Mirage 🦾

Web3 ✧ Crypto Enthusiast ✧ DeFi ✧NFT

[0xBabywhale (Prediction arc) 🐳🌐 @0xBabywhale5]

> used @P2Pdotme to take some money off web3 and send to my bet3 acct

6 must show 😂🤌

ohh, I still got 2% cashback🤭🤭

[Mirage 🦾 @freshyofuzz]

I'm in for Monolidy Genesis early access — serial #21556, spot locked.

Invite code: MONO-FRESHYOFUZZ

Onchain inscriptions on Base. https://t.co/jTMgpM5nLv

[Mirage 🦾 @freshyofuzz]

@Monolidy Let's gooooo
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[Mirage 🦾 @freshyofuzz]

Just got into Monolidy Genesis early access — invite code: MONO-FRESHYOFUZZ https://t.co/maiAm1UPzq

[Monolidy @Monolidy]

MONOLIDY://EARLY_ACCESS

config {
registrations : LIVE_24H
chain : BASE
supply : 21M
site : "https://t.co/AImDFJsyoC"
}

website registrations only.

[Monolidy @Monolidy]

MONOLIDY://EARLY_ACCESS

config {
registrations : LIVE_24H
chain : BASE
supply : 21M
site : "https://t.co/AImDFJsyoC"
}

website registrations only.

[Mr. Bash 🥷 @bashorunedward]

Monolidy Genesis early access.
⏰registrations: LIVE for 24H
📺chain : BASE
supply : 21M

-@Monolidy is an Onchain inscriptions on Base.

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Register to secure a spot reserved for launch.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

As someone who partially grew up among European elite kids like him, this reminds me just how incredibly hollow some of them are.

For a quick background, I went to one of the poshest high schools in France (Janson de Sailly, for those who know) and, afterwards, to what was at the time - and probably still is - the most expensive undergraduate school in Europe (EHL in Lausanne, Switzerland).

Needless to say, many of my classmates were from unbelievably privileged backgrounds. Just in my classroom in Lausanne I had the son of a (very famous) Russian oligarch, the son of Italy's largest real estate developer and the son of Spain's largest real estate developer (funnily, the latter two were flat mates).

Another classmate of mine came from the richest family in Naples, Italy and - while we were at school - his father (known in Naples under the nickname "Il Sultano") got arrested for having bribed half of Naples's city council - which, if you know Naples, ought to tell you something.

These were the kids I was doing group projects on business ethics with (literally) 😅

Anyhow, my story, and probably my luck, was that - before going to high school in Paris - I was raised in very normal public schools in the South of France where my friends were anything but wealthy. Their parents were farmers and everyday workers.

Which means - and I'd come to realize this was very important in life - that it was easy for me to understand how big a mistake it is to see money as identity and meaning - and to confuse someone's net worth with their actual worth.

What really struck me at the time was the contrast with my "poor" classmates of earlier in my life. They couldn't define themselves by what they had - by definition - and this forced them to reach deeper for their identity: their skills, knowledge, humor, etc.

Rich kids can skip that entire process, and the tragedy is that most of them do: they reach for the readymade identity that money provides. I remember being incredibly frustrated by many of my classmates, like "ok, I get it, your dad is rich and you own a lot of nice things but who are YOU, what else is there?" The answer, more often than not, was nothing.

To be fair, there were exceptions. One of my classmates I was most impressed by came from one of Zurich's wealthiest families (which, if you know Zurich, means insanely wealthy) yet he was almost OCD in not showing he had money: driving the shittiest car imaginable, living in a small studio, etc. He was very intellectual, very contrarian, and clearly at war with the idea that his family's wealth ought to define who he was.

I only discovered who he actually was when I started my first company and he approached me to invest: to discuss the investment I went to one of his family homes, which it turned out was a literal palatial castle on the shores of Geneva lake. The guy had decided to live in a small rundown studio when he literally had a castle sitting empty a 5-min drive away.

THAT I was impressed by: it's easy to see that money isn't meaning when you don't have any. To see it when you have more than almost anyone - when everyone around you is organized around the opposite assumption - is much harder. But to actually live it, to choose the studio when you have the castle keys in your pockets - with no audience to applaud you for that - that shows real depth.

At the end of the day, I think, the real distinction isn't between rich and poor but between people who exist from the inside out and people who exist from the outside in.

Wealth just happens to make it incredibly easy to be the latter, to skip the work of becoming someone and settle for a borrowed identity that glitters from the outside but is hollow all the way through. A Potemkin village identity.

This is actually a real societal issue, and magnified by social media (with idiotic posts like this one 👇): the more "outside in" folks out there, the less people with genuine internal anchors, the more fragile everything becomes.

When you think about it, everything that genuinely matters in a society is built by people who think for themselves: they take the world in, pass it through something genuinely their own, and give back something that didn't exist before: an idea, a conviction, a stand.

Every reform, every invention, every act of moral courage in history came from someone with an internal anchor strong enough to resist the current. Remove those people and all you have left is the current.

This isn't new, by the way. Most ancient traditions warn against exactly this, from the Bible (the golden calf story) to Confucius, who built his entire ethics around the distinction between the exemplary person (the Junzi, 君子) - oriented around internal cultivation and righteousness - and the petty person (Xiaoren, 小人), oriented around profit and gain. The junzi builds himself from the inside, the xiaoren chases what's outside.

So please, do not make the mistake of being impressed by wealthy people flaunting their wealth. Don't focus on the glitter, focus on the hollowness it's trying to hide.

[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

pay solid attention;

cancer at 50, started at 18
broke at 45, started at 25
being a leader at 44, started at 20
healthy at 45, started at 25
regret at 40, started at 20
rich at 42, started at 22
fit at 55, started at 23
happy at 50, started at 25
successful at 50, started at 23

the future doesn’t arrive suddenly, it compounds daily. choose your starting point wisely. buena suerte 👍

[Project Lobster @lobsternft_lol]

❤️ Huge thanks to our community for your incredible ongoing support! You guys are family.

To show our appreciation, we have two massive perks for the next 7 days on @Element_Market :

1️⃣ We are completely waiving our royalty fees on @Element_Market ! (Royalty-Free)
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The more you trade, the higher your chances. Let's go! 🚀

🔗 Trade here: https://t.co/S24AWuYzsd

[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

unpopular tips that could save your life;

1. if the ice isn’t floating, don’t drink it there is something in that drink.

2. if your room is on the ground floor or a lower level, never sleep with your windows open.

3. if you’re trapped in a falling elevator, lie flat on your back to spread the impact across your body.

4. if you live alone, always leave a small object in a specific spot or a note on a table before leaving. if it’s been moved or is gone when you return, leave the house immediately and call for help.

save, bookmark and share with someone, you might save a life. buena suerte 👍

[Veloria 🌊 @veloriahq]

“𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴.”

— 𝘜𝘮𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘣𝘯 𝘢𝘭-𝘒𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘣

[CLAIM YOUR SHARE $CYS @claimyshare]

TECHNICAL MAINTENANCE COMPLETE.

The platform is now running better than ever.

Performance improved.
Stability improved.
Infrastructure upgraded.

And now the countdown begins.

Only 7 days remain until the end of the claim period.

All users have a total of 10 days to request their $CYS allocation.

After the claim window closes, unclaimed allocations will no longer be available.

Important:

On-chain $CYS withdrawals will become available on June 10.

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[alexei @alexeixbt]

how billionaires are gathering for the f1 weekend in monaco and you're talking about being realistic

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

Monaco no really go far sha for those wey dey dig am too much (for those wey guide o before Una come for me again)

🇲🇨 Monaco vs 🇦🇪 Dubai for the rich:

For Monaco: Freeze €500K+ in a bank (your money, but locked) and you get to live there 90+ days/yr. No income tax so that’s a plus.

Dubai: Buy AED 2M (about $550k) property (you get an appreciating asset you put up for rent and recoup your investment), get 10yr Golden Visa. You OWN an appreciating asset, ZERO days required to stay. No income tax, huge upside.

Cost of living comfortably a month is basically same or very similar, $5k - $10k a month and you can live in comfort.

Monaco makes you prove you’re rich.
Dubai lets you build richer.

I choose the UAE 🇦🇪 ✅

[Project Lobster @lobsternft_lol]

From identity to community. Lobsters assemble. 🦞

The gates are officially open. The Holder Lounge and Whale tank are now live in our Discord.
No paper hands allowed deep in the trenches. Verify your companion now, claim your status, and join the family inside.

🔗 Verify here: https://t.co/wJWjnkdqng

Who’s already in? Show me your verified roles below 👇

[Billy @ethjup2]

gm

[NikoAoi @NikoAoi]

Congrats on the successful launch!

[Project Lobster @lobsternft_lol]

Well, the lobsters are out of the bag early. 🤷‍♂️🦞 Check your wallets, frens!

[Royys🧲 @AneekRoyys]

Builders always Build

2 days ago, after I made my first entry for @adamilenich's pattern retrieval, I realised I could do more.

So, I decided to create an NFT FORENSIC DNA SCANNER, which acts as an instant fraud or factual detector for art claims.

Should be up and running soon