Cryptococcus

In the blockchain trenches // Trading tokenized attention

[Cryptococcus @_CryptoCoccus_]

What did I miss?

[Cryptococcus @_CryptoCoccus_]

@arieljalali @Geiger_Capital Turns out it was in fact a random kid

[Aporia @0xaporia]

People who succeed in trading usually do so by leaning on skills developed in other areas: General curiosity about games, systems, and mental frameworks, a strong sense of integrity, etc. Trading amplifies, exposes and teaches those interests and habits, but it rarely creates them from scratch.

For me, this is mainly about first-principles thinking. It’s stripping away assumptions, inherited narratives, and surface-level trends to ask: What’s irreducible here? Markets teach this ruthlessly: any unjustified complexity gets you rekt. They demand simplicity. But simplicity is not the avoidance of complexity. It’s the product of deliberate refinement.

By stripping away layers, you identify not just the actors, but the levers. Markets are a masterclass in this. But every domain (careers, art, politics, love, etc.) has its own “physics”. This abstraction leads to agency. When you understand the forces at play, you stop reacting to symptoms and start engaging with systems.

Similarly, life’s ambiguities become navigable when you’ve rigorously defined your own terms: what matters, what’s negotiable, and what’s foundational. Markets teach you to think in tensions and trade-offs; life rewards you for applying that same rigor. Yet, this lens works both ways: the same rigor that grants agency also exposes the fragility of your assumptions. It humbles as much as it empowers.

[Cryptococcus @_CryptoCoccus_]

@MartiniGuyYT I thought last cycle was the last opportunity

[Cryptococcus @_CryptoCoccus_]

#creativeoffice has a new creator coin that just launched via @zora.

Contract: 0x7370CF174Fc4eEDbEBE63B778D2C2E09689ceffb

Perhaps the official creative team of @coinbase 👀

They are followed by Base and Jessie as well.
@Creative0ffice

[Base @base]

Base's creative team is building in the open, and tokenizing their work

Follow @Creative0ffice

[Cryptococcus @_CryptoCoccus_]

The 2017 class officially has unc status

[gainzy @gainzy222]

Absolutely wild how hard all of us from the class of 2017 and before have vastly underperformed

Especially those that made a name for themselves on ct me included

[Cryptococcus @_CryptoCoccus_]

Wish there was a place to see activity stats for crypto twitter.

It seems more dead than it was at the last ATH party

[Cryptococcus @_CryptoCoccus_]

99% of CT would would be wealthier if they dca’d btc and eth

[Cryptococcus @_CryptoCoccus_]

Gm

[Cryptococcus @_CryptoCoccus_]

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water

[Cryptococcus @_CryptoCoccus_]

@RichardHanania Andrew Wilson got exposed as the epitome of Dunning-Kruger. He only seems intelligent to midwits that don’t understand debate tactics

[Cryptococcus @_CryptoCoccus_]

@paleochristcon Lol she quite obviously knows more about science and statistics than you. Everyone witnessed you getting wrecked. Now we get to witness you resort to name-calling 😭

[Cryptococcus @_CryptoCoccus_]

Who needs video games when you have crypto

[Brian Jung @thebrianjung]

Soon every dog will be masked up.

[Ansem @blknoiz06]

i beat depression by gambling on the computer for 16 hours a day

[Cryptococcus @_CryptoCoccus_]

Steady lads… deploying more capital

[Cryptococcus @_CryptoCoccus_]

Is hawk tuah girl still sleeping??

[Cryptococcus @_CryptoCoccus_]

Bidding $OATH looks interesting here at $1.2M.

I'm digging the art

[Cryptococcus @_CryptoCoccus_]

@NicklesBrannon Soon