How I Got Into Crypto – From Skeptic to Investor
A few years ago, crypto barely caught my attention. It seemed like a highly speculative gamble, full of wild price swings, hype-driven projects, and get-rich-quick schemes. Compared to traditional finance — gold, oil, stocks, and bonds — crypto felt too risky, too volatile, and too disconnected from real value. Even penny stocks made more sense to me than digital coins floating around the internet.
But over time, things changed.
I first started hearing more about crypto from colleagues at work. It wasn’t just news headlines anymore — people around me were talking about their investments in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and random altcoins. Around 2020, Dogecoin and Shiba Inu were making waves. Stories of life-changing gains flooded social media, and the phrase “To the Moon” was everywhere.
Everyone was buzzing about crypto, and I decided to experiment with it too. I started feeding small amounts into different projects — altcoins, meme tokens, anything that seemed promising at the time. Some of those projects are still alive today. Others? They went straight to zero. (Check out my blog on Meme Coins and Market Hype for more on that ride.)
