Okay. I'm ready to talk about this.
It was the worst month of my life. Also ironically the greatest blessing god has ever given me.
Last month I was held in the Cayman Islands facing 15 years in prison.
The charge: illegal firearm importation. Here's what happened. More importantly what I learned.
Short answer: no. I haven't been smuggling guns.
In the States I legally carry a gun on me at almost all times for self defense. Part of this is ensuring I am trained.
Hence why I routinely go to the range to shoot. When I do I pack the firearm I intend to use in in a backpack.
Last month I was in a giant rush to make a private flight and didn't fully check my backpack before leaving. In it was a small firearm I missed.
It was discovered when I went through immigration.
At first I assumed I'd just be sent home.
Then my wife did some quick research. She pointed out the minimum sentence for importing a gun is 15 years. The police who showed up confirmed it.
To say I nearly pissed my pants is an understatement.
This was completely my fault. I'm an idiot. The point of this post isn't to blame or complain about anything. The laws there are fair. I'm a grown man capable of checking his bag before flying.
The point is: for three weeks on the island (on bail), I got to take a long hard look at my life.
I've built a high net worth and a company I love, with people I love working with. I have a beautiful wife who is my best friend. I do whatever I want all day every day. My parents are alive and I get to see them almost every week.
Still, despite all this, I often wake up annoyed I haven't done enough with my life. Asking myself "is this it?" In fact I'm pissed half the time, feeling I can do better.
Which is ironic. I made $20,000 a year in the military. If you'd told me then I'd achieve a 9 figure net worth and all the above, I would've assumed I'd consider my life a dream.
The twist truly hit me on the island as I watched everything I worked hard for in my life held at "gunpoint". Pun intended. Everything I worked so hard to get — poof. Didn't matter for shit.
The way the law works there are simple : if you can't prove it was an accident, the minimum is 15 years.
It became glaringly obvious. Not only was I an absolute idiot who couldn't pack his own bag. I'd also become a fool who couldn't enjoy the blessings I already had.
I'd taken all the people in my life and the success totally for granted. Blind. Blind. Blind.
Nothing like a 20-year potential sentence to make you realize: waking up with fun stuff to work on, then chilling on the couch reading with your wife at the end of the day — that's about as good as it gets.
I should be euphoric 24/7.
To go from having it all, to potentially not even having the option to piss and shit when you want — that's a wake up call if there ever was one.
Luckily, the Caymans is a fair place. I was found under exceptional circumstances during my trial. AKA the judge and the courts reviewed the case and agreed it was an accident.
I still love the island. It's probably my favorite place to vacation. Just check your luggage before you go. Ha.
My point is this: be present. Enjoy your life. One day something could happen — even by complete accident — and yoink it all away.
I have so many friends who'll read this and by all definition live a "dream life" — and yet are dissatisfied just like I was. If anything this is the default for most successful men. Not the exception.
I'm writing this to help you stop.
It took god slapping me across the face with my own ignorance to see it. It was painful and scary. Dark.
But honestly, it was the greatest blessing I've ever received. I'm writing this from my office at home, giddy as absolute fuck about my life and everything I have the option to do today.
If anything, I'm sad about how much time I wasted feeling otherwise.
Don't be ignorant and stupid like me. You might not get the blessing of a 15-year prison threat in a foreign country to wake you up.
Wake up. Appreciate what you have now.
People mistakenly think BTC/ETH had a cycle, only now have we entered the bear market, and then we have a new cycle sometimes in the next few years.
Not realizing that this is still an ongoing cycle since 2022.
This will cause so many to make life mistakes.
And I have many proofs of that.
I don't need to convince anyone. I'm gonna make fortunes and help people close to me who are willing to listen to do the same. Let wafflers waffle. That's all they can do.
Talked about Silver opportunity for two years straight, then it produces the biggest pump in multiple decades & outperformers all major assets - no engagement
People who never mentioned it but now just doing posts "BREAKING: Silver hits $114"? Thousands of likes 🙃
At least it pleases me to see many DMs of how many people I helped to make fortunes, includes myself
The coming years are going to be insane. I say this figuratively and literally. The primary reason is because society is about to enter a phase transition. This is what a phase transition looks like.
Water at 99°C is hot, stable, behaves like a liquid and follows the laws of hydrodynamics. At 101°C, water becomes a gas, making it chaotic, expansive, and following a different set of physical laws.
The difference between 2026 and 203X is the difference between 99°C and 101°C.
To make this tangible. Imagine you’ve become a proficient swimmer. Mastering your stroke, breathing and pacing. The water is a predictable substrate that you use to model your decisions. This is life at 99°C.
At 101°C the pool turns to steam. You stroke your arms but don’t move. You kick and don’t find resistance. Your swimming proficiency is no longer an asset, it’s a liability. Your muscle memory is a mismatch for the new environment. You have to unlearn to relearn.
This is what life planning is going to feel like going forward.
For most of history, you could make a pretty decent guess about what the future would look like. If you were a farmer in 1400, you knew your grandchild would probably be a farmer in 1450. That was even true in 2003 when I entered college. One could confidently attend college, select a career, plan a profession, and map out retirement by age 65.
We felt confident in these plans because we depended on broad trends (coarse graining) that reliably predicted the future. Things may change here and there, but not enough to give you any pause in your life-planning decision making.
That stability is now gone. For example, my son is 20 and neither he nor I have any idea how to think about his life. Should he go to college? Is college still relevant? What should he learn? Life planning shortcuts are now dead. No one knows. Before, having a five year plan was responsible. Now it’s reckless because the world is moving faster than we can model. The speed of reality exceeds the speed of the observer.
This is the source of the low level anxiety that many people feel. Humans are prediction machines. When an error emerges from what you predicted (water) to what you get (steam), the body registers it as trauma. It leaves us in a state of chronic hyper-vigilance, scanning a horizon that refuses to sit still.
In this new reality, the move is not to have better maps, but to build better systems. This is what I’ve been building with Blueprint. An algorithmic system of health and decision making that moves as fast as technology, allowing me to evolve alongside. The more I detach from ideas, norms and expectations, the smoother the glide. The hardest part is letting go of what we know and trust.
This is part of a series of essays that I’ve been writing for my upcoming book Warriors & Caretakers of Existence. A plan on what the human race does when giving birth to super intelligence. If we want the extraordinary existence that is on offer, we’ll need to fight for it.
What to do when you're not sure what to do:
Build capacity.
Ex:
- Go to bed on time when you’re not sure what to do the next day
- Build an audience when you're not sure what product to sell
- Add goodwill to your email list when you don’t have a promo
- Get in shape when you don’t have dates lined up
- Save money when you're not sure where to invest
The thing about opportunities is that they present themselves to everyone and only people with capacity can both recognize and capitalize on them.
So don’t be in the bleachers when that fat pitch comes. Be at the plate. Ready to swing big.
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@i_am_jackis is one of the best, most level headed, smart and humble accounts I have ever come across.
The level of knowledge and wisdom he puts out is beyond most, I would even say he is overall better than me.
Even if I ever disagree with his analysis, I respect it highly and he is one of the only other accounts where I allow his thesis to cause me to think deeper on mine.
This is the sort of guy you want coming up on your feed, and every post is worth noting.
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The sign of a great analyst is one that is able to entertain other opinions and still be respectful, and hold your opinion still at the same time.
I like to think I am that.
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$BTC
Guys, I know you're excited that we went back over $90k, but there's no way we are going to moon without the below happening.
The most bullish thing that could play out would be a nice double-bottom, then we blast through $100k from there. Up only right now prob means we just come back down just as hard.
Have a plan.
https://t.co/9stNfCoD9M
I just wanna point out that $AAPL went sideways for 17 years or 6000 days, just before it went on for a +75000% rally!!
If you invested 1000$, it would be worth 750 000$ today
And in the middle, after 10 years of the range, it did a fake breakout and rugged again during dot-com. All of you would probably sold at that point and missed the rally that followed
Now I don't think that the digital asset class is going to go sideways for 17 years, but I'm saying in perspective of the past 5 years of range on ETH, although the longest in the spaces' history, is nothing abnormal from the markets history
Universe always test you out, asking if this is what you truly want
No bear will ever repay you all the missed profits cause he fudded you out of the position. And no one has cost me more money in my life then bears (obviously myself but at the start you listen before you learn)
Bottom line? The fortune awaits those who able to see the bigger picture that this is still an emerging asset class. Those who are able to avoid each MTF/HTF drop and then give it another try. Those who don't quit and do not get lost in the woods, looking at the trees
In hindsight it is always obvious and everybody "told you so" including the bear who fudded you out at the bottom
In 2013 there was a US Gov shutdown. It ended on the 17th Oct 2013 and Bitcoin pumped 717% over the next 43 days.
Then in 2019 there was a US Gov shitdown. It ended on the 25th Jan 2019 and Bitcoin pumped 284% over the next 152 days.
Today on the 12th Nov 2025 the US Gov shutdown is about to end. Hopefully we see at least a 100% pump over the next x days!
🤞
My expectations for altcoins:
I’ve been at the forefront saying that the October 10th dump was a crucial turning point in the market, as almost all altcoins reached significant discount levels, wiping out the majority of leveraged participants and, at the same time, sweeping all major HTF breakers I had marked on my charts.
Some of these levels dated back to 2024 and even 2023, a clear sign of manipulation aimed at pushing market participants to buy at those levels, precisely when, among other things, exchanges were limiting the ability for retail traders to buy or operate.
Furthermore, as a “side note,” I formulated my thesis supporting this view in a more “conspiratorial,” yet still well-aligned, perspective which you can read here: https://t.co/iFPhfRk43y
On November 1st, I also shared in my channel the strong possibility of seeing a highly “destabilizing” scenario that is, altcoins performing well while Bitcoin entered a distributive phase.
Something truly hard to believe,
FIL, ZCASH, DASH, TAO, XMR… we’re indeed witnessing a scenario where certain sectors are outperforming, the so-called “random pumps” but looking at the broader picture, I still firmly believe "the best" for altcoins is yet to come.
🗣️"The best? Didn't you say that we're close to the end and altseason is something to take with gloves?"
Yes, absolutely, and I DO NOT expect gigatronic altseason following the post I made in July 2024
https://t.co/sHtoyFTw1y but I expect a nice leg up higher whether from here or from lower levels (best is 90K BTC and major levels aligned).
🗣️"When do you expect it?"
In my mind December would be ideal (maybe a dump prior) in order to fulfill the narrative of a positive 🎅Santa rally heading into the next year.
🗣️ "On which altcoins?"
Those who have sound price actions and high volumes.
Some small and mid caps will likely pump too (shillers need their exit liquidity, isn't it?) but of course my focus will be on majors as always.
🗣️"And then?"
OVERALL bloody 2026 providing amazing opportunities at the end of the next year/2027 start.
These are my expectations based on charts, macro theory and psychological connotations.
I spent longer time thinking about that post of MT.
Before I start, keep this in mind: these are my personal thoughts. I can be wrong.
Always do your own research and think critically.
Also I can’t speak for MT, he might be disagreeing with my view, this is my personal opinion.
If I make projections, they’re based on today’s data and my view can change. Treat everything here dynamic and not static.
The State of the Market – Heading into the End of 2025
Here’s my current high-timeframe (HTF) view:
Crypto:
Likely topped. We’re probably at the start of a bear market that could last around a year.
Invalidation of that would come when BTC can reclaim 116k.
Stocks:
In the topping phase IMO. The SPX is still carried by a few mega-caps, while small and mid caps started to show weakness already.
I think that weakness will carry over to the major stocks as well. Watch for bearish ChoChs . As long as they don’t appear, we can push higher, but going into 2026, I’d be very cautious being long.
If stocks roll over, that drop could accelerate a BTC retrace (remember the correlation) and this would likely obliterate alts.
Metals:
Corrective phase but still looking bullish into the late decade IMO. The relative strength there tells me big money is moving to a risk-off stance. That could be a warning signs for risk markets.
I personally think 2026 could bring the next big buying opportunity, both in stocks and crypto.
How This Connects to MT’s Post
“Fastest altcoin crash of all time in 2025.”
We might already be in it.
BTC broke the 107k weekly low now for several days, $89k could be next (and probably lower after a bounce).
Meanwhile, many alts are right now at key levels or lost them. In case BTC drops further, those might break and alts might get smoked further.
MT once said “Most altcoins will go to zero.”
And even frauds like Do-Kwon mentioned sth along, “We came from zero, we’ll go back to zero.”
It’s harsh, but probably true for 95% of alts. We’ve seen absurd dilution, nonstop scams, and the complete erosion of retail trust.
Everyone expected BTC dominance to break down and alts to shine at the end of the cycle.
But this market continues to shatter expectations.
What if the top came without an alt rally, leaving everyone trapped in underperforming bags?
The Purge Before the Resurrection
Yes, most alts could vanish. But some will survive. The ones
- backed by institutions or ETFs,
- or with a die-hard community keeping them alive due to fundamentals.
By 2026, when the market bottoms, no one will want to touch alts again.
That’s when the survivors could start their run.
Declining BTC.D from the lows… total disbelief in alts… no one positioned for it.
That would be the perfect setup for the
“Fastest altcoin pump of all time in 2026”.
But what could be be the catalyst for it?
Liquidity Injections
The FED announced that Quantitative Tightening (QT) is coming to an end but Quantitative Easing (QE) could still be a bit away.
We could see QE happening somewhere later in 2026, eventually being the spark that ignites the next run.
You can't get rich if you never risk losing money.
You can't get loved if you never risk getting rejected.
You can't get strong if you never risk getting injured.
The price of the life you want is the risks you’re avoiding.
TAO leading AI alts to the promised land.
(Which is dubai, but covered in cocaine and with robot alligators and everyone is on roids and carrys a sword)