Now it's the opposite, my first trades were on Kraken in 8th grade, I traded through my brother's account, now you can drag packs of newbies, you can tear them apart completely, but back then it wasn't like that.

I remember the times when I traded on the exchange using trading pairs with $BTC , the prices were low back then and the entire trading volume was in the number of bitcoins and profits were all calculated in bitcoins. No one even looked at USDT, everyone was eager to increase the number of bitcoins regardless of its own price. But those times passed somehow unnoticed and probably no one except trading bots trades focusing on the trading pair BTC/. Nostalgia hit me when the entire crypto market was truly grassroots. There were no large regulatory funds. A kind of Wild West, the times of Ponzi schemes. Everything comes to an end and sometimes we don't even notice it.