Satoshi & Bitcointalk Saved My Life

[TedMosby]

Hi, I’m TedMosby. I’m a freelancer who works on different online jobs. I have a good education and once worked at a telecom company, but I quit because it didn’t feel like my passion. I felt lost in my own choices.

Since 2015, I’ve done many kinds of online work: building landing pages, blogging, crypto trading, crypto marketing, video and photo editing, even making memes (yeah literally, I get paid for making memes).

I first learned about Bitcoin through the Ponzi program MMM Global around 2015–2016. The system was simple: help someone and later get helped back with 130%+ returns. Payments used Bitcoin because the members were from many countries (Russia, India, and SEA countries).

At that time, everything was still peer-to-peer because I didn’t know about crypto exchanges yet. Since then, I also became interested in Bitcoin and started collecting satoshi little by little through faucets and the services I provide.

In 2016, I joined the Bitcointalk forum to ask about Raiblocks (now Nano), not about bounty or airdrop. It took me quite a long time to understand how to earn money from bounty campaigns and airdrops on this forum. My first bounty was from the Iconomi . The results were quite good, although competition became harder and I stopped for a while a few times.

When Covid hit the economy in 2020–2022, my work completely stopped. My income dropped a lot, even to zero at one point, while I still had a family to support.

I became active again on Bitcointalk and applied for signature campaigns. Even though I was not well known, I was accepted by roycilik in the Casineos and IOI Game campaigns, by yahoo62278 in the Betnomi campaign, and by CryptopreneurBrainboss in the DeFireX campaign.

I also won several art contests organized by Hhampuz in events by Roobet, Duelbits, and TradeRaceManager. Apart of that, I got website projects for OmegaStarScream, worked at a crypto marketing agency owned by wwzsocki, and later joined another crypto agency that I can’t mention yet. The forum and the crypto world truly helped support my life during that time.

Because of Bitcoin and Bitcointalk, I didn’t just survive the pandemic. I was able to pay off my family’s debts, get married, and now I have a child. This is not a speech, just gratitude. Thank you, Satoshi. Thank you, Bitcointalk.

For those who are still struggling, feeling negative when prices go down, or getting rejected from campaigns many times, that is part of the journey. This space is big and opportunities are always there. Sometimes they come slowly, but when they come, they can change your life.

Special thanks to Satoshi, Bitcointalk, roycilik, yahoo62278, CryptopreneurBrainboss, Hhampuz, OmegaStarScream, wwzsocki, and everyone who was involved directly or indirectly. You mean so much to my life our lives.

My apologies if I misspelled any names or forgot to mention anyone.

[BattleDog]

I won't sugarcoat it, starting through MMM Global is a rough origin story and I'm glad you got out of that side of things and found your way to the legitimate end of the spectrum.

A lot of people didn't. But the fact that you went from faucets and peer to peer transactions to running signature campaigns, winning art contests, doing web projects, and eventually building a career out of this... that's the grind most people on crypto Twitter will never understand. They just see the number go up and think that's the whole story.

[SatoPrincess]

It’s not uncommon for people to discover bitcoin through hyips and ponzis. For some reason I always thought Nigerians and Russians were the only victims of MMM Global scam. Turns out other countries were victims too.

I’m happy to hear a positive story about how bitcoin has changed lives particularly in this bear market where people are in panic. What I found particularly interesting about your story is the number of skills you have. And I think that’s something that people should takeaway from your post. If you really want to grow/upscale or earn more, you have to be creative and develop yourself.

[348Judah]

Some are coming here to testify the importance of them adopting the use of bitcoin, because it serves them a number of benefits which they couldn't have seen without bitcoin adoption, yet, today, you can also see that some are there making fuse around to condemn the network and its relevance, all because they are not investing and will see more of others not also taking part in this global benefit of decentralization with bitcoin, the choice is ours, we have to know more about bitcoin and understand the relevant areas it could serve us, then adopt and be more specific and also keep to learning it, this is not about Satoshi, but Bitcoin that we all need.

[ANSEL_2.0]

You saved yourself, you are the skillful one, this forum only presents the opportunity and you happened to fit in.
There are opportunities in many places but the problem is many people are not ready to grab the opportunity.
Opportunities comes with a price, like skills and other, you crave for changes and you paid the price.

Ally respect goes to you for fight and not giving up many millions of people in the world, the best fighting tool that many people will never have is the ability to stare at failure in the eye and say who is boss now? You standing up again and again in the faces of failures is what turned the impossible into possible, many people can't do this.

So my congrats goes out to you mate.
Keep winning