Arthur Hayes: From Zero to Crypto Billionaire – Strategy, Origins, and Bold Predictions

This is Arthur Hayes, richest trader ever...

he turned $0 in $500,000,000 in 6 years

He predicted tariffs and $BTC $76K dump...

here's his strategy, China insides and 5 crypto predicitons 🧵👇

(#3 will make u millions)

✜ People often try to predict the market and guess the next moves, but no one does it as accurately as @CryptoHayes
✜ From absolute zero to MILLIONAIRE and his own CEX exchange @BitMEX
✜ Biographies and predictions from such people are important for all of us – learn to make use of them:

✜ Arthur Hayes was born in 1985 in Detroit, in a middle-class family
✜ His father worked on an assembly line and his mother was a purchasing manager at General Motors
✜ After high school, Arthur Hayes enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania and in 2008 graduated from the Wharton School of Business with a bachelor's degree

✜ He then went to Hong Kong, where he worked for several years at Deutsche Bank and Citibank as an ETF market maker
✜ Hayes was just gaining momentum in his career when in May 2013 he received a notice of dismissal
✜ After that, he had to familiarize himself with the works of Satoshi Nakamoto and his new passion became cryptocurrencies

✜ He started with arbitrage and was caught up in the famous Mt.Gox exchange hack
✜ He managed to withdraw his money back then, but came to one conclusion – exchanges are the weak point in Bitcoin security
✜ Even then, he began to have ideas about creating his own exchange to close all the gaps

✜ Around that time, he met Ben Delo, a smart British mathematician and programmer
✜ Having found a developer, they began creating what they called a commodity exchange for bitcoin (BitMEX)
✜ From that moment on, Arthur's life began to change drastically for the better

✜ The exchange began offering 100x leverage, from which the company started to grow exponentially
✜ But not everything was so rosy – in 2019, a critic suggested the exchange was engaged in illegal activities
✜ A bit later, regulators brought charges against the founders of BitMEX for illegal operations

✜ Now the issue has been resolved – with the arrival of Trump, he pardoned Arthur Hayes and other BitMEX founders
✜ Arthur himself is now living his best life and owns multi-million capital
✜ He also often makes market predictions with an incredible win rate and here are a few current ones:

✜ In one of his latest interviews, he shared his opinion on Trump’s Trade War
✜ He believes the main goal is to reduce the current account deficit and bring manufacturing back
✜ This reduces demand for U.S. debt – the Fed will have to buy it themselves, which leads again to money printing and a pump in $BTC

✜ In his opinion, Bitcoin didn’t perform well in 2024, but that’s due to investors misinterpreting the situation
✜ Considering the money printing and fiscal dominance:
- Bitcoin will decouple from traditional markets
- Will grow along with gold
- Global money supply → Pump → $BTC also Pump

✜ In one of his latest updates, Arthur Hayes wrote that he is gradually accumulating $BTC
✜ His main argument was – turning on the money printer is all they have left in their arsenal
✜ The money printer will allow the Fed to inject a lot of money into the market, from which we’ll see growth

✜ On the frequent debates $ETH vs $SOL, Arthur also shared his personal opinion
✜ Ethereum is currently disliked by the market and that is usually the best time to enter – $ETH has the best risk/reward now
✜ $SOL rose on the meme coin wave and it’s unlikely the trend will repeat at such scale

✜ Hayes also believes we can forget about the catalyst in the form of the U.S. government buying $BTC
✜ People are naive and think “they’ll just print money and buy BTC” but that’s unrealistic
✜ Governments with deficit budgets can’t afford to spend money on buying $BTC when there are social issues