You can discover crypto in many different ways. To FOMO in when Bitcoin hits a new all-time high and panic sell in the FTX collapse is probably not the best way to discover crypto. There are different ways to discover cryptocurrency, each unique to the individual.
Here is how I discovered cryptocurrency and how helped kickstart my crypto journey.
My First Satoshis
I discovered Bitcoin in 2016 and earned my first Satishis from different faucets. One of them was the so-called Xapo Faucet and the claimed Satoshis were directly credited to my Xapo Wallet.
At one point, I also decided to buy a small amount of Bitcoin. I remember that it was not easy to find a trustworthy place to buy Bitcoin back at that time.
I only bought a small amount of Bitcoin in 2016 because I believed that I didn't have enough savings to invest in it. However, I now understand that there are various ways to earn cryptocurrencies, and the key is to hold onto them once you've earned them. This means that you don't necessarily need to have a lot of savings in order to invest in crypto.
During this period, a new form of digital currency known as altcoins began to emerge. Some of the first altcoins to surface included Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Dogecoin, and Dash. Somehow, it was overwhelming to deal with all these different coins. Of course, the number of altcoins was still much smaller than today. Today, there are exactly 11,385 different coins and tokens being listed on CoinGecko, an incredibly big number.
Then in the bull market of 2018, I sold all my Satoshis because I seriously believed that Bitcoin couldn't rise any higher. Well, of course, today, I know better.
My First BINANCE Coins
At the end of 2019, I decided to dive deeper into crypto and all the different altcoins. 2019 and 2020 were really good years to earn cryptocurrencies on different occasions like here on Publish0x
One of these occasions was the airdrop of Atomic Wallet Coin $AWC for users of Atomic Wallet. You were able to receive 15 $AWC for installing the wallet and another 15 $AWC for each friend that you successfully referred to the wallet.
With my publications on Publish0x, I have been able to earn a good amount of $AWC tokens. Additionally, there was also a writing competition about Atomic Wallet here on PUBLISH0X and I was able to earn a good amount. I started staking my Atomic Wallet Coins at a very lucrative rate inside my Atomic Wallet.
Then in 2020, Atomic Wallet Coin had its first significant price movement. In the end, my Atomic Wallet Coins did a 10x and had a value of more than $3000. Everything earned and HODLed.
$AWC was and still is a token on the Binance Smart Chain. So far, I only dealt with Ethereum ERC 20 tokens but at that time the rising gas fees on the Ethereum blockchain had already become a bigger issue. Atomic Wallet helped me to discover Binance Coin.
I decided to sell my Atomic Wallet Coin on Binance DEX and the only trading pair was $AWC/$BNB. So I sold all my $AWC for $BNB and sent $3000 worth of $BNB to Binance.
How Binance Helped Me to Kickstart My Crypto Journey
The best place to trade $BNB is Binance. This was the main reason to sign up for Binance and so I did. Binance is not only the best place to trade your $BNB but it is also the best place to put your $BNB to work. That's why I left $1000 worth of $BNB on the exchange, I traded another $1000 for Bitcoin and another $100 for Ethereum and sent it to my private wallet.
Luckily, I keep a good a good amount of $BNB on the Binance exchange. During the all-time high, it had been worth more than $30.000. Even during the last bear market, $BNB had a much better performance than most other altcoins.
With my $BNB on Binance, I had a nice kickstart into my crypto journey. I was able to farm new tokens launched via the Binance Launchpad and the Binance Launchpool. Especially, the projects launched via Binance Launchpad had been extremely lucrative. I already covered the OP 5 Coins & Tokens Ever Launched On Binance Launchpad in one of my previous posts. If you missed it earlier, you can still read it by clicking
During the past years, there have been different opportunities to earn crypto on Binance. I remember that Binance once airdropped 100 $TWT tokens to every user. All you had to do was to withdraw them within a certain time window to your wallet. At its peak, 100 $TWT had been worth $272, and today, 100 $TWT tokens are still worth $120!
My Final Conclusion
Looking back at my crypto journey, I can say that has given my crypto portfolio a nice kickstart. Starting to make deals on Binance had been one of the best decisions that I have ever made in crypto.
If, for some reason, you have not yet registered on Binance, please consider using my referral link with the invitation code E3PGAJCE to sign up. Using it saves trading fees for each Binance trade, a win-win.
Please keep in mind that I have shared my personal experience with you, my very own crypto journey. When it comes to your crypto journey, please #DYOR and don't take it as financial advice. I may appear knowledgeable in my profile picture, but I am not your financial sensei.
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