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The trenches aren’t for everyone

By StarPlatinum

· 1 min read


In recent years, the center of almost every success story has had one factor in common, memecoins. The riskiest assets inside a market that is already wild by itself like crypto, but you already know, the higher the risk, the higher the reward.

The problem is that on social media people prefer to talk more about their wins than their losses, if there are no wins, they make them up. But believe me when I tell you that this is nothing more than a huge casino where it’s very likely that you’ll walk out with less money than you came in with.

Today I saw a post that claimed that the average hold time on Solana was 42 seconds.

camol @camolNFTThe average hold time for a token on Solana is down to 42 seconds.

I wish I was kidding.
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Not even a minute.

For years, the biggest success stories in crypto were those who, with conviction, held their bags for years, Today that has evolved and 42 seconds is how long it takes people to buy and sell an asset.

The complete antithesis of what once was the foundation of everything crypto was supposed to be. They have killed conviction and if you follow the hype because everyone there is winning (it’s not true) you will be the next victim.

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