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π§ The real way to get rich in crypto without wasting your life
Most people fail in crypto for a simple reason. They ignore the cost of time. PnL looks great on screenshots, but it means very little if it required living in the trenches 24/7.
Money can be earned back.
Time cannot.
π Time is part of ROI
Most people judge returns only in dollars. That is a mistake. Every trade, farm, or strategy consumes both capital and time. Time is finite, non renewable, and impossible to replace. Ignoring it leads straight to burnout.
Spending weeks staring at charts to make a few thousand dollars is rarely a win.
βοΈ Grinding is not a flex
The common advice sounds logical. If you have no capital, grind harder. Do every task. Farm every airdrop. Spin up more wallets.
In reality, low value repetitive tasks scale badly. They turn airdrops into an unpaid job with no guaranteed payout. When everyone can do the same thing, nobody stands out. Sybils win, not grinders.
β Why most people should not trade
Active trading demands constant attention and emotional energy. Many traders discover that after months of effort, they are down or flat. The real money often starts when they stop trading, hold spot, and wait for a few high quality opportunities.
Lower activity often leads to better outcomes.
π― High time ROI beats high effort
The best opportunities usually require less time, not more.
Set and forget positions.
Providing liquidity instead of clicking tasks.
Contributing meaningfully instead of farming blindly.
The goal is actions that compound without constant supervision.
π Judgment is the real edge
There are endless opportunities. The scarce skill is filtering.
Everyone has different constraints.
Limited time.
Limited capital.
Different goals.
Winning means choosing opportunities that fit your situation, not copying someone elseβs grind.
β Reputation compounds
One of the highest time ROI plays today is building a credible onchain and social footprint. Sharing what you actually do, explaining decisions, and being consistent compounds reputation while you keep exploring.
Reputation attracts opportunities. Grinding chases them.
Crypto rewards those who optimise for time, not those who sacrifice it blindly. Unlimited time makes anyone successful. Real success is doing more with less.
Money comes and goes.
Time does not.
Optimise accordingly.
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| 2 | JUST IN: The SEC has ended its four-year investigation into AAVE, following substantial defense expenditures by AAVE Labs.
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| 3 | π¦ JPMorgan launches an onchain money market fund on Ethereum
J.P. Morgan Asset Management is rolling out MONY, a money market fund operating directly on Ethereum, seeded with $100M of the firmβs own capital before opening to outside investors.
β‘οΈ JPMorgan manages roughly $4T in client assets
β‘οΈ Fund shares are issued and tracked onchain via the Kinexys platform
β‘οΈ Enables faster settlement, continuous issuance, and redemptions
β‘οΈ Maintains a traditional money market focus on liquidity and capital preservation
β‘οΈ Access is limited to large investors with a $1M minimum investment
Large institutions are not starting onchain with risky products.
They are moving the most conservative instruments first, where efficiency gains are immediate.
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| 4 | JUST IN: The White House has established the US Tech Force, creating a specialized team of around 1,000 technologists aimed at speeding up AI integration. The initiative receives support from leading technology firms, including Coinbase.
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| 5 | π Do crypto traders have an edge in equities?
At first glance it feels like crypto traders should dominate equities. Both markets move on price, flows, and psychology. In reality the edge transfers only partially, and the differences matter more than most expect.
π Crypto is a pure narrative market
Crypto trades almost entirely on attention, narrative, price action, charts, and memetic consensus. Fundamentals exist, but rarely dominate. Traders who succeed in crypto are usually very strong in these specific skills.
π Equities are driven by information
Stocks carry real fundamentals. Every 3 months earnings add a large batch of new information that can instantly break a chart or narrative. Valuations, guidance, and expectations matter far more than in crypto.
π± The playing field is much larger
Equities include thousands of names across many sectors. Finding the trade is already a challenge. In crypto, a well curated feed often points directly to what matters. In equities, orientation takes time and bandwidth.
π― You are trading against specialists
A meaningful share of capital is run by sector experts who have covered the same industries for years. They speak with management, run channel checks, and use proprietary data. This creates a natural disadvantage for newcomers.
β What actually transfers from crypto
Skills around attention, narrative shifts, and price action still help. They can offset part of the informational gap, but they do not replace deep fundamental knowledge.
π Market structure is more complex
Equities have many layers of participants and the options market plays a major role. Sector rotation and cross market flows matter far more than in crypto.
π Beta changes the equation
US equities are more forgiving. Passive inflows provide a natural tailwind. Exposure to the S&P 500 is statistically safer than random exposure to crypto.
π¬ The social edge resets
Many crypto traders underestimate how much their success came from networks and information flow. When switching asset classes, that advantage disappears.
Some crypto traders can move into equities and outperform. Many cannot without rebuilding their process. The right move is understanding whether your edge is real alpha or simply beta plus environment. Being honest about that is more valuable than forcing trades.
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| 6 | Stop laughing at kids for believing in Santa.
We know adults who are still waiting for alt szn.
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| 7 | π° The real goal of gambling is not winning. It is staying in the game
At first glance gambling looks like a chase for jackpots. In reality the most successful gambling products are designed to make winning irrelevant. The true objective is to keep the user playing for as long as possible.
Researchers call this state the machine zone. A trance where time, money, and self awareness fade away. Players are not trying to make profits. They are trying to stay inside the loop.
A famous gambler once put it simply. She was not playing to win.
She was playing to keep playing.
β What defines the machine zone
The machine zone first appeared in slot machines.
They allow continuous play with almost no friction. One action immediately leads to the next.
Each cycle is fast. A full loop takes only a few seconds.
Rewards are unpredictable. Near misses trigger stronger urges than losses or wins.
Natural stopping points disappear. There is no end of game, no final round, no forced pause.
Attention collapses into the interface. Time distorts and hours feel like minutes.
The product is not selling money. It is selling absorption.
π± Smartphones made it portable
When casinos were physical locations, exposure was limited. Studies showed people living within 50 miles of a casino had 2x higher problem gambling rates.
Now the casino lives in your pocket.
Smartphones removed distance, time, and effort. Products evolved to minimize the gap between decision and outcome. This pushed speculation closer and closer to the machine zone.
π― Options trading
In the early 2000s options expired monthly. Trades required patience and commitment.
Weekly options appeared in 2005.
Daily expiries arrived in 2022.
Zero day options exploded from 5% of volume in 2016 to 61% by May 2025.
The median retail option went from 4 days to expiry in 2020 to less than 1 day in 2022.
The median holding period today is about 30 minutes.
Waiting vanished. Stopping cues vanished. The loop remained.
βΉοΈββοΈ Sports betting
After legalization in 2018, betting was mostly pre game. One bet. One outcome. Forced waiting.
Then came same game parlays.
Then live betting.
Then micro betting.
By 2023, a football game turned into 3 hours of nonstop decisions. Coin toss. Next play. Next score. Next drive. Odds refresh every 20 seconds.
Football became the perfect second screen product. Enough action to stay engaged. Enough downtime to keep betting.
πͺ Memecoins
Memecoins push the machine zone to its extreme.
Platforms like Pump.fun create dozens of new tokens every minute. No earnings. No fundamentals. No limits. Just sentiment.
One click to buy. Instant charts. Constant new opportunities.
When one token goes to zero, another appears immediately. There are no endings. Only replacement.
βοΈ The outcome
The results are brutal.
93% of options traders lose money.
95% of sports bettors lose money.
98.6% of Pump.fun tokens are worthless.
97% of traders there make less than $1,000.
Yet participation keeps growing.
Because the product is not about profit. It is about staying inside the machine zone. | 2 991 |
| 8 | JUST IN: Bank of America states that U.S. banks are moving toward a multi-year onchain future.
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| 9 | π½ Bitcoin dumped $3,200 from $89.8k to $86.6k and liquidated $203 million worth of longs.
All this happened in last 60 minutes with no major negative news or FUD.
Another example of 10 am manipulation which happens almost everytime the US market opens.
Crypto really needs market structure bill.
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| 10 | π₯ Forced sell or final shakeout? NMTD capitulates on HYPE
One of the most dramatic stories of December on Hyperliquid.
π£οΈ NMTD is an OG holder and a public HYPE maximalist. For months he openly backed the token, broke down Assistance Fund buybacks, and argued HYPE could grow into a top 5 crypto.
What he did:
β‘οΈ Pledged almost 1,000,000 HYPE worth about $27M on HyperLend, HypurrFi, and Felix
β‘οΈ Borrowed BTC, ETH, and SOL against it
β‘οΈ Added leverage on perps in the $36β42 range
It was a high risk bet that HYPE would outperform the rest of the market.
β The market disagreed.
When the health factor dropped to 1.05, the liquidation buffer shrank to about 5%. One sharp move lower and the position was gone.
π To survive, NMTD sold 312,000 HYPE in just 4 hours at an average price of $27.15. Roughly $8.5M. The proceeds went straight into debt repayment and saving the remaining position.
He survived. But lost around 25β33% of his original HYPE stack.
β The takeaway
Capitulation by large, highly convicted holders often lines up with local bottoms. When even the strongest hands are forced to sell, sellers start to run out.
$27 is the level where one of HYPEβs biggest believers was forced to tap out.
Is this the bottom? Maybe.
Or just a pause before more downside. The market does not owe anyone a clean narrative.
But if you were looking for a moment where pain peaked, this is one of them.
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| 11 | β‘οΈ Crypto Watchlist for the week
β‘οΈ $LIGHTER - Lighter is rumored to launch its token this month, as Coinbase added it to its listing roadmap
β‘οΈ $FOLKS - Folks teased the upcoming launch of xChain V2, which will introduce cross-chain vault-based DeFi loans
β‘οΈ $JUP - Jupiter will launch its new stablecoin built in collaboration with Ethena this week
β‘οΈ Base - Base will make a big announcement on Dec. 18 (maybe about its upcoming $BASE token?)
β‘οΈ $IN - INFINIT will launch Prompt-to-DeFi, an AI-powered way to create DeFi strategies, on Dec. 18 for early users
β‘οΈ $COIN - Coinbase is set to launch prediction markets and tokenized stocks on Dec. 17
β‘οΈ $ARB - $19M worth of ARB will be unlocked on Dec. 16
β‘οΈ Macro events - Bank of Japan is expected to hike rates this week for the first time in 11 months
β‘οΈ $MNT - mETH Protocol, the liquid staking & restaking ETH protocol built by Mantle, will undergo a big upgrade on Dec. 15
β‘οΈ MegaETH - MegaETH will open its mainnet to app builders this week
β‘οΈ $BTC - Trump is expected to start interviewing candidates for the next FED chair next week
β‘οΈ $SNX - Synthetix will launch its perps DEX on Ethereum on Dec. 17
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| 12 | Your 20s is where you decide whether youβre gonna end up rich or broke.
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| 13 | Do you remember the good old days?
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| 15 | JUST IN: Michael Saylor declared, βBack to more orange dots,β presenting it as a direct assertion rather than a subtle indication regarding Bitcoin.
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| 16 | lol
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| 17 | Don't be after the money.
Be after the freedom that comes with having money.
Two very different goals.
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| 18 | Real
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| 19 | 12 years ago
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| 20 | What losing $40m on memecoins does to a man.
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