Tenía 39 años y todavía tenía que revisar mi cuenta bancaria antes de invitar un café.
No era un “artista joven y bohemio”. Era un hombre de mediana edad, cansado, sirviendo mesas en Nueva York mientras veía cómo mis amigos triunfaban, se casaban y compraban casas.
Yo solo coleccionaba rechazos.
Diecisiete años audicionando. Diecisiete años escuchando “no eres lo suficientemente latino para este papel” o “eres demasiado latino para este otro”.
Hubo una noche en particular, después de que despidieran a mi agente, en la que me senté en el borde de mi cama y pensé: “Ya basta, Pedro. Esto no va a suceder”. Sentí que le había fallado a mi madre, que se había ido demasiado pronto y nunca me vio llegar a ninguna parte.
Hoy, mi cara está en una pantalla gigante en el medio del Super Bowl, anunciando el final de temporada de la serie más vista del mundo. La gente me llama “el novio de internet” y los directores que antes ni me recibían, ahora me mandan guiones sin que yo los pida.
No escribo esto para presumir mi éxito. Lo escribo para decirte que no existe tal cosa como “llegar tarde”.
Si hubiera triunfado a los 20, la fama me habría destruido. Llegué a la cima cuando por fin aprendí a escalar sin mirar hacia abajo.
Si sientes que se te está pasando el tren, recuerda mi cara de cansancio a los 39 años. Tu historia no ha terminado, apenas está en el segundo acto.
Pedro Pascal
Venezuela Just Proved the Bitcoin Bull Case, And No One Is Paying Attention
Maduro used Tether to move 80% of Venezuela's oil revenue. Billions in sanctions evasion, settled on Tron since 2020.
Then the US made a phone call.
Tether froze the wallets.
Game over.
Everyone's focused on the arrest. The real story is the lesson every finance minister on earth just learned in real time:
Stable coins are a leash, not an escape.
If someone can freeze it, it isn't money. It doesn't solve sovereignty.
First principles:
USDT is dollar plumbing without SWIFT. Faster. Cheaper. Still has a CEO. Still has a compliance department. Still picks up when Washington calls.
This is why USDT adoption exploded, 71-year-old grandmothers in Caracas pay their HOA fees in tether now. But useful ≠ sovereign.
The entire value proposition for sanctions evasion just got publicly falsified.
Now do the game theory:
You're Iran. Russia. Any country hedging against dollar weaponization. You just watched Venezuela's "crypto solution" get shut off like a light switch.
Where do you put reserves now?
USDT? Compromised.
Yuan? Political strings.
Gold? Try settling $500M across borders in 10 minutes.
CBDCs? Same kill switch, government branding.
There's exactly one asset that clears final settlement without asking permission from anyone.
21 million units. No CEO. No freeze function. No phone number.
This is the ad Bitcoin never had to buy.
The most desperate, highest-stakes capital on earth just learned there's only one door.
Price doesn't reflect it yet.
It will.
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10.) MY THOUGHTS: (you can ignore this now if you don't like other people having an opinion)
US ECONOMY: Equities and USD look cooked. bad The best case scenario for equities i can see is a resweep of the lows to stop out that record amount of retail traders before a NEWS BASED bounce back to new highs
DXY: looks cooked, even moreso than equities, like really fucked
Historically DXY selling off showed money moving into other assets, i dont know how much i trust that correlation now given all of the macro bullshit thats going on in the world, and by that i mean i don't trust the correlation whatsoever, in the slightest
CRYPTO: Right now, to me, it looks incredibly fucking risky to be in the crypto market
The BTC chart is showing us that there is very little buyside confidence at these levels, equities have an extremely high probability selloff setup, trump is very very likely to intentionally dump the USD and the market is going to be wildly chaotic
Historically for an alt rally we need to see ETH outperform BTC (doesnt mean it will be the case this time) but ETH looks like absolute dogshit
That being said, there is a massive probability for a bank run here, and during the last bank run BTC performed pretty well
This is BTC we're talking about, not alt coins If/when whatever im seeing setup happens(potentially FOMC), i'd expect an immediate kneejerk reaction in BTC
This should at the very least, take us back to 80k, and a resweep of all the lows currently being formed on altcoins at around 80-82k
Im going to assess the market to see volume and other signals elsewhere to confirm whether or not i think its a good idea to pull the trigger on longs
Unless this market unsurity somehow subsides, for the first time in my life i will be focusing most of my capital on bitcoin, not altcoins
My major hestiation here is that the ETH/BTC chart lookings fucking TERRIFYING
If they invalidate that major adam and even pattern its not a great sign
That being said, i genuinely believe trump is going to integrate BTC into a major part of the US economy, and other countries will actually adopt
If you can figure out the timing of that play, that is how you can make some big money
It would make the MOST sense to me for us to get a giant selloff and wipe out all of the "diamond hands" over the years, destroy the alt market, and give us a dotcom style reset so that we can build off of a solid foundation first
This was always a pipe dream and i laughed at people who had these theories, but with the state of the dollar and what i can see likely to unfold next - i think its actually a very likely scenario
All that money from DXY has to go somewhere
Please be safe, take care
TLDR: Insanely risky right now, equities fucked, dollar fucked, major risk of recession, btc likely to revisit 82k minimum
Optimistic outlook - Money leaves DXY and US economy and treats BTC as a safehaven, loading up around 80k
Realistic outlook: Pain PS: Heavy ass longs in EU this week
Here’s a completely realistic idea that should lose me some followers
Imagine if BTCs chart from 2017 to now was just a 5 wave structure
What if each bull run was just an impulsive leg inside this structure
Imagine if we just came out of the longest inverted bondyield curve in history which has preceded every recession in in history
What if they used the crypto positive president and extreme retail expectations to offload their bags into maximum liquidity and retail was left holding those bags waiting for this crazy bullrun like all the other years
Imagine if fartcoin isn’t actually worth billions of dollars and the crypto market was mirroring the Dotcom bubble almost exactly
What if volume fell out of this entire move up and the last time this market saw strong buyers aligned perfectly with a realistic ABC retrace into the volume pool
What if we were about to get the final shakeout before crypto actually became a part of every day life
Wouldn’t that be crazy