$18,000. Day 214. Here Is My Plan to Get to $100,000.
I started this rebuild with $5,000.
Not because I wanted to.
Because that's what was left after the hack.
October 10, 2025. Malware infected my PC. Seed phrase leaked. Wallet drained.
$135,000 gone in minutes. Two days after I had sold everything to move into passive income.
$5,000 survived because it was in a project the hackers didn't touch.
That was the starting line.
Where I Am Today
Current portfolio: ~$18,000.
I know what you're thinking. so many days and only $18k?
Let me explain what actually happened.
Within the first month I scraped back to ~$20,000. Not from my bank account. From inside crypto, ambassador payments, recovered funds from projects the hackers missed. Zero fresh capital from personal savings. That rule has never been broken.
Then the broader market happened.
Late 2025 into 2026 was brutal. Crypto went into a bear cycle. Positions that were building dropped. Yields compressed. The portfolio pulled back from $20,000 to ~$18,000.
That's not a failure. That's what happens when you're rebuilding with leverage during a bear market. You don't panic. You don't add fresh capital to paper over the losses. You hold the system and let it work.
$18,000 is not where I wanted to be. But it's real. And it's mine.
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The Plan
First target: $100,000.
No timeline games. No "I'll 10x by Q3" posts.
The honest estimate is 3 to 5 years at current trajectory.
That's a long time. I know.
But the strategy is not to gamble my way there.
It's to compound yield, stack positions, and let the system do the work.
LP positions / Trading / YTs / Conviction Holds.
Every platform earning while I sleep.
When we will enter the parabolic / Ephoria stage il go for stables and safer strategies.
The math works if I don't blow it up. That's the entire job.
Why $100,000 and Not $135,000
Because $100,000 is the first checkpoint, not the finish line.
$135,000 is what I had before the hack.
Getting back there is the real mission.
But I'm not going to pretend I can see that far clearly right now.
$100,000 first.
Then we talk about what comes next.
What the Scoreboard Looks Like
Day 1 (October 27, 2025): $5,000
Month 1 (~November 2025): ~$20,000 — scraped from inside crypto
Day 209 (May 25, 2026): ~$18,000 — bear market pulled it back
Target 1: $100,000
Target 2: $135,000 — back to where the hack left me
Every single move documented publicly.
Every win. Every loss. Every position.
Why I'm Doing This in Public
Because I need the accountability.
And because there are people in this space who lost everything too and are sitting on $5,000 or $10,000 wondering if it's even worth trying.
It is. But not the way CT usually sells it.
Not 100x tokens.
Not the next narrative play.
Not aping into whatever is pumping this week.
Slow. Systematic. Documented.
That's the only way I know how to do this without losing it again.
Day 214. $18,000.
The plan is clear.
Let's see if I can execute it.
The edge isn't in the trade.
It's in the wait. 🥂
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