Thoughts on investing, Cardano, and why most of what you’ve been told about crypto is wrong.

Leverage Is a Salary Donation to Exchanges

April 10, 2026 · investing, risk

February 2026. In a single day, 335,000 traders got liquidated. Ninety-three percent were long. If you ask them what happened, they’ll tell you it was a flash crash, a whale dump, or market manipulation. They’ll tell you they were unlucky….

You Are the Lag: Why Retail Can’t Out-Time Institutions

April 09, 2026 · investing, DCA

The uncomfortable truth about crypto markets is that you’re not playing the game you think you’re playing. You believe you’re competing on market analysis and timing skill. You’re actually competing on latency — and you’ve already lost before you opened…

Delegating to the Biggest Pool Is a Contradiction

April 08, 2026 · cardano, staking, decentralization

You bought into Cardano because you believed in decentralization. The whitepaper made a compelling case. The team preaches it in every presentation. Then you delegated your stake to the largest pool on the network.

Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins — It’s Risk Management, Not a Slogan

April 07, 2026 · security, self-custody

FTX vaporized $8 billion in customer funds in a matter of days. Mt. Gox held $470 million that disappeared into a hack nobody fully explained. Celsius froze $4.7 billion of customer assets and filed bankruptcy. BlockFi, Voyager, Genesis — the…