Why do you even care where ZBCN burns are coming from or where they’re going?
Take HYPE as an example. The protocol has been buying back and burning hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of tokens, yet the price has still corrected by about 23% from its recent peak over the past month. Strong buybacks don’t guarantee short-term price appreciation.
Look at the bigger picture, man.
@AlastarTrades You mentioned a range of $20-$30 and also mentioned a short squeeze and a likely rally under that scenario. You didn't mention a likely pullback near $20. Don't mislead or manipulate.
@cryptodotnews Small correction: $35.4M is the annualized fee run rate, not all-time cumulative fees. All-time fees are ~$32M per DeFiLlama. Still impressive growth, but worth being precise.
One thing 10 years in crypto has taught me:
Never bet so much on a single idea that its failure can change your life.
Most investors focus on making money.
I focus on staying in the game.
Because the market will always give you new opportunities.
But only if you still have capital.
Over the years, I’ve seen countless people:
• use too much leverage
• go all-in on a single coin
• ignore risk management
Some of them were right.
But only once.
My goal was never to get rich from one trade.
My goal was to survive as many market cycles as possible.
Because wealth is built through cycles.
Not through one lucky bet.
One of the most expensive mistakes I’ve made in crypto.
In late 2024, I sold my entire Monero (XMR) position at around $180.
Some of those coins had been mined back in 2017–2018.
At the time, the decision felt completely rational.
Everywhere I looked, the narrative was the same:
• Privacy coins are dying.
• Regulators will kill the sector.
• Exchanges are delisting Monero.
• The project has no future.
The more news I read, the more opinions I consumed, the more I started to doubt my own thesis.
So I sold.
A year later, XMR was trading above $700.
But the biggest lesson wasn’t the missed profit.
The biggest lesson was this:
I allowed other people’s opinions to override my own conviction.
After 10 years in crypto, I’ve learned that the loudest negative narratives often appear near the moments of greatest opportunity.
Sometimes the most expensive mistake an investor can make is selling the right asset because of someone else’s fear.
I turned a $2,000 crypto investment into nearly $100,000.
And the biggest lesson had nothing to do with finding the right coin.
Back in 2019, I started buying TRX at an average price of around $0.015.
My total position was worth about $2,000.
Years later, that investment grew to nearly $100,000.
(see screenshot below)
Most people will look at this and think:
“You picked the right project.”
But that’s not the lesson.
The hard part wasn’t buying TRX.
The hard part was holding it through multiple market cycles, volatility, fear, and endless noise.
After 10 years in crypto, I’ve learned 3 things:
The biggest money is made by holding, not trading.
Time matters more than the perfect entry price.
The most expensive mistake is selling the right asset too early.
Most investors spend their time searching for the next 100x opportunity.
Very few develop the patience required to capture one.
That’s what 10 years in crypto taught me.
@BSCNews@chainspect_app@Polkadot@solana@ethereum That 9,032 is Chainspect's all-time cumulative contributor count since 2020 not active devs on May 20. Electric Capital puts Polkadot at 450–500 monthly active devs vs ETH 5,800 and SOL ~1,200. Solid top-10, but not "almost blue-chip" on active numbers.