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Don’t Create Cornered Foes: Why Annihilating a Competitor Backfires

12 Sep 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Mojtaba Mohkam

We've all seen it: the toxic tribalism, the gleeful schadenfreude when a rival chain has an outage, the maximalist rhetoric hoping for a competitor's total collapse. In crypto, competition is often framed as a war. But what if this win-at-all-costs m...

Shelter the Cornered Traders: How a "Crypto Asylum" Could Break the Cycle of Loss

8 Sep 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Mojtaba Mohkam

We've likely seen this behavior around us. Maybe we ourselves were even involved in such behavior. The trader who is down 80% on a speculative Altcoin, yet instead of cutting their losses, they mortgage their logic and buy more. They’re not buying ou...

Stop Digging: Spotting "Crypto Extremism" and Escaping the Cornered Trap in Your Portfolio

30 Aug 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Mojtaba Mohkam

We’ve all seen it; maybe we’ve even been it: the trader who watches their portfolio bleed out, yet instead of selling, they borrow more to buy the dip. The Bitcoin maximalist who, faced with a rising Ethereum, digs their heels in deeper. The degen wh...

Break Free: Unmasking the 'Compelled' & 'Cornered' Choices That Control Your Crypto

19 Aug 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Mojtaba Mohkam

You’ve probably heard of “inferior goods” and “Giffen goods” in economic theory, concepts where demand defies logic, rising as incomes fall or even as prices increase. But do these dry, academic terms truly capture the human struggle behind such choi...