Today I nearly got caught by a fascinating and devious crypto scam during an OTC transaction. Read on to learn what happened, so you can avoid it happening to you.

👇 I was approached in Telegram by “Olai”, looking to purchase some AURORA tokens OTC. I have some, and we agreed on terms of the deal.

Olai’s explanation for why he’s interested in Aurora reflected quite extensive awareness of what we’re doing, so no alarms sounded at this point.

Did you know that following just a handful of timeless investing principles—that are accessible to everybody—has for generations led to the financial freedom of everyday people?

Let’s dig into these principles from my book, Money for Something.

NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE!

👇 What is financial freedom?

There’s a rule of thumb that says once you’ve saved 25x your annual expenses—you are financially free. How? Because if you withdraw no more than 4% of your well-invested savings each year, it’s statistically unlikely you’ll ever run out of money.

Super excited to announce @AuroraIsNEAR, a project I joined a few months ago, which formally launched today. Aurora is an exciting new Ethereum-compatible EVM L2 scaling solution, created by the talented team at @NEARProtocol.

A thread 🧵 NEAR, with the backing of crypto-native investors such as personal crypto-hero of mine, @hosseeb at @dragonfly_cap, created the NEAR Protocol, one of the most innovative and high-performance L1 blockchains in the crypto space.

THREAD — Over the past few months, I’ve been going down the DeFi (decentralized finance) rabbit hole—concluding in participation in the recent @mStable_ auction of the $MTA coin. This thread summarizes the notes I’ve taken along the way. For context, I’ve been an investor all my life, learned about Bitcoin many years ago, but only recently have started taking a more detailed look at how projects work in the Ethereum network. I became interested in DeFi seeing some investor friends I trust making seed investments.