Memecoins are the purest form of gambling in crypto.
They never really die.
They just go silent for a while
and then return louder than ever.
There’s a magic to them
chaos, community, adrenaline
that nothing else in finance can recreate.
Like Christmas,
they always find a way back.
Merry Christmas 🎄

Sometimes I think back to the days before PumpFun.
Back when memes like $DOGE, $SHIB and $PEPE
could run to tens of billions…
and still feel like they had a story.
Then Christmas came early for degens:
instant launches,
instant hype,
infinite supply of new tokens.
But every gift has a hidden cost.
Liquidity fractured.
Longevity faded.
Stability disappeared.
The easy route changed the game forever.
Merry Christmas 🎄

In the past week:
• The S&P 500 made a new ATH
• The Dow Jones made a new ATH
• Gold made a new ATH
• Silver made a new ATH
Everything is ripping.
Meanwhile crypto is muted,
and Bitcoin is still ~30% below its ATH from just 2 months ago.
People are calling this denial.
Exhaustion.
The end of the cycle.
It isn’t.
This is what lag looks like
before catch-up.
Historically, crypto moves last.
And when it moves,
it doesn’t creep…
it sprints.
Enjoy the peace while it lasts.
Merry Christmas 🎄

This was supposed to be our year.
Q4 bull.
Santa rally.
ETFs.
Rate cuts.
All of it wrapped up like
a shiny Christmas present.
Instead, Bitcoin is DOWN ~20% YTD
while stocks are at ATHs…
and my 12-year-old cousin
is flexing his Rocket Labs bag
over Christmas dinner
asking how my “little Solana coin” is doing.
Brother… that one hurt.
Why did I believe a single word
CT preached last year?
Merry Christmas 🎄

This was supposed to be our year.
Q4 bull.
Santa rally.
ETFs.
Rate cuts.
All of it wrapped up like
a shiny Christmas present.
Instead, Bitcoin is DOWN ~20% YTD
while stocks are at ATHs…
and my 12-year-old cousin
is flexing his Rocket Labs bag
over Christmas dinner
asking how my “little Solana coin” is doing.
Brother… that one hurt.
Why did I believe a single word
CT preached last year?
Merry Christmas 🎄

I miss the old CT Christmas vibes:
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No market reports.
No macro threads.
Just chaos, memes and degen joy…
like kids shaking presents under the tree.
Simpler times.
Merry Christmas 🎄

CT isn’t about followers anymore.
It’s about showing up every day
like the few of us who still log in
while everyone else is switching off
for Christmas dinners and family time.
2026 will bring new metas and new creators.
Most people will rotate in and out.
But you?
You’re still here.
Still posting. Still learning. Still building.
That’s already a gift.
Merry Christmas 🎄

There was a time when being a BAYC / Punk / Doodle / Azuki holder meant something.
You didn’t just get a PFP.
You got access.
Whitelists.
Airdrops.
Priority to new protocols.
Opportunities others couldn’t touch.
You could literally calculate the value of holding.
Blue-chip = deal flow.
It was perfect for whales & busy people:
no grinding Discords,
no networking,
just hold & get rewarded.
Then something changed.
Teams realised delivering Web3 value
meant *more work*.
So they shifted to building Web2 brands.
Less community,
less access,
less “utility”.
The brands grew.
The businesses grew.
But h

Bro to bro:
Look at the richest people alive.
Most built something.
Some invested early.
A few competed or created.
Almost none clocked in.
Salary isn’t a strategy.
It’s a safety net.
That’s the part nobody likes admitting.

Crypto is hard.
Most people:
• overtrade
• oversize
• ignore risk
• chase narratives
• sell too late
• repeat the same mistakes
What printed last month
usually stops working
right when everyone figures it out.
That’s the game.

All I want for Christmas:
• Tokenized houses
• Onchain stocks
• Auditable reserves
• Real yield
• No more “soon™”
Is it too much to ask?

The scariest thing about Satoshi Nakamoto
isn’t who he is.
It’s that his wallet has been dormant for 16 years.
The largest Bitcoin holder
has never cashed out,
never moved a coin,
never needed to explain anything.
And now, with Epstein files resurfacing
and old names, connections, and histories getting dragged back into the light…
that silence feels a lot more intentional than accidental.
That kind of restraint is either impossible or deliberate.
What do you think happens
the day those coins finally move?

Crypto feels dead right now.
That’s the dominant mood on CT.
But zoom out for a second:
• Stablecoins at ATHs
• Onchain transactions at ATHs
• App revenues up only
• Institutions accumulating BTC
• Stocks moving onchain
• Prediction markets exploding
• Rates trending down
• Gold at ATHs
So sentiment says “it’s over”
while the data says “this is just starting.”
That disconnect usually doesn’t last forever.
Question is
does it resolve with price catching up…
or with people giving up right before it does?

In 2023 we learned.
In 2024 we cried.
In 2025 we learned.
In 2026 we cry.
The cycle feels obvious now.
Question is
are we actually learning,
or just getting better at surviving?
Be honest.