Quick Summary of @Arthur_0x on the FTX Podcast. How he made an 80x return on his fund in 2 years of Defi investing. 0/8👇

1/ Look for projects that have resilient founders that don’t give up. $SNX and $AAVE survived the last bear market and adapted to make the most of the the Defi market as it took off.
2/ Look for big brain discussions early on with intellectually curious developers. Interestingly he cites Hal Finneys thought experiments on Bitcoins Total Addressable Market on Bitcointalk. Link https://t.co/X3ILNBxJXd
3/ Community focus. SNX reacted well to a frontrunning issue by Airdropping to those affected. @kaiynne stepping back shows how it is community managed now.
4/ Focus on fundamentals and be active. Look to help teams and you will build a reputation and get more information as a result. Being active also means using the app an seeing some evidence of traction. Become a power user.
5/ Finance is currently the main use case for blockchains, so he watches Defi primarily. This allowed him to go deep and avoid distractions. Blockchain gaming is promising but still a bit centralised. @AxieInfinity is their only non finance investment.
6/ He concentrated his bets initially. Easier to do when you have time to make bets on protocols that you deeply understand. Bear market was a good time for this.
7./ Current Opportunities? Custody and trading are not yet separate. Most ppl just use metamask. There are attempts to solve this. Fireblocks are working with Compound. Under Collateralized borrowing and capital efficiency have great potential. TrueFi are one example.
Sushiswap transitioned from bad actor to positive force in October 2020. Kept building, became top 5 DEX, 5 basis point trading fee to stakers could return your money in 1-2 yrs. Devs open to composability and community feedback. Rare fork that has gathered talented contributors.
Link to @FTX_Official Podcast. https://t.co/TqsWCoskTH

More from Trading

1/ Feels like a good time to tell the story of how I went from broke to a millionaire to broke again in 2017/18 again...

Yesterday was brutal for some people...

Losing life-changing money sucks, losing any money sucks...you can chase the market or you can change your strategy.

2/ The original thread is gone but you can read it here.

https://t.co/cLLNs75rB0

tl;dr
- Traded $32k to $1.2m
- Thought I was a genius
- Made poor investments
- Didn't conserve capital
- Peaked at 150 BTC
- Lost nearly all of it

2 weeks from losing my house + no income. Oops.

3/ I am going to assume you are in it for the money rather than the tech. Yeah, you might Tweet about the amazing blockchaining of cross-border payments and oracles yadda yadda...really, you are in it to make money.

If you are really in it for the tech, go and build something.

4/ Okay, so if you want to make money, trading is super hard, you are trading against:
- Better traders than you
- People who can move markets
- Unknown information

And if you are trading with leverage you might blow up your account with the volatility.

5/ If you are not trading, you are investing. Okay, so what are you investing in?

I made the decision that the crypto with the best opportunity of existing in 10 years is #Bitcoin:
- Solves a genuine problem
- The right tech
- A proven track record

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