Everyone wants the part where you make it.
Nobody wants the 12 months in between where nothing happens.
Where the chart goes sideways.
Where your friends ask if you're "still doing that crypto thing."
Where you start to wonder if you were wrong about everything.
That's the part that pays.
Not the moonshot. The waiting.
I almost quit a dozen times in the boring middle.
The only reason I made it is that I was too stubborn to leave.
If I could talk to the version of me who made his first trade, I'd say four things:
- You're going to lose money. It's fine. It's the cost of learning.
- The pump you're chasing isn't the one that matters.
- The patience you don't have yet is the only skill that pays.
- And the person you're so desperate to become,
he's not on the other side of one good trade. He's on the other side of a thousand boring days you're about to live through anyway.
Why @altdotfun could be the breakout HyperEVM product.
It’s given an opportunity for a large dedicated $HYPE holder base to finally be able to trade assets while remaining exposed to $HYPE.
Their mechanism is quite simple - you’re able to launch tokens associated with leveraged positions.
Normally, tokens are paired with stablecoin/major: ASTEROID/ETH, ASTEROID/USDC - this is a great model, however, let’s say ASTEROID stays at 100M, and ETH pumps 50% while ASTEROID stayed flat - if you aped 1E at 100m, you would only have 0.66E.
Pairing coins to leverage positions is a very interesting concept as it allows for asymmetric upside via 2 methods: leverage position, and the coin itself going up.
If HYPE were to pump and a token was paired with 3X HYPE long, the token would also go up 3x, and if the token went up 3x, it would end up being a 9x.
This platform allows for insane trades to be made, uses Hyperliquid’s core concepts and allows for people to still have exposure to HYPE upside while participating in HyperEVM ecosystem.
Overall, I think the reason previous launchpads on HyperEVM have failed is native HYPE holders do not like to trade their HYPE, this allows for them to finally do so.
I genuinely think this product can be one of the largest products we’ve seen in tokens in awhile, and am bullish on $ALT as a token.
If you’re interested in trading on HyperEVM, I highly recommend using BasedBot: https://t.co/LvWn2o1Tpx
There's a cost to making money.
You'll lose money to make money.
There's a cost to learn at every level.
You'll lose $10k to make $100k
You'll lose $100k to make $1M.
You'll lose $1M to make $10M.
If you're afraid to lose, you'll never win.
my full conversation today with @cobie
01:04 offering to work at Coinbase for free
06:05 the K-shape crypto thesis
10:33 thoughts on Saylor
14:39 why UpOnly hasn't come back
22:37 the last 10 years of Crypto
44:52 trillion dollar IPOs
57:02 Cobie's legendary buy wall
1:02:57 top 5 Crypto traders of all time
1:21:20 reasons to be optimistic on Crypto