Hello dear forum friends, let me tell little bit about my bitcoin story.- First time I ever crossed ways with bitcoin was in 2019.
I was in a country for holiday and had lost my wallet and passport, so I was in urgent need of some cash. My family could not send me any money online (at this time I did not know about bitcoin)
BUT.. maybe i don't remember but I had some hundreds of dollars in my PayPal account, so I asked around if anyone wanted to trade PayPal for cash. (People thinking i was a retarded robber maybe
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Anyway.. When I realised it was impossible i went back to my hotel room and open Google and brain storm and looking all online "How to change PayPal to cash instant".... But only came up to scam webiste's at least what I thinking in the time... Then after an hour I did find out
localbitcoins and at that time, my life was gonna to take a huge positive change.
I had a copy of my passport in my phone so with that and do a selfie i created an account on LCB.
Then I checked it out and looked the offers and I was so nervous and skeptical about this
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. Anyway! I find somebody that sold BTC with PayPal so I started there.
I bought my first bitcoin ever (for the reason to get cash in a later stage) Everything went smooth, I paid he released and both was happy.
Now my next problem to get the BTC to cash in the country I was in (Thailand).. After just a couple of minutes I find a lot of people buying BTC with the offer "Cash at ATM".
It works like this I open a trade from his offer, I go to the ATM and put in a code and got my money then I release the BTC.
I was so nervous the first time and thinking it will never work
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, But it did! I had my cash now and all my panic problems solved. Thanks to bitcoin & localbitcoins.
Thanks to this when I looked around the website I saw the opportunity to actually make money from BTC with "buy for one price sell for another"
I started my "buy&sell BTC" carrier and it went amazing, i started to get quite huge profit relativity fast.
But... I still wasn't in a happy place in life, drank a lot of alcohol, used drugs and was generally not happy and in a dark place, i was just out from prison 2019 and was living my life like its no tomorrow.
And so it did go on until like a year ago, when I decide to stop drink alcohol and using drugs and focus on build up my life and get in touch with my family in a good way again.
So I did...I started to save a lot of money and had a lot of money over now when I did not drink or use drugs. (I been always making good money - but ending up spending it very fast)
I signed up on the forum this year in February and since then I have bought BTC and some other currency's that I store and never touch at any time. I just letting it grow.
Why did I not invest earlier? Because I wanted to understand BTC and crypto currency more before I invested money in it, and this forum is a great way to actually do that.
(THANK YOU TO ALL MEMBERS HERE) - For helping me answer all questions even if them have sounded stupid.
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Anyway.. since February I have started to invest and keep the BTC i earn from my p2p-trading profit instead of selling it and get cash.
With that said. I have bitcoin to thanks for so much. I am happy with my life today, me and my family are much closer and happier and I have a good economy and it all is because of bitcoin!
Thank you bitcoin for giving me this opportunity.
So how look my portfolio look today?
BTC - worth of 13.200:-
USDT - worth of 4.800:-
DODGE - worth of 3.740:-
SOLANA - worth of 1.760:-
The amount is not in US DOLLARS its DKK.This is how much i have in my portfolio today.
The more important is the thing that I started my invest journey. The portfolio grows in value every month
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I know USDT is probably not the invest currency to go, but I bought some because of avoid the problem I had with BTC transfer that happen like a month ago when the fee's was so high.
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Do I miss some "need to have currency"? or have missed something else?
All tips are welcome!
But one thing I can promise you all, that my BTC/CRYPTO-Journey has just begin and I will go much deeper in this and learn and explore a lot more.
Im still a rookie in the game
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