I must admit, I have lived a pretty fun and interesting life – filled with luxury cars, watches, houses, and art. I travelled around the world in a private jet, stayed in some of the worlds best hotels, and partied harder than most rockstars. I was the poster child of the fiat overconsumption epoch and I peaked. I made a lot of money more than once and I lost a lot of money more than once. A few times I actually lost everything, and once while in the midst of losing everything I was still spending millions on my divorce, feeding the mouths of my lawyer’s children instead of my own. It felt like a never ending cycle of chasing fiat to blow it all away over and over again, the only difference being how I chose to blow it each time.

When I had everything, life started to get boring.

I saw and tried too many things. Too much pussy, too many risky business moves, too many “friends”, too many cars, too many vacations, too many parties, and too many drugs. I was not afraid to make a mistake, because I had enough money to fix any mistake – so I feared nothing, leaving me emotionless for the most part.

Each time I lost everything, my emotions would come back, but not those of joy and excitement, it was always those of regret and fear. The periods of my life where I had little to nothing left, I would realize I was not as young as I was the times before and not able to recover from my losses as quickly as I used to.

When I did not have my safety net of fiat, I would stop being as reckless and I would start to worry about every mistake – I feared everything, leaving me paralyzed for the most part. Unfortunately not paralyzed enough, because during one of my low points I borrowed a substantial amount of money from a friend and started trading alt coins, and because I was able to recover everything I lost in the divorce plus sum, I thought I knew it all.

What I failed to see was that I knew nothing and that I did not make money trading because I was a genius trader, I made money because because I got into the altseason at the right time, I just got lucky. That luck would soon run out and poison me.

Instead of securing my earning in Bitcoin, I was focusing on the fiat value of my portfolio, I had not yet discovered S2F, I had yet to truly understand Bitcoin, and I had not learned to HODL. I was overly confident and decided it would be a good move to continue trading alts and diversify into more altcoins. I didn’t understand that it was all a scam designed by the altcoin devs to get their hands on my bitcoin.

Obviously, I lost everything trading alts. Including the principal amount I borrowed from my friend.

I felt defeated, I couldn’t feel anything, and I couldn’t find any real purpose in life. I felt there was only one thing I could control at that time and that was my own life, so I purposely overdosed on coke, with the idea of dying in euphoria. Thank God I survived, the last thing I remember before passing out, was extreme fear and a desire to live. One of the scariest memories I have to this date. I don’t recommend anyone taking on such a risky lesson, a DMT trip is a much safer solution for anyone looking to find a similar reset without the actual dying part.

With the combination of a few lucky events, a good medical team, and a few good friends, I was able to fully recover from that overdose and I was ready to go on with my life.

Although I had this memory of my desire to live, I was still depressed and recovering from my unsuccessful suicide attempt. I decided to change my email and phone number, I bought a few books, and moved to a quiet town where I could think about my future.

Luckily one of the books I took on this “recovery” trip was Saifedean’s ‘The Bitcoin Standard’.

This is when my journey down the rabbit hole started, not when I first read about Bitcoin years before and not when I bought my first bitcoin to meet Lucy on the darknet, it all really started with that particular book. After that book I decided to sell all of the personal belongings I had left, my cars, my watches, and my only house. I knew it would only allow me to buy a small fraction of the bitcoin I had when I peaked, but I understood what it meant to HODL and I understood the math. I would not have the same amount of bitcoin I once had, but I knew selling everything would allow me to have more than enough. Despite financially recovering from many major losses, buying back a portion of the bitcoin I once had, will likely end up being my greatest recovery to date.

Apart from being a victim and falling into addiction to the fiat overconsumption culture, I was also an “Expert Maximalist” – I blindly believed almost any .gov/.edu “scientific” resource, but reading ‘The Bitcoin Standard’ was the opinion formation pivotal point for me.

Losing my wealth many times over, discovering Bitcoin, reading ‘The Bitcoin Standard’ and Vijay Boyapati’s “The Bullish Case for Bitcoin” article have really helped open my eyes to the reality we live in.

The best way to open one’s eyes to reality, is to explain money, because money is everything, despite what other people may tell you.

If you want good health, a happy relationship, healthy food, good medical care, safety, and a lot of time to do the things you enjoy doing – you need money, and a lot of it. The sad reality is that most people don’t even know how much they need. Fortunately for me I do know, and this has allowed me to stack and HODL accordingly. I’ve never planned my future as thoroughly as I have now, thanks to Bitcoin.

To understand how bad, fake, unfair, and evil our world is, one must open their eyes to the most important thing in our lives – money. It is the fiat money that is rigged, none of us have ever had real money until we got our hands on bitcoin. It is extremely easy to understand Bitcoin so long as your mind is open to the idea that you have been blinded by the current system and understand that what you think “works” does not truly work. In fact you should accept the fact that you do not know how the system is actually working. Unfortunately, most people will have a hard time removing the layers of fiat propaganda forced onto them by the ruling elites that want to keep our brains washed forever, but I am here to say it is not impossible to escape this fiat slavery.

I have tried to save as many friends, family members, and acquaintances as I could, I have even tried to save random cab drivers from the fiat armageddon that is coming, but I saw very few listened. 

I understood it is still early and my own words might not be enough conviction for everyone. My words alone will not reach the masses, but I felt there had to be something more I could do in order to help open the eyes of those near and far. 

Since my words alone were not enough, I decided to use art as my voice in hopes that it will save just a few more people. I published a few sketches on my Twitter account and the reception was very positive, so I decided to open an online art gallery as a handful of people wanted to buy a few of my pieces. Bitcoin is my new addiction, it helped me become a better person, it humbled me, it taught me to save and to plan for my future. I am very thankful to Satoshi Nakamoto for fixing me. One by one, Bitcoin will fix the world.

Every satoshi removed from an exchange or weak hands matters! HODL or #HFSP.

Truly yours,
@BitcoinUltras