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My name is Fumi Bankole, founder and manager of Dendara Holdings LLC. Native to Los Angeles, California and foundational to America, I am an awakened soul at my root. My professional life has been as a public-school teacher, writer, performing artist, and crypto investor. I hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from CSUDH. This is my investor story.

Of course it is a long tale. In 2020, I was asked to teach a Life Skills class to adults for high school credits in the Department of Adult Education, LAUSD. I excitedly set to retrofit the course that was originally designed for 10th graders for adults. My mission was to educate these adult students on what promised to be extremely useful information – money management and introduction to the new financial system. I was learning as I was teaching and spent tens of hours in deep diving information. In addition to teaching basic skills about personal finance such as understanding credit, credit cards, credit scores, building and maintaining good credit, banking, online banks, credit unions, fiat versus digital dollars, I sought to explain what the new financial system was – exactly. 

After the course, I finally understood what Bitcoin was and why it was a damn shame that back in 2012, when I was first introduced to the concept and encouraged buy in, I didn’t. After the course, in which I was the most enthusiastic student, I opened a trading account and began to accumulate. What I did not know was that I had jumped in at the height of the bull run. In 2021, I bought ETH from 1300 to 2700 US dollars. I bought DOT up to 36 from 18 up to 36 US dollars. I bought APE above 7 dollars. I bought LINK at 144 US dollars. I bought BTC at 65K. I didn’t know. I also did not know that we were in for the big drop all the way down to BTC at 17,000 US dollars and DOT at 2 and change. Yeah, I took that downward freefall all the way to the bottom.

Despite the massive loss, I continued to educate myself and was not discouraged. It was a learning process, and since I was on the journey on my own, except for the influencers I followed online, I expected as much. There would be ups and down. They all said that investing in crypto is high risk. During the bear market that followed, I dabbled in day trading crypto. It was exciting but I could tell that I was losing. Besides, I could not keep track of what I was doing. I concluded that I was a HODLR and that would be my strategy. I would hold the best cryptos and wait for the next bull run then I would cash out and become rich!

Continuing in 2023, I would have a few more severe lessons in holding crypto that would result in massive loss. I continued to accumulate during the bear market, which is the best time to buy if you are looking to make massive profits. There was the learning curve of cold storage. I opted for Ledger x hardware. Look for my review of Ledger and what I prefer now in my blog posts. Because of the lawsuit against Ripple, XRP was dirt cheap. I first bought in at 35 cents and managed to accumulate upward of 10K tokens. I did not exactly know what this token was going to do, but I had a good feeling about it. It was a special token, and I followed the enthusiastic push by one TikTok influencer called Jay in particular. No, I never read the white papers, but I listened to Jay’s lives as well as a few other influencers like Calvin Hill. I was sold that I was in on the ground floor of this asset, and I was about to become seriously rich. During that time, I also accumulated BTC and was a mere few hundred shy of a whole Bitcoin.

The next downturn came when I believed I was being contacted by Jay the influencer that I was following. It turned out not to be him, but I did not realize that at the time. “Fake Jake” as I will refer to him was very personable, convincing and persuasive. I agreed to open an account on Telegram. From there he convinced me to open an account on a trading platform called singlestackoptions.com. The whole episode in hindsight reminds me of the classic movie The Sting, where a whole environment was set up to deceive someone out of their money. The way it worked was I added money to my account on this platform and then I would “follow” Fake Jakes expert trades. I did this for just about 1 months. The result was that I was tricked into handing over my entire Bitcoin bag as well as all my XRP as well as all the lesser bags. Furthermore, I went into 24K worth of credit card debt trying to pay a ransom that I hoped would return my bag. 

Look for a blog post that details this mind-bending advanced schooling in trading crypto. More than 2 years later, I am still reeling from the theft and ruin of my credit, which beforehand approached 800. Including the credit card debt, my losses were upward of 65K US dollars. The episode is affecting my ability to open a business checking account today, something necessary to running a business. The lesson learned, however, is do not trust anyone contacting you through DMs on social media, particularly TikTok – Don’t do it!!! Even if you believe you are talking to an influencer you normally interact with still do not do it. Most influencers do not contact their followers with DMs, and there are often tens of impersonators. The greed aspect of crypto and the potential to get rich quick can bite you. Be smart. If it seems too good to be true, it most likely is.

You might think that would have scared me out of crypto investing. It didn’t. A couple things happened – a change in my thinking about my relationship with wealth and abundance for starters. I began to look at my own energy and to ask myself, what about who I think I am is keeping wealth at bay? What is my energetic signature concerning my relationship to money? I have always associated myself with social injustice, struggle and have had a victim mentality for most of my life. That is a hard reality to face, and a difficult thing to shake, but I have been tackling that straight on ever since.  I have been working on my attitude and on maintaining awareness as to what I expect from life and from Source Energy. I realized I needed a good brainwash and a change in the internal dialogue I had about my prosperity. A few maxims I now respect are: 

You get what you feel that you are.

Where focus goes energy flows.

Expect good things to happen.

Time is your most valuable asset.

I also needed to reevaluate my conversations with other people. I needed to stop talking to non-investors, which was all the people I knew, about investing and money and politics and history. People will push their beliefs on you. If they fell abundant and optimistic, they will push that. If they have fearful attitudes or poverty mindsets, they will push that. It is the nature of humans. Nobody in my family/friend circles invested in any digital assets, nor could they be persuaded to spend time researching it for themselves. I realized that the Fake Jake episode was largely due to my naïveté. It happens to the best of us. It is okay. I was okay. I am still okay. Nobody was hurt. I did not lose my house, and I’m not discouraged. I am less greedy and wiser.

Digital assets are the new financial system going forward. After a good cry, I still knew I wanted to be a part of the early crypto investors. Believe it or not, anyone who gets in now still is. I began to spend what I could out of my paycheck on XRP and other ISO 20022 compliant cryptos to stay in the game. In addition, I accumulated a decent size bag of ZEC. Now I am more mature, and although my bag is only shark size, I have a bag! I have experienced the pitfalls and have learned from it. I am savvier, and as a student, I am at least a Junior. I have continued to learn about the new financial system and how retail will likely be affected when the rails of the new financial system are up and running. I believe I am quite fortunate to have bought in when I did. I now understand that the US petrodollar will be inflated out of use soon, and digital assets will replace them. I am not scared. Everything is working out for our greatest good. My personal accumulations are the basis for Dendara Holdings LLC. I’m excited that I am continuously preparing the way forward for a soft landing. Dendara Holdings is that soft landing.

The name Dendara Holdings is inspired from a trip I took to Egypt where I got the chance to tour the Dendera Temple of Hathor.

In the Kemetic pantheon, Hathor stands as a universal archetype of abundance, pleasure, beauty, fertility, and energetic flow. Across ancient Egyptian tradition and its modern reinterpretations, she embodies the source of generative power—the force that makes life grow, attract, flourish, and multiply. Because she presides over music, celebration, love, nourishment, and the golden radiance of joy, she becomes a natural emblem of wealth, not merely in the financial sense but as a state of full-spectrum prosperity.

As the Cow of Heaven, Hathor symbolizes an endless provider, associated with nourishment, vitality, and the gold-infused light of the sun. As the Mistress of Turquoise, she is linked to precious materials, beauty, and luxury, reinforcing her role as a deity of richness and divine favor. Her name, Het-Heru, meaning “House of Horus,” positions her as the cosmic womb of manifestation—the sacred space where intention becomes reality, where desire crystallizes into form. She also represents the radiant feminine principle, suggesting that true wealth is generated through resonance, magnetism, creativity, and alignment rather than force or struggle.

For these reasons, when invoked in contemporary symbolic or brand contexts, Hathor conveys a prosperity that flows naturally. She represents the kind of wealth born from harmony, joyful productivity, artistic expression, and spiritual alignment—a prosperity that arises not from pressure but from an open channel to abundance itself.