Connor ⚡️🧬

#bitcoin | Independent Market Analyst | Not Financial Advice | Former Action Guy - US ARMY |

[Connor ⚡️🧬 @Con_Captial3301]

My trading credentials:

Life Hack - learn from someone who’s been successful in the field you’re passionate about. Go directly to the source and be a sponge 🧽.

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𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚍𝚒𝚍𝚗’𝚝 𝚛𝚞𝚗 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚍𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚜.
𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖 𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝
𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔 𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚍 𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚕.
𝚓𝚊𝚙𝚊𝚗’𝚜 𝚐𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚋𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚜.

[Connor ⚡️🧬 @Con_Captial3301]

@saif305 @VanderbiltU @ServiceNow @FloridaAtlantic Big moves. This should help CRE & RE valuations.

[Connor ⚡️🧬 @Con_Captial3301]

@GrantCardone Yes

[Connor ⚡️🧬 @Con_Captial3301]

The Ides of March…

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

If you woke up today and

> have a job
> can call both your parents
> not physically ill
> have somewhere to go back home to

it is a good day regardless of what else is going on in the world or what you might be stressed about

easy to take these things for granted

[Connor ⚡️🧬 @Con_Captial3301]

Good 🙌

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[Connor ⚡️🧬 @Con_Captial3301]

@DavidSacks Agreed; Miami is the future ☀️👏

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As a response to socialism, Miami will replace NYC as the finance capital and Austin will replace SF as the tech capital.

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Luxuries that don't look like luxuries, but are:

1. Having your mom and dad alive
2. Have siblings in the same city
3. No anxiety on Sunday night
4. Healthy eyesight
5. Having a roof over your head
6. Buying a $5 coffee in the morning
7. Being able to walk without pain
8. A warm shower every morning
9. Clean air to breathe
10. A good night's sleep without interruptions

True happiness comes from simplicity.

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₿ig things coming for Franklin!

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[Dan Tapiero @DTAPCAP]

Thanks @_The_Prophet__

Here is the no-bullshit, highest-coherence, mask-off answer.

This article is smart, but it is structurally wrong in the only way that actually matters.

It is correct within the paradigm it is measuring, and completely blind to the paradigm that actually determines crypto valuations.

This is why its logic feels crisp but lands flat.
It is applying Web2 metrics to a monetary technology, not a consumer network.

It is mismeasuring the thing itself.

I will break this down brutally clean.

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1. He is right about network effects. He is wrong about crypto.

Crypto does not have Facebook-style network effects.
Correct.

Crypto does not have user stickiness like Meta.
Correct.

Crypto does not have monetization comparable to Web2.
Correct.

And all of that is totally irrelevant.

Because crypto is not a consumer network.
Crypto is monetary infrastructure.

You do not measure:
•gold
•the dollar
•oil
•bonds
•treasuries

using DAU, MAU, ARPU, retention, or k-coefficients.

This is the categorical error at the heart of the article.

He is judging a monetary substrate using the metrics of a social app.

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2. Crypto is valued the way money is valued: by beliefs, reflexivity, scarcity, and collateral utility.

Money is not a business.
Money is not a network product.
Money is a coordination technology with:
•reflexive trust
•role in collateral hierarchy
•function as energy storage
•function as global settlement rail
•macro-hedge dynamics
•political neutrality premium
•liquidity preference

None of this shows up in MAU metrics.

Bitcoin’s valuation is not based on:

“how many users are active this month.”

It is based on:
•its role in global collateral scarcity
•its function as pristine, non-sovereign reserve
•its energy base
•its terminal supply certainty
•its insulation from political coercion
•its reflexive monetization dynamic
•its place in the global liquidity stack

Nothing in the article even touches these domains.

He is talking about the wrong organism.

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3. Crypto is not valued like Meta. It is valued like gold, commodities, reserve assets, and monetary layers.

Gold does not have:
•retention
•daily active users
•user flows
•stickiness
•network effects

Yet gold has:
•5,000 years of monetary premium
•valuation far above its industrial use

Because money is not valued by usage.
Money is valued by belief, structure, scarcity, and collateral function.

Crypto inherits this same dynamic.

That is why its valuations look unhinged through his lens.

He is measuring “chairs in a restaurant” while everyone else is pricing “land in Manhattan.”

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4. Crypto’s real network effect IS speculation. And that is not a weakness — it is the ignition phase of every monetary asset.

He treats “speculation” like a bug.

It is the feature.

Monetary assets enter reflexive dominance through:
1.speculation
2.liquidity
3.collateralization
4.institutional adoption
5.settlement role
6.reserve status

Gold did this.

The dollar did this.

Sovereign bonds did this.

Every asset that becomes money goes through a speculative monetization phase where network effects are not usage, but belief-induced liquidity spirals.

Crypto is in stage 3–4 of this monetization curve.

He is complaining that Bitcoin does not look like Facebook when in reality it looks like early gold.

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5. His entire “valuation per user” framing collapses under one question: Who is the user?

Is an oil barrel’s valuation “overpriced” because it has no MAU?

Is the U.S. dollar “overvalued” because its ARPU is low?

Is gold “overpriced” because it has no retention curve?

These questions are absurd because the framing is wrong.

Crypto’s “user” is not a person.
Crypto’s “user” is global liquidity.

Liquidity does not have DAUs.
Liquidity has flows, volatility, and collateral demand.

By that metric, crypto is underpriced, not overpriced.

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6. Crypto’s network effect is not n squared. It is 1 ....CUT OFF UNFORTUNATELY.

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[Jack Mallers @jackmallers]

Yes. A proud moment.

So proud I got it framed.

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BREAKING: 🇺🇸 New Hampshire approves and launches the first-ever #Bitcoin-backed municipal bond.

The USA is embracing Bitcoin 🚀