The scariest thing in crypto isn’t the bear market—it’s making money in your first three days. Your first time buying crypto. You put in $500. Three days later, it’s $2,000. You think: That’s it? You throw in $5,000. A week later, it’s $12,000. You start wondering if you’re a trading genius. At work, you’re staring at candlestick charts. Your coworkers are chatting about dollar-cost averaging into mutual funds. You stay quiet, laughing to yourself inside. You quit your job. You throw your entire savings—$30,000—into the market. You open 20x leverage. Day one, you double it—$60,000. You take a screenshot. Day two. One wick. $60,000 turns into $0. It didn’t just drop. It liquidated. The margin call notification hit before the candlestick did. Losing money in a bear market isn’t scary. When you lose, you get scared. When you’re scared, you learn. When you learn, you survive. What’s scary is making money as a newbie. When you make money, you get cocky. When you’re cocky, you double down. When you double down, you die. The faster you make money, the harder you crash. Every dollar you made in those first three days was just the market lending you principal. The interest gets collected in one trade on day four. Principal and interest—gone.