The harshest loss in the crypto world is not the principal loss, but the irreversible opportunity cost — your time, mental energy, and youth are harder to "recharge" than money.

Most people seem to be "deeply cultivating the market": spending 3 hours a day monitoring charts, scouring communities for inside information, repeatedly gambling on short-term contracts. Over a year, they spend over 1000 hours on screens, their emotions tightly bound to candlestick charts. But looking back after 3 years: their accounts have gone to zero amid fluctuations, their cognition has not been solidified, their trading lacks a system, and the only growth is anxiety and internal friction.
In contrast, a few people: during a bear market, they focus on studying 2 core tracks, analyze the underlying logic of 10 high-quality projects, and build their own risk control systems — they don’t waste time on noise, but turn opportunity costs into "certainty." It’s important to understand that the money earned in a bull market is essentially the realization of cognition accumulated during the bear market; meanwhile, the time wasted in gambler-like busyness should have been the golden period for building the ability to make money.
The most frightening thing is not missing the bull market, but when the bull market arrives, your cognition and mental resilience are simply not prepared. When you start asking, “Can this help me build a long-term barrier?”, that’s when you truly break free from ineffective internal friction and turn opportunity costs into the foundation of wealth.