IMPORTANT NOTE: I copy and pasted this from jup research. But here’s my story so far. I appreciate you guys even though I sold $cloud
Hi.
I’m Lochie. Not Loo-chi, not LOW-CHI, rather lock-key (Lochie).
You may know me from jup research, the “stay hard goggins addict” in discord or maybe just seen me around.
I started in crypto through NFTs on Eth blockchain of December 2020.
My first nft I minted 3 of them. Mint was 0.3 eth each. Two days post mint floor price was 4ETH each!! Obv I didn’t sell and fumbled bc I thought this was normal given I was brand new to crypto.
I sold them for 0.5eth each so made a small profit, however, then the LUNA crash happened and in terms of $ I made a pretty decent loss.
Still to this day I haven’t converted a cent in crypto to fiat, as I learnt about the 4 year bull market trend.
In 2021 after flipping nfta for small profits and losses, I moved to Solana. boight Tripping Ape Tribe got like 60 sol and never sold it. Huge loss again lol.
After a few years of accumulating all when it was around $20-30 I kept spending my sol. I didn’t anything besides have $SOL in my wallet.
I learnt how to do raffles of famous fox federation and BOY OH BOY did I make some profit.
My all time high in sol (in NFT floor price) was 750 sol I probs bought 300 of that so doubled.
However I got addicted to raffling and maxed out 3 degod raffles when degods were 300-400 sol. Lost 200 + sol right there. But slowly climbed back.
I was a Hiest whale (nft) had 45 when FP was 25 sol each. I was making 6-10 sol a day selling $NANA and $COCO. I ran the numbers in my head and was like “cool if I do this for 365 days I’ll be rich!” .
Obv this was short lived as nft crash came when sol pumped to $80.
After this, I had spent over 45k on sol and crypto and had a solid 6k left. This was roughly 12 months ago. I was at a low and had no hope. Then JUP came to the rescue. Idk how but I must have had decent dex volume through jup so I got 3200 $JUP.
I told myself “yeah I’m gonna dump it right away it’s free money! I knew nothing about Jupiter really.
I ended up staking it, learning about jupuary. I’m so glad I did. I’ve still never sold the airdrop to this day and I’m so proud it’s been locked up since.
During this period I spent another 20k of my savings on crypto at $80. It’s pumped to $160 and I was stoked!
At this time $PORTAL token was trending over twitter so I farmed that best I could day in day out! From the twitter engagement I got 500 $PORTAL which I could claim 15% upon TGE. They also had a pre sale 5-6 months prior. I got my boss at work to buy it too. I spent 55 sol on pre sale tokens, however things turned quickly. Portal X account was milking tweets and never announced TGE…. Not until 5 months later! I felt super bad bc I got my boss to spend 10 sol on it too! We thought we got rugged.
However the token got announced as a BINANCE launch and my world turned upside down. Pre sale price was $4. Upon launch I managed to sell 15% of my token (rest was vested for 12 months) at TGE when the price was $3.30 . I spent $1000 of my own money on eth gas, but instantly had 4 eth in my wallet which I instantly bridged to sol.
The rest is still u locking however the price of portal is roughly $0.3-0.4 fluctuating. I’ve still made profit over.
With this $SOL I bought more jup to increase my staking to 5k from 3200.
Then sanctum happened: I engaged with their community and got a whopping 25k $CLOUD! I instantly sold it for USDC and bought 11k worth of $JUP.
I now had 17k ish jup staked: I love sanctum and all but loved jup more . Don’t get me wrong I still have $cloud left from DLMM pool and love the price pump! I could have had 50k $cloud if I kept vesting it but I wanted more and more $JUP.
So just like that. 6k and jup I managed to score another 10k. Getting close to a break even.
Since then, I’ve been accumulating my ASR and spent a lot more time in JUP discord: I have made 50-60 + friends in there already. YES… friends ! 
As some of you knows last Friday I put like 80% of my sol portfolio into memecoins and leveraged them through drift. I made 10k and cashed I it after advice from the DAO. I was so happy.
Price on mem coins dipped so I reinvested all that money. I was up another 10k but never cashed, price then dipped and I was close to being liquidated! So I added the last of my sol the fund the leverage.
As of the most recent Friday I managed to turn 30k worth of tokens into 59k! I set limits orders to it would sell at 60k! That’s the crazy thing!!! It hit 59.9k and I just missed out on my sell off! My portfolio went to 54k the next day and I was like “well it will come. Back to 60k in a day or two.
HERE IS WHERE I MADE THE DUMBEST DECISION IF MY LIFE. I shorted moodeng, left for kickboxing and checked it when I was driving home. My portfolio when to 25k and I thought it was a glitch until I got a message saying “ADD FUNDS YOU ARE BEING LIQUIDATED!”.
Fucking Moodeng had just been listed on Binance and had pumped 150% in a minute. I quickly closed all my perps and was down to 14k left by the time my order was fulfilled. I had to pull over. My car as I had lost basically MY ENTIRE LIFE SAVINGS.
I was so fucken hurt so I went to jup discord where 10-15 cadets support me. I am incredible grateful for the PPP nature of jup.
I wanna shout out @JD-SOL84 who had been like a father to me, he felt my pain and he assured me everything will be okay.
Chad sent me $110 usd to go buy myself dinner! He nearly brought me to tears .
@10q organised with the raffle dao over at famous foxes to get me 3.3 sol worth of fees I forgot to claim. He went out of his way to do this! He is so fkn kind, this deserves to make him cadet.
There is 10-15 other people who I already appreciated in discord and so so so many more. I love you guys, you basically saved my life.
So here to am today with 14k worked or JUPSOL in my wallet $110usdc and my 19k $JUP staked.
I have fucked up so bad. But I have two options:
A) Whine like a little bitch and play victim!
B) be grateful for what I have!
I chose B.
Here’s the thing, some people are having bombs to their house in war torn countries, some people don’t know if they are gonna eat today and a lot of people do not have the PRIVILEGE of being able to be involved in crypto.
So I decided to focus on the positives. I brainstormed and here’s what I came up with:
“It hurts.
But I need to stay fucking strong
It could be worst.
I could have ZERO.
I’m gonna focus on the positives::
- I have youqr guys support
- You guys have my back
- I still have 14k worth of sol left.
- I still have 19k jup staked
- Jupuary may reverse this fuck up.
- Some people don’t even have food on their plate today and I’m complaining about crypto“
If you read that all wow! I am incredibly grateful for you.
As I wrote that I’ve been on the stair master for 46 minutes so far, with sweat dripping on my phone and I have to keep wiping my screen.
That’s most of my story. I still have so much to tell. But this is my life in crypto so far.
Life can turn around in two seconds.
So I want to leave you with this message.
EXPECT. Nothing.
APPRECIATE everything.
here, one of the lucky puzzle masters back in S1. Really wouldn’t have solved it without community help.
(@giancarloangulo) / X
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