Knowledge is king and power, and striving for it everyday is how we build an edge in life. In one year I've learned a lot more than I have in 7 years.
My crypto knowledge has been stunted, and that's because of the choices I made in my mid to late 20s, now in my early 30s it feels like I've wasted a lot of time doing nothing.
I think I felt a lot more comfortable in my late 20s, I didn't hustle as much as I did in my early 20s, and...
....sometimes.
I feel like I have missed all the undiluted opportunities in the crypto space from arbitrum to Hyperliquid, lighter, and so many other life changing crypto opportunities, and basically folks who knew about these opportunities are now retired, logged off web3 and now into full web2 business.
The guy who got the highest Hyperliquid aidrop made ~$1M and he instantly retired in 2024 and never got involved in web3 anymore. On the surface he might look like a foolish person on the surface, but he is not.
Make it, lose it.
Web3 people round trips their profit into other web3 ventures hoping to make more money. While this is a very good way to actually x5 or x10 your portfolio, it's equally a very easy way to hit ground zero as well.
This is the same with understanding how to rotate profit from web3 into real life events (which is a skill in itself). This guy remained a legend for acing over a million dollars in project AirDrop and never returned back.
Somehow he remained a legend, and even though he could have leveraged that popularity to make hundreds of thousands of extra dollars in infofi campaign, bro never came back. Cashed out all that money and left the game completely.
I've learned that greed is a cancer when it comes to crypto. Profit is profit, take it and never bother again. Don't look at the chart to check when there is another pump.
It's actually better to take profit and miss the top than not taking any profits at all. Web3 is life-changing, although it's now more diluted, but opportunities are still there, and sometimes you need knowledge, exposure, skill and discipline which is the most important.
In crypto, exposure and research was really important. Many people didn't take it seriously and some other people did, and left when the ovation was loudest. I'm I going to leave soon? Perhaps, God willing.
It has now taken me 8 to 9 years to learn this discipline, the art of profit taking and the importance of more compounding knowledge. Will I have more opportunities? I seriously don't know.
Crypto has to work for real life events to turn out well. It's only in this industry that you can actually compound knowledge and effort into life-changing rewards and that's the reality.
unfortunately you'll need a lot of knowledge to actually leverage on this, else you'll only make enough to live from hand to mouth until the very end.
Fun fact: I think only maybe 2% (I think) have been able to hit financial freedom with crypto.
Maybe the 8-9 years of wasted time was actually the tuition fee you had to pay to learn the discipline you have now. Is knowledge without the scars even useful?
Well I think some people will pay to have knowledge without scars, but unfortunately we don't know that. In reality I think I didn't really learn quick or fast enough to change my life, even though I have now finally learned..
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STOPI know hundreds of people who’ve been involved in crypto since 2016, and I don’t know a single one who actually became rich from it ))))
I’ve heard thousands of legends about someone finding an old hard drive they once mined Bitcoin on and suddenly striking it big — and other stories like that. But I don’t believe a single word of it. Sometimes it honestly feels like the whole thing is one big SCAM ! 😂
If only 2% has made it big in crypto all these years, why are people still putting hope in it?
Well it's true, overall only crypto can make an average person do the boom and leave the working life for good, normally unless special cases, you would work 50 years to end up barely surviving till death...
Ideally one should take profit and only reinvest a part of it, never all in
Those 2% of people must be very very lucky. I still haven't known anyone directly who has hit financial freedom with crypto. I think it makes a lot of sense to log off almost forever once you've hit it, expand outside of crypto and into the real world. Giving it all back thanks to greed can be a dangerous state of mind to be at, nothing good comes from it, and I think many never make it back agaim