ThreadGuy streams and podcast episodes about crypto, markets and AI, including MARKET OPEN shows and a talk with Surveillor. Cut 25 to 55 second moments from 15 videos and 21 hours of footage for Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
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How One Man Blew Up a $10B Hedge FundBrand's YouTubeEDITED VIDEO13mHORIZONTAL85HIGH
ThreadGuy tells how one trader's gas bets blow up the $8 billion Amaranth hedge fund
Hunter bets big on gas rising into Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and ThreadGuy says the fund ends the year up 20% while Hunter pockets roughly $150 million across 2004 and 2005. In 2006 Hunter piles into a March 2006 versus April 2007 gas spread and keeps adding as the trade works, until an LP spots that Amaranth owns 65% of the whole trade and demands its money back.
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Hunter tries to sell into an illiquid book while JP Morgan demands a billion dollars in collateral, and Ken Griffin's Citadel flies 40 analysts out and buys the entire book, which ThreadGuy says turned a billion dollars within weeks.
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Ken GriffinMentionedfounder, CEO and 80% owner of Citadel LLCen.wikipedia.org
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Amaranth ends up owning 65% of the trade, so once the market knows, redemption and selling become impossible and the whole fund collapses.
The Pokemon Cards Bubble is About to PopBrand's YouTubeEDITED VIDEO11mHORIZONTAL85HIGH
Threadguy exposes fake PSA Pokemon slabs, including a $288,000 Dragonite with a copied serial number
Threadguy opens on a million-dollar heist of PSA-graded Pokemon slabs off a FedEx truck, then shows a 2002 Pokemon Expedition Dragonite that sold on Fanatics for $288,000. He reads a collector's post saying a card carrying his own serial number was sold by someone else, then explains how counterfeiters copy a real slab's certification and QR code before resealing an ungraded card.
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He says the fakes were caught only because the counterfeiter used a bad link, and plays a collector's video that calls the graded Pokemon market incredibly toxic. Threadguy warns that a $15 billion market leans on the trust collectors place in PSA.
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A collector discovers the $288,000 Fanatics sale carried his own card's serial number, exposing a fake slab in the graded market.
Surveillor, Trading Small Markets, Zero Leverage, and Calling the Altcoin BottomsBrand's YouTubePODCAST15m of 36m readHORIZONTAL84HIGH
Surveillor trades low-liquidity altcoins with zero leverage and calls the $LIGHTER bottom
In the first 15 minutes, Surveillor, a crypto trader, tells the Threadguy stream his latest run ranks among his best two weeks ever and explains he sticks to the lowest-liquidity market that can hold his size, starting out in meme coins. He says the average participant in the least liquid market is the least skilled, shrugs off AI and quantum FUD headlines and buys the dip instead.
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The host admits he sold his cards at the bottom after a Justin Drake article about AI cracking Satoshi's coins, without losing money. Surveillor calls cards his highest-conviction trade at roughly 20-25% of his portfolio, says there is not enough liquidity to add more, and recalls buying lighter between 80 and 10 after Robinhood's crypto head said the token was still coming to US customers.
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Surveillor lays out a strict risk rule: he never uses leverage and zeroes out his book for a month if he draws down 20-25%.
the $1,000,000 pokemon card heistBrand's YouTubeEDITED VIDEO14mHORIZONTAL84HIGH
ThreadGuy walks through the $1,000,000 Pokémon card heist from a FedEx truck outside PSA
ThreadGuy recounts a FedEx heist that takes seven figures of PSA-graded Pokémon cards straight out of the truck, damage he puts at about $1,000,000 and still being counted. He says the truck sat unlocked for 60 to 90 minutes outside PSA's Santa Ana headquarters.
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He argues PSA and the robbed collector can never agree on a fair market value for a Charizard that has not sold in two years, and says FedEx should move cards like Brinks trucks with armed guards instead of one unarmed driver. He claims PSA grades about 2,000,000 cards a month with a backlog of roughly 8,000,000, and that the whole hobby rests on PSA's trust with the community, from grading to delivery.
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A Charizard with a population of one that has not sold in two years shows why PSA and the robbed collector can never pin down a fair market value for the stolen cards.
Cybersecurity Expert says "Don’t Panic" About AI Hacking the InternetBrand's YouTubePODCAST15m of 30m readHORIZONTAL84HIGH
A cybersecurity expert tells threadguy not to panic as AI finds PHP bugs and a key of 4
In the first 15 minutes, a cybersecurity expert tells threadguy not to panic, saying ordinary users are probably fine and only server operators need to worry. She explains PHP is a very old language running most websites and backends, and says researchers armed with new AI models found two remote code execution flaws in it.
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She reveals a certificate company's private key was just the number 4 and went unnoticed for 16 months, while a crypto private key of 4 would be drained instantly. She expects an eventual equilibrium with old code rewritten using AI, and threadguy argues crypto is relatively fine and the bigger exposure is the whole internet.
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A certificate authority whose keys underpin internet encryption used a private key that was just the number 4, and nobody noticed for 16 months.
MARKET OPEN: OpenAI BROKE MATH (AGAIN), What This Means for CRYPTO, Can Anthropic SAVE THE MARKET?Brand's TwitchSTREAM VOD15m of 2h 36m readHORIZONTAL78HIGH
He asks chat how many chairs, microphones and cars they own to argue that conviction beats diversifying
He asks chat how many chairs, microphones and cars they own to argue that conviction beats diversifying. He asks chat for Halloween costume ideas and reacts to suggestions like Elizabeth Holmes and Nicolas Maduro.
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He says OpenAI dropped new math problems again, repeats a Nick Carter tweet claiming three of the five biggest math breakthroughs ever happened in the last two weeks, and admits the news breaks his brain. He says Anthropic's 415-page S1 filing gave the market a bit of relief, argues AI makes markets more efficient than ever, and plays a 90s Bloomberg terminal demo showing $25,000-a-year terminals rented by 325,000 professionals.
MARKET OPEN: Anthropic Has LOST IT, Crypto is READY, Day 2 of the SECURITY PANIC, BLACK OCTOBERBrand's TwitchSTREAM VOD15m of 2h 29m readHORIZONTAL77HIGH
Loracle reads the Anthropic CTO's security post and argues crypto lives under attack
A replier tells the CTO that he and his cohorts created the monster, and the CTO answers that it was always going to be this way and that they tried to warn the world. Loracle calls the online world a K-shaped cultural separation where only the extremes pull views, and says he feels uncomfortably optimistic about Bitcoin, Zcash and Monero because every dollar on chain has been attacked every second for seven years.
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He jokes that 15 minutes of his Instagram reels and a McRib would break Alexander the Great, and announces that Jack Surveiller returns at 10:15 as the best credit trader of the past 30 days.
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Jack SurveillerMentionedthe best credit trader in the world over the past 30 days
Alexander the GreatMentioned
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The Anthropic CTO publicly tells the industry to beg its boards for help, then confirms to a critic that it was always going to be this way.
MARKET OPEN: Binance after BIGGEST HACK EVER, Stocks are in EVEN WORSE SHAPE, HAPPY FRIDAY (ig)Brand's TwitchSTREAM VOD15m of 2h 20m readHORIZONTAL76HIGH
A 2h 20m Twitch stream with 2 speakers, in English. 7 strong moments, the best at 10:46: Binance hack size versus past hacks.
MARKET OPEN: Hyperliquid <> ICE SAVED CRYPTO, Google KILLED the AI Trade... NOW WHAT?Brand's TwitchSTREAM VOD15m of 2h 21m readHORIZONTAL76HIGH
He says he bought a lot of HYPE at 88 because it felt like the right move in that spot, and shows his green portfolio. He reads Shoku's post that Trade XYZ launched its first Hyperliquid market 381 days ago, and says ICE picked Trade XYZ as its exclusive partner for round-the-clock perps in the US.
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Druckenmiller's first tweet about Hyperliquid is the hook the host keeps returning to, alongside his claim that Hyperliquid hit a $1 trillion annualized volume run rate and became ICE's exclusive partner.
ThreadGuy flips bullish on stream and buys Zcash back after capitulating
In the first 15 minutes, ThreadGuy welcomes viewers back, congratulates the Bulls and says he is back on the winning team. He shows his perps portfolio and says he bought Zcash back last night after capitulating, and that Joe Wiesenthal, a Bloomberg reporter, capitulated too. He argues the best bear case comes from Flood, the face of the bears, who says AI stocks could drop 10% and drag Bitcoin down to sweep 77K, and explains why he disagrees with it. He recounts listening to five commencement speeches, including Jim Carrey's story about his father taking the safe route, and says he looked up from a finance book and declared he is bullish. Covers the first 15 of 160 minutes.
A solo host recounts how Amaranth handed a gas trader 30% of its capital and got stuck
The host opens the stream announcing the internet is broken and hacked, then tells the story of Amaranth, the hedge fund that handed one gas trader a third of its capital. After a rival firm offers Brian Hunter $1 million to leave, Amaranth gives him the raise and the energy book, lifting his allocation from 2% to 30% of the fund. His 2005 natural gas bet pays off when Hurricane Katrina spikes prices, and the host says Amaranth finishes the year up 20% while the S&P gains 1%, with Hunter pocketing about $150 million in cash. Amaranth sends clients toy gasoline pumps for Christmas, then Hunter slams a March 2006 versus April 2007 spread, and an LP that looks into the trade finds the fund owns 65% of the market with no way out and asks for its money back. Covers the first 15 of 146 minutes.
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