the real story y’all don’t know about @theunipcs (aka Bonk Guy)
bonk guy didn’t turn $16k into $20m overnight.
the real story is much crazier.
before BONK, he was already trading memecoins.
last cycle, he bought SHIB with a few thousand dollars. it went up thousands of percent, but he sold around 2x because he had no real thesis.
later, he said that bag could’ve been worth $10m+ if he simply held.
that regret became the foundation of his “diamond hands” mentality.
then came BONK.
around october 2023, he started with roughly $16k while trading in @0xLawliette’s private group, The Lab.
$16k → $50k
$50k → $100k
$100k → $1m+
then CT discovered him.
he put roughly $16k into BONK, used 6x leverage on Bybit, and held through brutal volatility.
at one point, the position showed around $18m in unrealized profit. he later referred to it as $20m+ and roughly a 1,250x trade.
but here’s the part people miss:
that wasn’t $20m sitting in his bank account.
it was unrealized PnL.
by november 2024, he had held the position for 13 months and revealed he had paid around $1.88m in funding just to keep it open.
he repeatedly warned people not to copy his leverage.
his other trades became huge too:
$WIF: ~$6k → $1m+
$FARTCOIN: ~$300k → $8m peak
plus positions in $POPCAT, $PNUT, $CAT, $MAGA, $DOGEGOV, $GME, $AMC, $KITTY, $ASTER, $APEX and more.
but he wasn’t always right.
he faded FARTCOIN around $250k and again around $20m, then FOMO’d in around $200m.
that was the Bonk Guy style:
massive conviction.
massive winners.
massive drawdowns.
then came october 10, 2025.
the day everything changed.
he posted Job 1:21.
then revealed he had been wiped out on his perps.
eight figures gone.
he said his portfolio had been above $15m shortly before the cascade and could’ve been worth $30m+ at peak.
BONK, FARTCOIN, POPCAT, PNUT, CAT, APEX.
he also lost around 80% of his ASTER collateral and pulled roughly the remaining $1m.
most of his $USELESS position survived because it was spot.
and the craziest part?
he said he left the screen for about 10 minutes.
came back.
liquidated.
eight figures gone.
three days later, he said:
“i’m going to make it all back this quarter.”
december came.
he admitted:
“not even close.”
then set his sights on 2026.
and he didn’t disappear.
he went back to trading and began building conviction around $USELESS, publicly buying dips and even airdropping it through FOMO to supporters.
same character.
different battlefield.
so what’s the real Bonk Guy story?
it isn’t:
“anonymous trader turns $16k into $20m and becomes a genius.”
it’s this:
he turned $16k into a massive leveraged position.
watched unrealized PnL reach eight figures.
paid nearly $2m in funding to keep holding.
found other massive winners.
then lost the leveraged fortune in one liquidation cascade.
the lesson is simple:
-you can be right about the asset.
-right about the narrative.
-right about the cycle.
and still lose the money.
because unrealized PnL isn’t wealth.
it’s just a number the market is temporarily showing you.
bonk guy was right on the trade.
and to crown it all, there was one thing he believed helped him more than anything else:
faith.
it kept him humble, grounded, and reminded him that money wasn’t everything.
when the portfolio swung wildly, faith helped him stay emotionally detached and think clearly.
because to him, money was temporary.
and that perspective became one of the things that helped him make better decisions as a trader.
check out bonkguy on fomo:
- https://t.co/t2tKY2NmYc
join his TG channel where he drops life-changing alpha
- https://t.co/pr8LjspInC
- @theunipcs on X