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Exploring Current Affairs, Behavioral Economics, Holistic Growth, and Financial Innovation.

[Majin 魔人 @majinbrand]

Private member's event with tons of alpha around our upcoming mint.

+250.000 EXP for all attendees.

Follow now to not miss out when we do the first public Twitter spaces.

[NASA @NASA]

What's up for March?

The Moon will appear red during a total lunar eclipse on March 3. On the 8th, Venus and Saturn snuggle close in the night sky. Plus, March 20 is the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. More: https://t.co/Ohi4c6w6FR

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

https://t.co/tjmbT5ytUN

[Solana @solana]

BREAKING: Goldman Sachs just disclosed $108M in SOL holdings

Wall Street’s largest investment bank is allocating to Solana

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

Singing > watching.

So we got millions of people watching the Big Game to sing along with us.

Oh, and we put it on the world's largest LED screen @SphereVegas.

[Vijayan Swaminathan @vijswam]

Real conversations matter.... 🎙️

This podcast exists because of people like you.

Whether you have been a guest, a listener, or a long time supporter of the Pathfinders Podcast, thank you for being part of this journey.

From Day One, Pathfinders Podcast has been a fully self funded initiative created for the business community, and it has grown beyond anything I could have imagined.

What started in Alberta has now reached a global audience, with guests and listeners spanning Canada, San Francisco, Germany, Hong Kong, and beyond. Along the way, I have learned, shared, and grown immensely because of this community.

The heart of Pathfinders has always been authentic one on one conversations. Each story shared on the podcast is unique and meaningful, and these conversations are never reduced to sound bites or created for clicks. They are deep, honest, and human, and they live on across platforms for anyone who needs them.

If you were one of our earlier guests or listeners, the show has grown tremendously and is now available across a wide variety of platforms.
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[Majin 魔人 @majinbrand]

When you play the LONG GAME, you cannot lose.

But while you play the SHORT GAME, you will never win.

Let me explain the difference — and with it; the spirit of Majin.

You go to the gym today and expect to be in shape tomorrow —> you lose.

You go on one date and expect to find a wife —> you lose.

You invest in a single project and expect to hit a unicorn —> you lose.

Anything good in life requires consistency and patience. It requires you to align your expectations according to reality.

For fitness, your body needs TIME to adjust to routine before it can yield results.

For relationships, trust and bond need to be established over TIME.

For wealth, your portfolio grows over TIME through diversification.

That means:
if you feel that you do not have TIME — then you already lost.

Short-term strategies DO NOT WORK, and short-term thinking leads to false expectations which ensure you NEVER achieve the outcome you desire.

This leaves you with 2 options:

A) Remain WILLFULLY ignorant and continue to get baited by short-term TRAPS that guarantee you never achieve your goals.

B) Prepare for your patience to be tested BUT equally REWARDED long-term.

Yes, the market took a heavy hit today, and maybe it keeps going like this. So fucking what. Since THE BEGINNING OF TIME things have gone UP and DOWN. The only people surprised or concerned about that are SHORT-TERM THINKERS.

I call them SLOPPERS.

The SLOPPER chases only short-term desires.

He hits the gym SOMETIMES but stops due to lack of immediate results — so he stays a fat piece of shit forever.

He talks to women SOMETIMES, gets rejected, and remains a resentful man forever — instead of getting the girl he REALLY WANTS.

He invests SOMETIMES but has no plan and no conviction, is prone to gambling, loses, learns nothing, gives up — and stays forever poor.

The SLOPPER is an OUTCOME WINDOW SHOPPER.

He knows what he wants, and deep down also knows how to get it. But he prefers to stroll around, look at everything life has to offer, and at best put in half-assed effort — just to be able to tell himself that he "tried” but life is “unfair”.
Because he is AFRAID that if he were to put in REAL effort, time and patience, the stakes would be too high for him to handle.

This is the reason why the SLOPPER is a life-long COWARD.

He never REALLY tried. He never committed FULLY to anything. He always left himself an excuse as a way out. In his head: no real effort = no real failure.

But that also means he NEVER EVEN HAD A SHOT at success.

Never achieved the physique he wanted.
Never got the girl he wanted.
Never became financially free.

The spirit of Majin is the opposite of that.

We don’t window shop.

We grab opportunities BY THE BALLS and we hold on to them for however long we fucking need to in order to achieve the results we DESERVE.

The SLOPPER on the other hand knows that he doesn't even deserve it. Why would god reward someone with no patience who can only think short-term? It ain't going to happen.

But those who play the LONG GAME, those who can WAIT patiently, those who lay in the grass like fucking SNIPERS - ready to PULL THE TRIGGER at any moment - THOSE ARE THE ONES WHO WIN.

And yes, maybe you don't win today. Maybe not even tomorrow.

But you WILL win.

On an extended timeframe the SLOPPER always loses, and the ones playing the LONG GAME always win.

Why do you think this gay metaphor with the rabbit and turtle has been around forever? Because slow and steady always wins in life.
Remember that the next time you have sex.
How well does it serve you to have no fucking stamina. How well does it serve you that you cannot STAY HARD. That you're so fucking thirsty and needy that you rush, get nervous and finish too fucking soon?

How you do one thing is how you do EVERYTHING.

And that absolutely top tier philosophical metaphor is the essence of life that translates into how you approach anything.

If you never quit the gym, guess fucking what, you will eventually get in shape.

If you never stop looking for the right person in your life, guess fucking what, you will eventually find her.

If you never stop hunting that fucking unicorn, guess what, you will eventually hit a 1000X.

The only people concerned about where the market is headed are the coward cry baby SLOPPERS who never had a long term plan.

They NEEDED to get rich during whatever abomination of a bull market we experienced the past 12 months. But of course they didn't properly prepare in the 4 years before that. So they are still broke fucks. And now they gave up with their tail between the legs.

Until the next bull comes around. Then they'll again pursue short-term strategies to try to "make it" after being late to the party.
And it again won't fucking work.

Because NOTHING works this way.

Alright, let's assume we go full bear now — GREAT NIGGA. Then I guess we have to bite the bullet and continue to prepare, hunt the unicorns and ensure you fucking make it the next time things go up.

It really ain't that complicated.

And frankly, what other fucking option do you have.

Just don't be a little coward bitch that is afraid to think long-term.

Get a grip, plant the fucking seeds now, and get ready to be a fucking WINNER long-term.

Finally start fucking committing and stop acting surprised when things don't work out short-term. You already knew that BEFORE you started.

If this short-term logic would work then every SLOPPER would be in shape, have a hot chick and be super fucking rich.

But why ain't it so?

BECAUSE LIFE DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY

That's why Majin is about consistency and long-term outcomes.

In 2022 I invested in Peaq and a couple other companies and made a shit ton of money off them by 2024. And 2 years isn't even that long of a waiting time.

But no cocksucker wanted to invest during 2022. Because it was the middle of the bear and everyone was afraid that things maybe never get better again.

We even had some retarded fucking niggas ask for refunds on those investments because they got nervous. So eventually only a few people ended up making crazy money from all this. Because the majority proved to be SLOPPERS. They either skipped these investments or ran out of patience afterwards.

And holy fucking shit, that must sting fucking bad, to consciously fuck it up when you HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY IN FRONT OF YOU because you cannot help acting like some piece of shit SLOP NIGGA.

You already know:
THE ECONOMY IS CYCLICAL

So this time, try not to pussy out

Try to keep your eyes on the fucking goal

And with Majin we do the majority of the work for you. All you got to do is ensure you have skin in the game and that you're prepared for a long journey.

Otherwise the first chance you get you default back into being a SLOPPER and continue the losing streak you've been on up until this point.

Stay away from short-term temptation and remind yourself of the MOST BASIC RULE OF LIFE

aka

NOTHING GOOD COMES EASY

and if it comes easy

IT PROBABLY AIN'T FUCKING GOOD NIGGA

use your brain

find your balls

and START FUCKING WINNING

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

What is happening in crypto?

Since October 10th, crypto markets are now down -50%, erasing $2.2 TRILLION worth of market cap.

Bitcoin has officially erased ALL of its post-election rally, now down -10% since Trump's election.

Why is it crashing? Let us explain.

(a thread)

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Everything is hard. Nothing comes easy. It will take longer than you want it to. And you will give up more than you expected to get there.

And in the end, you will have finished what you came here to do. And that will be enough.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

IT’S OFFICIAL:

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has acquired xAI, here’s the official press release.

The biggest IPO in history just got even bigger.

Absolutely incredible.

[MDLF ▚▘▚▘▚▘ @MDLFcrypto]

@majinbrand GFM

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Recent Layoff Announcements:

1. US Government: 307,000 employees
2. UPS: 78,000 employees
3. Amazon: 30,000 employees
4. Intel: 25,000 employees
5. Nissan: 20,000 employees
6. Nestle: 16,000 employees
7. Microsoft: 15,000 employees
8. Bosch: 13,000 employees
9. Dell: 12,000 employees
10. Verizon: 13,000 employees
11. Accenture: 11,000 employees
12. Ford: 11,000 employees
13. Novo Nordisk: 9,000 employees
14. Microsoft: 7,000 employees
15 PwC: 5,600 employees
16. Salesforce: 4,000 employees
17. IBM: 2,700 employees
18. American Airlines: 2,700 employees
19. Paramount: 2,000 employees
20. Target: 1,800 employees
21. General Motors: 1,500 employees
22. Applied Materials: 1,444 employees
23. Kroger: 1,000 employees
24. Meta: 1,000 employees

AI is officially replacing jobs at mass scale in the US.

Where will all of these people go?

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Coinbase, $COIN, announces it has integrated Jupiter Exchange directly into its onchain trading stack.

This means that millions of Solana-based tokens can now be traded on Coinbase for the first time ever, all through Jupiter.

Rather than the slow, manual process of listing tokens on a centralized order book, Coinbase is now using onchain technology to grant instant access to Solana-native assets.

Under the new integration, users can deploy existing Coinbase balances and payment methods to trade tokens from a self-custodial wallet.

Even centralized exchanges are moving onchain.

[MDLF ▚▘▚▘▚▘ @MDLFcrypto]

@majinbrand 👍

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The average price of ground beef in the US is now up to a record $6.67 per pound.

Prices have surged +72% since January 2020, when they stood at ~$3.88 per pound.

Over the same period, chicken breast prices have risen +36%.

Furthermore, coffee prices have surged +52% since January 2020.

All while the "other food" category, which includes sugar, sweets, fats, oils, snacks, and prepared meals, has soared +31% over the same period.

Food inflation remains far too high.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

53 banking associations just wrote themselves a $6.6 trillion protection bill.

They called it the CLARITY Act.

Here is what they do not want you to understand.

Banks pay depositors 0.1% interest. Stablecoin issuers hold Treasury bills earning 4.5%. If stablecoins could pass that yield to users, banks lose the deposit war. They cannot compete. The math is fatal.

So they made competition illegal.

The Kansas City Fed calculated what happens if stablecoins pay competitive rates. Banks lose 25.9% of deposits. $1.5 trillion in lending capacity vanishes. The entire community banking model collapses.

Their solution was not innovation. Their solution was legislation.

The CLARITY Act everyone is celebrating contains Section 404 prohibiting yield payments through any mechanism. Not just from issuers. From exchanges. From affiliates. From partners. Every single pathway to competitive returns, closed by statute.

Brian Armstrong reviewed the 278-page draft for 48 hours. He withdrew Coinbase support at 11pm. The markup was postponed by morning. He saw what Wall Street analysts missed entirely.

This is not crypto regulation.

This is Dodd-Frank for digital assets. Incumbents writing rules that crush competitors. Regulatory capture so brazen they published the lobbying letters on their own websites.

The American Bankers Association. 52 state banking associations. The Community Bankers Council. All coordinating to eliminate an industry they cannot beat in open markets.

Meanwhile China made e-CNY interest-bearing on December 29.

America is banning stablecoin yield while Beijing is paying it.

The crypto industry spent years begging for regulatory clarity.

They got it.

Clarity that $6.6 trillion in deposits will be protected at any cost. Clarity that banks write the rules. Clarity that if you cannot win in markets, you win in Congress.

This is the largest regulatory capture event in American financial history.

And it is being sold as innovation policy.

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

A speed reading training video starts at 300 words per minute and ends at 900 words per minute.

I was able to understand this entire video the first time it was present.

Could you?

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Tokenized stocks are quietly exploding onchain:

Trade volumes of tokenized public stocks are now at a record high of $800 million per month.

As a result, liquidity in tokenized assets is rapidly expanding.

@JupiterExchange, the world's largest onchain platform, is now seeing close to $200 million in monthly volume in these assets.

Robinhood has described tokenized assets as a "freight train" coming to all major markets.

This comes just 2 months after the Nasdaq's crypto chief said they are "moving as fast as they can" to get SEC approval for trading tokenized stocks.

TradFi assets are moving onchain at a historic pace.

[MDLF ▚▘▚▘▚▘ @MDLFcrypto]

@majinbrand GFM

[MDLF ▚▘▚▘▚▘ @MDLFcrypto]

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