I was broke, defeated and in debt, But I found a wallet worth 6m. 💰
NFTs were my gateway into web3. Here's my story 👇
Sharing it in collaboration with @MEFndn#NFTsandME.
Mid 2021, ETH was around $2000 each, I had lunch with a friend that told me to buy my first NFT, a dumb ape picture called BAYC for a few ETH.
Having made some money, I wanted more alpha. This time we met up for lunch again. But my friend was visibly stressed.
i asked him what’s wrong and he told me his other friend had minted 400 Loot (for adventurers) last night.
It was a JPEG with a black background and 8 words on it. Each were worth 1e. That play was worth 400e and the guy minted them all for FREE! 🆓
These were the rags to riches story everyone dreams of. But here's the kicker, when I got home that day, it was 2e. The next morning it was 5e, then 10e, then 18e.
This guy made 18e x 400 NFTs = 7,200e in 2 days and only paid gas to mint them. Thats 14m for just knowing what to do and taking a chance on it. 🤯
Loot's success drove a massive wave of Loot derivatives. Black background jpegs with 8 words on them. I was coping hard.
For the next 2 days I was feining in front of my computer, hunched over, buying 10-20 of every Loot derivative I could find. I was deep into the NFT rabbit hole.
Some did well, some rugged. But ultimately, I was down to my last 4e. I chanced upon a project called Loot for Treasure and for some reason, someone had posted a rarity chart for these treasures.
For the entire day, I sat and sniped every rare treasure on these NFTs that were listed near floor in hopes that I could flip them. (Floor was around 0.2e), I had spent my last 4e. I had spent my last chance at this dream of making it.
The next day, the project floor tanked and it was 0.02e. I had lost 90% of what I had invested.
Fast forward a few days later, the community miraculously stuck around the project and the founder promised to keep working on it. They had introduced staking and had plans for a migration to this little known network called Arbitrum (no one knew what it was). I was broke so I stuck around and hoped for the best.
During this time, Treasure had introduced an NFT project called Smol Brains. We had to draw a picture of a monkey with a big brain to get a WL. I had spent my last liquid dollar on this project and had nothing better to do. So i drew 7 different monkeys with large heads and acquired 7 WLs.
30 days pass and migration day arrives, I acquired 1m MAGIC tokens from staking my worthless NFTs.
I was also airdropped about 400k MAGIC worth of NFTs and 14 Smol Brain NFTs. All this combined were kinda worthless at the time. But I somehow managed to recover my investment of 4e through selling a bunch of my airdrop.
It wasnt too bad, my world was not finished. But I had gotten busy during this time and just left everything staked.
Fast forward 2 months, a project I was working on failed and I was really struggling to make ends meet. I start liquidating my crypto assets to try to find a way to pay off some debts.
Then I chanced upon my Treasure NFTs and tokens.
During this time, @garyvee had just mentioned Treasure and Smol Brains. So each MAGIC token was at its peak and worth $6 and each Smol Brain was worth 5e each. Combined with a bunch of Treasure Ecosystem NFTs. I had a portfolio of over 6m.
Having faced the darkness of having everything in my life fail and then suddenly seeing a wallet I owned have over 6m USD worth of assets. That is the beauty of NFTs.
NFTs saved my life.
But more importantly, NFTs to me represent a paradigm shift. A democratization of opportunity that anyone can make it in this world. It has become my identity and unlocked access to a world beyond my imagination.
Never give up 💪
gm, the food taste so good... And what a luxury to be able to have more than one piece of fruit per day!
I know some of you may have a lot of questions. I won't have all the answers.
Let me chill for a bit. Then figure out the next steps. There are always more opportunities in the future than there were in the past.
I want to thank everyone for your support. It meant a lot to me, and kept me strong in the darkest moments.
A few quick updates/thoughts:
Giggle Academy has been going well, and will be a big part of my life for the next few years.
Will continue to invest in blockchain/decentralized technologies, AI, and biotech. I am a long term investor who care about impact, not returns.
I will also dedicate more time and funding to charity (and education). I have some rough ideas.
Still working on my book. About 2/3 done, I think. Writing a book is a lot more work than I anticipated, but will see this one through.
Oh, @binance seems to be doing well without me back-seat-driving, which is excellent. Every founder's dream!
Stay tuned. See you at the conferences.
Animal coins seem to be leading this pump.
Sharing a tool I created while building @cabaltothetop
https://t.co/PCfVGvg0tO
It’s a telegram bot that aggregates all caller groups and indexes their profit/loss on their calls.
It will scan for every call in this broadcast and alert you if multiple callers call a coin.
You'll know which cabal is backing which shitcoin here
I’ve had this running for awhile now. Mapping callers to certain cabals and indexing how profitable their calls are.
You may not be part of the cabal, but shitcoins are an information game. The more information you have, the more successful you are. 🤝
Follow and RT for more info 🚀
>>connection established
>>putting out a call for recruitment
>>this is it.
>>need your help securing the Playground as a safe zone
>>cant share all intel here.
>>artifacts will be rewarded to a few brave recruits
>>further instructions here ➡ https://t.co/m186xhmpSN
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