{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":" Life Hacking Tech Brief By HackerNoon","title":"How I Broke Into Crypto During the Market Bottom","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":361,"description":"\n This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-i-broke-into-crypto-during-the-market-bottom.\n I left fintech for crypto right after FTX, with Solana at $8. Here's how the switch actually worked — and why ugly markets are the door, not the wall. \n Check more stories related to life-hacking at: https://hackernoon.com/c/life-hacking.\n You can also check exclusive content about #career-advice, #crypto, #fintech, #product-management, #web3, #skills-for-crypto-career, #job-search, #crypto-bear-market, and more.\n \n \n This story was written by: @n0omik. Learn more about this writer by checking @n0omik's about page,\n and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.\n \n \n \n A first-person account of switching from fintech (trading at Gazprombank) into crypto at the bottom of the market — right after FTX, with Solana in single digits. The switch wasn't luck: it was a non-obvious match of hard skills (edtech, finance, crypto, user research) and soft skills, signalled loudly over time through public writing and a finance PhD on crypto regulation. The bigger lesson: ugly markets hire for impact, not momentum — so a downturn is often the best time to jump, if you can credibly say \"I can fix this.\"\n \n ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/M5qfl-vj8EULTWNkE9Tyg923clEvq89sRNsIi9VAERE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxNDIyLzE2ODM1/ODI4NDQtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}