Bitcoin breaks $120,000, setting a new historical high.#BTC再创新高
And in your wallet, there are still only USDT and a few altcoins.#山寨季何时到来？
You tell yourself: 'I will buy after a pullback'—but you know that pullbacks will never be 'just right'.
Because what truly makes you hesitate is not the price, but your complete failure to understand the meaning of 'sovereignty'.#以太坊连续两日领涨
1. Those missed moments of explosive growth.
The price of Bitcoin is racing toward the $120,000 mark like a runaway wild horse, once again refreshing its historical high. Countless investors stand at the edge of the digital asset cliff, watching wealth trains rush by. It’s not that they haven’t noticed the arrival of this bull market, nor do they lack the impulse of "I should buy some," but in the end, the vast majority still choose to stand by.
This collective missed opportunity is far more than just a simple investment mistake; it is a profound defeat regarding the awareness of sovereignty in the digital age.
2. Bull market, bear market, and monkey market: an unending cycle
In this ever-bustling casino of the crypto world, people seem to be caught in a peculiar cycle:
Bull market: Staring at K-line charts as if watching the lottery draw, afraid to miss any upward signal.
Bear market: Complaints abound on social media, repeating like a lamenting figure, "If I had known earlier, I would have bought the dip."
Monkey market: Gambling madly on various altcoins, chasing short-term profits.
When the market rises, they claim they had predicted it; when it falls, they curse the manipulators for harvesting retail investors; when it goes sideways, they fall into an existential crisis and start questioning life. The result is that they consistently miss the simplest trends—those that don’t require complicated analysis, insider information, and that can be grasped with basic understanding.
3. The truth of losing sovereignty: it’s not about lacking money, but lacking choices.
Many mistakenly believe they lack sovereignty because they lack digital assets in their wallets, but the true tragedy lies in the loss of decision-making power.
It’s not that you haven't registered an exchange account,
It’s not that you don’t understand the purchase channels,
But rather that you haven't taken this matter seriously from the bottom of your heart.
You complain that Bitcoin rises too slowly and is not exciting enough, preferring to chase altcoins and contract trading that can provide instant gratification. You talk about pursuing quick riches, yet deep down, you know that such "quick money" often doesn’t last.
In fact, you’ve long seen Bitcoin hover at low levels, and you’ve heard countless stories of "buy early to gain freedom," but with one hot topic after another, attention is fragmented, making it impossible to calm down and think about the long-term value of this asset. You’ve chased various narrative trends like AI, RWA, meme, yet you remain blind to Bitcoin itself.
Thus forms a peculiar misalignment—when it surges, you are absent; when it crashes, you lament; the only thing that is consistently missing is true freedom.
4. Web3 illusion: you think you’re in a revolution, but actually, you’re just being harvested.
You think you are at the center of the Web3 revolution, but in reality, you are just being swept along by its excitement, entering and exiting repeatedly. You think you are practicing decentralization, but it’s just a change of platform where you continue to be controlled.
When Bitcoin prices soar, the whole network cheers, "Decentralization has triumphed," but looking back:
When was the last on-chain transfer?
Currently, "Mouth Lure Coin" is popular, and after you create account content with care, you still find time to scroll through various promotions from exchanges.
You have never truly experienced on-chain freedom; you are just standing outside the platform watching others celebrate.
5. Three brutal realities: what exactly have you lost?
(1) You feel secure only when the platform is rising; you are the first to be harvested when the platform collapses.
The digital assets hung on centralized exchanges have never even seen the private key; when they regularly show asset proofs, you still ask for verification. Thinking you have escaped the traditional banking system, in reality, you have only changed to a new center—this center is not JPMorgan or Bank of America, but Binance, Coinbase, Tether, and a bunch of incomprehensible API interfaces and mysterious on-chain fund flows.
(2) Shouting Web3, but living in the routines of Web2
You shout the Web3 slogan, but what you execute is still the routine of Web2: copying homework, chasing trends, gambling on luck.
(3) Caring about popularity but not fairness
What you truly care about is not the intrinsic value or fairness of a certain track, but whether it can bring short-term popularity. You want to gain freedom, but your understanding of freedom has never delved into its essence.
6. The truth of sovereignty: it’s not about owning coins, but about having the right to choose.
You think the coins are yours, but in reality, you only have the right to experience "price fluctuations." You say "my coins, my rules," but when faced with project suppression or severe market fluctuations, what can you do besides follow the community's complaints?
When the coin has risen a hundred times, you still hesitate to watch from the sidelines, but when it halves, you panic and cut losses immediately. You have not participated in ecological construction, influenced protocol governance, nor enjoyed the true dividends of being a "sovereign holder."
What you experience is just one rollercoaster ride after another—the ride isn't yours, the direction isn't controlled by you, and even when you make money, you are reluctant to cash out and leave. You focus on K-line charts and watch coin price fluctuations but ignore more important changes behind them: the reconstruction of computing power distribution, the centralization of governance structures, and the redistribution of benefits brought by protocol adjustments.
7. True sovereignty: holding rights + cognitive rights + strategic rights.
(1) Holding rights
Do you own the private key?
Do you use a cold wallet?
Are you prepared to hold across cycles?
Do you have an emergency response plan?
Most people do not truly "own" Bitcoin; they merely entrust their assets to exchanges, viewing their balances through a single interface, mistakenly believing that this is a safe wealth management method.
(2) Cognitive rights
Can you understand the mechanism design behind the project?
Can you judge whether a technological upgrade is a reorganization of interests or false innovation?
Can you avoid being led by KOLs?
Can you start researching before the bull market?
(3) Strategic rights
When to enter the market?
How to allocate?
How long to hold?
Most of these key decisions are not made by you but are driven by market sentiment.
8. The path to reclaiming sovereignty: returning from noise to calm.
Step One: Return from "what others say" to "what I want to do"
Block out the noise and study the real on-chain data.
Read protocol technical documents.
Establish your own analytical framework.
Step Two: Return from "opportunism" to "abilityism"
No longer waiting for the "big shots" to lead the way.
Build your own cognitive system.
Formulate clear action guidelines.
9. The ultimate test of sovereignty awareness: do you dare to truly make choices?
What is at the end of the bull market? For most people, it is a continuous surrender of sovereignty—compromise, doubt, self-denial.
But you don’t have to completely give up; you only need to:
Set aside a little time each day to turn off social media notifications.
Stop chasing hot topics.
No longer seek the next ticket to wealth freedom.
Calm down and introspect; you will find that deep down, there is actually great power within. You could have been calm and composed, you could have stayed clear-headed; you just haven't experienced the feeling of truly making choices for too long.
This is the true starting point of sovereignty awareness—not waiting for others to bestow it, but actively reclaiming control over your digital life.
In this power game of the digital era, the real winners are not those who run the fastest, but those who always know their direction.
