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$GRASS — is the 2nd airdrop coming soon? So, we’re already in the 10th epoch, and rumors say there will be 12 in total (though that’s not confirmed). I just wanted to share my personal results from farming GRASS using their desktop app. I don’t have a single referral — I simply downloaded the app and let it farm points. As of today, I’ve accumulated 808.41K points, which honestly isn’t that much. For example, in Season 1 I farmed 200K points and got around $150. So I think it’s realistic to expect something like $200 this time too. Not bad at all, considering you literally don’t need to do anything — just download the app and forget about it. I also got a drop in Season 1 for holding their GigaBuds NFT — they gave me $500, and I bought the NFT for only $60. Right now, that NFT is trading at 0.91 SOL, which is roughly $150. If there’s another airdrop in Season 2, I’m pretty sure NFT holders will get something again — possibly $300–500, so buying one now doesn’t seem like a bad idea. Just some thoughts on GRASS. Overall, it kind of reminds me of the HNT trend, where the token did a ~20x during the 2021 bull run. I think we might see something similar with GRASS this cycle.

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Now everyone’s panicking about crypto being stolen on iOS — hundreds of millions of dollars gone. I wrote about this almost a month ago, including how to protect yourself. Sadly, the article barely got any attention, and KOLs chose not to share it. Maybe if more people had seen it, the scammers wouldn’t have gotten away with so much...

LeBron James turned down a $10 million check at 18 because he wanted the backend. He was still in high school. Rent was about $17 a month. Section 8 housing in Akron. He was going back to class the next day. Reebok’s CEO slid a live check across the table. $10 million. The condition: don’t talk to Nike or Adidas. His mom looked at it and said, “Son, trust your gut. If they’re offering you this, who knows what the other companies may offer you.” He handed it back. “If this guy is willing to give me $10 million right now, what’s to say Nike or Adidas isn’t willing to give me $20 or $30 upfront. Or maybe the upfront money isn’t the biggest thing. Maybe let’s start thinking about the backend.” He took the other meetings. Nike signed him to a seven-year, ~$87–90 million deal. Later it became a lifetime contract reported around $1 billion. He still says he may have cried on the way home. “I could have bought the building me and my mom were living in with that money.” What he actually did is closer to deal structure thinking than most people realize. The $10 million was real cash he could have taken that afternoon. He treated it as a signal about his leverage, not the full value of the asset. He refused to sell the optionality of hearing other offers and negotiating the long-term economics (royalties, brand control, duration) just because the check was sitting in front of him. The practical version: when someone offers you a large amount to close the process early, the size of the offer is information about how much more might be on the table if you keep talking. Upfront cash is easy to value. Backend participation, residual rights, or equity that compounds over a career is usually where the real asymmetry sits. LeBron already had the scarcity. He used it to keep the meetings open. Is the big check in front of you the full price of what you’re selling, or just the cost of ending the auction early?

S&P500 CRAZY DAY -5% Judging by the patterns forming on the S&P 500, I’m looking for a potential reversal around 7,100. But if this is the big correction, things could get even uglier — a 20% drop from ATH to 6,300 is very much on the table.

Hollywood star Josh Brolin made more money in 4 years of trading than he did in 20 years of acting. It started with a conversation on a plane. Long before he played Thanos, Brolin had two kids in school and his acting checks barely covered the bills. By his math, even a $100k year would leave him with about $30k after taxes and cuts for his agent, manager, and lawyer. And back then, he wasn’t making the $100k. On a flight, he met an entrepreneur named Brett Markinson who traded stocks. Brett loved to teach. Brolin was happy to ask the same question 50 times until he got it. Before long, the future Thanos had three monitors at home, all running TradeStation charts. He’d pick his stocks the night before and be up at 4:30 a.m. He stuck to companies he knew, buying pullbacks and selling into strength. Years later, on the set of Wall Street 2, he found he had plenty to talk about with actual billionaires. He knew what fear and greed felt like when it was his own money on the line. My favorite part came after No Country for Old Men. Someone offered him a few million dollars for a project he had no interest in. He turned it down. “But you need money, don’t you?” “Yes. Desperately.” He meant it. He just knew he could earn it somewhere other than a movie set.

Oh yeah, you genuinely don’t want to criticize a competitor. Yet just as Binance reopens withdrawals, you launch a $1M promo on OKX to get people to move their funds over and deposit their BTC and ETH into OKX Earn. When Bybit got hacked, Binance sent over several hundred million dollars to help Bybit stay liquid. Reading this two-faced bullshit makes me sick.

Matthew McConaughey turned down $14.5 million and said he’d be just as happy with 1/50th of what he has. He was the king of the shirtless rom-com. An action-comedy arrived with an $8 million offer. He said no. They came back with $10 million. No. $12 million. No. Finally $14.5 million. He read the script again. Same words as the $8 million version, just better written. He still said no. “I think it sent a little invisible message to Hollywood: Oh, McConaughey is not bluffing. He’s playing offense.” Nothing came for almost 20 months. Then the roles he actually wanted started arriving: The Lincoln Lawyer, Mud, True Detective, Dallas Buyers Club. The Oscar followed. He later said he’d be just as happy with 1/50th of what he has. And the residual checks from How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days still pay him better “mailbox money” than almost anything else he’s done. What he actually did is closer to portfolio thinking than most people realize. He already had residual cash flow from old work. That base let him walk away from a high-paying but low-quality deal without going broke. The 20-month gap was uncomfortable, but it wasn’t fatal. He refused to keep deploying his time and reputation into assets that were producing diminishing returns, and reallocated into higher-conviction bets with better long-term payoff. The practical version: once your existing portfolio or cash flow covers the basics plus some margin, the next high-paying opportunity isn’t automatically worth taking. Ask whether it improves the overall return on your time and stress, or just adds more of the same. McConaughey already had the residual base. He used it to say no. Do you have enough cash flow and margin that you can afford to be selective about what you take next?

Everyone gloating over Binance’s troubles and wishing for its collapse, especially employees of other exchanges — just look at the chart: Binance accounts for 56% of the assets held by the exchanges shown. Haven’t you read “The Scorpion and the Frog”? Go read it. If Binance collapses, the domino effect will hit the entire crypto market. You could lose your job too — even if you currently think a competitor’s problems work in your favor. 🙏That’s why we, as crypto believers, need to stick together. It’s in our own interest for all exchanges to thrive and for the industry to grow. Someone else’s collapse can easily become everyone’s problem. @cz_binance @binance

The best AI is the one you can hand work off to and get on with your life. And I think Grok Bot really nails that. You build your own team: one bot codes, another monitors X, a third sorts through emails and finds sponsorship opportunities. Each has its own cloud computer. They talk to each other and hand off tasks, while you can just message one lead bot that coordinates everything. What really sold me on the idea is the simplicity. No fiddling with models or a hundred settings. You explain what you do and what you want to delegate, and it suggests which bots to create and what to assign them. That’s the kind of AI worth paying for.