This has no expiry date.
You'll be heartbroken as incredible narratives continue to get trounced by the Old Guard.
Cryptocurrency has already been solved.
I will toss The Graveyard of Rekt™ a bone today.
Full Disclosure: I own sizable $GOOG stonk under the USD Umbrella of The Holy Trinity BTC • ETH • USD
NEVER Google crypto anything.
Sponsored scam links have been around for a LOOOONG time. They're still the most durable attack vector in crypto.
But don't flatter yourself, crypto is niche. This extends far beyond that.
It's a cat-and-mouse game like any other security exploit.
It's called "Ad Cloaking".
Exploiters show clean content to Google's review systems (a snapshot in time), but what's served to you, the user, is the fake/scam page instead. There's an entire black market for these services.
Some exploits are more sophisticated: a perfect 1:1 clone of popular frontends paired with a Connect Wallet button that will drain you. No hardware wallet will save you because YOU approved it.
Any advertiser can turn malicious at any time. Google cannot possibly re-scan and monitor every single ad on earth, after the fact.
When Google closes one loophole, the exploiters find another.
Google verifies advertisers, sure, but it doesn't matter when:
- Legit accounts with clean history get exploited to post scams
- Legit accounts sell access to their own accounts
- Large agencies have sub-accounts that go rogue
- Exploiters set up shell companies with the intent to scam
- Exploiters dodge category restrictions. Google has official "Crypto Certification" for Crypto Ads, but exploiters claim to advertise "software" thus bypassing the more stringent certification
It's further exacerbated by:
- Burner domains
- Thousands of stolen credit card numbers
- Offshore hosting providers
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A scam link only needs to be live for a short period to make it profitable, which is why Ad Cloaking is so durable.
Google cannot preemptively know or keep a database on all "legit" links for the entire world. That's ridiculous.
Only in the crypto industry are .xyz .vip .io .wtf .co .org .net .finance .ai all valid. The gold standard of .com is actually quite rare.
How can YOU possibly know if it's https://t.co/MGWEYcdrqE https://t.co/a5nR3XiM6S https://t.co/x6DTjZLx5J https://t.co/hPqtsEKyHN https://t.co/aBsdLV9Jkt?
You can't, especially as a noob.
Further: how can Google know that https://t.co/jzkNiAU1Sz is the legit link, and not https://t.co/MGWEYcdrqE? Traffic and other web signals can all be gamed. There is history, sure, but multiply that against the entire world, over every company, in every language, and you will see it's unfeasible.
Further still: companies change their domain, companies have regional domains, companies have multiple domains (https://t.co/iYbUJPiPeY + https://t.co/MjkHjp5RXE), what then?
The solutions are less clear:
✦ Google bans new domains ➝ affects every startup on earth
✦ Google makes brands whitelist their own domains ➝ only companies with a legal team/budget get to advertise. Proving you own a brand isn't filling out a simple form. It's a legal journey which costs money, can take months, and is per-jurisdiction.
✦ Google re-reviews the page every time it changes ➝ not feasible. Also affects everybody because normal sites change hourly/daily/weekly/monthly.
✦ Google bans every sketchy TLD ➝ majority of crypto sites would be affected since they don't own .com. It also means only .com can participate (wealthier folk who can afford to purchase the premium domain)
If you recall, Google DID ban all crypto ads outright in 2018. Twitter and Facebook did as well. It worked, but it torched every legit crypto company in the process. They have since relaxed their policies and reintroduced it, while still prohibiting things like ICOs, loans, and DeFi Protocols.
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❌ Other Pitfalls:
✦ You should NOT trust any search engine for crypto related things. Even official Twitter accounts get exploited all the time, see my post here: XXX
✦ You should NOT trust aggregators of truthful links either, because a single point of failure of that database can destroy you. If anything, you can use the aggregator as a cross-reference point.
✦ Both @coingecko and @CoinMarketCap have posted honeypot contract addresses before, so keep that in mind.
✦ The only way to verify legit links is by doing your own due diligence, and cross-referencing against multiple sources.
✅ Solution:
0. Don't rely on others to do this for you.
1. Keep a Master List for official links on a dedicated device.
2. Bookmark official links in two dedicated Browsers (better is a dedicated device) whose sole job is to bookmark official links. It makes reference simple, and is a redundancy step in case you remove a bookmark from one of them.
Then, also bookmark the official links in your active browser (the third).
3. Keep a physical notepad and write down your Master List. This step will be tedious so you can update your physical notepad at regular intervals instead. Paper can't be swapped remotely by malware, which is the point.
4. If you limit your shitcoinery, you will seldom have any need to visit "new links". You will also be much wealthier. I easily memorized all the links I actually use on a regular basis, which aren't that many at all.
It -used- to be considered a great humiliation to be caught trading $1,000,000 market cap shitters. It was something men kept private, lest their reputation disintegrated into nothingness.
I'm not suggesting people succumb to social consensus--I myself seized Reapers a la CoinExchange / Mercatox / Cryptopia. I'm telling you the Zeitgest of times past and what it means for you today.
Things aren't looking good. The "humiliation" market cap tiers have dropped precipitously.
There are Tik Tok traders, live stream traders, and even full-time beggars now. There are 1.6M follower VC accounts shilling $46K market caps.
Saturation.
The towel cannot absorb the excess water.
Everyone wants a piece of the pie--but the pie can't be divided into slices. The pie comes whole and must be distributed to one person.
The onchain data matches and is clear: the vast majority of you are beyond Rekt. Your life would have been infinitely more joyous, more fulfilling, had you never set foot in crypto.
Something went very wrong in your investment journey for you to end up on Solana or L2 in 2026, and trading "memecoins" in 2026. That's 17 years after Bitcoin launched.
You are the laggard, but too arrogant to notice.
Not even your Solana founders want to hold Solana. Not even your launchpad founders want to hold Solana.
They're exiting while you're entering.
Vitalik literally gave y'all the clothes you wear, as a side quest.
Had Vitalik murdered $SHIB when he had the chance, there is argument that "memecoins" as a trend would have died in the 2021 cycle.
Had Vitalik not marked the Solana bottom with dual parachute tweets, what then?
This is crypto's version of Woke Left Suicidal Empathy.
Look around: the sharks from previous cycles are long gone. There's nothing left to do once you graduate into The Holy Trinity of BTC • ETH • USD
And you may think, "me next!" But is that true?
The sharks aren't REALLY gone. They're still here because their capital is still here--concentrated into BTC • ETH • USD. This matters greatly because their position constricts around yours, even whilst they do nothing at all--because they hold the end game assets.
If you're ever unsure on "what to do", do nothing.
USD is a position. And continue accumulating from outside sources. You don't HAVE to take action. You can sit still while everybody else moves--most of them will die.
Reminder: every hack, rug, scam, exploit, or success story in crypto is an indirect or direct pump for BTC • ETH • USD.
A whole new meaning to "schizo dev".
There's a non-zero chance this was an inside job. Canada produces some of the biggest scammers in crypto, after all.
The "good" ones all LEAVE Canada (Vitalik, CZ) because it's a hostile nation to build crypto anything.
Skill Issue.
Let me remind CT that there are a great many who made no attempts to be clever.
They still hold their Bitcoin today.
But not you. You're Rekt™
Value never disappears. The Rekt™ is siphoned back to The Holy Trinity of BTC • ETH • USD every time. It's an indirect pump, bolstering the raw power of The Holy Trinity.
One exploiter, or a small team of exploiters, is objectively less sell pressure on Bitcoin than 10,000 individual users with their own hopes, dreams, and aspirations.
That's some more ugly truth nobody wants to confront.
YOU'RE A MAN. ACT LIKE ONE.
Take control of your own destiny instead of deepthroating KOLs and companies who lead you astray.
Information is free.
Coldcard had zero penetration even at THEIR PEAK, they're a LITERAL WHO in crypto.
You're that donkey who found some Github repo with 15 Stars and bet your net worth on it (we'll ignore botted stars). You also use Desktop Linux thinking you're elite.
Remain a greenhorn, or do something about it.
Nobody wants to hear the truth. It's ugly. And people like to commiserate together.
Coldcard victims are simply weaker investors compared to everybody else.
Cryptocurrency is dangerous. It was unbridled hubris to stand against security best practices, and secondly, to beta test LITERAL WHO products.
Information is free and people chose to be clever instead.
Now they're Rekt™
This is NOT hindsight commentary. All my posts come with timestamps.
No REAL "Bitcoiner" got cucked. It was Newfag Central. You can see it onchain.
Did I (or anybody I know) get caught in this Coldcard exploit?
No.
Not even a dual RNG flaw in Ledger & Trezor can gotcha me.
What I consider a "hot wallet" is actually more secure than some of your "cold wallets".
You're also foolish if you believe Zachxbt's advice that an iPhone is superior to a hardware wallet, in light of this news.
I'm not here to punch down, but I will shine a light upon your arrogance.
Any time Crypto gets Rekt™, everybody acts surprised. Then, everybody hops on the trend with a post mortem, 20/20 hindsight, on things to do and not to do--only to get exploited again next week.
Rinse and repeat.
Bitcoin is 17 years old. If you haven't figured it out by now, and still have not "made it", a moment of introspection is warranted. Now.
The weakest common denominator is you. You think you're clever, but you're not. You make all these "moves" and still have nothing to show for it 17 years later.
Mayhaps, you should heed reason from those who stood in your very shoes. And not only survived, but succeeded. And not only succeeded, but kept it. And not only kept it, but held it so close to their chest that they're reticent to share things with you at all.
They have no referral links to shill you.
They FUD their own bags for fun because, why not?
Heck, I heard a rumor they barely even mention their own projects.
At odd times, you may catch them on a good day and hear something. Something to consider.
In a just world, there'd exist Divine Justice from the Gods, but the reality is grim:
There is no such thing as "tainted" crypto. It's a transient state.
In the hands of a skilled party, all crypto can be whitewashed anew. Nearly all your favorite CEXs are complicit in one manner or another.
Some of you forget that Bitcoin's earliest adoption came from crime and illicit dealings. There are parties that elude even @chainalysis@trmlabs@elliptic combined.
Tracked wallets can sit for as long as required (forever) to be laundered at the exploiter's leisure--if they're skilled enough.
"KYC" is a humiliation ritual only for regular folk. It's an "optional" thing for bad actors and does little to prevent laundering.
Instead of feeling sorry yourself, you should seek to level up your competence in this maximum PVP Arena.
Come back stronger. Now.
Start by unfollowing everybody who shilled you this literal who coldcard slop. Nobody wants to read some 50 page post-mortem, or apology.
Follow those who suggested things you should have done PREEMPTIVELY, so that you sleep like a baby while coldcard dead bodies stack at your feet.
The money is gone, forget it. If any of it returns to you, fine. But the constant worry and anxiety will severely hinder your next steps to rebuild because you are forever attached to your "Previous ATH".
It's not yours. Not anymore.
This is the risk you must pay for decentralization. And, price up.
The new gen Monero bagholders are insufferable.
They think they're clever but they're actually down horrendous sitting out two bull cycles.
They shill Monero like some fifteenth chance to "make it". But they won't. Because they're horrible investors.
@Ledger and @COLDCARDwallet are nothing alike.
You can read my posts; you're not worthy of a tailored post.
How about a friendly $10K escrow bet instead? Since you're so confident. The last Monero cuck ran away and blocked me, btw.
You're a full-time donkey and still know nothing about Monero, let alone crypto.
The advice you give is dangerous.
Dump your remaining $avlt now, these are AI generated photos from @alturax@ranveerar89
Whilst every jurisdiction is unique, their banking "story" is extremely sketchy from my own experience as a HNWI.
There's no muh "entirely outside of our control" situation. A business with locked funds does not casually wait for a response from the bank--their legal team would be aggressively pursuing it through the courts.
i) Emergency Interim Injunction
ii) Legal Virements
iii) Exclusion Order
Instead, Altura is diverting all the blame to "their bank" when they do have legal recourse at their disposal, right now.
>"In the meantime, we will be temporarily pausing the community chats due to our limited team capacity."
lol lmao even.
Children can run entire Roblox servers, let alone grown ass men running a Community Chat. Altura paused it to silence criticism.
Just a future warning to y'all:
There is no "Hyperliquid Ecosystem", there is Hyperliquid (the perp dex) and the lemmings on the side. Its success depends on a continuous stream of dead bodies getting destroyed trading to generate revenue, forever. And contingent upon maintaining its "NO KYC" status appeal.
There will be many vultures on the sidelines riding the coattails of an "ecosystem success story" preying on the Hyperliquid Maxi who sees things that are not there, in a misguided belief that it will drive value back to the $hype coin.
All of crypto is subservient to The Holy Trinity of BTC • ETH • USD
>"If i was running a publicly traded company for a day, I'm hiring straight from the ghetto."
Long term winners self-eliminate into BTC • ETH • USD and move on to other things.
Not to discourage people trying to build things, but @ethermail_io has a token called $EMT that's currently destroyed by -99.9%
Right now there is Blockscan Chat made by the @etherscan team. It's FREE to use with no token attached. They have iOS and Android apps too.
Etherscan has a long standing reputation: they more than likely will continue maintaining their app, rather than abandon it. And, they are a battle tested team.
I bring this forward because a lot of men get obliterated in these sticky traps, even when the founders may (or may not) have good intentions. It simply comes down to economics.
There are differences between the @evmdotchat proposal (they don't exist yet) and EtherMail, however, I see no difference in their price chart after the hype evaporates. Which is really what y'all care about.
"Network Effect" can't be toppled no matter how much glue you apply.
Web3 Social Media (and their tokens) got annihilated cycle after cycle.
Most of you don't remember Steemit or Hive. How about Uptrennd?
How did those fare?
At comedic tier, you can have a wildly successful product and none of that value makes it home to the token. Because there is no need for one at all, really.
If Etherscan struggles to gain traction with Blockscan Chat, I don't see an optimistic future for everyone else.
@SpaceXAI@Starlink@vladtenev The @bankrbot Twitter Account is hacked and posting fake airdrop links.
Muh passkey.
Our users can verify suspicious announcements against our Hierarchy of Truth.
https://t.co/RzYGRt6NJq
Impatience, greed, arrogance.
Mayhaps you're not as clever as you believe.
I'm feeling optimistic we will unite in the future with you as my meat shield.
Let us see who The Gods favor.
Irresponsible shill post. People are going to get Rekt™
How does this have 200K views?
LP is NOT passive income nor is it "easy money".
It's Active Management with high risk, and a hidden tail of annihilation when your shitcoin gets vaporized.
"Memes" are already the highest risk plays in crypto. And then you want to stack additional LP risk on top of existing risk.
Fascinating thesis.
1) One-Sided LP is NOT "very safe".
It’s a Limit Order Ladder in disguise.
Put SOL below market and you automate bids into the falling knife (buying the loser).
Put the meme above market and you automate sales into the pump (selling the winner and capping your exposure).
2) LP is complex.
People struggle with key management and get Rekt on the daily. They click fake links. They don't even understand what they're signing on their hardware wallet.
Adding multiple LP variables while arbitrageurs trade against your liquidity whenever it lags the broader market is foolish.
3) Muh yield seems great until the Donkey Shitter nukes -95%.
Do you think your Donkey Shitter will fare better than SHIB?
SHIB is down -95% from ATH today.
People fail to understand that "the pump" in crypto happens within a tiny number of days in an entire cycle. If you miss that window of opportunity, you're screwed. Pareto will hunt you.
The notion of "regular profits" is a delusion.
Crypto is actually: nothing, nothing, something.
But people want it to be: something, a lot of things, everything.
4) If you think the price of an asset will violently moon, just buy that asset.
Don't try to be "cute" by splitting your purchasing power.
Donkey.
DeFi Summer already happened. Plenty of LPs got destroyed vs simply holding spot.
If you think Bitcoin is going to rip, do you reduce your Bitcoin exposure? Do you try to get cute with the ranges, if this, if that, if maybe?
No.
Do you sell Bitcoin as it's violently mooning?
No.
Because that's what you're doing with two-sided LP. You effectively rebalance out of the winner. You trade AGAINST momentum.
I use Bitcoin as an example to highlight the absurdity. For some reason when it comes to the bottom distribution, blinders are applied.
There's no need to get into IL and LVR specifics, the market has spoken many times.
@SpaceXAI@Starlink Robinhood's CEO @vladtenev Twitter account was hacked and used to post yet another crypto rugpull.
And you think your shitcoins are safe?
"The industry" has no plan.
We do.
Hierarchy of Truth.
https://t.co/qBsXi83i3R