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(P1) The Reason I Am Not Quickly Rich with Crypto — But I Am Still Here After 8 Years?
I entered the market when I bought BTC for 2000 USD in April 2017 on Poloniex and Bittrex, when the Binance exchange had not yet been established.
After 8 years in the crypto market, I can hardly remember how many times I have gone from excitement to despair. There were cycles when I thought I had 'understood the market', just need to open the chart and see the opportunity.
And it was the market that taught me the opposite lesson — that no one can truly control it. The biggest change is not the account balance, but how I view money, risk, and myself.
I have once FOMO'd, once all-in, once stayed up all night watching candles, once right on the trend but still lost because I couldn't manage my psychology.
Through many cycles of ups and downs, I realized one thing: surviving in the market is a form of success, and sustainable profits only come when I stop trying to prove I'm smarter than the market and start learning to go with it.
After a tumultuous year in 2025, the question I hear the most is no longer 'Which coin is about to xxx?' but 'When will we reach the shore?'.
Newbies, gauge your strength to "swim" in this market. If you're 'weak', swim close to shore to catch small fish, accumulate experience. With small capital, ambition should also be small, and greed should be less.
Be diligent in learning and then experience with small capital first, do not go everywhere asking for tips. That is not a sustainable and wise choice; you should learn to walk on your own feet.
What you need to learn first is discipline and capital management. As long as there's money, there's capital, there's opportunity, and there's motivation to learn.
One of the capital management methods I like is: 2-5-3