Sarcasm Saturday #68 - Crypto Guru Veteran

By PVM | Mind Puzzle | 1 hour ago


Welcome back to the only crypto segment where confidence is high, evidence is optional, and everyone's a visionary in a bull market. Ready for another episode of Sarcasm Saturday?

This week we're handing out completely unofficial awards to the industry's finest achievements: the loudest predictions, the strongest cope, the most creative narratives! What's the hot topic?

They call me a veteran guru! Been in the game since 2020, and learned a lot! I bought internet magical money in 2015. Ended up with 6.7 BTC, watched it do a 3x, sold it thinking, "I'll buy back cheaper when it dips." It never did.  

That expensive lesson sent me deeper down the crypto rabbit hole, and I've never left. Now I'm building, farming airdrops, and living onchain. What's your origin story?  Memories bring back memories!

Image

Everyone laughed when profile pictures became billion-dollar assets. The next NFT wave won't be about JPEGs, it'll be about identity, access, AI agents, and ownership. NFTs aren't dead and they're evolving.

Rally may be the spark with the Winston collection, or all those new NFT collections on Robin Hood! Some pumped crazy! Watching the hype around Rally as a reminder me the biggest edge is knowing when not to play. 

I became obsessed with understanding this industry, learning how decentralized systems worked, studying market cycles, exploring new protocols, and trying to understand where the future was heading.

 Image

 Lost count of how many times I've told people to try new crypto projects but one still haunts me. I told friends to join  KittyMining because the rewards looked too good to ignore.

Turns out it had all the signs of a Ponzi. Watching people lose money because of advice I gave was a lesson I won't forget. Some managed to pull profit, some almost broke even... but most lost! 

Now I trust hype a lot less and ask one question first: where does the yield actually come from? Sometimes the most expensive lesson isn't your own loss. It's realizing someone trusted your opinion.

Now all I want is to keep creators aware and avoid drama! Are we still early? No amigos... most of the time we just end up carrying the bag for a project where insiders made big money! 

Image

It's only a gambling story if you're losing! I build a fair portfolio since 2020, through hard work and sleepless nights! I was drained twice, got rugged few times but this time I rugged myself badly.

This is the story that tops everything! Not joking... I was an idiot and lost everything! To add some context into the story... I had gambling issues in the past and after years of compulsive betting I decided to stop.

I kept away for 5-6 years! The FIFA 2026 World Cup came with all kind of offers, free bets and opportunities. Don't lie to yourself saying that prediction markets are sciences and maths not gambling... because I did! 

Down the rabbit hole with the same "I will make them back attitude" and I nearly did it! Slowly made my way back but by now I swapped every other assets in USDC and played the all-in roulette! 

Got a decent -$6000 on the PnL chart and I should have stopped and accept the loss... but how not to go one more time on the most secure game of the decade! Argentina will beat Cabo Verde 3-0 right?

Unless you live under a rock... you know they needed extra time so boom.... I was an idiot until the end and lost everything! My whole portfolio is gone and my  Limitless PnL gone to -$47,699 abyssal depths! 

76751acdb826b2f07cd86c91592636da655d4188c83b133d6b5fabd83a4cf163.jpg

 

Cool stuff I want to share:

Claim your Zerion XP

Content: Publish0x & Hive 

Play2Earn: Splinterlands & Holozing 

PVM The Author - My Amazon Books

871bc975f168454930cc6b280a19a37be3d3415f65f350ff09fe45748ff0cd55.jpg

 

How do you rate this article?

3


PVM
PVM Verified Member

UMA Ambassador 🐔 Across Committee Member 🌉 Horizen Ambassador


Mind Puzzle
Mind Puzzle

Think! ... it's still free! An amalgam of cryptocurrency, science, arts, news and other manifestations of human intellectual will be published on this blog. Sometimes I will add my personal opinions or midnight revelations

Publish0x

Send a $0.01 microtip in crypto to the author, and earn yourself as you read!

20% to author / 80% to me.
We pay the tips from our rewards pool.

Page not displaying correctly?