Category One: Those who treat Bitcoin/Ethereum as gold
They don't think of themselves as trading coins at all, but rather treat $BTC and $ETH as digital gold, saving and scrimping to squeeze out some spare cash, investing a little every payday, and once bought, they throw it in a cold wallet without logging into the app. They are unaware when the bull market soars, and they remain unfazed when the bear market turns their assets worthless. There is never a word about coins in their social circle. Over four years, there have been two cycles of bull and bear markets, originally investing 30,000 to 50,000 a year, and after ten years, their assets easily exceed ten million.
The most ruthless point about these people is that they deeply understand they cannot accurately predict short-term fluctuations, so they simply give up on forecasting and take 'not knowing' as their core competitive advantage.
This is the only path that ordinary people can replicate, and it’s the most legitimate one; unfortunately, 99% of people cannot do it because they can't do 'nothing at all.'
Category Two: Those who rely on luck to profit
They mix in various groups every day, scroll Twitter, listen to big accounts, chasing MEME today, AI coins tomorrow, and new Layer2 public chains the day after.
Usually, they lose eight out of ten trades, and the two they win barely make up for the losses. But as long as they catch a big bull market, there will always be one or two times a blind cat catches a mouse, buying a hundredfold coin, turning thousands into millions.
I believe everyone in the crypto world has seen such people around them; the difference is just a thought apart: those who can timely convert coins into houses, cars, and savings are winners; those who hold onto coins and continue to invest will eventually return everything to the market.
These people essentially come to the market to share the cake; whether the market provides depends entirely on whether the heavens bless them with food. In a bull market, everyone shares the benefits; in a bear market, nothing is harvested!
Category Three: Those who treat the crypto world as an ATM
This is the true top of the food chain; they may be project parties, market makers, top traders, or a combination of all three. For them, coins are not assets, but tools; price fluctuations are not beliefs, but business.
In a bear market, they profit from shorting and issuing junk coins; in a bull market, they rely on market manipulation, setting the tone, and unloading. While others watch K-lines and prices, they only observe logic and capital flow; if the logic isn’t completed, they won’t exit; when the logic ends, they immediately run without attachment.
You will never hear them say 'this price is too high' or 'it should drop' because price means nothing to them; U growth is their belief.
These people profit in both bull and bear markets, all are billionaires, some quietly exit the circle, and their names are unheard of.
In summary: There is no fourth type of person in the crypto world.
Either treat coins like gold as the first type does, holding them tightly and not moving! Or acknowledge like the second type that they are here to gamble, running away once they make a profit! Or treat the market like an ATM as the third type does, to the utmost professionalism.
All others who 'want to monitor the market every day, yet refuse to hold long-term, and lack professional abilities' are likely to be the leeks from the first two categories or the meals for the third category.
Reality is this cruel.
