Long Push Receiving 1 million ARB airdrop, Summary and Reflections on 2 Years in the Circle

1M ARB Airdrop 2 Years in the Circle - Summary & Reflections

Note: This article is from @0xfarmer_ Twitter, summarized by MarsBit:

Time flies. I have completed my substitute military service in Taiwan and successfully discharged. I haven’t been paying attention to what’s happening in the community for a while, so I want to summarize and reflect on my growth in the past two years.

Probably only a few friends know that I made nearly one million US dollars in profit through the ARB airdrop. At this critical moment when I should have been looking for a job, it allowed me to slow down and think about how to proceed to the next stage of my life.

Coming from a traditional family where both parents are civil servants, I am very grateful to crypto for giving me the opportunity to see the vast world outside the well and experience my own insignificance. By choosing the right track and working hard, combined with the favor of the goddess of luck, it actually feels like I should have lived an ordinary life, but now everything doesn’t seem ordinary.

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In 2021, when I first entered the community, like most people, I speculated on “shitcoins” and bought lottery-like coins in the hope of making a hundredfold return. However, I made little profit and suffered more losses. It wasn’t until I heard about the success stories of dydx and ENS that I realized how profitable the airdrop industry could be. At the same time, I also realized that I didn’t know anyone in the community, so I started sharing valuable information on Twitter. At that time, there were few crypto enthusiasts on Twitter, so you had to work very hard to produce quality content in order to accumulate followers.

There were still very few people doing airdrops at that time, unlike the abundance of tutorials now. I started participating actively. $psp became my first airdrop project that made money. At that time, having a few followers made me extremely happy. I even wrote a tutorial on airdrops for small capitalists, which received nearly a thousand collections and likes, giving me a sense of achievement. It was also during that time that I started to accumulate my influence and attracted attention from others.

Coincidentally, the emergence of Galaxy (@Galxe), a new blockchain-based credential platform, led to a new wave of airdrops. The culture of being a “mod” was also prevalent at that time. So, I volunteered to be a mod and answered questions in the Discord group every day. Fortunately, amidst the vast community, I became the first mod from the community, which was affectionately called “Da Huang” (Big Yellow) by everyone.

I started a routine life of waking up at noon and answering questions on Discord until late at night. Maybe because I came from the community, I had a special understanding of users’ emotions. Whenever there was an activity, I would receive countless private messages that I couldn’t reply to all. I would try to solve any problem I could and find the right person for the ones I couldn’t solve, whether it was a front-end or back-end developer, someone who could handle data, smart contracts, or project collaboration.

Compared to mods who only gave enthusiastic answers or those who had little work experience, I passed through each community crisis almost without receiving any negative feedback. Until the airdrop tokens were distributed half a year later, the few of us who worked hard, including myself, received tens of thousands of dollars in airdrops. This work experience was very valuable to me. Not only did I learn firsthand how a web3 team operates, but I also got to know the super awesome bosses and colleagues at Galaxy, as well as the acquaintances I met at offline gatherings in Taiwan.

After leaving the galaxy, it happened to be the time when I graduated from college and was waiting for military service at home. During this nearly one-year period, I started to focus on being a full-time “lumo” (a term referring to someone who participates in blockchain projects). In June, I received an invitation from @KuiGas

to join @33daoweb3. The gears of fate began to turn. 2022 was also the darkest moment in the cryptocurrency industry, with LUNA going to zero, Three Arrows going bankrupt, and FTX closing down. But by learning from the masters in the group, I gained a whole new understanding of investment research and interaction.

After that, I was busy with various “lumo” activities, and I didn’t have enough time. So I temporarily didn’t update my Twitter much. All my energy was spent on “lumo” activities. Let me describe what my life was like at that time. Looking back now, it was really not a human way of living. I wasn’t good at programming either, so I just made an Excel spreadsheet. I repeated the process of clicking the mouse from waking up to going to sleep every day. While you made money from “lumoing” NFT whitelists, I was losing money on gas fees and chasing after meme coins. I was still losing money. I didn’t know how I managed to get through it. At that time, I had one belief: as long as I persisted like this, there would definitely be a project that would help me make money, right?

One memory that stands out is during a bad market situation. At a weekly meeting of 33DAO, @hebi555, Teacher He, gave us a strong motivation. He said, “As long as it’s a project that’s worth ‘lumoing,’ ‘lumo’ it to the extreme.” It was just this sentence that I took to heart. Coincidentally, OP (a project) was launching at that time, and I decided to target ARB, which was also focusing on layer 2. I “lumoed” it to the extreme. There wasn’t much trick to it, just the amount of funds, frequency of interaction, and number of times. I perfectly isolated and “lumoed” 500 sets of ARB witch NFTs.

While I was waiting for the ARB Odyssey, military service came first. I went through a two-week training in Success Ridge. One evening, I received a call from a college classmate. ARB had launched, and I was extremely anxious. However, because I trusted him very much, I asked him to claim it for me. The next evening, he hurriedly claimed it on his phone and immediately called me. I was stunned when I heard the numbers. I knew I had succeeded. The days when my wrists were inflamed from excessive “lumoing,” waking up in pain in the middle of the night, and taking three painkillers a day to continue “lumoing” were all worth it.

Afterwards, I gave my friend a car and a big envelope of red packets. It wasn’t so much a gratitude for not rug-pulling me, but after spending a long time together, I knew he wasn’t that kind of person. I also want to thank my parents and the friends in the group who have helped me along the way (a scientist even helped me “lumo” some ODOs, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars without taking any cut). It was also lucky that I met people with very good character and kindness.

It wasn’t until a few months later, after dealing with everything, that it was my turn. I bought a car to reward myself. This was probably the only major expense I spent on myself because I know that making money is easy, but keeping it is difficult. After making money, it is even more important to remain humble. I attribute part of my success to luck, and I can’t guarantee that this luck will continue. If I were to squander it, I might end up losing everything in the end.

The above is a brief description of my experience in the circle, which can be regarded as a story. I believe that many people have exciting stories, but what I think is more important is that I have learned many things in the currency circle that schools would never teach. Here are a few points that I find most useful and some advice for beginners:

1. Running a self-media platform is the most effective way to expand your network: If you, like me, have no connections or background, I recommend starting to run a self-media platform. This is the fastest way to make strangers know you. It will be tough at the beginning, but if you persist, the rewards it brings will far exceed what money can measure. More importantly, it allows you to meet outstanding people who are difficult to meet in real social circles.

2. Associate with the most outstanding people in an industry as much as possible and learn from the successful experiences of the big shots: Successful experiences cannot be replicated, but they can be learned. I consider myself very lucky because I was able to meet many experts when I entered the circle. They gave me the motivation and goals to move forward, so I won’t become complacent. Your circle determines your perception, and your perception ultimately affects your ability to make money. I can say with certainty that I was once a frog in the bottom of a well. The more I climbed up, the more I realized how ignorant and inadequate I was. If you have the opportunity to meet a big shot, even if they just say a word or give you an opportunity, it could be a lifeline to change your destiny.

3. Don’t envy others, be good at summarizing your own progress, and learn to applaud others: In the past, I used to have a sour grape mentality when others made money. But later I realized that I would never be happy this way because no matter how much you earn, there will always be someone who earns more than you. So focus on your own progress, applaud others for their success, and see if there are any areas where you can learn from them. Only with a good mindset can you make the right investment decisions.

4. 1% of the wealth in the market is left for those who are willing to do the things that 99% of people are not willing to do: Many of those big shots have put in several times the effort of ordinary people. Even though I know I am just an ordinary person with average intelligence and poor learning ability, I will spend more time. Don’t worry about a bunch of things, if your cognition is not enough, work hard to improve it; if your knowledge is not enough, work hard to enrich it; if your skills are not enough, work hard to learn. Many people say that choices are more important than efforts, which is indeed true. But without effort, how do you know what to choose? Identify your shortcomings and work on them. Don’t let laziness and stupidity become your excuses.

This article is not only written for everyone to read, but also dedicated to the me who dropped out of junior high school and retook the exams, the me who was disappointed by the words written by my homeroom teacher on my birthday card in high school, and the me who barely graduated from university. Don’t let anyone else define you. Only you can define yourself.

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