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How did you get into crypto?
Tell us your story

>> No.8138903

I got around $2000 for Christmas this year and thought "hmmm what is the quickest way I can lose this". Few weeks later and I'm down 25% and still bleeding.

10/10 would do again

>> No.8138905

>>8138855
I’m a NEET who doesn’t want to go to work or school. I’m also an INTJ personality type. INTJs have the highest success rate among traders. 55% of all successful traders are INTJ even though INTJs only make up 1-2% of the population. Figured this was my calling.

>> No.8138928

>>8138855
weed

>> No.8138942

>learned about bitcoin when it was 5 bucks, used it for silk road drug purchases
>continue this for years with several drug sites, run through 200+ btc
>finally fomo into the investing side of crypto when btc hits 1k, get dumped on by GOX
>lose faith in crypto
>fomo in at 5k, make decent money during the 2017 bullrun, still buying drugs
>want to kill myself for wasting so much btc in my past, use drugs to numb pain

>> No.8138977

>>8138855
I fell for the ancap meme a few years ago, and crypto is obviously popular in those circles. Made 500k as a result.

>> No.8139098

>spend entire life on computer
>hear about bitcoin throughout the years never pay much attention
>spent $100 for a bitcoin and buy some drugs
>holy shit bitcoin is 10K???? HOLY SHIT BITCOIN IS 15K? ALL IN! oh that dust i left years ago is worth $50

got extremely lucky didnt fall for the btc meme, went into altcoins like ltc xrb. didnt sell the top though cuz i was a noob(xrb to $100!). still did alright

>> No.8139133

>>8138942
Hey man if people like you weren't using BTC as a currency in the early days this whole "cryptocurrency meme" might have never taken off. Don't be too hard on yourself

>> No.8139162

I woke up sweatening in the middle of the night.
It was in december last year.
I had the urgent feeling of missing out on this cryptothing.
I took all the money from the bank (5k) and all in bitcoin.
I still have 2k and 2018 is gonna be great. We're all gonna make it.

>> No.8139183

I bought mushrooms off of alphabay to trip for the first time

then i saw ETH get added to coinbase and yolod $500 into it
and from there i was hooked.

>> No.8139207

2011-2012 got interested in the derpweb threads on /b/, got into BMR and started lurking on some of the non-CP boards (think it was mixie and Torchan, I forget though). Got myself a freedom hosting accout, started selling e-books and FH sign-up codes for .9 BTC each and spammed my BMR referral link everywhere. Soon had a BTC rolling in every day. I was 15 or 16, couldn't buy drugs since I still lived at home so I just gambled and bought other shit I could resell, eventually buying a silk road account right before it got shut down and lost 20 or 30 BTC there before THE bull run. Stopped fucking around with crypto in 2014 after becoming lazy and gambling away all my BTC like a degenerate. No one feels the missed opportunities more than me, I probably had over 100 BTC come through my hands over a couple years and don't have anything to show for it

>> No.8139233

>>8139162
Lol

>> No.8139259

>>8139207
actually more like a few hundred I found a throwaway wallet I had on my old desktop from a few years ago and it had 35 BTC go through just on it alone, only had txs for a year (mainly used a still-reliable online wallet that has NOTHING on it)

>> No.8139264

>>8138855
Meant to click on /bant/ but missed by one. I thank Hiro ever day for getting me in May 2017 rather than later (if ever)

>> No.8139293

>>8138855
Unironically through 9GAG. Now I don't browse 9GAG anymore and only shitpost on /biz/ and /gif/ all the time.

>> No.8139424
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8139424

>be me, summer 2012 or 2013 idk anymore
>working first internship
>browse reddit all day
>read about btc, spend my last paycheck on 5 BTC at $80 per btc
>btc makes a run to like, 300 or some shit, i sell all my btc thinking im the smartest man alive

>two years later...

>dogecoin is a fucking thing
>i dont want to deal with exchanges, buy some doge from some guy off of reddit using paypal
>realize that i got chinked and am paying an extra fucking 30% on top of market price just to use paypal
>reddit blowing up about dogecoin, nobody wants to set up on exchanges
>decide to set up shop, am LITERALLY buying dogecoin and selling at 30-35% markup to reddit normies. never made money that quickly in my life
>get scammed by some thai chink
>paypal fucks me
>google wallet bans me
>close shop, save about 5-10 btc and 1 million doge and 10 million mint

>1 year later...

>btc tanks, i think gox happened
>still butthurt from getting paypal scammed
>dad an heroed
>im beyond broke
>sell all my crypto assets to prolly pay for weed and burritos, couldn't be more than $1,000
>take a break from crypto
>come back and realize i couldve made it if i held for 1-2 years

>today...

how the fuck do i not end it all boys? at least i have a qt gf i guess. happy for all you oldfags that held and made it. not all of us made it sadly.

>> No.8139447

Anyone who doesn't say drugs back in the days is a newfag

>> No.8139473

wanted to mine bitcoin in 2015 but quit because it was to complicated

>> No.8139481

>>8139424
unironcally, theres still time.

you will absolutely have no choice but to kill yourself if crypto actually takes off, and you were too salty about losing out the first time to give it another go

>> No.8139511

2012, talking with programmer friend. Heard about the future, believed it, read the white paper, ico for eth announced, realized it was happening. Laughed at the rest of the world for years since.

>> No.8139520

friend made money and I also want to make money

>> No.8139541

>>8138905
You live with your parents? How the hell do you NEETs get the money to make any sort of initial investment?

>> No.8139619

>>8139424
>at least i have a qt gf i guess. happy for all you oldfags that held and made it. not all of us made it sadly.

dude i am quitting my job now because i made so much in crypto, i spent 2 years doing this 24/7 for financial freedom. and i still cry because im turning 26 and can't figure out how to met girls now, i think your better off then me

>> No.8139626

>>8139481

i think the same anon. putting it all on the table now, and don't mind if i get burned this time.

i think once normies wake up to supply chain coins, we should see another normie-pumped bullrun. that's my guess at least, who the fuck knows.

>> No.8139629

>>8139541
birthday money, Christmas money, small jobs, etc.

>> No.8139663

I posted a pic of my butt on /g/ for what is now worth 6 figures. I now have about 10% of the sat value.

>> No.8139672

Came to uni in September, there was this Chink on my floor who was into crypto and had about $30k in it. He got me and one other into it

>t. bought at $17k

>> No.8139683

>>8138855
having over a pound of Cubensis on hand.
monero was at $6.

>> No.8139695
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8139695

>on 4chan since 2015, /b/ only
>finally decide to try out other boards
>/r9k/
>anon tells me to visit /biz/, June 2017
>the journey begins

A friend told me about BTC in 2013 and I wasn't interested, so yeah.

>> No.8139754

2015 - darknet drugs. I was the friend group's connect for cheaper weed, LSD, MDMA, etc.

2017 to now - My smart pajeet friend told me to buy ethereum when it was $40. He explained blockchain technology to me while we smoked a blunt. He's profited at least $40k from mining. I've made profit of just under $200k from buying good coins early and swing trading. Would be much more if I hadn't followed the hodl meme.

>> No.8139820

got into btc to buy lsd. smartest/luckiest decision i've ever made.

>> No.8139840

>>8139820
yeah you can't regret doing acid because it's frickin awesome

>> No.8139879

>>8139820
>>8139754
shipping bars for 95 cents a piece and selling 3-5x was some of the easiest money Ive ever made

>> No.8139893

>>8138855
Aren't some of you depressed over the fact that you didn't get into crypto sooner???

I am

>> No.8139921

>>8139893
there's still enough time if you buy the right coins now

>> No.8139954

>>8138855
Bought a oz back in the day. Most expensive ounce ever

>> No.8139981

>>8138855
I got in to conspiracies about 6 years ago, that morphed in to doom porn (ww3, aliens, new world order) then got into financial doom and found about cryptos it was about 2014-2015

>> No.8139992

>>8139879
Ikr. But I'm a professional with way too much at stake if I got caught selling. All drugs were for our personal use, mostly at music shows and festivals.

>> No.8140175

>>8139992
decriminalization when?

>> No.8140229

I wanted to an hero last year. About September
Apart from the usual do a flip faggot Some anon in /b/told me if I had any money to spend. Told me to go all in on crypto. Make it or break it. That even if I didn't make it the ride would be fun and I wouldn't want to miss out.
I now have 60k in crypto. Chance to make it in the next 5 years or so.
More importantly I have something to look forward to. Most anons complain about the quality of the board but the fud memes here are top quality . I haven't kek'd so hard in a board since old /b/. The Link toilet fud/Jason Parser/Shadowlink saga was golden.
And now I don't want to go an hero anymore, at least for now. So I thank all anons for this chance since the original anon didn't leave an address or anything to say him thanks personally.
I hope you make it.
You deserve it.

>> No.8140326

>>8138855
I'm the retard of the family
Sister is Doctor
Brother is financial analyst
I'm working in supermarket
Christmas talks with all the family
Blabla my holydays in Egypt
Blabla Bought this appartment in Sydney
When will you learn to drive a car anon ?
*I'll show them, one day*
Bought 3K few days after
lost 60%
Still *I'll show them, one day*
And I'm sure of that

>> No.8140415

Gambling addicted. Crypto helps me to stay away from casinos.

>> No.8140453

>>8140326
Literally me.

>> No.8140486

>>8140229
>>8140326
Hold onto your fedoras, anons. We're all gonna make it.

>> No.8140537

>>8138855
had heard of bitcoin but life took turns and i forgot about it
then, in a hostal in lisbon in february 2017, a dude tells me about ethereum
before that i realized biz slowly turning from frugal and shit into crypto only
and then my interpreting prof told me to keep an eye on financial markets

so i started buying at 2k usd

if i had held bitcoin, god dayum but you wanna buy all dem shiny coins and icos and shieeet

>> No.8140613

2012 I bought some Weed and LSD
Now I have over 900k in bitcoin lol

>> No.8140709

>>8140613
>LSD
worst coin ever, sell before it's too late

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>>8138855
Waited for video card prices to drop and it didn't, came to /biz/ and begged for a 1070 gtx late last summer and of course didn't get it. Decided to go into crypto and see what it's all about. Might as well. Currently up 20k in profit. Still won't buy a video card at these prices though.

>> No.8140903

>>8139619

ill trade u my gf for your financial freedom anon. my gf is just a sign of me winning the genetic lottery, nothing more nothing less.

my lack of money and success clearly has a negative effect in our relationship, and she's the most humble grill i've ever met. if i had ur $$$ we'd be plowin cocaine thots left and right man. next life i guess.

>> No.8141711

>>8138855
online poker!
I think the first time I played bitcoin was 70 dollars

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>>8140903
or a sign of your gf losing the genetic lottery

>> No.8141748

A friend paid me $30 in bitcoin back in 2013. The service I provided was activating a questionable twitter account with my phone number.

>> No.8141759

had to find a easy way to launder my money made with dealing drugs, answer: crypto

I make 15k a month from dealing drugs, made a shit ton of money back in 2017 with crypto its insane

life is comfy and good

>> No.8141817

buying xanax on the dankweb

but mostly some faggot on the news telling how he lost the privatekey to his 90K Neo wallet
I thought if that retarded soyboy can make this much a brainlet like me could easily do the same

>> No.8142321

I got shilled into ETH by biz in late 2015. I went all in.

Thanks for making me rich /biz/

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8142417

>heard of bitcoin a long time ago
>never paid it attention
>found out on the news that it had reached $1000
>then find out it died to 300$ or so
>forget about it
>mostly browsed /tv/, occasionally entered /biz/ and saw a lot of ethereum shilling, didnt knew what it was
>become a NEET for the past 3 years that lived with parents
>fast forward to last year's June, find out btc hit $3,000 and eth $300
>research and find out it was cents/few dls a year before
>find out about the ico revolution
>borrow $25k from the bank that i never paid back just because
>had $200k first days of january
>never cashed out and down to like $60k

could have been worse, i'll get it back and more.