CRYPTO JUST AN MMORPG - SPEC ACCORDINGLY
We grew up dedicating our lives to RuneScape, World of Warcraft. Most of us gained our first semblance of the markets through the grand exchange and the auction house. These games gave us paths to choose from which we would dedicate hundreds of hours too. Which defined who we would be in the world, what our proficiencies were; how we would make our money. Some of the first large decisions most of us ever had to make.
Entire premise of this is that everyone has their edge, and they should just stick to it.
Most started with nothing - no skills, no proficiencies, no advantages. Everyone started on the same path by learning basic things - how to play the game, attacking, quest systems. Then you’d set out and create your own path, over time gaining an edge in what you spent hours leveling up; be it fletching, engineering, cooking.
Ok - look
We all started our crypto journey relatively the same way. We heard about it through a friend, saw it on the tv, or were forced into by gambling on a sketchy online casino. We all had no idea what we were doing, buying CARDANO or RIPPLE. Leverage trading and getting liq’d every day on BINANCE. Buying and selling NFTs - nuking them for the slightest bit of profit. Dming random people on DISCORD asking if they had any roles open.
We gained the base stat of general crypto knowledge. Then all set out and created our own paths. Traders, influencers, working a job, founding projects, sybiling, or developing stuff. We didn’t just spec into one of these, but most of us spec’d across them, maining in a few.
You spec’d according to your skill set, and that is where you found your edge. Traders trade, developers develop - when a developer tries to trade it usually ends poorly, and you wouldn’t want a trader also trying to dedicate time to developing. Stay to your edge, acting outside is usually just gambling. Unless you are one of the talented few
The entire idea is - most of you have your talents, be it trading perpetuals, sleuthing onchain, working your way up the salary ladder, networking and finessing your way into private rounds as an influenza, developing the next biggest Ponzi, or spending time sybiling for 15% of the total airdrop allocation. Staying to your edge is investing, acting outside of it is just gambling.
An goated onchain trader blows up on perps while an cracked perps trader gets used as exit liquidity onchain.
An influenza gets his private seed deals to dump on his followers, while he gives it back trying to trade everywhere else.
Maybe will go into detail on each of these in another post. Is really interesting where everyone’s edge is at, and how it differs from person to person.
Is like - NOURA is goated at tracking presale addresses and randomly sending in contributions hoping the devs let her in.
While another friend trades perps and tracks OPEN INTEREST footsteps to see when large players are entering/exiting positions to feed off their slippage
While others have leveled up their salary skill set to figuring out the must lucrative company to work for and negotiating insane comps
This isnt a game of who can earn it the fastest. Is who can stay alive the longest.
Crypto just an MMORPG, find what you enjoy, spend time leveling it up, and stick to your edge.
GL out there.