First of all, this story dates back to 2011. That year, I came to the United States and saw news about Bitcoin for the first time on the Internet and in newspapers. The general content was: a group of young people gathered in a certain community in San Francisco made a fortune by speculating in Bitcoin, lived in villas, and drove luxury cars. Such news can indeed arouse people's curiosity and attention to Bitcoin, including me. So I turned on my computer, logged into Google, searched for Bitcoin, opened WikiLeaks, and learned that the inventor of Bitcoin was a man named Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency invented using blockchain technology to counter the centralized legal currency issued by various governments. Wow~ So cool! At that moment, I was attracted by its attributes and felt that this thing might be a future trend and lifestyle.
Four years later, in 2015, a friend dragged me to a Chinese lecture on BTC. I remember that the price of a bitcoin was $2,000 at the time. The speaker said that bitcoins could be bought in bulk, that is, you could spend $10 to buy 0.005 bitcoins. But I still thought it was expensive, and I didn’t have much money, so I hesitated for a long time and didn’t enter the venue.
Four years later, in 2019, at a chance gathering, I met two American friends who were using the Coinbase app to invest in Bitcoin. I was inspired and downloaded Coinbase, and then started investing $20 a week in Bitcoin. I didn't have much money, and I didn't think much about it, nor did I have a mentality of getting rich quickly. I made the move of investing in Bitcoin purely out of my support and belief in Bitcoin.
In 2020, the pandemic broke out. In order to appease the people, the US government printed a lot of money and spent it. The American people were not ambiguous. Since you are giving it, then we will take it. I got some wool. I have to spend the money, but I can't go to physical stores to spend at home. I can only spend it online, shopping, stocks and digital currencies. I remember that year there was a coin called shit or doge that was very popular. Many people in my circle of friends were speculating on it, saying that it had increased many times and made a lot of money, but I was unmoved.
Until the NFT boom in 2021, I finally couldn’t sit still. On the one hand, I wanted to make a fortune with the help of NFT, and on the other hand, I was attracted by the non-homogeneous properties of NFT, so I went all in crypto, all in web3. As a result... I lost a lot of money! I remember that the first time I bought 3 small pictures that were returned to zero, I lost a small amount of 10,000 RMB, and then I did a stranded project and lost a small amount of money again. Finally, I started playing with running shoes Stepn. Because I kept adding signs, I lost a lot of money in the end! Later, I summarized and reflected: Because I went all in, I lost a lot! How do you understand it? I read a sentence from a book: Working harder does not necessarily get you more. Deliberate efforts, wrong efforts, and pretended efforts will only make you lose more.
In 2022, I watched the bull market disappear and the bear market come. I also watched the money in my wallet shrink, swell, and shrink again. This year, I went to heaven and hell, and I got to know myself for the first time.
In 2023, I will be reborn from the ashes, and let nature take its course. Because I was curious about ARB accounts at the end of 2022, and experienced the ARB ecosystem, I got the blessing of ARB, which made me experience what it means to "plant flowers but they don't bloom, but plant willows by accident and they grow into shade." It also made me determined to go all in crypto, all in web3 again. Unlike the last time, this time, I want to take root in the soil of this field thoroughly, and settle myself into a grain of dust, and just want to blend in. If you don't abandon me, I won't leave you. In this case, let's start with small things: experience cutting-edge products with potential, commonly known as hair pulling.
Many people look down on wool pulling, or are unwilling to do it. It is likely that they have not gotten over this hurdle and think that wool pulling is too low! In my opinion, on the contrary, wool pulling is precisely a test of whether a person intends to survive in the encryption field for a long time. If you really want to take root in the encryption field for a lifetime, can't you even make up your mind to take two to three years to do wool pulling? Wooing is not just an act of wool pulling. A deeper analysis of wool pulling is more like a kind of practice, cultivating a mentality, a mentality that can last for a long time in the encryption field. With the "wool pulling" mentality, whether it is wool pulling, doing projects, or high investment, there will definitely be some bonuses and twice the result with half the effort. You should do what you should do at what stage and level. Do what you should do now, and all good things will come naturally.
So my plan is: before a bull market comes, I will work hard, concentrate on settling down, and take root thoroughly.
