$BTC $ETH $DOGE What you think of as getting rich quickly is 'buy and lie flat'; the real script is tying you to the roller coaster of fate.
There’s a heart-racing joke online: if you had spent $10,000 to buy ETH in 2015 and held it until today, you would own $200 million. It sounds incredibly simple, as if the key to success is just 'don’t sell'.
But when that cold profit data is laid out before you, you will find that this road to financial freedom is filled with jagged chasms and cliffs:
10,000 → 1,000,000 → 14,000,000 → plummeting back to 390,000 → surging to 30,000,000 → dropping back to 1,200,000 → skyrocketing to 93,000,000 → halving to 5,300,000 → reaching 323,000,000 → falling back to 54,000,000 → ultimately standing at 200,000,000.
This is not a smooth curve, but a decade-long psychological torture. Behind each number lies a sleepless night that could cause an ordinary person to collapse: you will repeatedly question your choices, torn back and forth between the ecstasy of surges and the despair of crashes. Can you really hold on? This question filters out 99% of people.
And the more brutal truth is:
While most people are still scared off by this volatility or regret missing the 'last time', real changes are quietly being orchestrated behind the scenes. From the European Central Bank, JPMorgan to BlackRock, sovereign powers and Wall Street giants are injecting trillion-level capital into this ecosystem with astonishing certainty. Their actions tell a fact: the infrastructure building phase is nearing its end.
For this reason, the judgment of Binance founder Zhao Changpeng is so thought-provoking: 'The real bull market has not yet begun.' This may mean that the shocking volatility that individual investors have experienced over the past decade is merely a warm-up for a grand narrative. When the gates of the traditional world officially open, the massive capital and users it introduces may write market chapters we have never seen before.
So, the ultimate question for everyone is:
When 'non-human' volatility becomes the norm, and when the giants of old finance become the main players in new tracks, will you choose to exit this heart-pounding game, or prepare your nerves to embrace a bull market that may truly begin, but is destined to be more complex?
