This is Cobie
In 2012, he bought his first Bitcoin
By 2021, he was one of crypto’s most influential voices
Then FTX collapsed, almost breaking him
Here’s the untold story of his comeback: (and how he accidentally created the first celebrity memecoin)
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Gm my bro's - did this week's Achilles in honor of the coming bull market 💪
There's something beautiful and even poetic about the whole idea of the bull market/bear market paradigm in crypto...
It is inherently optimistic and aspirational... the whole concept of grinding and persevering for the near-mythical 'bull market' that will someday come...
But it also contains the whole idealistic/fatalistic dichotomy that I like so much, because it presupposes that such bull markets will always be fleeting...
"Building for the coming bull market..."
"Surviving through the bear market..."
"When the bull market finally arrives..."
There's so much significance in all of those statements that just hits right at the heart of the human experience generally....
And also points to some of crypto's best qualities I think, such as its inherent idealism (but not utopianism - which I believe is an important distinction), as well as its emphasis on self-sovereignty (ie the 'bull market' is something you prepare for and build for and earn the benefits of, not something that's just given to you).
There's something very wistful and both sad and beautiful about it all...
It reminds me of the famous quote from The Great Gatsby...
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning...
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
Substitute 'bull market' and 'orgiastic green charts' and it almost perfectly summarizes crypto... 100 years after the original lines were written :)
It has been an honor grinding through this bear market with you my friends, and I look forward to experiencing the coming bull market(s) with you - both real and metaphorical 💪
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As always... 70 weighted 70 lb pullups + two mile 70 lb ruck & farmers-carry of 70 lb dumbbells - time: two hours forty-eight minutes
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