When many people first enter the cryptocurrency industry, they only have one sentence in their minds: "Damn it, I want to grab a hundredfold coin and turn things around." Looking at screenshots of others getting rich every day, I feel that as long as I bet right again, my life can be restarted directly. After actually entering, I realized that the most difficult thing in the cryptocurrency industry is not making money, but "surviving". I know an old man who experienced contract liquidation, zero return of domestic dogs, and high NFT acquisition in the early days, and paid not a penny less in tuition fees. At that time, he stared at the market every day, FOMO every day, doubted his life at the loss, and felt like a genius at the profit. Later on, while drinking, he said a sentence that I still remember today: "Ordinary people in the cryptocurrency industry, the main task is not to get rich suddenly, but to switch from leek mode to banker thinking. If you haven't accumulated any capital, talk about financial freedom Since then, he has changed completely. Others are jumping around and studying on chain data, while others are browsing short videos and watching macro, financial, and project financing logic. Even after making money in the bull market, he no longer buys cars or watches, but works hard to save capital. For ordinary people in this industry, there are actually three things in the first half: saving money, accumulating knowledge, and accumulating physical health. Money is your safety pad, cognition determines whether you can understand cycles, and body determines whether you can endure the next bull market. Many people haven't left anything behind for years simply because they've been chasing hot topics. Today's AI, tomorrow's MEME, and the day after tomorrow's RWA, they're waiting for the "next opportunity" every day, but their accounts haven't grown bigger and their morale has been consumed. The real change began in 2023, when that guy suddenly stopped trading and many people thought he had left the industry. As a result, he began to write articles about the pitfalls he had stepped into over the years, turn his research into a community, turn information asymmetry into consulting, turn traffic into collaboration, and gradually productize his knowledge. At this moment, I suddenly realized that the truly powerful people in the cryptocurrency industry almost no longer rely on "watching the market to make money" in the future. Some people make tools, some make investment research, some make trading systems, and some make content IPs. Essentially, everyone is doing the same thing: building their own money printing machines. Because those who rely solely on trading will always be controlled by the market, while those who have their own business system can amplify profits in bull markets and sustain recovery in bear markets. On the contrary, many people cannot get up for several years because they have been stuck in the gambling stage: they start to consume when they earn some money, become anxious when they lose some money, change their narrative every day, chase hot topics every day, and finally have nothing left except for a few profit screenshots and emotional fluctuations. Later on, I increasingly realized that the path for ordinary people to counterattack in the blockchain world was particularly simple: in the first half, they worked hard to accumulate primitive capital, including capital, cognition, and physical health; In the second half, find your niche, productize your abilities, and continuously amplify them through content and traffic. The ones who can truly survive in the long run are never the ones who are the best at shouting orders, but those who silently endure the cycle, complete the primitive accumulation, and finally create their own business system. This article is sponsored by @ bcgame