Crypto isn’t just a market. It’s a mirror.
It reflects who you are - your greed, your fear, your patience, your impulsiveness. The candles rise and fall, but the real volatility lives in your mind.
You enter this space for profit. Everyone does at first. But those who last long enough? They stay for something else.
They stay for Freedom.
Because after a while, it’s not just about making money. It’s about not being at the mercy of a system you didn’t choose. It’s about reclaiming time, agency, ownership. It’s about turning curiosity into conviction, and conviction into capital.
You lose a lot in this game. Not just money. You lose friends who can’t understand your obsession. You lose sleep, routines, sometimes sanity. But you gain something rare: the ability to think for yourself. To ride uncertainty instead of running from it. To live without guarantees.
Most people want certainty. Crypto people chase clarity.
The charts don’t owe you anything. But if you keep showing up - if you really learn - this space will teach you more about life than any classroom ever could.
It will teach you how to lose with grace. How to win with humility. How to zoom out when everything screams panic. And how to bet on yourself when no one else will.
And one day, after all the drawdowns and disbelief - after the “this time it’s different” crashes and the quiet conviction builds - you’ll realize:
You didn’t just survive.
You transformed 🕊️
(RT if you made it till the end)
Gm lads -
Today is the third birthday of @thedailydegenhq :)
As many of you know, I started The Daily Degen back during the depths of the $LUNA insanity in late May 2022, just a week or two after it and $UST had crashed to zero...
At that point crypto seemed dead and gone, and the TL was completely filled with miserable old tradfi curmudgeons celebrating the apparent demise of the industry...
I remained convinced crypto would one day take over though... and wanted a way to force myself to stay locked-in throughout what was clearly going to be a long bear market... and thus I created @thedailydegenhq to do that.
We have been pumping out daily issues ever since - and I am very proud to say we have not missed a single day since its inception over 1000 issues ago 💪
When I say "we", by the way, I mean me and Frog - the editor... and Frog is just my alter-ego, so I actually just mean 'me' :)
I had so many partners and employees and other stuff in past endeavors that when I jumped into crypto fulltime I decided I just wanted to do things as a lone wolf, as it were, and that is what I have done.
Sometimes people will ask me why I don't hire someone to do The Daily Degen each day, or set it up so AI does all of it, but to be honest that would kind of defeat the point.
I really enjoy doing it, and again- it forces me to stay locked-in, and I think I have unequivocally become a far better investor from doing it these last three years, and forcing myself to really get deep in the weeds day after day after day, and build my pattern recognition skills, and boost my crypto Wisdom score, as it were.
I usually put each daily issue together early in the morning when its still dark out, in my screened-lanai thing, poolside under the stars, interspersed with weightlifting, or while listening to podcasts, or just ruminating on life :)
It is very meditative, and I enjoy it immensely.
I am very proud of it too, and if you haven't read it in awhile I'd encourage you to check it out, as it is more robust than ever.
Currently we provide, every single day:
-15 or so charts and data points
-1-5 new projects
-12 embedded tweets of news/alfa/analysis/etc
-2-7 embedded videos
-And a bunch of other stuff
We have accumulated over 7.5M views in its three year history, and currently generate around 250,000 per month (around 7-8k per day).
I get emails from a lot of our readers, and interestingly many aren't on CT at all... which is always a sober reminder that there's an entire world of crypto out there that is 100% separate from the moment to moment insanity on here :)
But yeah... Massive, massive thanks to you if you are a reader of it... if you RT or 'like' it or share it with friends... or if you are one of the countless friends of mine who has helped support it over the years...
And massive thanks to our current Official Sponsor @upshift_fi (check them out for some of the best yields in all of defi!), our past sponsors, and the other projects that have worked with us over the last three years as well...
"How long will do you do The Daily Degen, Rekt?"
I get asked this quite a bit as well, and the answer is that I will probably do it for however long I choose to keep making crypto my main focus in life.
I did many things before crypto, and plan to do many things after it...
But for the time being, while I am here, and while this fascinating cambrian explosion of permissionless on-chain finance and the death of boomer-fiatdom continues, I will most likely keep doing The Daily Degen, and of course doing this account as well, as I enjoy both very much, and consider them each a monumental honor.
I really enjoy crypto immensely, and enjoy social media immensely as well, and feel eminently blessed to get after it with ya'll day after day on here 💪
Here's to a massive bull market ahead of of us friends, and much good trench-maxxing to come 🫡
Somewhere in a parallel universe..
☁️☁️☁️☁️
You get up early at 05:30, because you got in bed early last night
Bring the kids to school and jump back into your Toyata
Ugh, the radio channel is talking politics. You change it to a channel which is just playing a Black Keys classic
You have a semi-relaxed day at work and manage to get a lot done
In the lunchbreak, you check your account and see the automatic DCA into VWCE happened. You're up a nice amount! You start thinking where you want to take the family for the next vacation.
During the drive home, you think about your boss. He was kinda annoying today, but you shrug it off. Not worth your energy.
At home, your kids run to hug you, the dog is barking happily and your wife seems happy. You feel relaxed.
After dinner, you go sit behind your computer. You barely use it, so you have trouble remembering the password. After remembering, you check a few holiday destinations and close off the pc.
At 21:00, it's bed time. You and your wife go to bed at the same time, have some good quality time and talks and go to sleep.
☁️☁️☁️☁️
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but you decided to trade coins to "escape the 9-5"
Got in on $gitsol. Basically you upload github repositories url and it helps you review it.
May help you filter out all the larp repositories and protect your precious chips while you're trenching 🫡
$LLM is the first instance of coin going 10x in 1h // 100x in 3h // 1000x in 24h.
No single holder bought >2% after dev jeeted his share in early minutes. Price ran up too fast for others to corner supply unless you dared to size at ~$10m. Perfect ingredients for a runner.
The faster she runs, the faster she loses weight.
Let her cook.
Can personally vouch for this chad, and I’m sure many can too.
Hardest damn worker in the trenches, not even close.
What happened with $llm was a true miracle and confluence of - organic meme, greedy men playing themselves and a rising discontent against the ai16z cabal with their you can’t win unless we win more mentality.
@johanonberg called this at pre-bonding like he always does, saying it was funny. Group chuckled at it, thinking that it probably dies off within the hour. There was no cabal/bundle or whatever shenanigans that are accompanied by ai16z launches. In fact I watched the dev wallet dumped his holding live!
Next thing I know, thanks to Shaw, $llm ascended to become more than a meme. It became a giant middle finger to the devs who have been farming trenchers.
Yes, they are godtier devs but acting as if they are godsend to save us from AGI is getting a bit tiresome. Today’s events also served to reinforce this point. Not enough money? Simply repackage to a new ticker.
In any case, if you weren’t following these events at all, just know:
$llm is just a pure meme.
There are no devs to rug you.
In fact the supply % is probably the most egalitarian.
It lives and dies purely on attention.
It has gained a purpose thanks to greedy devs.
It has a strong CTO lead in @johanonberg who is churning out the best content on crypto twitter right now.
Let her eat.