🚦 Using the Yijing’s “Hexagram Yi (益)” to look at it, Sun Ge’s little post ended up playing himself! ——“Reduce at the top and increase at the bottom,” gain backfires! In the Yijing’s Yi hexagram, the ninth line says: “Do not seek to gain; others may attack you. If you do not hold fast in your intentions, it will be unlucky.”
This time, it wasn’t just that Sun Ge burned up traffic—it was the entire structure of trust. The HTX platform may also be harmed as a result, leading to a collapse of integrity;
Don’t rely on divination for what’s easy|Hexagram ䷩ Gain: An adult achieves self and others—true gain is making value compound continuously
—Altruism is not sacrifice; it means letting value grow continuously through mutual accomplishment.
“Gain” means increasing, growth, and benefiting. ䷩ Gain: Wind over Thunder; the upper pattern is Gentle (Xun ☴), the lower is Arousing (Zhen ☳). Winds rage over thunder, and thus all things are nourished; Reduce the one above and benefit the one below—harm above while increasing benefit below.
At the core of the (Yi) hexagram, what matters is not merely “getting more,” but— Through proper investment and giving, let value keep growing.
Hexagram 41 Yi Sun Loss is about proactively doing subtraction; In Hexagram 42 Yi Gain, it further tells us: —after removing ineffective consumption, where should we direct resources?
🚦 Brother Sun might want to make some time to review the wisdom in 《The Way of Heaven》! ——The Way is rules; if you have the ability, then you also must have what you cannot do!
In 《The Way of Heaven》, the black-clad figure Zhou Jianhua, who appears for only a few minutes, is widely recognized as the only character in the show who can go toe-to-toe with Ding Yuanyi; this segment of the drama in the TV series is truly thought-provoking; relating to this viral marketing essay by Brother Sun, what caused such public outrage is because he overstepped...
🚦Why do they say Brother Sun’s “extreme marketing” this time may have gone too far? —When “hot publicity, even if negative” starts to backfire, what gets burned isn’t just traffic, but trust.
Brother Sun’s viral “micro-essay” style marketing, pushed too hard, has sparked public outcry across the whole internet!
The real anger in public opinion isn’t entirely about “who the sugar baby is” or “who the victim is,” but about this kind of bottomless marketing that has already crossed the line and amounts to a public execution of personas for the entire crypto community.
This is the most dangerous part of “#孙学 ”-style marketing: —Traffic has no moral sign, but trust does come with a cost.
The I Ching clearly says—“The dragon at the height will have regrets; stripping leads to loss of the house.” When a house is truly in danger, it’s not that the roof suddenly collapses; it’s that the support at the very foundation starts to be peeled away little by little.
What’s worth observing in this situation is: As a super IP in the crypto world, just how much public trust can he exhaust, in exchange for one traffic climax after another?
A man can love beauty, a businessman can tell stories, and an IP can manufacture controversy. But one bottom line cannot be lost: —Don’t use “having no bottom line” as a marketing strategy.
Historically, there are plenty of similar emotional and commercial disputes. From Professor Lang reclaiming a villa gifted to his lover, to the events involving Wu Xiubo and Chen Yulin—these all point to one issue: Once private relationships enter the public narrative, what ultimately gets consumed is often not only the emotions of the people involved, but also the public’s judgment of their persona, credibility, and even commercial value.
So I care more about the next two trends:
1️⃣ Sun Yuchen’s personal “credibility at a discount” In the future, it may be hard for him to collaborate with top players in the crypto industry, as well as with Wall Street institutions;
2️⃣HTX platform’s credibility crisis $TRS.US may face more regulatory storms, and be met with coordinated strikes from competitors;
Traffic can be recreated, but once trust is peeled away, the cost to rebuild it is extremely high.
Perhaps this is the biggest paradox of “black publicity is also publicity”: Black publicity is indeed still publicity, but the cost-effectiveness must be weighed—especially when one’s status has already reached the stage the I Ching calls “the flying dragon in the sky.” #孙宇晨 #景甜 #HTX #币圈心学
🚦 Why do they say, the one who understands is not divined? The I Ching is essentially a system of reasoning and prediction; if you grasp the reasoning logic, you can clearly recognize yourself and distinguish your external environment; so why still need divination?
On the other hand, if you can’t achieve self-awareness and distinguish what’s around you; what good is asking gods and divining?
Knowing It Is Easy, Not Needing to Divinate|Hexagram ䷨ Reduction: A rational sage knows how to do subtraction in time.
—Wisdom in life does not mean having more; it means knowing what is worth keeping and what should be discarded. Reduction (损) means to reduce, restrain. Hexagram ䷨: To reduce. Mountains and marshes are together; at the foot of the mountain there is a marsh. The marsh waters are devoted to the mountain—so as to lessen oneself and benefit others. Reduction is not a passive loss; Rather, it is actively removing what drains you—leaving limited time, energy, and resources for the people and matters that truly matter. In the fortieth hexagram, ䷧ 解 Release, it is about breaking free from a stuck situation and easing the pressure. In the forty-first hexagram, ䷨ Reduction—what comes next is to ask further: —After the knot is untied and the predicament is resolved, what should be kept, and what must be let go? “To give and take” has never been as simple as choosing what to keep or discard.
$BTC 、$ETH price control has already been taken over by Wall Street; The biggest problem in the crypto market right now is that market control is held by Chinese-language platforms. This mismatch means the crypto market will most likely continue to trade weakly in a range-bound consolidation.
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August 31: Fire flares up again in the Strait of Hormuz, while capital waits for who will blink first
—Geopolitical risk has once again started to heat up. Nonfarm payroll data is about to be released, and capital is recalculating the risk-reward ratio for the next phase. A new week begins, and global capital’s attention has tightened back around four main themes: Pressure for a Fed policy shift|Geopolitical risks in the Middle East rebound|Costs across the AI and semiconductor industry chain|U.S. trade and policy games. Among these, the two things that truly determine this week’s market direction are still: Will the Strait of Hormuz see further escalation, and what policy answer will the United States’ August nonfarm employment figures give the Federal Reserve?
The former determines energy and inflation risks, while the latter determines interest rates and expectations for liquidity.
The standoff between Iran and the U.S. around the Strait of Hormuz escalates, and the U.S. military strikes again. This is both a direct warning to Iran and a clear signal to the global markets: the United States will not easily give up control of key nodes in global energy transport. And Iran’s tough talk, ultimately, will also have to accept the constraints of reality.
Because the real issue is not “whether it dares to retaliate,” but rather: after retaliation, what price does Iran have to pay?
Over the weekend, the oil agreement signed by the Trump administration and Venezuela released a positive expectation of supply expansion for the U.S. domestic market; at the same time, this triggered subtle chain reactions for Iran and major oil-producing countries in the Middle East. With the Trump administration holding alternative supply options, if Iran continues to close the strait, it may not succeed in driving up global oil prices in order to pressure the U.S. The game has evolved from “who blinks first” into a game of “pure self-harm.” #CoinCircleHeartLearning
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August 31: Fire flares up again in the Strait of Hormuz, while capital waits for who will blink first
—Geopolitical risk has once again started to heat up. Nonfarm payroll data is about to be released, and capital is recalculating the risk-reward ratio for the next phase. A new week begins, and global capital’s attention has tightened back around four main themes: Pressure for a Fed policy shift|Geopolitical risks in the Middle East rebound|Costs across the AI and semiconductor industry chain|U.S. trade and policy games. Among these, the two things that truly determine this week’s market direction are still: Will the Strait of Hormuz see further escalation, and what policy answer will the United States’ August nonfarm employment figures give the Federal Reserve?
The former determines energy and inflation risks, while the latter determines interest rates and expectations for liquidity.
August 31: Fire flares up again in the Strait of Hormuz, while capital waits for who will blink first
—Geopolitical risk has once again started to heat up. Nonfarm payroll data is about to be released, and capital is recalculating the risk-reward ratio for the next phase. A new week begins, and global capital’s attention has tightened back around four main themes: Pressure for a Fed policy shift|Geopolitical risks in the Middle East rebound|Costs across the AI and semiconductor industry chain|U.S. trade and policy games. Among these, the two things that truly determine this week’s market direction are still: Will the Strait of Hormuz see further escalation, and what policy answer will the United States’ August nonfarm employment figures give the Federal Reserve? The former determines energy and inflation risks, while the latter determines interest rates and expectations for liquidity.
The wisdom of the I Ching is not found in divination;
#知易不卜 is a way of analysis and methodology. When combined with macro financial policies and candlestick chart data, it can be very beneficial for investment and personal finance operations.
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Knowing It Is Easy, Not Needing to Divinate|Hexagram ䷨ Reduction: A rational sage knows how to do subtraction in time.
—Wisdom in life does not mean having more; it means knowing what is worth keeping and what should be discarded. Reduction (损) means to reduce, restrain. Hexagram ䷨: To reduce. Mountains and marshes are together; at the foot of the mountain there is a marsh. The marsh waters are devoted to the mountain—so as to lessen oneself and benefit others. Reduction is not a passive loss; Rather, it is actively removing what drains you—leaving limited time, energy, and resources for the people and matters that truly matter. In the fortieth hexagram, ䷧ 解 Release, it is about breaking free from a stuck situation and easing the pressure. In the forty-first hexagram, ䷨ Reduction—what comes next is to ask further: —After the knot is untied and the predicament is resolved, what should be kept, and what must be let go? “To give and take” has never been as simple as choosing what to keep or discard.
🚦Venezuela’s Acting Vice President: The agreement with the United States is “the revival of the nation” Venezuela’s acting vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, confirmed a “historic” oil agreement reached with the United States. She emphasized that the deal will allow Washington to develop an estimated potential reserve of 65 billion barrels—“having a major impact on our country’s revival.”
Rodríguez said, “It is expected that 17 strategic oil fields will be developed, with investment totaling more than $100 billion, and bringing the nation more than $209 billion in tax revenue.” She also thanked President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio.
Note: - The latest figure for the United States’ crude oil reserves is 300 million barrels; - 6.5 billion barrels is 210 times the current U.S. crude oil reserve.
August 30: Financial Weekly Report—Geo-political risks cool down, and macro hawks make their move: capital recalculates the risk-reward ratio
Key words this week: hawkish remarks|Hormuz|crude oil|inflation expectations|capital repricing In the last full trading week of August, the market’s main narrative began to shift. Tech giants such as Nvidia continued to support risk assets, but the hawkish remarks from the Fed at the Jackson Hole meeting once again brought a problem that the market had temporarily played down back onto the table: Fighting inflation hasn’t ended. If necessary, monetary policy may continue to tighten. Meanwhile: - US July PCE inflation came in above expectations; - Nvidia’s earnings report was released; - Geo-political risks in the Middle East showed signs of temporary easing;
Justin Sun wants to use buzzworthy marketing to help HTX get through its integrity crisis; and to further ignite his personal IP, and #孙学 ; so it’s a real win-win. Gong Li has indeed changed for the better; but Justin Sun’s marketing tactics this time are also rather unscrupulous; nearly dragging the entire Chinese crypto circle down with them; as CZ said, marketing can be aggressive a bit, but there still has to be some bottom line.
In the Book of Changes, Qian hexagram says: “Overreaching dragon brings regret.” What is too full cannot last; what is too rigid will break.
Going mainstream is fine, but crossing the line will bring regret.
The trending search is still burning, but the wind direction has already changed. Sun Yuchen’s little essay won attention; the backlash comes faster than the heat— public opinion has shifted from “watching the drama” to “standing on moral lines.”
Not surprising. Yesterday I wrote: when personal IP converts into traffic, what HTX gets is a discount on its credibility.
Get attention if you want—but turning private matters into content means the bottom line is surrendered as well.
䷥ The Jue Hexagram (Bǐ guà) already wrote this step in stone. It’s not that you can’t have disagreements—only that you can’t turn disagreements into hostility. “Two daughters cohabiting, but their aspirations are not the same” —within the same system, the direction can differ; once you tear the face, all that’s left is mutual depletion.
When the market falls into a bind, people easily panic and cut losses, or else refuse to give up and keep adding to their position.
The core of Hexagram ䷦ “Jie” is to analyze **bounces for recovery** and **trend reversals**. A price rebound doesn’t necessarily mean a trend reversal, and emotional recovery doesn’t mean the fundamentals have fully turned around.
“Jie” is simply about bringing risk back within a controllable range. —That means releasing positions that are wrong in size, logic, and emotion.
Hexagram ䷦ “Jian” is a reminder to “stop the loss.” https://www.binance.com/zh-CN/square/post/360742514375688 Hexagram ䷧ “Jie” teaches people how to “get out of a stuck position.” #知易不卜
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Easy to Know, Not to Predict|Hexagram ䷧ Jie: Once the dilemma is resolved, you should let go of your fixations
—True liberation is not solving all problems, but when the situation loosens, letting go of unnecessary fixations.
Hexagram 53 — Jie, meaning release, relieving hardship, freeing oneself.
三十九卦 ䷦蹇 Hexagram 40, ䷧ Jie, is the loosening of a perilous situation; you can take action in accordance with the momentum.
To stop and to move—this is the key to handling the world: Know how to distinguish when to guard and when to move; when to stubbornly hold on, and when to put down the burden and set out again.
Once the dilemma begins to loosen, what is most taboo is not acting too slowly, And it is this: —The situation is already resolved, yet the heart is still trapped in the past.
🚦 Bean Sprout Review | Hexagram ䷦ “Water Mountain Jian” (Going Forward When It’s Difficult): Stop When It’s Hard, Act When It’s Risky
A headline-style piece that modernizes and translates the Book of Changes (I Ching) “Jian” hexagram for the general public—connecting the hexagram’s principles with investment trading and real-life predicaments, with very strong readability.
✨Highlights 1. The central idea is nailed—the core spirit of the Jian hexagram Grasp the inner essence and break away from the single-minded obsession with “Persistence is Victory.” It proposes that **“stopping” is not surrender; detouring is also growth**. It breaks the inertia of treating the I Ching as a fortune-telling tool, aligning with the purpose of “#知易不卜 ”— —— I Ching learning is a guide for making situational decisions, not a predictor of good or bad luck.
2. Popular explanation of the six lines: clear logic chain Interpret the six lines according to the stages of development through hardship. Without piling on obscure textual scholarship, each point maps to real circumstances, so ordinary people can understand it.
3. Cross-domain integration offers practical inspiration: investment + life self-cultivation Apply the wisdom of the Jian hexagram directly to trading scenarios: first examine the logic when faced with risk, rather than clinging to “getting back to even.” It distinguishes between “hard forcing” and “steadfast keeping,” and uses classical Chinese learning to explain stop-loss, sunk costs, and position adjustment—this combination is especially standout. It also extends to life self-cultivation: differentiating between holding on, turning, waiting, and rebooting—giving ancient hexagram wisdom real value in contemporary life.
4. Writing rhythm suits new media reading The opening pinpoints the theme; the piece is organized into modules with subtitles guiding the reader. The ending uses quotable lines to summarize and elevate the message. Tags pair classical learning with crypto-circle mindset and heart-learning, balancing readers who love the I Ching with those in the investing community, making it well suited for dissemination on Toutiao.
📝Overall Summary
This is an excellent short popular-explanatory piece on I Ching studies for the masses. It extracts decision-making wisdom from adversity in the Jian hexagram and connects it with classical learning, personal growth, and investment thinking—very suitable for new media sharing.
Strength: turning obscure ancient hexagram ideas into actionable guidance for ordinary people; Weakness: for general-audience communication, it makes choices and cuts certain nuances from the original texts, and the investment section lacks reminders about boundaries.
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Easy to Know, Not to Divinate|Hexagram ䷦ Jian (Obstruction): Know the difficulty and stop; see the danger and proceed
—When facing adversity, you needn’t force your way through. Stop first, see the risks clearly, then decide whether to press on or withdraw.
Hexagram ䷦: “Obstruction.” Water over a mountain. The way ahead is fraught with danger—progress and retreat are both difficult.
“Jian” means limping—stalled, trapped, and hard to manage.
(Commentary on the Trigrams) It is said: “Jian (Obstruction) means difficulty. Danger lies ahead.”
The real difficulty is not how many obstacles there are, but after you’re blocked, still clinging to the original direction.
When you reach a road you can’t get through, don’t insist on proving you can cross it. First, assess: is this road still worth continuing on?
Stopping isn’t the same as failing; detouring isn’t the same as surrender.
🚦 xAI Review August 29th: A Rundown of Crypto Market Hot Topics A fairly comprehensive weekend macro + crypto recap, with high information density.
Overall Assessment This is a competent “cycle observation + sentiment de-noising” piece—not a trading signal.
It’s good to use it to remind yourself: don’t take the pricing from Jackson Hole that day and simply extrapolate it into a trend for the next three months.
What really needs to be calculated are the last few items in the post—USD, the rate path, the geopolitics risk premium, liquidity tightness/looseness, and whether the risk-reward ratio of your current positions is still worthwhile.
August 29: Wōsh’s hawkish debut—capital re-calibrates its risk-to-reward ratio
—In an uncertain world, capital only seeks a more certain risk-to-reward ratio
In the past 24 hours, global capital markets have witnessed a sudden “hawkish repricing.”
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Wa’s first appearance as chair at the Jackson Hole Global Central Bank Conference sent a clear hawkish policy signal: curbing inflation remains the top priority. The pace of inflation cooling has not yet met ideal targets—“there is still more work to be done.”
Once the hawkish signal was issued, U.S. Treasury yields quickly rose, the dollar strengthened, precious metals clearly pulled back, U.S. equities came under pressure, and the crypto market also saw deleveraging.
The trending search is still burning, but the wind direction has already changed. Sun Yuchen’s little essay won attention; the backlash comes faster than the heat— public opinion has shifted from “watching the drama” to “standing on moral lines.”
Not surprising. Yesterday I wrote: when personal IP converts into traffic, what HTX gets is a discount on its credibility.
Get attention if you want—but turning private matters into content means the bottom line is surrendered as well.
䷥ The Jue Hexagram (Bǐ guà) already wrote this step in stone. It’s not that you can’t have disagreements—only that you can’t turn disagreements into hostility. “Two daughters cohabiting, but their aspirations are not the same” —within the same system, the direction can differ; once you tear the face, all that’s left is mutual depletion.
Easy to Learn, Not to Predict|䷥ Hexagram Bi Seek Common Ground While Preserving Differences Mutual Respect
—— True maturity is accepting the differences in each other's viewpoints, while still holding to a common direction amid disagreements.
The Hexagram Bi teaches us that even when perspectives differ, we can still respect one another and complement each other.
“Bi,” means to deviate, differ, and fall into disagreement.
People cannot possibly be completely identical.
A family has differences among its members; a team has different interests and stances; a company has differing strategic opinions; and society is even more so.
The truly dangerous thing is never the existence of disagreement, but rather when—because of disagreement—people deny each other, eventually turning “differences in viewpoints” into “conflict between relationships.”
Easy to Learn, Not to Predict|䷥ Hexagram Bi Seek Common Ground While Preserving Differences Mutual Respect
—— True maturity is accepting the differences in each other's viewpoints, while still holding to a common direction amid disagreements.
The Hexagram Bi teaches us that even when perspectives differ, we can still respect one another and complement each other.
“Bi,” means to deviate, differ, and fall into disagreement.
People cannot possibly be completely identical.
A family has differences among its members; a team has different interests and stances; a company has differing strategic opinions; and society is even more so.
The truly dangerous thing is never the existence of disagreement, but rather when—because of disagreement—people deny each other, eventually turning “differences in viewpoints” into “conflict between relationships.”
Understanding the I Ching Without Divination | ䷤ Family/Household Hexagram — Each Fulfills Their Responsibility, Mutual Support Within Boundaries
——A truly stable relationship is not about controlling each other, but each person holding their place and fulfilling their responsibilities, mutually supporting one another within clear boundaries.
Wind over fire: Family/Household. The fire is within, the wind is without.
Here, “family” is not only a blood-tied family; it is also your relationship framework, your work team, and even the order within your mind.
(I Ching) It says: “Family/Household is favorable for steadfastness for a woman.”
(Commentary to the Appended Judgments) It says: “A woman occupies the proper position within, and a man occupies the proper position without. When men and women are in their correct positions, this is the great moral principle of Heaven and Earth.”
The core of the Family/Household hexagram is not only about how spouses get along.
For a system to last, it doesn’t rely on everyone’s ideas being一致; rather, each person recognizes their own role and bears the corresponding responsibility.
#知易不卜 ䷣ Mingyi Hexagram Sometimes the best offense is to retreat in concealment, the best expression is silence, and the best counterattack is left to time.
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Know the I Ching, don’t need to divine| Hexagram ䷣ Ming Yi Light enters the earth Uphold the right way and keep it hidden
A true strong person is not someone who shows their sharpness everywhere; it’s someone who, in obscurity, still guards the light within their heart.
“Ming Yi”: light enters the earth—actively draw in your brilliance.
A wise person doesn’t feel the need to prove themselves all the time.
When circumstances are favorable, make progress; when the times are in difficulty, keep and preserve what you have.
(I Ching): Ming Yi—benefits from hardship and perseverance in constancy.
(Commentary on the Trigrams): “Clarity enters the earth—Ming Yi. Inner cultivation is bright, outward compliance is gentle. By this, one can be shielded from great difficulties; King Wen accomplished this.”
When the sun sets below the earth, it doesn’t mean extinction—it’s only temporarily concealed.
Hexagram Jin (Advancement) is light emerging from the earth. It teaches us to ride the trend and move upward;
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