ICOs, NFTs, and memes. Each one gave you the chance to turn $100 into generational wealth, as long as you made the right bets and knew when to exit.
Crypto is freedom. Freedom to make money. Freedom to get what you deserve. It gives you the tools to stand alongside Wall Street, and even the opportunity to outperform them by wide margins. Before Bitcoin, this wasn’t possible. Bitcoin changed the game. Ethereum improved it with ICOs and NFTs. Solana made it chaotic with memes. ICOs, NFTs, and memes—they defined the last three cycles. Each one gave you the chance to turn $100 into generational wealth, as long as you made the right bets and knew when to exit. If your risk management was sound, you could walk away a winner. But when prices start moving fast, emotions take over. You lose sleep, chasing dreams about what your coin could achieve. The problem with dreams is that they always scale up in your mind. You watch unrealized profits stack up in your wallet. You hear people talk about the coin you own, how it's 10x, and they’re still calling for 100x, like MATIC at $5 when people were shouting for $50. Most of the money gets trapped at the top, in the euphoric phase. Maybe you survived the last cycle. Maybe you have a plan this time. But how sure are you that you'll stick to it? When someone in your group chat starts bragging about their gains, you begin to doubt. You always feel like you made less. There’s always another bullish signal if you’re looking for it. And before you know it, you’re still holding the bag. I've made this mistake, twice. Eight years in crypto, and I’ve been there. In the first cycle, I was new—holding bags felt normal when you didn’t understand the market. But last cycle, when NFTs were hot, I got emotionally and financially invested. When you start sharing your bullish views with everyone, your attachment grows deeper. The deeper the attachment, the harder it is to see the truth. It wasn’t just me. Many people were bullish on NFTs. They were sure Azuki would hit 100 ETH. Even when it hit 30 ETH, plus a 15 ETH Beanz airdrop, they didn’t sell. I was one of them. And they encouraged others to join the frenzy. In the end, many lost, even if they bought in at the right time. They lost because they didn’t know when to exit. Their emotions clouded their judgment, keeping them from realizing they were better off than when they started.
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