One trade, a few thousand dollars turned into half a million — pure luck.

19 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue (uploaded/created by Kosta Ouzas) reflecting on cryptocurrency speculation as behaving like a lottery. The speaker describes that many investors wanted rapid, large returns rather than long-term bitcoin growth, and recounts buying a low-quality cryptocurrency (“shitcoin”) for a few thousand dollars that later became worth about $500,000—an outcome the speaker attributes to luck rather than skill.

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It was a time for speculation. And maybe, you know, they. They couldn't wait the 10 years that it takes to have a, you know, noticeable increase in your bitcoin value. And they wanted to do that 100 per in one year, you know, and so. But look, it's almost like lottery, because few people won. I made one time, I made. I bought some shitcoin for a few thousand dollars, and they make $500,000. Okay, but it's almost like I won the lottery, you know, it was nothing that I attribute to my ability or anything like that. Like one person wins and hundred lose, you know, so it was always a lottery.