Art major international students must start from zero: from making a living through "migrant work" to being "cut off from the internet" and slaughtered, how did I escape death by relying on technology?

Art Student’s Life Savings Zeroed Out: From Relying on “Mining” to Being “Cut Off” and Massacred, How I Escaped Death by Technology?

Don’t tell me art is purely pure. In the crypto world, if you have no money, your art is worth less than waste paper.

Today I want to share a story from a fan — an independent artist “Monet (pseudonym)” living overseas. This guy’s experience is like a real movie of climbing out of hell back to heaven.

From “Saving on Fees” to “Million-Dollar Mining Worker”

Monet entered the scene at an astonishingly early age. In 2013, he was still studying art in Europe, receiving living expenses from his family. Back then, cross-border remittance fees were ridiculously high, and it took several days. To save that little money, he accidentally got involved with Bitcoin.

At that time, the price difference between domestic and foreign exchanges was huge. Monet’s artistic intuition told him: this is easy money.

He started his “mining” career. During the day, he painted in the studio; at night, he guarded several computers, arbitraging between domestic and foreign exchanges. There weren’t many quantitative software tools back then, so it was all manual effort.

In this way, relying on cross-border information gaps, he managed to save his first 1 million in his spare time.

Insider Info and “Cutting Off the Internet”: The Funeral of a 8B Asset

Mining earned hard money, but Monet became inflated; he thought making money was too slow.

That year, he believed in an insider tip from a so-called “top figure in the scene,” claiming a certain altcoin was about to be listed on a major exchange, and the project team had already negotiated with capital, promising a tenfold increase.

Monet was tempted. He put all his years’ savings of tens of millions into a perpetual contract of that coin.

The result? Instead of financial freedom, he got the worst kind of harvest.

At a critical moment when the market was highly volatile and about to break through, the trading platform suddenly “cut off the internet.” The webpage was inaccessible, the app wouldn’t log in, Monet watched helplessly as the coin’s price on the chart plummeted like a waterfall, and he couldn’t do anything.

When the internet was restored, his tens of millions had turned into a few cold words: “Position Closed.”

That was his ten years’ savings. Monet said, that day, all the paintings he drew were black.

Defying the Odds: Using Logic to Fight Back into the Arena of Death

Others might have jumped off a building or completely quit the scene, but Monet’s core stubbornness as an artist kept him going: If I fall here, I will wipe out this entire territory.

He didn’t rush to borrow money to bounce back but locked himself in a rented house, not drawing for a whole year.

He started obsessively studying contract technology, order flow, volatility models, every behavioral trait of the main players washing the market. He realized that all insider info was just bait; only the logic of the market itself was the truth.

He restarted with a few thousand dollars of “living expenses.”

No more listening to rumors, no more trusting insider info. Using his own developed strategies, he precisely caught the explosive points after the main players accumulated positions. Every order he placed was like a precise brushstroke on a canvas — combining artistic intuition with cold technical analysis.

He fought his way back.

Now, Monet not only recovered his lost tens of millions through contracts but also combined art with Web3, selling his works via NFTs worldwide.

He told me in a message that left a deep impression:

“In this era where information gap equals wealth, staying sharp on new things can help you find gold mines, but only mastering core technology can keep you alive when the gold mine collapses. Don’t trust insider info — trust your skills and the market logic.”

Remember what I, the blogger, always say:

Money earned by luck can be reclaimed by the market in a thousand ways. Only the ones who fight through with skill and logic truly own their kingdom.

If you still want to get rich from the “wealth code” in the group, I suggest you first look at Monet’s explosive margin call order from back then.