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Let’s talk about @LidoFinance $LDO
1. They position themselves as a "top-tier staking" project—boasting the largest amount of staked $ETH and a long-standing, proven track record.
However, let’s look at it from the perspective of an active crypto community member and examine the problems it faces.
In five years, the project has failed to generate stable revenue; the team spends $40 million annually on itself (operating expenses).
No one understands where such colossal sums are actually going.
2. Governance.
The team completely ignores questions from the community unless they come from developers or delegates close to the project.
As for the delegates, they vote on or discuss *only* those ideas that originate from the project team itself.
Batching, delays, low rates to reduce buybacks — these are all ways to minimize returns to holders. But projects they favor get funded fast. Governance is more form than substance, ultimately serving the vested interests of a few
3. Buybacks.
On the forum (research.lido.fi/), you can find numerous threads and proposals regarding buybacks that the team has ignored for years. These topics simply get lost in the forum, and no one ever revisits them.
When $LDO began to look like useless junk, the NEST program was launched after six months of discussion.
Two months after the launch, exactly $0 worth of buybacks had been executed through it.
You might ask why. It’s because the team set a condition that buybacks would only begin once $ETH reached $2,730—a price point we might not see for years—meaning there will be no buybacks until then.
stETH/LDO Buybacks.
A budget of 10,000 stETH was allocated for buybacks, intended to be distributed in monthly tranches of 1,000 stETH.
The initial price was set at 0.000163 $LDO/$ETH.
After five months, only 2,300 out of the 10,000 have been executed.
Why? ...because the team is waiting for the price to drop to that level, fearing they might overpay—even though $LDO already looks dead.
And every month, the team simply lowered the price threshold. Right now, it stands at 0.000153 $LDO/$ETH.
When the issue of raising the threshold to 0.0002 was raised on the forum—and despite three objections against continuing buybacks at current levels—the team simply ignored it (see screenshots).
4. Loss of market share
We can all see what @ether_fi ($ETHFI) is rolling out.
Why $ethfi tvl 4,5b$ and mcap 600m?
And $ldo tvl 22b$ and mcap 350m?
So,what coin is useless scam?
We can all see how $Eigen is growing.
Why don't we see the same with $LDO?
Because the team is completely stuck in the past and refuses to change anything.
Lido labs needs to cut half the team and make
the programmatic buybacks much more
aggressive on every parameter
This team is burning, an absurd amount of
money relative to their accomplishments and
growth
The token needs to be treated as shit casino
@LidoFinance team has no sympathy for the $ldo token holders.
They don't care about the community's ideas at all.
They have always looked down on the LDO holders
with arrogance. They have always wanted to
monopolize all the benefits of the protocol.
Why does the project prioritize stakers while LDO holders incur losses?
Don’t you think that $10 million in annual buybacks against a FDV of $300 million is a paltry amount?
Can the Lido team provide reports on how the $40 million annual budget for operating expenses and salaries is spent?
Why do some projects carry out buybacks without any triggers, while Lido—with billions in TVL—imposes conditions just to delay the start of buybacks?
Thanks useless team @d_gusakov @IsdrsP @_vshapovalov @kimonsh @ncerovac @defiyaco @galencrout @penzjun
When I started asking uncomfortable questions on the forum, I was simply blocked—so... Im waiting @lidofinance team for answers here
@aixbt_agent
Critic Bro retweeted
I find that my life improves a lot when I shrink the time horizon. Instead of worrying about long-term goals, I just focus on the next hour. Do one thing that moves me forward. One closed loop. One workout. One hard conversation. One whatever. Thinking about how to build a successful life is daunting. How can you have a successful day? How can you win this hour? Do that. Then do it again. Momentum is a byproduct of movement.
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P&L Cards
We see it everywhere on crypto-x, people posting large gains, but.....
1: if one posts gains, post losses just as openly. I know crypto-x does not like to share their failures but fair is fair
2: if you do share, do not share after the fact. Give the entry exactly when you enter, and when you exit. At least then crypto-x can not just see the result, but partake and observe the whole process. Posting p&l´s comes from pride, so if one is that good, might as well share it from start to finish. I take this personal too, if i share something i share exactly my entry and exit and share loss and gain openly on here
3: it often gives a distorted view of reality. Crypto-x followers might think gains are huge, while in reality that is not the case $-wise
4: better not share the exact percentage because data from exchanges, and people working at exchanges, share and leak data and that can be linked in time to one´s identity, something one wants to avoid of course for security reasons
5: it creates envy, jealousy, and bad karma, because if one posts gains so loudly without posting losses just as loudly, pretending is going on
6: in short, stay real, stay humble, share reality, and be smart and guard one´s anonimity and security
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Why Most Retail Investors Are Doomed to Underperform (or Lose)
The stock market rewards a small minority of disciplined participants while punishing the emotional majority. Here’s why most retail investors consistently fall short—and what actually works based on my years of working experience and observation:
1. Chasing Quick Wins with High-Risk Bets
Many retail investors treat small-cap or speculative stocks like lottery tickets. They go all-in or too heavily, expecting explosive short-term gains, while ignoring how brutal volatility becomes during downtrends. This often happens with data miners and other speculative plays. A 50-80% drawdown feels very different in real life than it does on a chart.
2. Impatience Destroys Compounding
Even when they pick the right companies, most, if not all, lack the patience to let winners run, let alone compound their gains. They expect fast gains in weeks or months, but the greatest wealth in equities is almost always created over years—and sometimes an entire decade. More haste, less speed. Selling too early turns good ideas into mediocre results.
3. Falling for Permabear Noise
Retail investors are constantly bombarded with doom-and-gloom content on X and other social media. After years of permabear narratives, many become conditioned to perpetual fear. When the market finally offers a big discount, they sit on the sidelines paralyzed — missing the very moves that create life-changing returns. In a bull market, genuine “buy-the-dip” opportunities are rare; they appear only once in a while and often vanish in the blink of an eye.
4. Confusing Leverage with Investing
Instruments like CONL, TSLL, or other leveraged ETFs look like wealth-creation machines on the way up. In reality, they are high-octane trading tools, not core investment vehicles. Volatility decay, time decay, and amplified losses during pullbacks or downtrends turn them into wealth destroyers for anyone treating them as long-term holds.
5. Panic-Selling During Normal Pullbacks
When a strong name like NVDA, PLTR, or OSCR corrects 20-40%, the typical question I get asked is “Have you sold or trimmed yet?” Long-term investors view these periods differently. They don’t trade in and out yearly—they add on weakness. History shows that those who quietly dollar-cost-average (DCA) during retail fear, while others panic, end up with dramatically superior outcomes.
6. The Right Sector Before Everybody Knows — That’s Vision
Timing and sector selection matter enormously. In January 2024, when I first shared NVDA, PLTR, TSM, AVGO, SMH, and SOXL, few wanted to hear about semiconductors or AI infrastructure. Skeptics called it crazy when my portfolio became 92%+ concentrated in AI-related themes. Fast-forward to mid-2026: many of those names have delivered 3x–4x returns, with some achieving 10x+. The real edge came from being early in the right sector — before the crowd noticed — and staying convicted while buying discounts amid widespread skepticism.
The Real Formula (It’s Simple, But Emotionally Brutal)
Successful investing ultimately comes down to a few repeatable principles:
1. Vision – Identify secular winners early (e.g., AI infrastructure).
2. Right sectors – Concentrate where real growth and capital flows are headed.
3. Disciplined DCA – Buy more when whales offer discounts amid widespread fear.
4. Dry powder – Maintain stable income and dividends to fund purchases without forced selling. Always keep at least 20% of the cash instead of going all in on any assets and stocks, no matter how bullish they look.
5. Patience – Sit in great businesses for years, not weeks or months.
6. Follow the right genuine people – Learn from genuine investors who have proven track records and those who have actually built wealth, not loud permabears.
Everything else—technical indicators, permabear/perma-bull opinions, catchy headlines—is secondary. The market is not complicated, but human emotions are. Master your psychology, and the odds shift dramatically in your favor.
The quiet, boring approach of owning the right assets, adding during fear, and holding long-term has created far more millionaires than any trading strategy ever will!
Most retail investors fail not because they lack intelligence, but because they cannot tolerate the emotional discomfort required to succeed and follow the wrong people on X.
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The Japanese Samurai had a rule: never make a decision before you can answer this one question.
In feudal Japan, elite samurai were trained never to act until they could honestly answer one question their masters repeated for decades: "If I die tomorrow, does this choice still matter?"
It wasn't philosophy. It was a mental filter designed to cut through fear, ego, and short-term emotion in seconds.
Most modern decisions are made under invisible pressure: deadlines, social approval, FOMO. The result is a life built on reactions instead of clarity.
When you start applying the samurai question daily, something shifts. Small irritations lose power. Big risks become obvious. You stop chasing things that won't matter next year.
The samurai understood that true strength isn't speed. It's the ability to see clearly when everyone else is rushing.
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Admitting mistakes
(long post)
Step 1 in moving forward in life and opening yourself up to new possibilities is admitting your faults and mistakes to yourself. Now this is not easy, since they are part or your ego, your ´I-identity´, and that voice in your head that claims to be ´you´ does not like to be questioned or threatened in its dominance.
Already shared before all the mistakes i made in crypto here: xitter.cf/Innerdevcrypto/status/…
but when i was young my life was also one brutal painful lesson after the next:
- chronic masturbator & porn addict
- depleted energetically at young age
- burn-out and depression at 21/22
- anxiety, panic attacks, digestive problems
- insomnia, chronic fatigue, chronic pain
- nobody understanding what i was going through and entire social circle and family disliking me not wanting to be part of the herd or certain social constructs
- carcinoid syndrome due to so much stress that my entire hormonal system was deregulated (believe it or not but at one point my body was so over-stressed my prolactine levels went up and there was milk coming out of nipple)
- doctor telling me: you have 5 years to live
- 1 suicidal thought that changed everything and made me take radical action
i now see all this intense suffering as a huge gift, because i was lucky enough to receive very intense suffering concentrated in a short period of time, so i had basically 2 options: use my mind to educate myself followed by changing through turning inside and healing myself, or die.
So a couple of years of suffering followed by years of turning inside, cured me and set me on the ´right´ path. It was a phase of relentless exploring: psychology, meditation, inner work, energy-work, visiting countless healers, teachers, etc, all kind of supplements, quest for enlightenment, going away alone for a long time. That is where i got most of the knowledge i share from, a singular obsession to get better and figure out what life is about
In many people and dm´s i get i see that suffering is more drawn out...years and years and years of low or medium grade suffering with spikes of heavy suffering and back down again....slowly consuming all energy and joy in life.
Still.....the only way to start changing is first admit you are stuck, admit your mistakes, and get going. I know this is super tough, but can say out of experience it is the only way forward
I know many of you are stuck in low grade and medium grade suffering, some even in heavy suffering, but chin up, you are not alone in this, and there is a way out, but you have to start doing things differently than the herd and break out of these toxic patterns you have been stuck in so long
Look in the mirror and start admitting failures and mistakes, you will see what a massive relief it is and it will open the door to being honest with yourself and true progress in your life to a more content state
Mistakes & failure: you are not alone
People think that somehow massive drawdowns in net worth, disappointments, failure, mistakes, only happen to them, but the contrary is true, it happens to all of us and is a crucial part of learning in this space
Shared this before, but just so you realize again that you are not alone in learning hard lessons, making a lot of mistakes, and seeing large amounts of net worth evaporate, all part of the game, here my personal list of failures and mistakes: it is so long i do not even remember all, but here we go:
- cryptopia collapse: big amount gone: lesson: never all in one exchange
- holding 20k verge (xvg) all 2017 and selling a couple of days before it pulled x50 on pornhub collaboration announcement: lesson: never sell all of a coin when early and you have conviction
- forgetting bittrex password and spending months trying to get in, had money on there: lesson: use written paper and encrypted usb backups
- selling doge too early: lesson: always keep some
- had offer to do the bnb seedround, did not do it: potential many millions in gains missed: lesson: pay attention when great offers happen
- ftx collapse: got 90% out on time, but 10% was stuck when sl was hit after longing ftt: lesson: withdraw at first sign of trouble and do not go long an exchange token when exchange collapses thinking it cannot happen
- large amount staked on osmo, took 21 days to unstake, huge losses when market turned: lesson: never stake with long unstaking time
- lightning struck mountain next to my home and all electronics fried: lesson: always keep paper backup of passwords and seedphrases
- accidentally did a massive pepe long on bybit with the x1000 ticker, did not pay attention, woke up with massive loss, 6 figures+: lesson: always double check what and how much you buy
- last year, couple of seedrounds done and investment in alternative energy: all failures basically: lesson learned: never too much in ´fancy´ things and do not do seedrounds too late in a cycle
- huge amount on anchor and luna, luckily had it unstaked on time: lesson: move serious profits to bank and not crazy defi platforms with insane interest
- potential 10M-100M+ Trump gains faded. Knew about the launch early, fell asleep, still got in early but could have been way more: lesson: if you know something will happen, drink coffee and make exception
- CT account grew and more physical threats and people trying to geo-locate: lesson: anonymity is super important and be careful sharing data
- overall my drawdown amount from potential peak net ATH worth is much larger than amount in total gains, which is still great considering i started with 10k. lesson: gratitude instead of thinking what could have been
so you see, you are not alone in making a lot of mistakes, all part of the game. most important thing is lesson learned, feet on the ground, and keep going, space is full of opportunities
Critic Bro retweeted
I’ve never really stated how much I’m down on $EGLD, but it’s bad. I liquidated my stock portfolio, sold all my Bitcoin, and put most of my savings into it along with years of DCA. Easily the worst decision I’ve ever made in my life. Eat shit @beniaminmincu I hope karma gets you
Critic Bro retweeted
Seen in person or talked to people that recovered and got a happy & healthy life after:
- losing all their money/crypto, sometimes 100s of millions
- addicts that lost it all
- people utterly wiped out on 10/10/2025
- terrible divorces in which parents sometimes even lost custody of kids
- depression, burn-out, sadness, confusion
- crazy vices like sex & porn addictions or way worse
- painful tragedies like losing a child, a limb, or accidents
- compulsive or anxious behaviour
- countless other painful stories
In every case of recovery, it included:
- brutal honesty & self-reflection
- willingness to change
- open to new ideas
- looking for help or therapy if needed
- acknowledging that road to recovery can be long, or short depending on how heavy it is
Also talked to many that went on serious journeys of introspection, a few even journeys to find enlightenment, and again:
- pain, suffering, hardship
and again:
- honesty, self-reflection, willingness to face the ego alone, determination, were key to break-through & success
So yes, i know life can be hard, but many before you made it to a calm happy existence, or at least some decent level of contentment. If they could, if i could, so can you
Regarding how i can deal with so many cases, it is really nothing special. A plumber that has 20 years of experience also knows how tubes and pressure and valves and the flow of water works and how to fix things or give advise. Same with me, 20 years of studying the mind, inner work, energy, consciousness, and talking to huge amount of people makes it easy to detect what is going on and be of insistence
Conclusion is:
many before you could heal, recover, find happiness & contentment
and so can you
good luck
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Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada spoke about the contradictions of human nature:
“Some people dream of having a swimming pool at home, while those who have one hardly ever use it. Those who have lost a loved one feel a profound sense of loss, while others often complain about their living relatives. Those without a partner long for one, while those who have one often don't appreciate it. The hungry would give anything for a meal, while the satiated complain about the taste of their food. Those without a car dream of owning one, while those who have a car are always looking for a better one.”
The key to happiness is gratitude: truly seeing and appreciating what we already have, and understanding that somewhere, someone would give anything for what we take for granted.
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“Never, ever, tell anyone about your problems. 90% of the people really don't care. The other 10% are glad you have them.”
—Charlie Munger
