🕰️ BEFORE: Wild but pure crypto

When Bitcoin (2009) came out, followed by Litecoin, Ethereum, etc.:

• There were no futures.

• There were no trading bots.

• No one was doing “shorts” or “leverage” with 50x.

• There were hardly any centralized exchanges, and those that existed were basic.

• Buying was done on a spot basis and people said:

“I'm leaving it there, let's see what happens in a few years.”

It was pure holding with faith and long-term vision, nothing like “I sell today, buy back tomorrow.”

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⚙️ TODAY: Crypto on steroids

Now we have:

• Futures, where people bet that a token will go up or down.

• Bots that buy and sell in milliseconds based on patterns.

• Whales manipulating the market to shake out the little fish.

• Fake news, hype manipulation, FOMO, and FUD.

• People who don’t even believe in the tokens, they just want to make 3 cents today.

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🎯 Take this in as a new market sage:

Before it was like:

“Buy, forget, and let time work its magic.”

That mindset is what made people who bought 100 BTC at $1 millionaires today… just for holding.

💎 In simple words:

• Before: vision, patience, faith.

• Now: speed, greed, manipulation.

In the old days, traders would launch a crypto and let it evolve over time. Today, many force it, sell as soon as it grows a bit, and miss out on its legendary form… $BANANAS31