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by zoklet-enjoyer 976 days ago
Well, life happens and you can't know the future. I was poor as fuck in 2012. I had just moved back to the US after spending all my money on a couchsurfing adventure in another country. I was living in a house with my girlfriend who didn't tell me I wasn't supposed to live there until I had actually flew to Tacoma, a city halfway across the country from everyone I knew. I got a job working at a gas station and I imported nootropics from China to sell on a couple of message boards. This guy offered to buy $100 of noopept with Bitcoin so I accepted. I had heard of Bitcoin from Silk Road and thought it was a really cool concept. I lost some bitcoins in an exchange hack/inside job? Bitfloor. Traded on BTC-E and actually came out ahead on that. Didn't sell in the 2013 bullrun. Got bored of crypto and sold almost all of it in 2016, just before the next bullrun. Got into stocks and lost money there. Played around with some defi stuff in 2020. Cashed out some profits on that next bullrun. Lost $20k on Anchor. I think I still have like $50k left of crypto. Need to check into that. Got .65btc, 11 eth, 1000 atom, 3000 polygon, and small amounts of other random stuff. It's funny how I'm not even a whole coiner anymore. I think when I got into crypto BTC was almost $10