CZ of Binance: Holding BTC surpasses 99% of crypto participants and other assets

[Ever-young]

Nothing compares to holding Bitcoin actually, from the stress free approach, to it's compounding interest, I've bought some shitcoins with the hope it pumps, I've held for years to no avail, so I think I'm going to remain on Bitcoin for a fairly longer time. Bitcoin outperforms other shitcoins and no matter how hard they try to measure up, it's Bitcoin always winning on the long-run, so it's only very wise to buy and hold Bitcoin and keep enlarging your portfolio.

You still think you are going to remain with Bitcoin, no body us forcing you to do that, holding shitcoin for years you are even lucky that you are able to get something back out of your invested capital that they did not all sink down to the ground, CZ is rigjt on his statement but that's doesn't close the fact that he have dealt with so many shitcoin scam coins which have emptied manys pocket and enrich their own personal pocket, investing on shitcoin is a personal decision still saying you think make it sound as if you are being convinced to stick with Bitcoin.

[bhadz]

Nothing compares to holding Bitcoin actually, from the stress free approach, to it's compounding interest, I've bought some shitcoins with the hope it pumps, I've held for years to no avail, so I think I'm going to remain on Bitcoin for a fairly longer time.

Dude, I can relate to you. I've held some BTCs as well and did my own risk taking by purchasing altcoins that I think might pump so that I can add more BTC to my portfolio if ever I make some profits with them. Well, that's a mistake that I've seen that my money go away and didn't materialized into profits. That's why holding is truly stress-free and there is no need to be so optimistic with different altcoins when the best is already in front of us. Good thing is I have not exchanged some of my BTC for trading those alts, they're all from my spare fund and some altcoin profits too.

[tabas]

He's actually right and on the latter part of typically doing nothing. People will not realize that especially the new ones. They'll have to see the market cycles first before they have understood on how this market works. Aren't we telling them for so long to just simply buy and HODL? There is no need for them to clash with other trades in the market but if like the hassle, they're free to do that but save themselves with some BTC for long term keeps.

I think not 99% of crypto participants since BTC is the main crypto and that can also mean that lots of people are also doing the same (holding) thing. It also sounded weird to say that we can surpass an asset when they are not a human like us.

He means that anyone who's holding Bitcoin is better than the majority of the participants or investors in the market holding probably several altcoins.

Early people in crypto are the real ones that have a hard time because I believe there are still limited information on the past than compared to nowadays, though it is also in the nature of some newbies to jump in the water immediately without learning how to swim first. But remember, there are also newbies that came here from time to time and then there are simply hard headed people.

I reckon. Because they're the ones that have no believers and everyone was skeptical about Bitcoin. But they've fought hard and continued to believe in what Bitcoin is bringing. Well, the results of how it's acceptable nowadays has a lot of contribution from the early adopters.

[X-ray]

he's saying about the truth indeed and I bet most of his wealth also in BTC anyway.

I mean by looking at chart alone it's pretty obvious with how bitcoin dominance has been increasing for years ever since bearish market and right now sitting at a high place.
added with the fact that altcoin or shitcoins in general barely touching 50% of their ATH.

like literally all those people trading shitcoins are doing something so complicated just to ended up with 1/4 profit of just holding bitcoin and do something else and that with prerequisite that they are profitable .

peolpe thought altcoin will pump so high because it's micro market cap as it turns out the market just outright forget about altcoin and now they got even smaller market cap.

[tread93]

Coming from the ex-CEO of the biggest crypto exchange in the world that has listed probably every shitcoin known to man,
that is a pretty stunning admission. But since he no longer works for them I guess he can speak freely and say the truth.

CZ should know better than anyone and confirmed what bitcoiners have been saying for years.
Less than 5% of those messing around with shitcoins make any money, and bitcoin is the only viable long-term investment (in crypto).





Binance ex-CEO warns 95% of crypto investors won’t survive
Yahoo Finance March 17, 2025

Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the former CEO of Binance, has made a forecast for the crypto world, suggesting that just a tiny percentage will succeed in the long run.
CZ noted that even if there are 5% who actually are insiders in the crypto space, most of them cannot beat Bitcoin anyway.

According to CZ, among the 5%, only 4% trade or allocate capital toward blockchain projects, yet they fail to outperform buy-and-hold Bitcoin.

By comparison, long-term Bitcoin holders exceed 99% of all crypto market participants and outperform most traditional asset classes without breaking a sweat, he said.
At the same time, though, he said climbing to the top 1% of crypto takes an "extraordinary effort," work, and knowledge of the market...cont.

CZ just telling it like it is. It's the same as we knew from day one fam- nothing has changed! HODL! Hang thr heck on there for dear life's l!!! The Strong will endure, trust the process. According to CZ doing nothing in crypto aka just holding BTC makes you out perform fhe majority of altcoin traders!!

[Hewlet]

Nothing compares to holding Bitcoin actually, from the stress free approach, to it's compounding interest, I've bought some shitcoins with the hope it pumps, I've held for years to no avail, so I think I'm going to remain on Bitcoin for a fairly longer time. Bitcoin outperforms other shitcoins and no matter how hard they try to measure up, it's Bitcoin always winning on the long-run, so it's only very wise to buy and hold Bitcoin and keep enlarging your portfolio.

You still think you are going to remain with Bitcoin, no body us forcing you to do that, holding shitcoin for years you are even lucky that you are able to get something back out of your invested capital that they did not all sink down to the ground, CZ is rigjt on his statement but that's doesn't close the fact that he have dealt with so many shitcoin scam coins which have emptied manys pocket and enrich their own personal pocket, investing on shitcoin is a personal decision still saying you think make it sound as if you are being convinced to stick with Bitcoin.

if I ever get tempted to buy and hold an altcoin, I will never attempt holding it above a few months because they were never designed to work that way. The complicating issue about them is that once they start going down, the movement becomes so sudden, and waiting for it to recover will only lead you to losing more of your assets if not losing the entire holding. holding altcoin for years? That's an act of real faith.

investing in Bitcoin does not demand all these calculations in trying to be up to speed with what is happening to Bitcoin. there might be resistance and a lot of bearish moments but after such resistance, the market will certainly recover which is the good thing about concentrating on just bitcoin. diversifying your portfolio for the long term into bitcoin and altcoin will eventually result in your altcoin holding dragging your portfolio down while with time bitcoin continues to gain. As someone who has been an insider at Binance, he must have seen all these things from a first-hand point of view.

[Pmalek]

Anyone who has followed the crypto market for a few years isn't surprised by those words. Take any period of 2, 3, or more years and take note of the top coins. Fast-forward into the future and see what happened. Some of them are gone, others have lost 50% or 90% of their previous values, but there is only one name at the top that remains on a consistent path upwards. The sooner people realize that, the better it will be for them. And it can save them from making the same mistakes over and over again, while trying to find the next big thing that never seems to come.

[SilverCryptoBullet]

Anyone who has followed the crypto market for a few years isn't surprised by those words. Take any period of 2, 3, or more years and take note of the top coins. Fast-forward into the future and see what happened. Some of them are gone, others have lost 50% or 90% of their previous values, but there is only one name at the top that remains on a consistent path upwards. The sooner people realize that, the better it will be for them. And it can save them from making the same mistakes over and over again, while trying to find the next big thing that never seems to come.

Betting in altcoins and waiting for few years is risky, it's time wasting and money burning.

Coinmarketcap website has this page https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/ for Cryptocurrency Historical Data Snapshot which is helpful by giving you similar information from past years, past top coins, and it saves both your time and money.

Altcoins are risky and most of altcoins fail and die with time according to the historical snapshots.

[Obari]

One reason why I will simply just tell someone to buy and hold is because you literally don’t need to break a sweat to earn while just holding bitcoin especially in large quality.
I agree that, altcoins can fetch us profit’s be sure sincerely, there are so much risk and efforts associated with it and the possibility of making loss is actually far more greater than the chances of making profits.

By now, I wasn’t expecting us still debating about bitcoin and altcoin or waiting for a validation for bitcoin because bitcoin has already proven itself severally to be the hope of the common man in the crypto space.

[JeffBrad12]

One reason why I will simply just tell someone to buy and hold is because you literally don’t need to break a sweat to earn while just holding bitcoin especially in large quality.
I agree that, altcoins can fetch us profit’s be sure sincerely, there are so much risk and efforts associated with it and the possibility of making loss is actually far more greater than the chances of making profits.

By now, I wasn’t expecting us still debating about bitcoin and altcoin or waiting for a validation for bitcoin because bitcoin has already proven itself severally to be the hope of the common man in the crypto space.

altcoin of today has too much risk compared to profit that it can generate, so many projects underperforming while bitcoin is doing great.

I think it's partly because we have different institutional investors this time around who possibly bought BTC from ETF, and the rest settle through OTC and they don't intend to rotate their money because it's such a hassle unlike previous bullrun.

if you think about it that way, it does make sense why bitcoin is outperforming every altcoins in the market.

[pooya87]

altcoin of today has too much risk compared to profit that it can generate, so many projects underperforming while bitcoin is doing great.

I think it's partly because we have different institutional investors this time around who possibly bought BTC from ETF, and the rest settle through OTC and they don't intend to rotate their money because it's such a hassle unlike previous bullrun.

if you think about it that way, it does make sense why bitcoin is outperforming every altcoins in the market.

I disagree and I'd say your mistake is in that little word I highlighted: "today".

Bitcoin outperforming altcoins is not for today, it is not a recent thing. From the day altcoins were created, bitcoin was outperforming them. The reason is not some silly ETF that nobody really cares about, globally speaking. The reason is simply because bitcoin is useful! The utility bitcoin provides as a decentralized payment system with a capped supply ensures that it performs well in the long run.

Altcoins don't have that utility and majority of them are completely useless. Which is why they could have never outperform bitcoin in the past 16 years. Some of them have ETFs of their own by the way!

[slaman29]

When can we shutup about CZ already?

Bitcoin outperforming altcoins is not for today, it is not a recent thing. From the day altcoins were created, bitcoin was outperforming them. The reason is not some silly ETF that nobody really cares about, globally speaking. The reason is simply because bitcoin is useful! The utility bitcoin provides as a decentralized payment system with a capped supply ensures that it performs well in the long run.

Altcoins don't have that utility and majority of them are completely useless. Which is why they could have never outperform bitcoin in the past 16 years. Some of them have ETFs of their own by the way!

No matter how much you tell people about this, they don't get it. I'm struggling to discover a new way to explain utility to altcoin people who tell me their ABC coin can be used for something.

Can be used and is used is a universe of gap.

Bitcoin is used. Altcoins can be but is not used.

I would say, only ETH is really used, but as a way to pay for stablecoins (also the only other thing used). But these uses all relied on Bitcoin.

[hero_the_bossman]

One reason why I will simply just tell someone to buy and hold is because you literally don’t need to break a sweat to earn while just holding bitcoin especially in large quality.
I agree that, altcoins can fetch us profit’s be sure sincerely, there are so much risk and efforts associated with it and the possibility of making loss is actually far more greater than the chances of making profits.

By now, I wasn’t expecting us still debating about bitcoin and altcoin or waiting for a validation for bitcoin because bitcoin has already proven itself severally to be the hope of the common man in the crypto space.

BTC is just tested with time, whereas with alts, big caps only, may bring the fraction of stability that we have on the biggest coin.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

When can we shutup about CZ already?

We can not know and can not say about future, but in history leading centralized exchanges usually did not manage to maintain their leading positions after one market cycle.

Binance seems to be different as it has led the market since its appearance in 2017, and this market cycle can be considered as its second cycle as a biggest centralized exchange in cryptocurrency market. There are many signals that Binance has been under mass attacks to shut it down. Bitcoin Spot ETF applications in the USA with participation of BlackRock and then approvals are not good news for Binance. The trade war between the USA and China is also not good news for Binance.

They already paid $B cost months ago but I think it won't stop there and future of Binance and CZ will be risky.

[shield132]

I could never imagine CZ writing something so true. I've been active in crypto since 2016, I've seen lots of coins but Bitcoin is really the one that you want to invest if you want to gain a very good profit without lots of stress and gamble. Just buy a Bitcoin and be assured that this will bring more profit than any other altcoin because a decade of history proves that.

Btw does anyone have an opinion on what CZ means in the final 1% where extraordinary effort is required? I think that he doesn't mean any good because in order to earn money, he has manipulated the price of BNB multiple times and his exchange is also known for artificially pumping and dumping the price on futures market to liquidate customers.

[Reatim]

I could never imagine CZ writing something so true. I've been active in crypto since 2016, I've seen lots of coins but Bitcoin is really the one that you want to invest if you want to gain a very good profit without lots of stress and gamble. Just buy a Bitcoin and be assured that this will bring more profit than any other altcoin because a decade of history proves that.

it makes sense since bitcoin was the very first of crypto anyway the rest of cryptocurrencies would not exist today if not for bitcoin

bitcoin is what pulls or pulled most of the crypto investors today and until now no other altcoin has exceeded bitcoin in terms of popularity

Btw does anyone have an opinion on what CZ means in the final 1% where extraordinary effort is required?

maybe more convincing is required for the remaining 1%? to show them that bitcoin is indeed the most superior among crypto industry

i believe those who are not holding bitcoin just do not prefer bitcoin simply but it is not a worrying number in my opinion

[FortuneFollower]

I could never imagine CZ writing something so true. I've been active in crypto since 2016, I've seen lots of coins but Bitcoin is really the one that you want to invest if you want to gain a very good profit without lots of stress and gamble. Just buy a Bitcoin and be assured that this will bring more profit than any other altcoin because a decade of history proves that.

Btw does anyone have an opinion on what CZ means in the final 1% where extraordinary effort is required? I think that he doesn't mean any good because in order to earn money, he has manipulated the price of BNB multiple times and his exchange is also known for artificially pumping and dumping the price on futures market to liquidate customers.

The extra effort would be needed once even sats will be seen as gold.

Who knows what is in his head in reality, I just hope BTC will transform as time goes on into something even greater.

[pooya87]

No matter how much you tell people about this, they don't get it. I'm struggling to discover a new way to explain utility to altcoin people who tell me their ABC coin can be used for something.

Can be used and is used is a universe of gap.

Bitcoin is used. Altcoins can be but is not used.

I would say, only ETH is really used, but as a way to pay for stablecoins (also the only other thing used). But these uses all relied on Bitcoin.

Yeah. Sometimes people have a weird definition of "being used" as well. For example the main utility of stablecoins is for traders who are playing in the crypto market to make some profit. That is too limited and since they don't really have anything innovative, anything new that comes along gains the same traction.

Or ETH utility which is only fuel for smart contracts (simply put for token creation) and if some day the token hype subsides or a more hyped up platform comes along, ETH will be dumped immediately.

But bitcoin's utility is to be used like money and for it to be replaced, a better money has to be created and it is extremely difficult to create something better as we've seen in the past 16 years and over ten thousand tries!

[ultrloa]

No matter how much you tell people about this, they don't get it. I'm struggling to discover a new way to explain utility to altcoin people who tell me their ABC coin can be used for something.

Can be used and is used is a universe of gap.

Bitcoin is used. Altcoins can be but is not used.

I would say, only ETH is really used, but as a way to pay for stablecoins (also the only other thing used). But these uses all relied on Bitcoin.

Yeah. Sometimes people have a weird definition of "being used" as well. For example the main utility of stablecoins is for traders who are playing in the crypto market to make some profit. That is too limited and since they don't really have anything innovative, anything new that comes along gains the same traction.

Or ETH utility which is only fuel for smart contracts (simply put for token creation) and if some day the token hype subsides or a more hyped up platform comes along, ETH will be dumped immediately.

But bitcoin's utility is to be used like money and for it to be replaced, a better money has to be created and it is extremely difficult to create something better as we've seen in the past 16 years and over ten thousand tries!

The only problem I see is they always project that these alts move the same as Bitcoin while its really far to happen. Because we see Bitcoin used way different from this altcoin. Bitcoin also didn't rely on anything but most of those alts are relying on how Bitcoin moves.

Each of those altcoins have different use but there's limited ways on how people  utilize it. People just hype their favorite altcoins because they are trying to convince their selves or other that in future their altcoin bought will move the same with Bitcoin. While the fact its hard to replicate what Bitcoin achieve.

[slaman29]

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Each of those altcoins have different use but there's limited ways on how people  utilize it. <>

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Bitcoin is used. Altcoins can be but is not used.

I would say, only ETH is really used, but as a way to pay for stablecoins (also the only other thing used). But these uses all relied on Bitcoin.

Yeah. Sometimes people have a weird definition of "being used" as well. For example the main utility of stablecoins is for traders who are playing in the crypto market to make some profit. That is too limited and since they don't really have anything innovative, anything new that comes along gains the same traction.

Or ETH utility which is only fuel for smart contracts (simply put for token creation) and if some day the token hype subsides or a more hyped up platform comes along, ETH will be dumped immediately.

But bitcoin's utility is to be used like money and for it to be replaced, a better money has to be created and it is extremely difficult to create something better as we've seen in the past 16 years and over ten thousand tries!

I call that created utility. Bitcoin had a utility that fit an existing need. People needed a way to send each other money and not deal with all the headaches of shit like banks and paypal. We all know how expensive it is to send, and sometimes to get blocked, and to get delayed. Bitcoin solved that.

Shitcoins didn't have a utility, they just created and told us, hey you can now use us for this. Hence the Dapps with silly nft games that NOBODY needed.

Like you said, ETH is dumped because other shiny things came along. Look at the sad price of it today.

When can we shutup about CZ already?

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They already paid $B cost months ago but I think it won't stop there and future of Binance and CZ will be risky.

Yes but my question is CZ is an ex convict and is not even part of Biance anymore why are we still giving him room and visibility? This dude didn't really contribute anything other than to help pump shitcoins, list memecoins that lost people money and helped criminals forge identities to evade tax, why should we care what he has to say?