It always starts rosy.

₦7,000 to ₦700,000 sounds unbelievable, but that’s exactly what happened to me in mid-February. I had just signed up on BC and started playing Crash. It felt like a golden ticket — a real get-rich-quick scheme. That insane run from ₦7k to ₦700k solidified the belief that I had figured it out. I felt untouchable. But here’s the crazy part: I didn’t even withdraw the ₦700k. I blew it — all of it. A friend told me the platform was fake, and I let that doubt push me into trying to “test” it further. That was the start of a long spiral.

Because I’m tech-savvy, I thought I could outsmart the system. I genuinely believed there was a pattern to how the multipliers showed up. I grabbed a notebook, sat down, and tracked 30+ games, trying to crack the code. My friends laughed at me — they mocked the whole thing. But I brushed it off. In fact, I thought they were the foolish ones for not seeing what I saw. Eventually, I convinced myself that I had found something. I didn’t know at the time that the game was built on something called a Provably Fair Algorithm — an actual cryptographic setup that determines the outcome. That “transparency” gave me a false sense of control. I noticed that 1.5x multipliers showed up more frequently than the higher ones, so I started playing it safe, cashing out early. I made real money doing that. Even the same friends who laughed at me joined in when I started making consistent wins. I felt like a genius.

But after blowing the first ₦700k, I became obsessed with getting it all back. I had a few lucky runs, made some decent profits, and every time I withdrew, I’d throw it right back into the game that gave it to me. That cycle is insane. One minute, you’re up ₦100k, and three games later, you’re broke again. And the wild part? You keep convincing yourself that one more round will change everything. “No tears in the casino” became my personal mantra. It was the only thing keeping me from losing my mind whenever I took a big hit. But the losses added up — quickly. What made it worse was that I started lying, mostly to myself. I stopped keeping track of how much I was actually putting into the platform. And once you reach that point, you’re beyond cooked.

After one particularly brutal loss, I took a step back and decided to actually understand how these games work. That’s when I found out about the Provably Fair algorithm. It hit me — all the patterns I thought I saw were just in my head. There’s nothing to beat. No system to crack. Just a game designed to look fair while taking your money. It was all a delusion. And the worst part? You become your own enemy. You gaslight yourself into believing you're in control, that you can stop any time, that you're just one win away. But you're not. You're just feeding the machine.

Gambling can give you profits, sure. But if you think it’s a path to getting rich, you're already deep in the trap. You’ll lose more than money. You’ll lose your peace of mind, your sense of control, and your self-respect. The gambler’s fallacy, the self-delusion, and most of all — the greed — will ruin you. That greed is the most dangerous part. It convinces you that you're smarter than the game, and that’s when the game really owns you.

I’ve lost a lot of money. But what I’ve gained is a much-needed brain reset. BC won’t let me delete my account, but I’m taking a long break — and honestly, I should’ve done it sooner. And for what it’s worth, I truly believe that Forex and gambling are no different. They trigger the same mindset, the same emotional rollercoaster, the same destruction if you don’t know what you’re doing.

If you’re reading this and it sounds a little too familiar — take a break before the game takes you.

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