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Nodule maximalist. Waiting for dividends from 4,000 meters deep. Part-time seabed analyst, full-time yield enjoyer. #TMC #GameOfNodules

Tyler, Texas
Joined April 2017
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Replying to @themetalsco
@themetalsco @FutureJurvetson @gtbgtb Imagine the guy who backed Tesla when it was a punchline, SpaceX when it was “a hobby rocket,” and Planet Labs when people thought satellites were Pokémon cards… suddenly walking into D.C. with Gerard Barron at his side.
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2016? Planet Labs becomes the eyes of Earth and half the Pentagon pretends it knew all along. Every time he’s in Washington, it means one thing: America is about to anoint a new strategic industry. And this week? He’s there again.
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Standing next to the only company on Earth that’s actually mined the ocean floor and lived to tell the story. If you think that’s coincidence, you’re the kind of person who thinks fire alarms are “suggestions.” When Jurvetson shows up, history moves.
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$TMC @themetalsco @gtbgtb Gold made nations rich. Oil made them powerful. Tech made them connected. Critical minerals will decide who stays in the game. The modern economy runs on electrons, not barrels — and the bottleneck is the metals that move those electrons.
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• Every battery, motor, AI data center, and grid upgrade consumes copper, nickel, manganese, cobalt, or rare earths. • These are the non-printable resources: you can’t QE them, you can’t sanction-proof them overnight, and you can’t run an electric world without them.
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So the nations and companies that control these inputs effectively control the “reserve assets” of the 21st-century economy.
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Replying to @themetalsco
@themetalsco @gtbgtb at $6 is like buying Netflix when it still mailed DVDs. Except instead of movies, they’re hauling up battery metals from the bottom of the ocean. And instead of Blockbuster competition… it’s literally no one.
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Meanwhile: • Musk needs the metals • The Pentagon wants the supply • The DOE is lurking with loan offers • And the nodules are just… sitting there, free for the taking Once they start mining, the market’s gonna flip from “Wait, is this real?” to “Wait, how do I get in?”
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$6 ain’t the floor — it’s the prologue. 📘🌊
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How many people spend 20 years chasing a dream, face public failure, and still keep going? @gtbgtb did. From Nautilus to $TMC, he never gave up on deep sea mining. And now, in 2025, that dream is finally coming true. The first deep-sea mining company in history. Respect.
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$TMC fleet isn’t limited to one ship. With Allseas scaling up, retrofittable vessels in reserve, and a U.S. Executive Order fast-tracking deep-sea mining as a national security priority—7–10 “vessels” COULD be activated by 2027.
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• 1 mothership (Hidden Gem) – harvesting nodules • 1 barge (Braveheart) – transports to shore • 2–3 support vessels – deploy ROVs, manage risers • 2–4 drillship retrofits – scalable extraction All accelerated by the U.S. EO for critical mineral security.
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