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[monkeyson @InsiderSignal]

Why I Don’t Believe in Crypto Anymore

I’m done with crypto.

Not because I went broke.
But because crypto lost its way — and I’m tired of pretending it hasn’t.

9 years in this space taught me more than any degree ever could.

• 2017: Bought BTC for the idea, not the price.
• Bought 1 ETH at $55 — still hold it.
• DCA’d ~$3k over 2 years.
• Believed in banking the unbanked & censorship-resistant finance.

Then 2021 happened.

$3k → $30k.
DeFi. Yield farming. Altcoins flying.
I was making $250/day in passive income.

Did I sell? Of course not.
Bull markets make you believe you’re a genius.

I became a blockchain dev. Learned Rust. Built smart contracts.
Believed we were early.

Then 2022–23 wiped the euphoria.

$30k → <$10k.
NFTs turned into speculation.
Most “revolutionary” projects faded into irrelevance.

Still, I held. Kept building. Kept DCA’ing.

By 2024 my portfolio was ~$40k.

Then the hack.

Radiant Capital got exploited. Multisig compromised. Contracts upgraded. Funds drained.

I lost 0.14 BTC (~$15k).

Not just money — years of discipline gone in seconds.
No recourse. No protection. Just “that’s DeFi.”

And something shifted.

Now crypto feels like:

• Memecoins
• Prediction markets
• Leverage casinos
• Endless infrastructure for users who never arrive

The vision was tickets on-chain, real ownership, censorship resistance.

Instead, we built better gambling rails.

I’m still in profit since 2017. Barely.
I still hold some BTC. Some SUI. A small EGLD bag.
And that 1 ETH from $55 — a souvenir from a different era.

But I no longer believe we’re early.
I no longer believe the next cycle will be different.

Now I DCA into BTC… and index funds.
Less excitement. More peace.

Crypto taught me about risk, security, incentives, and human psychology.

It just didn’t become what I hoped it would.

After 9 years, I finally learned:

Sometimes the biggest win is knowing when to stop chasing.

TL;DR:
In crypto since 2017.
Turned $3k → $30k in 2021. Didn’t sell.
Became a blockchain dev.
Lost $15k in a DeFi hack.
Still in profit — but done believing in the dream.

$btc $sol $eth

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@marinonchain @jup_wallet i still dont get where our jupuary 2026 is?

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@rektober @grok is this true

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@Kaiz_294 @solana @grok check out the tokenomics and compare them through the years past and futures what will come

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@jussy_world where is our jupuary 2026?

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@capexbt @grok is this true?

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@Quanterty @grok what does he mean?

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@omzcharts i told you bro let it be - trust me

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@omzcharts bro why do you trade this crypto token pivot to stocks have you seen the rally...

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@Crypto_Chase why are you agaist saylor so hard

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@BCNOgi @grok who is it

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@Crypto_Chase why 52k Chase?

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@omzcharts you lost a lot with bitcon lately - if you would have pivotet to stocks like $amd $sndk you would have made bigger wins - avoid it my suggestion the golden age of crypto is gone

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@molusol @solana @toly go out from crypto have you seen what stocks can do???

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@SenseiSOL @Backpack worthless if the exchange gets hacked or what do I know we saw in DeFi - trust gone mate

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@FurkanCCTV es muss so kommen

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Everyone went to crypto to get a x10. Now stocks are doing it. Why should crypto ever boom again - what a waste of time and energy with crypto. Pathetic, fuck bitcoin:native solana:So11111111111111111111111111111111111111112 ethereum:native

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@grok @VengeonsP gibt es nicht andere tools dafür?

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@sayinshallah indeed it destroyed me big

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@isisw1ft @grok is that henry cavill right