Hello everyone!
Today, I'll share a real, almost anecdotal story from my life that happened to me on the Yobit exchange, during the early days of cryptocurrency development.

At that time, I was also investing in a shitcoin called Liza on Yobit, which could be placed in the so-called "investment box" to earn a high daily profit. The catch was that to receive that profit, you had to play the Hi-Lo roulette game on the exchange 5 times a day, where the system automatically placed a 0.01 Bitcoin bet. As you can imagine, this was designed to trap naive users, with the idea being that over a month, they would lose much more in the roulette than they would gain from their Liza token. But I discovered that there was an easy workaround: I changed the bet to 1 Satoshi, spinning the roulette daily with bets of just one Satoshi, while still receiving the high percentage on my Liza investment.

One day, just as I placed a bet of 1 Satoshi and started the Hi-Lo roulette, my browser lagged and automatically refreshed. At that moment, my bet switched to 0.1 Bitcoin and went into play. For a few seconds, my heart skipped a beat! Yes, at that time, I wasn’t as broke as I am now, and I still had some 0.1 BTC to spare. Moreover, I was trading with investors' money and usually had 5-10 full Bitcoins and more than 100 Ethereum on my wallet. So, the 0.1 Bitcoin bet was actually a "light" version of the potential disaster at that moment. But what if the faulty system had placed a full Bitcoin, and not mine?

However, instead of an unexpected disaster, a twist of fate occurred: the 0.1 Bitcoin bet (which I never intended to place) won! At the time, this wasn't much by the exchange rate—about 250 dollars. But, as you’ll agree, it was certainly not a penny, and a very pleasant, unexpected gift.

Later, knowing that a similar self-triggered bet could happen on Yobit, I began pre-setting all my coins in orders before playing Hi-Lo (so that there were no free coins in my wallets, except for small Satoshis).

I’ve been told more than once in my life that I’m lucky. But what’s the "moral" of this story? Just like the one who does nothing can’t make mistakes, neither can the one who does nothing be lucky. To get lucky one day, you must always be "on the Gemba." I don’t know if you’re familiar with the term "Gemba," but it’s been in my personal vocabulary for the last 14 years, which I picked up from the Japanese "Kaizen." I am often criticized for using unfamiliar words, so I’ll explain this time.

"Being on the Gemba" means being constantly involved in the process of your work.
For example: A business director who only sits in their office, judging their company based on reports from managers— is not on the Gemba! On the contrary, a director who enters the factory floor to understand how things are working and how people are working is on the Gemba.

You must always be on the Gemba, constantly engaged in the process — this increases our chances of achieving better results and even boosts our odds of simple luck. In the case of my story today, even when I least expected it. And throughout this, I was always on the Gemba, not sitting idly by, giving in to the negative mindset of "Everything is a scam," as many skeptics do, especially when it comes to cryptocurrencies.

✍ Bogdan Karasiov, December 2, 2024, Ukraine.

I invite friends: @diodao , @darina14 , @o1eh
(Наташа, я тобі ще не допік запрошеннями? Коли що, скажи, або можеш відплатити мені тим самим. Зараз пишу із задоволенням, багато, легко і швидко).

• 10% beneficiary for @teamvenezuela

In the first comment, the original text as I wrote it in my native Ukrainian language.