im just here to see if you zap reply guy 100k

Fucked up my knee.

Lost my wife and cats.

Learned about Bitcoin.

Got a loan to buy Bitcoin.

Bitcoin, carnivore and Nostr only.

My grandfather started a branch of the Fed. I always wondered what that meant.

Then, lockdown happened. Bitcoin tapped me on the shoulder and said I wasn't going to think about anything else.

Since then, I have seen the face of God.

Small inheritance from relative. Deep felt sense of pressure to steward it. Early 2017 -1000s of hours studying Bitcoin. Inheritance and personal wealth transferred for the long HODL

Woke up

Found sound money

Yolo'ed in at the pico top

Got humbled

Stayed stacking ever since

Not much of a story to tell, I got tired of my money becoming more and more useless so I did research and started stacking in 2022. Stack, Hodl, Repeat Over and over again.

Working wallstreet.

Lax teammate of nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy from my hometown tells me to listen to TFTC.

Self realization and depression creeps in.

All in, quit wallstreet job.

Happy.

My wife got pregnant around the time the government locked me in my house and I realized they're stealing my money and giving it to themselves so I decided not to be fat and stupid, got in the gym, fed my child and wife and bought btc.

Silk Road > Drugs > Bitcoin > Epiphany

Reuters fuds Bitcoin. Curiosity awakened.

Heard about it in 2014, dismissed it. In 2017, I fell down the rabbit hole thanks mainly to my dad. Did a tiny bit of shitcoining for the first couple of months, got clean, and have been a maxi ever since. In 2020 I started my Bitcoin Art journey 🧡

>2017 watch banking on bitcoin doc

>Buy BTC on CB and ignore voice saying “why do I need a 3rd party?”

>2020 get stimmy check - immediately do a deep dive on BTC

>2022-2024 all savings in BTC plus my full time job is BTC related

>2030 retire and dedicate my life to homeschooling all my lil Bitcoiners

In a crumbling society, I was in search of a place to call home, to find freedom, to escape the concrete jungle forced upon my very being. I traveled far and wide only to land in a developing society called...Nostr. I was then struck by lightning. Forever marked.

Was stupid, got smart.

Addicted to coke, found Silk Road, bought bitcoin to spend there, got clean, had leftover corn

Wondered why everything has been deteriorating

Look at politics and government...can't be fixed

Look at economics and buisness...can't be changed

Look at money and who controls it....can't fixed

Find Bitcoin and freedom tech...this solves everything

I started and invested in my 401K and Roth IRA before most of my peers. Little did I know, this discipline built the long-time preference muscle I didn’t know I needed. When Bitcoin came along, the high and lows didn’t affect me much. I was ready to stay humble and stack for decades.

Moved to China.

Dealt with banks.

Found p2p.

Converted paychecks.

Studied and became a maxi.

I first tried to buy ₿TC at 17k in 2017. I couldn’t figure it out and wasn’t into the simple KYC options. When I finally figured it out I bought in at $3,800 in early 2019.

Read Jeff Booth's book, one eyebrow raised

Read Lyn Alden's book, second eyebrow raised, bought some

Read Saifedean, looked around at who were adopters, mind blown

All in (cold storage)

Orange pilling softly when I can, doing my small part in all this. Hope one day to win my bread from the ecosystem (and put my works hours on it), but baby steps

True story.

Relative introduced me to Bitcoin in 2020 and I dismissed it as a Ponzi.

Bought some and sold it in 2020 not understanding what I held.

Fell down the rabbit hole with NGU and studied it intensely.

Now I can’t shut up about it at family gatherings and everyone suffers including the one who has no conviction who introduced it to me in the first place.

I was losing interest.

Then #nostr and #cashu came along.

Now I really see a way to break old models and change the world.

A boring classic story here (denier to believer). But I bought as much bitcoin as I can while living abroad from 2019-2023. Now I'm back in my home country where bitcoin is illegal and no off-ramp is available for me. Best hodl situation ever.

Covid

Global economic shutdown

Assets rip

Money broken??

Bitcoin

Quit social media, husband helped get me set up with all the things. Posted a yarny pic and got zapped 🧶⚡. Slowly learning how it works, HODL Up game helped.

Folding at home instead of bitcoin mining (big mistake). Covid money > robinhood > bitcoin dad podcast > DCA ever since

Colleague using bitcoin to buy drugs on Silk Road. I dismissed it.

2018: VC, a nephrologist, mentioned it again. I watched every Andreas video.

Continued down the RH. Stack, up only.

A friend from high school told me about it and I went home and got to the order screen with my dad's credit card. I never pressed buy and it took me until 2017 for things to click. The flip side is that now my parents, in-laws, and immediately family get it too.

Heard about it in 2017, thought it's already too expensive. Got into shitcoins instead. In 2021 started listening to clubhouse daily. Followed your advice, sold apartment to stack sats. Staying humble.

Survived suicide.

Took a different exit out of this broken world.

Purchased $500 worth in 2012

Got paper hands, sold it all

Listened to RHR in 2018

Started stacking, diamond hands 💎

Full node , self- custody since 2020

1. 2017, heard random dude’s rant about forever wars and how #Bitcoin takes it away from them.

2. Took few weeks to figure where to buy and how.

3. Heard some other dude’s rant about network effects using Coca-Cola as example and how institutions would only buy anything that has the biggest network effect. Same year so got convinced.

4. Still didn’t get why shitcoins exist and learned lessons after loosing some stack 5. Started watching Saylor, finally understand and went all in and never looked back.

I realized buying a rental house was too much work/risky

The state shut down my business, then devalued my savings to cover the costs of their poor decisions. During that time, I studied economics & learned about BTC. Since, my life has improved significantly.

Convinced my friends NOT to buy bitcoin in 2012, magic internet money for buying drugs.

Convinced my friends NOT to buy in 2013, massive bubble.

Convinced my friends NOT to buy in 2014, bubble popped it’s going to $0.

2017 went down the rabbit hole, couldn’t sleep, read everything, this was the thing I was searching for.

Convinced all my friends to stay humble and stack sats, 2018 to present.

Never took an SSRI

Never took a statin

Never took the mRNA

Never sold a sat

Bank ‘lost’ our money during condo purchase. Luckily Will had bitcoin. Short story: we got the down payment without needing the bank. Bitcoin maxi from then on.

I was mesmerized by that video of

the belly dancer singing to Saylor and never looked back.

1- Heard from a friend.

2- Start shitcoining then leave shitcoining.

3- Start trading bitcoin then leave trading bitcoin.

4- DCA and HOLD.

5- Never selling.

1.Bought some sats from a friend that traded bitcoin on Localbitcoins.com. I miscalculated how much money I had as a poor student and ended up living off of one meal a day of oatmeal and water for the next 10 days.

2. Started reading more about cryptography and cRyPtO. Started trading bitcoin and shitcoins, lost some and won some.

3. 2017/2018 bubble burst, lost interest until mid-bear market when I read nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak's Bitcoin Standard book and suddenly realized how important Bitcoin is. Then covid lockdowns came and I had a lot more time to dive deeper into the rabbit hole.

4. Since then I've been able to learn more, to build more, to participate more in stuff I think is important, and last but not least prioritize the scarcest currency on earth: my own time here.

We wanted a stateless global peer-to-peer economy.

So we built bitcoin.

Then adoption grew and fees rose.

So bitmain profited and fiat gains were had.

Now we forgot why we came.

Started a coinbase acct in Jan.2019 because I had been watching a lot of Andreas videos.

Got to day drinking one day, and went onto coinbase to finally take the drunken plunge.

Hit the buy button for $500 worth, but it didn't seem like it took, so hit it again, still didn't seem to take my order.

Long story short, I ended up buying over 1 btc. Wife wasn't happy, but she's a maxi now.

- Full time athlete (track and field)

- Don’t make 2012 Games, get1st tech job

- Get into CrYpTo, shitcoins /NFTs

- Hear Lex Friedman interview Saylor in ‘22

- Bitcoin only baby!!!!⚡️

In 2011, a friend who works in the internet and cyber defense department of the police first introduced me to Bitcoin. He told me about the irreversible transactions. At the time, I didn't understand much and dismissed it as a scam. However, the thought stayed with me until 2017, when I finally started to dive deeper into Bitcoin. Since then, my journey hasn't stopped, and I'm grateful my friend pointed it out to me.

1) 2019: Gold bug laughed at BTC with fellow physicians in Drs lounge cuz we’d be poor stewards of our BTC…u know “password123” and all🙈

2) 2020: debated with son in law using same tired gold bug arguments🤓

3) 2021: read BTC standard to prepare for future debates…”huh”…”wtf there may be sumthin to this stupidity” 🤯

4) 2022: BTC hitting all time high at ~$69k…damn I’m too late …but then BTC falls to $38k…I try and by thru shit coin exchange (which will not be named) and by the time my purchase went thru price is $43K…what the what?…this is gonna be wild😳

5) started listening to Odell, Swan BTC cafe, tftc and TIP podcasts…learned to run a node and self custody …and have been a “BTC retard” ever since🌅

Friend told me there were only 21 million so I should probably get some. Watched a bunch of Andreas. Rest is history.

Come for the drugs, stay for the freedom

1. Saw Elon tweet about DOGE and bought some

2. Made money and thought Elon was a genius

3. Educated myself about Bitcoin and money

4. I now understand Bitcoin (and maybe money) better than the richest man on earth

5. I now own way too much Bitcoin for my comfort zone, but it still isn’t enough

I keep humbly stacking 😤

I wanted to be a miner so fucking bad that I spent almost one year wasting money trying to get an ant miner from Argentina. A friend of mine convinced me I should buy BTC instead and here I am. ALL IN.

-lights out-

fall, hands a-clasped, into instantaneous

ecstasy like a shot of heroin or morphine,

the gland inside of my brain discharging

the good glad fluid (Holy Fluid) as

i hap-down and hold all my body parts

down to a deadstop

trance-Healing

all my sicknesses-erasing all-not

even the shred of a "I-hope-you" or a

Loony Balloon left in it, but the mind

blank, serene, thoughtless. When a thought

comes a-springing from afar with its held-

forth figure of image, you spoof it out,

you spuff it off, you fake it, and

it fades, and thought never comes-and

with joy you realize for the first time

"thinking's just like not thinking-

So I don't have to think

any

more about

money"

1. Bro: You should really invest your money. Me: ok

2. I invest money, learn about investing and crypto as well.

3. Me: well that's interesting... Buys lots of sats

4. Sell the investment I previously made to buy more sats

5. Me: bro you really need bitcoin! Bro: what?

Join Navy. Be complicit in murder overseas. Learn Rothbard. Learn software dev. Land at Big Tech. Enter COVID doom loop. Discover bitcoin end of 2021. Ape in all big tech stock by May '22. Study. Podcasts. Meetup started. Laser eyes. Carnivore. Try industry job. Lack of PoW. Start OSS career. Now full time bitcoiner and better husband, father and community member.

1- Read about it around 2010.

2- Ignored it for 11 years (plus short shitcoining period around 2015).

3- Went down rabbit hole in 2021, figured out I was a bitcoiner all this time, sold everything (literally) and went 100% in.

4- Still stacking - came for the gainz, stayed for the people! Bitcoiners rock.

5- Hope to make it to conferences soon 💪😎

1) 2012 buy #BTC to buy "Things" on Silk Rd.

2) Get high on aforementioned said "Things".

3) Forget about #BTC.

4) 2020 now, rediscover #BTC and cry lots of tears realising I spent way North of 100k (In today's prices) at step 1 on a very small amount of "Things"☹️.

5) Recover composure from step 4, read lots of books, listen to lots of people, buy lots of #BTC......*You are here*

Tried to find out why my paychecks went up, but the stuff I could buy stayed flat. Sought out investing information, which led me to gold, which led me to Austrian economics, which led me to the soundest money of all time. Full stop.

Owned a shitty cafe in a small town and rode around on a vespa circa 2017. I liked drinking wholesale wine and having someone cook my food every night. Sold the restaurant and had money to invest so I bought expensive wine. My buddy said look on coinbase, I bought LTC for $17, it went to $280 at christmas, figured out it was shit when charlie sold his so I traded it into bitcoin. Never sold and I've been learning ever since. Booyah

3 years of learning about Mitochondrial health and big pharma fuckery from Dr. Jack Kruse when he mentioned #Bitcoin fall of 2020 for the first time. The final puzzle piece.

Read the Creature from Jekyll Island.

2 days later, found an article about Bitcoin.

Decided to not condemn w/o investigation.

Listened to Bitcoin podcasts & audiobooks.

Became fully orange pilled. 😎

Elation

Kick in the nuts

Elation

Kick in the nuts

Patience

Learning by touching the stove.

My wife went to Cuba with spending cash, her sister had a hotel room. They didn't let my wife stay in the room. Tried booking her one. US sanctions prevented it. Used Bitcoin instead. Rabbit hole activated! 💪

to save my family fiat savings, btw can someone zap me 1 sat to see if my wallet work

I am new to btc/nostr but been in the OSS space for about 5 years so this is kinda my #introduction

Hear about btc around 2017, dismiss it - "it's going to zero" , " insert shitcoin is better" etc etc

2021 comes get some coinbase airdrops and some covid money in but not nearly enough

Decide it's a good idea to spread out my money on coinbase in case one of the coins moons (not a winning strategy)

This year listen to saylor on lex Fridman, start watching btc university, saifedean and eventually simply bitcoin

->get orange pilled->Begin my DCA journey before the digital gold rush.

I'm exiting fiat now, not buying bitcoin

Coincidentally, I just wrote mine as my last note. But it is not 5 lines or less.

~2014:

- Learn about this new internet money, sounds cool, where do I get this?

- Register at an exchange, find out I need to scan ID for KYC, said fuck that and didn't buy

2017:

- boom + bust, yeah glad I didn't get in on the hype

2020 till now:

- It's still here, might need to finally bite the (KYC) bullet. start accumulating, "diversify" into shitcoins as well, realise I'm a moron, reverse course to BTC only, read nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a book, conviction stronger than ever, set up my nodes, research every day.

Funnily enough, the exchange I didn't want to KYC at went bankrupt. I probably would've been burned so bad I'd have maybe never returned 🤷‍♂️

Not in it for the best story, and way over 5 lines, just here to say my conviction went exponential as well...

Line 1:

FUCK YOU

Line 2:

YOU CAN'T STEAL MY MONEY ANYMORE

Line 3:

REPEAT

My friend Satoshi asked me for some tips in cryptography, said he was building digital money. I laughed and taught him about ECDSA, and how to use some crypto libs in C and C++. A few years later, he's all over the news! Damn...

1)2013 Saw bitcoin on a poker forum. I thought it was for degenerates

2)2015 Saw bitcoin a second time in libertarian circles. Started being slightly curious

3) 2019 read the book bitcoin billionaires and learned about the Cyprus bank seizing event. Decided to start buying slightly end of 2019

4) 2020 Covid scam. Started buying more.

5) 2022 After thousands of hours listening to books, reading bitcoin twitter and listening to podcasts, Went ALL IN

This is the best engagement method I've ever seen on NOSTR. zaps are such a feature 🤝⚡

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Wife and I took self-custody of education by homeschooling 4 kids. Got rugged with fiat jobs. Created bitcoin game to orange pill lovely wife. Created company (Free Market Kids), podcast (Bitcoin Homeschoolers), and most recently a non-profit (Free and Open Source Education (FOSE) Foundation). Happy hodling!

- my brother invested in it

- I didn’t understand him, I thought it was a ponzi

- I started studying why he invested in it

- I ended up buying, running a node, started mining and never stopped studying

- I stayed for the revolution ✊🏻

I ignored bitcoin for most of my life.

Then I joined Nostr, not because of bitcoin, but for the freedom aspect.

Got zapped, and I fell down the rabbit hole of bitcoin.

Now I run a node and just plugged in my Bitaxe.

In 1942, my father was invited by Geoffrey Pyke to participate in the Habakkuk project. For personal reasons, he ended up not participating in the construction of the famous ice and sawdust aircraft carrier, but it was thanks to this that he met and befriended a Japanese-American cryptologist who was beginning to make a name for himself within American military circles. At the time, he was known only as “Little Grasshopper.” Later, he would adopt the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.

In 2005, when my father passed away, Nakamoto contacted me to pay his respects, and that’s how he discovered my interest in cryptography and distributed processing. At the time, he told me he was working on a personal project, but since his knowledge of distributed processing and P2P networks was limited, he needed help from someone with more experience. I suggested some contacts I had, but he insisted: “I need someone of extreme trust, someone who is practically family.”

And that’s the story of my Bitcoin journey!

So there I was pontificating about NFTs before Wednesday night church, when a group of bitcoining Christian’s convinced me of bitcoin only in less than four hours. I took down my NFTs and aped in with my wife’s old 401k.

This is gonna

Be like taking

Candy from

A baby

……wait, shit!

Got debanked abroad when i went to the wrong country.

Got debanked in USA because i put a renter in my house.

Beyond frusterated so I Googled "how to send money to anyone anytime" found an A. Anntonopilis talk to an empty room.

Bought the corn.

Been preeching since

It was always meant to be as there are no coincidences.

- Worked at a bank trading in dotcom days witnessing Wolf of Wall Street type bullshit.

- Moved to Japan (whether Satoshi is Japanese or not).

- Lived in Vancouver and met nostr:nprofile1qqsg86qcm7lve6jkkr64z4mt8lfe57jsu8vpty6r2qpk37sgtnxevjcpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpp3mhxue69uhkyunz9e5k7qgkwaehxw309ahx7um5wghx7mnnv968xtn0wfnsurtqc6 (still have a BuildDirect golf shirt) in '08/09 (still before coin).

- Became a trucker and the convoy happened (thanks Trudeau!) in which nostr:nprofile1qqspgzz3qcml9esk5p5zzwyupqnk2rxcpv6pdueew35c9vnxwdsjwuqpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wdmksetjv5hxxmmd9uyaaxu9 final-pilled me.

Was born retarded thru no fault of my own, and then the rest was history.

I found Bitcorn bc of Gamestop.

First heard of it in 2011, and thought it interesting. Did not move on it til 2015, missing out on Mt.Gox Hack. Studied it and Coinbase to determine if it was safe to buy and invest in. Moved it from Coinbase to paper backup with scribble on computer, which was scary as hell. Moved from paper to Hardware, which again was scary to do.

Got destroyed and learned my lesson in 2019. The drop from 6k killed me inside.

In 2016, the theology professor mentioned magical money on the internet.

The #bitcoin community on YouTube and Twitter informed and then educated me.

Now, I am sure it all makes sense and meets the great need in the global and local economy.

Just when I thought I was in the right place, the war between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash exploded, along with threats from China and fears that governments would ban it.

I survived, and the education continues on #nostr

I had a startup that predicted financial market moves based on government actions and regulations. The software began following bitcoin in 2013. But I didn't buy any. In 2021 we got a crypto client and really focused on bitcoin and I orange pilled myself. Stacked since then.

Also learned to hate the Fed and love Austrian economics. Every time I stack sats that's one less fiat dollar out of the government system.

Worked the fiat mines for 49 years now.

Friend asked about bitcoin (Jan 21) cause I'm a tech guy; told him it was bad and boiled the oceans.

Told me to listen to Preston's Pod and by ep 5 with Saylor I was in.

Booked a vault demo with Justine Harper of UC and she was so reasonable that I skipped shit coins.

Now I have no fucking chairs and could not be happier - The end, and the beginning.

So here’s the deal: I knew about Bitcoin way back—Pizza Day, remember? But did I buy? No, I was losing thousands on poker instead. Fast forward to COVID, I’m stuck in hotels, eating pizza, watching Saylor and Breedlove talk Bitcoin like it’s the cure for everything. Now? I’m stacking sats like it’s a survival kit, figuring out how to change the world. But let’s be real—I’m still ordering pizza.

Heard about Bitcoin in late 2011 and dismissed it. I learned about the Silk Road late 2012 through Ron Paul campaign circles. I ended up ordering a pot brownie to test Bitcoin. To my surprise a brownie arrived in the mail lol. Went down a rabbit hole after.

Context

I never done a drug in my life. That brownie was left in my room for a while before I threw it out LOL. Opened my eyes that Bitcoin could be legit Freedom Money. Tested sports gambling with Nitrogensport next. During that time US was hostile towards that industry shutting all their bank accounts. Worked so flawlessly. Enforced to me Bitcoin was freedom money. Still took me until 2014-2015 to go all in. Trace Mayer was the guy that made my conviction go through the roof.

Made it longer so you dont pick me as a winner. Quote note your original note with your story in 5 lines as well.

I was masturbating to ducks.

I kept jerking it.

I kept jerking it.

I came.

That's the story.

Heard @aantonop speak 6 years ago and my world started folding like a tesseract.

Be me November hear about Bitcoin think scam.

Be me May 2017 start DCA'in

DCA

Never sell any Satoshi's

Still waiting on that fabulous wealthy part.

Curious

Waching

Stumble

I just love believing in things and love the song "don't stop believing" and then nostr:npub1grk0tx6kqzvp86jvxzqmr8va2f0hdklj2xj6qwymf04z0saxhx8svlelrn started podcast "don't stop believing until 100k"

2014 found #Bitcoin

2016 was sure that everything can and should be embedded on the blockchain

2017 understood the limitations of the block space, started shitcoining, was sure that Nano or KMD is the future

2018 lost almost everything

2019 -> Bitcoin only

My Colombian X-girlfriends communist mother asked me about bitcoin in 2019 thinking I was smart. I answered her with all the standard economically unenlightened and illiterate FUD. COVID happened and my gut told me the world was not as I thought. Began stacking in 2021 after studying the monetary system intensely.

I heard about Bitcoin from my friend I used to smoke with in 2009. He was a nerd and he told me it was only used for buying weapons in W.O.W. I proceeded to not understand Bitcoin until never. I still don't.

What the fuck is this?

What the fuck?

The fuck?

Fuck...

All in.

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1. April 2018: Me and wife, also some cats.

2. September 2019: family drama, lawyers and CPS involved, tldr we now have 3 kids aged 4 and under!

3. November 2019: Wife has a stroke, can’t work anymore

4. March 2020: the world goes to absolute shit, and we’ve ***already*** lost an income and more than doubled our house size and my paralyzed wife is trying to homeschool toddlers while i work but holy fuck what a mess

5: 2021: ****now**** I get orange-pilled, finally have real hope that maybe just maybe won’t have to work until i die; stacking sats is incredibly difficult, i think i have the biggest ratio of conviction:holdings of any person on the fucking planet

Googled it for the first time in 2016. Learned about blockchain, wallets, first altcoins, exchange APIs, node.js, TypeScript and AWS. Built co-located high frequency market making relative value trading bot fleet before hedge funds came into play. Made a fortune. Now a bitcoin maxi and lightning dev.

1) Be me in mid-2020

2) Think the way to fulfillment is giving all to capitalism

3) Find sketchy ad on YouTube that elites are planning something

4) Send +$1000 to join group and get rich

5) They just talk about Bitcoin and crapto trading

Saw someone recommend ETH on my grad FB network page 2017

Bought ETH and watched it and BTC go up

Traded shitcoins and bought more ETH and BTC

$$$ Wrecked in 2018-2019 but did the BTC rabbit hole research

Sold everything but bitcoin and hardcore stacked 2019 on

I was watching a Tastytrade show one morning when they bought 1 Bitcoin for $700 just to learn about it. I followed along, bought some, and spent the next several weeks learning everything I could. At the time, I was trading at a Wall Street firm and decided to put 10% of my paycheck into Bitcoin every month. My friends laughed when I told them about this 'magic internet money,' and I often felt stupid, but guess who is laughing now. 🤣

It was a blockchain course, and they skimmed through Bitcoin, but the photo of a clandestine mining farm in the former Soviet Union spoke to me: these people are not playing casually here. There is something special about this technology.

Aaron Swartz led me to freedom tech.

Jack Dorsey was once the love of my life.

Learned, waited and watched.

99% are slaves to the richest 1 per cent.

I’m never the beach to test. The end. 💜

Bought bitcoin in 2013 when pumped to like $800

held it until 2017

lost a huge chunk of it on shitcoins

saw the light in 2020, became maximalist

sold everything i own, moved into parents basement to stack relentlessly

A friend told me about bitcoin and I initially ignored it. He mentioned it again and I looked into and fell into the rabbit hole. From there I purchased my first bitcoin and received it in May 2013. I been in the ecosystem since then as a miner, content creator, coach, evangelist, investor, trader, ICO participate, podcast host and many other roles. "I am Bitcoin", said in my Batman voice.

Got drunk.

Thats it.

friend messages me about NFT's via instagram. I text him on his phone# "bro, I think you've been hacked" he's like " no man, that was me..." Oh? tell me more then? Shit coins... Saylor compares bitcoin to gravity. Mind explodes. Mind still currently exploding.

Find bitcoin in 2015 and didn’t get it. Watch price run up in the bull marked. Look in to bitcoin again in 2020 took the time to understand. Changed my life⚡️

I read the white paper.

I di not choose Bitcoin.

#Bitcoin chose me.

Went all in on GameStop before the squeeze and realized how easy it is for the market to be manipulated by the big players. Decided to take all of my money out of the legacy system and got into crypto big time. Lost some money in some stupid ways, but eventually went Bitcoin only after hearing Gladstein talk about how Bitcoin is used to free those under oppressed regimes. Haven't looked back since.

interested

number goes up

shitcoin show, lessen learned

bitcoin maxi

working for sats preferred !

Ignored it.

Ignored it.

Thought I knew it all.

Forgot about it again.

All in.

Hit bottom and realised the system was broken. Researched why went to jekyll island, found gold. Felt smug and learnt to trade the system h/t T. D. and Tone Vays. Backtested my genuis and discovered doing nothing is actually something in BTC land. Tried to self diagnose my continued symptoms of unease and found a well trodden path of "rabbit hole","bitcoin", "pleb" then was welcomed by freaks!

Bought 1st ETH and BTC close to April top in 21.

Started learning about BTC. Sold all ETH.

Got scammed on Celsius.

Now stacking BTC only.

Running node, mining BTC at home and full self-costody😎

Been buying BTC since mid 2017.

I have just sold my rental property and bought BTC with the proceeds.

I have just withdrawn my pension and bought BTC with the proceeds.

I am now ready for the 24/25 bull run.

Mine is the worst story so I'm not entering it

At least I have bitcoin

I was orange pilled by a Robert Breedlove podcast in Nov 2021. I immediately went all in, including my retirement accounts. Then BTC crashed down to ~16K :). Luckily, I kept buying more the entire time. I never doubted the long term trajectory.

I had noticed something in 2020

The money magic which was found funky

In order that I save myself and become hardy

Buy first bitcoin on 2016 for around 1000$ and sold and 950$ lol

Proceed to buy ETH at 40$, sell at 400$

2017 - Build 3 mining rigs, run them for few months and sold at 80% lose after bear market.

Continue with shitcoins until 2021 then become a BTC maxi all the way.

Grew up dejected not knowing why.

Learned Keynesian econ in school.

Dismissed bitcoin at $5k.

Fell down the rabbit hole 6 months later.

Increasing conviction ever since.

Found out about bitcoin trough investment lense. Learnt trough pain via ftx bankruptcy and had my eureka moment out surfing in the sun. Got a totally new mindset. Living freedom now in El Salvador.🇭🇳🧡

I'm a genius. The end.

Growing up I knew something in the economy was wrong.

I couldn't buy an apartment even though my economy was strong.

My colleague told me all about Bitcoin and Jimmy Song.

I sold all my crap and went all in on bitcoin on a long.

Now I've found a new community who seeks the truth and that's where I belong.

Never cared for money, (lived from $-500 to $2000) then started working and saved $10000. (crazy amount for me at that time).

Researched how to invest money.

Now 5 years later still live from -$500 to $2000 dollar on the bank account, but i do know 12 valuable words 😉