In the (League of Legends) runeterra, marksman assassins and tanky bruisers define two starkly contrasting survival aesthetics. The former is the blade dancer in the shadows, pursuing the ultimate brilliance in an instant; the latter is the immortal rock in the river of time, embodying the silent enduring strength. As we step into the more perilous and treacherous financial 'Summoner's Rift', these two roles transform into the sharpest two philosophies in the trading world. In reality, two iconic figures—Liangxi and 'Bitcoin Fatty'—seem to have stepped out of the game into the mortal world, using their extreme fate trajectories to perform a thrilling epic of reality about risk, time, and survival.
Liangxi: An extreme assassin walking on the edge of liquidation.
Liangxi, like the thief who opens the 'forbidden ultimate! Instant prison shadow killing array,' sees trading as an artful violent aesthetic. With a few thousand yuan in capital, he navigated the wild fluctuations of Bitcoin repeatedly, leveraging astonishing market sense and fearless courage to roll his assets to the tens of millions in a short time. His operations are pure assassin style: lurking observation, capturing the subtle cracks of market sentiment, entering with full leverage at critical moments, pursuing returns of dozens or even hundreds of percent within hours, and then quickly 'escaping' once golden. On social media, his real-time live trading screenshots are like the kill statistics shown by assassins, stimulating everyone's nerves.
However, high returns are a poisonously sweet temptation. The life of an assassin lies in displacement and being unselectable; once a mistake is made and controlled, they become fragile. Liangxi’s fate mirrors the tragedy of assassins: several massive profits, followed by several instances of 'instant evaporation' (liquidation) due to the same high leverage in reverse volatility, repeatedly hitting zero. His career is a cycle of countless 'First Blood' and 'You have been slain.' He trades not value but volatility itself; he relies not on armor but on extreme reactions and luck. Liangxi's existence is the most dazzling yet tragic footnote of high-leverage short-term assassin strategies, demonstrating that in the shadows of finance, the sharpest knife is also the easiest to break.
Bitcoin Couch Potato: An immortal tank that traverses bulls and bears.
In stark contrast to Liangxi's clamor is the 'Bitcoin couch potato' who only played Bitcoin and Ethereum with low leverage in the last bull market. He is not a single individual but a collective term for a class of people: in the early bull market, they built long positions in Bitcoin and Ethereum at extremely low prices and held on unwaveringly during the following years of bull market, regardless of price surges or drops and external praise or doubt.
They are the Murphy and Owen in the financial world, practicing the purest tank philosophy. Their 'gear' is simple to the point of dullness: only low-leverage long positions in core assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum, almost never using high leverage, and will use hedging strategies at key points. Their 'skill' is infinite patience and belief: ignoring short-term noise, enduring huge paper losses of up to 30% or 50%, firmly believing in Bitcoin's long-term narrative as digital gold (core team logic). They do not pursue flashy operations but instead embody the carrier of time and compound interest itself. While Liangxi's are battling in second-level volatility, they might be sleeping, gaming, or living an ordinary life unrelated to the market.
So what are the results? Time, the fairest judge, has provided the answer. Those couch potatoes who have been low-leverage 'lying flat' since the early bull market have seen their asset net worth grow by dozens or even hundreds of times. They silently traversed all the volatility of the bull market, witnessing the rise and fall of countless assassins like Liangxi. Their success does not come from precise assassinations but from the initial forward-looking 'allocation' and the subsequent unwavering 'guarding' like tanks. They have proven that in the long financial war, sometimes the strongest strategy is not frequent kills but simply 'staying alive' and 'staying alive' continuously.
The essence of strategy: the ultimate reconciliation with oneself and time.
Risk Awareness: Liangxi actively embraces and controls risk, viewing the market as a hunting ground; the couch potato dilutes risk through time and faith, treating the market as a place for cultivation.
Time Frame: Liangxi lives in the 'now' defined by heartbeats and candlestick movements, where every second is life and death; the couch potato lives in the 'eternity' defined by halving cycles and macro narratives, where every day is a practice.
Life Experience: Liangxi's career is a continuous climax and abyss, an extreme of excitement and pain; the career of a couch potato is a smooth compound interest curve, a delayed satisfaction and tranquil confidence.
Ultimate Dependence: Assassins rely on extraordinary skills, cold discipline, and unreplicable luck; tanks depend on profound understanding, unbreakable patience, and faith in trends.
Survival, not glory.
There are no absolute kings in the financial market. The Liangxi-style assassin provides the market with valuable liquidity and brutal competitive tension; the couch potato-style tank lays the long-term value foundation for assets. The former is lightning, illuminating the night sky but vanishing in an instant; the latter is a mountain, silent yet defining the landscape.
For the vast majority of participants, what matters is not imitating legends, but recognizing oneself. Do you possess Liangxi-like nerves and talent, able to dance continuously on the edge of a knife without falling? Or do you have couch potato-like foresight and composure, able to endure long solitude without changing your original intention? Or perhaps, find a balance between the two: a 'warrior' path that guards the base with tank thinking (core long-term allocation) and conducts tactical reconnaissance and harassment with assassin skills (small position short-term speculation)?
The legend of Liangxi and the Bitcoin couch potato continues. Their stories ultimately point to the same simple truth: in this real financial world without resurrection armor and springs, all strategies and philosophies have as their ultimate goal not momentary glory (getting rich quick), but sustainable survival. Assassins seek survival through ephemeral brilliance, while tanks pursue survival through eternal sturdiness. Understanding oneself and choosing the path that can reconcile with one's own soul and time is the only and most important 'immortal equipment' that everyone can buy in the financial 'Summoner's Canyon.'
