KBW & Token2049 coming up. Time to hit the conference circuit again.
I used to judge certain KOLs hard. Dudes sitting on 8-9 figure bags but acting broke as hell—mooching meals, stealing chargers, ghosting when the bill comes, wearing the same fit for years, checking price tags on everything.
Then I learned: he got rugged to zero once.
At his lowest point, he didn't even have money for the next day's meal.
He clawed back, made serious money again. But that terror? Never left.
Some KOLs stack cash not because they love money. Some grind 24/7 not because they're ambitious. They just fell into a pit so deep once, they spend the rest of their lives terrified of falling back in.
You see people pocket random pens, snatch the biggest chicken piece at hotpot first—none of that compares to the pain of getting rugged to zero.
A lot of weird habits in crypto? There's always a chapter behind it you never lived through.
I used to judge certain KOLs hard. Dudes sitting on 8-9 figure bags but acting broke as hell—mooching meals, stealing chargers, ghosting when the bill comes, wearing the same fit for years, checking price tags on everything.
Then I learned: he got rugged to zero once.
At his lowest point, he didn't even have money for the next day's meal.
He clawed back, made serious money again. But that terror? Never left.
Some KOLs stack cash not because they love money. Some grind 24/7 not because they're ambitious. They just fell into a pit so deep once, they spend the rest of their lives terrified of falling back in.
You see people pocket random pens, snatch the biggest chicken piece at hotpot first—none of that compares to the pain of getting rugged to zero.
A lot of weird habits in crypto? There's always a chapter behind it you never lived through.