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The $300K Lesson I Learned from HODLing Too Hard

I bought XRP at $0.15 back in 2016–2017. Not long after, it hit almost $2.00.

I was barely 22. Instead of taking profits, I held. Not because of strategy—but because I believed the hype.

“To the moon.”
“Never sell.”
“Real holders never fold.”

If I sold, I would’ve walked away with $200K–$300K.
But I didn’t. I held through the crash. And the price stayed low for years.

Yes, XRP eventually came back—but it wasn’t worth the wait. I didn’t have a plan. I had passion without discipline.

Lesson learned?

✅ Take profits on the way up.
✅ Hype is not strategy.
✅ If you don’t understand the fundamentals, every dip feels like a crisis.

Don’t let hype talk you out of common sense.

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🧭 What 8 Years in Crypto Taught Me — And Why I’ve Avoided Bitcoin

I began investing in 2013-14, thanks to a Fast Company article—my first buy was Ripple (XRP), not Bitcoin.

XRP made sense from the start: real-world utility in cross-border payments, a clear mission, and visible leadership. Bitcoin? Pure speculation. No product roadmap, no team—just ideology and hype.

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself…”
— George Bernard Shaw

Bitcoin’s decentralization ideal is noble—but no government will ever fully allow it. Ripple, on the other hand, works with, not against, existing systems.

Meanwhile, many top coins chase meme-stardom and celebrity noise, only to fade. Even BNB Chain, with impressive tech, suffers from brand dilution.

✅ Invest like a VC: back teams solving real problems, not hype.
📌 Focus on execution, not emotion.
🔍 Tools over tribes.

Not every revolution needs to burn the house down—some just need to fix the plumbing.

#crypto #XRP #Binance #Web3 #LongTermThinking