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π¨ Claude: the productive way to do absolutely nothing.
A few years ago, I spent hours building the "perfect" system in Notion or Obsidian. Folders. Tags. Templates. A whole knowledge base.
The idea was simple:
"Once my system is perfect, I'll finally become productive."
Today, that same behavior has moved to AI.
You can spend all day tweaking prompts, building agents, connecting tools, comparing models, designing workflows. Searching for the "perfect" setup.
By night, you feel productive.
But there's one problem.
You did nothing.
I call this promptcrastination.
Ironically, it rarely affects lazy people.
It catches people who love systems. People who enjoy building the process more than doing the work.
I'm one of them.
I got into crypto in high school. Started with Bitcoin faucets. Then I moved through technical analysis, ICOs, market making, retrodrops, DeFi, and data analysis.
What I always loved most was building systems. Automating boring tasks. Managing money without emotions. Turning chaos into a clear process.
That same obsession now makes me open Claude "just for five minutes."
Here's how I fixed it. No willpower required.
I split my time into two categories: Work and Hobby.
Hobby = learning new AI models, testing tools, reading about agents. No deadline. No fixed result. Just exploring.
Work = a clear goal and a measurable result.
Now, when I want to open Claude "just to check something," I ask myself one question:
"Is this work time, or hobby time?"
This one question stops me from tricking myself and helps me get to my goals faster.
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This is my first post here.
I decided to try something new and start running this account. Here's what you'll find:
- Systems for crypto and DeFi
- Capital and risk management
- AI, automation, and real workflows
- Templates and process tools
- Design and visual thinking
If this sounds useful, follow along. Happy to connect π
Second CEX shuts down in the same week. First BitMEX, now BitMart. This isn't a coincidence anymore, it's a pattern π
BitMart is closing after 9 years. New registrations, deposits, and new trading orders got cut off on July 26. All trading, spot and derivatives, ends August 26, and the platform fully shuts down January 31, 2027.
$BMX crashed roughly 58% in 24 hours, dropping the token to around $27M market cap. It was already down ~70% over the past year before this even hit.
BitMart pointed to "operating conditions, market environment, and future strategic direction." No hack, no insolvency mentioned, no enforcement action.
This comes just three days after BitMEX announced it's shutting down after 11 years, and both exchanges landed on the exact same trading cutoff date, August 26. Two venues, same week, same deadline. That's not bad luck.
Fees have compressed. Compliance costs keep climbing. Liquidity keeps consolidating into a handful of the biggest names. Mid-tier CEXs are getting squeezed from both sides, and there's nowhere left to hide.
Here's what this actually means for the future: centralized exchanges aren't dying, but the middle tier is getting wiped out. You'll end up with a few giants (Binance, Coinbase) running regulated rails, and everyone else either merges, pivots, or shuts down quietly like this.
Meanwhile DeFi doesn't care about any of this. No KYC deadline, no withdrawal window, no "orderly wind-down" notice. Your keys, your coins, no clock ticking on your assets because some corporate strategic review didn't work out.
If you've still got funds sitting on a mid-tier CEX right now, this week is your reminder: self-custody it's risk management π
Second CEX shuts down in the same week. First BitMEX, now BitMart. This isn't a coincidence anymore, it's a pattern π
BitMart is closing after 9 years. New registrations, deposits, and new trading orders got cut off on July 26. All trading, spot and derivatives, ends August 26, and the platform fully shuts down January 31, 2027.
$BMX crashed roughly 58% in 24 hours, dropping the token to around $27M market cap. It was already down ~70% over the past year before this even hit.
BitMart pointed to "operating conditions, market environment, and future strategic direction." No hack, no insolvency mentioned, no enforcement action.
This comes just three days after BitMEX announced it's shutting down after 11 years, and both exchanges landed on the exact same trading cutoff date, August 26. Two venues, same week, same deadline. That's not bad luck.
Fees have compressed. Compliance costs keep climbing. Liquidity keeps consolidating into a handful of the biggest names. Mid-tier CEXs are getting squeezed from both sides, and there's nowhere left to hide.
Here's what this actually means for the future: centralized exchanges aren't dying, but the middle tier is getting wiped out. You'll end up with a few giants (Binance, Coinbase) running regulated rails, and everyone else either merges, pivots, or shuts down quietly like this.
Meanwhile DeFi doesn't care about any of this. No KYC deadline, no withdrawal window, no "orderly wind-down" notice. Your keys, your coins, no clock ticking on your assets because some corporate strategic review didn't work out.
If you've still got funds sitting on a mid-tier CEX right now, this week is your reminder: self-custody it's risk management π
Important Notice
After a careful evaluation of the Company's operating conditions, market environment, and future strategic direction, BitMart has made the difficult decision to commence an orderly wind-down of its trading platform operations. We deeply regret having to make this decision.
Key dates:
β’ Jul 26, 2026, 01:30 UTC: New registrations, deposits, and new trading orders will begin to be suspended.
β’ Aug 26, 2026, 01:00 UTC: All trading services will be discontinued.
β’ Jan 31, 2027, 15:59 UTC: Platform operations will officially cease.
Withdrawal services will remain available. We strongly encourage all users to close positions, complete KYC (if needed), and withdraw assets as early as possible.
Please read the full announcement for important timelines and instructions:
π https://t.co/oaBXNZXt76
Thank you for your trust and support over the years. β€οΈ
Robinhood is quietly stealing Solana's meme crown π
Robinhood Chain's launchpad alone is pumping out roughly 18,600 new tokens per day - that's the pace CoinGecko and FinanceFeeds have both been tracking since launch. That's more raw meme output in a week than an entire established chain like Solana usually sees.
Part of this is pure Robinhood execution, community energy, low friction, everyone piling in. But part of it is also Base straight up handing degens a reason to leave.
Brian Armstrong swapped his profile picture and sent a random Base memecoin called $BRIAN from a few hundred K to $37M market cap in minutes. Then he switched it back. Token crashed over 90% almost immediately after.
Base's own community accused leadership of fueling speculation without actually supporting the ecosystem, and Armstrong even had to publicly admit Base's whole "content coin" strategy failed.
So while Base was busy cleaning up self-inflicted chaos, Robinhood Chain was busy building the exact meme culture degens actually wanted, real launchpads, real liquidity, real community energy, not executive PFP games.
Result: liquidity and attention are rotating straight into Robinhood's ecosystem while Base sorts itself out.
Chains rise and fall on vibes as much as fundamentals. Right now the vibes are all pointing one direction π
Robinhood is quietly stealing Solana's meme crown π
Robinhood Chain's launchpad alone is pumping out roughly 18,600 new tokens per day - that's the pace CoinGecko and FinanceFeeds have both been tracking since launch. That's more raw meme output in a week than an entire established chain like Solana usually sees.
Part of this is pure Robinhood execution, community energy, low friction, everyone piling in. But part of it is also Base straight up handing degens a reason to leave.
Brian Armstrong swapped his profile picture and sent a random Base memecoin called $BRIAN from a few hundred K to $37M market cap in minutes. Then he switched it back. Token crashed over 90% almost immediately after.
Base's own community accused leadership of fueling speculation without actually supporting the ecosystem, and Armstrong even had to publicly admit Base's whole "content coin" strategy failed.
So while Base was busy cleaning up self-inflicted chaos, Robinhood Chain was busy building the exact meme culture degens actually wanted, real launchpads, real liquidity, real community energy, not executive PFP games.
Result: liquidity and attention are rotating straight into Robinhood's ecosystem while Base sorts itself out.
Chains rise and fall on vibes as much as fundamentals. Right now the vibes are all pointing one direction π
Anthropic dropped Opus 5. Here's the actual breakdown π₯
BENCHMARKS
Skipping the percentage soup, here's what actually matters:
1/ Agentic coding: beats literally everyone, including Fable 5. Almost 2x better than Opus 4.8. That's not a small bump, that's a different tier.
2/ Novel/non-standard problem solving: 3x ahead of the closest competitor, GPT-5.6.
On raw benchmarks it's sitting right next to Fable 5, but at half the cost. That's the entire story of this release. This wasn't built to be "the best model." It was built to be the best model you'd actually want to run all day, every day.
PRICING
Unchanged: $5 / $25 per million tokens, same as Opus 4.8. No price hike, just a straight upgrade at the same cost.
MY TAKE
This is Anthropic's daily-driver model, and if you're already in the Claude ecosystem, it's a clean upgrade with zero downside. Fable's fallback tier just got swapped from Opus 4.8 to Opus 5.
Value-wise, for daily subscription use, it's genuinely solid. But if you're comparing raw price-to-performance and you're open to alternatives like Kimi K3 or Qwen 3.8, this one doesn't necessarily win that fight.
Opus 4.8 was already good in my experience, hoping this one holds the bar π«‘
@randgroup Markets have short memories
Jensen Huang posted on X for the first time ever. And instead of talking about GPUs, he used it to drop a political bombshell π£
He post a letter about open-weight AI. That alone tells you what he actually cares about right now.
The letter is signed by more than 20 companies, including Microsoft, Meta, Hugging Face, Palantir, Mistral, and Perplexity. Big names, not a random blog post.
Here's the interesting part: OpenAI and Anthropic did NOT sign it. They've actually been warning Washington that powerful Chinese open models are risky.
So this isn't really "open models vs closed models." It's more like: whoever already owns the strongest closed model vs everyone else who wants a level playing field.
Why does Nvidia care this much?
Because back in January 2025, a cheap model from China's DeepSeek wiped out almost $600 billion of Nvidia's value in a single day. That's not something you forget. And honestly, it doesn't matter to Nvidia if models are open or closed. More AI models = more demand for chips either way.
The timing isn't random either. This week, Huang told Axios that Chinese AI models actually increase demand for Nvidia's chips instead of threatening US companies. That put him directly at odds with the Treasury Secretary, who warned that Chinese AI firms could face sanctions over alleged large-scale theft of US intellectual property.
The letter's response to that is simple: training one model using another model's outputs (called "distillation") is normal research, not theft. Convenient stance if you want the open-model pipeline to keep flowing freely.
My take: the future isn't going to be open OR closed. It's going to be both, stacked on top of each other. A few frontier labs running closed models at the top, and a massive layer of open models underneath, running locally, cheap, and outside anyone's control.
Controlling the compute is about to matter as much as controlling the data.
This is the real high-stakes game right now, way bigger than the next token launch π
For my first post, Iβm sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.
https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb
@viktoroddy The best AI websites don't look like AI websites anymore
Robinhood's CEO got hacked for 45 minutes. Scammers used it to steal $1.2M from people who thought they were early π
@vladtenev, the CEO of Robinhood, had his verified Twitter account hijacked for about 45 minutes.
During that window, the hacker posted a memecoin contract address straight from his account.
This wasn't random. Multiple liquidity pools were already set up in advance with different fee tiers, and they'd already run some fake volume through it before the tweet even went out. Classic setup, built to look organic.
The target wasn't randoms. It was aimed at experienced degens, people who actually know how to grab a contract address off Twitter and ape in fast.
Here's what made this scam extra convincing: Vlad has actually posted memecoin content before, including a screenshot with two wolves. So a lot of people genuinely wondered if this could be a real token, like a second TRUMP-style launch.
Uniswap already flagged it as a honeypot (a token you can buy but can't sell)
The blockchain explorer already flagged it as a scam
Whenever something like this happens, stay calm and check these things first:
β Is the token mentioned anywhere in the official community?
β Why does it have no branding at all?
β Did the company's support team or Discord say anything about it?
β Why isn't it listed in the actual mobile app?
This isn't just a memecoin problem either. The same trick gets used with fake tokenized stocks and fake wrapped Bitcoin all the time.
People lost around 650 ETH (about $1.2M) to this scam.
Always verify before you buy. No exceptions βοΈ
Robinhood's CEO got hacked for 45 minutes. Scammers used it to steal $1.2M from people who thought they were early π
@vladtenev, the CEO of Robinhood, had his verified Twitter account hijacked for about 45 minutes.
During that window, the hacker posted a memecoin contract address straight from his account.
This wasn't random. Multiple liquidity pools were already set up in advance with different fee tiers, and they'd already run some fake volume through it before the tweet even went out. Classic setup, built to look organic.
The target wasn't randoms. It was aimed at experienced degens, people who actually know how to grab a contract address off Twitter and ape in fast.
Here's what made this scam extra convincing: Vlad has actually posted memecoin content before, including a screenshot with two wolves. So a lot of people genuinely wondered if this could be a real token, like a second TRUMP-style launch.
Uniswap already flagged it as a honeypot (a token you can buy but can't sell)
The blockchain explorer already flagged it as a scam
Whenever something like this happens, stay calm and check these things first:
β Is the token mentioned anywhere in the official community?
β Why does it have no branding at all?
β Did the company's support team or Discord say anything about it?
β Why isn't it listed in the actual mobile app?
This isn't just a memecoin problem either. The same trick gets used with fake tokenized stocks and fake wrapped Bitcoin all the time.
People lost around 650 ETH (about $1.2M) to this scam.
Always verify before you buy. No exceptions βοΈ
@ToriRibolla Not a traditional path, but definitely a memorable one
@Christopheusz6 It was worth it
BitMEX is shutting down after 11 years. Wanted to share why that news hit different for me πͺ
Back in 2018 a friend told me about this exchange. I spent the next few months actually learning - reading their insurance fund mechanics, understanding funding rates, figuring out how the perpetual swap actually worked (a product BitMEX literally invented, by the way - every perp you've traded anywhere since started here).
In 11+ years of operating through multiple bear markets, hacks across the industry, and total chaos everywhere else, they never lost a single dollar of customer funds to a hack. That's not normal in this industry, and it never got the credit it deserved.
Reading their shutdown announcement this morning was strange. A little sad, honestly. This was the platform where I actually learned what trading was, where I made my worst mistakes and my best decisions, all on the same order book.
To the BitMEX team: thank you for building something that worked exactly as advertised for over a decade. That's rarer than people realize π«‘
Dear BitMEX Users,
Today, we share with a very heavy heart that BitMEX exchange will shut down its operations, effective 23 September 2026 at 04:00:00 UTC.
The owner and operator of BitMEX, HDR Global Trading Limited, has made the difficult decision to close operations following a strategic review of the business.
It may not look the same today, but we are proud of our 11+ year legacy and the role we played in shaping the crypto industry. We invented the 100x leverage perpetual swap, which for most of you, was the first step to your crypto trading journey. It is now the most traded financial product in the crypto industry, adopted by thousands of users and exchanges. And we remain proud of our robust security infrastructure, which has allowed us to maintain a flawless track record of 0 customer funds lost to hacks in our entire operating history.
We want to reassure you that your assets remain fully safe and under your control during this transition period. This announcement is just to give enough time to ensure a smooth withdrawal process for everyone.
From today we strongly encourage all users to close their positions and withdraw their funds as soon as convenient. For more details on the full process, please read our blog: https://t.co/OOHeh6xHm8
BitMEX was once home to some of the greatest traders today. Our team has dedicated tremendous effort and passion into building the platform into what it is, and we are glad to have reached some of you during your time with us. To everyone who has traded, supported, and grown alongside us - thank you for your trust over the last 11 years.
The BitMEX Team
@HarryTandy More context isn't always better. Better structured context is
@mistor You unlocked the premium TradingView sleep mode
@cryppimagic Perps are probably one of the biggest reasons crypto trading became 24/7 and global
@fluixoo I've started routing tasks instead of defaulting to one model. It's cheaper, and for most work I barely notice the difference
The entire investing industry runs on one psychological trick, and it's costing you your wealth π¨
When I started buying $BTC back in late 2015, I already knew one thing: I was never going to sell it. No matter what happened.
Didn't matter if the price crashed or mooned. I wasn't going to voluntarily give up an asset that beats the dollar over any long timeframe.
But before DeFi existed, holding that hard was actually painful for a lot of people.
For me personally it was easy. I had income from online work, and honestly, what real expenses does a 20-year-old have?
But for people who were investing without extra cash sitting around, who actually needed some kind of "dividend" from their portfolio to live on, holding forever wasn't realistic. At some point they had to sell.
DeFi fixed this problem completely. You can now unlock cash flow from your assets without ever selling them.
And what surprises me is that years later, almost nobody uses this. Most people still don't even know it's possible.
"Buy assets, then slowly sell them off to live" is honestly the most successful psyop in all of investing, and somehow we all just agreed to believe it π
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