My Journey in Crypto: Part 2.

So I've already seen how people get rich in a short term and continued to follow what's happening in crypto. Of course, I didn't understand anything about altcoins, didn't know any projects/names, etc.

At that time, I owned a car rental company and one day got a request from some guy contacting me on Facebook. He wanted to rent an SUV, which was the most expensive one in my fleet. He didn’t try to get any bargain and just confirmed he wants to rent for the long term and pay monthly at the highest rate.

That guy became my friend in the future and we are still in close contact.

Later, I would know they were involved in bounty programs farming Ethereum in 2017 and they organized some Ponzi scheme getting Ethereum. I can't remember exactly what that was.

So the guy started with 0 deposit in spring of 2017 and ended with over 600k by the end of the year being a worker.

All that info I got much later. But how I got my first crypto…

He was paying me monthly rental price and once he asked if I wanted to get payment in crypto?

I said I'm okay to get one payment in crypto if he explains to me how to do that.

So he told me to install Electrum desktop wallet, explained to me how to check BTC rate, and sent payment to me with BTC, yes, with BTC, not USDC or USDT. At that time, BTC was the most trustworthy currency.

So I got around 0.2 BTC and was checking its rate almost every day 😃 That was spring of 2018 and I got around 15-20% up just in a few months.

That was the moment I found out what is margin trading and registered my account at Bitmex 😷

That was a real start! To be continued…