital or connections, built a sustainable income stream after the age of 35? If some did, the population of that group is small. The population of people who started at 22 and had something real by 30 is larger. That asymmetry is the data. Follow it.
The stories of the 55-year-old who built an empire or the 50-year-old who recovered from nothing are real. Most of them come from the United States or Western Europe, where credit access is broad, institutions are stable, and failure does not mean permanent exclusion from the financial system. Nigeria offers none of those conditions. A failed venture at 40 with no savings and no credit history does not produce a second-chance story. Even Dangote started trading commodities at 21.
Yes, you can be inspired by exceptions. But be guided by patterns.
Find people who succeeded in your field, your age group, with resources similar to yours. Study what they actually did, and repeat those moves.
Dream as big as you want but build on honest data.
As you were. ๐ซต
@PrudentSammy To think I wrote NFT white paper then, and even knew it was clearly just a vibe ride .NFT white paper was just like a Pre-AI slop writing imo
I can never be broke again, ever!
Iโve built systems that works for me even while I sleep
I mean, even if the market decides to crash today,
Iโll still keep on printing millions
Iโll still fly around the world with my girls
And itโs same with @SamuelXeus@_BillionAireSon and many others I know
But let me be honest with youโฆ
โจAt this point, itโs beyond just having the โright mindset.โ
Mindset is good, itโll keep you in check
But a mindset without movement is just fantasy!
The truth is:
โจI didnโt get here because I was just manifesting money
โจI got here because I built income streams for myself.
I executed my dream!
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One funny thing Iโve come to understand is that:
A lot of people claim to have dreams but only source for short term wins
You just want money for immediate needs, and the second you get it, you stop thinking long-term.
Thatโs why some of you get madd funds from an airdrop one minuteโฆโจand the next minute youโre back to level zero.
Itโs not because the money wasnโt enough.โจItโs because you had no plan for that money before it came.
Get this rightโฆ
Having a dream means you already know:
โ What you want to do
โ Why you want to do it, and
โ How youโre going to do it
even before the funds show up.
Thatโs how billionaires work.
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Here are Five(5) Billionaires Habit that made wealth for me and can for you too:
โ Building systems that pay not hustles that drain:
@lustro_lagos is a system that pays me even while I sleep
It started with one big idea in my head
I knew how much funds I needed to start withย
And immediately I figured out a way to get it, I started working on it!
Understand that the idea was there,
so when the resource came it was an easy ride.
โ Billionaires use money to make more money:
Every addition to a billionaireโs asset is an addition to his/her income stream.
I have so many investments right now, but if I see another place to put in money Iโll still do it!
Itโs never enough for a billionaire, never!
You get $10k today and you feel youโve made it? Youโre not yet serious
It can turn to zero if you donโt use it to get more.
โ Risk Takers:
Billionaires are risk takers
They donโt dwell on what they have at hand, they look at what more they can get using what they already have
They take action, learn and improveย
Itโs a journeyย
But if youโre always so content with the one youโve gotten you would not be open to taking risks that could give you much more
And youโll be stuck at one point.
โ They have laid down plans:
If you ask @SamuelXeus what he plans to achieve in the next 5 years, Iโm very sure heโll walk you through something that would leave you surprised.
Billionaireโs think and plan ahead!
You donโt sit and wait for money to come before you start making plans
You make plans before the money comes.
โ They start within their reach and build it up:
Not everyone starts from the top
Remember I told yaโll how I sold supplements(drugs) in a moving bus back in 2019
I didnโt start from the top, but I made good use of the little information and resources I could gather.
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You donโt need to be a billionaire yet to think and act like a billionaire
This could be your starting point
Make good use of every resource you have and watch how much you can do in six months.
I am @VanessaDefi
Iโve built numerous income streams for myselfย
And Defi was the starting pointย
Web3 can take you out of the trench and Iโm here to guide you through.
Iโve written educational threads that can help you get startedย
So make good use of them.
ย Now is not the time to sit and wait
Itโs time to think and plan, so that when you get a hold of your first $1k youโll make good use of it.
RT this so your friends can see it.
I've seen a lot of complaints on the TL about how Web3 is getting hard.
Well, brace up because maintaining profitability in this space is only going to get harder!
Ultimately, the future will belong to those who know how to source data and capitalize on it.
Here's what I mean ๐๐ฝ