Active in crypto since 2017. I don’t chase trends - cycle profiteur. Been through every high, low, & rug in between. Still here. Not a financial advisor. DYOR
Back in 2020, everyone was printing money with NFTs. Art sold for $60M. Bored Apes went bananas. Influencers & celebrities piling in.
I locked my eyes on a project called Crypto Dragons. The idea was wild: buy a dragon egg 🥚, hatch it, discover its traits 🔥, then breed new dragons and sell them. They even teased a fighting arena where people could bet on battles.
The hype was real. Paul Pogba endorsed it. ✅ They even announced an ad on Burj Khalifa with drones. So I went in — bought 2 eggs from the first batch and held them.
I didn’t stress much. I wasn’t hatching, just keeping them as “originals.” Checked my eggs here and there… until late 2023, when I tried to log in. The site was gone. Discord full of chaos. Team vanished. ❌
The CEO? A mysterious woman with a strong Eastern European accent, blonde hair, always behind an alias. Were they Ukrainian devs who disappeared in the war? Or just a rug pull crew enjoying the money? I’ll never know. 🤷♂️
Lesson learned. Some days you win, some days you lose.🎭
⚠️ Not financial advice. DYOR. As always, do whatever you want with this information.
This is how I’ll make $100,000+. No magic, no shortcuts.
I averaged down, DCA’d — call it whatever you want — into $PEPE . 🐸💎 After Trump got elected and price spiked, I threw in the last lump sum I had allocated for it.
Now it’s just a waiting game. Patience > panic.
When this post hits 77 likes, I’ll disclose exactly how much $PEPE I hold. 👀
⚠️ DYOR. Not financial advice. As always, do whatever you want with this information.
Back in Nov–Dec 2017, crypto was everywhere. I had some money to invest/bet/gamble, so I jumped in.
I threw cash into XRP (the “future of payments” — 8 years later, still “future” with no major steps). Added some $ADA /Cardano, in $TRX with this “wonder kid” as CEO, plus a random project that promised to “revolutionize telecom infrastructure.” Whitepapers were everywhere, promises even bigger, they will loterally change the world. We were young, dumb and believed the pigs can fly.
By mid-Jan 2018, I felt like a genius. Unrealized gains close to $5,000. Then the market reminded me who’s boss. 🚨 By the end of Jan, the red candles smashed through the basement.
When the dust settled in late 2018–2019, my “promising portfolio” was worth… $200. 😂😂😂
Happy ending though: I sold everything, went all-in on $EGLD , and managed to double the original investment.
Not bad for an emotionallu expensive teaching moment, as financially I got out doubling my money.
As the 2025 bullrun is in sight, I’ve thown the dice.
As always, do whatever you want with this information.
I’ve been online since the early 2000s. I’ve seen it all: Nigerian princes, miracle inheritances, email scams that made no sense. I thought I was immune.
But in 2020, I got caught.
I had ~730 $XRP sitting in a wallet on other platform. Not planning to sell, not believing much in its future either. Just there.
🚀 Tesla hype was everywhere. Elon Musk was treated like Wall Street’s miracle man.
It was earnings day. A live YouTube stream popped up — looked real, sounded real.
At the bottom, a message: 👉 Send any amount of $XRP to this address, and Elon will send back double.
For one moment, my years of computer literacy and common sense froze.
And just like that, I sent my XRP.
30 minutes later, reality kicked in.
Scam. Gone. Just like that.
I accepted the loss, moved on. Because that’s the game: ➡️ Some days you win. ➡️ Some days you lose. ➡️ Some days it rains.
💡 In the 2021 bull run, I made ok, enough that XRP didn’t even matter anymore. But the lesson stayed.
⚠️ Share your scam story in the comments.
Let’s raise awareness so fewer people fall into these traps.
It was 712 XRP that I had sold for BTC — and that BTC was what I ended up sending to “Elon.”
I see some comments from self-proclaimed experts, but let’s be honest — a lot of you were still in diapers 5 years ago and now act like veterans.
At that time, Elon was everywhere. One day it was Tesla, the next SpaceX, then Dogecoin or some other coin. The hype machine was non-stop.
YouTube was also far less regulated, flooded with fake streams and misleading banners. In that 30 minutes of euphoria, I genuinely thought: this must be one of Elon’s marketing stunts to pump crypto.
That was the mindset — and that’s how the BTC left my wallet.
Added the transaction if there was something to prove that I was scammed. Some guys act in the comments like it should be a badge of honnor.
🌍 When wars end, money moves. The only question: where first?
💰 Into crypto markets — as capital hunts freedom, liquidity, and hedge against politics. 🏗️ Or into Ukraine’s reconstruction economy — trillions in roads, energy, and rebuilding.
Either way, some projects stand right at the intersection:
🔹 $XLM (Stellar) – global payments rails, already tested in humanitarian aid and remittances. 🔹 $TRX (TRX) – dominating stablecoin settlement across borders. 🔹 $ICP (Internet Computer) – infrastructure for decentralized apps at nation-scale.
Conflict shifts narratives. Peace shifts capital. The smart ones position for both.
⚠️ Not financial advice. Do your own research. As always, do whatever you want with this information.
😔 No, the Putin–Trump forum didn’t trigger the bull run.
But that doesn’t mean the spark isn’t coming. Markets don’t explode on speeches — they explode on tech breakthroughs + liquidity shifts.
🔹 $SUI 🌊 — next-gen Layer 1 with speed + dev adoption. 🔹 $RNDR 🎨 — powering the AI + 3D rendering narrative.
The fuse is lit — the question is when, not if. 💭 What do you believe will be the real trigger for this cycle? ⚠️ Not financial advice. DYOR. As always, do whatever you want with this information.
📅 Jan 12, 2009 — Hal Finney receives the first-ever BTC transaction: 10 $BTC from Satoshi Nakamoto. 🚀 No hype. Just a signal that the game had started. Then came the legendary pizza deal… 📅 May 22, 2010 — Laszlo Hanyecz pays 10,000 $BTC for 2 Papa John’s pizzas 🍕🍕 (about $40 back then). 💡 Today? That’s $1,000,000,000+ — the most expensive pizzas in history. 📜 Moral of the story: 1️⃣ Great moves often look crazy at the start. 2️⃣ Holding sometimes beats trading. If we get 50 likes to this post, I’ll share an early times $ETH story. ⚠️ Not financial advice. Do your own research. As always, do whatever you want with this information.
LUNA ‘Cryptocrash king' Do Kwon pleads guilty to fraud
Do Kwon — the man behind TerraUSD and LUNA’s $40B implosion — has pled guilty to fraud. 💥 From a “stable” coin to one of the biggest wipeouts in crypto history, the collapse didn’t just hurt retail — it sent shockwaves through the entire market in 2022. Now, the US says he orchestrated a multi-billion dollar securities fraud. Investors call it justice. Critics call it too little, too late. Either way — this is a reminder: In crypto, the biggest smiles can hide the deepest pits. 🕳️💸 ⚠️ Not financial advice. DYOR. As always, do whatever you want with this information. $LUNA $PEPE is better #OGGE
Layer 2 is where the quiet giants are being built. ⚡
While everyone chases hype, $ARB and $OP are stacking real adoption. Lower fees. Faster transactions. Billions in TVL.
When the bull run kicks in, the infrastructure that people actually use will lead the charge. Sometimes the best plays aren’t the loudest — they’re the ones quietly becoming indispensable. 🧠💎
⚠️ Not financial advice. DYOR. As always, do whatever you want with this information.
When the Navy SEALs raided bin Ladėn’s compound in Abbottabad, the world only heard one side of the story. 📜 Guns. Intel. A high-value target down. But there’s another version whispered in crypto circles. In the small, dimly lit room on the third floor, under piles of documents and hard drives, one SEAL found a cold wallet — black, unmarked, locked with military-grade encryption. He slipped it into his vest. No mention in the after-action report. No one asked questions. Days later, the commander handed it to the CIA. And then… silence. The rumor? Inside that wallet: $BTC , $ETH , and $LINK — untouched since the earliest days. Worth hundreds of billions at today’s prices. One of the six men on the raid started talking about it in private. A week later, he was found dead under “unclear circumstances.”
The cold wallet? Gone. And in the quiet corners of the internet, they still ask: Did the CIA seize it for national security… or personal gain? #OGGE