Honestly, I never thought I would make it this far.

In 2018, during that period, Brother Mao was managing projects on a construction site, working for three years, until the contractor ran away, and he didn't get a single penny of his twenty-something thousand yuan salary.
During that time, I rode my electric bike every day chasing people for money, begging humbly, but kept getting turned down.
My family’s elders were sick and needed money, and my wife’s family was also pressuring us. I was caught in the middle, gasping for breath.
One night, after drinking too much, a childhood friend mentioned Bitcoin to me. I initially just took it as a joke, but I couldn’t sleep after going home, so I got up at three a.m. to start researching.
As I researched, I put the last 80,000 yuan I had into it. I didn’t tell anyone, just quietly entered the market.
The first few months, it rose, and the account looked good, but I didn’t get carried away. I kept working, doing what I was supposed to do.
The real trouble started later when a friend told me about an "internal project," I joined a group, and I was blinded, putting most of my profits into it.
And guess what happened— the project team disappeared directly, the group disbanded, and the money was gone.
That was Brother Mao’s first cut, and it was a clean cut. Sitting on the floor of my rented house, only one thought ran through my mind: Why?
But regardless of why, if the money is gone, it’s gone.
From that moment on, I started to take this seriously, reviewing all the pitfalls I had stepped into before, and set some strict rules for myself:
First, protect the principal. Every time I buy a coin and it rises, I first take out the principal, then use the profits to roll forward. If I lose, I accept it and don’t fight it.
Second, don’t touch things I don’t understand. No to 100x coins, internal news, trending projects—I don’t look at them. I learned my lesson the hard way from the "internal project."
Third, think carefully about how to split the money. My habit is to allocate 50% to mainstream coins, 30% to promising projects, 10% to high-risk bets, and keep 10% as cash for safety.
During the 2022 bear market, I kept the maximum drawdown around 15%, without any serious injuries.