How do the big players in the cryptocurrency world make their money? Satoshi Nakamoto mined 1.1 million BTC and became a legend, Zhao Changpeng sold his house for 1,500 bitcoins to start, and Tether relied on USDT to firmly sit on the throne of stablecoins... Behind these wealth stories lies a logic of making money that ordinary people can understand.
Satoshi Nakamoto: The era of mining dividends
When Bitcoin was first born, no one took this string of code seriously. Satoshi Nakamoto mined with early developers, mining 1.1 million coins—back then you didn't need GPUs to mine; a regular computer could do it, and the cost was negligible. Now this pile of coins is worth $125 billion, fundamentally betting on the 'decentralized currency' track that no one dared to imagine.
Zhao Changpeng: The platform leverage after going all in.
In 2014, Zhao Changpeng sold his house in Shanghai for 1,500 bitcoins. Others thought he was crazy, but he used the money to build the framework for Binance. By leveraging 'zero fees' to capture the market and binding the ecosystem with the BNB token, he transformed the money from selling his house into a hundred billion empire. The core is not about being aggressive in selling the house, but understanding the 'urgent need for an efficient trading platform for cryptocurrencies.'
Tether: A moat built by filling gaps.
In the early years, exchanges lacked stablecoins, and USDT emerged—no matter how crazy the market got, the promise of 1:1 pegging to the dollar was a reassurance. The team seized the gap of 'the crypto world needing a bridge for deposits and withdrawals,' and with their first-mover advantage and deep binding with exchanges, USDT became a standard configuration for almost all platforms. There was no technical showmanship; it was all about making the most basic 'stable exchange' perfect.
Summarizing these three paths, it's really just a layer of window paper.
Building a platform (exchange, wallet): Earning ecological money, winning effortlessly through traffic and rules.
Holding core assets: Bitcoin and Ethereum are assets that can withstand cycles; if you can endure, you can outperform 90% of speculators. Filling ecological gaps: USDT filled the stablecoin gap, smart contracts filled the blockchain application gap; do what’s missing.
Don't just envy the 'luck' of big players. Satoshi Nakamoto wrote code when no one believed, Zhao Changpeng opened an exchange amid regulatory fears, and Tether maintained a 1:1 peg for ten years amid skepticism. They were not betting on coin prices; they were betting on the inevitable growth trend of the crypto world.
Where is your first pot of gold? Is it understanding a certain unmet demand, or is it having the courage to endure a little longer during hesitation? The crypto world is never short of opportunities; what it lacks is the determination to turn 'understanding' into 'action.'
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We are veterans of the Web3 first-level market; we don’t discuss metaphysics, we just analyze trends and follow the true underlying logic—making money isn’t that complicated.
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