I know Ive always had a dream about being free. Saw parents coming back home from job tired after long hours of working and decided not to go this path. Was trying various ways of making money, the ways you’d never think of. I was running Instagram accounts, which the biggest I grew organically to >60k followers and was selling ads on there. Was teaching people math, as I was taking part in math olympics and knew how to teach. Though the biggest money I made before crypto was via arbitrage ( I didnt know this word back then). I was always a gamer, as a talented kid having no problems at school I couldve played all days long. Nerded LOL as a kid then moved to CS. I wanted to have some skins, but didnt have money to afford them. I started looking for a cheaper way to buy them instead of straight from steam. Found out about facebook groups and later on about secondary markets. I was arbitraging like crazy. Was buying from people on facebook groups for $10 to sell it for $11.5 making less than a dollar profit after the fees. I made it a real business later on buying skins from people in bulks to sell it higher on secondary markets. In CS skins have thousands of varieties, I knew how to price properly all of them. Same as people are sniping memecoin launches I was sniping cheap skins appearing on the market, spending all days in front of the computer not to miss an opportunity. I managed to make $1.5k per month through this. In Poland for a 19yo that was a ton of money. Once I was introduced to crypto (thanks @Hundert1000 ) I decided to explore it as much as I can. I was writing here a lot about my grind, reading docses for 2 weeks without leaving my apartment, but my first real money I made via arbitrage of $dpx and $rdpx tokens between eth and arb. I had one monitor with 4 tabs to see prices of boty assets on both chains. On the picture below you can see how I was doing it, and how looked like arbitrage for $2k profit on $dpx (5th Aug 22) It was quite tough to sit in front of the screen all days long so started to learn how to code. Wrote a code, which was checking the prices, calculating how many tokens I need to swap for the biggest efficiency and was sending me an email once the arb appears. Downloaded proton for push notifs and had all the arbing in my pocket. Made my first 20-30k through this, then I was hacked to 0 and you know the rest of the story. Hyperliquid