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Hello CT (Crypto Twitter)

My name is ZZ, and I lost all my money today (again).

Let me break it down to you and maybe it will help myself to clear out my mind, and maybe I can stand up from where I am right now and carry on with my life, maybe outside twitter.
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Sorry for my non native English and maybe silly mistakes I might make as I write, now with tears in my eyes...

I first entered crypto close end of '17. I won't be looking back numbers because it does not matter at this point, so I am sorry if I am not 100% accurate.
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I recall first watching the price of $BTC and tracking it on a daily basis while it was going up in 2017... I heard about blockchain for the first time and was excited about it. Being a mature dude with IT background I knew I was entering something disruptive and exciting.
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That was when I learned about CT! I didn't know who the "big" accounts were, what an "influencer" was... #NFT wasn't a thing! (or it was and I didn't know about it yet).

Everything was new, lots to learn and to explore.
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My obsessions for the "tech" and of course, desire to make some money grew by the day.

I heard of #ALTCOINS!

When I first "pulled the trigger" to buy something, I remember buying $2k of $ETH. Loaded with $ETH it was time to buy my first altcoin!
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I remember being between $XRP and $TRX (I guess lots of us started there?)

I chose Tron and next day I was 1k up!

"Wow! This is fantastic and easy! Not selling it until I am rich!"

Yeah... it started crashing not longer after it. I was the top buyer of 2017!
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I am not really sure how much more I put in the game all the way down to $BTC 6k, but I was already many thousands dollars down.
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Around that time I really got deep into #CT, got to know and to follow so many nice accounts, funny people and their great sense of humor, I really felt like I found my place in the world!
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Although as a shy person I am, and I didn't really interacted with anyone, so maybe no one ever heard about me.

When things went south at the and of '18 begin of '19, I had already put in around 20k, and was left with only a few hundreds dollars (around $800).
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Around this time I got really curious about mining. Although there was a lot of talk about $ETH changing from PoW to PoS and Masternodes, I put together a 6 x 1070Ti (still have it!). This is also when I learned about Bitcointalk!
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A bit about my mining journey: I mined so many things! From the most worthless coins, to really cool stuff that I believe I would have "made it" if I just held them even to now...
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$NIX, $KDA, $NIM, $CAL, $RVN, $PGN, $SIN, $CCX, $VBK, $BEAM $UBQ $XRN

to mention a few I can remember of, not all of it of course, neither in order.

About this time I was all day long on CT and Bitcointalk.
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I learned about @notsofast and how he was always the "second" on each new ninja mining. Even mined a $GOVM he interacted with for 1 week with a single laptop and that was worth about 4k day 1 of trade, and 0 after a week...
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I mined everything BUT $ETH until a few months before the "merge".

This time around, I remember one of the most sad moments of my crypto journey: @CryptoHayes tweeted when $ETH went under $100. I could have made it right there... but I faded!
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I was there for Cryptopia doge PAIRS and when the hack happened, I lost money to it.
I also lost money for Coinexchange, and a few other exchange I don't even remember the name.
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At this point my balance was not even relevant anymore, I can almost remember that I had put around 50k so far, and was left with no more than $800. Which I was holding on $BNB (of course I sold it before it went parabolic to buy other xitcoins!)

I never gave up tho!
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I wanted to learn more and more. Lots of change happened to my life outside crypto & CT: I had to move 3 times, changed job 3x... and was excited about the news I was going to be a father!
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Even all the personal stuff happening, I always found time to stay on CT and really started getting to know more and more everyone: I was there for @cryptomocho (before he was gone and sold his acc? not sure if this is true???)
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All his 1000x's and masternode stuff making $100k a month were just crazy shit to watch) @22loops (with his $2k $BTC prediction) ... so many others accts I can't remember right now. I will tag some at the end...
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I think about this time around @inversebrah was a dude with a blurry picture, not a wassie yet! I remember him posting a photo of a masternode wallet he had? the bal. was just surreal. I knew I was following people that made it, and I knew I would make it one day.
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I saw the @_tm3k (or was it @gMAKcrypto ?) become $ZEC maxi and many others I secretly called "my crypto friends"

Rotated many exchanges to buy $50 worth of xitcoins hopping I was going to hit the next big thing.

It was fun to see all the #FF we use to do on Fridays!
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Got into $DRG Dragoncoin (because Disney!) Saw @BullyEsq really believed in it!!! (crazy him disapearing and coming back recently and gone again).
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I learned about Tradeogre. Learned a lot research about the coins it listed... I remember someone tweeting: "Put $100 on each Tradeogre coin and come back in a year". Yeah, that would have worked!
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I was there for the Verge $XVG pump and the revolutionary PornHub partnership that would change the world! I had a few dollars on it and of course watched the price going all the way down.
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I learned about market manipulation, Wolong and "The Game of Deception" (god.pdf) and some sort of secret report (palm tree?) I can't remember the name of.
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Saw people posting ss talking about "something else" while there were subtle shill of orders filling of a coin called music (or voice can't remember) ... I wish I could remember which account was this!
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I knew all I needed was to get in something early. And I did. And it didn't work for me.
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Fast-forwarding a lot to the end of '19 begging of '20: I was still spending a lot of time on CT. Somehow I learned about @icemining and $NIM (never heard anyone on CT talking about it until it went parabolic and I think @invesebrah tweeted "what are they doing?").
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I pointed my rig to $NIM. $BTC price was climbing. I heard of #NFTs and of course Opensea. It was a brand new platform and so many new things were appearing. Yes, I heard of cryptopunks and never bothered about it.

Learned about Dogecoin and how it drove Altseasons!
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When I finally noticed the price of $NIM moving up, I thought that was the time: "I will make it!".

Yes! I did make $8k with it (around 1 $BTC at the time). Sold it close to the top (my ONLY close to perfect sale).
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I thought "So this is the feeling when you are a whale!") I started buying ALTs again because it was ALTSEASON!

side note: I also started mining KDA (because its parallel chain that impressed me) but I can't remember why I stopped!
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I would have made it if I kept mining it, but I sold it before it went parabolic.

When DeFi started, I was so scared of all the new terms: farming, harvesting, IL, and all the "food" coins that started popping up everywhere.
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Binance launched its chain, I never really adventure on that neither with farming. It was easier for me to just rotate into coins. So I missed all the Yiled farming coins...
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I can't remember how I lost my $NIM money, but around this time Uniswap airdoped to its users and I got it (missed 1inch).
It was time to come back!

I started putting in more money (I think I had already put in around $60k so far) to trade coins. I had only around 11E.
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Not sure but I think around this time NFTs were going crazy and punks were just over 16E. I remember asking my partner to go half with me and we faded it.
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I saw the BAYC for around 9E and later 16E before going parabolic, and how it was starting to become the "Ethereum" of NFTs, I faded it all the way to be priced out. Watched it flipping Punks and selling for 100E+

Minted a lot of crap NFT that even didn't reveal!
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Minted a knock off nounz (it actually went up around 10x but I sold only around 1E worth of it).
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Coins prices were really going up! I got a lot of airdrops: $20k on top of $COPE and all the other ROPE HOPE and xxpe's, $20k of $ENS, and many other 1E airdops from Opensea killers! Even recently $ARB. And I kept putting money in. Sold all my stocks and went ALL-IN.
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I was fascinated about how much the $MEME airdrop turned out to be (I missed it and didn't buy).

Entered $SOL and $AXS and for almost free (didn't hold any)
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That time around I was actually up in dollar amount and although my stupid mistakes, my top balance around $125k (however only around $20K profit after all the money I put in?)
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On NFTs, I tried it all:

0N1 twice: in 6E sold out for 0.9E (and re-entered at the recent pump for 2.5E when company was sold and got out for 0.6E to buy meme coins)
Cryptoadz for 4E and watched it going to 16E and sold it at a loss (got a lot of airdops from it).
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2 Azukis first for 3E and second for 8E (sold both for around 8E when "Russia war" started, moved it to a "safe" coin)
2 Checks for 0.25E (watched it going to 2E and sold it for 0.2E each to buy meme coins).
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2 Nakamigos for 0.9E and 0.5E (sold it for 0.2E each to buy meme coins).

Flipped the last 6E all the way to 3E with potatoz. Missed captainz drop because I had only 2 and didn't want to buy the 3rd.

...
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When $pepe went vertical and meme season started, I took all the ETH left I had (around 4E plus the some left over NFTs) and went ALL-IN! I rotated into a few meme coins ( $WASSIE, $TURBO, $Billy, $DERP, ...) and within 3 days (5 days ago) I went to 30E!
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I lost so many nights of sleep the last 10 days, I woke up for $78,000 in my wallet and all I though was: "I just need another 2x to BREAKEVEN!"

I didn't even wanted to make money anymore, all I wanted was to breakeven and get out!
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I cried when I felt I was going to tell my partner I was out CT and had recovered all my money.

When $pepe started dropping, I continued rotating into coins, and did it all the way to 0.9E!
(which btw got rugged from $OLAF half hour ago)
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That is where I stand right now! From almost $100k from my money all the way UP & DOWN many many times to finally 0.2E!

...
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I can remember so many more events that would have made me life change money:
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I saw $SHIB launch announcement and how it would yield $leash? Faded it.
I watched all the mcfee pumps.
I had a huge bag of $DOGE before it went parabolic (with @elonmusk on SNL) and sold it for a x2.
Sold a huge bag of $BNB for close to nothing.
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I saw @elonmusk become the meme master. I saw @beeple and his HUGE NFT sale. I saw all the cryptopunks selling for millions...
I saw azukis I had selling for 30E and airdropping beans (topped 6E).

Anyways, didn't expect to write so much ...
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Just wanted to share I was here for almost every single day and event that happened the last 6 years on CT. It took my life away and all my savings. I pretty much missed the first 4 years of my oldest kid and the fist year of my second kid.
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Yesterday I crashed! Crying is never easy. But I couldn't avoid it. I went through too many emotions the last 6 years. Lost way too much sleep the last 2 weeks... it was all wasted!
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I have no words to describe what I am feeling and how much despair I felt. I have no idea how I will speak to my partner about it.
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When I held the 30E the only thing I had in mind was "I just need an easy 2x to breakeven and get out crypto for good, will finally propose to my partner".

I failed.
It is over.
My heart is broken.

ZZ

:'(
I am adding a bit more now and will tag the accounts I followed all the way from 2017 til now, in no order or any meaning... hopping this gets out there!
I enjoyed the watching Craig calling himselft satoshi... and his fight with @PeterMcCormack
I Was there to see @SnoopDogg revealing he was @CozomoMedici
... saw loomdart becoming a wassie as well...
enjoyed all the BTC maxi like @maxkeiser and their fight against ETH!
read almost all tweets of @SecretsOfCrypto
Really enjoyed minds like @AriDavidPaul @NeerajKA @RyanSAdams @balajis and of course @naval
Witnesses lots of woman joining our "family"

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Bought in so mane "FRACTAL" @moonshilla posted
Appreciate and admired seeing young @cobie growing to be one of the most influentional acc today!
I really had a great time reading about @RNR_0 eating pussy and saving us from the bear market
Saw @el33th4xor launching AVA and was sure it would change my life, but I missed it...
I really bought @ArthurB Tezos EARLY and held it for a LONG time, until sold it at a loss...
Tried to understand the concept of going parabolic from @parabolictrav and "money velocity" and all that stuff...
Admired @cz_binance and his SAFU tweets. I was so happy and impressed when there was an API exploit on #Binance and he returned all the funds!
Had so much fun with all the "announcments" @justinsuntron posted and "annoucment of annoucment" ...
Couldn't never understand all the "flooding BTC block" $VBK and @MaxwellSanchezX meant
Read in real time @Snowden tweet when $BTC bottoned last cycle
Watched so many @TechBalt videos of STRONG HANDs!!! I almost became $BTC maxi
Bought in the @SBF_FTX "I will buy all your $SOL for $2 right now, or go f** yourself"
Fomoed in every single thing that had @AndreCronjeTech name on it and never made a peny!
Found out that BIG WHALES like @Tetranode and are not the BIG ones compared to other accounts they post sometimes
Started buying more $BTC when @saylor went all-in
Got a lot entretainment from @crypto_bitlord7 and saw him become a "reality show"
Tried to trade inverse @jimcramer and it actually worked a bit...
Like I said got $COPE from @cyrii_MM (not sure where he is now) and many others like @BoringProtocol ... watched $COPE going to $20k sold for almost $500...
I really made many x's with @lcx and sold at a loss
Learned a lot from @Cryptoyieldinfo @DeFi_Dad and farming but never had enough liquidity to enter DeFi
Saw PeterSchiff nail the opposite of every single of his $BTC calls and CT making fun of it
I was impressed with the kid @gajeshnaik launching his coins!
Got really excited when I saw @garyvee entereing crypto and his NFT but I was priced out ...
Had so many losses with projects like @lootproject
I believe I was the top buyer for @frankynines @supducks
Yes, I lost money with @CryptoDickbutts
I once believe @MosheMalawach Aleph would do great and went all-in, got out at BIG LOSS!
Saw Je***11 becoming @219_eth
Faded @sartoshi_rip mfers just before it went parabolic
and finally... I will tag all the accounts I followed, sorry it took way to many tweets....
Can't forget about @gabrielhaines and how I saw he transitioning from DeFi mentor to a machete degen ... happy he made it with $TURBO !!!

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