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All right. Now, before I dive into this video, I got to address the obvious, and that is I've been awake for nearly 3 months since I uploaded anything. And during that time, I've been quiet.
But I've also been thinking, reflecting not just about content, but about this entire crypto industry as a whole. So, at the time of me filming this video, there's been a project called Mantra, which was seen as a tier one altcoin that got rugpulled and wiped out $5 billion in market cap overnight. Now, it's things like this, folks, where the more I see, the more I'm forced to stop and ask myself, where is the crypto industry really headed next?
Should be thanking the president for trying to bring it into this conflict. And last year, I promised to make America the Bitcoin superpower of the world. And the crypto capital of the planet, and we're taking historic action to deliver on that promise, as you know, around the table.
Look, I've been an investor since 2018 and started going even more heavy since 2021. It was in that time where we started making videos here on YouTube. But as I continue to learn about this space and I see all the big rug pulls, the massive scams, the chat GBT rappers in the last AI bubble, the question I've been asking myself a lot is, how can I keep showing up in an industry that's become so full of insiders, shady launches, and straight up just a more difficult market than it has been ever before.
Look, I know some of you guys might also be thinking about that, and that's why in this video, before I even get into all the things that I wanted to discuss in the intro, I wanted to talk about this here. Look, a version of me from back then would have been cranking out YouTube videos, trying to make sure AdSense was hitting a level, just chasing views, but I've been on this platform for over eight years now, and especially in the last few months as I've been making less content and just taking a step back to be a viewer and seeing where the market direction is going in crypto and just on the YouTube landscape, I think it's just more conversations like this unscripted where I can talk to you onetoone is going to be the most valuable. Look, most of us got into crypto because something about it spoke to us.
In this video, I'll be breaking down exactly why the market has been struggling despite all the bullish news we've seen. Then I'll cover where crypto is really headed next, including the best bullcase scenario and what needs to happen for a full market recovery. After that, I'll cover the hard truth on why the market is still facing the serious challenges it has.
And last but not least, like many of you guys watching this video who may not have timed the tops properly, I'm going to be going over my plan on how to make and recover millions of dollars that I could have made from the next opportunity we get. For me, I got into it because the innovation, the community, the possibility of changing my life financially. Not only that, but I came from other niches like credit cards or dropshipping or different businesses or just being an educator on the platform where I felt like I've done all that I have.
As an example, in credit cards, there's only so many credit cards you can get. There's only so many videos of the same topic that you can make before, frankly, it gets boring. One thing that I loved about crypto is that this has been an industry where the playing field has continued to evolve.
I mean, when I first got into it, I was clueless about everything. I didn't know the difference between trading and investing. I didn't understand tokconomics.
I didn't even understand how price action worked on some of these projects. As I began to learn more about the industry, I got more excited. I mean, at one point before NFTs were NFTs, I was trading things called NBA Top Shots and seeing a vision of where I could see the landscape of this whole new industry that was forming headed.
I mean, look, crypto scratched this deep part of my ADHD brain where I was constantly learning something new. I was getting rewarded through it by being able to make money. And simply put, guys, it was just fun.
Now, look, just being straight up honest, crypto is not as fun as it used to be. Right now the landscape is completely different in an industry where we got further innovation development. Now everyone's just chasing the bag.
We've seen this especially happen over the last few months and for 2025 things have definitely taken an unexpected turn. All right, so if you've been watching this channel for a while, you already know though I've been making videos since 2018 and it's been a journey. I've done vlogs, credit card content, investing, drop shipping, talking about business, starting your own YouTube channel, and of course crypto.
Out of all the different niches I've been in, though, crypto still has been the best and it has been the one that I see myself talking about for the next 5 10 plus years or however long this industry actually goes on for. It's why I never had my YouTube channel name credit Brian instead just Brian Jung. And if anything, I've been closer to calling it CryptoBrian than anything else.
But I think at this point it doesn't even matter. The whole point I want to make here is this. Just like many of you guys who are in crypto, I'm sure you've gone through some major ups and downs.
Even for me, from the outside in, it probably looks like everything has always gone right for me. Millions of subscribers, retiring my parents, hitting these goals that I never thought was even possible growing up. It looked like everything was going well, but I was going through probably one of the most difficult moments of my life.
The house I was currently building at the time got delayed for 2 years. My interest rates jumped from 3 to 7%. My mortgage more than doubled.
It was supposed to be $6,000 a month. It was going up to 13 to $15,000 per month. My payroll at the time of team members that I was hiring started to outpace the income that was coming in.
Brand deals were getting cancelled and some exchanges to this day still owe us money that they never paid. Now, through all the ups and downs, through the moments where I was literally in debt, I had worse than round trips because of the taxes I had owed, I always knew keeping my integrity would still somehow one day pay out. in having an audience online and being in the crypto space, I've been offered tens of millions of dollars.
And still to this day, no project has ever been able to pay for a spot to directly get featured on my channel. I mean, I ain't going to lie, there were times where it was rough where I was like, "Okay, we owe money here in this stuff that's going on. I'm not going to be able to pay for the mortgage.
I'm already listing all my cars for sale. " And when my back was against the wall, even in those moments, I still couldn't take a deal. All those decisions I made ended up paying off.
Look, most of you guys already know this and how I operate, but there has never been a project that's been able to directly pay me for any mention on this channel for tokens or projects or whatever. No KO allocations tied to shoutouts. All the things that we're able to do in this market came from the same research that we all had access to.
We hit on plays like Arrow, DGen, Virtuals, and some of these plays ended up turning into millions of dollars. But even then, guys, I mean, I never want to be a creator on here or someone with an audience to make it seem like I always get everything right. The market changed, things got smarter, things got more ruthless, and through that, I still wasn't able to perfectly time the top of the market.
We got close, but not fully there. And I told myself I was ready for even 2025. This time around, we had the experience, we had the plan, and even when the time came to sell, it was still difficult.
Look, there have been plays that I bought into where I know people then buy into, which forces me not to be able to sell because I don't want to dump on my own community. From that, I've literally lost millions of dollars. Even in the most recent months, we had a base meme coin taking off.
Ski mask dog. To me, this was the next Dog with Hat. Dog with hat went on a crazy run and with this project ski devs initially rugged it, but the community took it over.
That was the meta and I was able to identify and share with this with you guys before it even hit a penny. Through all that, I gave the disclaimers, something I've learned to do over the last few years, and I told people what it would take for this to hit those next levels. And it ended up going on a roll.
I mean, at one point, I think it was over $500 million in market cap. But like always and within human nature, I seen greed take over for people who enter these markets. I watched people who were up millions of dollars.
I've watched people who are up a couple hundred,000, which is still crazy amount of money compared to what they had put in, and still not take profits. This is something I've come to realize over the years. As a content creator, there is a paradox.
If I sell, I'm the villain. If I hold, I will lose my own money. And either way, I'll still be the villain because eventually markets, they'll go outside of my control.
They'll do what the markets do and eventually come down. Now, through all of this, it's made me question everything. And even when I know it's not my fault, I still carry that weight.
So, here's where I stand now after everything, the ups, the downs, the losses, even the reflection over the last few months. And it's a question that I keep coming back to, and it's how can I use my platform for good in a space where it's getting ever more difficult? there are more and more insiders, more and more rugps, more and more devs that just want to extract out of this market.
Well, the truth is I'm still trying to figure that out. In this game of crypto, there's no manual for this. There's no crypto YouTuber handbook.
There's no guide that tells you how to navigate a space that's constantly evolving. And every cycle, just when I feel like I got a grip on it and I'm ready for the next, it turns out I get humbled. I'm learning more and more.
But I've learned to just continue showing up. I'm at least grateful to have just such a wonderful community because I know over on the crypto Twitter side of the world, it is completely different. People literally get death threats.
People lose their lives. This game that we're in can be dangerous. What I'm grateful for, even through some of these more difficult times and in market conditions like this that I do always have such a good core audience that I can lean back on.
So, look, I know I'm like super off script in this video. I'm I'm talking about five different things here, things that you guys may not have expected, but I'm not an actor. I'm not trying to read off a script here and and just be information.
I always want to keep you guys up to date on how I feel because truly I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for you. Now, what that means is as a creator and as someone who has an audience, it's my responsibility to make sure that you guys have the best edge and the best resource, the best information possible to help you win in this upcoming market. This video isn't going to just be about me talking about, you know, my reflections and all that.
It's going to be a video where I actually go through what I've mentioned in the beginning, though. Because at the end of the day, no matter how difficult crypto gets, I know when market conditions get right and there's always a possibility of that happening, I don't know when it's going to be. It could be tomorrow.
It could be next month. It could be Q4. It could be in a year that I have the tools, the wisdom, the team, the knowledge to be able to help you guys.
Maybe someone who just happens to struggle in this market have a slightly better edge. I mean, often times it's been more than just slightly. Sometimes it is life-changing, but I can't guarantee that.
So, before I get into the whole market breakdown and how you can actually make money in the upcoming bull run, let me share with you just some of those key lessons that I've learned. Number one, as I've mentioned so far in this video, it is getting a lot more difficult to make money in crypto, but it doesn't mean it's impossible. A few weeks back, I was watching Solo Leveling.
This is an anime that people on my team and people in Kaizen kept recommending that I watch. It was good. Now, the principles of this story is simple.
This is a world where people are stuck at the level they're born with. But one guy, he ended up gaining the ability to level up. Hence the title solo leveling.
This protagonist ended up becoming one of the strongest characters in this whole R. For me, this is how the market feels. The similarity between this anime and where we are in the crypto market is that you are not limited by this level that you're stuck with.
You're not just someone who if you're born Dank, you're going to be stuck in Dank. In crypto, you can constantly level up. You can constantly adapt and you can actually become one of the best in the game.
I'll go over the exact methods that you could deploy in order to do that. But it's encouragement to know that just because you didn't do well in the last cycle or maybe you made a few mistakes in the cycle before that, that doesn't mean that's how the next cycle is going to go for you. I've learned that in this space things move fast and you either keep up or you fall behind.
I mean, look guys, the natural pathway is you learn about crypto, then you hear about narratives, then all of a sudden you're swapping on chain, then you're trading. Some of you guys then get into futures trading. Now, at this point, even in this meta, I'm learning about macroeconomics, inflation, central banks, and tariffs.
If you ask me from a few years ago, if I'd be studying what happens with tariffs, I would tell you you're out of your mind. In this game, there's always a deeper level. And what I love about this is that the more that you learn, the more that you adapt, the more you are rewarded for it.
Crypto is still one of the unique spaces where curiosity is rewarded. It forces you to grow, and that's why we're all still here today. The other week I was in Miami and I met this one quiet kid.
He didn't talk much. Boy was rocking this AP skeleton. He pulled up in a Huracan with no plates.
As soon as he pulled up, man, whole front lip was just scraped. So I figured this kid just got the car or he just really didn't care about money. Now it turns out this kid was 17 years old.
He was working at a lifetime gym folding towels in the basement for $15 an hour and he made $16 million in the span of 6 to8 months trading crypto. Prior to that, he had no experience in crypto at all. With all the things that I've said, I need to point back to the fact there is no industry still like crypto that I've been a part of where I've been able to see new kids, new market participants have a shot at making true lifechanging generational wealth.
This is why out of all the industries I've been in, I still am so bullish on crypto because of the opportunities that exist. Now, as I mentioned earlier, things are getting more difficult. It is getting harder.
the markets are becoming more efficient, meaning you have to adapt. Otherwise, you're just going to end up becoming exit liquidity for the other person that is sharpening their sword. All right, so the main reason the markets have been struggling is obviously because of what we saw happen on Salana pumped up fund memes where we saw crazy amount of token dilution.
In the past, it was a lot more difficult in making projects. I mean, you actually had to put in work. But in this current meta that we had, anyone could make a memecoin and pretty much money was getting dispersed everywhere.
Before this meant that we had more runners, we had more cryptos that would climb up in market cap before eventually settling down, coming down in price. But this time around, in the most recent meta, things were a lot quicker. There were so many other coins and everyone was basically on max ADHD mode where they were rotating their funds.
This was proven when we saw the price of Salana going up where Salana's network was mainly used to buy and trade a lot of these meme coins. Now, that's not what ended the market. Most you guys should know this, but it really was all the meme coins that came after that.
The Trump memecoin, Melania memecoin, and then even Argentina Libra's memecoin sucked the rest of the remaining liquidity out of what retail had. Look, if we all came together, say we're retail, we pulled our money together. I'm sure even with some of the biggest whales, we top a couple billion dollars.
Well, Trump, Melania, Libra, and some of these other altcoins, they extracted tens of billions, if not hundreds of billions of dollars out of the market. This is directly money from retail. This forced the bubble to pop.
There was no more money left. Everyone completely shifted in their sentiment. And similar to how different market bubbles have popped in the past, whether it was the 2008 impending recession with the whole housing crisis or the AOL internet boom, this was another bubble that just happened to go down.
Now, through all that, the last few months have been pretty quiet. I mean, at the time of me filming this video, we are getting the occasional runner here and there, and it seems like now pretty much everyone is feeling bearish on crypto. And it's often times like this where we do see some kind of market bounce.
But you got to keep in mind that this current market condition is very different from anything that we've experienced in the past. I know a lot of new investors who get into the market, they tend to focus on things like patterns of the 4-year cycle or the Bitcoin super cycle theory. I've heard that a few times.
But one thing's for sure, and that is the more you speculate and the more that you try to look at patterns and predict, it can work for some, but for a majority of people, it's better to be in a reactionary state. In order for the next bull run to pop off, there's no pattern or historical data that's just going to ignite everyone's compulsion to come back into crypto. Instead, we need the following.
Number one, we're going to need a catalyst or a narrative. Now, this can form overnight. There is nothing that I see currently in the pipeline where I think could rally the market together but narratives like who's coming into presidency, the Bitcoin having effect or some kind of regulatory play or maybe even the United States government adding a bunch of Bitcoin onto their balance sheet on a certain day.
We need catalyst because this is what ultimately drives the market forward. The next best case scenario is going to require us getting additional liquidity aka just money guys returning into the market. This can happen from an interest rate cut or it can happen from stock market doing super well and there's a rotation coming back into crypto or even something like a big tax bill that gets passed.
One thing is for certain and that is the money printer can be turned on at any notice and we could get the next bird flu pandemic. I hope we don't. But we've seen in the past global events happen and boom, the government has the opportunity to print infinite amounts of money.
Now, aside from all that, I think the best case scenario though, we get further regulation. We get real tech in crypto where it attracts mainstream users and adoption actually grows. You combine that with a thriving economy, US starting to have its dominance once more, stocks doing well and money flooding back in, and who knows.
I don't wish there's another pandemic. But hey, if it makes the market start going up, nah, nah, I wouldn't want it. Let's not go through that again.
Until any of that develops, though, I think this is the truth of where the meta is going to be. Markets are just going to be choppy. I don't think we're going to see any V-shaped recovery.
I think it's going to be slow, staggered growth like we saw back in 2024 leading into the 2025 mini bull run that we had. But with that said, a catalyst can be created overnight. It could happen today.
It could happen after I film this video. From what I've seen though, historically right now, this tends to be the better time to start investing. I know right now we're going to see a lot of people who are not interested in crypto.
I see that directly in the relation of views that I get when markets start picking up. everyone just starts wanting to watch crypto videos again. It's moments like this if you're watching through a 30 40 minute long video that you should look at the risk versus return and realize that most all coins have indeed actually bottomed out.
Most of them are actually down 70 80 some down 90%. So the risk versus return in a climate like this where markets have pretty much been down only the last 3 months I'd say in my non-financial advice generally when you look at any asset and you believe the future of growth happening in that industry it's a decent time to be able to start putting down some seeds planting them just being patient now you don't need to start investing cuz at the end of the day it's your money personally I am not interested at this time being the guy who called the bottom right I don't care about being right I don't even care about trying to time anything this time around. I used to think that was like the cool thing to do.
Being the influencer who was able to call the bottom and the top perfectly, but at this point in my career, I just want to help people make money. Here's the truth. I know someone is a new investor based on their mentality of the market.
A lot of the times it's only beginners who want to capture the entire move and they want to maximize as much upside as they can. The truth of the matter is, the more you try to maximize upside, the more you're going to reduce your probability of actually buying into the markets at a decent price. I've learned that it's almost better to get confirmation in the market that things are riding up so that you reduce any downside, that you reduce not timing the bottom, but instead your hit rate goes up.
Your probability of making money is secured. And although you may reduce the upside of how much money you can make, you at least know that you're hitting more consistent trade. Now, if you're a long-term investor, none of this matters because you could invest today.
And if you think crypto is going to go up over the next 5 to 10 years, you can just play that, forget about it. Should still be good. Now, if you're a long-term investor, a lot of this is still pretty subjective.
If you have full faith and reason that crypto over the next 5 to 10 years is going to go up and there is going to be further good development through regulation or just good innovative projects that come about in the space, you could just ape in and forget. I mean that is what some of the best investors have done in earlier markets whether it's in stocks or other equities like gold angel investing in businesses I mean you name it. But I've come to realize through experience and just having time in the market that the truth and the reality is it's more beneficial to participate in crypto right now as a trader rather than a long-term investor.
Now look, I always thought trading was a scam. I really did. I mean, when you see that wave of Forex traders coming about and you see everyone selling their course, like most people, I was pretty skeptical about it.
This was until recently I met legit traders who made more money in the past few months than people who held through the entire bull run. These are people that are able to execute short the market, long the market, follow their system, and making multiple multiple eight figures. And yeah, eight figures is tens of millions of dollars.
10, 20, 30, $50 million that I've seen these people make. What I have to mention though here is this. Trading is not easy.
It's not meant for everyone. But if you put in the work, it is one of the most profitable ways that I believe you can earn income from all the volatility that we're experiencing in this market. To do this though, you got to do it right.
Otherwise, you end up just gambling. And if you're going to do that, you might as well just go to the casino. If you want to be a successful trader, you should not be emotional.
You should not be, you know, cracking your keyboard or getting upset. Trading is one of those things where if you end up developing your system, learning to trust your system, it's currently what I've seen be most successful for any investors that are deciding to participate in crypto today. Now, when it comes to trading, I love this example.
Similar to the way if you were kicking someone's butt, there's many ways to do it. You can learn karate, you can do jiu-jitsu, you can box, you can kickbox, you can tickle someone's belly, but at the end of the day, you got to figure out what works best for you. And this just comes from putting in the reps.
If you're someone who has a full-time busy job, you're away from the computer, you cannot look at charts, your job does not allow you to have freedom and flexibility in your time, you shouldn't be someone who follows a scalping system where you have to constantly look at the 30-second chart. What I've learned is everyone has their own unique profile, and you have to start developing your own system that works for you. Now, for some of you guys who have been following along on my journey, I was able to turn $15,000 to over $600,000 trading futures when the market was rallying.
At that time, I didn't even have great systems either. There were times where I was just aping in money. No system, no setup, and it really did feel like gambling.
What I'll say is this. When it comes to trading, you will lose. You will not get every trade 100% right.
When I was turning a small bit of money into what I thought was a crazy bit of money at that time, I still had moments where I had to cut my losses. But through experience, you set invalidation levels. You don't get emotional about your trading.
You don't put yourself in situations where you get liquidated and you have zero risk management. Trading I've realized is profitable but there is a huge learning curve to this and it's because it goes against every human emotion imaginable. Now with good discipline I know some of you guys are going to be able to change your life and it starts with putting in the reps in times like this where the market is flat.
There's complete volatility. There's a lot of chop. So the game plan right now for anyone who might have a lot still stuck in crypto and it went down and you feel like you lost a lot of money.
I hope this serves as motivation to you to continue to improve your game. the game plan at least that's been working for me. Building my trading systems, back testing it, stacking capital, stacking bread, and when market gives us confirmation, that's when you get ready to deploy.
If you're not doing that, there's really only two other ways that you can make money in crypto. Number one, you're a builder. You're building tech.
You're building product. You're building an app. You're building the shovel, the tool that someone uses, the next pump.
Fun. Number two, if you're not trading the market right now, the only other thing you can do is staying in the trenches and catching runners and finding narratives early on. Even with that, there's not much liquidity there.
And there are some days where there aren't things that run like that. But it's really those main three. You're either building, you're either trading, or you're currently in the trenches.
There will be a time again where crypto really just starts moving in the entirety that we've seen in the past. I believe that. But I'm also someone who's more of a blind optimist.
Just by my very nature of what I've seen happen in my own life, in my faith with God, and all the things that have happened around me, I can often envision a future that still hasn't taken place yet. And I still have that blind faith applied within the crypto market, and it's still why I'm here. Now, with all that said, here's my future outlook and my predictions for the upcoming meta.
Last cycle, it was all about CTOs. At one point, CTO's were community takeover projects. basically projects that got rugpulled intentionally or not intentionally and they were pretty much left for dead.
This is because you know some of the biggest bag holders would have been out of that project by then. CTOs were all running up. It felt like the most democratized way to get into crypto without having to worry about all the different mousetraps that lie.
Finding projects that also had low fully diluted value was also another meta. Now it's been interesting. The meta has actually shifted a little bit.
Things like where it has enormous high fully diluted value. These projects have actually absorbed a lot more of the selling pressure during these market conditions. And it seems like in the next pump that we get, people are running back to highly fully diluted projects because they know that the team through the supply of tokens that they have could either buy back, hold up the price.
And we saw that happening with Mantra up until they recently rugged. So in this game of crypto, you have to know when to get out and you have to know not to get too greedy and to hold things for a long period of time. It's hard because with most investments, I mean, you're told to hold as long as you can, but in crypto, the time horizon for holding anything is getting shorter and shorter.
Back in 2021, everyone was getting a 100x on a play. In 2024, if you were getting a 2050x, that was good. This most recent time, if you got even a 5 to 10x, that was great.
So, this time around, I think whenever the market conditions get better, the faster you take profits seem to be best. But generally with the cycle of greed and when you see things just running up infinitely, I know you get punished as well for taking profits out too early. So for any viewer here that is beating themselves up for selling things too early or not selling things on time, just know that that's where the difficulty in this game lies.
You are always going to get punished for regardless whatever you think is right. You just have to stick to a system and make sure that you trust your system and don't get too greedy. In terms of narratives that are going to heat up, I think the stable coin narrative is going to do well in the upcoming market.
I don't know what projects will directly relate to that now, but my speculation here is people are going to find more and more value into the whole stable coin narrative just because stable coins have inherently made more money than any other project that we've seen. I mean, if you look at circles revenue and some of the biggest stable coins that exist, they've been printing over the last several years. I think there's a way that there's going to be some monetization and narrative that forms behind that.
I think AI agents is also going to make a return. I've been getting a lot of questions in my DMs about that. Brian, what do you think about virtuals and AI?
Look, that bubble popped and it was for good reason. There was a lot of vaporware tech. There was a lot of crappy projects, crappy founders who are just pretty much trying to make money off of chat GBT rappers.
I think AI tech has actually gone significantly better since the last time the market was heating up. And in the next instance, I believe AI is definitely going to take off again. I believe some of the biggest hitters, AI, 16Z, virtuals, I mean, some of these bigger infrastructure plays are going to have a time in the market.
Do I think right now is the best time to start going back allin into crypto? Now, that answer solely depends on your riskreward. Are you willing to lose more money to capture some upside?
It's hard to tell, but what I can say is this. AI is 100% growing as an industry, and I believe crypto is going to mirror some of the gains that we've seen there. The next meta that I think we're going to have is another rotation behind some of the biggest chains.
We saw base chain dominate the last two years and I'm sure they're going to continue to capture a decent amount of inflow and they're going to have some runners there again. But I believe there's going to be a new chain that dominates the narratives for the upcoming cycle. There's a few big contenders that I'm eyeing that I know are actively building during this time.
What I'll say is this. Be ready. Don't be married to one single chain because from what I've learned in crypto 2, everyone gets shiny object syndrome.
Every cycle retail wants a variation of something new, something different. And I think there's going to be a new chain that might not be as DGEN as Soul, but not as corporate feeling as base. Following this, I also believe the next meta is going to have a rotation where the biggest winners in the next cycle is going to be younger kids.
This is because we've seen a lot of young kids on the up who have just understood the narratives. They understand the lingo, the the funny brain rot things that they see within the meme culture world, the things they talk about in school. Because ultimately, kids are more tapped in with their community from school, from sports, from video games than adults can.
Man, I sound like I'm really getting old here. I promise. I I don't think I'm that old.
But when I meet some of these 20-year-old kids printing millions of dollars, I I definitely I feel it. I feel it in my back pain. So, look, the competition is getting younger.
Being in the trenches where you're actively monitoring new coins that are getting released is not something that's always easy. But what's for certain is if you have a community and you have people to do it with, you will create an undeniable edge. The reason why I believe younger kids are going to continue to do well is because they are so tight-knit with their community.
So, as I mentioned, I think generally as the market continues to improve, aside from insiders and project developers who are going to continue to make money in this market, it is generally going to be a younger population. Kids are going to have a better edge. And if you happen to be older and you don't have a community, make sure you find one.
Make sure you get tapped in. This here is one of the most underrated edges that you can develop. If you had a community back in 2021, I bet there is a greater chance, whether it was a 10% chance, 20% chance, or even 100% chance, that you would have improved your possibilities of cashing out.
I believe we can all agree upon that. Right now is the best time for you to build community within crypto. That's because when things start taking off, the space gets noisy.
You don't actually know who knows what they're talking about. But people who are grinding through these times, putting in the work, doing the research, sharpening their edge, they're already developing pattern recognition skills that's going to allow them to have a greater opportunity to succeed when things start picking up. Be a first mover, and you'll know you're surrounded by people who have the best chances of winning when the time comes.
So, if you want to succeed in crypto, I believe it is really allin or nothing. If you have one foot in, one foot out, and you're not willing to learn, I think you're just going to end up becoming exit liquidity for the other experienced investors. Now, I've learned way more during red candles and during times like this than I ever did in green ones.
So, please make sure in times like this, you maximize your opportunity. Now, the last and final thing that I've learned is the fact that a lot of people in this space, although they haven't actually lost their own money, they feel like they've lost something when they haven't been able to lock in those unrealized gains. A verse that has been so helpful for me.
1 Timothy 6:7, "For we brought nothing into the world and we can take nothing out of it. " A lot of the times, even in seasons like this, we can be so fixated on what the bank account would have been, on what our portfolio size was if we decided to sell in that moment. But you have to realize that that money was never yours to begin with.
You never locked it in. It's all numbers on a screen. And by fixating on that and thinking, "This is what my portfolio should be at," you're only putting yourself at a disadvantage.
Look, I want to encourage anyone watching this video where if you feel like you've just been going down and you're going through a difficult time that it is okay. Crypto really is a mental game and I've seen some people take tremendous amount of losses. I know this is a very different kind of video, but really I feel like this is what needs to be said.
If you aren't okay with the idea that you could lose money, as I've mentioned in every video before, don't get into this space. It's not worth the mental toll. But my mission here is to help you guys as much as I can succeed in the markets if you decide to participate.
Take time to reflect, realize the meta of where this game is headed. And if you guys enjoyed this video, drop a like or something at least. That's it.
Love you guys. Stay blessed. Peace.
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