In 2018, when I was still in college, I had already begun to understand cryptocurrency. From the earliest pig-killing plate, product plate, quantitative plate, wallet plate, grapefruit plate, and concubine plate, I made 10 $BTC , 200 $ETH , and then all the funds were zeroed out, the project ran away, and then it took 20 years to really enter the cryptocurrency circle. I took a hundred times the currency but didn’t sell it, paid tuition to learn K-line and play contracts, and it was zeroed out. The private placement currency institution ran away, the exchange ran away, and the coins I once believed in were zeroed out one after another. The pledge for financial management was hacked, the interactive wallet was stolen, and so on... I didn’t miss any pits that could be stepped on in this industry, and I didn’t make any money. Sometimes I feel that fate is playing tricks on me, and I often sigh that fate is unfair. Why is my life so bumpy? Why do I have to catch up with all the mines? I am only 25 years old. Why do I have to experience all this? Three years ago, I often sighed and felt that my whole life was gloomy, and cursed the unfairness of fate! Do you believe in fate? Is this your fate?

When you get in touch with the web3 industry, you really can't do other jobs, because the money in this industry comes too quickly, and of course, it goes away quickly, so it's hard to do a stable job. The baptism of the 21-year bear market made me confused for a while. I stared at the altcoins of various exchanges, and each of them fell tenfold. I used to have more than 200,000 U in my account, and now only a fraction of it is left after hard trading. Insomnia, anxiety, smoking, the screen lit in the night, the cold K-line, I was smoking, thinking, I may not be suitable for trading, not suitable for this industry, struggling painfully, should I find a class to attend? My uncle has been trading stocks for 20 years, and his stock trading secrets can fill the entire bedroom. He is still setting up a stall under the overpass. Will I be the same as him? Where is my future? The more I think about it, the more anxious I become, and I fall deeply into self-denial... The anxiety disorder is getting worse...

The reason why the crypto industry is attractive is that it creates myths of getting rich quickly and dreams for you every day. Today this single coin A8, tomorrow that A9, and the essays on getting rich quickly are forwarded in the group every day. Whenever you see this, everyone reacts in the same way, damn it, I didn’t hold it, I sold it too early, I knew it earlier... Every day I am immersed in the dream of getting rich quickly, everyone wants single coin A8, A9, and because of this, I grab too many coins and don’t realize them. I don’t feel anything when I make hundreds of thousands of dollars, so I just want the freedom of single coins, and then it falls dozens of times to zero. I often say that people in the currency circle can’t speak well. They open their mouths and say tens of millions or hundreds of millions, but in fact they are cut by leeks every day and their wallets are thin. Everyone dreams of getting rich quickly every day. It is because of this dream of getting rich quickly that the currency circle is very impetuous and it is difficult for oneself to settle down.

Why is it so hard for you to stick to your heart? I often ask myself. Bitcoin fell to about 18,000 dollars in 2023. At that time, I was cleared out by all the copycats, and I still had about 30,000 dollars. I bet all of it on Bitcoin. At that time, the mood of the entire network reached a freezing point. I chatted with an old leek. He entered the circle in 2015. I asked him what he thought about the market. He was extremely pessimistic and said that according to his experience, Bitcoin would continue to fall and would have to go to about 8,000 dollars to be clean. At that time, I panicked. Whether it was in the group or the big V on Twitter, they all said that Bitcoin would go to 8,000. I was not calm at that time. I only had the last 30,000 dollars left. If it was cut in half, I would only have more than 10,000 dollars left. It would be difficult to turn over if the market did not come. Then I sold the big cake and bought altcoins again. Yes, I trusted altcoins again and waited for the bull market. At that time, altcoins were indeed at a freezing point, and then the market improved. By March 24, the market came to a small bull market, and the funds increased from 30,000 dollars to 120,000 dollars. I thought the bull market had just begun, and then it plummeted all the way back to the starting point, but Bitcoin rushed to 100,000. At that time, my mentality exploded. Why did I touch altcoins? Why am I so cheap? Why can't I stick to my heart? Why do I listen to the words of an old leek? My mentality collapsed again... I made the same mistake again...

I have learned a lesson again, and I am back to square one again... It turns out that it is so difficult to integrate knowledge and action. The flame in my heart is burning again. I can't just give up. I have stepped on so many pits along the way, and my cognition and experience... are still there. I have been reading books crazily since 24 years ago. If I can't calm down, I will read the Tao Te Ching, read Buddhism, meditate... If I don't have enough trading theory, I will read books about trading and investment, such as Das Kapital, Digital Gold, and Memoirs of a Trader... If I am not firm in my heart, I will read biographies of celebrities such as Kazuo Inamori, Buffett, Musk, and Steve Jobs. I read three books a month, review my own failed experiences, reflect on myself three times a day, and block out the surrounding voices, Twitter, and community...

Desire and greed are human nature, and also the nature of trading. It is difficult to overcome because it is human nature. Trading is enlightenment. If you are a successful trader, you have basically stepped into the threshold of the Tao... The trend of the K-line is also the path you have taken along the way. Why do I say that losing one million is the threshold to enter the cryptocurrency circle? Because if you don’t step into one pit after another, how can you grow? A successful trader loses money... Stop believing in copycats. Bitcoin is your only goal. $BTC