I've been thinking about this lately, and maybe I'm completely wrong, but hear me out
Richard always said that only the people with real diamond hands, the true believers, would be the ones who become wealthy on this chain
Now look at what's happening
Many of the biggest influencers, early whales, and loudest community members seem to be selling, stepping away, or slowly disappearing, the same people everyone assumed would be there until the end are losing conviction
What if that's exactly what was supposed to happen
What if this phase is meant to shake out everyone who's here for quick gains, social validation, or easy money
Every major market cycle reaches a point where sentiment is at its absolute lowest, people stop believing, timelines become negative, influencers move on to the next narrative, and only a small group keeps accumulating and holding despite the fear
If Richard really wanted to reward conviction instead of hype, wouldn't the strongest holders have to be identified first
Maybe the goal was never to make everyone rich at the same time
Maybe the goal was to make sure that, when the real move finally happens, the supply is in the hands of people who refused to quit while everyone else gave up
The biggest God candles rarely come when everyone is bullish, they usually come after maximum doubt, maximum boredom, and maximum capitulation
Maybe this is exactly the stage Richard always talked about, where only the people who truly understand the vision remain, while everyone else voluntarily exits
Of course, this is just a theory and I could be completely wrong, but if the mission has always been to reward the strongest conviction, then what we're seeing today might not be the failure of the plan, it might actually be the final stage before it begins.
Lets make a more exhaustive list of ways to "get hacked." Many of which I've mentioned before.
Weak RNG:
Use a wallet with a weak RNG (random number generator.) or other vulnerability. Some mobile wallets had this problem, and some vanity address generators had it too.
Someone has a camera watching your screen and you view your seeds.
You google a website and a scam site has done SEO or paid to be at the top of the search results
Fake "support" messages you by direct message, or on socials to help you with your wallet or problem.
Fake support pretends to be the exchange and asks you info they use to login as you and empty you, to "verify your account."
You accidentally leak your seed on a livestream (sounds erotic.)
You put your seed in plain text somewhere, and someone else finds it.
You use a brain wallet with a phrase from a book and people constantly scan the chain for common phrases from books.
You used an L2, and the L2 decided to take your money.
You used an exchange and they decided to take your money.
You used an exchange and they didn't decide to take your money, but got hacked or just exit scammed everyone at once
You installed malware. RAT (remote access trojan). Address replacer, (replaces the address you copied with their address instead of the one you wanted.)
You fell for vanity addresses made to look like one you've sent to in the past, but sent to you more recently, so when you look at the block explorer it looks like a previous legit address, same beginning and end, but the middle is different. People have lost lots of millions to this one recently, heck I think it's the majority of gas use on Ethereum now.
You gave your coins or money to someone else to invest. They lost it / stole it. You fell for a romance scam or pig butchering scam, or AI boss asked me to send money scam or whatever scam of the day is.
You installed an evil browswer extension.
The front end you used got DNS hijacked and now points to an evil dapp.
The X account you follow got hijacked and is now spreading malware links.
You installed an ok browser extension but it got bought by, or exploited by evil and auto updated to evil.
You set too wide a slippage trading on a DEX and got nuked.
The state takes half ur money, cuz, uh, divorce, or whatever reason.
You forget your seed words or don't write them down correctly.
Some guy at the airport security just images your device and decides to empty whatever wallet he finds.
You left a limit order in a wallet with no funds, but then you send funds one day and the stale order fills at a terrible price.
Basically, in computers, physical access defeats most countermeasures, so it's wise to not have any unencrypted seed on any single device in a single place ever.
You approved a dapp's permissions, but then one day the dapp gets evil, often by using an "upgradeable" proxy contract, becuase you never removed the permissions, or overapproved, or jsut shouldn't have ever used a contract wiht an upgradeable proxy ever, anyway.
Oh, yeah, you install malware by doing a job interview, or talking to a reporter, but they're actually just scammers. Devs also fall for this by cloning repo's and installing whatever evil is in them. So the impersonation thing, whether it's for interviews, or investors, or getting hired is a very, very common vector for getting people to install viruses on their machines. People also fall for other kinds of impersonation, people pretending to be their boss, or pretending they need bailed out using AI vids.
You use anything with an admin key.
I could probably think of more, and I've mentioned the majority of these on here before. Feel free to add.
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In 1983, Cliff Young, a 61-year-old potato farmer, showed up in work boots to compete in Australia’s toughest ultramarathon alongside elite athletes. Unaware that competitors were meant to sleep during the race, he kept running continuously. Against all expectations, he won by a margin of 10 hours.
In 1983, Cliff Young, a 61-year-old potato farmer, arrived at the start of the Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon looking entirely out of place. The race, stretching nearly 600 miles across Australia, was typically reserved for elite endurance athletes with specialized training, equipment, and support teams. Cliff turned up in loose overalls and rubber work boots, and most observers assumed he would not even make it through the first day.
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While the favorites stopped to rest, he continued through the night. As the days passed, it became clear he was not just surviving the race—he was leading it. Spectators began lining the route to watch the slow, determined figure pass mile after mile.
After 5 days, 15 hours, and 4 minutes, Cliff Young crossed the finish line in first place, finishing about 10 hours ahead of his nearest competitor and shattering the previous record by nearly two days. When he learned there was prize money, he reportedly gave it away to the other runners, saying they had all worked just as hard.
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Global influencer Andrew Tate, high above the clouds at an altitude of over 15,000 feet, documented a scene and boasted in an unprecedented way.
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He filmed the plane he was traveling on, complete with a fully equipped bathroom, as if he were in a villa on Earth, expressing his success and the luxurious lifestyle he enjoys.
Meanwhile, some see such scenes as pathetic, reflecting the psychological state of those who live in the world of fame and attempting to mask their inner turmoil.
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Those 4 coins all do things that BTC can't.
PulseChain has better potential, better technology, higher throughput, lower fees, is more secure, and is less owned by governments and banks to boot.
HEX did a 10,000x in price in the last 10 years and doesn't make electricity companies and mining hardware manufacturers rich at the cost of the price.
PulseX removes middlemen from trading, its just you and the code.
ProveX uses zero knowledge tech to enable peer 2 peer trading and issue other kinds of proofs.
Better potential, better tech.
I try to get only 3 points across to @elonmusk.
1. Free speech is no replacement for better speech, you must promote what you believe in, at the cost of what the enemy believes in.
2. You must fight back against those trying to destroy you, and that means voting and politics, consistently. You have to directly tell them whom to vote for and why, smart posts alone don't get the job done. And you must do so internationally, because the attacks and those that want to help you win are international as well.
3. You will wish you invested in rejuvenation technology as you age, just like @TonyRobbins did, when I pitched him on his island in Fiji in 2003 or '04. Took him 20 years of decay to believe.
4. I posted to save you on that one mixup with not declaring your total % shares owned and intention regarding twitter, which would have saved you an SEC case had you noticed the tweet. And we have some of the same lawyers. I tried.
I've livestreamed or voiced with @MarioNawfal , @ZubyMusic , @KimDotcom and others that have all livestreamed with @elonmusk, the chance the algo feeds him a useful to him post of mine is quite high. I would have said these things to him personally but for being kicked from chat by Kim as soon as soon as Elon joined the chat voice chat.
Getting Elon to do what is right for himself is a shortcut to the world becoming better for us all. The things you care about might get more reach, the things you hate might become smaller, and when you need medicine, it might be there. It's a high leverage, low time investment strategy.