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The Person Who Taught Me Everything About Crypto Was Wrong About Almost All of It

11 Jun 2026 7 minute read 2 comments Cloudy12

There is always someone. A person who was there before you. Who spoke about crypto with a fluency that made you feel like you had arrived somewhere important and were fortunate enough to have a guide. Someone who had the vocabulary, the confidence, t...

The Night I Almost Quit Crypto — And What Stopped Me

10 Jun 2026 8 minute read 1 comment Cloudy12

I remember the exact moment. It was late. Everyone else in the house was asleep. The kind of quiet that makes everything feel heavier than it actually is. I was sitting with the screen in front of me and the number that used to represent something me...

The Social Media Psy-Op You Missed: Why the Dislike Button Disappeared

9 Jun 2026 5 minute read 1 comment MMAPMagazine

How Removing the Once Powerful Dislike Button Changed Social Media Forever By Michaelson Williams, TSX, author of YOU ARE ILLUMINATI, Trainwashing: The Secrets of Positive Brain Washing, True Success Naturally, The Legacy Wife, and more... You're not...

The Moment Crypto Stops Being About Money — And Becomes About Identity

9 Jun 2026 8 minute read 2 comments Cloudy12

Ask someone why they bought Bitcoin and they will give you a financial answer. Store of value. Hedge against inflation. Digital gold. Limited supply. Institutional adoption. They will cite statistics and use precise vocabulary and sound like someone...

The Crypto Investor Who Never Panics — Does That Person Actually Exist?

8 Jun 2026 7 minute read 14 comments Cloudy12

You have met this person. Maybe in a Telegram group. Maybe on crypto Twitter. Maybe in a conversation with a friend who got into Bitcoin two years before you did. The market drops thirty percent in a week and they appear in every comment section with...

Why Losing Money in Crypto Hurts More Than Losing It Anywhere Else

7 Jun 2026 9 minute read 0 comments Cloudy12

He did not tell his wife for three weeks. The money was gone — not all of it, but enough. Enough that the number sat in his chest like something physical every time he sat across from her at dinner. Every time she mentioned a holiday they had been pl...

The Dopamine Loop: How Crypto Exchanges Are Designed to Keep You Hooked

6 Jun 2026 6 minute read 2 comments Cloudy12

He opened the app just to check. That was all. Just a quick look at the price. Thirty seconds maximum. Forty-five minutes later he was still there. He had checked the price fourteen times. He had read through the order book twice even though he did n...

Why Your Brain Was Never Built to Handle Crypto

5 Jun 2026 6 minute read 0 comments Cloudy12

It was 2 AM. The price had dropped 40% in six hours. His hands were shaking slightly as he stared at the screen — not from cold, but from something older and more primal than that. His chest was tight. His thoughts were moving fast but going nowhere...

When profit is more important than people: films about manipulation

3 Jun 2026 7 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard

Zen blog post in Russianhttps://dzen.ru/a/agA7MbHSbCnaW_tw Films about how the addiction and influence industries manipulate society for profit. Films about how corporations are changing our behavior. Two films about how people lie to your face and h...

How do people become part of a system of violence

31 May 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Zen blog post in Russianhttps://dzen.ru/a/adoxIAWZCX0bEHiI At what point does this become the norm and people stop noticing it? At what point would you not have stopped yourself and not even noticed it? Step by step. No one logs into the system think...