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Your Morning Routine Is STUPID.
No. Routine haters are stupid. Here's why :
I see this trend now pushing "F UR ROUTINE". You don't need 10 steps to get to work, just work!
This is very wrong. This is why.
While the sentiment is correct. AKA you should be able to work any time, through will power and just power through....
OR "all the millionaires I know didn't have some magic routine or red light meditation process, they just worked"
But the application is silly. You SHOULD have a rigorous optimized OCD routine.
So atm. Of course I seem bias.
When I am in the zone I wake up, take a cold shower, do red light therapy, then inject my self with NAD+ n other stuff, then do a 5-7 minute hiit workout THEN get to work.
I also then do saunas after work, meditate, many walks. All the OCD hyper optimized "junk".
Thus I may seem bias writing this.
But I am not.
Look you can get VERY far without a "magic routine".
I managed to get to an 8 figure net worth while being a functional alcoholic.
If you have talent, focus on the right things and do them for a LONG time till your "good"...You 100% can make it.
The problem is this : You are not making it ANYWHERE near your potential if you operate like this.
Look at any elite athlete that REMAINED elite for a long time. Not the short term talent only ones. The LONG time champs.
Tom Brady for example was extreme about taking care of his mind and body during his career.
If you look at top players, they are simply fanatics about staying in their peak and squeezing out every ounce of potential.
The same applies to business.
Yes..With talent n focus you can achieve a lot.
But if you line up the same two focused n talented people...But one is OCD about maintaining an extremely high level of being...
The OCD guy will absolutely destroy the non OCD guy.
To many negative things occur when you are not serious about your diet, sleep, mental health, body, energy levels, clarity of mind and stress.
If you don't master these and optimize them...You simply are not going to perform as well.
And you are simply making your journey much harder and lowering your peak potential.
Some people are just better than others. It's that simple.
Tom Brady, even drinking and living off Pancakes PROBABLY would of gone pro.
But would he of been the greatest of all time? No probably not.
Elon musk could probably outdo you in business while maintaining a heroin problem.
This isn't the point.
Its about YOU and YOUR potential. NOT others raw talent vs YOUR potential.
You are trying to beat the best version of YOU. NOT SOMEONE ELSE.
You will simply never be as talented as some people. Some people will still WOOP you even if they are drunk.
You WILL always get better results as your BEST self VS your willy nilly F-off self. THIS IS THE POINT.
The truth is, if you dont focus on keeping yourself extremely optimized, you are making hitting your goals harder.
For example :
Yes. I got to 8 figures while binge drinking most weekends, playing video games, just being a fresh pressed unoptimized turd.
BUT IT WAS HARD. My work and everything I did was so short sighted and sloppy when I look back on it.
I missed SO SO SO SO many huge opportunities because I was always distracted/tired/cloudy/not at peak me.
If I was I probably would of caught Bitcoin in 2013. I would of made my software companies SO much earlier. I would of done SO much better on social media.
That said, in my 30s I got my shit together. Once I did, I shit you not it took me like 2-3 years to get to a 9 figure networth...
If I had started living this way in my early 20s id be worth 500 mil+ right now. Instead of I hung out trying to do big things with 20% of my being.
I struggled to bust 8 figures REVENUE in my 20s. In my 30s I had my first near 25 million profit $$ year.
Why?
Well A because I have talent and I focused on the right things.
But B because I sold all my distractions and took my sport (businesses) SERIOUSLY.
Low and behold, when I take my well being seriously, I feel much better, recover better and play my sport better.
Its not complicated. Its obvious. Your just better in all areas when your in sync, in a deep flow and healthy AF.
If your in business, you are in a PVP sport. Your performance affects how you play.
If your eating dog crap and all over the place and constantly stressing your body VS enhancing it...Your going to play worse. Period.
Your decisions, energy, awareness and motivation will all be worse.
This is....bum bum bum...worse.
So YES...You can say "f routine, just do it"
Just like if you are a MMA fighter you can say F everything, just get in the ring and woop ass.
However : The George Saint Pierre optimized MFer will always perform better.
And if your goals are the thing thats most important to you then you are simply making your goals WAY harder by trying to do it unoptimized.
So giggle at my and others routine all you want.
The truth is I am closer to my max potential than I would be without it.
Anyone doing so is closer to their max than someone whose egotistically attacking life on talent/willpower alone.
Its that simple. Its like choosing to play a video game on SUPER HARD (willy nilly no routine) or easy (optimized)
Life n goals is easier when you feel/think/live optimized.
I didnt spell/grammar check any of this. Leave a like if you enjoyed.
Polkadot ⭕️
The biggest Bulls 🐂 are made in the Bear 🐻❄️
Price - $7.91
Market cap: $10.5B
Dot 2.0 is Incoming before summer! MAJOR UPGRADES
Here's some key points to tie together : 🚀🚀🚀
SnowBridge connects Ethereum and Polkadot in a trustless way. Polkadot operates more efficiently and cost-effectively than Ethereum. (LIQUIDITY TRANSFER)
Wallets are NOW ready for a nice User Experience! Top4
Talmisman
Subwallet
Nova
and my personal favorite Polkadot-JS
@Unique_NFTchain broke the record, minting the fastest NFTs in history at 4930 NFTs per minute! Unique Network has minted 100k NFTs in the past 5 days, showcasing the power of building on Polkadot.
$DED coming with a major airdrop of 1,000 for every 1 Dot. I personally have seen in Discord communities expressing excitement about this drop. IMO we WILL retain many within the ecosystem.
⚡️Asynchronous Backing will achieves 8x faster throughput, with 6-second blocks, that's even BEFORE utilizing multiple compute cores. 🤯🤯We just set the record for NFTs without it. Bottleneck issues and chain halts will be a thing of the past! ⚡️
🚋Lease cores for 28 days with renewal options. Tailored OnDemand cores for small and medium projects provide flexibility. ALL revenue will be burned 🔥🔥🔥🚒 Constant demand & constant burn wowzers!!
🌉 A hyperbridge that is about to change the industry standard on bridges. It will be the MOST secure ETH bridge EVER and only possible with Dot's infrastructure! REREAD that if you have to!
⭕️Mythical Games is coming!! ....Probably nothing
⭕️Avail - polygon founder (DA on substrate)
⭕️Mandala Chain (on boarding an entire Country)
⭕️Peaq coming - Depin
AND YOU'RE FADING??????
There's so much more EVERY DAY, stay up to date with https://t.co/yJMA9Gbl9m
Astar
HydraDX
OriginTrail
KILT
EWT
CFG
Phala
are among my ECO favorites, worth the research!
PS : I almost challenge you to look into Parity, Gavin's achievements, and advancements. Understanding why taking the time to engineer this complex L0 the right way with true decentralization at its core, while also understanding/considering the timing of parachain releases, is leading us to the MOST undervalued milk and honey, featuring L0 + blockchains with the best implementation in its history coming in 2 - 3 months. #DOT #polkadot
I’m obsessed with learning how to learn.
So, I spent 100+ hours studying how Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Naval Ravikant absorb information.
Here’s what I found on becoming a learning machine:
Borrowing/lending platform on @zkSync is ready to launch.
Our treasury of $7.5m will be used as collateral to borrow USDC for $SYNC buybacks.
Imagine the pump. Do the maths.
President Bukele takes a victory lap after El Salvador becomes the safest nation in the Western hemisphere
He then tells foreign critics to go stuff it
The Promised Lands: 1M TPS, 1K parachains interop seamlessly under the same shared security.
A road to these lands is now built. A 2-year wait ends. Polkadot's next-gen upgrades queue for launch, set to pass through governance.
• Async backing hits KSM.
• BEEFY merges with DOT.
• KSM <-> DOT connects, reaching ETH’s shores.
• Freeing ETH’s liquidity. Providing Data Availability to rollups.
• Problems elsewhere? Non-problems in Polkadot.
• The silver lining, these updates will solve bottlenecks for others too.
..🧵(5 min)
The Nitty-Gritty:
Async Backing:
•Execution time jumps from 0.5s to 2s. Block space production x4.
•Block times halve from 12s to 6s. Throughput x2.
•Result? An 8x performance spike for parachains, no trade-offs in security or decentralization.
Impact:
•Polkadot scales up. More than today’s industry needs. Aiming for 1000 validators, 200 cores/(old jargon:parachain slots).
•Multiple relay chains? Possible now. If needed.
Async backing is the groundwork for future scaling optimizations. It’s not only about more cores. It’s just smarter and efficient: bundling tasks across chains in a same core for atomic execution. Distributing tasks from one chain over various cores.
Coming Soon:
•Agile Core Time: Flexibility in Polkadot’s resource use. Pay as you go, or go big with bulk purchases of core time/blockspace. More details in my pancake thread:
https://t.co/oMHeZkGasV
•Blockspace Market: A bazaar of needs and surpluses. Trade what you need or don’t need. #OnlyPossibleOnPolkadot
Looking Ahead:
•Elastic Scaling: Parachains get a speed boost. Block times drop to 2s. Producing 3 blocks where there was 1. This efficiency demands more cores, more eyes/validators. Chains will be able to utilize multiple Polkadot cores, seamlessly managing constant high traffic or sudden surges.
Just look at @mythicalgames ’s shift from Ethereum to Polkadot – #1 gaming chain, top 4 blockchain of all by monthly digital asset sales.
Why @mewe chooses Polkadot to onboard its 20M users on-chain?
https://t.co/SCuRuMfoL2
Why bet on Polkadot?
Why skip the easy path?
Why not follow the vibes into multisig landscape?
https://t.co/SpdVTKy2q2
The Big Picture:
These updates are a testament to @Polkadot's potential to push to support 1M TPS and 1K chains with massive throughput capacity.
A testament to the next-gen projects.
A testament to the adaptability for unforeseeable future needs.
A testament to those tinkerers who see crypto beyond its current bubble.
This showcases Polkadot solved sharding. Proves its design’s scalability well beyond today’s need without making tradeoffs; security and decentralization. And still stays cyberpunk.
BEEFY?
Simply put,
Smaller Proofs -> Less Computation -> Cryptographic Proofs Usage-> Trustless ETH <> DOT
BEEFY builds on the existing GRANDPA finality gadget/proofs—a key reason that drew projects like Avail, Madara, Cardano, and Bittensor to PolkadotSDK.
GRANDPA’s limitation, though, is its need for full chain headers, resulting in larger proofs and higher costs. Bottlenecking possibility of trustless bridges to Polkadot. Sure, this isn’t an issue for bridging b/w ecosystems with inexpensive blockspace, like Cosmos. But wasn’t possible for bridging <> ETH.
Now, BEEFY comes in. And so what?
BEEFY was the missing puzzle piece. Holding Polkadot back for 2 years. Siloing it.
Now, it will first unite the DotSama family KSM <>DOT.
Expect to see bridging governance actions b/t KSM and DOT.
Expect liquidity of DOT inflows to KSM. Allowing tinkerers there to experiment again.
Expect a portion of DOT from treasury to be given to KSM treasury.
Expect Snowbridge to debut soon leveraging BEEFY.
Potentially channeling Ethereum’s vast liquidity directly into Polkadot.
Enabling trustless, decentralized, general-purpose bridges.
No reliance on human.
No committees.
No multisigors.
Just solid code. Cryptography. Cryptoeconomics.
How?
BEEFY brings finality from Polkadot, verifying parachain messages at low costs. Ensures that the state and txs from Polkadot are finalized and irreversible.
On the Ethereum side, Snowbridge includes a BEEFY light client. The Ethereum Gateway contract uses this to validate and execute Polkadot’s verified, finalized txs.
Instead of committees and multisigors, Snowbridge relies on BEEFY’s randomly picked validators, whose signatures get thoroughly verified. Providing a very high confidence level in the validity of cross-chain txs.
Polkadot’s on-chain governance, free from any centralized control, oversees BEEFY’s updates and operations, indirectly having control in how Snowbridge functions.
Polkadot lending its strengths to Ethereum’s challenges?
Issues:
Network congestion. Scaling. Inefficient and expensive blockspace allocation. Expensive DA. Fight for fee system. No bridge standardization. Smart contract risks.
Current solutions:
Rollup everything -> trade off decentralization initially for the sake of scaling first.
ZK everything, like a madman.
Multisig everything for UX.
Potential solutions: Shared sequencers, AA, enshrined rollups, EIP-4844, Danksharding.
Within Polkadot’s design, these potential solutions are already baked in its protocol, not afterthoughts.
Fact is fact. Ethereum has become the ultimate rollup and liquidity hub, fueled by first-mover advantage, adoption, VC money, and network effects. Yet, this rollup-centric future will not allow it being a bridge hub.
Today’s bridging. Bad UX. End users mostly use multisig bridges. Just in 3 years, hackers filched over $2.5B.
And this rollup-centric path is fraught with deep bumps and fat tail risks. It lacks standardization, leads to fragmentation, and leans on smart contract fidelity. Decentralization even takes a backseat as scaling takes the wheel, crafting a land ruled by multisigs.
Mostly, for LP providers and users, the stakes are high.
We have Optimistic (ORU) and ZK rollups (ZKR).
ORU provides more computation but longer finality period.
ORU <> ZKR. Almost impossible. Thereby, multisigs step in, hastening finality.
Canonical bridges? Who’d wait 7 days for a transfer?
Shared sequencers? A maybe. Sth very similar to what Polkadot already doing with its parachains, collators, and relay chain.
ZKR? High cost for on-chain verification.
Risc0 ZETH? Brings an external service on top of Ethereum’s security. Provides validity checks. Promising.
But again hits the wallet hard. Demands a computer powerhouse for one proof.
ORU produces a block every 2s. Bridging them with ZK. NGMI.
Therefore today’s ZKR behaves more Optimistic than ZK.
Polkadot steps up here. Solved and battle tested the issues of others what they can’t.
You can combine the Polkadot cores.
Run a rollup over several cores.
You have the bandwidth for heavy-duty computation. Chop and process blocks in parallel, every 2s.
Validate these rollup blocks, akin to a ZK circuiting, minus the hefty price tag.
But first ETH and DOT have to talk. BEEFY’s the key here, making dialogue possible without a need of a translator.
Hyperbridge by @PolytopeLabs integrates a complete Beacon chain light client, validating Ethereum’s full validator set, not just a subset like other solutions do.
By leveraging BEEFY, using one core of Polkadot for full-scale validation. And securing this communication by Polkadot’s $5B stake.
Again.
No multisigs.
No trust assumptions.
No committees in between.
No subsets.
#OnlyPossibleOnPolkadot
And Polkadot gains demand by this. From the core time used for doing these processes and the computation. Win. Win.
More details on this -> in the great interviews of @seunlanlege by @TEACHMEDEFI and @TheKusamarian : https://t.co/TEl9U4N3SN
Data Availability?
Ethereum’s rollup-centric strategy hits a bandwidth wall. It can’t handle all the rollup data. Expensive. So once monolithic. Today modular-wannabe.
EIP4844? Just a one-hit wonder. Potential fix? Waiting on Danksharding. Wen? Vague.
But now, we have Celestia and Avail, hosting rollup data on their chains.
Polkadot, though, has already had Data Availability (DA) protocols for over 5 years. Each parachain block is erasure-coded and available to every relay chain validator. They can piece it back together. DAS? Re-execution of blocks? All possible.
The co-founder of Polkadot, @rphmeier, is cooking a secret project, Sugondat, that aims to use Polkadot’s idle cores to provide DA for other ecosystem chains. Hyperbridge collabs in here as well, linking these resources to other chains/rollups.
Think about it: harnessing each Polkadot core for collective computing power. That’s how Polkadot outperforms any other DA solution, thanks to its sharded execution and solid $5B security.
The promise? The most efficient, powerful, and safe DA service for rollups and more, handling storage, and processing like no other can do. #OnlyPossibleOnPolkadot
Closure:
So, can we spot the dark horse now? Or are we still enchanted by the showhorses everyone admires?
Look closer, see them burdened, growing heavier, inching closer each day to a pace it can’t sustain.
We do need the showhorses though, for the show must go on. But when the music stops, the dark horse will have to take the lead.
I made life changing money on $SYNC. Here is why i am never selling.
My story:
Due to difficult life situations i was stuck in December. I had family with health problems and needed 15,000 USD for an important surgery.
After years of working all i have saved up was $5,000, i know the only way i could fix this was by investing in crypto.
On Twitter I found $SYNC, because my favorite influencer was tweeting about it. On December 15th at 0.00011 per SYNC I bought the entire bag. I am very very thankful to @MartiniGuyYT
Since then the price has multiplied up 5,000% and my sync is worth $213,000 I come from a very poor country, here my original amount was a lot. 213,000 US is enough for me to retire.
I am still holding after the price went -75%, and now back to ATH. I trust the team and I trust that @syncus_fi will make me a billionaire. i didn't sell yet, i will never sell
Sorry for my mistakes i used chatgpt to help me
This is how $SYNC is designed to go up in price:
The token design incorporates a 15% sell tax, which is key to the appreciation model.
This tax creates a deflationary pressure on the SYNC available in the liquidity pool.
As people are trading, it continuously reduces the SYNC available in the liquidity pool, naturally driving up its value over the long-term.
The important thing to note here is that this scarcity requires LESS ETH to increase the SYNC price than previous purchases, creating a positive feedback loop for price growth over the long-term.
An example:
A trader buys 100 ETH worth of SYNC tokens and immediately sells.
To increase the price back to its original point before the sale, only 82.4 ETH worth of SYNC would need to be bought.
This system, compounded over time, will lead to exponential growth in SYNC's value.
Another point: the value of SYNC is pegged and traded against Ethereum instead of USD.
If you believe in the bull market and assume that the price of Ethereum will continue to go up, then the price of SYNC will naturally increase alongside it.
This relationship makes SYNC an attractive asset for those bullish on Ethereum's future, while providing higher returns than holding regular Ethereum.
Why you will NEVER need to sell $SYNC:
In the world of finance, selling is rarely a good move to unlock an asset's underlying value.
By selling you are losing out on future returns of an asset, especially in this new never-ending inflationary era we live in.
This makes little sense when there is a much better alternative: Loans.
This is something traditional finance has adopted widely and the main reason for the economic growth of the last century.
Slowly crypto has also started to adopt this meta, with examples like JustLend and the Curve founder.
Wealth is not just about owning assets; it is about smartly leveraging them. The rich do not sell their assets – they simply borrow against them.
This practice is tax-efficient and makes sure everyone wins. You hold the underlying asset while unlocking the liquidity you need.
A dollar sold is a dollar stolen. A dollar borrowed is a dollar created.
Yet, the majority of our industry still fails to realise this.
As a result of this, we are excited to introduce SyncLend:
With $SYNC, you get the best of both worlds: retain your appreciating asset and access its liquidity.
Our borrowing/lending platform offers a better alternative to selling:
Borrow USDC or ETH against your $SYNC at 85% Loan-to-Value instead of facing a 15% tax on selling. This gets you the same amount of liquidity that you would otherwise receive from selling anyway.
The best part? As $SYNC appreciates, so does your borrowing power - your loan dissipates.
By borrowing against your $SYNC, you are not just retaining your asset's potential value, you are actively participating in the creation of wealth.
You will never need to sell your $SYNC, simply borrow and ride the appreciation wave as the token is designed to.
🎊 Happy New Year Everyone! 🎉
What a year it has been! We sincerely hope that this new year will bring renewed spirits and prosperity to you and your loved ones. Thank you for being part of our community 🫂
In the next few months, be prepared for some electrifying launches! 🤯