Crypto Journey Part 5 🌊 | From Loss to Cosmos
By June 2023, I had just returned from another contract and moved to Ireland 🇮🇪.
At that point, my portfolio was worth around $11,000.
I was no longer a rookie —
🎓 Took crypto courses
📚 Learned Smart Money concepts
🦈 Understood different strategies
I felt like a shark in the ocean — confident and sharp.
I stored most of my major holdings on a Ledger Nano X for extra security.
But then… disaster hit.
📍 While in Dublin, I lost my Ledger, my phone, and my notebooks — including seed phrases for multiple wallets.
It was brutal.
Especially when I watched $SUI hit $4, knowing a chunk of mine was locked, inaccessible without the Ledger.
I still had access to the wallets — but couldn’t move funds.
That felt like a gross loss, and it crushed my motivation.
I stopped all crypto activity until October 2023.
Then, while working again, I made a fresh deposit of $1,000, bought a few coins, and the market started recovering fast.
Some coins gave me 300% gains, and I was back in the game. 🔥
📆 On January 2, 2024, I returned home and made a shift in focus:
🧭 I started airdrop hunting.
I dove into the Cosmos($ATOM )ecosystem — learning how to:
✅ Stake for airdrops
✅ Provide liquidity on DeFi platforms like Stride
✅ Participate in early-stage testnets
✅ Farm native tokens
Throughout early 2024, I became deeply focused on airdrops, staking, and ecosystem farming within Cosmos.
It wasn’t just trading anymore — it was strategic participation.
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👉 In Part 6, I’ll share my airdrop wins, best Cosmos plays, and how I started tracking Alpha Points to make smarter moves in real time.
Have you ever lost access to a wallet or seed phrase? Or maybe got back into crypto after a break? Drop your story 👇
