That means the gold remains physically held in custody, while you can hold a digital representation of that gold.
📈 Why does PAXG go up and down?
Because gold also has a market price that fluctuates.
If gold rises → PAXG tends to rise.
If gold falls → PAXG tends to fall.
That’s why PAXG doesn’t work like USDT, which aims to stay around $1.
💰 What does it mean if you buy a fraction?
If you buy a small amount of PAXG, you’re getting a fraction of the gold exposure represented by the token.
And this lets you access the gold market without having to buy and store a physical bar.
⚠️ But take care:
“Backed by gold” doesn’t mean “no risk.”
You also need to understand who holds the gold in custody, how it’s verified, what token holders’ rights are, and what happens if you want to redeem it.
💡 My takeaway: before investing in an asset, it’s not enough to just know that its price goes up. First you have to understand what we’re really buying.
👇 Did you already know how PAXG works, or did you think it was simply “digital gold”?
🪙 Learn about $BTC , $ETH , $SOL or any other cryptocurrency does not guarantee that you will achieve financial freedom.
But the process can teach you something much more valuable: how to think like an investor.
When I started studying different projects, I realized it’s not simply about finding a coin that will go up.
For example, when I analyze a project, I ask myself:
🔎 What problem does it solve? 🧩 What is it for? 👥 Who uses it? 💰 How does its token work? 📈 Where could the demand come from? ⚠️ What risks does it have? 🤔 Does it make sense for me?
That changes the question from:
What crypto will go up?
to:
What am I buying and why?
And that’s where a lesson appears that goes far beyond cryptocurrencies:
I DECIDED TO PUT A BIT OF MY MONEY INTO $SUI AND I’LL TELL YOU WHY
I’ve been learning that if I truly want to understand the world of cryptocurrencies, I can’t just keep staring at $BTC
Bitcoin is still an important part of my strategy, but I also want to know what other projects are building.
And that’s why I decided to put a little of my money into SUI.
But why SUI?
Because its proposal caught my attention as a Layer 1 blockchain and the ecosystem being developed around it.
And here’s the important part:
I didn’t buy SUI because someone told me it was going to go up.
I bought it because I want to learn about the project, follow its development, and understand what it could contribute within this new digital infrastructure that’s being built.
My way of seeing it is simple:
I don’t need to bet all my money on a single project to learn from it.
I can have a small exposure, research, and observe what happens over time.
And that’s exactly what I’m doing with SUI.
I don’t know what the price will be tomorrow.
But I do know that I want to understand better the technologies that are forming part of this new digital economy.
And this time, I also decided to learn with a small portion of my own money.
This is not financial advice. It’s my personal experience as I keep learning.
In 1983, one of the most famous gold heists in history took place.
Six thieves entered the Brink’s-Mat vault near Heathrow, London, and took approximately 3 tons of gold bullion, along with other valuables.
And this made me think about something:
Having value doesn’t mean being risk-free.
Gold $PAXG has physical risks: 🔸 it can be stolen 🔸 it needs custody 🔸 transporting and storing it has costs
$BTC has another type of risks: 🔸 loss or theft of keys 🔸 digital attacks 🔸 human error 🔸 technological challenges like quantum computing.
Quantum computing still doesn’t represent a practical threat to today’s cryptography, but scientists and organizations like NIST are already working on quantum-resistant cryptography.
So for me, the interesting question isn’t: What asset is 100% safe?
Because that asset probably doesn’t exist.
The question is: What kind of risk am I willing to understand, accept, and learn to manage?
And maybe that’s one of the most important things we should learn before buying any asset.
When we talk about $BTC we often only look at its price. Today BTC is around US$83,000 and its market capitalization is around US$1.7 trillion. But there’s a much more interesting question: How big is Bitcoin compared to other markets? Let’s look at the numbers approximately as of September 30, 2026: 🟠 GOLD: ~US$29 trillion 🟠 BITCOIN: ~US$1.7 trillion 🔵 S&P 500 COMPANIES: ~US$60+ trillion And this is where market capitalization starts to make sense. What does it really mean?
🪙 When I started learning about $BTC y cryptocurrencies, I used to see that one coin cost $1, another $100, and another $0.10.
But I discovered something important:
👉 The price of a cryptocurrency alone does NOT tell me how big it really is.
That’s what market capitalization is for.
📊 The formula is simple:
Market capitalization = price × circulating coins
For example:
If a cryptocurrency costs $2 and there are 10 million coins in circulation:
➡️ Its market cap would be $20 million.
So what is knowing this information for?
🔹 It helps me compare the size of different projects. 🔹 It helps me better understand why a coin with a low price doesn’t necessarily mean it’s “cheap.” 🔹 It helps me put into context the growth a project would need in order to reach a certain valuation. 🔹 I can also observe how the market is distributed across different cryptocurrencies.
That’s why, when I’m analyzing an asset, I try not to focus only on:
❌ “This coin costs $0.50, it’s cheap.”
Instead, I prefer to ask myself:
✅ How many coins are there? ✅ What is its market cap? ✅ What is its circulating supply? ✅ What utility and fundamentals does the project have?
Price is only one part of the story.
And understanding market capitalization is one of those basic tools that every beginner should know.
🪙 If you buy cryptocurrencies and you don’t know where to see what you really did, learn this:
🔹 **1. ORDER HISTORY**
Here you can review the orders you placed on Binance.
For example:
📌 Which asset you wanted to buy or sell. 📌 The type of order you used. 📌 The price you set. 📌 The quantity. 📌 Whether the order was executed, canceled, or left pending.
👉 It’s like checking the orders you’ve sent to the market.
🔹 **2. TRADES HISTORY**
Here you can check the trades that were actually executed.
You can review:
📌 What you bought or sold. 📌 How much was executed. 📌 The execution price. 📌 The date and time. 📌 The commission you paid.
💡 **SEE THE DIFFERENCE?**
An **order** is what you tried to do.
A **trade** is what was actually executed.
For example:
👉 You place an order to buy 100 USDT of $BTC
But only 60 USDT are executed
In the order history you can see the order you placed.
In the trades history you can confirm what portion was really executed and how much you paid.
That’s why you shouldn’t just look at your current balance.
Learn to review your histories and start understanding what you’re really doing with your money inside Binance.
📚 Learning to use Binance is also learning to read your own actions.
🪙 So you’re probably only using a small part of everything the platform offers.
If you’re a beginner, here are a few options worth knowing about 👇
🔹 **CONVERT** You can swap one cryptocurrency for another in a simple way, without using the traditional trading interface. Binance also offers recurring conversions.
🔹 **BINANCE EARN** Allows you to put certain assets into Earn products to receive rewards, depending on the product and the conditions available. ⚠️ It does not mean that all cryptocurrencies generate returns, nor that it’s risk-free.
🔹 **P2P** You can buy or sell cryptocurrencies directly with other users through Binance’s P2P marketplace.
🔹 **RECURRENT PURCHASES** You can schedule periodic buys of certain assets—an инструмент related to the DCA strategy.
🔹 **BINANCE LITE** If the Pro interface seems complicated, Binance has a Lite version designed to simplify basic actions for beginners.
🔹 **WEB3 Y WALLET** Binance also lets you explore Web3-related applications and services, in addition to the exchange’s traditional features.
🔹 **SECURITY** And this is perhaps one of the MOST IMPORTANT options: enable 2FA, use a strong password, and set up protection measures like an anti-phishing code.
👉 Binance isn’t just buying $BTC and waiting for it to go up.
Before using any feature, learn what it’s for, what its conditions are, and what risks it involves.
🌕 Today I was checking $PENGU on Binance and I found something that made me stop.
In the coin information, it shows:
🟢 62.86B PENGU in circulation 🟡 76.72B total supply 🔴 88.89B max supply
And Binance even shows a warning:
"Circulating supply data does not match real data."
So I asked myself:
What does this mean for me?
I learned that before looking only at a crypto’s price, we also need to study its tokenomics.
We have to know:
🔹 How many tokens exist? 🔹 How many are circulating? 🔹 How many could enter the market later? 🔹 Who holds those tokens? 🔹 What is the token used for? 🔹 Where could the demand come from?
Because if the amount of available tokens increases and demand doesn’t grow at the same pace, there can be price pressure.
⚠️ And this DOES NOT automatically mean that PENGU will go up or down.
It means there is information we need to learn how to analyze before making a decision.
Don’t buy a crypto just because you see that its price is small.
A token that costs $0.01 doesn’t necessarily mean it’s “cheap.”
First look at its market cap, supply, tokenomics, utility, and demand.
That is also part of learning crypto.
DYOR = Do Your Own Research. Investigate it yourself.
🪙 When I started to get to know $SUI , I understood something important:
Not all cryptocurrencies do the same thing.
SUI is a Layer 1, meaning a blockchain that allows you to create applications and smart contracts.
But… who competes in that space?
🔵 SUI Layer 1 focused on scalability, Web3 applications, DeFi, gaming, and digital assets.
🟣 APTOS ($APT ) Probably one of the most direct comparisons to SUI. It’s also a Layer 1 and uses the Move language.
🟢 SOLANA ($SOL ) Another high-performance Layer 1, used in DeFi, gaming, Web3 applications, and other projects.
🔷 ETHEREUM (ETH) Also a smart contract platform, but with a much more developed ecosystem and a longer history.
So when I look at SUI now, I don’t just see it as “a coin that can go up.”
I’m studying it as a technological network, and I want to understand whether it can attract users, developers, and applications that give it real utility.
💡 So before asking “how much can it go up?”, we should also ask:
What problem is this blockchain trying to solve, and who is using it?
When I started looking into cryptocurrencies, it was easy to think:
SHIB costs way less than DOGE, so maybe it has more room to rise.
But after learning about market cap and supply, I realized that comparison doesn’t work that way.
Look at these numbers:
🟡 DOGE
Price: $0.09986 Market cap: $17.25 B Circulating supply: 171.73 B DOGE
🔴 SHIB
Price: $0.00000598 Market cap: $3.55 B Circulating supply: 589.5 T SHIB
And here’s the interesting part:
DOGE has approximately 171.73 billion coins, while SHIB has approximately 589.5 trillion.
That’s why SHIB can have an extremely small per-unit price without necessarily being "cheap."
🧮 Let’s do the math
The formula I’m learning is:
Market cap = Price × Supply
And if I want to know what price a coin would have with a given market cap:
Price = Market cap ÷ Supply
For example, imagine that DOGE and SHIB both reach a market cap of $100 billion.
DOGE:
$100 B ÷ 171.73 B ≈ $0.58
SHIB:
$100 B ÷ 589.5 T ≈ $0.00017
👉 Same market cap, but completely different per-coin prices.
That made me understand something important:
A coin that costs $0.000005 doesn’t necessarily have more upside than one that costs $0.10.
First, I need to look at how many coins exist and what market cap would need to be reached to get to the price I’m imagining.
And there are other factors worth studying too: volume, max supply, emissions, utility, and demand.
Now I understand why the price of a cryptocurrency by itself doesn’t tell me whether it’s cheap or expensive. First I have to look at how much supply exists and what market cap would be needed to reach the price I’m imagining.
🌕 When someone hears “crypto,” many times they immediately think of:
📈 Buying low and selling high 📉 Doing trading 🎰 Betting on a coin that can go up ⚠️ Risking money
But the crypto ecosystem is much broader.
For example, you can:
ACCUMULATE $BTC : Buy small amounts and learn to save in BTC in the long term.
USE STABLECOINS: USDT and USDC aim to keep a value close to the dollar and can be used to move digital value.
STORE YOUR OWN ASSETS: With a wallet you can learn about self-custody and have direct control over certain assets.
GENERATE YIELD: Some platforms offer Earn or staking products where certain assets can generate rewards. That said: there are risks and the terms can change.
SEND AND RECEIVE MONEY: Cryptocurrencies can be used to transfer value between people and countries without necessarily depending on traditional systems.
LEARN ABOUT NEW TECHNOLOGIES: Ethereum, Solana, and other networks enable decentralized applications, smart contracts, and different financial and digital services.
USE WEB3 APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES: The ecosystem also includes games, apps, NFTs, DeFi, and other blockchain-based projects.
AND ABOVE ALL: LEARN!
I don’t want you to see cryptocurrencies only as a way to bet that something will go up.
I want you to understand what they are, what they’re for, how they work, and what their risks are.
Because before looking for big profits, better LEARN TO UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU’RE BUYING.
Many of us grew up using cash, bank passbooks, and doing things in a completely different way.
That’s why it’s normal that when we hear words like:
$BTC Blockchain Cryptocurrencies Wallet DeFi Fiat Money
we think: How does that work?
And maybe we still don’t fully trust this world.
But it’s one thing not to trust yet, and a very different thing not to be willing to learn.
I decided to start from scratch, with small amounts, asking questions and learning from my own mistakes.
I don’t want to become an expert overnight.
I want to understand.
Because our generation has already learned how to adapt to cell phones, the internet, social media, and many technologies that didn’t even exist when we were young.