When you're still complaining about market fluctuations and price swings, you're actually just a follower.
Once you truly see through—why certain exchanges and certain cryptocurrencies hold the dominance, why the market must revolve around their rhythm—you step into another world.
This is not failure; it's the loneliness of a monopolist. You have gained pricing power.
In this fiercely competitive market, the only defense is: Make everyone see clearly where wealth is flowing through your logic, your tools, and your perspective.
**What lessons does history give us?**
Many believe: a stable environment = the premise for progress. Wrong.
Look at the past five thousand years. Eastern civilizations remained stable for a long time, agriculture was refined, craftsmanship reached astonishing levels. Silk, porcelain, textiles—leading the world. Social order was orderly, people lived and worked in peace.
What about Western Europe during the same period? City-states fighting, religious conflicts, Hundred Years' War, Thirty Years' War... Cities burned down, populations dispersed, economies destroyed. It looked like hell.
But ironically, it was on this land of continuous warfare that the Industrial Revolution was born. Railroads, industrial systems, modern finance... eventually completely surpassed the entire Eastern world.
Competition, conflict, uncertainty—these things forced people to innovate. Stability, on the other hand, causes a loss of crisis awareness. The former created pricing power; the latter can only passively accept prices.
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SellTheBounce
· 01-15 19:35
It's the same old spiel. The more you hear it, the more it feels pointless.
If they truly had pricing power, they wouldn't be here rambling with us.
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AirdropHermit
· 01-12 21:50
It sounds like they're talking about the Bitcoin theory... but the group that truly holds the pricing power has already been cutting leeks behind the scenes.
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GameFiCritic
· 01-12 21:43
Seeing through the difference between pricing power and getting chopped for the leek is really about whether you have control over the discourse system... However, applying this logic to crypto exchanges might be a bit over the top; essentially, it's still just liquidity monopoly.
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FallingLeaf
· 01-12 21:41
That's exactly right; you need to compete until you reach the level of discourse power.
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HashRatePhilosopher
· 01-12 21:30
It sounds nice, but ultimately, it's still about who holds the big stake and who has the final say.
When you're still complaining about market fluctuations and price swings, you're actually just a follower.
Once you truly see through—why certain exchanges and certain cryptocurrencies hold the dominance, why the market must revolve around their rhythm—you step into another world.
This is not failure; it's the loneliness of a monopolist. You have gained pricing power.
In this fiercely competitive market, the only defense is:
Make everyone see clearly where wealth is flowing through your logic, your tools, and your perspective.
**What lessons does history give us?**
Many believe: a stable environment = the premise for progress. Wrong.
Look at the past five thousand years. Eastern civilizations remained stable for a long time, agriculture was refined, craftsmanship reached astonishing levels. Silk, porcelain, textiles—leading the world. Social order was orderly, people lived and worked in peace.
What about Western Europe during the same period? City-states fighting, religious conflicts, Hundred Years' War, Thirty Years' War... Cities burned down, populations dispersed, economies destroyed. It looked like hell.
But ironically, it was on this land of continuous warfare that the Industrial Revolution was born. Railroads, industrial systems, modern finance... eventually completely surpassed the entire Eastern world.
Competition, conflict, uncertainty—these things forced people to innovate. Stability, on the other hand, causes a loss of crisis awareness. The former created pricing power; the latter can only passively accept prices.