I hear you there. I did the same thing back when DeFi was hot, but I didn't ever get out early enough to make anything. I remember one coin I was pulling in something like 12,000% right at the beginning. I kind of miss those days.
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The DeFi mania was so much fun. Harvesting rewards. 👨🌾👩🌾
I miss those days as well. This CETS project made me feel a little bit of that magic and excitement again.
I just wish I had understood it more at the time. Now that I do, it's basically dead.
I think a lot of things go like that whether it's sports or women or crypto gains. The game keeps changing.
I sometimes wonder if the game has past me by at certain points. Because with some of this crypto related stuff I will think up ideas 💡 but will wonder if I'm romanticizing some structure that's from the past essentially.
It's really hard to invent a truely unique concept or change it enough to go viral. The talk of prediction markets went way back to at least 2014 from what i remember but then PolyMarket sort of became this extremely profitable thing for the creator. Same thing with Perpetual Contracts. BitMex seemed to be the first to roll that out and then the US Government was after Aurthur Hayes and BitMex just shut down I guess but we see these Perp contracts integrated into all these wallets and what not.
Pump Fun has been super innovative on features that had a viral effect.
Another thing is it is tough to act on stuff fast enough to beat everyone to market and displace the competition and market it correctly to dominate.
I kind of felt the same way coming into this cycle. I had big plans about how I was going to take some small gains sooner, but then the cycle didn't happen the way other ones did, so I ended up waiting for something that never came.
Oh it was terrible and in some respects I could have got burned a lot worse. My plan was to sell the cars and put that money back into crypto but for various reasons that didn't happen which probably protected me from that money vanishing.
It was like fighting tooth and nail to keep money in crypto but in 2025 nothing really took off like crazy for me. Like a 10X or 20X that we could then rotate into the next rocket. 🚀 I knew once we were in that 39 day government shutdown and everyone seemed to be out of money and people weren't getting their EBT payments it told me the whole system is a house of cards on government assistance and grants and any disruption people were tapped out and didn't have the funds to risk in crypto.
Also the sports betting was distracting a lot of degens who would have been in crypto.
yeah, that is a good point about the betting.