Been through 4 bull markets and 4 bear markets. Nazare Big Wave Surfer/Rescue. Co Host of Crypto Tips with @blockchainchick
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Imagine buying 7 Bitcoin for under $800. I was going through some of my records and found a purchase from March 2013.
This was done on Coinbase with zero KYC. Those were some of my most memorable moments in crypto.
I put my Uber earnings to work. I was living on the floor of a bachelor house trying to save every cent to buy Bitcoin. I show this not to brag but to encourage people to step out of their comfort zone and buy $BTC.
Please do yourself a favor and unfollow anyone who keeps saying this war is over or will end soon.
This will last decades. I’ve been saying this since 2 weeks into the conflict.
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"THERE'S NOTHING RISKIER THAN CRYPTO."
You've heard it from your bank, your adviser and the evening news.
So let's look at the safe option.
2013. Cyprus. The banks shut for 10 days. When they reopen, savers at Bank of Cyprus lose 47.5% of everything over €100,000.
2015. Greece. The banks shut for three weeks. You can take out €60 a day.
2019. Lebanon. Banks lock people out of their own dollar savings. The lira loses about 90% of its value.
2022. Canada orders banks to freeze accounts linked to a trucker protest. No court order needed. About 210 accounts, roughly C$7.8 million.
2023. Silicon Valley Bank. $42 billion tries to leave in one day. By the next morning the bank is gone, and around 90% of its deposits were over the insured limit.
Every one of these has the same thing in common.
Someone else held the money. So someone else decided when you could have it.
Now look at self custody.
Your Bitcoin sits at an address that only your private key can spend from. That key comes from 12 or 24 words you wrote down yourself. No bank has a copy. No company has a copy. No government has a copy.
There's no branch to close. No daily limit. No account manager for a freeze order to land on. The network doesn't do weekends or bank holidays.
Send it across the street or across the world at 3am on a Sunday. Nobody approves it. Nobody can reverse it.
Satoshi wrote it plainly in 2009: "The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust."
The cypherpunk answer was to stop needing the trust.
Yes, crypto is volatile. Yes, people lose money. FTX lost $8 billion of customer funds. Look at how: people handed their coins to a company to hold. Same mistake as Cyprus, new logo.
Leave it on an exchange and you've just opened another bank account.
There are two kinds of risk. The price moving. And someone else deciding whether you can have your money.
Hold your own keys and only the first one is left. Your bank account has both.
Today is a perfect example of why I don’t touch my long term bags. I’d be stressed out of my mind trying to time every move. I’d rather have a life and DCA.
Most are still sidelined BTW.
While you wait for higher prices, consider actively planning on how to legally pay close to zero income taxes and also see which OTHER citizenships would fit your lifestyle
You can start here @ConciergeTCS
My team created this to help people become sovereign individuals
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Frens. Normally our founder @mogli493 creates artworks for people we know personally, but in the case of @sircryptotips and @blockchainchick we make an exception.
You guys are true OGs and you speak the truth! Thank you for everything you do!
This probably isn't the best time to become complacent in the crypto space. Yeah it may seem boring but I can assure you that every great run in crypto started out BORING.
I wouldn't want to be sitting on the sidelines right now.
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I knew them 15 yrs ago and I tried also. It was still hard. Toby has a very innate skill of being stubborn and really good at going against the grain. Crypto has never been easy mayb harder back then. Anyone who made millions and actually “kept” it Deserves it. Very little Luck.
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THE FOUNDER OF ETHEREUM MOVED 400 ETH, ABOUT $1 MILLION, INTO A PRIVACY PROTOCOL.
It's called Railgun. Vitalik Buterin sent the 400 ETH in August 2024. When an earlier transfer drew criticism, his answer was three words: "Privacy is normal."
The problem it deals with: a normal wallet is public. Anyone with your address can see your balance and every transaction in and out, forever. Once that address is tied to your name, through an exchange, a data leak or one payment, your whole history is tied to you too.
How Railgun works.
It's a set of smart contracts on Ethereum. You "shield" tokens by sending them into the contract. They become encrypted notes that only your private 0zk address can open.
To spend them, your wallet builds a zero knowledge proof on your own device. The proof shows you own the notes and the numbers add up, without revealing which notes they were. Inside the pool, the sender, recipient, token and amount are all hidden.
A "broadcaster" submits the transaction for you and takes its gas fee out of your private balance, so your public address never appears.
What stays public. Shielding shows your address, the token and the amount. Unshielding shows the recipient, the token and the amount. Each one costs 0.25%.
What can still give you away. Unshielding the same amount soon after you shielded it. Pulling everything out at once instead of common amounts. Sending from your own public address. Each token has its own pool, so a busier token gives more cover.
Using it, through the Railway wallet app (iPhone, Android, desktop):
1. Create a wallet and back up the recovery phrase. Your keys come from it. No company holds them.
2. Shield ETH or a token to your 0zk address.
3. Wait one hour while it checks the deposit isn't from an address on the sanctions list.
4. Send privately to other 0zk addresses.
5. Unshield to a fresh address you haven't used before.
You can also share a read-only viewing key. It shows your full private history to whoever holds it.
12 years ago @blockchainchick and I were just pressing buttons on computers to make us millions eventually
No wonder people didn’t take us seriously back then😆
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🛠️ How JPM Coin works on Ethereum
JPM Coin is a deposit token: each unit is a dollar on deposit at JPMorgan, recorded on Ethereum. The network is public; the token is not. Only approved counterparties can hold or receive it, so JPMorgan still decides who transacts.
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One seed. One device. One company's code. If any one of them fails, there's no second line of defence.
Multisig fixes that, and it's far less daunting than it sounds. Here it is in plain English 👇
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Two red candles and everyone's doom posting again. Nearly $1 BILLION liquidated in 24 hours.
Not me. I don't touch leverage. My biggest position is Bitcoin and it always has been. That's why I'm still here my friends.
Full video 👇
Weak hands got flushed out. Pretty obvious at this point.
Good chance we run it back up shortly.
It’s always a good sign when bearish sentiment suddenly saturates crypto. Those are usually the best buying opportunities for those who think they missed the boat.
Money is nice. But a hot wife who’s your best friend and an amazing mom to our beautiful daughter is priceless.
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BANKS ARE THE BIGGEST MONEY LAUNDERERS ON THE PLANET. JPMORGAN TOLD THE SENATE IT'S SOMEONE ELSE.
Not one of their CEOs went to prison.
In 2020, 2,100 leaked bank reports showed the banks themselves flagging over $2 trillion in suspicious money between 1999 and 2017. They moved it anyway.
Here's what they've owned up to.
TD Bank left 92% of its transactions unmonitored for six years. $18.3 trillion. Pleaded guilty.
Wachovia, now Wells Fargo, failed to monitor $420 billion from Mexican currency exchanges. Fine: $160 million.
About $200 billion ran through a single Danske Bank branch in Estonia, much of it suspicious. Pleaded guilty.
BNP Paribas moved $8.8 billion for Sudan, Iran and Cuba. Pleaded guilty.
Standard Chartered was accused of hiding $250 billion in Iran deals from New York regulators. Settled.
Deutsche Bank let $10 billion slip out of Russia through "mirror trades".
HSBC moved at least $881 million in drug money.
JPMorgan kept Jeffrey Epstein as a client until 2013, five years after his conviction. It reported over $1 billion of his transactions as suspicious. A month after he died.
And this Tuesday, Bank of America admitted it willfully broke anti-money laundering law. Over $5 billion in suspicious transactions it didn't report on time. Treasury says it "prioritized its revenues." Fine: $1.2 billion. Profit that quarter: $6.9 billion.
The US Attorney General said it out loud in 2013. Some banks are so big "it does become difficult to prosecute them."
That's Jamie Dimon in the video, at the Senate in 2023. Watch who he blames.
Deposit more than $10,000 in cash and your bank reports you to the government.
Let $18.3 trillion go unchecked and you get a fine.
Two sets of rules. Guess which one you're on.
They called Agenda 2030 a conspiracy theory. It's a real UN plan. All 193 member states adopted it in September 2015, the US included.
Last year Washington stood up at the UN and said it "rejects and denounces" Agenda 2030.
So why does 2026 look exactly like the world it gets blamed for? Watch what they DO, not what they say.
February. The US and Israel strike Iran. The Strait of Hormuz, where over 20% of the world's oil passes, has been effectively shut ever since. On 4 October four ships got through. Normal is 85 a day. Brent is $105.
Fertilizer goes through there too. Gulf producers ship close to HALF the world's traded sulfur, and you need sulfur to make phosphate. Sulfur has more than doubled this year. Mosaic shut its two Louisiana phosphate plants in August.
Now add the weather. NOAA gives this El Niño a 75% chance of being the strongest since 1950. Weaker monsoon in India. Less rice in Indonesia. Drought risk for maize in southern Africa.
UN food prices are up 5.8% in a year, and the FAO blames transport, Hormuz and the weather.
Less fertilizer. Worse harvests. Dearer energy. That means less food and higher prices.
So who wins?
US gas costs about $3 to buy at home and has been selling for around $20 in Asia and Europe. US LNG exports were up 23% in the first half of the year. Shipments to Asia more than doubled.
And the dollar. The dollar index just hit its highest level since April 2025, and markets expect the Fed to HIKE by year end.
That's the dollar milkshake theory. When the world panics, everyone needs dollars to pay for oil, food and dollar debt, and America drinks everyone else's liquidity through one big straw.
And they've told you who pays. When Washington sanctioned Russia in 2022, the President of the United States stood in Brussels and said food shortages were "going to be real." The price, he said, is "imposed upon an awful lot of countries." Different president, same playbook. 👇
My opinion, and I could be wrong: nobody needs a secret plan. Scarcity does the job on its own. Expensive food and energy make people poorer, more dependent on the state and easier to control. Call it Agenda 2030 or America First, the bill lands on you either way.
My suggestion is simple. Get out of debt. Own real assets. Don't rely on ANY government to feed you or keep your lights on.
Coincidence or plan? Tell me what you think.