Newbie: “I'm going to buy out 1 billion tokens at $0.00001, if it reaches $1 I'm a millionaire 🚀”
Reality: That token already has a market cap of billions. To reach $1, it would have to be worth more than ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD. Math, brother.
The inconvenient truth:
Is Bitcoin at $90k “expensive”? No. Its supply is scarce (21M). To double from here to $180k it only needs comparable flows to gold. Totally viable.
Is Shiba at $0.00001 “cheap”? False. With trillions of tokens in circulation, its cap is already astronomical. The illusion of a low price is what drives newbies crazy.
Golden rule: Forget how many tokens you have. What matters is the % of the market cap you control. Better to have 0.1 BTC than 1 billion of illiquid shitcoins.
Before FOMO-buying, ask yourself: Am I attracted to it because it's cheap or because the cap has real space? That's the difference between investment and illusion.
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The Psychological Trick that Ruins You in Crypto
Newbie: “I'm going to buy out 1 billion tokens at $0.00001, if it reaches $1 I'm a millionaire 🚀”
Reality: That token already has a market cap of billions. To reach $1, it would have to be worth more than ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD. Math, brother.
The inconvenient truth:
Is Bitcoin at $90k “expensive”? No. Its supply is scarce (21M). To double from here to $180k it only needs comparable flows to gold. Totally viable.
Is Shiba at $0.00001 “cheap”? False. With trillions of tokens in circulation, its cap is already astronomical. The illusion of a low price is what drives newbies crazy.
Golden rule: Forget how many tokens you have. What matters is the % of the market cap you control. Better to have 0.1 BTC than 1 billion of illiquid shitcoins.
Before FOMO-buying, ask yourself: Am I attracted to it because it's cheap or because the cap has real space? That's the difference between investment and illusion.