Why I’m Rethinking My Crypto Journey This New Year | by Saad Jameel | The Capital | Jan, 2025
Look, I get it. We’ve all been there — watching charts like hawks, joining Discord groups at 3 AM, and FOMOing into tokens that promised to be “the next big thing.” After another wild year in crypto, I’ve been doing some serious thinking about what really matters going forward. Here’s what I’m committing to this year — and maybe you should, too.
Honestly, it hurts to write this, but last November was brutal. 31 rug pulls in ONE day. Let that sink in. I remember scrolling through Twitter (or X, whatever we’re calling it now) and watching the Hawk Tuah drama unfold in real-time. Seeing a token crash 91% in three hours is the kind of stuff that keeps you up at night. I’ve learned my lesson the hard way — if something sounds too good to be true, it probably belongs in the “suspicious” folder.
Remember when we all thought HODLing was the only way? Well, turns out our Bitcoin can do more than collect digital dust. I recently started exploring DeFi platforms like Stacks and Rootstock, and it’s like discovering a whole new world. The numbers don’t lie — we went from $306 million locked in Bitcoin DeFi at the start of 2024 to a mind-blowing $7.4 billion by the…
