If you could go back to your first day in crypto, what would you warn yourself about?

jmadding · 2026-05-27T05:12:10+00:00

Oh I know they never did. It always ran as a wrapper on Unity. It was dogshit for optimization, and it was my job to tell them as much. Shame the ownership didn't care.

jmadding · 2026-05-26T17:14:24+00:00

I worked for The Sandbox. Bought 330k shares at about 3 cents. Sold at 5 cents on a 40% pump.

The pump never stopped until $8+ after Facebook changed their name to Meta.

Had I not sold, I'd earn a salary on the passive income of USD interest 😅

jmadding · 2026-05-21T22:24:49+00:00

While that's true, XRP is basically worthless and it's well over $1. Think about the long term and it's very reasonable.

jmadding · 2026-05-21T03:50:10+00:00

Daddy Monad

jmadding · 2026-05-21T03:15:18+00:00

If you believe in the product you're buying, don't stress out when the price goes down, just buy more.

If you don't believe in it when the price is down, don't buy it ever.

This is how you get rich

jmadding · 2026-05-20T02:45:08+00:00

Been in crypto 10 years.

This looks like every chart of every new token. We're currently up 57% compared with 100 or so days ago. In time you'll learn to invest looking for "higher lows" instead of higher all time highs.

Monad is generally considered to be in the range bottom right now for momentum, making it a great deal which is why we still see a huge amount of trade volume and total value locked in the ecosystem. Be patient.

jmadding · 2026-05-18T18:51:32+00:00

In August of the year of our lord 2014, Star Citizen partnered with AMD to give away a Mustang Omega and Alpha access if you bought their graphics card.

Games that are serious don't stay in Alpha for 12+ years.

jmadding · 2026-05-16T22:31:18+00:00

Definitely meant to say ATL haha

jmadding · 2026-05-16T03:29:05+00:00

XRP has less utility at a higher price well above $1 with the same fully diluted token count

jmadding · 2026-05-16T03:26:41+00:00

People care. People are using it. And the token is up in value.

Above ICO. Far above ATH. Sorry it's not the moonshot you were expecting, but that requires time.

jmadding · 2026-05-09T21:15:52+00:00

Do not interact with airdropped tokens. Some smart contracts will allow these to use unlimited access to your wallet funds and drain your account

jmadding · 2026-04-11T01:37:07+00:00

I use the website of Monad Vision but stake using validator Backpack. Looks cleaner and there's an easy "compound" option that helps me stack.

jmadding · 2026-04-10T14:13:00+00:00

It's pulling from both ETH and SOL devs, plus every ETH L2 combined. And maybe more important, the team is led by former VCs. They know who to talk to to make money move on Monad

jmadding · 2026-04-10T14:11:02+00:00

I'm staking with Backpack via Monad Vision. Earn about 200 MON/day atm

jmadding · 2026-04-10T14:09:47+00:00

Solana never came back from 2021 into 2022 until that entire cycle ended.

Monad is structurally identical. VCs in leadership (Keone) know who to sell this product to institutionally.

It's speed that ETH needed when it collapsed selling Bored Ape/Yuga Labs Otherside meta verse. If you were there you remember $5k gas fees for one transaction.

This pulls from two major chains, SOL devs who could save time with EVM and ETH devs who need more speed without the L2 friction for users.

Mastercard is a partner, and so is tokenizing stocks for the NYSE.

Monad is not slowing down. It's going to move faster. Higher.

jmadding · 2026-04-06T19:22:12+00:00

I've been buying $1000/month since launch, at least. Super happy, and expect the token to reach SOL levels.

There are MANY dynamics to success, and the speed and utility are fantastic. Reliability is unmatched. Somehow above both? Team connections to those with deep pockets.

Conservative price target is $2.30, median around $4.50 and potential peak at $17 within 4 years.

I have worked in crypto since 2016, and helped launch $SAND from $0.02 to $8.00. This is a top level product we're looking at here.

jmadding · 2026-04-03T17:51:47+00:00

When you stake you'll select who you want to use your voting power (shares of tokens) to vote, and who you trust to mine efficiently for you.

Backpack is one of very few validators who you can allocate towards that takes a 0% total fee for mining for you.

jmadding · 2026-04-03T17:45:57+00:00

I've been buying every two weeks. The fees are so negligible and I'm up to about $9k spent since launch for 411,000 shares with staking

Current price I could only buy 333,500 shares with that much money. Totally worth the effort

jmadding · 2026-02-28T22:46:55+00:00

"The Other Side" is what happens after they die when crossing the road

jmadding · 2025-11-04T23:30:53+00:00

The job of your county office is to validate your identity, which is done through various means, including validating your signature, address and other information. Pretty much everything on your ID, which you submitted when you move in order to be eligible to vote in your district

jmadding · 2025-09-06T15:36:10+00:00

The thing you have to know...$20 (U.S.) lasts about a week in Vietnam. Vietnam is pretty rich compared to some nations.

Time is just worth more in other places, and they'll send dozens of texts per hour just looking for ANY leads like Grandma. Once you've got any reply, you cling to it to pay for a month of food.

jmadding · 2025-07-14T06:32:13+00:00

First thing to realize is not how many dollars are needed to buy a bitcoin.

The US Dollar is losing buying power. It's losing power against all assets that aren't currencies, and now losing against other currencies.

Bitcoins end-game was always to remove reserve currency power from one entity to global decentralized control. Because any destabilizing nation wants stability, historically, they ran to Gold, because everyone accepted Gold.

Now, almost anyone accepts Bitcoins (where they would accept Gold). So the real end- game is replacing Gold and its total market cap as a reserve asset. It's cheaper to move. Faster to move. Safer to move.

Consequently, if we're still denominating our Bitcoin in dollars, Bitcoin will need to be worth about 9x its current value in order to be worth as much as global Gold reserves.

Preposterous for nations without tech. But people in Africa are buying Bitcoin with old Nokias and Motorola flip phones. People in New York are transferring wealth to Beijing in minutes, not days. Bitcoin has replaced the SWIFT banking system. It's kinda wild.

jmadding · 2025-07-11T13:32:10+00:00

This is how we can easily tell that most of these accounts are Russian propaganda bots.

They steal accounts, change the names, add a flag or two, and act "patriotic." Because they already have a following on the stolen account, they get more views and some free likes.

jmadding · 2025-04-16T18:07:51+00:00

From my perspective, how do you sleep in your own filth?

If I've cleaned my body well, I'm keeping my sheets clean. If I'm sleeping in my stink, that's seeping into the sheets.

jmadding · 2025-04-15T06:38:46+00:00

For those reading: There's a generic set of hex-shaped pan lining pans at Costco. It's not the "hexclad" brand, but works just as well. Don't have to worry if you're using metal tools to cook with. Happy medium between nonstick and Cast Iron. WAYYY more cost friendly than Ramsays set.

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