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>>1132011
I have been interested in crypto for a long time. I first heard about crypto probably mid 2011 when Bitcoin rose to $30. I saw a few posts on /b/ about it. I started mining later that year on a gaming laptop (didn't know that was a bad idea at the time), and mined less than 1 bitcoin and a few litecoin then totally forgot about them and lost the private keys. I didn't revisit Bitcoin until about mid 2013. At that point, I was taking bitcoin that I bought from MtGox for around $100/coin and selling them on ebay for a ridiculous markup. This was before they changed their policies on cryptocurrencies and pushed them to the classified sections. Luckily, I kept no Bitcoin or money on MtGox. I cashed them out immediately or transferred them to a wallet. Even after ebay and paypal took their cut and losing bitcoin to chargebacks, I still made really good money. I didn't hold any Bitcoin longterm because I don't really gamble. Anyone who even knows a slight bit about crypto markets knows that there is extreme market manipulation on every level. These markets are entirely unpredictable to your average joe-blow crypto "investor". They can turn on you in a whim. I don't care what anyone tells you but nobody knew Bitcoin would balloon up to $1000 like it did except maybe insiders at MtGox and the creator of the willybot.

After Bitcoin crashed I started selling XRP on ebay and made a killing so I decided to sell dogecoin and LTC too. If you had bought XRP at any time in 2014 on ebay, there was a 90% chance it was probably from me. I eventually stopped selling there because the competition lowered the prices so much that I wasn't making money anymore so I decided to take advantage of arbitrage between exchanges. I am 100% sure that I knew about Ethereum before any shill on this board. I signed up for the newsletter before they even announced the presale (pic related). That's how I know about ethereum because I have been following it since the beginning.