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$20M today
$20M at $100 BTC = 200,000 BTC
200,000 BTC at today's price = $13.7B
but this assumes you:
▸ actually put all $20M into a sketchy internet coin in 2013
▸ held through -85% in 2014
▸ held through -84% in 2018
▸ held through -77% in 2022
▸ didn't sell at $1K, $10K, $20K, $50K, or $100K
▸ with "zero knowledge of what it would become"
with zero knowledge you sell at $1,000 and feel like a genius
you walk away with $200K and tell the story at parties forever
take the $20M
"I was the only one publicly calling the exact bottom"
you and about 347 other accounts who all claim to be the only one
the survivorship bias playbook:
▸ make 20 predictions
▸ delete the 18 that were wrong
▸ screenshot the 2 that hit
▸ build entire brand around it
▸ end every post with "turn notifications on"
if the calls were that good you wouldn't need to tell people to follow you. the P&L would do it.
"it's like we're back in 2024"
except in 2024 you didn't have:
▸ 270K BTC whale accumulation (largest since 2013)
▸ $55.93B in ETF capital
▸ SEC-CFTC unified framework
▸ Coinbase as a federally regulated trust bank
▸ Saylor holding 766,970 BTC
same price. completely different structural floor underneath it.
2024 was hope. 2026 is infrastructure at a discount.
@walsxbt top 3 places crypto traders visit:
1. Thailand (leveraged out of their home country)
2. Dubai (no taxes on the gains they don't have)
3. Bali (calling themselves "digital nomads" instead of "unemployed")
this math is correct in hindsight
but the financial advisor didn't know the S&P would average 10.5%
what the advisor did know:
▸ mortgage payoff = guaranteed 3.2% return
▸ S&P = historically 10% but includes years of -30%
▸ uncle's risk tolerance = unknown
▸ uncle's sleep at night = priceless
the $340K in "missed gains" assumes he would've held through every crash without panic selling
the people who actually held S&P through 2008, 2020, and 2022 without selling are in the top 1% of discipline
your uncle probably isn't that guy. most people aren't. the advisor knew that.
good breakdown but missing the third scenario that's historically most likely:
Scenario C — deadline passes, no deal, no bombs
▸ March 20 deadline: extended
▸ April 6 deadline: extended to April 8
▸ April 8 deadline: ???
Trump's language escalated but Morgan Stanley published today that Hormuz won't reopen this month
the market isn't pricing in deal or destruction
the market is pricing in another extension followed by more chop
the boring scenario is always the most likely and the least discussed
IV dropping from 56 to 47 before a binary event at 8PM tonight is not exhaustion
it's mispricing
every time IV compresses before a known catalyst, the move that follows is outsized because options are underpricing the actual range
August 2024: IV compressed before BOJ. BTC dropped 30% in a week.
January 2024: IV compressed before ETF approval. BTC ripped 60% in a month.
cheap options before Iran deadline + CPI Thursday = the vol sellers are about to learn
this is literally what memecoin launches look like
replace "poker bots sharing cards" with "46 wallets from the same deployer"
same concept:
▸ they know each other's positions
▸ they coordinate against the outsider
▸ the outsider thinks it's a fair game
▸ the house (platform) doesn't care because volume is volume
the only difference is poker bots are illegal and memecoin cabals call it "marketing"
@TedPillows "the US administration thinks Iran will respond"
Iran said yesterday they only accept guaranteed end of war. not a pause. not a framework.
responding ≠ agreeing
6 hours is enough time for a statement. it's not enough time for peace.
Aster:
▸ TVL -67%
▸ fees -90%
▸ token -71%
▸ KOLs: silent
Hyperliquid:
▸ open interest ATH ($2.3B)
▸ active traders ATH (246K)
▸ no KOL campaigns
▸ no insider allocations
one needed paid shills to survive. the other grew because people actually used it.
product vs marketing. the market always figures out which is which.
the scariest number here isn't any single balance
it's that 65+ is LOWER than 55-64
that means people are withdrawing in retirement faster than it grows
they saved for 40 years and the money started running out immediately
the 401k was never a retirement plan. it was a hope-you-die-before-it-runs-out plan.
9M barrels/day is half of what flows through Hormuz (17.8M bpd)
for context:
▸ OPEC+ just added 206K bpd — that covers 2.3% of the drop
▸ Saudi pipeline at max capacity: 7M bpd — still not enough
▸ global spare capacity: ~3.5M bpd
the math doesn't work. 9M offline can't be replaced.
oil stays above $100 until Hormuz reopens. everything else is noise.
@Jeremybtc salary up 72%
home prices up 138%
S&P 500 up 530%
gold up 580%
BTC up ∞%
the lesson: your income is a tool. assets are the game.
the people who understood this in 2003 retired. the people who didn't are still renting.
BlackRock activity this cycle:
▸ deposited $181M to Coinbase Prime last week (selling fears)
▸ received $236M back this week
they weren't selling. they were rebalancing.
CT saw the deposit and panicked. CT won't see the receipt and correct themselves.
this is why tracking flows matters more than reading headlines.
358 SOL saved per day in fees across the network
that's ~$28.5K/day at current prices
~$10.4M/year in value that stays with users instead of validators
and that's at current volume. scale back to 200M+ daily txs from the peak and the savings double
this is the kind of infrastructure upgrade that doesn't pump the price tomorrow but changes the cost structure permanently