After saying goodbye to the noise of Twitter, I finally stopped "suicidal trading" in the crypto market

Original author: https://wallstreetmoon.substack.com/
Translation by: Deep Tide TechFlow

Distracted? Then you are destined to "NGMI" (Not Gonna Make It).

Do you really want to get rich, or do you just want to watch your portfolio shrink in front of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the dollar while entertaining yourself?

There are many people richer than I am, but the "blueprint" you are about to see is exactly the same. And what does their wealth have to do with mine? In my personal investment journey, I have surpassed my wildest dreams—self-sufficient, average IQ, and reasonably sane. And my last trade was three years ago. The crypto world of 2025 is boring to the extreme; now the only thing to do is "HODL forever," as it has become part of your net worth.

Bitcoin and Ethereum have no top because fiat currency has no bottom. The devaluation of fiat is by design—and that’s not a bad thing. Too many crypto players think they have uncovered a huge conspiracy, as if this wasn’t the goal set from the beginning.

The all-time high (ATH) of humanity is always in the present. Nostalgia often blinds us to an objective reality: overall, humanity has never lived in such a prosperous era as now.

Contrary to popular belief, Crypto Twitter is an information island. I have never thought Twitter is a good thing; I only use it to gauge market sentiment. There is a big difference between the two.

The reason I still use Twitter is that I am in startup mode (I have only tweeted for 30 days). And my thoughts are the same as they were 4.5 years ago:

By the way, I have seen too many "LARP" (Live Action Role Play) screenshots on Crypto Twitter.

It’s hard to believe that some people actually believe these things:

The vast majority of crypto participants don’t even use Twitter and don’t care about the content on Twitter.

Why should they care?

Who would log into Twitter to listen to you, a foolish donkey, ramble on?

If you were really that smart, why didn’t you buy Bitcoin when it was just a few cents and then do nothing?

If you were really that smart, why are you still trading in 2025?

Is a 12.6 million times return on Bitcoin not enough for you to retire?

Is a 16,666 times return on Ethereum not enough?

Countless 10x, 100x, 1000x returns, airdrop rewards, DeFi bonuses, and you are still stuck on this application?

No trader can outperform early cryptocurrency holders, not a single one, zero.

So, who is the real "fool"? Huh? Fool?

Freeze the prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum today, exit the market, and never touch it again. Is that enough? This is the only standard to measure "early" investors.

What about those Twitter accounts with five referral links, making $500 a month from paid Discord groups, listening to you ramble on?

You sold your future and messed up your wealth bag. You are just a washed-up worker disguised as a "Key Opinion Leader" (KOL), making a living off paid group chats. People on the timeline "celebrate" your golden certification job opportunity, which is so-called "Work to Earn."

There’s nothing wrong with that, but you pretend to be an "expert," making others believe you are an "expert," and then charge for your so-called "expert" opinions. And what’s the result?

You sent innocent people into the meat grinder of "Rekt City™." All your assets have been "liquidated" compared to Bitcoin and Ethereum. Not a single cryptocurrency can prove its reason for existence because they are all tokenized fiat—Tether—"god-level crushing."

If you can’t even beat fiat currency—which is precisely the original intention of cryptocurrency—then what is the meaning of your existence?

Yet, you still talk big, wanting to take down Ethereum, the second-ranked asset—it has already surpassed Tether.

You continue to chatter on, confidently predicting that Bitcoin, the number one ruler, will decline.

Chatter.

Chatter.

Chatter.

Talking big, with no basis.

The Bitcoin white paper has been around for 17 years. Will there be heroes to save the market? No heroes will come to save the day.

You don’t even want to compete with Bitcoin, let alone challenge the "Holy Trinity" of the crypto market.

In fact, if you could hold a part of the "Holy Trinity" that is enough to achieve financial freedom, you would stop all trading right now.

Those addicted to gambling cannot be saved because they have no ultimate goal. They gamble just to gamble, as their dopamine receptors have been overstimulated to numbness—this is a complete addiction.

Shitcoins should actually just use centralized databases on AWS. It’s faster, cheaper, safer, and more honest because they are essentially completely centralized—not like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Most projects only pretend to be decentralized (LARP), and only a few projects admit their actual situation. If a centralized solution were adopted, this "industry" might reduce many losses caused by attacks on blockchains or smart contracts.

The real reason shitcoins exist is to provide teams with an opportunity for a "Devil's Swap":

• You give them: your precious Bitcoin, Ethereum, or dollars
• You get: the shitcoins they mint for free

Stop and think about it. Any "Devil's Swap" means from the start, the team is pouring their arbitrarily created shitcoin supply over your head. They exchanged your valuable assets for air.

Next, your shitcoins must compete endlessly on the open market with the "Holy Trinity" (Bitcoin, Ethereum, and dollars). Every day when you wake up, you, holding shitcoins, must worry whether other holders will suddenly "wake up" and sell their shitcoins for the "Holy Trinity" to realize value.

That’s why all shitcoins will "bleed satoshis" in the long run. Ethereum is the only asset that has outperformed Bitcoin since its ICO and has remained in second place. We will delve deeper into this in another article.

The shitcoin teams don’t care what happens to their tokens; they have already obtained the Bitcoin, Ethereum, and dollars they wanted through the "Devil's Swap." As for shitcoins plummeting into the abyss, it has no impact on them.

But it matters to you. Because you are holding these shitcoins and watching your funds continuously drain away.

Capital preservation is the most important rule in investing. Without capital preservation, you will eventually go bankrupt because no level of investment skill can overcome "bankruptcy risk."

Twitter, like Reddit, rewards the "hivemind donkey consensus" of groupthink. That’s the fundamental problem. A post being popular, getting likes, and being pushed to the hot list doesn’t mean it is correct.

When has everyone ever won together? Never.

The Pareto Distribution doesn’t allow donkeys to win together. Wealth will always concentrate in the hands of a few, regardless of the conditions. Cryptocurrency itself is indeed a transfer of wealth across eras, but only a very few benefit. Think about it.

And who are the ultimate winners? Bankers and governments, not cypherpunks.

What about those "smart people"? They are particularly prone to missing opportunities. They care too much about the false fame brought by "contrarian thinking" rather than directly buying Bitcoin or directly buying Ethereum.

Beware of those who think they are smart and have a bunch of complex theories telling you what won’t work—they are too smart and have been harmed by their own cleverness. I call them "Jeremiahs" (implying pessimists).

Smart people usually work for those who are "dumber" but have a higher risk tolerance. The only way for you to get rich is to own, not anything else. As long as you provide smart people with job security and "golden handcuffs," you can make them your "workers." That’s the truth.

Steve Jobs didn’t write the code for iOS, but he became very wealthy relying on Apple shares, far surpassing any genius engineer.

In the end, it’s just money, right?

Back then, some warned you like preaching that buying Bitcoin was like getting leprosy; some said Ethereum was a scam, as if buying it would cost you your life.

So-called "institutional investors" didn’t perform any better than retail investors in the last cycle. They are now buying at even higher prices, with terrible entry points. To go all-in in an emerging industry like cryptocurrency requires a special kind of courage.

You are already late.

Can I get a GM (Good Morning)?------Shut up.

Crypto Twitter has now become like LinkedIn, and the reason is quite simple— all the quality content has been "sucked away," leaving only concentrated "exit liquidity" and a sea of speculators.

People are fighting over the scraps, which is why "timeline trading" has become the new trend.

Even "vicarious trading" has become a phenomenon—you are getting wrecked, and can only watch others trade, like watching streamers play games instead of participating yourself.

When even the scraps are snatched away, people begin to devour each other.

The scams of this cycle (rug pulls) are exceptionally fierce because there is no remaining value to extract from the market. Those excuses and "meta narratives" have long since vanished. Nowadays, trying to package crime as "cool" is merely the result of increased market efficiency, further shrinking the Pareto bottom distribution.

Imagine, in 2025, which truly successful and "rich enough" person would sit on Twitter wasting their competitive advantage teaching you how to beat them?

Use your brain.

No one will teach you how to kill them. Never.

In fact, I had an epiphany recently while chatting with some users (in no particular order):

I never believe those self-deprecating jokes. You should always believe in yourself:

@AzFlin[deleted post] did a recap of all the "smart people" who were "harvested" on StreamFinance. It was a joke to me:

Some donkey is licking the scammer's feet.

When I say BNB is a "sub-asset" of Ethereum, I mean it:

• BNB: Originally an ERC20 token based on Ethereum.
• BSC (Binance Smart Chain): A fork of Ethereum's GoEthereum (Geth).
• PancakeSwap: A fork of Uniswap.
• OPBNB: A fork of OPStack developed based on Ethereum.

By 2025, people can no longer afford the goal of owning "suicidal" 21 Bitcoins. Yes, this minimum threshold—21 Bitcoins—has always been the standard for entering the "Million Club":

Satoshi must be rolling in his grave:

Completely shocking the people in the trenches.

Here are some of my personal views on the state of the crypto industry in 2025:

Some of us entered the crypto space in early 2017, naively thinking we were changing the world. Then came 2019 and DeFi Summer, and we became more mature, with the only goal being to crush the enemy.

Cryptocurrency is an extreme PVP (player versus player) game: it is a negative-sum game, not a zero-sum game.

Middlemen sit comfortably, watching traders slaughter each other in the arena with glee. They take zero risks but reap all the rewards, watching you get "rekt." Worse, they provide referral links, leading more victims to the "Rekt Cemetery™," creating infinite profits for themselves. Almost all exchange founders have become billionaires, and there’s a reason for that.

They can surpass everyone because they are part of the early adopters—some even occupy multiple levels on the wealth ladder. They hardly ever fail.

Wealth Ladder:

1. CEX (Centralized Exchange) founders
2. Layer 1 blockchain founders
3. Various project founders
4. Early adopters
5. Top elite traders
6. Laggers[liquidated]
7. Ordinary traders[liquidated]

If you use leveraged trading in the crypto market, you will eventually lose all your money.

It’s not a matter of "if," but "when."

The crypto market is too small compared to traditional markets; your opponents are criminal behavior and insider trading. Most people are still manually trading, and their emotional control is like that of a child. It’s utterly insane.

I have never seen myself as a "trader" because buying early and holding, watching my opponents slaughter each other in the market, is the proven way to win. How could you possibly outperform an early adopter?

Everything seems smooth sailing for trading until it suddenly crashes.

Those trying to "optimize" their Bitcoin and Ethereum holdings through trading (gambling)? The only result is: liquidation.

Rekt City™

Their "corpses" float in the river while you do nothing and can win forever.

I am tired of winning; it’s like the torment of "over-success."

All the "monsters" that dominated the market in previous cycles have long since converted their wealth into Bitcoin, Ethereum, and dollars, and exited years ago. They understand the rules of the game. They are no longer here.

And why would they come back? What makes you think they would tweet for you? Do you have their private phone numbers? Would you party with them? Have you met their families and children?

Use your brain.

Once you have enough Bitcoin, Ethereum, and dollars—your "make it stack"—there’s nothing more to do. You just need to wait quietly; these assets have become part of your net worth.

What else can you sell them for? You have reached the endgame.

Imagine never having to look at price charts again; isn’t that wonderful?

The "monsters" still in the market today mostly emerged from the fire of 2017. They are mostly founders or later became founders. That’s why they are still here. And all of this is inseparable from Ethereum—their initial capital was raised through ICOs on Ethereum.

Ethereum has brought more mainstream adoption to the crypto space than any other cryptocurrency. Everything you see in the crypto market today stems from Ethereum’s R&D, which has driven the adoption and development of the entire crypto industry.

Did you enter the crypto market because of Bitcoin or because of other narratives derived from Ethereum’s R&D? Most people actually belong to the latter.

Ethereum is the DeFi laboratory of the entire crypto market. Even Solana and other projects have benefited immensely: they witnessed the success of Ethereum’s mainnet, learned what could be improved, experienced real market testing, and then launched their own technologies to try to solve those bottleneck issues. I will discuss in another article why "better technology" has no impact on price.

I don’t even need to mention Ethereum’s price performance because you would blush: from ICO to now, 16,666 times increase.

Ethereum has not performed poorly; the one who has truly performed poorly is you, because you were late.

As an ordinary person, under ordinary market conditions, you had countless opportunities to buy Ethereum for less than $300, $200, or even $100, and you could have bought in large amounts. You could have invested your entire net worth in Ethereum at multiple opportunities. If you don’t "believe" in Ethereum, then switch to Bitcoin—the effect is the same, or buy both like I did.

The "old leeks" (boomfags) on Reddit were still making memes, mocking Ethereum as a stablecoin when it was at $300. It consolidated at that price point for a long time. Even if Vitalik (Ethereum founder) "cured cancer," Ethereum still wouldn’t budge from $300.

How could you let those "old leeks" on Reddit outperform you?

It’s simply humiliating.

You were beaten by Reddit!

You were truly beaten by Reddit!

Reddit is worse than Crypto Twitter because its upvote/downvote system encourages emotional "bag holders" to steer discussions in their favor. And if those bearded moderators are also "bag holders," they might even ban or delete your comments out of fear.

Yes, I certainly outperformed the "old leeks" on Reddit. Otherwise, I would be there ranting like a madman, right? I wouldn’t disclose my advantages to strangers online, but I have always tried to help those close to me while keeping a trading log. You should do the same. Money is the most powerful tool to solve all your immediate troubles.

I will show you a once-in-a-lifetime trade that may never happen again in my lifetime. I think. This is the perfect combination of timing, location, and human factors. Too many people let their pride get in the way and refuse to admit that luck is also an important factor in success.

But I would rather be lucky than rely on skill. Anytime. Who would pray for the market to become harder?

"Oh, if only this market were a bit harder, I could brag about how advanced my skills are on Crypto Twitter."

Enough, stop.

Bottom Fishing the Pandemic Crash in March 2020

During the market crash triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, I decisively bottom-fished while panic spread all over Crypto Twitter. I had long known about the outbreak in Wuhan (being immersed in the internet for a long time is indeed useful) and was prepared in advance. The worst-case scenario was just hoarding a bunch of canned food and having to pay some interest.

When the opportunity came, to be honest, it was quite scary. This was the biggest "nuclear explosion" I had ever seen in the crypto market. But hey? I was still young; even if I failed, I could start over. After all, humanity has survived worse disasters.

So, I went all in: Bitcoin at $4,000, Ethereum at $100, putting all the remaining fiat and stablecoins I had into it.

I even persuaded a "friend" to be rational and seize the opportunity to enter, but she was very arrogant. I don’t blame her; the uncertainty at that time was indeed very high. However, later, I still slightly "mocked" her:

"Better investment? Where? Show me."

During DeFi Summer, I told my friends that if they missed this opportunity, they would regret it for life because the market wouldn’t revisit those prices. Once the "leeks" realized it, the opportunity would be over.

At that time, even the old crypto players from the last bull market struggled due to "post-traumatic stress disorder" (PTSD) from the 2018 bear market (including myself). They couldn’t have hope for the future at all.

I hinted at it and didn’t say much more—you can lead a horse to water, but only they can take the step. As a friend, I hope those I care about can succeed. This is not empty talk; money is the most powerful placebo to solve real problems. I don’t agree with other statements because I have stood on both sides of this road.

Seven-Figure Uniswap Airdrop

Well, it wasn’t really seven figures; the value of the airdrop was only about $300,000 at the time. But I rolled it into seven figures by holding these airdrops and using profits from other trades to increase my position.

At first, I cut my own path by selling half of the airdrop because I was suspicious of Hayden Adams (Uniswap founder). But later, when I really did my research (DYOR) and calculated the numbers seriously, I became confident in the market, convinced it would teach a harsh lesson to those who treated the Uniswap airdrop as "free money" and sold it. There wouldn’t be that many "fools" escaping the market’s punishment. The Pareto principle would take its revenge.

If you understand what I mean by "you sold the airdrop to buy a PS5," then we come from the same circle (Twitter is not my home). Those who didn’t believe sold $UNI at such a low price; it’s simply pathetic, unworthy of holding!

If you had held $UNI until today, each wallet's profit would have reached $3,000 (calculated at the current time). Not bad, right?

Yes, in the past, we really did manually analyze tokenomics and then made rational investment decisions, rather than blindly following the recommendations of some celebrity KOL on Twitter:

The "sour" and "angry" feelings are practically overflowing the screen.

Were you squeezed out of the market by price?

……And I am just getting started.

1inch Airdrop

If you participated in DeFi Summer, you could easily get the 1inch airdrop. Under certain conditions, you might find that 1inch even outperformed Uniswap.

They didn’t just issue one airdrop; they issued two! And the announcement for the first airdrop was actually on Christmas Day. As an adult, receiving a generous airdrop on Christmas was an overwhelming joy.

Although it’s been a long time, I can’t remember the other decentralized exchanges (DEX) I participated in at that time, but there’s no doubt that Uniswap and 1inch were among the best.

Now, in 2025, if I were to recommend DEXs, I would only choose the following:

• Uniswap
• 1inch
• Matcha
• Cow (a newer platform, use with caution)

There may be better options, but I always prefer to choose "established" projects because I prioritize safety over the risk of being "rekt."

Beware of "Shiny New Things"

I see too many people on Twitter excitedly testing various new protocols and applications like "guinea pigs." I just want to say: don’t do that.

I once suffered significant losses from testing the limit order feature of a DEX. At that time, these features were still in the testing phase, and limit orders on-chain were completely unreliable. You had to watch closely yourself or use those dubious bots, which required you to give up your private key permissions. For me, that was simply impossible.

At that time, I was testing a platform called VeloxGlobal. I just wanted to get a good night’s sleep, brothers; I was spending 16 to 18 hours a day on research, and I was really exhausted. I just wanted my orders to execute automatically while I slept. What happened? Let’s just say there were some routing errors.

Matcha’s limit order feature, while poor, at least just fails to execute rather than directly "donating" your funds like Velox.

The only Ethereum wallets I trust in 2025

• MetaMask
• Rabby

I trust the core code security of MetaMask more, while Rabby focuses more on user interaction security. Both have their advantages and are excellent.

I often see people on Twitter complaining about MetaMask, but these criticisms have nothing to do with security. If you mention Infura’s data tracking issues (only discovered in 2022? Laughable), you could have known it long ago by monitoring outbound connections with a firewall, and easily switched RPCs.

What does MetaMask’s airdrop have to do with security?

Also, some of you may not even know that MetaMask has a blue logo.

Operational security (OPSEC) is a completely different field; perhaps I should write a dedicated article to discuss it.

Top-Taking in April 2021

April 2021 was the peak of the bull market cycle after risk adjustment. If you held on until November 2021, you would only be "harvested" by the market in the end. Bitcoin plummeted about 53% after that, barely setting a weak new high, while the vast majority of altcoins nearly went to zero. You should have switched to stablecoins back in April 2021.

Those KOLs (Key Opinion Leaders) constantly hyping "Bitcoin will break $100,000 by the end of the year" in 2021? Unfollow them immediately! This is what I call "donkey consensus." The cryptocurrency market is a zero-sum game, and the Pareto Principle dictates that not everyone can profit together.

Some "friends" who hadn’t contacted me in a long time suddenly popped up at the absolute peak of the bull market in April 2021, asking me if they should enter. I honestly told them not to touch it; the market was severely overvalued, and waiting for the "nuclear explosion" was the wise choice.

I predicted the top before GCR (a well-known crypto trader); it’s not that I’m better than him (after all, I’m not a trader), but to illustrate: too many people rely on getting "insider information" (alpha) from others rather than trusting their own judgment.

The Subsequent Market Slaughter

The Pareto Principle began to harvest "corpses":

I awakened my "writing wheel" after the 2018 bear market; the illusions of the market could no longer deceive me. I have aligned with the Pareto Principle and have not lost since 2020. In the cryptocurrency field, everything is just a tool to acquire more Bitcoin, Ethereum, and dollars (BTC, ETH, USD).

If you are still advocating the concept of "community" in 2025, you are destined to be "rekt" by the market. So-called community is just the adhesive that binds "greater fools" together.

Those who truly profit won’t tell you (why would they?), and when everyone is destroyed by the market, and you become the only survivor, that feeling of "schadenfreude" is indescribable. We are all playing the same game, using the same tools, but in the end, only a few survive. This is the essence of the cryptocurrency market as a negative-sum game, while your so-called "community" deliberately ignores this. Where do you think the money comes from?

You are in a video game, and the Holy Trinity of "Bitcoin, Ethereum, and dollars" is the ultimate "graduation gear."

Imagine Pareto as a "trickster god" sitting at the top. When Pareto finds too many "donkeys" profiting in the market, it triggers a massive liquidation event to reset the market landscape:

• Mt. Gox
• Bitconnect
• OneCoin
• Luna
• FTX
• Cross-chain bridge vulnerabilities
• Centralized exchanges (CEX) being hacked
• Various scams
• Project teams running away (rug pulls)

No matter how, Pareto will implant these events into the simulation. Even extreme events that "split the sky" are not impossible.

"Laggers and the majority of latecomers. Early buyers can easily hold a $5,000 Bitcoin price without volatility."

Why Choose to Bottom Fish During the FTX Collapse?

The reason I chose to bottom fish during the FTX collapse in November 2022 rather than during the Luna collapse is simple.

Because Do Kwon (Luna founder) didn’t have the market influence he thought he did. The collapse of Luna didn’t cause a significant enough shock to Bitcoin’s price. The "contagion effect" of Luna didn’t even pull Bitcoin’s price down to the levels of July 2021—this was merely a "small scene."

However, I sympathized with all those affected by Luna, even publicly calling out the KOLs who pushed this:

There’s no so-called "secret formula" here. I don’t do technical analysis (TA) because I think it’s just "men’s astrology." So what’s my secret? It’s simple; I only look at historical cycles. Based on past bear market performances, Bitcoin usually drops about 80% or more from its all-time high (ATH).

So, starting from about $69,000 in November 2021 or about $64,000 in April 2021, I derived a target range for re-entry: $10,000 to $14,000.

Anyone telling you they know the "exact bottom" is lying (LYINNNNNGGGGGGG)! No one can perfectly catch the absolute top and absolute bottom. That’s why I use "ranges" as a reference, and I will build positions in batches within that range ("feathering" the range).

No, this is not risky. We live in a simulation, and I believe in the Pareto Principle. Moreover, the only data we can refer to is historical data. Pareto will reward its "children"—Bitcoin, Ethereum, and dollars (Bitcoin, Ether, USD)—after cleaning out the "small fry" in the market.

Believe it or not, but if you don’t believe, you will be left behind.

Although I only started posting on Twitter recently, I have been quietly reading. Flipping through the earliest tweets, my purpose was clear: I use Twitter to gauge market sentiment, not to gain knowledge. Information is free; you should do your own research rather than rely on others to filter information for you. They could be wrong, or worse, they might intentionally mislead you with some agenda.

The interface mentioned below is called Nitter; it is a localized third-party Twitter client that was usable before Elon Musk shut down the Twitter API. There may still be a few servers running, but they are very unstable, so by 2025, you are basically forced to use native Twitter.

I couldn’t sleep. I was so excited all night, my eyes glued to the screen, constantly monitoring price fluctuations. At that moment, I had been waiting for over a year and a half. I had to stay awake to ensure I could successfully reinvest all my funds into Bitcoin and Ethereum.

To be honest, I was even quietly praying for another North Korean hack to directly push the price below $10,000.

Sorry, brothers.

At that time, Bitcoin’s price didn’t fully fall into the target range I set ($10,000-$14,000). But many people made a mistake here: they went all in for their arbitrarily set "target number." However, the market doesn’t care about you and won’t operate according to your thoughts. There’s no guarantee that Bitcoin will crash as it did in previous cycles. I see this as a test from the Pareto Principle for market participants to filter out those who are "unworthy."

When CZ (Changpeng Zhao) "ended" SBF (Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX founder), I thought, if this isn’t the market bottom, then what could be? So I had to set aside my biases and conclude: this was my best opportunity to re-enter.

In the long run, is there really such a big difference between a $15,000 Bitcoin and a $10,000 Bitcoin? Of course, numerically, there’s a big difference, but in reality, it won’t have a decisive impact on your life.

Looking back now, the FTX collapse actually marked the emergence of the market bottom; it was purely luck. I never tried to "aim" for this event. After all, who can know which specific event will become the turning point? The only thing I knew was that the chain reaction from the Luna collapse wasn’t enough to create sufficient market panic; Pareto needed more "sacrifices," and the collapse of FTX just happened to be the catalyst for that "cleansing event."

Three Classic Trades

So what actually happened? Here are what I consider the three "Holy Trinity" trades in the crypto market:

1. Bottom fishing during the COVID-19 crash.
2. Selling at the bull market peak in April 2021.
3. Re-buying during the FTX collapse.

This is the endgame. These may be the three most profitable trades of my life, and all I had to do was act early and then do nothing. Really, it was just patience.

So what should I do next in my life? The answer is: nothing.

I hope you understand that the content you see from KOLs and "experts" on Twitter is basically garbage. Why are they still on Twitter? Because they are almost all "LARPs" (Live Action Role Players); they haven’t truly "succeeded." They still need to sell you something: courses, paid groups, shitcoins, referral links. They need you to become their exit liquidity.

Believe in yourself. After making money, go live your own life. Social media is a tumor; it will infect your thinking.

Remember, only two types of people have a legitimate reason to be on Crypto Twitter: founders and brands.

"God-Level Trade": Another Seven-Figure Story

To illustrate the concept of "acting early and maintaining patience" more intuitively, I will share another story. However, this time I won’t take credit for it because if it were solely up to me, I would never have bought into this project. I "gifted" all the profits from this trade because, on a spiritual level (laughs), I don’t think it belongs to me. But even so, I still ended up with a seven-figure return.

I won’t go into any personal details here because they are neither important nor something you need to know. I just wanted to support her journey. Watching her be so passionate about Axie Infinity warmed my heart.

When I mention Axie Infinity, I’m referring to the situation in 2020 when there was no $AXS token and no Ronin network. Axie Infinity was still running on the Ethereum mainnet, and there weren’t millions of Filipino players flooding into Discord to "maximize" everything. There were no so-called "brand ambassadors" back then, unlike the people who now flood the timeline.

The early player community was just a group of ordinary people with no profit motive. Everyone participated because they genuinely liked the community, friends, and the game itself. In Axie Infinity’s Adventure Mode, you could grind $SLP infinitely because it was almost worthless at that time. Axie Infinity was still an obscure existence back then.

You could build a powerful team for just $100 because the cheapest Axie was only about $2. Some players couldn’t even afford the cost of breeding Axies due to high Ethereum mainnet gas fees. At that time, I was fully capable of "breaking" the entire economic system by myself. This isn’t boasting; it’s just to recreate the atmosphere of Axie Infinity’s early days.

There were some very outstanding individuals in that community; from my limited experience, it was a vibrant and passionate group. It reminded me of the early days of cryptocurrency in 2017. I sincerely hope that those who once participated can do well.

You were very kind to her, patiently answering all her "newbie questions" (she even pretended to be a boy to avoid looking strange).

To be honest, I just wanted her to find something to do through crypto gaming so I could focus on "real cryptocurrency" (laughs). This wasn’t a serious investment at all. Ironically, the single return on this trade actually outperformed my performance during the 2021 cycle (though the absolute return wasn’t).

What she didn’t know was that I bought a lot of $AXS at a few cents. Why? I just wanted to give it to her later as a show of support. I never thought the price of $AXS would exceed $5, let alone reach an all-time high (ATH) of $164.90. I read its tokenomics white paper and didn’t agree with its value proposition.

This is another important investment rule: only act within your circle of competence. That’s why I avoided "meme coins" and NFTs because I neither understood them nor their community culture.

When I transferred $AXS to Binance (the exchange with the deepest liquidity), I completely forgot about it. I’m not exaggerating for the sake of storytelling or bragging. The fact that $AXS could eventually rise to such a high price was entirely because I was forced to "HODL." If I had remembered, I might have sold it back in April 2021.

You might ask, "How could you forget your investment?"

When the market is booming, money starts to feel meaningless, as if it’s just some score. Plus, I was using multiple wallet apps, multiple centralized exchanges (CEX), multiple decentralized protocols, multiple hardware wallets, multiple accounts, hundreds of addresses, and various security keys, emails, notes, laptops, desktops, and phones… In this situation, it’s very easy to forget some things. I might even have at least 1 Bitcoin scattered somewhere (laughs).

This investment in $AXS was from the start a "serendipitous" move, but it ultimately became an unexpected winner. This is not just a dramatic story about investment; it’s a lesson about patience, circle of competence, and randomness.

By December 2021, I heard about the frenzy surrounding Axie Infinity in mainstream news. The so-called "scholarship program" was still being heavily promoted (laughs), and the entire market was going crazy. So I decided to dig deeper and check the price of $AXS.

My God, what the hell?

This reminded me of my initial buying operation.

You see, I had already exited the market back in April 2021. By this time, I was just using Bitcoin’s price as a barometer, constantly watching for the right moment to re-enter.

I immediately called her to come see me as soon as possible because she was now a multi-millionaire. Of course, she initially thought I was joking. So, I recorded a screen video for her, showing line by line all the buying records and the current market price of $AXS on CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap.

That day, the emotions were incredibly exciting.

Next, I will blur out some details because this is a private video, and I don’t care about proving anything to strangers on the internet. Some people, having suffered too much loss, cannot accept that someone else can achieve a historical maximum return (ATH) of 546 times on $AXS, even after a pullback still having about 320 times profit, and thus choose to treat it as "LARP" (Live Action Role Play) to comfort themselves. But you just came too late. In the cryptocurrency field, some have achieved 10,000 times returns.

From a probabilistic perspective, please consider the following points:

1. This is a screen recording, not a screenshot.
2. People only record or screenshot when something is worth "salivating" over.
3. If this is fake, I need to perfectly replicate the Binance user interface from 2021.
4. I also need to perfectly replicate the CoinGecko user interface from 2021.
5. Similarly, I need to perfectly replicate the CoinMarketCap user interface from 2021.
6. No one records line by line unless they are showing off their profits.
7. This video does not exist anywhere on the internet.
8. If this is fake, I would have to keep this video for a full 4 years just to show it to strangers on the internet 4 years later.
9. You can also see the MacOS calculator app showing a seven-figure amount through copy-paste operations.
10. Use your brain and think about it. Jealousy only makes things worse, while the facts are right in front of you.

Words of Wisdom

I haven’t even mentioned other crazy skyrocketing investment operations. I have participated in some projects you’ve never heard of, but I don’t intend to disclose my advantages to strangers on the internet. However, all my actions have a universal blueprint that can be summarized as follows:

What is the real revelation?

• Everyone is talking nonsense. The only "Alpha" (unique advantage) you need is yourself.
• Traders fear early entrants. Because the advantage of entering the market early is incredibly significant.
• Do nothing. Grab some popcorn and watch those newbies get shaken out by the market; the Pareto Principle will automatically tilt victory towards you.
• Stop waiting for others to feed you.
• Breaking even (protecting capital) is a major victory.
• Always remember to consolidate assets into the "Holy Trinity": Bitcoin, Ethereum, and dollars to preserve your wealth. If you don’t do this, you will lose all your money.

The above advice only applies if the assets you bought are decent. If you bought "garbage projects," you will lose all your money.

It’s easy to say all this in theory, but it’s hard to practice; I understand.

"Just enter early, brother."

"Just find the best projects, brother."

"Just buy 21 Bitcoins directly, brother."

As I said, Twitter is not my main stage.

You buy "shitcoins" to sell them.

And me? I don’t want you to own anything at all. I want you to be completely excluded from market prices so that when prices rise, you can only forever regret and resent.

To succeed, you need to have the spirit of a warrior—eliminate the "coward" within. Those "donkeys" you waste time interacting with online are not your friends.

Think about those who truly rely on you to succeed. You don’t have the luxury of rest. Stop giving your money to the market.

One investment argument I have repeatedly verified is this: if I have reached the stage of buying a certain coin or token, then there will definitely be others in the world who will eventually come to the same conclusion and buy in after me. But I am one step ahead of them. These people will become my free promoters. They will help me promote (they always do). That’s why I never need to market any tickers; the market will automatically take care of it. The Pareto Principle will lead me to victory in this simulation.

When those who actually operate "pump and dump" groups, or what Crypto Twitter likes to call "cabal," start accumulating the project tokens of which I have long held "God positions," it’s quite a comedic scene. They ultimately become my exit liquidity. You cannot punish an early entrant because their buying price is far below your cost price.

The Fatal Blow

Killshot.

Yes, I must avoid wallet trackers and the connections between centralized exchanges (CEX) and decentralized exchanges (DEX). I have always been a staunch supporter of financial privacy, especially for Monero, which I have supported through donations over the years.

However, do not invest in privacy coins; use them only as tools. They are very poor investment choices:

Take Control

When I say "early," I mean very early. Some teams made mistakes; I won’t teach you those, but those mistakes gave me the opportunity to force them to the negotiating table. Airswap is an excellent tool to achieve this, and of course, there are other strategies.

"You made me too powerful; let’s negotiate a fair OTC price. Otherwise, I’ll send your price chart into the 'shadow realm.'"

Before someone rushes to comment, no, this is not "illegal" behavior. Pressuring teams is completely legal. This is an open market with fierce competition. During DeFi Summer, many unknown projects directly "threw into the void," meaning they put most of their tokens into Uniswap V2’s liquidity pool and hoped for market reactions. This was their marketing plan. Another route was through low liquidity centralized exchanges.

Crypto Twitter is busy pleasing so-called "Key Opinion Leaders" (KOLs) while missing these golden opportunities. By 2025, they are still licking these KOLs while complaining about why they have never made money.

Either the team buys back their tokens from me, or I will sell those tokens into their Uniswap V2 liquidity pool. Don’t think I don’t have a plan to clean out those "riffraff" and take the opportunity to accumulate more tokens; in most cases, directly smashing out a "FSH" (significant drop) candle is not the optimal strategy. OTC is a better choice because it has no slippage, creating a win-win situation for both parties. The tools and information I use are no different from others; it’s just that my interpretation is different.

For those of you still scamming each other over trivial profits in 2025, my feeling is: I look down on you.

You are like the lowest organisms on a coral reef, completely uncompetitive.

You cannot compete in the open market, so you can only deceive those who "trust" your so-called genius analysis, trying to make them believe that a token named DogCumInuV4 (that you packaged and promoted) will surpass Bitcoin.

Final Thoughts

Today, this place is no longer what it used to be, so I won’t name names. But I spend most of my time elsewhere, which gives me a natural advantage over most Crypto Twitter users. In that distant place, everyone is inherently competitive, rather than indulging in so-called "community sentiment" (muh community), which also makes you a better investor.

We struck, and we struck hard: precise strikes, without mercy.

"You can buy my chips at a premium, or you can only self-comfort."

Listen, this article has been written for about 6,300 words, but I haven’t even touched on the core content. If I wanted to, I could easily write over 100,000 words on my market arguments, but probably only two people would read this far. This is intentionally written long------to filter out those "riffraff."

If my views resonate with you, you can follow me on Twitter @WallStreetMoon. I am gathering a small group of holders for a deeply engaging project; beyond that, I have no intention of engaging in any meaningless interactions on Twitter. I prefer those who are willing to take the time to seriously dig into the content of my posts.

I hardly do any marketing because I detest those who need to be "spoon-fed." Their indecisiveness is worlds apart from that batch of people from 2017/2020. I am confident that even without these people, we can do just fine.

Never expose your true strength. ```