I would like to withdraw £20,000
Bank: What’s it for?
None of your business, it’s my money
Bank: We might not be able to let you withdraw it, if you won’t tell us what’s it for
(If you need permission to withdraw your own money, it’s NOT YOUR money anymore)
I shared the glory, so it’s only fair that I share the downs too.
I don’t come from money. I come from a poor family, and at 18 I moved to a different country on my own to try and build a better life.
I started from the bottom. I worked as a waitress, I worked in a freezing cold factory, and at one point I was working three jobs just to survive.
So when the money finally started coming in, it didn’t feel real.
I watched my money go from around £40k to almost £2 million.
It was surreal. I felt untouchable.
I thought I was a master investor. I thought the money would never dry up. I genuinely felt indestructible.
And honestly, the market humbled me.
I shut down my main source of income, my salon, and dedicated 100% of my time to crypto. At one point, I was paid £2k for four posts promoting Crypto .com I was earning around £8k a month from running a Cardano pool and around £30k a month from nodes.
But instead of protecting myself, I kept reinvesting everything back into the market.
In my head, I had already made it. I was already living in a mansion with acres of land. I was buying my parents a beautiful property. I was sending my children to private school. I was opening trust funds for them.
Then everything came crashing down.
I had bought my £400k house outright, cleared all my debt and put some money aside. But apart from that, I left almost everything in my portfolio.
And I watched it crash.
And crash.
And crash again.
The nodes turned out to be a scam. I lost around £100k trying to day trade. Crypto .com stopped paying. My pool stopped making money.
But I was still so sure of myself.
So I remortgaged my house, took on £60k of debt and reinvested it back into the market.
Because I thought I was a genius. I wasn’t.
I was living in lala land. I had become too big for my boots, and I needed the lesson.
Now my portfolio is almost worthless. I’m massively in debt. And I’ve had to rebuild from the ground up.
I reopened my salon. I started a building company. I’m advertising, working, grinding, and rebuilding every single day.
I needed this lesson.
It broke my ego, but it didn’t break me.
Because the most important thing is not how many times you fall, how much you lose, or how badly life humbles you.
The most important thing is that you don’t give up.
So I’m starting again.
But this story isn’t over.
Everything is a lesson.
Work? TAXED
Save? TAXED
Pension? TAXED
Buy a home? TAXED
Sell a home? TAXED
Buy a car? TAXED
Drive? TAXED
Eat? TAXED
Drink? TAXED
Shopping? TAXED
Invest? TAXED
Inherit? TAXED
Spend your money? TAXED
Die? TAXED
All to fund illegal migrants, foreign wars and families on the dole
I’m not a permabull. In the last bull market, I sold close to the top (to de-risk) and shared it on X. Based on macro fundamentals, I don’t believe crypto is finished. I just don’t see it ending here.
they tell you to follow the rules
but the people making the rules don’t follow a single one
they tell you to save money
while printing billions out of thin air
they tell you to work hard
while they sit in meetings
they tell you to trust the system
while the system is quietly designed to make sure you never escape it
and the day you finally question it
you become the problem, not the people who built the cage
I’ll explain it in simple terms
If you bought crypto today, you’re setting yourself up to make shit loads of money
If you sold crypto today, you’re going to look back and regret it
Just got an email from my daughter’s school:
“A note from our Principal
In the past year, over 50 private and independent schools across England have closed.”
Well done, Starmer. Clearly, the politics of envy are working 👏🏻
J'étais entouré d’amis qui m'envoyaient des messages tout le temps pour qu'on puisse sortir,aujourd'hui il y en a pas beaucoup qui m'envoie un message me demandant si je vais bien.Vous avez des amis quand vous êtes dans le même rythme qu'eux,sinon vous n'avez que des connaissance