In this post, I’m going to tell you the most honest - and shocking - secret of all. Nothing gets me fired up faster than people whose sole purpose is to max-extract from others. That behavior is parasitic. Virus-like. And to make it worse, intentionally mis-educating people to support your own bullshit? That’s the cherry on top of a very rotten cake. We all know what’s most lacking in this space: honest, unbiased education. I look around and I see a world where - yes - everyone is trying to make money. But I also see a world that’s starving to understand how to make money in crypto more effectively. People want to know how things really work. What actually matters. What to ignore. Here’s the shocking secret. None of it is truth. All of it can be manipulated. Price is not truth. There are countless ways bad actors manipulate price in crypto every single day. Volume is not truth. Some CEXs wash trade to inflate activity. Serial scammers run on-chain volume bots to fake demand. Holder count is not truth. You know how fast it is to spin up wallets? Yep - bots do that too. Supply control is not truth. In good hands, it’s stewardship. In bad hands, it’s just a rebrand of the same old extraction game. Technical analysis is not truth. When enough people believe something works, it appears to work - until it doesn’t. And when enough people believe in the same signals, manipulating their behavior becomes easy. TA matters, but it is not truth. And my favorite - the one I actually care a lot about: Liquidity...is still not truth. Liquidity can be pulled from CEXs and DEXs faster than your retail interface can load. Liquidity with no intention of ever being used can be deployed purely to paint a prettier picture than reality. So do we ignore all of this? No. Awareness still matters. Context still matters. But none of these should be blindly weighted as truth. Trading - real trading - is about confluence. About intent. About understanding who benefits from what move. Understanding who the puppetmaster is and what their plans are. So what actually matters most? Mindshare and stewardship. We live in an attention economy. Even Bitcoin stops performing if people stop thinking about it. Projects don’t survive because charts look good. They survive because people care, because they’re led responsibly, and because someone is actually building value instead of extracting. Everything else is just noise. 🫡 From the depths — The White Whale 🐋

Obsession is not some sort of proximity to excellence. It is proof you don’t have your own, though.

Human beings need to be able to explain things they can’t understand be like talking “supply control” not realizing that’s only about 10% of what’s happening here 🙃 It’s the entire recipe. Not a sum of individual ingredients.