There's a reason why I never bother about BTC/ SOL prices -
It doesn't matter in the longer timeframe
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CT = noise
"We're going to dump" "We're going to go to ATHs"
Doesn't matter what happens in the shorter timeframe
Stop bothering unless you day-trade for a living
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Started my web3 journey with a $100 loan in May ‘22
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Roundtripped 450 sol (made by trading sol nfts) to 10 sol in the first 6 months
Ran up $10k in Q1 ‘23 (trading ordinals and nfts) and lost 90% of it again (shitcoins)
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Tried farming, worked out for a while until i burnt
WHAT IN THE HOLY $BONK???
I just recovered some of my old burners and FUCKKKKKKK!
@bonk_inu
if this is as true as it seems, then i'm about to go meet
@TheOnlyNom
and
@iamkadense
and buy them dinner, drinks and whatnot.
Will be lying if I didn't admit that I'm coping (to some extent)
People printing 10x my networth in the span of 2 days
Despite being here everyday, that is
Pretty sure there are many others like myself
Makes me question :
Is this cause we're not doing things right?
Is
See people struggling with memecoins
Not an expert myself but I've taken select losses in the last 2-3 months (most losses incurred owing to sub $1M tokens)
Took me a while to get a hang of it, but now I can comfortably stack small profits over time without being bothered
$TNSR drops tomorrow, kinda excited ngl
$BLUR opened at a valuation of $1.6B
Expect $TNSR to open around $1-2B valuation
Not feeding hopium but this is very likely a possibility:
Top 10 wallets eat 7 figures
Top 100 wallets eat 6 figures
Top 1k wallets eat 5 figures
Top
Done with the last exam of my life
Xen0's a postgrad now
kek
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Feels strange, the feeling of accomplishing a second degree (was a re-exam but ik i'll pass :v)
Thought it'd feel a bit more rewarding but nah
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While i sat there writing my exam, all i thought about was -
ME raised $130M in July 2022 valued at $1.6 Billion
Do you know what changed after 2022?
@MagicEden
branched out to
@MEonBTC
in 2023
ME is raking millions in fee daily since November 2023 (hundreds of thousands since ordinals were live) and will prolly print double or triple
"Can I get into ordinals with just 3 figures?"
"Are ordinals worth it"?
"If so, how do I make it on $BTC plays?"
It's simple frens. You play according to the size of your bags. You play according to your appetite for risk.
Ordinals will stay the best r/r plays in this cycle
Bought a small bag $OMNOM at $20M MC a few days ago
Just sold all of my $DOGE to buy $OMNOM (yes, at ATH)
Was sleeping a bit too hard on
@arrogantfrfr
’s shills ngl
The first memecoin on king meme chain still sub $100M MC?
People really are fading this hidden beast
Well, I
giving away 100 $JUP to someone who has a <$1k port / urgently needs it
why?
cause i have been where you are not long ago and my frens helped me.
what do you to do?
dont need rt, etc. prove your circumstances/ need and give me your word to run this up tenfolds.
24h 🤝🏼
Dog eat dog.
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Picked up another book to read on the flight
Guess what I came across?
The truth
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Want to become a good trader?
$OMNOM
Want to get the next generational wealth play?
$OMNOM
Everything points to one thing and one thing only -
$OMNOM
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Feeling
$PUPS was below $2 ($15M MC) at the time of posting
$PUPS rn = $35
20x since then
A 220x for my frens and myself (papered my bag for another rotation for an 60x or someth, a decision which I don't regret at the least ;D)
Frontrunning your favorite influencers with ease
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So you're telling me that the first memecoin, also the first BRC20 airdrop on BTC -
@PupsToken
- isn't on this list?
Also to be one of the first tokens switching to the Rune standard post halving.
Still below $20M.
Study mispricing frens
$TNSR covers 60% of my student loan (sold all $2-$2.2)
Always grateful for web3 and this magic internet money blessed upon us
All of Xen0's frens are sitting on 4-6 figure drops, cannot be more happy fr :D
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On a side note, read the thread below
You cannot fathom the
ME raised $130M in July 2022 valued at $1.6 Billion
Do you know what changed after 2022?
@MagicEden
branched out to
@MEonBTC
in 2023
ME is raking millions in fee daily since November 2023 (hundreds of thousands since ordinals were live) and will prolly print double or triple
When the market gives, it blesses
When the market takes, it teaches
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Timeline's a bit too dull lately. Have a question to ask everyone -
Did this correction teach you anything?
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"Should've taken profits on that 100x" "If only i sold that position for stables" "Knew this
Today, I lost a crucial trade (apart from a few bad trades this past week)
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Let my judgement get swayed based off an opinion of a trader with a bigger port
No, wasn’t directed it to me specifically, he simple shared his thoughts
My subconscious mind took over
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Feel
got drained today y'all. not sure if it was an interaction or if (i never interact with anything fishy)
might have given pk to some botters at Deez or DS DAO but i guess that doesnt matter.
friendly note to use burners and to get a ledger. Stay safe fam <3
Remember when I told y'all
@hyperspacexyz
is a sleeper?
been through 2 drains last month but nothing's stopping me.
4k USD -> 26k USD with 2-3 weeks of work.
s/o to
@YDhanyel
and
@0xpurple_
, I couldn't have done this without y'all <3
Spent the last 2 days bedridden cause of flu
Binge watched Solo Levelling and Shangri-La Frontier and ngl, think these two outdo Sword Art Online in the Sci-Fi/ Gaming genre
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Watching these series made me realize that despite my port’s down 30-35% in the span of 5 days, the
Have only sold 10% of my spot $WIF buy since $0.2-0.28
Everyone around me told me to TP
I won’t.
Do you know why?
“You don’t trim profits off a forerunning horse
You only look for dips to keep adding”
And yes, I sold my runestones, $PUPS and whatnot for $WIF, $PEPE and
A lot's going to change in the $SOL ecosystem soon. Just had to get this level45 foxy before it was too late. Time to send him on some missions!
What do y'all say Foxy fam?
@FamousFoxFed
🟠
I just had to do this..
4.5 for this cool guy? IM DOWN!
Feeling more
#apish
by the day
A few months from now, and
@justape_
will be a blue chip
Where's my ape family at?🍌🍌
Hands down one of the best accounts on CTs. Never shills PnDs, and always bets on things w good fundamentals.
With a bit of research, you can figure how and why he bets on something. He'll openly listen to your theories and give his insights.
A humble man, a king in himself
Great strength on $DOGE, almost 2x already
Shared here below 10 cents
Just before the breakout (once in a 3yr event)
Before our favorite influencers started talking about it
Sometimes, without realizing, you profoundly affect others, and vice versa.
A few words of advice given to a rookie on a random day might mold them into greatness.
A stranger you met just a day ago might offer the guidance you've sought for eons.
You may not know, but even the
Throwback to the day when the boys at
@AsylumDAO
were trading $POPCAT sub 100k MC
Everyone knew that the dev was in, but
@jpeggler
had his heart set since the time it launched lol
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Dev sold his tokens, $POPCAT broke $10M and things were fun until a month later the dev
Trying to figure a balance between web3 and irl
Doing things that i like, things that come to me naturally
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Mastered a new dish yesterday
Started playing the guitar again
Spending time with frens
Keeping track of the market
Have started to re-evaluate my trading
Despite having great conviction, one may not be able to fully commit to a trade with size at times
There are instances when even I question myself -
"How hard to go on this trade?"
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Risk appetite is a thing for sure, never bet more than you can afford to lose
But can you
Gm frens.
Woke up to an unexpected amount of $W despite not spending much time effectively "farming" it. Just had a few organic transactions and I'm grateful for what is given.
In the light of the same, will give away two free
@PepeOrdinalsBiz
(after they've minted out
@JustJakeApe
got wallet drained and lost his Aqua ape.
@Wjprberg
(a mod) organized a fundraiser to buyback the ape (7.95 SOL)
A couple hours later..
Community isn't about twitter activity, it's THIS!
I'm
#apish
, you should be too
become one of us and
@justape_
🍌
Minted these for $30 a pop. Now worth $700/ Ayelien.
You still think ordinals are mid?
Go figure.
Love the art btw
@meezy2greezy
. Got a few from mint, hodling them comfy.
was in the misconception that NFTs are just for profiting. been realizing it slowly that there's a deeper meaning to them.
thanks to people like
@notjohnlestudio
Trying to practice discipline lately
Buying small bags for short-term swings
Selling at a set target : 35-55%
A stop loss : -15-20%
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This is to keep my greed in check in times of peak euphoria and to develop a habit of not always chasing exponential gains
Failed 2/2
The advent of ordinals
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Got into ordinals around March 2023 when I had less than $500 in my wallet
Grinded WLs, offered my help as a CM working for communities and alpha groups for free
Stacked small bags but kept cashing out to make a living as a foreign student, working a
Took me less than a month to climb to rank 1.2k (current rank, farmed back in Jan. quit farming ever since) and 3 other wallets in the 5-20k rank range using 150 sol. Burnt $12k ish in the process (40-45% of my networth earlier in Jan)
Pretty sure I make most of it back through
Fear
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You ever been in a situation when you lost heavy on a trade and then fumbled a potential banger trade right after?
Yeah, that was me yesterday
Took a 50 sol L on a memecoin
Saw the stock narrative being picked up
Bought $AMC at 3M, sold everything at $3.5M
Bags
Emotions
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Saw something shiny.
Sold off a portion of a conviction bag.
Aped it, ripped 2x.
Waited to send higher. Greed.
Dipped.
-70%
But it's a bull? I asked
Yes, it is.
Sell now?
But it's a bull I said
Held.
Conviction bag? Up 7%.
Shiny bag? Dead
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Dream
Ordinals, $BTC L2s and BRC20s will be the most +EV cooks this bull run. However, getting into a top-tier ordinal community for alpha and WL opportunities may be a bit out of reach for an average trader with a 3-4 figure port.
For starters, let me help you with getting into a
In times when the market becomes too volatile to predict, one need not go hunting for a trade
There are times to max bid, times to sit on your hands
Times to stay stuck to your screen watching graphs
Times to spend time honing other skills
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When one can't predict any
Seeing too many ordinal projects popping up
Saturation is inbound, know how to play your cards well
Do you mint every project? No, you'd rather send money to charity
Capital preservation >>> capital expansion
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Here's a few key pointers to go about ordinal projects:
1.
Saw this around the floor and couldn't not click on buy. This pixelated fella is literally me.
Am I doing it right or do I need a Famous Fox too?
@FamousFoxFed
🟠
Accumulated over 300 hours of sleep debt in the past 4 months (Postgrad finals Dec-Jan and web3 mania b2b)
Time to pay back
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Felt like I was doing a lot, was wrong
Lack of patience and concentration, reduced productivity. Been over a week
Will spend the next few days
A thing i've learnt from all of my smart frens -
Liquidity is king
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"Being in no position is a position in itself" - so well put by frog
Having conviction bags is like focusing on completing the main quest and leveling up gradually
However, sometimes, a random surprise
Haven’t checked prices for days, don’t know which airdrops are dropping this week and honestly I don’t really care
All I know is whatever happens, I got some piece of the pie and that’s unironically the result of compounding the grind over years and years
Sitting comfy
Recharge
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Been a while frens, hope everyone's doing well
Was completing side quests while the market did its thing
Missed the pullbacks but can't complain ah
Earned a ton of irl XP - new experiences, new places, cooked my meals, watched some movies, rejoined the gym, bit
You don't need a Node Monke or a Puppet to be involved in the Ordinal ecosystem
There are other communities that offer value to holders
Mentioned some of them a few weeks ago which have now shown their hands
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@ninjalerts
( Up by 120%)
-
@TO
is helping holders set up nodes
Gm fam
Had some dms asking what is the best project to get into if one's new to ordinals and runes.
Here are my preferred picks segregated in order of preference
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RUNES :
1. Runestone by
@LeonidasNFT
($3.5k)
Fair, free airdrop. Largest holder count and decent
Ahhh,
@FrensPods
were one of the firsts to bridge to BLAST. Glad I got in w them :)
Feel like a 5 year old who’s barely started to write while they’re all a band of philosophical copywriters.
The rate at which info is exchanged, the quality of discussions, the vibes in there.
My frens at
@FrensPods
taught me the coolest thing ever
I’m not the smartest at tech-related stuff, but they build bots, scripts to hack shit
Little did I know the influence of having tech-centric people around you
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Asked a dozen of stupid questions time and again
Fair.
That's the last thing that the market is
Crypto being no better
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In 2014, a trader named Wolong heavily profited off $DOGE through "pump and dump" tactics
He documented his journey in a pdf and named it "god" wherein he spoke of his actions of so-called
@blknoiz06
@comofinance
@arrogantfrfr
@metaversejoji
The answer's simple man
Every L1 has a forerunner beta memecoin
$DOGE (8th biggest coin of all crypto) has $OMNOM ($70M)
$AVAX's $COQ is at $260M for reference
Doesn't get simpler
I remember getting these two weeks ago before I left for vacation (with the last 0.5 SOL liquid I had lmao) . Supposedly,
@StickyMonkes
was a 'degen' mint for 0.2 SOL.
One of the best decisions I made before leaving tbh and here's why:
Tensor was one of Xen0’s biggest Ls.
Single-handedly took a cumulative low- 5 figure hit
This was 40% of my port at the time.
How?
I was dumb.
Caught several bids in Jan-Feb (frogannas, saga monkes, some bad swings)
Collections dropped -50-70%.
Didn’t know how down bad
Introducing $TNSR - the future of NFT trading.
$TNSR will govern Tensor protocols that have already traded over $2bn worth of NFTs on the fastest, most scalable blockchain - Solana.
You are 2 steps ahead of 99% of the world's population
You are more capable than what you think of yourself
You are privileged
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You are still early
You can still catch a 100x
You don't have to catch one
You can make it by stacking small wins
You can make it by improving
Came across this concept while studying today
It's like the universe is sending me a reminder :v
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The S-curve : A curve that represents the growth of adoption of an innovation/ technology over time
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Innovation? Tech? On Bitcoin?
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Sentiment around runes and ordinals
A tradfi legend's tweet sent a $4.5B asset 200%, other crypto counterparts 1500%+
OpenAI reveals new model that can interact with the real world based off audio, vision and text
Swiss bank and Canada's 4th largest bank reveal they hold spot BTC
All this happened in the last
Will talk about something that many people in the CT have mentioned before:
The impact of finding a niche and focusing on your strengths in web3.
What does it mean?
It means doing the one thing that comes to you effortlessly, and doing it without the aim of chasing success
Think we're seeing a bit of saturation around BRC20s and pre-runes
FOMO buying anything will wreck most
Bet on stronger tickers if you do wish to get exposure to a rune airdrop
$PUPS $WZRDS $NODE (maybe $PIZA)
Will probably offload all of mine in the coming couple days and
A frog fren suggested a book and Xen0 will spend his time resting, reading it while he prepares to travel in 5 days
The first break taken in 4 months
Feels good. Somehow weird. A break.
Will be lurking incase there’s something worth hopping on to the desk xD
Gm fam
Had some dms asking what is the best project to get into if one's new to ordinals and runes.
Here are my preferred picks segregated in order of preference
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RUNES :
1. Runestone by
@LeonidasNFT
($3.5k)
Fair, free airdrop. Largest holder count and decent
Nature has its way of balancing things out
When things are going too well, a mishap is bound to incur
Such is the case w the market
Small pullbacks will be a part of this adventure we're on
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When the tides are rough, it's best to reef the ship's sails
Thus, it's best to
If your port is sub 4 digits and you’re struggling to compound
Your best bet would be to focus on $SOL memes
BASE memecoins, ordinals, runes, all of it can follow once you’ve surpassed 5 digits
If you concentrate on one niche and master it, there is no way you don’t grow over
See people struggling with memecoins
Not an expert myself but I've taken select losses in the last 2-3 months (most losses incurred owing to sub $1M tokens)
Took me a while to get a hang of it, but now I can comfortably stack small profits over time without being bothered
Woke up with a sense of self-appreciation today
Lowkey proud of myself for where I am
Although it's not life-pivoting, it's something
Something that fuels me to keep going
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This journey isn't an easy one, for sure
Nor is it an up only way
Will stumble, will fall, will
My frens and I were in PUPS since 250 sats, (150x to ATH) most sold before 10k sats but this ansem shill was unprecedented
Good profits locked but its about to get more interesting from hereon
Ansem just pushed first of the many following dominoes for the Bitcoin ecosystem
The recent pump is such a bliss to witness. Been here for about 20 months through the bear and it truly brings me joy to see everyone winning
For those sidelined atm, I'd recommend holding onto whatever you have and bidding coins or protocols with great tech/ fundamentals
What
More than PnL screenshots and wins, I prefer people sharing their losses and experiences, and being real.
Don't dislike seeing people win. Rather, others' errors contribute to shaping me into a better version of myself.
Over the course of about 20 months, I've grasped a few