A Slack badge just reminded me that yesterday was my 13th work anniversary at @f2pool. It brought back memories of those days when I met @bitfish in early 2013 and we set off on our Bitcoin and crypto adventure together. On the high-speed train to work, I was using LRUSD to buy bitcoins in bulk across several international dealers, then selling them to novices on Taobao, converting the proceeds back into LRUSD, and repeating the cycle. On good days, I could make over a thousand dollars across multiple round trips. Thanks to the strong market in those first few months, I managed to save up $100,000, which finally gave me the confidence to take the leap. Many years later, looking around, @bitfish is still one of the best entrepreneurial partners one could ever hope to find. The only regret is that I was so focused on taking photos of the trains and train stations those days that I barely captured any other pictures for what we were actually doing in Bitcoin and crypto at the time.

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