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Here’s what we got for you today:

• ✍️ 5 visuals every crypto investor needs to see

• ✍️ Trump is launching a DeFi platform to ‘leave the big banks behind’

• 🎙️ The Milk Road Show: Will Ethereum, Bitcoin or Something Else be Money In The Onchain Economy w/ Kyle Reidhead

• 🍪 MicroStrategy acquired 18,300 more Bitcoin

5 VISUALS EVERY CRYPTO INVESTOR NEEDS TO SEE 👀

Sure, skipping the instruction manual might make for a great Reddit post when building IKEA furniture…

But doing the same when investing is a fast track to getting rekt.

Here’re five charts and visuals that should be part of every investor’s handbook: 

1/ The early bird gets the summer house in The Hamptons

The sooner you start investing → the sooner you can start compounding your returns → the greater the potential outcome. 🐦️ 

Check this out:

2/ Learn to read the market → avoid max pain

Ah, buying the top and selling the bottom – an age old tradition followed by many first-time investors.

It ain’t a fun time! Learning to listen to the market’s signals is like taking a daily baby aspirin – both can help you avoid a heart attack. 💔 

3/ “This too shall pass”

So you’ve learned to read the market’s signals enough to avoid max pain…

But it doesn’t mean there won’t be any pain. Bear markets are inevitable. 🐻 

But thankfully, they tend to be shorter than bull runs:

4/ Reinvest your earnings – seriously, the power of compounding is WILD!

If you took $0.01 and doubled it every day for thirty days, you’d have – I dunno, what, like $1,000?

Checks correct answer 

$5.3M!? Wow.

Ok. Guess there’s a reason Einstein (yes, that Einstein) called compound interest "The eighth wonder of the world."

Are you going to be able to double your money everyday for 30 days? No.

But when you’re playing the long game, you don’t need to – investing $5,500 per year compounding at an average of 10% per year would make you a millionaire in 30 years time. 🤯 

5/ Traders make millions, investors make billions

There are very few billionaire traders in the world, while there’s a glut of billionaire investors.

Want more free time, and greater returns in the long run? Learn to invest.

Our two cents? Be like Warren. 

He didn’t build generational wealth with a single trade. He did it by: 

• Picking solid assets 

• Structuring his portfolio properly 

• Keeping a long-term time horizon 

If you want to succeed in crypto, that’s what you gotta do too. To help you out, we launched the Milk Road PRO Portfolio a few months ago. 

Good news: We’re now revamping it — we’re revealing our strategies (yield farming, lending, staking etc.) to generate passive income. 🔥 

There’s more: Tomorrow, we’re launching a PRO report that goes deep into our reasoning behind each yield strategy.

TRUMP IS LAUNCHING A DEFI PLATFORM TO ‘LEAVE THE BIG BANKS BEHIND’ 😦

In case you missed it: Trump is launching his very own DeFi platform, ‘World Liberty Financial’ (WLFi). 

WLFi aims to allow users to store money in a digital wallet, offer a credit account system, borrow or lend cash, and use tokens to invest in assets like crypto.

DeFi platform launch + public swing at the banking system = catnip for Crypto Twitter.

Now, imagine going back in time, to 2021 (right after Trump came out against Bitcoin) → finding your past self → and telling them that modern-day DJT:

1. Has made $7M from selling NFTs

2. Currently holds $2.8M worth of $ETH

3. Has taken in $119M of crypto campaign funding

4. Plans to launch his very own DeFi platform

5. And is launching the platform two months out from the close of his second re-election bid

You’d sooner expect Ashton Kutcher to jump out of some nearby bushes and say “you’ve been Punk’d,” than actually believe yourself. 🤣 

But here we are…

On the upside: Trump now has skin in the game, which means if he wins, it’s in his interest to support the crypto industry outside of his re-election bid.

On the downside: If he loses, the US crypto industry could have an even larger target on its back, from political opponents looking to twist the proverbial knife and amplify Trump’s defeat.

But remember: Crypto will succeed no matter who wins.

WHAT WILL BE THE 'MONEY' OF CRYPTO? 💰

Within the Bitcoin ecosystem $BTC is money. Within Ethereum, $ETH is money…

But as we see ‘wrapped’ assets (e.g. $cbBTC = $BTC on Ethereum) spreading across ecosystems – could one asset become the dominant ‘money’ of crypto?

Kyle Reidhead joins us on today’s episode of The Milk Road Show to shed light on this potentiality, covering:

• Will $ETH remain a viable form of money over time?

• Can $ETH face competition as money within its own ecosystem?

• The bull and bear cases for L1 tokens as money in their ecosystems

Click below to catch the full episode! 👇

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DISCLAIMER: None of this is financial advice. This newsletter is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Please be careful and do your own research.