Yesterday I met a crypto OG who bought BTC in 2014 and has held it ever since, having been semi-retired for many years. He asked me what people in the crypto world have been doing these past two years.
I talked about everything from the BTC ecosystem to meme coins, from RWA to PayFi, from AI to x402, from Perp DEX to prediction markets—I covered all the hottest sectors in the crypto world.
After listening to me, the big shot exclaimed: "I really envy you poor guys! Even though you haven't made much money, you know so much!"
This is the curse of knowledge: knowing a lot often means "not being able to hold on."
Why do "poor guys" know so much? Because they're poor, they want to turn their lives around, so they want to seize every opportunity for 100x returns.
Why don't people who know a lot make big money? Because "knowing" is the enemy of "faith."


