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Reflection point—
It’s been about 4 years now of logging on daily to trade attention, from NFTs, to ETH coins, sol, airdrop farms, random onchain cooks, ups and downs and much more.
When I started I was doing random gigs and finishing the month after I paid rent with like $200 in my account over and over. In the early days, I was blindly following shills wasting my $3,000 that I saved up $200 at a time, anything I had left over went into crypto.
I call that the tuition you pay to play this game. My savings got evaporated, and I went back to my jobs and doing things like doordash, make $200 more, put it into the casino… repeat. At the time gas was $150 so anything I was buying was automatically going to be a waste since I was just buying anything I could get 😂 it was so bad
My friend @ZTBillionaire introduced me to two friends, boa and furu who, from the first week of locking in together I never had to make another deposit into crypto again.
From there I made more friends who I would keep close through these years, shoutout all the ogs in The Basement ily @mikesnft @buttr_my_toast. We were winning together and at that point I had went from finishing the month with $100 left to being mid 5 figures.
It was a crazy feeling having a sudden safety net, the game was fun, fast, and it was easy to carve out a winning edge.
The nft and eth shitcoin market died for a while and in that time I rotated to airdrop farming etc, out of all the ones I farmed hype was obviously the best and the rest kind of just gave nothing back. I think the most +ev thing that came from this was actually getting @yogurt_eth to get on hype early early 😂 perps scared the shit out of me and would make me feel like a junky just overleveraged to the tits all day so I stopped before I got liquidated and swore off leverage forever.
Following this, Solana became huge and while I was hesitant to adapt to this meta, I did and when pumpfun came out, like the rest of you, I was obsessed. In the early days of pump and photon I remember I would be fighting for the first spot on the weekly leaderboard just from trading so many pairs in the most schizo way.
Fast forward, I mean it’s all a blur, I fumbled an infinite amount of money on plays I executed poorly, for ex. Captain bnb I had 5% of the coin, made like 40 bnb and then the coin went to 60m the next day. Or neiro OG on eth… but what I swore I would do is stable my money on the way up, I wasn’t going to leave this cycle a loser.
When you make life changing money, change your life. I don’t care about the number, I loved the game, it’s been great and cooking with bros in @TrapHouseFNF hits crazy. It’s so fun to win with your team and to help others also.
While my irl friends never got too into the trenches, I made sure that I could help at least 10 of them to make a few thousand each. Winning is nice, but winning with your people is better.
It’s at this point, and really why I’m writing this, to say that I not only hit my goal, but that I did what I set out to do a few times.
Money has never been the incentive. The freedom has been the goal.
At this moment, I reflect, and can say where I’m at is the sweet spot. More money = more problems. I could spend years sweating to double up my internet money stack, with risk of losing it.
My life here is what I wanted. Not burdened by costs, but not driven by a need for more. I’ll say it, I’m a gambler, an educated one who knows when to take their chips off the table.
I’ve never been lazy, theres so many things in life that interest me more than pvping washed fortnite players all day 😭
Glad to say I’ve showed up every day these past four years and changed my life beyond what I could have ever imagined. If you make life changing money, change your life. And be nice xD
Gg. - Tonka
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