If you bought a house for $500,000 fifteen years ago and sold it for $2,500,000 today you would have still underperformed the S&P 500. I think people get amazed by real estate returns cause it's the one asset they actually just HODL for a long time.

Trump went from President Elect to Satoshi Nakamoto to Hawk Tuah over the course of 48 hours.

Google just announced that their quantum chip Willow was able to do a computation in five minutes that would take current top-tier computers 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years to figure out. Can someone a lot smarter than me explain what this means, if anything, for crypto?

In 2004, when I graduated college, I saw that Facebook was hiring for someone to be a "customer service representative." Facebook had blown up at Stanford where I had just graduated, so I emailed the "jobs" address and got an email back from Dustin Moscovitz, founder of FB. After a couple emails, he stopped responding, so instead I took a job as a first-year analyst at Goldman Sachs. (9-post thread, old-school style)

A single wallet made $9mn on Melania, $5mn on Libra, $3mn on Trump and $670k on JellyJelly. This wallet ALSO bought 10%+ of $HARRYBOLZ a few days before Elon changed his name. Glued-to-screen trench warrior? What are the signals one could look at to crush like this?

Blast could very well drop people $1,500,000,000 in instant liquidity in two months. So I post about it a fair bit.

Missed the $LIBRA madness while you were being a good Valentine? Here's the recap: 1) Argentinian President tweets out a token 2) Token rockets to a $4.5bn valuation in 2 hours 3) Insiders pull out $87mn 4) Token crashes 90% 5) President deletes tweet, denies involvement 6) Token dumps another 60% So what are we trading tomorrow?

I’m excited to say today's my first day at @proof_xyz as Director of Research I’ve seen a gap in NFTs for research combining analytics & on-the-ground narrative. I built this Twitter w that in mind & see PROOF as the best platform to extend the work to a wider audience (1/5 🧵)

Bought a Kennel Club for 3.75 ETH. Sold it for 12.1 ETH. Lost $500.

The Vine founder sold his company for $30mn in 2012. He launched a memecoin and it's now worth $340mn. Honest question: what do you think that says about our industry and way of valuing things?

NFT NYC is just a big wealth transfer from degens to Uber drivers.

When I worked at Goldman Sachs in Asia, the partner I worked with did almost no work. His genius was that he convinced the guys in research that he was doing tons of work for the guys in banking. He convinced the guys in banking he was doing tons of work for the guys in private wealth. And he convinced the guys in private wealth that he was doing a tons work for the guys in research. And I was getting paid by him so I had no reason to break the illusion. Basically just flew around the world business class on the company’s dollar. Gotta be some lessons there.

A Hyperliquid whale shorted $300mn of BTC with a liquidation price of around $86.6k. CBB tried to get a group of people together to push up the price of BTC and get him liquidated. He claimed he had 8-figs of money committed. BTC candled up a couple percent, but didn't quite hit the liquidation price. Story ongoing.

Ok. Long thread on the BendDAO situation: 1) They've run out of ETH. There is just 12.5 WETH in the contract. 2) What does this mean? People who lent money to others via BendDAO to buy NFTs on leverage can't pull their money out. About 15,000 ETH was lent. (1/9)

I see so many complaints that NFTs are hype only. Gucci is hype-only. Diamonds are hype-only. Rolex is hype-only. Hermes is hype-only. High-end vodka is hype-only. Humans gravitate towards brands that make them feel good. NFTs are no different.

Current bag: 2x punks 1x BAYC 1x MAYC 1x M1 Serum 4x Kennels 1x Azuki 8x WoW 2x Doodles 5x BossBeauties 14x Quirkies 3x CryptoChicks 2x WomenAndWeapons 2x Clones 1x v1 punk 2x Robotos 2x Coolman What do I need to add? What should I sell?

$PEPE is now worth more than every single major NFT project, across blockchains, combined.

I've officially joined the team at @Memeland. When visiting Hong Kong in December I got to spend a lot of time w @9gagceo, who I've been friends with for 10+ years. A lot gets me pumped about the opportunity of working with him, @0xChar and the full team. 1) 9gag is one of the few web2 businesses that's transitioned successfully to web3. The web3 business started as the "alternative revenue stream" and it ultimately became a huge product. 2) The team incentives are fully aligned w the community. They have kept all their mint and royalty ETH on-chain until now, not extracting anything from their success. That means there's a lot of ETH to invest in growing the platform. 3) @9gagceo is the best in the game. And a legit good person. 4) They understand online culture, have a tech team that successfully built an internet business, have massive distribution, a strong foothold in Asia + global markets, and operate with expertise in both NFTs and tokens. I will be focused on scaling the team, investing, finding opportunities for @stakeland and serving the $MEME community. We'll be hiring, investing, & working with projects. More to come.

One of the main reasons I didn't do the interview is cause I didn't want to disappoint my boss at Goldman Sachs who had taken a risk by hiring me. That boss ended up leaving my team just two months later. So any loyalty I felt to him was not rewarded for long. Now I tell people to be loyal to yourself above all else. Truly, corporations have no loyalty to you. I've seen corporations fire the very founders who created the corporation themselves. Always do what's best for yourself.

A wallet moved $3,000,000 to Polymarket today and put it all immediately on "YES" for Trump. His only issue: he cleared the whole order book and bought $274,300 worth of shares at 99.7%.

'@CirrusNFT just had a borrower default on a $150k loan for a @tylerxhobbs 1-of-1 NFT which could easily be sold for $300k. Instead of turning around and selling the NFT and pocketing the $150k extra profit, Cirrus pinged the borrower to see if it was an oversight. Borrower said it was a mistake, paid back the loan, and thanked him for not taking the NFT and selling it. Hands-down, one of the best guys in the space.

4500 ETH bid placed. 4500 ETH bid accepted. $16,000,000 sale, the second largest on-chain punk sale ever.

820 ETH: What Scottie Scheffler just earned for winning the Masters, after 20 years of work becoming the best of millions of golfers in the world 900 ETH: The amount my friend was just offered for an ape he spent $210 minting 11 months ago, and then did no work on

A massive theft appears to be happening right now --- all these NFTs have been stolen from wallets... some of the absolute top tier apes.

Things you spent a lot of money on and never use. I’ll go first.

Coinbase NFT has done 5 ETH of total volume so far today. 🙈 dune.com/cryptuschrist/Coinb…

A couple of months ago, I decided it was time to find new opportunities in our space. Today feels like the right time to make my departure from PROOF official. I leave with only incredible memories and gratitude. First to @kevinrose for trusting me with his platform in a way few CEOs would and always allowing me to maintain my independence. To @JustinMezzell who has a very real desire to do what’s right by those around him. To @eli_schein who runs an incredible art business and holds those around him to a standard only surpassed by the standard he sets for himself. To @akasteveyyy who believes deeply in her work and carries it on her sleeve. To @wardaddycapital who brings some of the most fun energy to web3. To @maubrowncow who empowered me from the start and was a true partner in building out a web3 media channel. To @corporatetrash1 who dove in and made our product her own. To @MaggiRichmond, the best events person in the game. And lots lots more. Quick thoughts on the Yuga acquisition: I didn't know this was coming when I decided to move on, but I have a ton of respect for what they've been able to accomplish and look forward to following along. I'm excited for next steps, more to come on that a bit later 👀

Goose sells for $5.4mn, 3237 ETH. In ETH terms it's the highest Art Blocks ever sold and nothing is even close. Second highest was 2100 ETH.

If the floor fell yesterday, is it likely to drop again or go up today? What about if it went up yesterday? NFTs are momentum assets. Buying dips hasn't worked well and buying strength has. A quick thread: 🧵👇 (1/6) .

Imagine buying $50k of Apple stock on eTrade & getting a message 3 hours later that you can never sell it And it's flagged so selling on Robinhood only gets you $40k You did nothing wrong, just trusted eTrade & got unlucky That's @opensea's frozen asset policy

Getting my teeth cleaned and my hygienist says: 1) her husband has 100% of his money in XRP. He’s convinced it’s going to $1000. 2) there is a dog cartoon related to XRP and something with a castle and a king she mentioned that her husband talks about? 3) she said they can’t afford BTC which I thought was interesting. She’s educated etc. What are the channels that do the most XRP promoting? I hear extremely bullish people pretty often outside the trenches.

What did I do instead? I moved to Asia w Goldman Sachs in 2006 and then joined Uber as a first 50 employee in 2011. I also got interviews to be a first 200 employee at Airbnb. I worked at Uber for 7 years -- best experience of my life. The regret from the FB interview I skipped pushed me towards finding other once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. It made me realize they were out there and possible.

Machi just dumped 39 BAYC for $2.7mn. The follow-on dumps after he sold sent the price below 35 ETH. The good news is a bidder stepped in to stop the bleeding. The bad news is that bidder was Machi.

Hot damn wtf someone just swept more punks than I can count. $10,000,000 sweep in one go. What’s happening.

We're seeing a regular trend in 2022 with airdrops. 1) NFT pumps ahead of the drop 2) The combined value of OG NFT + drop tanks See 4 charts for examples. (1/2)

There were 3000 projects that had at least one sale at 1 ETH or higher in 2021 65% of them haven't had a single sale above 0.1 ETH in the past 3 months.

500 ETH on a floor ape so the insta post ape would perfectly match his lyrics. I kinda love it.

Bear market thoughts: 1) Even if we're early to NFTs, we're probably not early to most NFTs we own. It will be hard for a lot of these brands to rebound. 2) If you want to buy dips, find teams that have capital, vision, and a willingness to grind through slow times (1/4)

The Polymarket odds are suggesting that HBO will identify Len Sassaman, an American cryptographer who died at age 31 in 2011, as Satoshi. Currently he’s above 50%, which in a world with real insider information, feels significant.

Comparing BAYC, Azuki, and Moonbirds ETH prices, days after launch Things are getting crazier and crazier 🚀

Wow. I found this really surprising: So far in June, Goblins have made more in royalties than Yuga, Proof, RTFKT, Doodles, WoW, VeeFriends, & Azuki **combined**.

Machi got out of his punks position and has now realized ~4600 ETH in losses since Airdrop Season 2 began.

Some thoughts on this hack. 1) Millions of dollars of NFTs were stolen. I've never seen anything of this size. Some of the absolute top apes -- a few worth $300k+ -- were taken. 2) It appears to have hit people who did trades on NFT Trader in the past and still had permissions on the given wallets. 3) This means mainly BAYC, MAYC, WoW and older high value assets. Blur, x2y2, OpenSea swap are now the common vehicles for swaps. 4) The hacker started 4 hours ago and took a couple apes and then sold one. Then kept going. 5) The theft is continuing. Two more mutants were just stolen. 6) Revoking access to NFT Trader appears to be imperative at this time. 7) Truly tragic. Truly heartbreaking.

What a KING move. @GordonGoner buys this Zombie punk for 600 ETH. The man said he was going to buy some non-BAYC NFTs. He meant it.

At this point, I don’t think @stoolpresidente is trying to make money. He’s trying to make a mockery of memecoins and crypto. He’s discovered an infinite money glitch—he tweets a ticker to his 3.5M followers, it instantly moons, and he does it again. He’s amused by the hamster wheel of traders blindly following his moves, so he keeps spinning it. He’s now pump & dumped around 15 coins, and people still keep playing along. Why does it keep working? Perhaps memecoin traders hate boredom. When he tweets, there's activity. So they jump on the coals. A lot is automatic. Why don’t I think he cares about the money on these pump & dumps? Because he’s not that dumb. He keeps funneling profits into $JAILSTOOL—imo his personal burn address. He's said that he won't sell til $1bn. It's at $16mn. He’s already bought $700K, just to prove he’s not cashing out. Every "crypto legal expert" warning him he’s breaking the law just inspires him to do it more. He launched his last coin while quote-tweeting a hater. It's not investing or even trading. He's even stopped buying tokens and now just creates them and keeps half the supply. It's social experimentation mixed w a hint of crime and absurdity.

I just listened to @stoolpresidente’s Spaces for 27 minutes so you don’t have to (but it’s worth a listen). Here are the highlights: - Portnoy has wanted to launch a coin to fund his business. - In doing research, he met Hayden Mark Davis who launched Milei's token. - Hayden told Portnoy about the Milei launch ahed of time and that Milei was fully in on it. - When it launched, Portnoy bought a lot. - Hayden sent Portnoy free coins (6mn coins he said) - Portnoy was about to post about how awesome LIBRA is, but refused to do it without disclosing he had been given free tokens. - Hayden told him he couldn't disclose the free tokens. - Portnoy said "I can't post then" and he sent back the free tokens to Hayden - Price tanked, Portnoy says "wtf" to Hayden - Hayden says "don't worry, Milei will post again". Hayden even says that Elon will post (not sure if that was literal or not). - Suddenly Milei posts that he is not associated with it and Hayden's tone changes. - Portnoy talks about how Hayden wasn't likely rugging, as it wouldn't have made sense to lead Dave to slaughter, given he's trying to win Dave's business for Dave's coin. end of spaces A few extra things: - On LibraMyDick: Dave created the coin and had side wallets, and he burned his whole supply and made no money on it. - Dave said: "I'm the only honest trencher in this whole fucking world"

I FOMO’ed into BAYC at 37 Azuki at 8 Doodles at 7 Clones at 6 Kennel Club at 5 Moonbirds at 10 FOMO has treated me pretty well so far.

Going to Blockchain Conference in Korea ✅ Got Squiggle shaved in my head ✅ Ready to go.

BAYC had 2.5% royalties but made Otherdeed 5% royalties Why? Cause Azuki, Clones & Doods had 5% and no one cared Goblins are now 7.5% and no one cares. Makes me worried about precedent Short-term, FOMO rules Long-term, these royalty increases decay so much ETH from collectors

An Ape minted for 0.08 ETH less than a year ago is now worth 213.7 ETH, when you include the Ape, Mutant, Kennel, and ApeCoin. This is an all-time high for the set, up 2663x in ETH terms.

Wow. @greg16676935420 with the 2x ratio of Lebron. Impressive.

I love this new spot BTC trading on Hyperliquid. Buy BTC with your USDC on Arbitrum and send it straight to a Bitcoin wallet. Removes the centralized exchanges all together if you want to move across chains. A feature that actually changes things for me.

4 things I've learned about how NFT floor prices move: 1) NFTs are momentum assets. Floor prices are more likely to go up today if they went up yesterday. (1/4)

OpenSea volume collapsed among top sets yesterday. Just 1800 ETH between these sets: BAYC, MAYC, BAKC, Otherdeed, Doodles, Azuki, CloneX, Punks, Meebits, Moonbirds, WoW, CoolCats, VeeFriends Last time this metric was so low was November, when many of these sets didn't exist

If you're thinking "damn I wish I had loaded up on Apes in November, when the floor was below 40 ETH"... We're at that exact same price in USD right now. Floor was $173k USD then, which is the current USD floor.

On VV Checks, Jack Butcher has made $128,568 on mint $385,806 on royalties ---------- $514,374 total Vincent Van Dough's derivative of Checks just made more than 3x that in a day. $1,641,296 on mint

The $PENGU price down 11% on the day that $120mn of tokens were burnt, reducing supply by 12%. What's the takeaway here?

Seeing Elon get rid of the blue check/payments/subs for people who openly disagree and attack him feels like the opposite of the free speech platform he says he's for. The real test of free speech is how well you deal with people who disagree w you.

Wow, another 20 punks traded in an hour. Either just massive momentum or someone knows something. I’ve been following punks a long time; this is pretty unique volume.

I bought some BTC on RobinHood in October, 2021. After 2.5 years, the position is now up 2.4%.

ETH going down is supposed to be good for NFTs? Not in 2022. 1) The idea that ETH down is positive for NFTs has simply been false over the past 5 months. ETH and NFTs have broadly risen and fallen together. (3 quick tweets 🧵👇)

Since guys on my team advised on the @pain deal I got a bit of insight into how these launches work. First observation: snipers 1) Snipers were able to buy supply before the full LP was finished setting up on Meteora. The snipers spent $40k in fees fighting for first block access. This led to the chart going ballistic for the first 10 minutes. Was hard to avoid, despite working w the best in the biz at launches. 2) The snipers ended up having market orders that went out of control, sending the chart to $2bn. This was before anyone even received their airdrop. 3) The two casualties of it all were (a) the snipers who overpaid and lost a ton (buying from other snipers who were better) and (b) the chart (attached). Things settled to the $120mn range in about 15 minutes, once people started getting airdrops. Second observation: fake Dexscreener page 4) A scammer set up a token with the name of the contract address as the token name. This made anyone who input the CA into dexscreener search get a fake token that ended up sucking up 6-figs of liquidity. There are so many scam tokens doing real volume. Awful to see. 5) To avoid this, you need to input the CA directly into the URL as opposed to searching anything on DexScreener. Only way. The scams spoof volume too to make them seem real. Third observation: the team 6) The guys who worked w Harold recognize the environment we're in and wanted to make things as smooth as possible for the pre-salers and the community. All unreturned money from the pre-sale went into providing liquidity. Nice to see pre-salers have a W right now. Just wanted to put this out as a warning about the CA scam and a bit of insight that I got to see about snipers and how these launches work.

I’m sorry to everyone who thought I was a girl and had to realize I’m a 44-year-old man. I too believe this whole account about stats would be cooler if I were a girl. And doubly cooler if I had pink hair. But I’m a straight white male with a wife and three kids. I’m sorry. Again.

Only in NFTs would: 1) Someone build a derivative/imitation of checks and raise $900,000 in 20 hrs 2) The original checks artist change the art to be identical to the derivative 3) People keep buying both, sending OG check floor to 1.55 ETH and minting 10,000+ derivs per hour

The craziest thing about someone bidding $3,000,000 just now for something that’s actually — finally — totally worthless is the owner wont even accept it.

My wife was gone for 10 days. My kid’s teacher congratulated me on parenting on my own for that stretch. Intending to mean “we have a nanny so it wasn’t that difficult” I said “well I cheated with the nanny” Didn’t come out as intended. All the teachers stared at me. Was weird.

One thing I haven’t said but do believe: Launching a multi-billion dollar memecoin, especially while holding 80%, is a weird thing to do in the days before entering the most important and powerful public service role in the world. We can celebrate the gains and analyze the moment. But it’s weird.

This stat blows my mind Doodles are up 190x vs mint BUT the floor has gone down 103 days & up just 93 days How is this possible? It's actually true across NFTs. They grind lower & crash higher 👇quick🧵 (1/5)

aaaaaand a pudgy penguin just sold for 400 ETH

Thanks all for the 100,000 follows (though the rises and falls are so quick maybe I’ve lost it by the time you see this) I created this account cause I saw enough economic activity and connection in cartoon JPGs that I thought the space deserved to be taken seriously with analytics. My account has been sometimes more serious and sometimes less serious, sometimes more analytical and sometimes less analytical, but I’ve always put the audience’s trust above all else. And will continue to. Best thing has been learning so much from the people I meet here. And everyone who calls me out on every mistake I make 🫡 it’s the best auto-correct around. Appreciate you.

My name on X has gone from Punk9059 to PunkStats to PunkApeStats to NFTstatistics.eth to NFTstats.eth Today I decided to try on just calling myself Stats. Why? 1) It's what most people call me (though I'm fine w Sam or NFTstats or 9059 too) 2) My content has shifted from being all about ETH NFTs to being all about JPGs to being really about anything in the crypto space. 3) I increasingly just talk about what's on my mind, and having a name like "Stats" almost feels more just like a name, and open to a variety of topics than something as specific as NFTstats. 4) Maybe 3 makes no sense since the name is actually "Stats" I'll give you that. Anyways, going to try this on for size for a bit, and see if I can get used to it. Never easy to make a change like this on an account I spend so much time looking after and have gotten so used to but let's see how it goes.

Nakamigos have already done more lifetime trades than Bored Ape Yacht Club (36189 vs. 33475)

It looks like @0xf4d3 and @0xfoobar got to the source of the problem and LEGIT saved the day from further turmoil. As more hackers learned the vulnerability there were more and more NFTs being stolen until 15 minutes ago. They identified the issue, told NFT Trader how to fix it and it ended. 🫡

to be fair, we were at the exact same rate 3 months ago.

I've had @nodemonkes FOMO for 9 months. Finally got one.

This is a pretty crazy one. This @DeGodsNFT #9376 was stolen in a hack and the collection raised the royalty on that one NFT to 98%. This meant the seller will never make money selling the NFT. I guess you can do that in Solana. magiceden.io/item-details/Cf…

$WIF is worth 0.06% of what Apple is worth and Apple doesn’t even have a hat.

Market response to Azukis and Goblins after founders doxxed: Azuki: "We don't like the founder's reputation/past. You should never trust undoxxed teams." Goblins: "We like the founder's reputation/past but we prefer the mystery of undoxxed teams." It's a confusing game.

This trend continues: BAYC, Azuki, CloneX, Doodles & now Moonbirds separating themselves from everyone else. I've talked about large-caps outperforming, but it's really the top-5 projects driving all the gains.

OpenSea weekly volume above $100mn for the first time in 18 months.

my goodness... vv checks hitting 1 ETH floor from $8 to $1675 in 25 days.

Doodles rises to almost 2 ETH, a 40% jump, after announcing a partnership w McDonalds.

A wallet took a loan against top-tier NFTs. Later didn't have the ETH to pay back the loan My friend took over the loan & gave the wallet some ETH because the NFTs were worth a lot more than the value of the loan The wallet took that extra ETH & put it directly into $PEPE

I love punks. I love NFTs. But I can’t stand that even experienced users can lose $165k immediately and irretrievably in one click over scams and errors.

This is pretty wild. OpenSea is full-on cloning the Blur farming system. Loyalty scores, top 10 get 2.5x rewards, points for bidding but not buying etc. Can't tell if they weren't paying attention to what happened, are trolling us, or are just being too lazy to innovate and think this works based on Blur's outcome. Truly surprised. Would love to hear the reasoning and what I might be missing in terms of differences. ht @dingalingts

A 🧵on OpenSea's royalty decision: 1) This was a huge surprise & brave move. OS is risking market share which is already down (see chart) to defend royalties Every other marketplace in ETH AND SOL has shown they care more about market share than defending creators 1/7 👇

A friend of mine from Stanford got a job at Facebook 4 months later and was a first 10 employee. Who knows if I would have gotten an offer, but turning down that interview was probably the dumbest decision of my life. I spent a handful years regretting it. Not frequently, but every now and then I'd hit myself.

“Pudgies is on pace to do $10mn in toy sales in our first 7 months. That’s sustainable. That forecastable. At some point you have to ask yourself are you here to give from the space or to take from the space. I know which side I’m on.” @LucaNetz in Seoul

I knew that a Facebook job was a better opportunity, so when he suddenly responded 6 weeks later, my gut sunk. He pinged me and said "I know this is way late... but let me know if you could come do an interview in Mountain View this weekend." Because I was new to my role at Goldman Sachs, and still very nervous pretty much every moment, I didn't do an interview. I felt locked into the job and couldn't imagine leaving a month into the role.

Another bizarre mainstream media headline. Most NFTs have always been worthless. This is a massive bear market… But STILL 10,000 squiggles still cost $15k each. 1000 denzas cost $100k each 10,000 punks $70k each And the monkeys are $40k+ each too Etc etc

Azuki event is a space transformed into a legit museum. With a tattoo parlour. Pretty dope. Much more diverse crowd than the other events I’ve been to.

After seeing a Bitcoin Rock sell for $111,000 this morning, someone thought that $209,000 for an OG EtherRock was a steal and pulled the trigger. (bitcoin rock which sold is on the right, ether rock on the left)

I'll be 43 in 2 weeks. A proverbial dinosaur in crypto. Anyone here older than me?

whoa $TURBO now $186mn market cap. while we had infinite regret about $PEPE this one did a 3x in the past day

Airdrop farming is not for the weak at heart. Machi now at 3500 ETH in realized losses (before gas fees) after unwinding most of the gitcoin trade which went all kinds of wrong.

This 0-trait punk sells for 500 ETH. It's the first 0-trait punk sale in 18 months. The last one sold for 550 ETH in Feb, 2021. On Dec 30, 2020, this same punk sold for 190 ETH.

When is more volume in WETH vs ETH? 1) It means sellers are taking exiting bids & running 2) We just had a ytd high of WETH as a % of total volume (24%) 3) WETH slowly picks up in a downturn & seems to peak when mkt bottoms Chart is my large-cap NFT index & WETH/ETH ratio

The problem with being 43 is that right when you get used to it, you turn 44. Today’s that day. On we go. Thanks all for being part of my Internet world. Appreciate all the great friendships and the folks I just sorta have gotten to know through banter in the comments.

You can now buy an Azuki on Blur (15.4 ETH floor) by paying 1.9 ETH upfront and paying the other 13.5 ETH later. Daily interest is 0.15%.

A friend later told me, "well I wish I had put all my money into Apple stock in 2002, I'd be so rich right now" He was pointing out how dumb regret is, once we let Hindsight Management take the wheel. A different tone, but another friend said "next time a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity rolls around you'll act differently!"