>Early memories were not getting involved in the pre-sale pools on Jow Forums because I thought they were all going to get overloaded and not be distributed as a result (I was wrong).
>Looking through the whitepaper that was the first peer reviewed whitepaper in crypto which was bullish as fuck, and co-authored by Ari Juels whose talk at IC3 in 2016 was my introduction to smart contracts, it all seemed extremely promising, as much of a sure thing as I'd ever seen.
>Then two months of radio silence from October to December 2017 where we all basically got facefucked with a 85% loss in sats, but still just holding, reading CryptoTakeoff's weekly updates on Jow Forums (which had very little information because there was simply nothing to go on) and waiting for something to change.
>But the good thing about that absolute rekkage at the start of the project is that the first cut is really the deepest. After getting an 85% JUSTing every other dip has seemed pretty painless since then.
>Early 2018 was when the argumentative superthreads came out and LINK really went through its baptism of fire. I remember seeing anons who were smarter and better informed than me getting in huge shill vs fud wars, and I soon realised the only way to actually figure out the truth was to figure it out myself. Watched every talk, read every piece of news that came out, went further into smart contracts in general.
>The only way to become completely resilient to the FUD is to know more than the fudders. Getting justed as fuck helps resilience against market movements too.
>How do I feel now? Amazing. Mainnet is out. They're now building on the actual functioning network. It's fucking awesome.
CHAINLINK EARLY ADOPTERS
It's funny my friend introduced me to Robinhood and I knew this would be the best place for advise on it..
Every day as I scrolled looking for the general thread I would see so many link threads eventually I read them and got in back in January of last year
>kek. the day the mainnet rolls out will be Rorys greatest day. he can finally stop fucking blue balling us and it will be the end of the brainlet questions he has to deal with on an hourly basis
if only we could have known back then
man I will never understand the ways of whales
I lost 5k on jnt because I decided to walk away from crypto for a while so I would stop watching charts and constantly panic selling/buying, big fucking mistake
Hope that guy actually went with link instead.
He sold to me. Not himself... just fucking around since it had no rage when it got its 1:1 pairings.