I’ve got a confession: I lost $100K+ just by not selling my airdrops.



As some of you know, I started my crypto journey by farming airdrops.

Between ‘22 and ‘24, I built most of my folio by hitting the most obvious targets: Arbitrum, Aptos, Starknet, etc.

When I finally started feeling confident...
I stopped taking profits.

Why? It's sooo dumb. You’re gonna laugh:

I lived in this weird mindset where missing out on an extra $10–20K felt worse than losing $10–20K by holding.

I felt some weird loyalty toward the projects I farmed. (Yeah, that’s the most retarded one.)

End result? I’m down 80%+ on most of them.

These days I see people far wealthier than me aggressively taking profits (even small ones relative to their portfolios) and I finally get it.

Being rationally greedy is a skill.
The sooner you develop it, the easier this game gets.

Don’t repeat my mistakes.
NOT-2.1%
ARB-1.1%
APT-0.52%
STRK-1.97%
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