Today Friday, I'm getting ready to spend time with old friends and acquaintances for dinner, drinks, and a good time at the casino. To those who live on the other side of the world, I wish you a good day! 🙏 In a few days, we'll return to the UAE to resume our normal routine.

GM from beautiful Macau! 🫡

Today I received the XTEINK at my hotel in Macau, loaded up Neuromancer, and went down to the seaside to listen to the birds and enjoy reading. Could there be a better plan?

I'm not in a DEX war, and competition is necessary, but.... Hourly funding on Hyperliquid: 0.0047!!! Yes, HOURLY!! If you add up the fees, slippage, and funding, even though I'm in the Top #100 on HL, I'm moving all my trading to Lighter. Both platforms are great for ease of use, and for my workflow, I don't notice any difference! well ... the difference is thousands of euros lost in commissions, and for trading crypto per-performers, I don't care if it's L1 or L19! 🫡

Be prepared for what's coming...

Arriving in Macau for a couple of weeks, meeting up with friends, and late-night casino games!! The best way to start the year and get the finances in order.... 🤫

"The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy." - The Matrix (1999)

In my personal opinion, there are currently completely "clean" alternatives for setting up systems (PCs) free of backdoors and leaks, using open-source hardware or auditable designs, without forced proprietary firmware, such as RISC-V (based on JH7110), with OpenOBS, Wireguard VPN, Tor, end-to-end encryption (E2EE) protocols, and secure-by-design, and a whole suite of open-source programs. This should be, in my view, the minimum system I use as a crypto environment to avoid any suspicion regarding proprietary firmware in chips, processors, motherboards, operating systems, etc... You can never be too careful, and I don't trust products from Microsoft, AMD, Nvidia, Apple, Meta, Alphabet (Google), Oracle, Cisco, etc... Generally, There are surely "clean" alternatives for everything you need.