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"Don't blow up" - Merp on drawdowns, freedom, and surviving crypto
In this episode, Merp shares his journey from hospitality work during COVID to trading crypto full-time, navigating early bull-market luck, painful drawdowns, and the realities of maturing markets. We talk about buying dips, overthinking versus ignorance, working at a crypto fund through the FTX collapse, and why human dynamics often break funds. The conversation dives into perp DEXs vs options, airdrop farming, Hyperliquid, Extended, CT culture, founder behavior, and the social side of markets. We close with reflections on freedom, what it really means to “make it,” crypto’s future, and why…
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