As a person without background or resources, after years of investment struggles and earning some money, here are the four essential conditions for ordinary people to make money through investing:
1. Have money
2. Unpredictable black swan/historical opportunities
3. Have time
4. Place heavy bets
These four points are interrelated; let me explain:
1. Have money: Having principal for investment is a necessary condition. Earning 100% on 100,000 and earning 10% on 1,000,000 yield the same result, but the difficulty is different.
2. Unpredictable black swans/historical opportunities: The vast majority of money-making opportunities arise from information asymmetry. As an ordinary person, by the time you encounter this information gap, the market has already reacted. Therefore, "unpredictability" is key; at this point, we stand on the same starting line as the larger players. An example of an unpredictable historical opportunity: Trump's trade war last April, Trump issuing currency last January.
3. Time: Improve the first two points to make money and to learn how to judge "historical opportunities."
4. Place heavy bets: This is similar to the reason for the first point. Earning 100% on 100,000 and earning 10% on 1,000,000 yield the same result, but the difficulty is different.
The risks of $USD1 mainly involve liquidity issues 1. Too concentrated: Ninety percent of the supply is on Binance. I believe in Binance's structure, but if something goes wrong, liquidity becomes a major problem.
2. The subsidy ends on February 20, and it's uncertain whether there will be new activities afterwards. Everyone is thinking about running away (referring to the first phase of the activity, where less than half the time saw a significant pullback in USD1's price).
3. Narrative: Political branding + exchanges throwing money won't retain real users.
When the activity ends 1. The artificial demand for USD1 will be gone; coupled with such high concentration, the risks of volatility and pullback will significantly increase. 2. wlfi: Current liquidity cannot withstand a selling pressure of 40 million dollars in a month, and the real yield will also be an issue by then.
But I have to say, Trump's operation of exchanging air tokens for US dollars is really impressive.
#bitcoinbutton Binance's Bitcoin button event this time is to grab users' attention and improve platform retention. It is not for the price of the coin.
Will Binance's upcoming events continue to focus on increasing user activity? What can Binance users do to better gain benefits? I will continue to update.
#黑马 Market cap is just one-tenth of #老子's, why can it still enter Alpha?
1. The narrative is down-to-earth and easily understood—everyone knows what a #黑马 is. The underdog story of the黑马 is more easily spread than the philosophical reference of #老子;
2. Low market cap makes it easier to pump, creating a sense of prosperity and FOMO, which is exactly what Binance wants to see.
The performance of the黑马 shows that the storytelling aesthetics of BSC memes have evolved, reaching a broader audience. $黑马 $老子
Binance Life is the spiritual mother coin of BNB Chain, and I still believe in it.
From a logical perspective, the evolution path of top-tier public chains is highly consistent:
$PEPE in relation to ETH: has transitioned from a "smart contract platform" to a "cultural origin";
$WIF in relation to SOL: has transformed "extreme simplicity of community feeling" into the deepest moat in the ecosystem;
$币安人生 in relation to BNB: marks BNB Chain's departure from the label of being a convenient and cost-effective tool, giving BNBers a sense of belonging on BNB Chain.$币安人生 #币安上线币安人生
Congratulations on the Binance Life spot listing—this is a historic moment for Chinese memes, and also a historic moment for Binance.
As the world's largest centralized exchange, Binance controls access points, Alpha listings, contracts, spot trading, and more. Binance Life started as a Douyin pun, quickly soared thanks to interactions from the 'First Lady' and 'Big Brother,' and reached spot listing—essentially a closed-loop cycle within the Binance ecosystem: community-driven hype → selective support to maintain brand image → traffic returned to the ecosystem.
This isn't necessarily bad, but this model makes BSC temporarily dominant in the meme space while being structurally fragile in the long run. In contrast, Solana's memes (such as BONK, WIF) have more decentralized support and independent explosive growth driven by tools like Pump.fun, not reliant on a single platform's decisions. After Binance Life's spot listing, its market cap is likely to stabilize around $100M–$200M, but if Binance shifts strategy—say, focusing on a new chain or AI narrative—or launches 'Binance Life 2.0,' the original version could quickly be forgotten.