6 Years Journey Into the Cryptocurrency World

About 6 years ago, when I was still 16 years old, or in Grade 10, I was looking for ways how to make money using my phone on the Internet.

The first thing that I stumbled upon was the coins.ph wallet. I immediately created an account on that wallet but I failed to verify it because I didn't have a valid I.D. But I still managed to find ways how to take advantage of that app, which was by selling cellular load to my classmates. Because our place was far from the city for me to cash in on my coins.ph wallet, I had to search for opportunities online for me to have funds for my small E-loading business.

At that time, BTC was already popular in the Philippines and coins.ph wallet has it.

I joined coins.ph wallet groups on Facebook where different BTC-earning sites are posted by the members. The next thing I know, I was already claiming on faucets and I remember I was also active claiming on the coinpot website.

From claiming on faucets, I got myself in a group chat where we were solving captchas on the raiblocks website and we were rewarded with XRB (which was later on rebranded into NANO). After coming from school, I would immediately open my laptop to solve captchas. This gave me the opportunity to have more funds for my E-loading business. When the site was about to stop paying XRB for solving captchas, most of the members left our group chat.

Being the noob and ignorant that I was with cryptos, I ended up not being able to sell my accumulated XRB. However, I would always check how many do I have left in my wallet and how much is its total price. I remember I had 800 XRB that time and I witnessed it when it reached its all-time high of $33 during the 2018 bull run. At that time, I thought I was already a young Filipina Millionaire because of the total value of my XRB holdings. However, the price dropped afterward. So when I already learned how to sell XRB into an exchange (Binance), I sold everything and bought myself a brand-new cellphone, which is still very much alive today but has already a damaged screen.

After my solving captchas journey, I then started participating in airdrops. Luckily, 1 airdrop was legit that time that I was able to earn 30,000 pesos ($600) out of it. That was HYDRO. And I also witnessed when it reached the price of 0.50 peso ($0.01) for each token, where they gave away 222,222 HYDRO for an airdrop.

Then came my college life. During my first year in college, I was not yet that busy with Academics so I also searched for earning opportunities on Facebook.

That is the time when I stumbled upon VITAE on a discord channel. At that time, I was very active in the Filipino community of the channel. Day and night, I would chat in there just to receive Vitae "rains", a form of an airdrop but only given to active members of the community. I was also participating in their contests where we have to make videos and upload them on YouTube, and even photo contests, where we have to take a selfie with our artworks related to the contest for Vitae.

The community manager advised me to invest money into it so I invested the $300 that I got from the HYDRO Airdrop.

Being so busy with my Academics, I gave myself a break from earning money online but I was still doing my E-loading business and I used the money I earned from cryptos as my capital and rolled it. However, I would still check from time to time my investment in VITAE.

Then September 2020 came, a college classmate posted on his Facebook story about a website that pays Bitcoin Cash (BCH) just by writing articles.

From that moment on, I have been more engaged in the crypto world where I was consistently writing articles on read.cash, making posts on noise.cash, trying trading, farming, and staking on different blockchains, such as on Binance Smart Chain and the new SmartBCH.

From claiming on faucets, solving captchas, participating in airdrops, now to writing articles, blogging, trading, farming, and staking cryptos, 6 years of being in the cryptocurrency world, I can say that I'm still just a noob and I still have a lot of things to learn, relearn, and unlearn. Although I was exposed to the crypto-verse earlier than others, I'm still that broke student girl who's just trying to make money out of the internet.

However, being in this world has been an amazing journey for me. I also think that my life before crypto was boring, so if I leave the crypto world, my life would even be more boring. And being a part of this ecosystem has taught me so much, especially about seizing every opportunity that comes my way.

Plus, I see cryptos as a tool for me to reach my goals. Bitcoin Cash alone has changed my perspective in life and it gave me so much hope for a better future.

6 long years down. Cheers to more years to go. This time, it will be with Bitcoin Cash!