That Video Changed Everything

"If you're trying to get rich overnight, you're gonna end up broke by next week."

That first line hit hard.

Andi sat up straight on his thin mattress. The ceiling fan kept spinning, but he didn't even hear it—his mind was somewhere else.

The guy on screen called himself AltcoinMentor.

Nothing flashy about him. Just a regular dude—glasses, darker skin tone, plain background. But his voice? Calm. Deep. Steady. Like he wasn't just talking to the camera… but straight to Andi's chest.

"I used to take whatever jobs I could. Waking up at 3 a.m. just to deliver bread.

I lost two million rupiahs once. Just 'cause I followed some random guy's signal in a group.

But that's when I learned something important: you can lose money. That's fine. But if you build the right mindset? That sticks with you forever."

Andi stared at the screen, breathing slow.

He didn't know much about this AltcoinMentor guy yet. But this didn't feel like a tutorial.

This felt like someone showing him his own reflection.

Not a lecture—but a scar, turned into a lesson.

The first 30 minutes flew by.

Andi grabbed his old school notebook, pages already yellowing at the edges.

He flipped to a blank page and scribbled at the top:

Notes – First video from AltcoinMentor

Don't buy when it's already pumping.

If a token's gone up 20–30%, you're probably just chasing FOMO.

Tokens aren't stocks.

Most of them don't even have real teams. A lot of it is just hype, empty promises, and pretty websites.

Look for coins with a story.

Real projects have a roadmap, an active community, and an actual problem they're trying to solve.

Learn first, then invest.

Never throw your last bit of money into something you barely understand.

But the part that really hit home?

AltcoinMentor paused, looked straight into the camera, and said:

"If you're poor, it doesn't mean you're stupid.

But if you're poor and refuse to learn, you're gonna stay poor."

Andi froze.

He stopped writing, his pen resting on the paper.

His eyes started to sting, and he stared at the chipped floor of the rented room.

Everything around him was silent—except the slow creak of the old fan and the steady thump of his heartbeat.

That one sentence hit deeper than any motivation video ever had.

He felt... seen.

Like someone finally understood the battle he was fighting every day.

Flashback.

At the restaurant where he worked, Andi would sometimes hear coworkers messing around:

"What are you doing with those coins, man?"

"Trying to look rich through your phone?"

"I'd trust the coins in my pocket more than those invisible internet tokens."

Andi would laugh along, just to keep things light.

But deep down? He felt completely alone.

Nobody really believed he could change his future through something they didn't even try to understand.

They just saw a kid staring at charts, chasing fake money.

But that video changed everything.

Andi dove straight into AltcoinMentor's channel.

There were tons of other videos lined up:

"Trading Mindset: From Losing to Level-headed"

"Why 90% of Traders Fail in Their First Year"

"FOMO, FUD, and the Messy Emotions Behind Money"

Without even thinking, he hit Subscribe.

Then he clicked the Telegram link from the video description and joined the channel.

AndiLurker:

Your video hit me hard.

I want to learn more—but from the ground up.

I'm okay with being called out as long as I'm being real.

A few minutes later, a notification popped up.

AltcoinMentor:

Don't chase shortcuts. But never stop learning.

If you're serious, I've got seven videos for you to start with.

Watch them first. Then we'll talk.

And that's how it all began.

The days after that? Everything changed.

Andi built a new rhythm for his life:

Early mornings: up before the sun, heading to the restaurant.

Evenings: watching crypto videos on his cracked old phone.

Nights: writing in his crypto journal before bed.

At work, he started keeping a small notebook tucked near the fry station.

Whenever he had a minute—waiting for fries to finish or cleaning up—he'd jot things down.

"BTC isn't just money—it's trust in a system without middlemen."

"Don't just follow a signal. Learn why it's showing up."

His coworkers started to notice.

"Yo, Di, what are you even writing over there?"

Andi just smiled.

"Something that might help me get out of here."

That night, he started his first official crypto journal.

Personal Journal – Day 10

I lost Rp40,000, and yeah, it stung.

But then it hit me—I wasn't losing because the market was cruel.

I was losing because I jumped in out of FOMO, not understanding a damn thing.

Now?

I'm not afraid of small losses anymore.

I'm afraid of losing just because I didn't do my homework.

Today I learned about circulating supply.

I learned that transaction volume matters.

And the dev team? Yeah, they can't be invisible.

Feels like I'm finally learning at a pace that makes sense.

The real turning point was the fifth video from AltcoinMentor.

"Don't wait until you have a lot of money to start learning.

Your biggest asset right now is your hunger and fear."

Andi paused the video right there.

He looked down at his chipped mug of instant coffee and whispered,

"I've got both."

"I'm hungry. And I'm terrified of being poor forever."

One week later.

A notification popped up.

It was a DM from CryptoGhost—the guy who'd dropped the $KRNO signal weeks ago.

CryptoGhost:

Still hanging around the group?

Not every signal works out. But I noticed you didn't whine about it.

I've been watching your chats and your notes.

You're serious. You might actually have a knack for being an analyst.

Andi blinked.

"Me? Analyst?"

Then CryptoGhost dropped a short PDF into the chat.

Basic stuff. A simple token review sheet.

CryptoGhost:

Just fill this out. Don't worry about being wrong.

Just try. Most people don't even get that far.

Andi opened it right away.

It had a few columns:

– Token name

– Circulating supply

– Daily trading volume

– What the token's for

– Who's behind it

– And a space for personal opinion

He picked a random altcoin: $LOOP

It took him three hours, back and forth between CoinMarketCap, Twitter, Telegram, Reddit.

But he did it. And he sent it back.

That night, Andi wrote in his journal:

"For the first time, someone trusted me.

Not because I'm smart.

But because I showed up with real intention.

And honestly, intention... is the most expensive thing a broke person can have."