InvestingClues

Married, father of three, making a more comfortable life for my family. 20 years trading./ Opinions and amusement only, NOT a financial advisor.

[ssj2abid @ssj2abid]

People are sleeping on $CYPH.

$ZEC finishes what Bitcoin started. Bitcoin solved decentralisation. Zcash solves the final problem: privacy.

People are tired of governments surveilling every transaction, taxing every movement, and controlling how you spend your own money. Privacy has infinite value and the world is waking up to it.

Cypherpunk is hoarding Zcash the same way MicroStrategy hoards Bitcoin. Corporate treasury strategy with one goal: accumulate as much $ZEC as possible.

→ 303,906 ZEC held as of April 15
→ 1.82% of the entire Zcash network
→ Target: 5% of circulating supply
→ Avg cost: $332.83
→ Backed by Tyler Winklevoss
→ Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox as advisor
→ $58M+ raised via private placement

The stock is ~$1.30.

Some basic math on what happens to $CYPH as $ZEC moves (303,906 ZEC ÷ 97M shares):

→ ZEC $500 → 303,906 × $500 = $152M → $1.57/share
→ ZEC $1,000 → 303,906 × $1,000 = $304M → $3.13/share
→ ZEC $2,000 → 303,906 × $2,000 = $608M → $6.27/share
→ ZEC $3,000 → 303,906 × $3,000 = $912M → $9.40/share
→ ZEC $5,000 → 303,906 × $5,000 = $1.52B → $15.67/share

The stock is $1.30. And they're still buying.

Note on mNAV: the exact share count is unclear right now which makes calculating the true mNAV difficult. Earnings on May 15th should clarify this. Something to watch closely.

The risks:

→ It's crypto. Extreme volatility. If $ZEC drops, $CYPH drops harder
→ Open ATM offering which means dilution, but it could be accretive if management uses the capital to buy more ZEC at prices that increase NAV per share as ZEC goes higher
→ Micro-cap. Thin liquidity. Violent moves both ways

The vision makes sense. Privacy is the one thing Bitcoin doesn't solve. Zcash does. And $CYPH is a potential leveraged way to play it.

nfa,
long $CYPH
long $ZEC
👨🏻‍💻👨🏻‍💻

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@ssj2abid @GoodTexture Warrants could be redeemed, but doubt those shares will ever be sold.

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@Martinperiu6 Most likely the new CUISP wasn’t being recognized yet. Some brokers are slower than others. JMHO

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$OPTX

[Bussin Science Investor @BussinBiotech]

$OPTX I wan to write down some quick thoughts on their data center vertical, given that my last write up was almost exclusively focused on their military/defense and satellite verticals.

So when it comes to the $OPTX data center vertical, we know that at minimum the company is an S2 supplier of datacom microlens arrays that are used for co-packaged optics (CPO) and Optical Circuit Switch (OCS) solutions ( $LITE and $COHR adjacency). I'll further add that their most recent press release indicated that they secured pre-production orders for "NEW data center optical connectivity products" and "hired more engineers and added dedicated leadership on the product line" but the PR did not detail what these new optical connectivity products were. So why is their current involvement in CPO and OCS solutions important to highlight?

We know that from 2023-2025, the AI bottleneck was focused on acquiring GPUs. Now that most hyperscalers have relative abundant access to the GPUs, they’ve gotten to the next step of installing them within data centers. This transition has revealed new bottlenecks down the AI infrastructure stack like memory, CPU, energy, etc... And as the data center buildout continues, more bottlenecks continue to be revealed.... and one the very new bottlenecks that is being revealed right now, as was clearly elucidated with this weeks $LITE blowout earnings, is the bandwidth bottleneck that hyperscalers are trying to address now.

So what is this bandwidth bottleneck?

Bandwith bottleneck = AI training requires massive amounts of data to be shared between GPUs every millisecond. Traditional copper wires burnout at speeds above 400G, and even most older fiber optics can't keep up with the 800G and 1.6T speeds required by Nvidia's newest chips. Additionally, in AI training, if one GPU is waiting for data from another, the entire $100 million cluster sits idle. This idle state is referred to as "tail latency" and is extremely costly for hyperscalers who are blocked in serving traffic. Furthermore, As AI models scale, the energy used just to move data within and between racks becomes a serious cost. Traditional switches convert optical signals to electrical and back, creating lots of heat and consuming energy inefficiently.

So overall the challenge that hyperscalers are trying to address is how to move exponentially larger volumes of data between GPUs at ever-higher speeds without incurring prohibitive latency, power consumption, heat, and idle compute costs.

So what solutions are hyperscalers using to overcome this bandwidth bottleneck? -> Well they are doing it with advanced data center optics.

1. Optical Circuit Switches (OCS)
To combat the networking challenges within data centers, hyperscalers are turning to Optical Circuit Switches (OCS). Unlike traditional switches that convert light to electricity to route data, OCS uses an array of microscopic mirrors to physically steer light beams. The technology reduces switch latency by up to 98% and because mirrors hold their position with minimal power, an OCS consumes almost no energy regardless of whether it is carrying 800G or 1.6T traffic.

2. Co-Packaged Optics
The ultimate solution to the bandwidth challenge is moving the optics closer to the GPU itself. Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) integrates the optical engine directly onto the same silicon substrate as the processor. By eliminating the long electrical path between the chip and the edge of the server rack, CPOs can greatly reduce interconnect power consumption.

These technologies are being developed and deployed across data centers across the world to enable high bandwidth networking. The more GPUs you have, the more reliant you are on purchasing the (above) optical infrastructure to support the build out. This has led to massive revenue increases for companies like $LITE and $COHR that provide this optical infrastructure but has also led to packaged backlogs and supply crunches for these suppliers.

So coming putting it all together when it comes to $OPTX.....

So coming back to $OPTX, this is where the market structure matters. Today, the vast majority of investor attention and capital is flowing to the full-stack optical system suppliers like $LITE and $COHR, because they are the most visible beneficiaries of the bandwidth bottleneck and are reporting explosive near-term revenue growth. But those types of companies do not build these systems in isolation. Their ability to ship OCS and CPO solutions at scale is directly dependent on a deep supply chain of optical components.

As an S2 supplier providing critical optical elements like datacom microlens arrays, $OPTX sits one layer beneath the current narrative, but squarely in the path of accelerating demand. In other words, while the market is currently rewarding the companies assembling the optical stacks, it will eventually recognize that scaling advanced data center optics is impossible without specialized suppliers like $OPTX. As CPO and OCS deployments broaden and move to even higher volumes, S2 suppliers providing indispensable optical building blocks should see both demand visibility and investor attention increase accordingly.

Lastly, I want to acknowledge that in my original write-up, I referred to the $OPTX data center vertical as only "an additional call option" but after doing additional research and writing it all out above, I think it is far more material, especially after seeing the ER and charts for $LITE and $COHR. Overall, this is yet another reason to be very bullish on $OPTX both short and long-term. Combine the fact that they are working with Anduril on EagleEye, getting government backed demand from the NDAA and now this..... this is a dreamers stock.

Also, if you have gotten this far in the write-up and you have a good understanding of the AI optics supply chain as an investor, I would love feedback/comments.

Some key sources and references if needed :

OPTX PR on expanding data center vertical ->
https://t.co/Z2z1TLsnF8

OPTX PR on datacom microlens arrays ->
https://t.co/c1p7lmsQnq

COHR microlens array details and use cases ->
https://t.co/ilj5PzMq0Z

My original OPTX write-up->
https://t.co/Vzq3R8oogD

Details on data center optics scaling ->
https://t.co/ICeOSULlrj

Details on data center bandwidth bottleneck and lumentum background ->
https://t.co/ykNtHniYd2

Details on how microlens arrays are utilized in data center optics ->
https://t.co/fzzzce5Fd9

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$OPTX

[BillieBillion @BillieBillion1]

Company analysis Syntec Optics $OPTX which is also currently my largest holding. Enjoy👍

https://t.co/6DHCuojskz

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$RVYL boom!

[Moon Market @moonmarket]

$RVYL take a look at the CFO. His Roundtable (RVYL merger co) board seat will mark his second NASDAQ service, following his position with Soluna Holdings ticker $SLNH which went from .45 to $5 per share. This is the man we want leading us to success.

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$RBOHF

[Analytica Investor @Analytica_X]

5/ 𝗕𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗲 📌
Humanoids aren’t “coming soon.” They’re already scaling.

For investors, $RBOHF offers rare, liquid exposure to a frontier tech the world’s richest are already betting on.
This isn’t just AI.

It’s the AI that walks.

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$KMX A gift at these levels/

[MarketswithMay @marketswithmay]

$KMX -20%, on a pretty amazing Q if I'm honest.

Rev + 6%, Gross + 13%, Net Inc + 78%, EPS + 81.3%

It was a clean quarter where they took share! They aren't having a prob with inventory. If anything they are expanding. They paid down debt and bought back shares.

I mean it is clean as a whistle. Even the financing side was fine. There's a random day sketchy looking trading group suggesting they missed estimates, but tbh, that looks fake.

I think they are just getting brutalized by lack of buyers on a red screen day.

Fact is they benefit from rate declines that are up coming. The 5 year has dropped so much it should help with any loans on balance sheet as soon as the markets stabilize.

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$HOOD Long

[amit @amitisinvesting]

$HOOD

The Robinhood haters that actually are finding a reason to complain about this will have to get used to the fact that $HOOD innovates.

Getting mad about sports betting but not options/crypto, which is also a form of gambling, is wild.

Robinhood continues to push markets forward and capitalize on opportunities.

The haters will need a better argument.

Because “protecting the sanctity of the youth” from gambling ain’t cutting it.

Long AF $HOOD

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$Dell Technologies $DELL Remember when no one wanted $SMCI , and then it shot from $25 to over $1000… ? The same kind of movement could happen here with Dell as they make a huge deal with Elon Musk and his AI firm. This is the one to watch in the coming days/ weeks.

[Stocktwits @Stocktwits]

$DELL is nearing a major deal to sell $5 billion worth of AI servers to Elon Musk's xAI

Dell is up 2.5% 📈

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@TheLongInvest $DELL going to be bought up quickly

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@shortseller Flush…? In what chart analysis does this even remotely show a possibility? What a worthless analysis.

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@notlouisck It was always up, just Elons way of getting people to push it up on the search engine.

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@TheOnlyEsta @FoxNews Harris Rocked!

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@elonmusk lol, when counting “views “ of a recording. This post has flashed up at the top of my feed each time I log into x, so I guess a few dozen of those views are from me… 😂 This might hit 8 billion views with this counting system 😆

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@elonmusk Be interviewed, and judged by all these racists, and MAGA freaks, why bother?

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@GuntherEagleman No way, they have the best coffee, and are apparently smarter than the average racist redneck.

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@coinmamba Trump is the death of democracy. I still don’t understand why any intelligent person would vote for this abomination to our society.

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@DeeGlide22 They’re just ambulance chaser attorneys, nothing to even blink at.