I LOVE NFTS - I live and breathe with them every day, every hour, whenever I get to take a glimpse on my mobile phone, the first thing I do is click on my Coinbase wallet - browser - Opensea Activity and Blur.IO (trends) to check out if there are any NFT collections I miss or I need to FOMO now. But it's more than just flipping them though right?

News is right. Probably 95% of my NFT portfolio is a worthless jpeg thinking it would be the next BAYC or even a lilpudgy. And that's just within my ETH wallet. I think it's more close to 99% useless within my SOL wallet. 

If you want to make money flipping NFTs it's knowing the community early and knowing when to get out to make money - which is more likely 1-2 hours within mint/launch of an NFT collection for 90% of my experience. And trust me - I've probably lost more than $10,000 USD trying to make money. 

Since 2019, when I first got my first purchase experience on OpenSea (OS) and got my once in a lifetime adrenaline moment at a random glimpse of my mobile phone at 3am happened to be within 10-minutes of Gary Vee's tweet about Cryptoskulls which make an 0.05 ETH jump to 0.5 ETH within 10 minutes and then trying to frantically to buy and sell on my mobile phone while my wife was nursing our first child. It was a life changing moment for me buying a stupid jpeg for over $1,500 USD at that time Cryptoskull #4683  (0.55 ETH) but then selling it at 4.369 ETH all within a few hours. 

But then of course - gambling it all way down and losing more buying stupid shit such FVCK_BUDDY// 236 and other stupid NFTs I should have never bought (probably 95% of my collection).

However, I get it. I see how a hobby can turn into a real life obsession - so powerful that makes me want to work in this wacky web3 wild wild west of artists, developers, engineers, and most importantly - a community. 

And that is why I my goal is to create a team and community of likeminded people who have a passion and joy in the NFT space - especially a deep appreciation of being more just than a jpeg.  

If you are reading this, you are probably invested in crypto and probably obsessed and passionate about, NFTs. Having been a crypto investor and NFT holder since 2019 and current owner thousands of $ETH and $SOL based NFTs, my goal is to bring a community and pursue a full time career in this advanced, futuristic and lifechanging web3 technology. More importantly, I want to show the world that NFTs have utility and can be used other than exchanging PFPs and JPEGS. For a place to enjoy life and NFTs, to feel connected through them and the community families with a sustainable goal for many generations to come.

Thank you and sincerely, welcome to Happy Labs. I hope you enjoy your time here.