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If you have a modest amount, let's say $150 a month to invest, here's a mindset to consider:
Maximize Risk-Taking:
Go for meme plays x10 or x100, or even lose it all. Take huge futures leverages. In the worst-case scenario, you might lose everything, but if you win, your $150 could turn into $1,500 or even $15,000.
Full-On Portfolio:
For you, diversification might not be the key. Go all in on a project. With less money, you need to make a big impact. Going all in could be a life-changer.
Farming Airdrops:
Rolling rewards are also quite smooth. Focus on L2 Ethereum solutions.
WORK to Earn:
Find ways to increase your income. If Grab/Ubers isn't enough, go do some grunt work or community management. Maybe you'll make $50/month and chuckle about it. 🤣
Between the 4 things that you said, the only thing that I did in my whole crypto journey was the 4th one. I did work to earn some money, and still doing it today.
For the first one, it's a hit or miss. It's either you will either become a millionaire or a loser at all. TBH, this is more risky than gambling because investing into meme coins have little to no chance of winning while if you are gambling, you have at least a higher chance of winning especially if you are knowledgeable on the particular sport/bet that you are doing. Personally, I don't recommend this one especially for the newbies out there... but it's your money so you have the final decision.
As for the 2nd one, I get the point, and I agree with it. There's no point in diversifying your money into different assets if you have a low budget on investing. You can't maximize your profits if you spread your money too much. There's nothing wrong with it, but there's a limitation on diversifying your money.
As for the 3rd one, TBH I tried this one, but it's harder than I thought. You spend time participating in these airdrops, and you don't even know if you are eligible for the airdrop or not. There are also times where you are doing the certain tasks that they're requiring, and yet you aren't eligible. Overall, there's nothing wrong with participating in airdrops especially if you didn't invest any money, but these airdrops are like "one in every 100 new projects".