At 26, he launched a website that would change Bitcoin forever.
At 29, he was sentenced to die in prison.
After 10 years behind bars, Donald Trump just pardoned him.
Here's the wild story of Ross Ulbricht, Bitcoin's most controversial pioneer:
This guy stole $3.3B and then hid it in a Cheetos popcorn tin.
Meet Jimmy Zhong.
In 2012, he found a loophole on the Silk Road website, so he drained 51,860 bitcoins.
For 9 years, he evaded the authorities, until he made one tiny, unbelievable mistake:🧵
In every cycle, you get a speculative narrative that is usually aligned with global interests.
In the 2016/17 cycle, it was L1s:
It all started with $ETH, then the Chinese ETH arrived, called Antshares (NEO), which pulled off the biggest rally of that cycle. Then we saw a series of massive fundraises around potential ETH killers like TEZOS, EOS, etc.
In the 2020/21 cycle, it was gaming/metaverse:
It all started with $AXS. People were making $1,000 every month by playing Axie Infinity. It became a viral hit; people started buying the coin, and the coin reached a $10B market cap. The project made around $1.2B in revenue in 2021 alone. The whole gaming meta started after that. Thousands of projects were launched, some tokens performed, but 99% of them eventually died, marking the end of that speculative narrative.
In the current 2023/25 cycle, it’s been AI:
The cycle started with AGIX doing 10x, then TAO going up by 10x, and OLAS doing 20x. We've seen some great AI runs at the start of the cycle. Memes found their place in between, but now AI has found its fundamental use case. They cracked the business model, and the speculation premium is set to go higher with more revenue numbers. Agents are the ultimate direction for the AI narrative. They hold the highest speculative premium based on fundamentals and innovation, and they are very much aligned with global interests.
Is the crypto bull run over?📉
Markets are panicking after #Bitcoin fell from $108K to $96K in 48 hours. But don’t be fooled - this is not the end of the bull market.
Here’s why this dip is a massive opportunity 🧵👇
He bought 260,000 #Bitcoin for $0.01 each
His exchange ERASED the trade
The TRAGIC STORY of Kevin Day, who lost $16 billion in one of the biggest exchange rollbacks in crypto history
Kinda bullish on $SUPRA after this test. Did try on how much it costs to send token to another addy, this is my results.
$0.0000090 - Supra fee
$0.0000160 - XRP Fee
$0.003507 - SOL fee
$0.02 - Base Fee
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