I'll buy a car this year, I don't know how I'll do it but I will.

A small word on crypto. I bought my first Bitcoin in 2016 for around $800 and sold it for a 5x. I later bought back at $7k, held it to $20k, rode it all the way down to $3k and eventually sold for a loss. In 2019 a friend told me to buy $Doge. I refused because it made no sense to me at the time. I asked why I should buy a memecoin and what the utility was. I passed on what would have been one of the greatest investments of my life because I believed memes were beneath me. That same friend turned a $2k Doge position into more than $3m. He left crypto completely afterwards. Today he is a big real estate developer in the US and his entire business was funded by that Dogecoin run. That was when I started paying attention to memes even though I was still anti-meme deep down. I believed memes had no intrinsic value which is true, but I eventually realised that most so-called utility projects in crypto also have no real value. More than 90 percent of them are vaporware with no real world usage. I kept investing in projects that I believed had groundbreaking tech that would revolutionize the industry but they all went to zero. Everything changed in December 2023. I was scrolling Twitter one evening and saw a crazy PNL from @/dannycrypt where he made $250k from Popcat in one week. That got my attention. My curiosity for memes increased and I even took Danny out for lunch to understand his strategy. I opened a Phantom wallet that same December and started applying what he told me. In the first week of January 2024 while degening onchain, I came across a memecoin called $GIGA. From what I learnt from Danny, I knew it had all the ingredients for a Popcat type run, so I took a small punt. Long story short, I made a clean 2000x. Until today it is my best investment percentage wise. A random $300 punt became more than $600k in eight months. Then greed crept in. I started regretting not putting in more. I kept asking myself what would have happened if I put $3k or $5k into GIGA. That kind of position would have turned into almost $10m and given me generational wealth. That same greed wiped out more than 90 percent of the $600k I made. I was left with less than $40k onchain. I went back to chasing so-called utility plays for “safe” returns and ended up missing fartcoin. I discovered fartcoin early but refused to buy because I felt it was ungentlemanly to invest in something with a silly name. That decision made me miss a 10,000x run (Yes 10,000x not a typo) So here is the moral of the entire story. If you have money in crypto, your main objective should be to extract as much as possible from the market. You must remain fully agnostic. No play is beneath you. When you withdraw your profits and use them to improve your life in the real world, nobody will care how you made the money onchain as long as it’s not illegal. Being rigid about chains, launchpads or narratives is one of the biggest mistakes you can make. The best crypto traders are agnostic. They go where the money & liquidity is. As for me, I am still not a fan of memes but I have learnt to keep an open mind. Equities remain my bread and butter and my only crypto exposure today is in assets that I believe will remain relevant across cycles. All the best.