💤 Work-life balance is key, but a lot of us work hard in the week and wait until the weekend to touch grass. In reality, it’s not great to put off rest and recreation until the end of the week.
Think about other aspects of maintaining work-life balance. Keep work to certain hours in the day, and make sure you block out at least the hour or two before bed. Take breaks in the day – even short ones – to enjoy some fresh air, exercise, and time with friends and family.
And sleep. That’s something you really can’t catch up on at the weekend, at least not effectively. If you want to operate at peak capacity in a sustainable way, get those regular Zs!
👾 Games will never be the same. At CES 2025, NVIDIA takes center stage with its Avatar Cloud Engine for Games, bringing virtual AI characters to titles like PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, inZOI, and NARAKA: BLADEPOINT Mobile PC Version.
This marks a new era in gaming, where character interactions are not just realistic, but truly alive. As a fan of great games, I’m excited to see where this tech takes us. AI is changing the game. Literally.
🏄♂ The market is flooded with meme coins. Three different $Farmcoin tokens were launched almost simultaneously. An investor lost over $22,000 on each. Cloning useless projects misleads people and shakes trust in the industry.
The takeaway: always DYOR, assess project's real value, and avoid jumping into hype. A smart approach saves both money and nerves.
🔐 You don’t need a hardware wallet to keep your crypto private keys safe. A paper wallet or other physical medium is a fantastic backup. It’s also ideal for long-term storage.
Make sure you generate the keys offline and keep your backups safe. You can optionally encrypt them with a password. BitAddress.org is a good service to explore for this.
This is a simple, powerful way to safely store crypto. When you need it, you simply import the keys back into a wallet app. In the meantime, your funds are untouchable.
🤟 Crypto is the new global trend. The Czech National Bank is considering Bitcoin for its reserves, and Chile is looking at a similar bill. The world is starting to recognize digital assets as real financial tools.
Money is about trust, and crypto is changing the game. Trust is now built on tech and transparency, not central control.
🧠 New year, new knowledge. Speaking of NVIDIA, the company just launched a series of 9 free AI courses. So if you’re eyeing your next course, this might be the one.
Learning AI today isn’t just about landing your next job — it’s about getting a front-row seat to how tech is changing the world. The more people get in on it, the smarter and more powerful AI will get.
🌱 “It’s terrible for the environment!” This has been a criticism of Bitcoin for years now. Bitcoin’s proof-of-work consensus requires a lot of energy, and in the past, much of that has been generated by dirty fossil fuels.
Not any more. In fact, Bitcoin is one of the cleanest industries on the planet thanks to miners’ preference for renewable energy sources. Moreover, it’s playing a key role in helping stabilize energy grids.
If you’re looking for more information on this, Daniel Batten has some fascinating research and is doing some great work educating journalists and mainstream media. It’s well worth a look to arm yourself with some counter-arguments to this common bit of misinformation.
👾 Do transaction signatures ruin your game vibe? Signing during gameplay is one Web3 pain point gamers want gone. Every pop-up messes with the flow, as seen here.
Sure, there are fixes like session keys and overlays. But the real future? Making blockchain interactions smooth and invisible. Games should be fun, not full of distractions. Developers, take notes.
📚 A lesson in greed and fear. A crypto enthusiast, driven by FOMO, jumped into $MPLX at its peak and locked in a $59,000 loss in two hours. Ironically, he did it twice.
Greed pushes us to take risks, while fear makes us bail at the worst moment. This emotional rollercoaster is every trader's biggest enemy.
☢️ How about a home nuclear reactor? Enron’s satirical comeback has the internet buzzing. In a viral video, their fictional CEO claims the "Enron Egg" can power homes for a decade. Cue the jokes—and meme coins, of course.
It’s ironic that Enron, synonymous with scandal, now inspires "investment tools." This parody perfectly highlights how the line between brilliance and absurdity keeps getting blurrier.
💻 We’re nearly a week into 2025. If you made a resolution to start a new career in Web3, how is it going?
If you’ve not yet started looking for a job, then there’s no better time than now! Take a look on LaborX and see if there’s anything that’s a good fit for you.
Alternatively, if you’re just looking for more experience at this point, why not join a few Discords and offer your services – whatever they are – to the founders and teams of projects you like? It can’t hurt to ask!
💀 Scam Sniffer reports that phishing attacks cost the crypto industry $494M in 2024—a 67% increase from last year. Over 332K addresses hit, with a single theft topping a jaw-dropping $55.48M.
Scammers are leveling up, using slicker tricks to fool users. Stay sharp, guys. Double-check links, vet sources, and never share your keys or passwords. In crypto, your paranoia is your best defense.
🍀 Some traders kicked off the year with wild stories. One turned $1,150 in $BABYSHARK into $5.4M, another flipped a $874 buy into $3.1M.
But it’s not all wins. Someone dropped $42K on $Asha and lost it in seconds.
So yeah, once again: meme coins are risky. Play smart and never invest more than you can afford to lose.
🔗 Why do we talk about decentralization so much? What is it about decentralization that the crypto world is so obsessed about?
It’s actually pretty simple. Decentralized = no overall control, no single points of failure. It means anyone can use the protocol and no authority can intervene.
Ultimately it’s about freedom.
👾 Web3 games are great, but I don’t expect “full” Web3 games to take off (yet). The real innovation is regular Web2 games with Web3 mechanics.
Games aren’t like crypto transfers or DeFi platforms. They don’t have to fully exist on-chain for the sake of trustlessness and transparency. Arguably, early Web3 games hamstrung themselves by seeking to do too much on the blockchain.
The new generation of “Web3-enabled” games uses NFTs and blockchain tokens to represent the things that matter, like characters, items, and currencies, but don’t necessarily seek to create complex tokenomic models. That serves a genuine need, without imposing too much of a learning curve on gamers.
😱 A fee as high as a fortune. Human errors and system glitches remind us to always double-check transactions. The 1068 $SOL paid for one transaction could’ve been saved with more attention.
It’s also a reminder to carefully consider using trading bots. Even experienced users can make mistakes. Stay vigilant and assess the risks of automation.
🎯 Stay focused. The shocking events of the new year, both globally and in crypto, may have thrown many off track. But CZ reminded us:
if you can't see the opportunity in front of you right now, you're ngmi. markets are down but builders keep building. stay focused anon.
🎣 Google has made it again, now showing THREE phishing ads posing as Virtuals Protocol instead of one before. It's troubling that scammers can just pay to top search results, while Google lets these ads slip through its filters.
Phishing is evolving, but staying vigilant is the best defense. Protect your assets, guys.
🔍 Always zoom out and see the bigger picture. $1.7 million in profit over 7 days sounds like a jackpot, but with only 35% winning trades, it’s more "gamble" than "guarantee."
Big profit comes with big risk. Trading’s not a luck game, it’s strategy, patience, and losses. Only risk what you’re ok with losing.
🤔 Is Bitcoin really a bad idea as a strategic reserve? Economist Steve Hanke thinks it’ll freeze funds and slow down growth. Sure, if you ignore the whole "digital gold" thing.
Well guess what, Bitcoin’s not just sitting there. It powers blockchain tech, creates jobs, and boosts demand for energy-efficient solutions. It’s actively moving through exchanges, DeFi, and more — definitely not frozen in time.
⚙ CES 2025 is happening in Las Vegas, and AI is everywhere. Day one brought some wild innovations: an AI mirror that scans your heart, weight, and metabolic health (goodbye, awkward doctor visits), AI-powered glasses, and NVIDIA’s open-source video world for the robot-filled future.
AI keeps impressing us and quickly becomes a part of everyday life, getting smarter and more accessible each year. It’s shaping up to make our world more convenient, safer, and dare we say, a bit cooler.
💰 Money should have certain properties. When you think about it, cryptocurrencies were inevitable. It was a technical challenge, but one we always needed to solve.
Money is a store of value, unit of account, and medium of exchange. It is NOT supposed to be a way of controlling its users. Money is too important to become a tool of the state or large corporations.
Of course, governments and banks disagree 😬 Which is why CBDCs are one of the big themes to watch in the industry.
🤖 AI agents in crypto are kinda double-edged sword. They bring automation, predictions, and smarter solutions for trading, DeFi, and security. But with benefits come risks like market manipulation and system flaws.
AI is trusted, but relying solely on it isn’t wise. Wanna know more? Check out Google’s technical paper.
⭐ Forbes calls Bitcoin a rising star in the global economy. Governments eye it for reserves, inflation-proofing, and a shot at financial freedom.
So is Bitcoin a global equalizer now or was it just another power move? Hard to say, but one thing’s for sure: digital assets are in the spotlight.
💸 Bitcoin just keeps surprising people. It has been declared dead by mainstream media and “experts” hundreds of times. And yet it’s still here and thriving.
Check out some of these expert opinions from the last few years. They’re pretty funny with hindsight. Professionals at the top of their careers have just got it completely wrong.
It’s all a good reminder to pay attention to the signal, not the noise. This technology is transformational and incredible. It can be easy to get distracted by loud voices saying otherwise.
👑 How many BTC do you need to rule? Here's a fun scale floating around.
0.1 BTC = New Rich
1 BTC = Lifetime of wealth for family
6.15 BTC = Bloodline is forever wealthy
10 BTC = Corporate overlord status
100 BTC = You can purchase U.S. Senate seats
500 BTC = You rule a small country
1,000 BTC = Illuminati membership secured.
🔎 If the meme coin market still tempts you, always DYOR. Research saves you from losses and the hype-induced illusions. A key metric is the share of holders with over $100 invested. The higher it is, the stronger and more stable the community.
Meme coins are alluring, but success favors those who think smart, assess risks, and trust facts—not emotions.
🧠 AGI (artificial general intelligence) is coming. This means that within the near future – possibly just 2-3 years – we will have systems that can mimic human thinking in practically every area of life.
Once that happens, artificial super-intelligence won’t be far off. For the first time in human history, we won’t be the smartest species on the planet.
2025 is an amazing and humbling year to be alive!
💸 Crypto losses from hacks in December dropped to $29 million, according to security firm Certik. That’s down from $116 million in October and $64 million in November.
There are probably a few reasons why it was lower than other months (people using DeFi less over the holiday period, for example). It’s still a lot of money, but good to see the figures dropping!
Hopefully the trajectory will continue, as users and the industry get a better handle on security. Without that, Web3 adoption will be limited. We’ll have to see what happens in the opening months of this year.
🌐 DePIN, or decentralized public infrastructure networks, is one of the big themes to watch this year. These are networks that provide public services, but unlike conventional utilities, they’re decentralized.
Think communications, data storage, even decentralized identity. Like cryptos, these reduce single points of failure and are censorship resistant, increasing access and fairness.
As more and more of the tech services we use are controlled by trillion-dollar corporations, DePIN offers a very attractive alternative of user-run utilities.
