Thread by @CryptoGirlNova

1) It's been 6 years ago that I've made my first crypto investment.

Since then I've:

• Graduated
• Worked at a trading firm
• Quit my job
• Bought 2 properties
• Moved to a new country (ongoing)

I'll be sharing the good, the bad and the ugly.

This is my story 🌎

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2) It's late 2016. A time where no one has heard about bitcoin or the term cryptocurrency in general.

I was a student in my early twenties trying to get my degree as a teacher in physics and computing.

I had big hopes and dreams but believed I didn't have the capacity.

3) I see myself as a normal smart individual but not a genius.

I always thought I had to be either brilliant or born into a rich family to escape the rat race.

Or just have plain luck in some way or another.

Since I wasn't any of these I accepted I had to work my entire life.

4) The least I could do was get a GOOD job that from my perspective didn't feel like working.

Creating a life I didn't need to escape from even though it was being stuck to work nonetheless.

Hence I stumbled upon becoming a teacher.

Lots of vacation after all 🙈

5) It was then my best friend came to me.

She read online about bitcoin and some of the success stories from certain individuals.

The internet can be a pretty awful place with misinformation everywhere but this was really how she and me got introduced to this space.

6) I was more of a sceptic than she was.

After discovering this was a market we could invest in I convinced myself and her that we are not cut out for this.

We probably need to be born into a family that thought us the ropes of investing at a young age.

My exact words 🙈

7) After going back and forth and spending bits of online research about bitcoin we couldn't let this go.

The rabbit hole really opened for us.

We agreed that potentially losing a 1000 dollar would suck but not mean anything in the grand scheme of things.

8) Potentially turning this in a lot more WOULD mean something.

We decided we wouldn't want to miss out. Who knows someday right?

I decided to make my first investment.

Bitcoin at 1000$ looked very expensive however (clueless about supply metrics) so I did some quick googling.

9) My choice stumbled upon $ETH and $DGB.

#Ethereum looked way more attractive at 200$ and #Digibyte was an upcoming promising altcoin worth less than a cent.

I discovered an app called "gravychain" in the app store with its own small crypto community (chat).

10) We had a small little OG club to exchange talks and share projects with each other.

The crypto community was pretty small back then and crypto twitter was almost non-existent.

I got INSANELY motivated and ambitious.

11) Crypto wasn't just a small niche. It was a whole new industry and technological evolution called blockchain.

I spend the entire year of 2017 studying, researching projects and learning about fundamental analysis.

In college you have these big classrooms with 100 seats.

12) I want to college and spend the majority of time behind my laptop looking up crypto related stuff and research.

More than paying attention to my own education 😅

Likely because it paid of BIG.

13) Before I continue I'd like to add I probably also had time on my side.

I came into the market right before the next bull run started.

I watched trending coins, sold my holdings frequently to have funds for the next one.

14) I initially had a goal of achieving 5000 dollars after 1 year.

A very optimistic return on investment ratio of 400%.

I started with 1000$ and this would mean a 4000 dollar profit.

I thought I wouldn't reach this however. It just would be pretty great wouldn't it?

15) I couldn't be more wrong.

I discovered:

⏩ $MCO - Before becoming $CRO or @cryptocom today.

⏩ #Antshares - Before becoming $NEO today.

⏩ $WTC - #Waltonchain

⏩ $ICX - #ICON

⏩ $SUB - #Substratum

⏩ Many more.

These CHANGED everything.

16) Most of these didn't just double my money.

They gave me a 10-20 multiplier in a matter of WEEKS.

These were really glorious times. The bull run was completely ongoing after all and I entered right before it.

I even witnessed the ICO of $ADA back then and many more.

17) Instead of achieving my goal of 5k I had a portfolio of multiple 6 figures.

I withdrew 120k and bought my first car and appartement.

This was also the year I was supposed to graduate.

Lots of friends that knew bits of this wondered what I was still doing at school.

18) My mom taught me to always have a plan B and that's what I did.

The motivation wasn't entirely there BUT I went on to study and still get my degree.

Which in the end was a very good thing because this was also the time I witnessed my first bear market.

19) I lost most of the remaining funds that I had.

Not really lost but saw the value drop with more than 95%.

I started to work as a teacher (yay degree) so I still had a stable income.

Early 2020 I was hired at a real trading firm.

20) They started a crypto division and were hiring for a "lead cryptocurrency analyst" at their firm.

Out of more than 20 candidates I was the only one that fit the bill.

I apparently was one of the few with such a big comprehension of the entire market.

21) Still quite proud of that actually.

Meanwhile I already had some bear market positions running after I discovered one of my favorite coins to this day back in 2018.

$QNT definitely was one of my best bets discovering this at 1$.

Only available on a dex called #IDEX.

22) This along with many other positions (I never quit crypto) ended up doing a serious multiplier once the bull market returned.

My portfolio was back at its previous height and much more.

Although I loved my job I quit after 1 year and a halve.

23) I was still stuck in the rat race since they required me to be at the office from Monday to Friday.

They did have a sick office though. My desk had 6 screens.

Although I don't have the finances yet to last a lifetime I do have enough to last me more than a decade.

24) This takes into account not earning any single dollar anymore in that time period.

I bought my second property this year and have plans to potentially move to another country.

The freedom I gained quitting my job kickstarted my Crypto Twitter journey this year.

25) It probably explains why I'm able to write such a large amount of threads a lot of you ask 😅

I'm currently still doing what I do best and position myself for the next bull market.

OH, and remember my best friend?

She's also retired with even more finances than me ❤️

26) This is my story. Thanks for reading 🤗

If you want to keep up to date to most of my content give me a follow @CryptoGirlNova.

Would love the support if you could like and retweet the first tweet. Thank you 🙏❤️

First tweet 👇

https://twitter.com/CryptoGirlNova/status/1602730012641472512?t=K3UfUjmPzDjA9ep356XC8Q&s=19