Captic @CryptoCaptic

In 2015 a writer named Tim Urban sat down and counted the days he had left with his parents. He was 34, healthy, both parents alive and well. The number came back around 300. Less time than he spent with them in any single year of his childhood. The post is called The Tail End, on a blog called Wait But Why. The idea is to stop counting your life in years and start counting it in events. Reach 90 and you get about 4,680 weeks, and every one of them fits on a single sheet of paper. Maybe 60 more winters after that. If you read five books a year, that is 300 books, picked from every book ever written. Those things at least spread out evenly. A third of the way through life means a third of the way through your pizzas. Time with the people you love does not work like that. Almost all of it sits at the very start. Then it is gone. For your first 18 years you are around your parents nearly every day. Then you leave for college or a job in another city, and a normal adult sees their parents maybe 10 days a year. So the day you move out, you are already at 93 percent. Urban was living in the last 5 percent and had no idea until he drew the chart. He called it the tail end. It does not stop at parents. His two sisters, after a whole childhood in the same house, had around 15 percent of their time together left. The four friends he played cards with most days in high school were down to their last 7 percent. Nobody had a fight. Nobody moved away angry. Life quietly spends the time for you while you assume there is plenty left. You do not have to be old to be near the end with someone. If your parents are alive and you live in a different city, you have probably already used more than 90 percent of the days you will ever spend in the same room as them. His one instruction is about that last stretch. When you are down to the final days with someone you love, treat that time like what it is, which is almost gone. The rest is the tail end, and it is much shorter than it feels.

Jay Alto @theJayAlto

2 weeks ago

what's the greatest blog post on the internet? i'm talking 'violently shift your entire perception of reality' blog post

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People that mourn mistakes simply don’t believe in themselves. Everyone that wants to make it in 1 month is really saying “I need to get very lucky because I do not believe I am equipped to make it in a sustainable way over the next 5-10 years”. Those people would be much better off studying, trying again, failing, learning, etc until they do believe in themselves. And then it doesn’t matter.

@golfwangsnorlax @0xWakame as long as there is greed, crypto will always exists

@golfwangsnorlax @0xWakame yea i agree with your take and kpop impressions def growing in number but its just as long time kpop enjoyooors, the music they making is just becoming sloppier and sloppier

@0xWakame @golfwangsnorlax Indeed… kpop has never been more over

What's crazy to me is that Fable is blocked from life sciences broadly, nerfed even if you get passed the classifiers and filter level blocks. The whole point of AGI/ASI is to cure all diseases. Everything else is just nice to haves. But Anthropic wants to close off that path. I think Anthropic might be the worst company on the planet.

seems like today is easter but for hitler

I largely think of "crypto" as a failed asset class at this point. I've written about the causes multiple times. Mainly, most crypto assets are worthless, or have dreadful value accrual, and most founders have abused the lack of guardrails and dumped on people indiscriminately, or are outright scammers. On top of that we had the Memecoins SuperBullshitCycle, a trend that brought the worst out of people, and sucked everyone's souls & pockets dry. And then came the never-ending wave of DeFi hacks, which has dramatically increased since last April. This can seem contradictory, as adoption of "crypto" is surging: > Stablecoin adoption continues growing fast > Politicians in the US are openly pro crypto > Tradfi is looking at tokenizing everything > Usage of equities & commodities perps is exploding in offshore and DeFi exchanges > The US is in the early stages of adopting perps > Prediction markets are becoming part of everyone's daily lives These are more "blockchain" than "crypto", although there are some exceptions with a token in those fields, most of which have been performing very well in recent months. A few among those exceptions even distribute most revenue to holders via buybacks (Hyperliquid in particular), which is what every investor actually wants to see to be invested in a good business rather than a fleeting narrative. We also have the privacy category. The one old school crypto category that is not liquid diarrhea. The world needs private non-custodial stores of value. Crime in particular needs privacy, as proven by the DoJ confiscation of $15 billion in Bitcoin from Cambodia's pig butchering farms, legal filing for which was submitted on October 8, 2025 (coincidentally right before 10/10). Of course, everyone needs privacy, not just criminals, but crime flows are real, and large. The asset attracting the most flows in this niche is Zcash. Zcash's recent performance has been fascinating, as it has been trending higher with bitcoin trending lower, a sign of real reallocation among bitcoiners. Another crypto category that is not dead is the "AI" category, full of high flying, fundamentally lacking, narrative driven tokens. The standout exception is Venice, a private AI platform with growing users and revenue, whose tokens are directly backed by the business rather than a narrative. So one could say old "crypto" is a failed asset class, but from the ashes come new beginnings, and the new face of crypto is one heavily dominated by the needs of Tradfi, prediction markets, AI, and privacy. Crypto sucks. Long live crypto.

Korea is ahead of the curve on everything. If you wanted to see where our society was going to be today, just go to Seoul 10 years ago. Every single trend, from looksmaxxing to salaryman margin gambling to jailing former presidents started there first. They are speed running the end of history, and possibly, whatever comes next, they will be at the beginning.

Roger @rdd147

2 months ago

Koreans have now maxed out margin on KOSPI and are directly going to banks for loans. People that are 60 have never owned trading accounts and now it’s the fastest growing age group entering to buy leveraged semiconductors. Just one article of many describing the madness. $soxx

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Ur dedication to ur craft will either payoff in the end or it won’t and you’ll still have the same end result of.. sacrificing ur time to achieve ur dreams, with the cost of losing other personal desires. So regardless of win or lose this is the reality of anything One way or another something goes for something new to come in. Wasting ur time In doubts about if ur gonna be successful in something or not is genuinely the most useless mental roadblock you can after. ESPECIALLY if you haven’t even put a full effort attempt u can only control whats within ur limits, and thats based on ur skills, determination and knowledge either u succeed or u failed & need to reevaluate, and see if it’s worth trying again. If it’s something ur really tryna get at and stay at. REGARDLESS of the results win or fail ur still gonna wake up & TRY to replicate or attempt winning results OR try to get the win. Ur attempt goal no matter what is to win / achieve so why does a few failures get in ur way of continuing The more you soak up on ur failures the more Mental doubt ur mind starts visioning and road blocking.

@xiaomingishere @Collector_Crypt So much higher

@Brentsketit looks interesting, thank you, will check it out

dope

@aaronjmars @aaronjmars

3 months ago

holy fuck, a hair dryer at a Paris airport broke Polymarket weather markets & made someone $34,000 richer - polymarket was settling Paris temperature bets on a single Météo France sensor sitting near the Charles de Gaulle runway perimeter - basically unguarded - the guy bought

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SemiAnalysis will generate $100 million in revenue this year, and the newsletter accounts for only a very small portion of that. This is something I’ve been thinking for a while: SemiAnalysis’s newsletter is basically a charitable project. He could shut it down at any time and it wouldn’t really matter.

@based16z bangers only

@aduermael get on @MCGlive to showcase herm

@aduermael Should hop on @MCGlive to discuss all things herm

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