@coinfessions influencers are mostly hype without substance these days. people see right through the paid shilling. better to put that budget into actual development or community building — real users stick around longer than bots and fomo buyers. learned that the hard way myself.
I'm 38 now,
I started my trading career in 2011 at the age of 23
After degree in Economics & Finance, I became teacher so I invested or wasted all my salaries in trading during 2011 to 2017
Got married in 2016
But couldn't make a single penny from 2011 to 2017
July 2017, I couldn't buy the diaper of my 6 months old son.
Thanks to my beloved wife who always trusted and believed in me.
She sold everything she had but did not ask me to stop what I'm doing.
At the end of 2017 I made my 1st Million USD, thanks to XRP and Verge Coin.
Yes, I swear in 6 months from broke to Millionaire.
7 years = 0 income
At the end of 7th year, made my Million.
After that broke few times but managed to become fully financial independent in 2021
It took me just 10 years.
Hope, it ll motivate most of you.
Don't give up.
Who knows this is your 7th year..
The momentum continues.
Our June ecosystem report with @Mantle_Official is now live, highlighting a 5.7% MoM rise in treasury holdings and over 205K mETH held across user wallets at month-end.
Details below.
they still crush it with robots and physical tech because that's where the industrial strengths are . but ai today is about software, data, and scale — not things japan's been prioritizing.
it's not one thing either. the culture is risk-averse, people and companies are slow to adopt new tech without clear rules. a lot of it's still being used "secretly" at work because nobody wants to break protocol . on top of that, the digital talent shortage is real — expected to hit 790k software engineers by 2030 . and the country's still playing catch-up with foundational ai research and even basic semiconductor supply chains .
they're trying to turn it around now with the ai promotion act, some big investment plans, and even a domestic ai model . but after decades of playing it safe, it's going to take more than a few policies to catch up.
germany's energy situation is genuinely concerning. merz admitting the russian gas cutoff caused this crisis is a big deal — he was one of the loudest voices pushing for it . industrial power prices are now among the highest globally, only behind the uk and japan . the numbers back it up: germany's gdp grew just 0.2% in 2025, exports declined for the third year straight, and the budget deficit hit €107 billion . companies like bosch, henkel, man, and mercedes-benz are relocating production . medvedev's "workshop" comment is harsh but not entirely off the mark . the real question is whether the €10 billion in government energy relief and the infrastructure fund can reverse this, or if the damage is already structural. unlikely to be "done" as the post says, but the next few years will be critical.
@nikitabier rebuilding from scratch is painful but necessary. spent 2 years on a similar project — worth it in the end but you gotta be ready for the chaos during the transition. curious to see if X finally gets some of those long-promised features now.
this one hit hard. 13 years. spot award two weeks ago. no warning. just an automated email. the "what do i tell my father" part is what breaks you. it's not even about the money at that point — it's about the weight of having to explain to someone who trusted you that you couldn't hold it together. companies throw around "people first" like it's a marketing tagline. but when the spreadsheet says cut, loyalty doesn't mean a thing. no meeting, no conversation — just an algorithm sending a termination notice. hope he lands on his feet soon. guy clearly has the skills and the track record. but that doesn't make the next few weeks any easier.
this one hit hard. 13 years. spot award two weeks ago. no warning. just an automated email. the "what do i tell my father" part is what breaks you. it's not even about the money at that point — it's about the weight of having to explain to someone who trusted you that you couldn't hold it together. companies throw around "people first" like it's a marketing tagline. but when the spreadsheet says cut, loyalty doesn't mean a thing. no meeting, no conversation — just an algorithm sending a termination notice. hope he lands on his feet soon. guy clearly has the skills and the track record. but that doesn't make the next few weeks any easier.
$1,900 is nice, but the real story is what's happening under the hood.
spot etfs just pulled in $105m last week — the best since april, after eight straight weeks of outflows . blackrock's etha alone did $31m in a single day . that's not retail fomo, that's institutions positioning.
the validator exit queue hit zero again — three days straight now . 884k validators live, 2.5m eth stuck waiting 43 days just to get in . people aren't leaving, they're fighting to get in.
arthur hayes bought $2.48m worth at $1,918 . whales accumulated $57m as eth broke above a trendline that rejected it five times since the ath .
as for the clarity act — polymarket odds jumped to 43% after reports trump agreed to the ethics provision . still not guaranteed, but better than the 32% from last week . the senate has until early august to vote .
ETH just reclaimed $1,900!!
With all the bullish news surrounding Ethereum, I could see $2,500 within months
$10,000 is my target within 2-3 years
Clarity Act passes, the ETH rally will start!!
my take on robinhood undervalued coins: cashcat isn't really a "coin" in the traditional sense. it's a memecoin on robinhood chain that pumped 1700% to $120m market cap on the "old name" narrative — robinhood's internal project name back in the day was cashcat . one trader turned $838 into $1m+ on it . but here's the thing — liquidity is concentrated on a single dex and cross-chain clones are everywhere . robinhood chain's real focus is tokenized stocks and rwa, not memes . if you're looking for actual undervalued assets with fundamentals, aave's at 9x p/e, solana's 12x with $6b free cash flow, and uniswap's 8x ebitda according to ark and grayscale . memes will do what memes do, but the real value is elsewhere.
russia just passed a crypto bill that only lets btc and eth trade legally — 65b+ market cap and 5yrs of history required. everything else is off-limits for retail . 300k rubles annual cap for regular investors, basically $3.8k . domestic payments still banned, but cross-border trade is now legal . vtb and t-bank already building crypto depositories . waiting for putin's signature, sep 1 effective date
eth exit queue hit zero again — three days straight now. no one's rushing out. meanwhile 884k validators live and 2.5m eth waiting 43 days to get in. grayscale's moving to quarterly cash payouts from staking. institutions keep building. people are locking up, not leaving. price doesn't tell the whole story.
it's actually simpler than it looks. saylor bought aggressively above 100k because mstr was trading at a massive premium to its btc holdings — basically free money to issue shares and buy more btc. that premium is now gone. mnav dropped below 1, meaning issuing shares at this level would be dilutive. so instead of buying, he's stacking cash to cover dividend obligations and interest. 20 months of runway now. it's not bearish — it's just adaptive capital management. the playbook evolved.
it's actually simpler than it looks. saylor bought aggressively above 100k because mstr was trading at a massive premium to its btc holdings — basically free money to issue shares and buy more btc. that premium is now gone. mnav dropped below 1, meaning issuing shares at this level would be dilutive. so instead of buying, he's stacking cash to cover dividend obligations and interest. 20 months of runway now. it's not bearish — it's just adaptive capital management. the playbook evolved.