Joshua Sean Baskin

I know hunger

Not skipping a meal. The real thing. I've been homeless. I've stood in a 7-Eleven with a $1.29 cup of ramen, already working out how to split it into two meals to make it through the day. I lost weight fast, from no money and from depression, and underneath both was something nobody ever taught me: how money actually works. I felt lost in a system that, from where I stood, seemed built to keep me down even on the days I did everything right.

One photo shows the boy who got bullied: small, weak, quiet. The other shows the man who took back his own body and mind. No doctor, pill, steroid, therapist or counselor got me there. I slowed down, learned to heal naturally with what Mother Earth gives us, and I was patient with myself. That's my path, not a prescription. If you need a doctor or someone to talk to, please go. Asking for help is strength.

The turning point

I went from homeless to my first job, then found a second, and worked full shifts plus overtime at both. I studied crypto on bathroom and lunch breaks, starting in 2019. After 6 to 12 months of teaching myself, I made a big, risky bet during the 2019–2021 cycle, and it changed my life. Honestly, I got lucky. But it lit something in me. I wanted to understand why, and I've been hooked on learning ever since. I follow this space every hour.

Out of poverty

I built myself out of poverty with one goal: nobody should feel the pain I felt being left outside of society. Friends, and even family at times, doubted me. I was completely alone. I didn't spend on houses, cars or impressing people. I traveled the world to learn (it's all on my Instagram) and put every dollar into knowledge, experience and getting out of depression. I've failed so many times that failing became a habit, and that habit drives everything. I never gave up.

Nobody handed me a map

I was a swimmer first, so I know what it's like to train in silence for years. Then I tore my Achilles and had to learn to stand again. It was never about the money. It was about the kid with a good heart and no one showing him the way.

School failed me

It couldn't teach me the way I learn, and it never taught the one subject that can change your life just by understanding it: money. You shouldn't need a credit card to learn how money works.

Why crypto, why now

The world is moving to crypto, digital payments and life online, fast, without proper teachers. When a new money system arrives without teachers, the people who already have money learn first and everyone else gets left behind again. What they didn't plan for is the outlier: someone uncontrolled, people over profit, who doesn't worship money but teaches it as a door to a world you haven't been shown.

So I built the school I needed

Every app and site I found was built for someone's profit or their own interest, not mine. So I built this app and website for me first. And by giving it away free, it belongs to everyone, with nothing asked in return. Read it, watch it, listen to it, or play it. Free for anyone in any country, no card, no catch. I'll always tell you the brutal truth: most coins go to zero, most "gurus" are selling something, and I will never pick coins for you or pretend to know what I don't. I'm not a financial advisor. I will never ask you for money to learn.

It's time to change the game. If no one has believed in you yet, let me be the first.

— Joshua