Advice For Cryptobros Feeling Down This End-Of-Year ... Watched Its A Wonderful Life again lads... Absolutely incredible movie but man, felt like my emotional insides were ripped out of me and beat with a baseball bat for two hours (in a good way)... I think George Bailey's problems were to a large extent self-inflicted and am not sure how relevant they are to us here in magic internet coins land... HOWEVER the film got me up in my feels to say the least, so wanted to offer some thoughts for any Twitter friends who are having a rough time this Christmas... Should note that I don't have everything figured out myself by any means- I'm an absolute moron who has made every mistake in life imaginable- but with that said I thought I'd share some random thoughts in case anyone finds them helpful: 1) All that matters at the end of the day is your loved-ones and friends. Call them and tell them you love them and appreciate them... In the immortal words of ZhuSu "call your mother before calling tops..." :) 2) This poor price action will not last. In the four years I've been in crypto full-time we've gone through periods just like this again and again, over and over, and the market always bounces back. 3) Quit letting LARP's on here make you feel bad. There is enormous incentive on CT to exaggerate (or fabricate) huge W's, and conversely you almost never hear about the huge L's people take. Realize that the TL is 99x skewed to that side and you have to take everything with a massive grain of salt. 4) Quit comparing yourself to totally unrealistic standards. The whole "you need to make $10M by age 28" rhetoric on here is 1) fake (see above), and 2) totally unrealistic. Most guys on CT are absolutely killing it by any objective measure, they just compare themselves to fictionalized stories or top 1% of 1% successes instead of reality. All you young dudes are doing infinitely better than I was at your age... Don't compare yourself to totally fictional and unrealistic standards. 5) Quit being a 'nice guy'. You don't want to 'max extract' and be unethical but you also don't worry to be one of these dudes who gives and gives and gives to the space for years on end but is too afraid to ever take advantage of opportunities to make money in it lest he deal with criticism. Here's the truth: you will face critics in every single industry on earth. It does not matter what kind of business you start, you will have people attacking you as un-ethical or accusing you of extracting or etc. You just need to find the right balance where you know internally that you are acting with integrity, and from there just ignore the critics. Is the same with your family and your job and everything else. Don't give and give and give of yourself to the point where you resent those around you and then subconsciously or semi-consciously punish them as a result. Its a really bad feedback loop that lots of people get into in life. 6) Don't be a "me me me" guy either. This is sort of the opposite of the above... where you fixate 100% on yourself... You see that here on Twitter, where people will complain "the algo is broken... nobody comments on my tweets"... but then you look and they themselves don't comment on anyone else's tweets either... You need to have some perspective, and not get so fixated on yourself. We all do this from time to time, but its a really bad habit to get into. To continue the Twitter example... if the algo isn't working for you then try just focusing on building up your friends for a few weeks. QT their posts. Comment on their tweets. RT them. Etc. What goes around comes around and you need to have a mindset of abundance. I reference Twitter for the above example because its a very concrete one, but it really applies to all realms of life. 7) Get physically healthy. Normie culture will have you believe that you can be 80 lbs overweight and still 'feel good' mentally, but the truth is you just can't... If you are overweight and physically unhealthy your mental health will suffer in tandem. They are inexorably linked and you HAVE to get your physical health locked-in. 8) Take pride in your 'lore' A lot of guys in crypto have a very analytical view of life where any failures or troubles are automatically 'bad' and shameful and etc. I would encourage you to cultivate a more adventurous or artistic view of your life instead though... where your troubles and pitfalls and mistakes are just a part of your character's "lore". View your life like a great movie or book and suddenly these losses and setbacks just become part of your "hero's journey" instead, which is a far healthier way to look at them... 9) Ignore the existential doomerism. The idea that you have "3 years to hyper-gamble into the top 1% or else be relegated to digital slavery for the rest of your life" is a great line and very memeable... However it is 100% not the case. Indeed, with AI continually making the online landscape more fluid and more flattened, it will probably if anything be easier in 5 years or 10 years to 'make it' then it is now. There are 100% things to be blackpilled about, but at the same time, you have to realize that most financial doomerism is people turning their own emotional truths into economic ones. 10) Keep putting in the reps. Life is hard. But its also beautiful. Accept that that binary will always exist. It will always be hard but its also worth it. Keep putting in the reps, and don't ever give up. There are people who love you and care about you. And beyond that- there are people who you have not even met yet who will love and care about you in the future. All you gotta do is keep putting one foot in front of other. 'Fall forward' every day and never stop putting in the reps 🤝 ... Again - I don't have it all figured out myself but I hate seeing people suffering so wanted to put out the above in case its helpful. Appreciate all you guys tremendously and if you're ever having a tough time don't hesitate to dm me. Merry Christmas bros and here's to a massive 2026 💪🎄

Advice + Security Tips For 'Class Of 25' New On-Chain Crypto Participants 🧵 Had a few dm's asking me about this from people just venturing into the choppy on-chain seas, so wanted to do a post about it... 1) triple check all your transactions before you hit 'submit' on them, especially when sending funds anywhere 2) don't be lulled into a false sense of security because you are using a ledger/hardware wallet... These are to protect from very specific attack vectors only and do not protect you from signing a malicious transaction, losing your seed phrase, etc - which seem to be the most common causes of lost funds among new crypto participants... 3) constantly think of 'worst case scenarios' - don't deposit some sizable portion of your net worth into a protocol unless you're 100% prepared to lose it all in the event of an exploit 4) if you're exploring the on-chain world, keep a google sheets doc or excel file on all your positions or some other way of keeping notes on them... columns can be something like Wallet/Chain/Protocol/Token/Token Amount/Dollar Amount/Notes... and in the 'Notes' section you might put something like "Bridged $500 via xyz protocol on abc chain 01.17.2025- has not yet gone through - make sure to check later"... or 'Protocol does not show up in DeBank - make sure not to forget about this deposit'... etc... 5) one of the best investments you can make is a dedicated $200 chromebook you use only for on-chain crypto, so you're not navigating it from the same device you are answering emails and doing other stuff on... 6) don't agree to invest money for family or friends, it never ends well 7) take radical ownership of your decisions... don't blame the current CT main character when you lose money in their project - YOU were the one who put money into it 8) Discord and TG support servers are filled with scammers so be incredibly careful navigating them, same with the comment sections on any crypto projects' twitter posts 9) don't ever use google to navigate to projects' sites... scammers will use google ads and SEO to trick you into visiting malicious versions of the site in question... only navigate using trusted sources like @coingecko or @DefiLlama or links from the project's official twitter account (not a copy!) and make sure to still TRIPLE CHECK THE URL! 10) Cultivate a sense of continual hypervigilance - there is opportunity in crypto in part because it is still essentially the 'wild west' - so make sure you navigate it as such and always act in an intentional and purposeful manner! If you are new to all this stuff I hope the above is helpful 💪 To all my gigabrain brypto friends reading this please let me know if I missed anything important and if so please add it below in the comments!