Playing the Odds

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️NEW: Zlatan Ibrahimović on FIFA’s new mouth-covering red card rule: as Almiron was given a red card for covering his mouth in the game between Paraguay and Turkey

“I have seen football at its highest level, the real football. Not this watered-down version they are serving us now. What happened with Almirón? A straight red card for covering his mouth? This is not football anymore. This is a circus run by bureaucrats in suits who have never felt the fire of the pitch.”

“Covering your mouth is now a red card? What is this, Big Brother on the field? FIFA wants to read lips, punish thoughts before they even become words. Next they will put muzzles on players like dogs. Players cannot even talk, cannot even breathe passion without some VAR robot or referee deciding your emotions are illegal. This is dystopian. Football is dying.”

“This rule was born because some players cry every week. One incident in the Champions League and suddenly the whole world must change. But elbow a man, break his leg, or spit — sometimes you get a yellow and a pat on the back. Two-tier football. Protect the protected, punish the rest. I have played in every league and I have seen it.”

On the softness of the modern game:
“Maradona would be sent off in the tunnel. Roy Keane? He would laugh at the referee and walk off with a smile while the stands burn. Pepe would have collected five reds before half-time. Today? Players are becoming actors, not warriors. They fall, they cry, they hide behind rules. Where is the masculinity? Where is the character? Football is not ballet. It is war. And they are turning it into a polite conversation with red cards as punctuation.”

“I, Zlatan, have scored goals that made stadiums shake and said things that made opponents tremble — without hiding. This generation is being raised soft. If you cannot handle words on the pitch, how will you handle life? FIFA is not protecting football. They are burying it. And one day, the real fans will rise and say: enough. Bring back the game.”

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

If you got to pick only one, go for the personal library over the man cave, but if you can have both, go for both.

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

https://t.co/yeG4PgpjEq

[Flood @ThinkingUSD]

Buying Bitcoin today is front running the forced diversification of a completely AI saturated equity market.

With not one, not two, but three massive inclusion of 5 Trillion dollars of equity value into the index, diversification requires venturing out on the risk curve.

[Playing the Odds @bullishbtc]

@alex_hunter20 its @HypeStrat possibly

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

The Guardian has just published its "100 best novels of all time" list — these are the top 12.

Toni Morrison's Beloved is in 2nd. Dostoevsky does not make the top 25...

What do you think?

[BookNote @BookNoteApp]

10 Books to Become Obsessed With Ancient Rome:

1) SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

[Lookonchain @lookonchain]

Smart trader pension-usdt.eth is now down over $15.86M on his 1K $BTC($78.88M) and 20K $ETH($47.61M) shorts.

His total profit has dropped from $33.28M to $14.73M.

Can he turn it around, or will he end up like @JamesWynnReal and @machibigbrother — giving back all profits and losing principal too?

https://t.co/3DaK4RUQbL

[Investment Wisdom @InvestingCanons]

“Knowledge compounds almost in the same way that your money compounds. In fact, only when your knowledge compounds at a faster pace, your money is safe. To me, that is a very fascinating journey and rewarding life.”

— Li Lu

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

My guest today is Paul Tudor Jones (@ptj_official), one of the greatest macro traders of all time.

He correctly predicted the 1987 stock market crash and shorted the Japanese bubble in 1990. For over 40 years, his flagship fund has had a negative correlation to the S&P 500. 100% of his returns are alpha.

He says today's market has so many similarities to 2000, "the easiest bear market I've ever seen in my whole life."

He makes the case for going long dollar-yen, why Bitcoin beats gold as an inflation hedge, and why he was wrong about Warren Buffett.

But what I'll remember most from this conversation is Paul's zest for life. He's 71 and still wakes at 2:30 every morning to trade the London open. He works out for two hours a day. He walks with his wife every evening. He travels the country chasing peak spring and peak fall. He's so excited about the songs picked for his funeral that he wishes he could be there to hear them.

Paul has lived five lifetimes in one. He's one of the most entertaining and interesting people I've met, and the conversation will leave you searching to be as passionate about what you do as he is about what he does.

Enjoy!

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:00 The Kindest Thing
13:19 Trading vs. Investing
17:33 Lessons from Warren Buffet
22:24 The Existential Risks of AI
29:54 The Nature of Trading
31:46 Bitcoin
35:55 Bubbles
42:08 A Day in the Life of PTJ
46:00 Information Overload
47:07 Passion for Markets
50:49 The Robin Hood Foundation
54:18 The Workless World
56:03 Journalism
1:00:00 Principal Components of a Great Life
1:05:06 Kill Them With Kindness

[Alex Becker 🍊🏆🥇 @ZssBecker]

If I could give you one success life hack.

And trust me. I literally have a hyperbaric healing chamber in my house. I take life hacks seriously.

If I could give you one tho. It'd be this.

Grab a bunch of epic fantasy books as thick as your head. Replace all your TV and social media time reading them.

Your brain will slowly start to work again. The focus from reading the thick ass wordy books will slowly put it back together.

Sanderson. Abercrombie. Gaimman. Pierce Brown. Great places to start.

Replacing this as your main time wasting hobby will give you absolutely crazy returns when it comes to actually making money. The focus you gain will make you lethal.

[Kyle Soska @SoskaKyle]

If someone hasn't sold their Bitcoin because of:

- 4-year cycle
- Iran/oil
- Quantum threats
- Forced liquidation (10/10, 60k drive)
- US Democratic Mid-terms / 2028 election
- Saylor
- General down-only momentum

Then what causes them to sell now?

[Flood @ThinkingUSD]

Betting against the United States has, and always will be fucking cringe

[lily @vxylily]

Men only have 5 moods:

1. Constantly horny
2. how we gonna get rich
3. Random 2 am motivation
4. Intense loneliness
5. My family needs me

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

So many phonies, so few who are the real deal

[Yusoff Kim @yusoffkim]

hi im usually not the kind of person but anyway

My mom passed away recently. she was the person that got me into trading

When i was young we were really poor. She took a yolo on a house we couldnt afford, sold it to a private developer, and used the profits to pay off all our debts

She gave me my first finance book (rich dad poor dad lol) and made me digest everything inside it. Since i could remember, she always asked what I would do with my first million, even when we didnt have two digits in the bank.

When the russian ruble tanked during the invasion, she went turbo long and made off with a bunch. She never really spent it.

She went for an upgrading course at the ripe old age of 55 to learn how to buy and sell distressed houses.

Definition of 5x a year there's free money on the floor.

She read every day and introduced me to hundreds of books and larger than life figures that shape how I think today.

She challenged me at every decision, not because she liked it, but because she wanted me to be better.

She encouraged me in all my passions (except art lmao, she's asian after all), and never asked me to confirm to anything society asked of me.

So I guess, cheers mom. Thanks a bunch, and thanks for the memories. I'll try my best from here on out.

Anyway, here's the flower she named herself after. She liked fruits and kimchi, and pink. Very girly woman.

[Hyperliquid @HyperliquidX]

Over the past 2 weeks, RWA trading on Hyperliquid has repeatedly broken records, surpassing $1.3B in open interest and $1.4B in weekend volume.

When traditional markets are closed, Hyperliquid is the premier venue for 24/7 price discovery on oil, metals, indices, and other essential assets. This is an important step towards housing all of finance.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"Games were created to give nonheroes the illusion of winning. In real life, you don’t know who really won or lost (except too late), but you can tell who is heroic and who is not." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

[Playing the Odds @bullishbtc]

@murda0x volume 28 Milion not B

[Arthur Hayes @CryptoHayes]

My essay on why $HYPE is going to $150 by August 2026.

https://t.co/M1la2HpdzT