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These Average Joes Became Crypto Millionaires In Under 12 Months

From My First Million · Published Jul 5, 2022 · Watch on YouTube

TL;DR

Speaker 1 recounts multiple stories of average, non-technical individuals (a friend with $500k→$15M, a “kid” who created a protocol and cashed out $10M, a friend who did $1M→$100M at Bitcoin peak) who achieved life-changing wealth in under 12 months via crypto/DeFi.

Key insights

  • The friend who turned $500k into $15M was non-technical, never a trader, only owned index/mutual funds before, and “didn’t know how to spell blockchain.”
  • Liquidity matters: the friend’s holdings are fully liquid (they could sell and walk away), unlike many crypto situations where high paper value masks low trading volume or illiquid tokens.
  • A 13- to 21-year-old created an anonymous protocol on a random side chain; its market cap hit $900M, he extracted $10M, and set aside seven figures for charity after hearing a Charity Water story.

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