My information consumption is now 1/4 X, 1/4 podcast interviews of the smartest practitioners, 1/4 talking to the leading AI models, and 1/4 reading old books. The opportunity cost of anything else is far too high, and rising daily.
KOLs Are An Absolute Cancer To Crypto
Let's be 100% honest about this.
Paid influence and KOL culture didn’t help crypto grow - it replaced the need to actually earn attention.
Somewhere along the way, we decided it was normal to pay people to manufacture conviction. To call it “marketing.”
In reality, it’s just outsourced belief and hype meant to deceive the unsuspecting masses.
When influence is rented, innovation stops. Whether that is product innovation or marketing innovation.
Why take risks, build culture, or think differently when you can just buy distribution and let the timeline do the lying for you? That shortcut has lowered the bar in crypto at a time we should be raising it.
What really blows my mind is how casually we ignore the legal side of this. In much of the world, promoting the purchase of assets without disclosure isn’t a gray area. It’s straight-up illegal. Traditional markets learned this the hard way. Disclose incentives or don’t speak. Simple.
Yet in crypto, we normalized undisclosed promotion so thoroughly that questioning it makes you the problem. We accepted a system where trust is quietly bought and sold, then act confused when the public doesn’t trust us anymore.
This is why everything feels the same. Same narratives. Same cycles. Same faces telling you what’s “next” - until the check clears and they move on.
A space built to remove middlemen somehow rebuilt itself around the worst ones.
If your project needs paid conviction to survive it never deserved to thrive in the first place.
Real demand shows up without paid voices pretending they are organic recommendations.
The irony? If we stop to think about it. If you're posing as a very successful person in this space but need to sell your voice? The charade all starts to fall apart.
🫡 From the depths —
The White Whale 🐋
@ForrestPumpSol Although I've lost a significant amount of money on your tokens, that's the rule of the game, and I respect your choice! Good luck, friend.
Kalshi raised $1B at an $11B valuation.
A decade ago, only a few thousand people knew what a prediction market was.
Eighteen months ago, most prediction markets were banned - until we overcame the government to set them free.
Over the past seven years, our community has opened up an entirely new category.
Today, Kalshi is trusted, used, and loved by millions of people. It’s a part of everyday culture, and it’s driving one of the most important shifts in consumer behavior in recent history.
The time has finally come for prediction markets to achieve their full potential and we are intent on making that happen.
To all the believers and the early adopters: thank you.
THE @MCGlive MetaDAO vs SOAR Mega Thread 👇
Two new launchpad models have rapidly defined the next era of ICM.
Ownership Tokens by @MetaDAOProject $META
and
DRP (Debt-Repayment Tokens) by @LaunchOnSoar $SOAR (Token not yet launched).