With $12k left, pending mortgage of $3k/month, Ponzi consoled himself knowing he'd done it before and could again.

And the first seven days, it's like, what the fuck? I just bought a house. It literally was like pending contract on a house. I had $12,000 to my name. And my mortgage was like three grand a month. I had nothing. I always lived like 100% encrypted at the time. It was retarded. And now obviously I'm diversified. But back then, I fully blew up and was all in. So in the first seven days of like, it was just consoling myself. It was like, I have done this before. I can do it again. And that it's just a self-belief thing. It really is a you versus you on that battlefield, no matter who else is playing the game. It's you are your own opponent and your own successor. So you have to play both sides evenly.