A few days ago, I received a private message from a fan that struck a chord: 'I heard from an influencer that long-term holding can lead to easy wins. I held onto 3 coins for 8 months, and now two have gone to zero and been delisted, and the remaining one has dropped 99%. My principal has evaporated by more than half. Am I too impatient, or is long-term holding itself a scam?'

I believe many friends in the Binance Square have had experiences like this: scrolling through countless posts claiming 'long-term holding is the way to success', seeing others showcase their profits from holding mainstream coins, and listening to influencers preach 'just hold and you will win, time will give you rewards'. Thus, they follow the trend, treating 'long-term holding' as a lifeline, regardless of the quality of the coin, buying it and leaving it in their wallets, thinking this way they can avoid the pitfalls of buying high and selling low, and steadily make big money.

But today I must expose the cruel truth of the crypto world: long-term holding has never been synonymous with lying flat and winning, but rather the ultimate test of one's ability to select coins. There has never been a good thing in the crypto world where 'buying means earning', especially in a market where projects run away and coins go to zero every day. Choosing the wrong coin, no matter how long you hold it, will ultimately just lead to a zero outcome—this is not an alarmist statement, but a lesson learned by countless people with real money.

Do you remember the Luna crash in 2022? A top-tier public chain that once ranked in the top ten by market value, claiming to anchor the UST stablecoin to the dollar through an algorithm, spiraled into death within just three days. The price of Luna plummeted from nearly a hundred dollars to countless zeros after the decimal point, with nearly $40 billion in market value evaporating, and countless long-term holders lost everything overnight. Some even mortgaged their properties to enter, ultimately ending up deeply in debt.

There are also various Meme coins that will be launched in the next two years. Many people are attracted by the hype of 'celebrity endorsements' and 'thousands of times increase in minutes', entering with the fantasy of 'holding long-term, what if it becomes the next Dogecoin', but forget that most of these coins have no team, no products, and no actual application scenarios; they are essentially pure gambling and Ponzi schemes. Their lifespan averages only a few days to a few weeks, when the heat fades and liquidity dries up, the K-line chart will turn into a 'dead ECG' infinitely close to the zero axis, quietly going to zero without leaving a trace.

What’s even scarier is that many criminals are now using the guise of 'long-term holding guarantees profit' to issue so-called 'air coins', fabricating lies like 'coin value only rises and never falls' and 'annual returns double', even enticing investors to enter through methods like recruiting new members and offering rebates. Once they have enough money, they just run away, leaving behind a pile of worthless tokens and investors who have lost everything. These scams succeed repeatedly because they exploit people's desire to 'lie flat and win', turning 'long-term holding' into a tool for harvesting retail investors.

The reason many people fall into pitfalls is simple: they confuse 'long-term holding' with a mindless excuse, blurring the essential difference between 'long-term holding of quality coins' and 'long-term holding of junk coins'.

Coins that can truly be held for the long term have never been about randomly picking a coin and holding on; they must meet three core conditions: real technical support, mature ecological applications, and stable capital inflows. For example, mainstream coins like Bitcoin and Ethereum, which have been tested by the market for a long time, have meaningful long-term holding—however, even so, they will experience significant volatility, requiring you to have sufficient patience and risk tolerance, rather than blindly lying flat.

In contrast, those coins that are destined to go to zero all have a common characteristic: either they have no actual projects and rely solely on white papers; or their team backgrounds are unclear, frequently altering roadmaps; or they are highly manipulated by speculators, with prices rising and falling erratically. It may seem like there are gains, but in reality, it's just to attract retail investors to buy in; once the speculators sell off, it will directly collapse to zero, and no matter how long you hold, you will only be left with emptiness.

Every day in Binance Square, new people enter, and every day there are those who lose and leave due to choosing the wrong coin and blindly holding long-term. I have seen too many people invest their hard-earned wages and savings into junk coins, holding on to the fantasy of 'lying flat and winning', only to end up with a zero outcome. That kind of despair is something only those who have experienced it can understand.

So please remember: long-term holding in the crypto world is 'steadfast holding after careful selection', not 'passive lying flat after blindly following the trend'.

Don't be brainwashed by the rhetoric of 'long-term holding equals lying flat', and don't casually copy others' homework or mess with air coins and junk coins. In the crypto world, surviving is more important than anything else, and the key to survival is to give up the fantasy of lying flat and learn to select coins, safeguarding your own capital—after all, if you choose the wrong coin, no matter how long you persist, you will only end up with a zero outcome; choosing the right coin, long-term holding can truly realize wealth appreciation.

Finally, I want to ask: Are the coins you hold now carefully selected quality coins, or are they junk coins bought with a mindset of lying flat and winning? Leave your coin types in the comments, let's avoid pitfalls together, and refuse to go to zero!#避坑