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I’ve spent a lot of time helping other people grow online while staying quiet myself.
Part of it was comfort, and part of it was hiding behind “client work.”
Last year, one of the pages I worked on did about 450M impressions.
Watching that from the background taught me how this really works.
This year, I stopped waiting for the perfect moment and started posting on my own page.
Just showing up consistently.
It’s still early, but in just a few days, I crossed 400K impressions, and that was enough proof for me.
Its not because of the number, but because of what comes with it.
When people recognize your name, things feel easier.
Replies come faster, and DMs feel less cold.
You don’t need to be famous.
You just need people to know who you are and what you’re good at.
I’m still doing the work I’ve always done, creating content and managing people’s social media accounts.
I’ve done this long enough to know what works.
Now I’m putting my name on it.
Codedscientist retweeted
A man bet $53,000 on a dying video game store. Wall Street bet against him. His position hit $48 MILLION, and he ended up testifying before Congress.
> In 2019, Keith Gill was working at MassMutual, a financial services company, while researching stocks in his spare time.
> He believed GameStop, a struggling video game retailer, was deeply undervalued.
> Wall Street was betting against it.
> By January 2021, more shares had been shorted than the company had available to trade.
> Gill posted his analysis on Reddit as DeepFuckingValue and on YouTube as Roaring Kitty.
> For months, he kept sharing his research while building his position.
> Then Reddit's WallStreetBets community piled into GameStop.
> The stock surged from around $17 at the start of January to an intraday high of $483 on January 28.
> Short sellers suffered BILLIONS in losses.
> Melvin Capital lost 53% in January and received a $2.75 BILLION cash injection from other investment firms.
> On January 27, Gill's posted portfolio showed his GameStop holdings and cash worth nearly $48 MILLION.
> Then trading platforms restricted some GameStop purchases, triggering public outrage and congressional hearings.
> Gill appeared before Congress in February 2021.
> His defense was that he was an individual investor who believed the stock was undervalued.
He started sharing stock research online. At the height of the frenzy, his portfolio was worth nearly $48 MILLION, and Congress wanted answers about the market chaos surrounding the trade.
A man bet $53,000 on a dying video game store. Wall Street bet against him. His position hit $48 MILLION, and he ended up testifying before Congress.
> In 2019, Keith Gill was working at MassMutual, a financial services company, while researching stocks in his spare time.
> He believed GameStop, a struggling video game retailer, was deeply undervalued.
> Wall Street was betting against it.
> By January 2021, more shares had been shorted than the company had available to trade.
> Gill posted his analysis on Reddit as DeepFuckingValue and on YouTube as Roaring Kitty.
> For months, he kept sharing his research while building his position.
> Then Reddit's WallStreetBets community piled into GameStop.
> The stock surged from around $17 at the start of January to an intraday high of $483 on January 28.
> Short sellers suffered BILLIONS in losses.
> Melvin Capital lost 53% in January and received a $2.75 BILLION cash injection from other investment firms.
> On January 27, Gill's posted portfolio showed his GameStop holdings and cash worth nearly $48 MILLION.
> Then trading platforms restricted some GameStop purchases, triggering public outrage and congressional hearings.
> Gill appeared before Congress in February 2021.
> His defense was that he was an individual investor who believed the stock was undervalued.
He started sharing stock research online. At the height of the frenzy, his portfolio was worth nearly $48 MILLION, and Congress wanted answers about the market chaos surrounding the trade.
Codedscientist retweeted
Love this guy
Sometimes you invest in the people as much as the product
Been with you guys for years and will continue for many more 🤝
@ericinjective @mirza @albertchon
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A college student caused a dorm-wide blackout mining Ethereum, then dropped out to build a blockchain backed by Mark Cuban.
> Eric Chen was studying at NYU when he got into crypto.
> He started mining Ethereum in his dorm room.
> The mining consumed so much power that it caused a dorm-wide blackout.
> Eric ended up facing NYU's disciplinary board.
> But the incident didn't push him away from crypto. It pulled him deeper into blockchain research.
> He also worked at a trading firm, studying financial markets.
> He noticed a problem with decentralized exchanges. They were vulnerable to front-running, where traders could exploit pending transactions.
> Eric wanted to fix that.
> In 2018, he teamed up with Albert Chon to build Injective.
> They wanted to make decentralized trading fairer and more efficient.
> But building the technology proved harder than expected.
> The team explored ways to solve front-running without making trading slower or more expensive.
> Then they heard about Binance's first-ever incubation program.
> They were traveling when they learned applications were open.
> They canceled the rest of their trip and focused on getting accepted.
> Binance Labs selected them, giving Injective an early breakthrough.
> In 2021, they cold-emailed Mark Cuban, connecting Injective's vision to the GameStop trading controversy.
> Cuban replied, and eventually joined Injective's $10 MILLION Series A round.
> Injective grew into a blockchain built specifically for financial applications.
A student who once caused a blackout mining Ethereum went on to build financial infrastructure backed by Mark Cuban.
Imagine if he'd decided crypto wasn't worth the trouble.
Codedscientist retweeted
Crypto people have a special relationship with the letter B 😂
> B for Bitcoin
> B for Bull run
> B for Bullish
> B for Bags
> B for Billions
What other B words belong on this list? 👇
Codedscientist retweeted
> born in Taiwan in 1963
> moves to Thailand as a child
> moves to the United States at age 9
> works as a dishwasher at Denny's at age 15
> studies electrical engineering at Oregon State University
> earns a master's degree from Stanford in 1992
> works at AMD and chipmaker LSI Logic
> co-founds NVIDIA in 1993 at a Denny's restaurant
> wants to build chips capable of realistic 3D graphics
> takes NVIDIA public in 1999 at $12 per share
> introduces the GeForce 256, marketed as the world's first GPU
> sees NVIDIA's first major graphics-chip design fail
> faces near-bankruptcy in 1996
> pivots to a new graphics-chip architecture
> releases the RIVA 128 in 1997, helping NVIDIA recover
> expands into graphics chips for PC gaming
> unveils CUDA in 2006, allowing GPUs to tackle general-purpose computing
> sees NVIDIA GPUs become essential to scientific computing
> NVIDIA GPUs help power AlexNet's landmark AI breakthrough in 2012
> delivers NVIDIA's first DGX-1 AI supercomputer to OpenAI in 2016
> launches RTX graphics with real-time ray tracing in 2018
> acquires networking company Mellanox for about $7B in 2020
> becomes a central supplier of chips powering the AI boom
> sees ChatGPT's rise accelerate demand for AI computing infrastructure
> leads NVIDIA into the center of the global AI race
> turns a graphics-chip company into one of the world's most valuable businesses
Jensen Huang
Crypto people have a special relationship with the letter B 😂
> B for Bitcoin
> B for Bull run
> B for Bullish
> B for Bags
> B for Billions
What other B words belong on this list? 👇
Codedscientist retweeted
A college student caused a dorm-wide blackout mining Ethereum, then dropped out to build a blockchain backed by Mark Cuban.
> Eric Chen was studying at NYU when he got into crypto.
> He started mining Ethereum in his dorm room.
> The mining consumed so much power that it caused a dorm-wide blackout.
> Eric ended up facing NYU's disciplinary board.
> But the incident didn't push him away from crypto. It pulled him deeper into blockchain research.
> He also worked at a trading firm, studying financial markets.
> He noticed a problem with decentralized exchanges. They were vulnerable to front-running, where traders could exploit pending transactions.
> Eric wanted to fix that.
> In 2018, he teamed up with Albert Chon to build Injective.
> They wanted to make decentralized trading fairer and more efficient.
> But building the technology proved harder than expected.
> The team explored ways to solve front-running without making trading slower or more expensive.
> Then they heard about Binance's first-ever incubation program.
> They were traveling when they learned applications were open.
> They canceled the rest of their trip and focused on getting accepted.
> Binance Labs selected them, giving Injective an early breakthrough.
> In 2021, they cold-emailed Mark Cuban, connecting Injective's vision to the GameStop trading controversy.
> Cuban replied, and eventually joined Injective's $10 MILLION Series A round.
> Injective grew into a blockchain built specifically for financial applications.
A student who once caused a blackout mining Ethereum went on to build financial infrastructure backed by Mark Cuban.
Imagine if he'd decided crypto wasn't worth the trouble.
A college student caused a dorm-wide blackout mining Ethereum, then dropped out to build a blockchain backed by Mark Cuban.
> Eric Chen was studying at NYU when he got into crypto.
> He started mining Ethereum in his dorm room.
> The mining consumed so much power that it caused a dorm-wide blackout.
> Eric ended up facing NYU's disciplinary board.
> But the incident didn't push him away from crypto. It pulled him deeper into blockchain research.
> He also worked at a trading firm, studying financial markets.
> He noticed a problem with decentralized exchanges. They were vulnerable to front-running, where traders could exploit pending transactions.
> Eric wanted to fix that.
> In 2018, he teamed up with Albert Chon to build Injective.
> They wanted to make decentralized trading fairer and more efficient.
> But building the technology proved harder than expected.
> The team explored ways to solve front-running without making trading slower or more expensive.
> Then they heard about Binance's first-ever incubation program.
> They were traveling when they learned applications were open.
> They canceled the rest of their trip and focused on getting accepted.
> Binance Labs selected them, giving Injective an early breakthrough.
> In 2021, they cold-emailed Mark Cuban, connecting Injective's vision to the GameStop trading controversy.
> Cuban replied, and eventually joined Injective's $10 MILLION Series A round.
> Injective grew into a blockchain built specifically for financial applications.
A student who once caused a blackout mining Ethereum went on to build financial infrastructure backed by Mark Cuban.
Imagine if he'd decided crypto wasn't worth the trouble.
Codedscientist retweeted
If you think your day is off to a bad start, think about this guy.
He turned bullish on $BTC about 2 hours ago and opened a long as the price started bouncing back.
Less than 2 hours later, he was liquidated.
His total liquidation came to 121.33 $BTC worth $9.91 MILLION.
Imagine losing nearly $10M in less than 2 hours because you thought $BTC was about to bounce.
If you think your day is off to a bad start, think about this guy.
He turned bullish on $BTC about 2 hours ago and opened a long as the price started bouncing back.
Less than 2 hours later, he was liquidated.
His total liquidation came to 121.33 $BTC worth $9.91 MILLION.
Imagine losing nearly $10M in less than 2 hours because you thought $BTC was about to bounce.
Codedscientist retweeted
A Princeton professor worked in the White House, returned to academia, and helped turn a research idea into one of Ethereum's biggest scaling networks.
> Ed Felten was already an established computer science professor at Princeton University.
> He had also served as deputy U.S. chief technology officer in the Obama White House.
> But years before Arbitrum existed, Ed was thinking about a problem that could limit the future of blockchain.
> Ethereum could run smart contracts, but its capacity was limited, and transaction fees could become expensive when demand surged.
> In 2014, Ed began exploring how blockchain transactions could be processed offchain while still being verified securely.
> He even discussed the idea in a Princeton class seminar.
> Then he went to work at the White House.
> When he returned to academia, two graduate students, Steven Goldfeder and Harry Kalodner, approached him about the scaling idea.
> Ethereum was experiencing congestion, and the problem was becoming impossible to ignore.
> The three began working together to turn the research into something people could actually use.
> In 2018, they published their research on Arbitrum and co-founded Offchain Labs.
> Their goal was to help Ethereum process more activity at lower cost without giving up its security guarantees.
> After years of development, Arbitrum One launched publicly in 2021.
> The academic research had become a real network, used by developers and applications across DeFi.
A professor who once explored blockchain scaling in a university classroom helped turn that idea into infrastructure used across Ethereum.
Imagine if he'd treated it as just another academic research project and never tried to build it.
Codedscientist retweeted
It's crazy how your brain can get addicted to something without you even realizing it.
A few months ago, I started taking daily walks seriously because I didn't want to live a sedentary life.
Now, once it's time for my walk, I can't seem to focus on anything else.
My brain keeps reminding me that I should be outside, even when I'm in the middle of doing something else. 😭
And it got me thinking about how powerful our brains are.
The more you repeat something, the more natural it becomes.
Eventually, you might find yourself craving the very thing you once had to force yourself to do.
Imagine if we could get addicted to all the things that make us better.
What has become a habit in your life that you can no longer go without?
Codedscientist retweeted
A man bet $325 on a golf tournament and believed he had turned it into $14.2 MILLION. DraftKings voided all five bets and refunded his money. He sued, arguing the sportsbook changed the rules after accepting his wagers.
– Nicholas Bavas, 37, from Dallas County, Iowa, spotted an opportunity during the 2024 Pebble Beach Pro-Am as bad weather threatened to cut the tournament short.
– On February 3, he placed five bets predicting how the golfers would finish.
– The bets were worth a combined $325, with potential payouts totaling $14.2 MILLION.
– DraftKings was still accepting wagers even as the weather threatened the final round.
– Bavas bet on the positions of golfers who were leading after the third round.
– The tournament was eventually called after 54 holes, making those standings the official results.
– According to Bavas and his lawyers, all five bets matched the final standings.
– But DraftKings voided them and returned his stakes instead of paying the potential winnings.
– This won't happen with prediction markets.
– On a prediction market, traders take positions against other participants, with payouts determined by the market's contract rules and resolution process.
– You're not relying on a traditional sportsbook to honor a winning bet under its house rules.
– Bavas argued that DraftKings' rules at the time didn't allow the company to void his particular type of multi-player parlay.
– His lawyers also argued that DraftKings changed its rules after the tournament to address similar situations.
– DraftKings disputed his claim, arguing that its house rules allowed it to void wagers under these circumstances.
– Bavas sued in 2025, seeking the $14.2 MILLION he believed he was owed.
– But the case didn't end in his favor. In July 2026, the court ruled for DraftKings, rejecting his bid to recover the money.
He risked $325 chasing $14.2 MILLION. The tournament ended early, his picks lined up with the final standings, and he took the fight to court. In the end, DraftKings won the legal battle, and Bavas walked away without the millions he was chasing.