Nick

Contributor of @PudgyAsia | Leader of the @peakypudgys | Previously 💼 @pudgypenguins

[Nick @nicrypt20]

Two words - PUDGY SONGKRAN 🔥💦🐧

Months of planning went into curating this epic 3-day event in Bangkok, and @heynat and @bbbbammee have outdone themselves 🤝

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@yvette @marcellovtv @pudgypenguins

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@Daniel_Ong @Parafinas1 @unipegv4

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@0xDollas @_ck007 🦄

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Nothing but love for these people 🫰🏻

[yvette🐧 @yvette]

friendships that age like fine wine🍷

📍 @ClanandCompany 🇭🇰
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@yvette @ClanandCompany @defnothikariii @DegenDen_eth @PudgyHK @pudgypenguins @LilPudgys Hong Kong always feels like home because of these pengs ❤️

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[pp 🐧 @ppmcghee]

Meet @DohkoNFT

He's been collecting Pudgy Penguins since November, and his goal is to own 100 of the rarest penguins. He's been on a spree lately with some huge grail snags.

He's a collector every penguin should be following.

He wants to give Lil Pudgy #10129 away to a lucky new follower. Make sure you're following him and RT to enter.

Chad.

[yvette🐧 @yvette]

my 2026 daily affirmation is:
i'm a @nicrypt20 approved human 🧢

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@InTheMed @yvette Yvette gets auto approved every single time 🥰

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@pudgypenguins @SphereVegas

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@PudgySook Happy birthday Noona! 🥰

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@Hedgeguin @ppmcghee @LucaNetz @pudgypenguins Now this is bullish, my bags are vaulted with Hedge joining the team 🫡

[Pudgy Penguins @pudgypenguins]

Pudgy Penguins X Kung Fu Panda

Pudgy Penguins is bringing Pengu into the world of Po, Master Shifu, and Grand Master Oogway from @Dreamworks Animation's Kung Fu Panda.

More information to come soon.

[Nick @nicrypt20]

@Backspace_EX @PudgyHK @PudgyCanada @PudgyKorea @PudgyTaiwan @PudgyAsia @pudgypenguins @Spiffy_Penguin @PudgySook @LittleWenZ @defnothikariii @pudgyjohn @DegenDen_eth @yvette I’ll await for my leader @yvette’s instructions 🫡

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@Backspace_EX @PudgyHK @PudgyCanada @PudgyKorea @PudgyTaiwan @PudgyAsia @pudgypenguins @Spiffy_Penguin @PudgySook @LittleWenZ @defnothikariii @pudgyjohn @DegenDen_eth @yvette During Songkran? 👀

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Just Registered for the @MacroStrategy__ airdrop
#MacroStrategy

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[Cobie @cobie]

When ppl claim this I always wonder how they think it happens, or have unrealistic expectations on how much $1bn actually is.

I joined crypto with $200. If I held my initial bitcoin since then and never traded, I would have ~$300k.

If, instead, from that moment I sold the top and bought the bottom of every crypto cycle on Bitcoin, and never paid any taxes, I would have ~$6m USD.

If I put my entire net worth into the Ethereum ICO and never touched it, today I would have ~$150m pre-tax.

While it was definitely possible to have made >$1bn with the opportunities in the market, these versions of reality would also require me to make no mistakes, and have no need to spend $ in real life, or take excessive risk via leverage.

In reality, I grew up in a working class family. I didn’t have a trust fund and I had to pay off my student loan myself. I had a job at Tescos while at high school. After university, I needed to pay rent and fund cost of living and eventually buy a place to live.

I worked at startups for relatively little $ salary, and while a couple have done okay, they still are illiquid and worth nothing until some exit.

Perhaps if I erase a couple of dumb mistakes and drawdowns, or if I had a lil more grind, then my answer would be different today. But it is easy to say this with perfect hindsight vision. It’s easy to see where you could have optimised better, and decisions you made look dumb when the past makes things so obvious.

The truth is I have always optimised for enjoying my life and not going to 0. I never felt like I had a safety net, so it was never possible for me to do anything in any other way. I would probably have less money if I had tried to add more risk or chased $ harder, because being all-in with your entire livelihood is a mental battle and I feel I only win that battle when the stakes are lower.

In writing this, maybe I do understand why CT folks believe this, because modern CT sees crypto as a late-stage lottery ticket farm, where the optimal strategy is to 5x leverage up your portfolio in a hope of catching a good 20% move and then leaving. Or, literally going all-in on the next coin they heard Ansem is buying. So perhaps to them, looking back at the charts, of course that’s what successful folks did.

In reality, I use leverage close to never (and typically to reduce risk rather than add risk — have used it to add risk maybe 3 times in the last 5 years, and maybe 15 times ever). I never go all-in on anything, have only ever done that on BTC and ETH before in the last decade. When I buy other things, I limit risk to tiny amounts, because I treat it as a 0 until proven otherwise (so, always <1% liquid portfolio). Liquid portfolio is also a smaller % of overall portfolio to future-proof against my own fuckups.

Obviously I made a lot of money, I have been here 12 years! CT doesn’t want to hear about “getting rich in a decade” though. I am happy with where I am and have never really cared or optimised for maximising $ earnings, but instead having a nice life that lets me enjoy the game we play together.

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@SHL_eth @pudgypenguins Big 🤝

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@YoPierreNFT @YoPierrette Congratulations! The two of you look beautiful together ❤️

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@_jreynolds999 @Tytaninc Allez bro 👊