How I started my crypto business

[CryptoConcigliere]

Hi everybody!
My name is Arut, I'm from Kazakhstan (Central Asia)
Here I want to post stories about my business in crypto world.
How I started with zero investments, how I was developing my clients base, what skills I get, some interesting stories how somebody was trying to steal our bitcoins and etc.
I hope that my stories will be interesting, because I have posted them on Russian forums and get a lot of feedback.
Sorry for my English it is not perfect, but I hope you will understand me.

See you soon here.

[CryptoConcigliere]

I don't remember exactly when I first heard about bitcoin, but I seriously started studying this tool in June 2017. One of my friends was eager to invest in bitcoin. He talked about it every day for a week. He thought and calculated how to do it. He had an idea to buy two bitcoins, or buy one bitcoin and for the rest money to buy ethereum. Also he wanted to buy Asic and to start mining.
At that moment I had enough free time and I began learning. I read the articles on the internet, watched videos on YouTube and approximately understood what I was facing. First, I was skeptical and understood that it was a big, global bubble where it is possible to make money. I couldn't invest myself. At that moment my financial situation was not good and I didn't want to borrow money. But I knew for sure that there were big profits in future. After studying the charts of the movement of bitcoins, history, analytics, I advised my friend to buy two coins.He found a seller of bitcoins in Almaty on the ad and bought them at 3200 USD for each and overpaid a substantial commission. In the evening, when he was telling how it was, showing his ledger, for which he gave an extra $ 150, I thought that the seller who sold him the crypt earned much money. Summer was boring, bitcoin was not very active and volatility was minimal. Then autumn came and it was time for big money. I remember it was in November, bitcoin came to the level of 10,000 and my friend, being in Sochi, wrote to me to help him urgently sell everything. I somehow dissuade him and ask him to wait further. I barely managed to dissuade him and we entered with 2 bitcoins in December. Just a space rally begins. It happens that an investment rises in price by $ 2,000-3,000 overnight, everyone is talking about bitcoin. News, onlookers, financiers, everyone understood it, everyone gave their own price forecast, and I was watching from the outside. And then the news appeared that Bitcoin futures will appear on December 16, and on this wave everyone is already talking about Bitcoin at 100,000 in a couple of months. It was the signal for me to get out, I attended trading courses on the stock exchange, I had experience in trading securities, currencies and stocks. I understand approximately what news can influence the price. On December 14th and 15th I insisted on a friend to sell his Ledger back to whoever he bought it from. I understood that after December 16, the market might turn around, in our country December 16 is a big holiday - Independence Day, citizens have 4 days of rest. I imagined that the seller would also want to rest, since in these recent months in such a market he has earned good money. As a result, my friend did not obey me and did not sell at the peak, he had to wait for the beginning of the working week on December 20th and sell on that day. The difference was around 3000-4000, but it closed with a profit of $ 24,000 in six months. The commission of his merchant this time was simply unimaginable, he ripped off almost 5% in commission (2000$) for the buyback, although as I learned later, other buyers at that time paid from 1 to 5 percent commission to you when buying your cryptocurrency.
Over the next week, the news of this successful experience spread to all of our friends and my brother called me asking to meet. Then he tells me that he and two more of our school friends have been engaged in crypto exchange for about 6 months. They began flying to Kiev in the summer for cheap bitcoin and selling it here in Almaty. Now it looks very funny, but then it was very difficult to find a crypt in Kazakhstan, and my future partners had to fly to Kiev several times to meet colleagues, establish themselves and acquire connections for further business. Having found out what conditions for crypto exchange my friends offered - I involved, and then everything went on and on.
This is my story of acquaintance with cryptocurrency, then I will tell you how I made my first money myself. I promise that it will be more interesting
Until next time!

[WalletInvestor]

Hi! This is very interesting to read, and your English is quite good, don't worry It's good to read such a detailed story about investing in Bitcoin, I missed that crazy growth period. I'm curious to see the rest of your story and I would love to hear what you think about Bitcoin now!

[CryptoConcigliere]

My first deal and my first money I earned in crypto.

Winter 2018, “Bitcoin” went into correction and the price has fallen
by half from the maximum of 20,000 now it costs 10,000.
At this time, my brother and my schoolmates are engaged in crypto
exchange (this was the end of my previous story), and their conditions in
the Kazakhstan market was one of the best. I gave them fictitious
names, I did not want to reveal all the cards yet: my brother is Armen,
school friends are Vitally and Mark.
I am actively starting to use telegram, I found thematic channels, groups
and chats. I was looking for clients in my city.
I met a young man, let's call him Zhan (his name is also fictitious, but the
numbers will all be true), he bought at good prices a couple years ago
and has been mining very serious for one year. I offered the services of
my friends to a new man, if you need to buy / sell - contact us, we will
do it quickly and profitably. And he immediately replied: Let's sell 5
«Bitcoin» tomorrow afternoon. We discussed time and place. I called my
brother and found out the price of the commission for such a transaction.
We decided to give him an amount without commission, buy
his 5 coins at a price of 1 for 1, although most buyers in the CIS at that
time take a commission of 1% or more. Thus our client database of
miners developed, we always tried to give more, interested them to work
with us. Zhan satisfied with such conditions, then I have been already
found out that before met me, he sold with a commission of 1-2%.
Next day, it was a deal time. We were sitting in the office waiting for Zhan,
and I saw that my friends were doubt about him, he will / will not come,
has he these 5 «Bitcoins» or has not. Maybe it was “shot in a void”. This
was my first deal where I took part. They were experienced guys. Last
autumn they made several hundred deals.
And then my client called. He was in the parking lot, I went downstairs to
meet him and accompanied to our meeting room.
We were sitting at the table, Mark took out a wad cash from his case.
50,000 on the table, Zhan started to count manually. We didn't have a
cash counting machine at that time. He was sure that we had money.
After that Zhan took his smartphone and sent us 5 «Bitcoins». We paid
him extra. «Bitcoin's» price was about 10.250 at the time of the
transaction. We were waiting for a transaction in the blockchain and
confirmation. 15 minutes after we received the first confirmation. Vitalyi
gets up, stretches out his hand to Zhan and said: I received, it's Ok. Good
deal. We said goodbye to Zhan, he left us. I did not understand
what happened. I remembered well my first words after Zhan's departure,
Guys, are you kidding? You gave 5 packs of dollars and received nothing
back.
I worked in trade before. I was sure that if you give a cash, you have to
take something back. For example goods, products etc. Vitalliy answered
to me: Hey buddy look we have 5 «Bitcoins» and showed me his
smartphone screen, where it was just a simple number.
Armen convinced Mark and Vitalliy to take me with them to the next
deal, so that I can see how it happens. He is my brother, that why he
tried to involved me in this bussiness. He knew that I am a smart guy.
and he wanted me to be experienced, more skillfull, more clever and
continued to work in the same way with their team. The guys agreed and
we went to the another buyer. I remembered that during the way in the
car Marik did not close the blockchain wallet and watched the price of the
«Bitcoin», he was worried that the price could be fall down. Now it seems
ridiculous, we did not transfer to a Tether, we were holding «Bitcoin» in
our e-wallet. Sometimes we lost, but when rate went up we earned nice
bonus.
We came to the buyer, the price of the «Bitcoin» has not changed much.
We went into the office, we are met by an adult and respectable man
who was glad to see us. "Hi, come in, have a seat". He offered tea or
coffee. He has been waiting this meeting for 4 days. It was many
customers, who want to make a deal at price 10 000 USD for Bitcoin and
on big sums of money. They put him on the line.
The buyer get a bundle of dollars from the safe, Marik immediately
counted them, Vitalliy had been already sending the transaction, Armen
spoke with the buyer at ease, and I was sitting and watching on them
and was surprised what was happening. I began to understand that we
were selling Bitcoin with a 4.5% of interest and our buyer is incredibly
happy about this fact. Five coins went to the buyer's wallet, he is
satisfied, hugged all of us, said goodbye and promised to buy more in the
near future. We left.
Vitalliy was driving, Marik and Armen calculate the profit, it came out to
about $ 2,200. Armen offered me to take 400$. I knew that a crypto
exchange is good money, but just to get the average monthly salary in
Kazakhstan in 3-4 hours without doing anything .... I was shocked. With
pleasure I took my money and left in my direction.
On the way, I understood exactly what I would do now!
To be continued