People usually ask me about price. When did I buy, what did I sell, what's next. I understand why. But when I look back at fifteen years of trading crypto, price is the least interesting part of the story.

The interesting part is the person sitting in front of the chart, and how much he had to change to still be sitting there.

It started with one search

In 2007 the internet cost five rupees an hour at the café I went to. I didn't have money, contacts or a plan. I had that screen and one question I typed into it with very little English: how to earn money online?

I like to say I didn't start from zero. I started from minus. Around 2011 my family's situation changed, and there were days at home when there was nothing. After school and college I gave seventy or eighty interviews and heard "no" almost every time.…