People make stupid arguments like this all the time. Let me dumb this down for people that get confused by statements like this person made.
Imagine 10,000 pairs of a rare shoe exist and they originally sell for $200 a pair. Then suddenly everybody wants them, but most owners refuse to sell because they want to keep them.
With very few pairs available, buyers start offering more and more until the going price reaches $20,000 a pair. Now those 10,000 pairs are technically worth $200 million at the current market price.
Does that mean $200 million was actually spent buying the shoes?
No.
Only the pairs that actually changed hands were purchased. The rest were simply repriced based on what buyers were willing to pay for the limited number available.
Now change those shoes to a utility. Think of rare earth minerals. Gold. Oil. Etc. Repricing does not happen because they suddenly put trillions more back in. It happens from demand and the limit of supply.
That’s the basic idea behind market cap with something like XRP. A higher market cap does not mean that same amount of money had to flow into the asset.
This is why Crypto is pumping.
The CFTC and SEC set the rules for institutional capital to move on chain.
US sellers are about to realize the Clarity Act isn't the end all be all.
The rest of the World and the US regulatory bodies are pushing ahead with the tokenization of the entire financial system.
THE MOON IS IN SCORPIO 👇🏻
Libra spent the last stretch trying to keep it even, pretty, and fair.
Scorpio walked in and asked what you’re actually protecting.
Waxing crescent. Still a sliver. Still growing. Already not playing.
This moon doesn’t want the version you show at dinner. It wants the motive. The buried receipt. The thing you only admit when nobody’s watching.
You either go all the way into what you started after the new moon
or you keep rearranging the surface and calling it peace.
Scorpio doesn’t do half-measures.
It just doesn’t leave anything unexamined.
It leaves Wednesday the 16th at 12:41 PM East Coast Time
Then Sagittarius takes the wheel.
Feel it while it’s here. Then decide.☝🏻
No more zero sum games. We can ALL win. Competition is supposed to push us toward growth, not convince us that someone else has to lose for us to succeed. You didn’t fail because you didn’t come first. And someone else winning doesn’t mean there’s less available for you.
Copium is thinking you need some specific diet to be spiritual. Diet & fasting can absolutely support certain practices, but they are not prerequisites for spiritual depth. Jesus fasted, but he also ate food, attended feasts, drank wine, & ate fish. Buddha had meat & Muhammad too
I knew a man who lost everything and he became softer. i knew another man who lost everything and he became a monster. same fire different metal. the pain did not decide. they decided. and most people do not know they are deciding.
the ones who transmute pain are dangerous in the good way. they have been somewhere you have not been and they came back with something and you can feel it when they walk into a room. they are not pretending to be okay. they are actually okay and that is terrifying to people who are pretending.
pain that is not transmuted gets transmitted. you will give it to your children. you will give it to everyone you touch. it will leak out of you sideways in ways you cannot see and everyone else can
i do not trust people who have not suffered. there is nothing there yet. they are still theoretical. suffering is the entrance exam and some people fail it forever and some people pass it once and become real.
the secret is you have to go toward it. you have to want it more than it wants you. most people run and the pain follows. the ones who turn around and walk into it come out the other side and there is another side and no one told you because the ones who know cannot explain and the ones who explain do not know.
God buries the gold in the wound
Posting this ^ as I’m approaching the halfway point of my medical training, staring at another 2 years to finish the MD, and 3-5 more in residency before I get to practice on my own. I’ve been in school for a total of ~ 18 years, and I’m 26. Thats double the time I’ve spent learning the art of DJing and music production, and I will be the first to tell you I’m not near the level of excellence I know exists in either, but if I’ve learned anything so far is that it’s so worth not giving up, and just getting started will always be the best thing to look back on.
A misconception a lot of people seem to have, including myself in the past, is that there’s a way around putting in the hours. Some stuff you can spam and be decent at, but that is pretty much never the case when you’re talking about true excellence. Put yourself around masters as often as possible, recognize the levels so you can start playing the game and find your own unique flow. Need to think in decades at minimum, society sells us the idea of a fast pass, and it’s a lie I’d rather not perpetuate. “Don’t be scared of the time it takes, be deathly afraid of what time will feel like if you never start.” Is some of the realest shit I’ve ever heard.
Heads up! People want a fight today. The news feels very black & white.
My advice? Don't accept a story at face value.
The world is tempting you to die on some hill but there are so many unanswered questions. Take your time at work and in love. You can wait before locking in.