It was the year 2020 and the whole world was on lock down. There was no work (at least physical), no school, and I had little to no money on ground. My daily routine was the same: wake up, clean the house, bathe (every two days), and do basically nothing till the end of the day. Just browse through the internet, watch movies, eat and sleep.
It was great at first, but as time went on it started getting boring. Day in day out the same thing, nothing productive, just endless hours browsing through the internet, downloading and watching movies, as well as sleeping. I quickly realized this wasn't the life I wanted to live, when my pockets started getting empty.
This was when a guardian angel was sent to me in the form of 
One of those downs happened in April 2021 . I remember it like yesterday, it was the era of shit coins. A lot of people had shared testimonies of making 10x, 20x and 100x in shit coins like safemoon and FEG token. At that particular time, my crypto portfolio wasn't doing too well, I was paper handing all my holdings. Any little dip and I move to the next coin that's guaranteed to pump. As I sell it pumps and the new coin I buy dips. Cycle continues. My answer to every dip was :
This continued for a while and I was getting frustrated with crypto. It just seemed like the whole system was against me.
"All these coins are not pumping fast enough, why not try these shit coins people are talking about. See, Mr A is making 10x from his safemoon investment." I thought
I didn't invest in safe moon because I knew it had pumped too much to get in, but I was on the lookout for the next big thing and as expected it came.
One of k-banti's friends shared the launch of a new coin called safemoonart. Apparently it was a subset of safemoon and had the potential to moon on launch.
This was our chance and we were not about to miss it. We gathered some funds and waited patiently for the launch. We joined both the telegram and the Twitter community, constantly checking for updates. And finally the time came. We got in and bought some safemoonart swiftly
It dipped a little for some seconds, and then all of a sudden it started to rise, and rise, and rise. Within minutes it reached 2x and then 5x and 7x. We were ecstatic, we started playing music and singing and dancing. So this is how it feels to make money off a pump.
I was thinking of adding a few more dollars, but it would take too much time, which we didn't have.
Once it got to about 10x we decided it was time to start taking profit little by little. We tried the first time and it gave an error.
"probably network"
We tried again, same thing again.
"change slippage rate to the highest"
It still didn't work.
"OK let's reach out to those in the telegram group."
All the admins' accounts had been deleted. It was then we knew what we were in.
The little money I'd been managing was all gone. We'd just been victims of a rug pull . To think less than 15 minutes ago we were jubilating. We both remained silent for a while, trying to process what had just happened. Then, as though something funny had just happened we both burst Into laughter.
Me and k-banti
It was a painful experience, but from that moment we learnt our lesson. Stay far away from shit coins.
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