The Crypto Curve: Left, Right, and Center

Based on the principles of the “Bell Curve,” the Crypto Curve is a meme used to depict the distribution of intelligence among market participants.

From degens crafting dissertations on the cult value of Fartcoin to governments exploring Strategic Bitcoin Reserves to scholars developing overengineered vaporware, the Crypto industry is one gigantic magical pandora’s box of paradoxes.

In this hypomanic world, winners are few, and losers are plenty. What sets these two classes apart is the single, simple metric of intelligence as gauged by portfolio performance.

If you want to win at the game of crypto you must be anything but average. Either a Sith lord with 200 IQ or an absolute degenerate ape with 20; anything in the middle, and you are toast.

The greatest insult one can achieve in crypto is being called average intelligence. (Not to mention the ...