How many typical traits do guys in the crypto world have? They’re calculating, highly prone to gambling, love arbitrage, and if they can get something for free they’ll never pay.

And honestly, there’s no way around it. The crypto world might be one of the markets with the richest variety of global financial derivatives and the most arbitrage opportunities. Someone who initially didn’t understand finance at all can, after a few years of struggling and learning in crypto, go through futures, options, leverage, liquidations, hedging—then play through another round of DeFi. Their real-world experience in financial games may not be any worse than that of a finance PhD.

Especially after DeFi came along, borrowing, loop lending, LPs, hedging, arbitrage—every kind of financial structure is practiced day after day using real money.

So if you really try to treat crypto guys as “prey,” it’s actually the hardest group to catch.

You think you’re calculating their money—but they may have been calculating your odds, your costs, and your exit path since day one.

Even if you truly do manage to make a haul in the beginning, you’re still very likely to end up getting reverse-arbitraged in the end.

So going after a woman to catch a crypto guy is often the least cost-effective business.

You think you’re setting up the scheme, but from the moment they meet you, they may have already worked out the risk-reward ratio.

What the crypto world lacks the least is people who, after seeing bubbles, scams, and blow-off rallies followed by crashes, can still stay calm and unflinching.