it's a dog eat dog world out here
look at the historical graph of total crypto market cap. in nov 2021, total crypto market was at $3.1 trillion.
today, on 30 nov 2025 the total crypto market is... $3.1 trillion again. exactly, 4 years have passed and the market is THE SAME SIZE as before. in the meantime, there was a gigantic transfer of wealth:
- founders who launched a utility token out of thin air and exchanged it for hard cold USD from all market participants
- vcs like polychain extracted hundreds of millions from crypto native market participants by dumping their bags on their heads, most notably locked celestia staking rewards
- pump fun "devs" and snipers and farmers took your cold hard USD and left you behind with coins called niggabutt and named after random cats
i am not trying to be negative. i really am not. quite the contrary, i am quite an optimist. but at the same time i am one of the few people who is actually HONEST about the intentions and mechanisms behind our industry and i am TELLING YOU:
don't be exit liquidity for founders, vcs, kols, etc
when people online talk about community and diamond hands, know what their real intention is: to find a bigger fool to put USD into the chart and then to take that USD and dump their own useless token
everyone smart knows this. i speak to a lot of founders and TRUST ME when i say that they know. vcs KNOW. they KNOW so well. they all know. no founder is trying to accumulate their own token, they are all trying to give you their token and take bitcoin or USD
if you want to continue gambling in the market, be my guest, but don't be naive.
eyes open
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