Knowledge is king and power, and striving for it everyday is how we build an edge in life. In one year I've learned a lot more than I have in 7 years.
My crypto knowledge has been stunted, and that's because of the choices I made in my mid to late 20s, now in my early 30s it feels like I've wasted a lot of time doing nothing.
I think I felt a lot more comfortable in my late 20s, I didn't hustle as much as I did in my early 20s, and...
....sometimes.
I feel like I have missed all the undiluted opportunities in the crypto space from arbitrum to Hyperliquid, lighter, and so many other life changing crypto opportunities, and basically folks who knew about these opportunities are now retired, logged off web3 and now into full web2 business.
The guy who got the highest Hyperliquid aidrop made ~$1M and he instantly retired in 2024 and never got involved in web3 anymore. On the surface he might look like a foolish person on the surface, but he is not.
Web3 people round trips their profit into other web3 ventures hoping to make more money. While this is a very good way to actually x5 or x10 your portfolio, it's equally a very easy way to hit ground zero as well.
This is the same with understanding how to rotate profit from web3 into real life events (which is a skill in itself). This guy remained a legend for acing over a million dollars in project AirDrop and never returned back.
Somehow he remained a legend, and even though he could have leveraged that popularity to make hundreds of thousands of extra dollars in infofi campaign, bro never came back. Cashed out all that money and left the game completely.
I've learned that greed is a cancer when it comes to crypto. Profit is profit, take it and never bother again. Don't look at the chart to check when there is another pump.
It's actually better to take profit and miss the top than not taking any profits at all. Web3 is life-changing, although it's now more diluted, but opportunities are still there, and sometimes you need knowledge, exposure, skill and discipline which is the most important.
In crypto, exposure and research was really important. Many people didn't take it seriously and some other people did, and left when the ovation was loudest. I'm I going to leave soon? Perhaps, God willing.
It has now taken me 8 to 9 years to learn this discipline, the art of profit taking and the importance of more compounding knowledge. Will I have more opportunities? I seriously don't know.
Crypto has to work for real life events to turn out well. It's only in this industry that you can actually compound knowledge and effort into life-changing rewards and that's the reality.
unfortunately you'll need a lot of knowledge to actually leverage on this, else you'll only make enough to live from hand to mouth until the very end.
Fun fact: I think only maybe 2% (I think) have been able to hit financial freedom with crypto.
