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How I Broke Into Crypto During the Market Bottom


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I left fintech for crypto right after FTX, with Solana at $8. Here's how the switch actually worked — and why ugly markets are the door, not the wall.
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A first-person account of switching from fintech (trading at Gazprombank) into crypto at the bottom of the market — right after FTX, with Solana in single digits. The switch wasn't luck: it was a non-obvious match of hard skills (edtech, finance, crypto, user research) and soft skills, signalled loudly over time through public writing and a finance PhD on crypto regulation. The bigger lesson: ugly markets hire for impact, not momentum — so a downturn is often the best time to jump, if you can credibly say "I can fix this."

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