Trading is no longer just a financial activity; it has become a spectator sport. In this episode, Threadguy explains how Gen Z’s internet-native fluency, built through sneaker markets, NFTs, and meme cycles, translates into a new kind of market intuition: attention, momentum, and mimetics. We delve into “Entertainment Finance,” where perps, prediction markets, and live trading are starting to resemble streaming and esports more closely than Wall Street. Along the way, we explore why “internet capital markets” may pull everything on-chain over time, what happens when every asset becomes content, and why creators and traders will keep pushing into the open frontier.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Threadguy: “Gen Z crypto face”
2:58 Sneaker Twitter: trade-first upbringing
8:03 Onboarding via social proof
13:08 Two Gen Z money paths
16:53 Crypto as opportunity engine
20:38 Why he won’t leave crypto
23:35 Media growth and infinite TAM
29:31 Entertainment finance: markets as content
37:28 Risk takers become “athletes”
42:27 PVP arcs and downfall appetite
44:25 Trading mimetics: valuation doesn’t matter
49:53 One internet note, spills to equities
55:15 Counterparty: home for internet markets
58:40 Token launch replaces IPO
1:02:38 Where to follow + content grind
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RESOURCES
Threadguy
https://x.com/notthreadguy
Threadguy’s Twitch
https://www.twitch.tv/threadguy
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