“Six days with $BTC , and I lost two and a half million.”

This is a period Zhang Qi is most reluctant to mention. But he says that if he can help others avoid this path, he is willing to talk about it.

Zhang Qi is from Shenzhen, born in the 90s, and a mid-level manager in the internet industry. Like most working people, he also wants to achieve 'financial freedom,' but he chose the fastest route – cryptocurrency trading.

In 2020, he first heard about Bitcoin. At that time, Bitcoin was less than $30,000 per coin, which was just over 200,000 yuan in Chinese currency. He didn't pay attention to it.

But by early 2021, Bitcoin rose rapidly, breaking through the $60,000 mark. Everywhere –朋友圈 (WeChat Moments), WeChat groups, Weibo, Zhihu – people were talking about the wealth myths in the cryptocurrency world:

'Your 3 years of stock trading is not as good as my 3 days of cryptocurrency trading.'