I could long BTC at $17,000 with leverage and stoploss below $10,000 back in 2022
I swear I was damn sure $15,500 would be the bottom.
I didn't long why ?
My religion.
My religion prohibits leverage and margin trading.
I have been in trading full time since 2011 and I have never ever traded on leverage.
With spot only here is me in front of you.
> Full time trader
> feeding my family with just trading
> Own house, Car, with zero liability
> Self sufficient in energy
Made almost $300,000 from airdrops in last 3 years.
2023 = $70,000
2024 = $80,000
2025 = $72,000
You can still make money by not compromising on your values.
@Cointelegraph Most people lose not because they’re wrong, but because they can’t wait.
Cycles reward patience, not perfection.
That lesson applies everywhere not just in crypto.
Thoughts…
Smartphones are one of the rare inventions that severely compressed the distance between how the poor and the rich experience the world.
For most of human history that distance was unbridgeable because the poor had no way to imagine what existed beyond their immediate environment while the rich had access to the full spread of the world.
The black box shifted that.
When a phone connected to the internet landed in every hand, the poor gained a window into a world they were never allowed to see.
But the deeper change came from the opposite direction.
The rich, who once absorbed the world directly through travel and access, began to live inside the same digital container.
They voluntarily compressed their own experience into the same five-inch portal the poor used to expand theirs.
That convergence is what closed the gap.
Both groups now spend most of their time shaped by identical digital inputs.
They scroll through the same feeds, respond to the same status cues, and absorb the same illusions of people who appear to be living better lives.
The appearance becomes the reference point.
The reference point becomes the environment.
The environment becomes the experience.
The only difference left between rich and poor is the room they sit in while they get hypnotized.
One sits in a penthouse, the other in a shared apartment, yet both are absorbed into the same digital gravity.
There’s a man lying on his bed right now, fighting cancer, praying for one more sunrise. He doesn’t dream of wealth or fame he just wants to live, to breathe without pain, to walk outside and feel the wind on his face one more time.
There are people in this world who can’t see the sky, who can’t walk on their own feet, who can’t hear their mother’s voice or say “I love you.” They would give everything every drop of blood, every last heartbeat just to have what you already have. But they never will. No amount of money can buy what they lost.
And then there’s you.
You can see. You can walk. You can talk. You can hear. You wake up every morning with a body that works, a roof over your head, food on your plate and still, you complain. You chase what you don’t have, while ignoring the miracles you live with every single day.
You think you deserve them, that they’ll last forever. But one day, one single moment, you’ll realize the truth nothing is guaranteed. And by then, it might be gone.
We humans are strange. Never satisfied. Never grateful. Always wanting more.
But if you ever feel lost or broken, look below not above. Look at those who have less, yet smile more. Look at those who pray for the very things you forget to thank God for.
Gratitude is not just saying “thank you.” It’s realizing how rich you already are.
If you have health, a home, and food to eat you are already living someone else’s greatest dream.
So stop complaining. Bow your head. Whisper to God, “Thank you for everything I never earned but still have.”
Because one day, when it’s gone, you’ll finally understand what it was worth.
$ASTER right now is already a better privacy coin than Zcash.
But nobody is going to tell you that.
You can do an internal transfer onchain on asterdex to another wallet and withdraw it, and nobody will be able to trace where it came from
NGL we gotta respect the $ZEC pump
I didn’t buy it at $20
I didn’t buy it at $50
I didn’t buy it at $100
I didn’t buy it at $250
I didn’t buy it at $500
I didn’t buy it at $750
And I most certainly will not buy it at $1,000
I will simply never buy it and I’m fine with it
You can grind for years with nothing to show.
You lose friends
Parents thinks you're crazy
Girlfriend thinks you're a loser
Then in one month,
Everting changes.
That’s crypto for you.
All those wasted years suddenly make sense.
That month is coming.
You must always maintain this
IRRATIONAL SELF BELIEF