BTC Apprentice: How I Went from $0 to All-In in 35 Days

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It started with zero. Zero Bitcoin. Zero crypto knowledge. Zero plan.

Just 35 days later, I’d bought my first satoshis, transferred funds to a hardware wallet, and began orange-pilling my closest friends. But it wasn’t luck or hype that brought me here.

It was pain.
Confusion.
And eventually, clarity.

Day 1: “I Can’t Keep Doing This”

I had $800 in my checking account.
$3,000 in credit card debt.
And a growing pit in my stomach every time I opened my bank app.

The dollar amounts weren’t the problem.
It was the direction they were going.
Every month, my purchasing power shrank.
Every day, prices ticked up, but my paycheck didn’t.

I wasn’t lazy.
I wasn’t irresponsible.
I was just trapped in a fiat treadmill—running harder while getting nowhere.

Then I stumbled across a clip of a guy saying:

“Bitcoin is your exit ramp from a rigged system.”

That line punched me in the gut.

Day 7: YouTube Rabbit Hole

By the end of week one, I’d watched hours of Michael Saylor, Max Keiser, Robert Breedlove, and even Vitalik from the early days.

I didn’t understand every concept.
But I understood this:

The money I was using… wasn’t working.

I learned about the Cantillon Effect.
How the people closest to the money printer get richer.
While everyone else drowns in slow-motion inflation.

I learned how Bitcoin fixes this with a transparent, decentralized, unprintable protocol.

That’s when it clicked:
If I wanted different results, I needed a different foundation.

Day 14: First Buy

It wasn’t a lot. $50 on Strike.
But that small buy hit me harder than any investment I’d ever made.

Not because of the amount.
But because of what it meant.

It was my first step toward:

• Owning my future

• Opting out of fiat decay

• Playing offense instead of defense

That buy wasn’t just financial. It was philosophical.

Day 21: The Wallet Test

After some research, I ordered a hardware wallet.

Setting it up felt like hacking into the Matrix.
Suddenly, I wasn’t just buying Bitcoin. I was holding it.
Cold storage. Seed phrase. Ownership.

“Not your keys, not your coins.”
I finally understood what that meant.

I showed a friend what I did. He thought it was overkill.

I told him, “Maybe. But for the first time in my life, I own money no one can freeze, steal, or devalue.”

He bought $100 the next day.

Day 35: All-In Mindset

I didn’t sell my car or take out loans.
But I went all-in on this mindset shift:

• Fiat = decaying trust

• Bitcoin = rising truth

• Fiat = rent payments to the system

• Bitcoin = ownership of your time

I started:

• Budgeting in sats

• Listening to Bitcoin podcasts

• Reading The Bitcoin Standard

• Learning the difference between crypto noise and Bitcoin signal

It wasn’t a phase. It was a transformation.

Bitcoin Didn’t Just Change My Portfolio — It Changed Me

In 35 days, I didn’t become wealthy.
But I became powerful.

Because Bitcoin gave me:

• Confidence in the future

• Clarity in a world of chaos

• Control over what used to feel uncontrollable

This is what money is supposed to feel like.
Not stress.
Not scarcity.
But sovereignty.