I genuinely no longer believe that spending your ample time on crypto will provide you any meaningful amount of returns and that you are quite honestly better off just getting a job if you don't already have one.
I do not believe that the class of 2017 or 2021 that have made any sizeable amounts of returns will be profitable or at best break even relative to simply holding BTC and focusing on their career or work.
Part of mass-adoption is having bigger players with bigger resources come in. Another part of that is volatility shrinking over time. We already witnessed the "breaking" of the usual 4-year cycle by breaking an ATH before a halving among many other things.
Sooner or later you will need to come to a realization that there won't be another ICO mania, DeFi Summer, NFT craze, or whatever else it may be. It doesn't get *easier*, the game ONLY gets harder. Entropy does not go backwards.
I think bitcoin itself is the only meaningful asset that is investable in regard to crypto. Everything else is largely just a large-scale money-game designed to take money from you and into the pockets of whatever new project or company there may be.
Another part of mass-adoption is the compression of returns. We've seen this time and time again with airdrops, early-adopter rewards, yields, etc etc.
Will there be another *episode* of outsized returns? Surely. But will you even be able to capitalize on it?
There is a reason the suits are excited about crypto while the guys who have been getting paid to bridge to a new chain and sit in their pajamas all day are depressed about the future of the industry.
Those who are willing to work will overcome those who are not.
It's very VERY hard to have work ethic greater than your peers when money has quite literally just been cryptographically dropped from the digital skies into your wallet for the past x amount of time.
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