From ground zero

23 Nov, 2025

Disclaimer: This is not financial advice and everything in this post was written solely for myself.

I just bought Bitcoin for the first time since getting my entire crypto portfolio wiped out. This was especially hard because I remember how cheap I'd previously bought it at.

Combine this with the challenge of rebuilding a portfolio from zero and it makes it very easy to not want to bother at all-especially when your buying fractions of a fraction of a Bitcoin at a time.

However, the reason why I'm writing this blog post is to consolidate the harsh lessons I've learned over the years of being in crypto, so I can define a strategy moving forward.

The Strategy

DO THE OPPOSITE OF EVERYTHING BELOW.

Mindset

• Think your the next Warren Buffet.
• Always compare what you have to others.
• Feel like you need to prove yourself.
• Put your identity and belonging in your assets.
• Put your self worth in how big your portfolio is.
• Look at money as the answer to all your problems.
• Try to get rich as fast as possible.
• Make decisions when your emotionally vulnerable.
• Think short term.
• Think in numbers not percentages.
• Check your portfolio every hour of the day.
• Think about your profits before you lock them in.
• Think every dollar doesn't count.

Risk Management

• Invest so much that downturns in the market easily shake you out.
• Invest all your cash so you have nothing to live on.
• Never put money aside for taxes.

Choosing Assets

• Always speculate on the hot new thing.
• Look at token price not market cap.
• Ignore fundamentals.

Buying Behavior

• Buy inconsistently and only in huge volumes.
• Buy random amounts at a time.
• Day trade.
• Overthink your trades.

Operations

• Keep your assets in an exchange.
• Use one wallet to make all transactions.
• Don’t worry about security.
• Make more transactions than you’re able to manually keep track of.

Social Behavior

• Tell everyone about your investments.
• Tell everyone you know to buy in.
• Tell everyone about your wins.
• Tell everyone how big your portfolio is.
• Tell everyone how smart you are.

Using the framing above and painting a picture of how to become the worst possible investor helps me get a much clearer picture of what not to do and how to avoid emotional financial traps.