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They Wanted Me Dead

Teeka, don't come to Moscow anytime soon. It's not safe for you here.

If it was easy to get rich from financial markets, we'd all be bathing in gold coins like Scrooge McDuck.

The truth is: Getting rich from investments is hard. Finding them isn't the toughest bit. It's holding onto them when their prices suddenly and sharply drop.

Even Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has had three occasions when its stock price dropped 50% or more. And that's the most conservatively structured company in the world.

So the first step to truly understanding what it takes to get rich from financial assets is knowing you'll see large and sudden price drops.

I can't change that. You can't change that. That's the reality of getting rich with financial assets. Every now and then, you'll get punched in the face by the market.

This is far worse to go through when you're in the public eye, like I am.

I remember back in early 2018, I had been invited to Moscow to give a talk on bitcoin to a select group of high-net-worth individuals and tech entrepreneurs. At the time, bitcoin was at about $12,000 after being as high as $20,000.

I strode into that meeting with my PowerPoint presentation and boldly proclaimed that bitcoin was going to $40,000.

Except that didn't happen.

Instead, bitcoin hit $4,000 shortly after my speech. A year on from my talk, and it was still languishing at $3,500.

That wasn't a punch in the face – that was an old-school a$$ kicking. And I was quietly told not to visit Moscow anytime soon.

I made the same proclamation in front of five million people when Glenn Beck interviewed me later that year.

I was the butt of every joke you can imagine. I got hate mail beyond count. It was rough.

Back in 2018, I had a few million to my name… But I wasn't rich. And I wanted to be rich. I still believed bitcoin and crypto assets were the single best way for me and my subscribers to get rich.

From my view, nothing had changed with bitcoin. Or the adoption cycle of crypto assets in general. I was even more bullish.

So I had to ask myself, was I being delusional? Why was I right and everybody else wrong?

What I had figured out was that the traditional finance world had not yet come to terms with the idea of engineered digital scarcity.

Wall Street still hasn't fully figured this out – because if it had, bitcoin would be trading at over $1 million per coin.

Detractors say bitcoin has no value because it's manmade engineered scarcity. That same logic can be applied to the $17 trillion art market.

Art is manmade physical scarcity. Yes, you can see and touch art. But why should one painting be worth $300 million and another be worth $300?

It's all in the eye of the beholder. What we place value in (outside of essential commodities) is very much based upon our shared beliefs about the item.

Art has been used as a store of value for centuries, much like gold. Bitcoin is the next iteration of manmade engineered scarcity for the digital age.

Unlike gold and art, bitcoin can't be counterfeited. It is infinitely divisible. It also comes with its own storage and transfer network that no one owns, controls, or can censor.

What's to stop someone from just spinning up another version of bitcoin? Nothing.

There have been thousands of bitcoin clones – the same way there have been thousands of Picasso clones.

And yet, the market still pays millions for a Picasso and ignores all the imitators. The same is true for bitcoin.

Volatility Is the Admission Price

Back in 2018, I knew that this idea of engineered digital scarcity would take years to take hold in the world's collective consciousness… But once it did, it would be impossible to dislodge.

That fact – married to the fact that there will never be more than 21 million bitcoin… a fixed supply of an asset going into an ever-growing field of demand – told me I COULD NEVER LOSE MONEY ON BITCOIN OVER A LONG ENOUGH TIMELINE.

Generally speaking, that timeline has been four years. So I asked myself, "Can you deal with people calling you a jackass for four years if it meant you could not only change your life – but the lives of anyone 'crazy' enough to listen to you?"

Thank goodness my answer was "yes." Because not only have I transformed my life… but my work has helped transform the lives of tens of thousands of my readers and subscribers.

Again, it wasn't easy. Most "gurus" run and hide the moment volatility hits. I've never done that. I've had money managers do it to me, and I hated it.

That's why during the crypto bloodbaths of 2018, 2019, and early 2020, I was always present for my readers… holding their hands through every jarring blow the crypto market hit us with.

I did the same thing from 2021 to 2023 when bitcoin went from $68,000 to $15,000.

Understand this: Volatility is the admission price we pay to make outstanding long-term returns.

That brings me to today. Once again, we're seeing volatility rip through the crypto markets. Bitcoin recently touched $89,000, and altcoins have been getting roughed up.

If you're angry, anxious, or ready to burn me in effigy for predicting bitcoin would hit $150,000 before the end of this bull cycle – I get it.

If you want to jab a few pins in a Teeka-shaped voodoo doll – I get that, too.

Let it out. Get it off your chest. But once you've done that, I need you to take a breath.

Because there's one lesson you absolutely must internalize today: Time in the trend is far more important than timing the trend.

I'll show you exactly what I mean…

Why Time Will Bail You Out When You're in a Megatrend

Nearly a decade ago, I told my readers something most investors never understand: If you get into a megatrend early, the trend itself will bail you out of any bad timing.

I drove that point home throughout 2016 and 2017 as bitcoin marched from $400 to $700… $1,200… $2,000… $5,000… and eventually $20,000.

Then came the 2018 crash. Bitcoin collapsed to $3,500.

In the middle of that brutal Crypto Winter, I kept pounding the table to buy. To many of my readers, I sounded like a broken record stuck on repeat.

But my insight didn't come from theory. It came from personal pain.

In the early 1990s at the dawn of the internet boom, I held software company Oracle. And then fear got the better of me. After watching my position plunge 80%, I panicked and sold.

But Oracle had the massive internet adoption trend behind it. And of course, it came roaring back. By the end of the 1990s, Oracle had gone up as much as 14,000%.

I was too inexperienced back then to recognize what I owned. That mistake added 20 years to my wealth-building journey. Twenty years I can never get back.

Here's the thing: Over the long run, I learned timing barely matters. You could've bought every new high in Oracle from 1986 to 1998 – and still made a fortune.

That's why I've told my readers for years: Get into a megatrend early, and the trend will bail you out. The real risk is not being in the trend at all.

So when bitcoin crashed in 2018, I refused to abandon it. I had lived through this before.

I knew what it felt like to hold a winning lottery ticket and throw it away out of fear. I wasn't about to let my readers make the same mistake.

I told them to hold. I told them to buy more. I told them it would be emotionally brutal… but life-changing.

And I was right.

Since my original recommendation at around $400-and-change, bitcoin has been up as much as 29,388%.

But what if your timing had been awful? What if you'd bought at every single yearly high? That brings us to one of my favorite demonstrations…

Bumbling Bob vs. Terrible Timing Tim

Let me introduce you to two fictional characters who represent some very real investor behavior: Terrible Timing Tim and Bumbling Bob.

Terrible Timing Tim invests $1,000 in the S&P 500 every year – always at the worst possible moment, at the exact peak.

Bumbling Bob does the same… but with bitcoin. Also at the exact highs.

Year after year, both of them let FOMO compel them into buying at the top. Their timing is spectacularly bad. By 2025, each has invested a total of $9,000.

Let's see what happens.

Terrible Timing Tim's S&P buys look like this:

2016: Bought at 2,277
2017: Bought at 2,695
2018: Bought at 2,941
2019: Bought at 3,248
2020: Bought at 3,760
2021: Bought at 4,809
2022: Bought at 4,819
2023: Bought at 4,793
2024: Bought at 6,100

And Bumbling Bob's bitcoin buys look like this:

2016: Bought at $975
2017: Bought at $19,783
2018: Bought at $17,527
2019: Bought at $13,880
2020: Bought at $29,374
2021: Bought at $68,789
2022: Bought at $47,686
2023: Bought at $44,700
2024: Bought at $108,388

Now, let's run the numbers to see who came out on top…

Over a decade, Terrible Timing Tim's $9,000 portfolio turned into $16,746. That's a total return of 86% and an average annual return of 7.1% from the S&P 500.

Not bad, right? Tim nearly doubled his money – despite buying at the worst possible times.

But what about Bumbling Bob and his bitcoin trade?

He bought BTC at the absolute highs every year from 2016 until 2024. He had the worst timing in the world in one of the most volatile assets in the world.

Even with the worst timing possible, his $9,000 total investment in bitcoin had a portfolio value of $119,670 after nine years. That's a total return of 1,230% and an average annual return of 33%.

Read that again.

Even buying every single year at the worst possible moment… Even buying the absolute high in one of the most volatile assets on earth… Bob still crushed Tim's performance by nearly 14x.

When you're dealing with an asset that can rise 10x… 50x… 100x… the timing of your entry matters far less than the time you stay in the trend.

Friends, the thesis hasn't changed: Mass adoption of bitcoin is still accelerating. Institutions are still piling in. This asset is still wildly under-owned.

And that means right now – when fear is peaking – is precisely the time to let volatility work for you.

Let the Game Come to You!

Big T

P.S. The greatest opportunities rarely show up when everything feels safe. They show up when everyone else is sprinting out of the burning building… and you're the one willing to step in.

And right now, I see the greatest opportunity in a tiny sector of the altcoin market everyone is leaving for dead.

They're called "AI Coins."

These are altcoins at the intersection of blockchain and AI technology. And they'll completely change how we use AI applications.

And the countdown to their breakout begins today, when the man many call "the Steve Jobs of AI" unveils a development I believe will trigger the final and most explosive phase of this AI Boom.

Here's the beauty of AI Coins – they're the perfect asymmetric bet. And right now, they're getting knocked around just like bitcoin and Ethereum back in 2018-19. Some are trading for pennies on the dollar.

Last week, I held a special briefing called The Final Phase, where I revealed the Nvidia event occurring today at 4 p.m. ET that could spark this countdown… and I broke down six AI coins I believe could soar over the coming months.

I don't want you to miss this window, so we're keeping it open until Nvidia's announcement.

You can stream the replay here, but you must hurry. Once Nvidia's event begins at 4 p.m. ET, the page goes down.