An Ordinary Crypto Person's 8-Year Memoir from 2017 to 2025
Preface: As an ordinary person in the crypto circle, I don't have the returns of a single token of several million from a chain, nor the contracts that gamble hundreds of thousands of U in a day. I only have stories of making money, retracement, holding positions, cashing out, and the experiences of ordinary people in the crypto world. I don’t know if making 1M in the eight years I spent in the circle is at what level, but for me, it is both satisfying and regrettable. This is a true recollection of the crypto world that is closer to most people. 2017: Entering the circle, ICO, community donations. I entered the circle in the summer of 2017 due to the ICO boom. Most newcomers in the crypto world come in during bull markets, especially in 2017 and 2021. In contrast, this year, 2025, I don't feel that there are particularly many newcomers entering the circle. The bull market in 2025 is primarily driven by BTC's rise, without the wealth effect of altcoins, so relatively speaking, there are not so many new people entering the circle, although there are exceptions like the news of dirt dog coins on sol.
A day of ZKJ+OBOL, 100U+50U=150U 2 accounts make 300U, which is quite comfortable, let's have a bit more, but unfortunately there's no way to get more accounts.
Three months have passed without proper preparation, and only when it was time to redeem the withdrawal did I remember this matter. Then I started cross-chain asset transfers, dragging it out for a whole week, completely lacking a sense of time. $lista @ListaDAO
Indeed, there are such situations, but sometimes there is not even a promotion fee collected; instead, it's just big influencers sharing each other's content to gain fan views.
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After receiving the promotion fee from the project party, they will create a group, post tweets, and comment on each other’s posts to increase exposure and traffic.
A small suggestion: After a successful or failed transaction in the alpha area, I recommend implementing a message box that can be scrolled up. Currently, it forcibly occupies the screen for a few seconds, which significantly affects my trading efficiency.
After receiving the airdrop from linea, I gathered all the funds in my old wallet. The era of farming on the evm chain has temporarily come to an end, and I will focus on new opportunities in the future.
Initially bought a lot of Stakestone's fund through tranches (similar to Y T) Lost several thousand U, thinking this project would definitely go on Binance.
As a result, when the airdrop happened, it didn't launch on Binance, and after losing over 4000 U of ETH, it finally airdropped 400 U of STO, which I held until it rose to over 500 U and sold.
Now today they announced that Binance is going to list $STO, causing a surge.
I now roughly understand the significance of the alpha zone. Previously, it was always said that after Binance listed VC coins, everyone had overly high expectations for its valuation. Now, instead of rushing to the initial launch, they wait for other exchanges, sell off the airdrops, and then list in the alpha zone at a lower valuation. After some time, when the trading volume in the alpha zone is sufficient, they will list on the main Binance platform at a lower valuation.
This way, there won't be those previous screenshots where it just started dumping right after going on Binance. These images, when spread too much, cause gamblers to lose confidence in secondary trading. Losing confidence among gamblers is precisely what exchanges want to avoid.
I just saw a project article posted by a big KOL, and there were about 25 replies in the comments. Out of those 25 people, nearly 18 were also big influencers. There are two strange points:
1. The comments from these big influencers are very perfunctory, with no particularly deep responses, unlike the terminology they usually use when researching projects. More commonly, it's: follow, mark, learn. Those who are a bit more thoughtful just reply with a couple of sentences of nonsense.
2. For regular Twitter users, the probability of encountering big influencers is probably less than 1%. In a KOL’s project tweet, the proportion of big influencers in the comments exceeds 80%? That's absurd.
This tweet doesn't appear to be an advertisement, and these big influencers don't seem to be the kind of poorly produced matrix accounts. If you look at some of the big influencers' tweets and their long articles, along with the replies below, you’ll understand. It's those familiar faces from earlier.
These KOLs should be banding together or joining some agency, interacting with each other to increase their followers.
So I don’t think it’s necessary for big KOLs to mock the previous batch of new accounts that engaged in mutual following for blue V badges. Essentially, whether it's a big influencer account or a new account, they are all doing the same thing.
Looking back, out of 25 people, 18 are big influencers, and the remaining 7 replied. For big influencers with tens of thousands of followers, the viewership and interaction are actually quite low, mostly just mutual exposure.
Yesterday, Binance Alpha's point rules added a limited time double on BSC, but it's only a doubling of trading volume, with points unchanged. Considering the wear and tear, it's still more cost-effective to trade on the SOL chain. However, later in the evening, a new event for the S chain came out, which will involve an unknown airdrop. It feels like it could be worth testing the wear and tear on the S chain.
Trading in the Binance Alpha area feels a bit surreal, like the sensation of farming on the chain. The same trading volume, the same wear and tear, and the same unknown airdrop. Binance has basically shifted the past chain's laborers to the Binance wallet.
In the early morning, trading tokens in the Alpha area, there are relatively fewer people, so the trading fluctuations are a bit less compared to the daytime. I just estimated the wear and tear for the S chain tokens at the 256U level (in and out).
SHADOW: After trading once at 256U, wear and tear is 10S = 5.5 dollars ANON: After trading once at 256U, average wear and tear is 3S = 1.5 dollars BEETS: After trading once at 256U, average wear and tear is 8S = 4 dollars
The conclusion is, either downgrade to trade 128 or 64U at once, trading a few more times, or don't trade on the S chain at all, and just go back to the old SOL business.
Just yesterday I was thinking about giving feedback to Binance about the issue that I couldn't raise the alpha token, it couldn't be recognized. However, I didn't expect that I could manually list the candlestick chart of the alpha area by creating a chart $b2
100,000 U stablecoins, stored in B2, kept for a few months, waited for 1 year Finally airdropped a total of 196 $B2, subsequent airdrops are negligible Value 100 U
1,000 U holdings, trading actively, complying with Binance wallet activities Borrowed 3 BNB to participate in the activity, 2 hours later, the activity gave 140 $B2
Tell me, how else can you farm? Tell me Why 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 $B2