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Oga of the Algorithm by goshen

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Oga of the Algorithm





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It was around 2022 when Tope first heard about the word crypto. He was at the Kabba Market selling flash drives and phone accessories from his small shop. Everyone knew his shop, which was labelled "Tope Tech Space" his neighbour, Tunde, was actually going through his phone, looking at his Ethereum balance rising. 

"Tope, are you still selling Phone Accessories?" Tunde asked. 

"There is money online too. Everyone is into crypto and people are making money from it"

I took it out of curiosity and checked Tunde's phone. 

But that curiosity increases when after 3 months, Tunde upgraded from a motorbike to a Toyota Corolla. This pushes Tope to try out the crypto world. 

He sells almost half of his goods, then borrowed around 200,000 from his elder sister, who lives in Lagos and instantly opened a Binance account on his Redmi phone, which he has been managing for years. 



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But by the time Tope has learnt how to transfer Naira to USDT, Bitcoin has dropped by 40%

On the telegram group, they keep shouting that the bear market is coming, but Tope has little knowledge about the bear market. 

Tope keeps buying dip after dip with this strong hope that the market will recover and bounce back shortly. 


When all the Memecoins and shitcoins start trending, Tope also jumped into it and invested some of his money into it. He brought most of them when they were at the top. The market keeps bleeding and bleeding. 

But he keeps believing that the market will recover. 

Tope watched a lot of YouTube tutorials, even subscribed to around 5 paid signal groups just in a bid to recover from the bleeding market. 


He keeps posting on his WhatsApp status. 

"The market is red today, but the market will be green tomorrow."

He also opened a TikTok account and started posting some crypto-related updates on it. 


At first, nobody was really watching his video. But as time goes on, his video started to get fewer views. 


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[Image Source](https://pixabay.com/vectors/chart-line-line-chart-diagram-trend-148256/)

There was this particular day, he woke up and discovered that one of his videos, where he talked about comparing Elon Musk to one mama Ikeja with WiFi, hit around 500,000 views overnight. 

Comments flooded in 

"Who is this guy?"

"Crypto finally has a native doctor"

"I have invested after watching this"

Tope didn't really understand these comments but he leaned towards the new visibility he has gotten.

He got a ring light, painted his shop with the Bitcoin logo and started acting skits with his neighbour Tunde about Blockchain scams and DeFi process. 

In just a matter of time, people were no longer coming to the Kabba Market for the phone accessories, they were coming for him. 

"Mr Tope, which coin do you want to buy next?" 

These are some of the questions he keeps receiving daily. 


Tope will respond. "I am not the one who will tell you the coin to invest in."


He even printed a shirt and typed "I survived crypto winter" he received a brand deal, but he toned it down because he likes to be independent. 

Just as everything has its time and season. The wave begins to fade. 

People started getting bored with his updates, and they started moving to AI artists and content. Comment stopped coming in. 


His follower count remains stagnant for a month. Opening his crypto wallet, it was still red. 

Probably he was late to the game as that is what he always asks himself. 

But even if he comes late to the game, he has learnt something valuable about life. Trends will always come and go, but what matters most is how you use the trends when they come. 







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@jemima2001 ·
A very engaging read indeed!
I liked that Tope was not easily discouraged and went ahead to learn the ropes of the game. 
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