At three in the morning, in a corner of the crypto forum, a desperate post floated: "ZEC, please rise, I’ve worshipped you, I’ve prayed for you..."
There were a few scattered replies, like cold rain: "It’s useless, even the ancestral grave smokes green and it won't rise."
I scrolled past, feeling no ridicule, only a familiar sense of suffocation—once upon a time, I too had prayed and despaired in front of a green K-line.
But now, my mindset is completely different. Not because I successfully shorted at ZEC 460U and "made a profit", but because I have already put the most critical part of my investment into the "safe haven" @usddio. Regardless of whether ZEC rises or falls, or even whether it's a bull or bear market, this part of my wealth is working for me in a smarter way.
'The tragedy behind the worship': Turning investment into a form of 'wish-making'.
Worshipping ZEC is essentially an act of completely giving up control.
It exposes several harsh realities:
Position management failure: Assets may be overly concentrated in a single poorly performing asset, leading to a collapse of mindset.
Lack of risk hedging: Besides praying for an increase, there are no strategies or tools to cope with a decline.
Cash flow exhaustion: Assets are deeply trapped, unable to generate any returns, turning into 'dead money'.
In a one-sided bull market, this 'faith-holding method' might guess the outcome correctly. But in a volatile or bear market, it becomes a form of self-mutilation. Investing turns into a painful wait for miracles, and the market never shows mercy to those who endure pain.
Our 'eating meat' and my 'drinking soup': Two different survival philosophies.
The community shouted to short ZEC at 460U successfully, which is undoubtedly a beautiful short-term operation. However, this type of operation requires extremely high timing, skills, and mindset, and is essentially a zero-sum game (the money you earn corresponds to the money lost by the 'kneeling party'). Risks and rewards coexist, and not everyone can do it, nor can it be used at any time.
What I choose is another more universal and sustainable path: using stablecoins to build certain returns amidst uncertainty.
I allocated part of my funds as a 'strategic reserve' to USDD. This has allowed me to achieve the following points:
Jumping out of the long-short game: I don't need to accurately predict the peak and bottom of ZEC. Regardless of its rise or fall, the value of USDD is stably anchored. #USDD stabilizes trust, freeing me from the anxiety of predicting prices.
Gaining 'certain cash flow': I don't need ZEC to rise to make money. By safely depositing USDD into mainstream DeFi protocols or investment platforms, I can earn stable annualized returns. While the market is filled with lamentations, my USDD assets are quietly 'yielding', providing me with continuous 'cash flow'. This is my 'soup'; although not as profitable as 'eating meat', it flows steadily and never stops.
Retaining the 'ultimate option': This USDD is my strategic reserve. If ZEC really drops to an unbelievable value, I can use it as ammunition to buy quality assets at the bottom. If the market presents other opportunities with higher certainty, I can switch at any time. It gives me the capital to 'wait and see' and 'strike', rather than being forced to 'lie flat' or 'cut losses'.
Simply put, shorting is 'hunting', high risk and high return, requiring proactive strikes and risk-taking. Holding USDD for yield is 'farming', low risk and steady returns, requiring patience and enjoying the compounding of time. In the crypto world, hunters often miss their mark, but as long as the farmer still has land, there will always be a harvest.
True wisdom: It's not about predicting storms, but about building 'water conservancy projects'.
The market will always have the next ZEC, there will always be people 'worshiping' at the peak, and there will always be people 'shorting and eating meat' halfway up the mountain.
But for most ordinary people, establishing a system of assets that can withstand bull and bear markets and continuously generate positive returns is more important than chasing every ups and downs switch.
The cornerstone of this system requires a core asset that is stable in value, has good liquidity, and can generate returns. @usddio is one of the excellent choices playing this role. It allows you to stay calm during market frenzy (not FOMO chasing highs), maintain strength during market despair (having funds to buy at the bottom), and keep growing during market calm (earning stable returns).
So, when the forum is still going crazy over the rise and fall of ZEC, praying or showing off.
I closed the page and checked my USDD yield account, which has grown a bit more. My heart is calm and fulfilled.
I no longer care when ZEC will rise because my wealth growth has long been independent of the rise and fall of any specific cryptocurrency.
True investment freedom is not about your coins rising, but about being able to find your own steady happiness regardless of whose coins rise or fall.
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