Ozora Tsubasa may be one of the few people in the cryptocurrency circle who did not make his wealth through Bitcoin or issuing digital currency. Instead, he invested his entire fortune of 100,000 in one coin and held on to it for three years, not selling it even if it increased tenfold, a hundredfold, or a thousandfold. Now the coin in Ozora Tsubasa's hand has increased ten thousand times, and his profit has exceeded 10 billion.

This digital currency craze has created a huge human stage: greed, fear, anxiety about gains and losses, and the collapse of faith are all on display. All roles are helpless. Entering the circle early, understanding the technology, and having connections cannot guarantee that you will get out of it 100% unscathed.

Some people insist on "don't touch if you don't understand", such as Buffett; more people believe that "wealth and honor are sought in danger", and they repeatedly ask themselves: "You have missed the Internet and real estate, do you dare to miss Bitcoin?"

Once you have made a lot of money and enjoyed the joy and confidence that comes with getting rich overnight, it will be difficult to adapt to the loss of "earning less" and it will be difficult for you to give up the idea of ​​obsessing over shortcuts.

In a world where wealth flies by, 59 points is more despairing than 0 points.

All in IOTA with 100,000 yuan. No matter how chaotic the situation is, I remain unmoved and ultimately earn more than 10,000 times in 3 years.

Today’s protagonist is a legendary figure in the cryptocurrency world, a mysterious young man born in the 1990s from Shenzhen—Ozora Tsubasa.

Ozora Tsubasa, whose real name is Du Yitian, is a true 90s generation. He first started hanging out in the community under the identity of "Ozora Tsubasa". Ozora Tsubasa is the protagonist of the Japanese manga "Captain Tsubasa". He has loved football since he was a child. In real life, Du is also a football fan, and the origin of his name may be rooted in this.

He entered the cryptocurrency world in 2013 when he was still a sophomore. When his peers were thinking about where to travel during the summer vacation, he returned home from the UK. He carefully calculated on Taobao and assembled a mining machine at a cost of 20,000 yuan, which was the initial capital for Ozora Tsubasa to enter the cryptocurrency world. At that time, the computing power of GPUs could not mine any Bitcoins. It was the era of the baked cat mining machine and the Avalon mining machine, so Ozora Tsubasa decided to mine some unmined altcoins, such as World Coin and Feather Coin. By the end of the summer vacation, Ozora Tsubasa exchanged all the altcoins for Bitcoin, about 80. At that time, the price of a Bitcoin was 4,000 yuan, and Ozora Tsubasa made 10,000 yuan. At this time, he was still 4 years away from achieving his small goal.

At that time, Ozora Tsubasa just wanted to make some money and did not have a deep understanding of various currencies. It was no exaggeration to say that he was speculating in cryptocurrencies. But gradually, his ideas changed. In his own words, he began to have faith.

"The King of Soha" is the honorific title given to Ozora Tsubasa by the cryptocurrency circle, but even Ozora Tsubasa's friends may find it difficult to match his usual self with this title. In the eyes of his friends, he is just an ordinary boy who loves to listen to Jay Chou, travel, and make tea when he has nothing to do. How did he suddenly become a "gambler" in the eyes of others? But in fact, he is indeed a gambler, but compared to most people's blind gambling, he is more rational and has more endurance.

Initially, his belief mainly came from his admiration for the great people in the community. He believed that the world's top and most thoughtful talents were in the community. They were a group of great people with great faith. Their faith and driving force came from their fanatical admiration for "decentralization". "They did not develop for money at all. The reason why the market rose so much was the recognition of them and the recognition of technology."

As one of the earliest people to join the community, he still has deep feelings for the community.

Screenshot of Ozora Tsubasa's Moments

Fight to Fame

Sometimes, success is just a matter of doing one thing right.

The investment in IOTA made Ohzora Tsubasa famous overnight.

In 2015, a digital currency called IOTA conducted ICO crowdfunding. IOTA is a non-blockchain encrypted digital currency based on a new type of distributed ledger, Tangle, and is believed to be applicable to small payment scenarios in the Internet of Things.

At that time, there were only seven or eight people from China who participated, but in the end, only two people got it: Tsubasa Ozora and Jimmy (head of the IOTA Chinese community). IOTA raised more than 1,300 bitcoins at the time, worth about 3 million RMB, and each IOTA issued was about 0.001 RMB.

From the end of 2015 to June 2017, IOTA was always cheap. The IOTA China QQ group had less than 300 members until May 2017, but after the ICO boom began in June, IOTA skyrocketed, rising to 36 yuan in December 2017, a 36,000-fold increase. Tsubasa Ohzora's 100,000 yuan turned into 3.6 billion yuan, and he became a legend in the cryptocurrency circle.

IOTA finally raised more than 1,300 bitcoins, worth about 3 million RMB.

Then the story begins here. From the end of 2015 to June 2017, IOTA was very cheap, but after the ICO boom in June, IOTA skyrocketed, and by early December 2017, it had risen to about 36 yuan, which was 36,000 times higher than the issue price. The 100,000 yuan in Tsubasa Ozora's hands turned into tens of billions.

In June 2017, Tsubasa Ohzora posted on WeChat Moments that IOTA “had been held for two years without any action”

This is the price of IOTA on June 13, 2017. It reached a peak of 36 RMB in early December.

If Tsubasa Ohzora holds IOTA until December, his profit will exceed 3 billion. Someone once asked him to verify that he made billions. "Billions?" Tsubasa Ohzora laughed in disbelief. "No one in China can make that much." But he immediately added: "But I know someone who has made half of it." This sentence seems to say nothing, but it actually says everything that needs to be said.

Compared with other big names in the cryptocurrency circle, Ohzora Tsubasa is just a grassroots big V. He does not have the capital and connections to open a mine, an exchange, or issue tokens. He easily achieved the financial freedom that everyone dreams of just because he persisted in an investment for 3 years. But he also has his own dreams. If he had been willing to be a miner, digging for altcoins to make a little money, or quickly entering and exiting like many gamblers, today's cryptocurrency circle may have lost another legendary story.

Gambler's Self-cultivation

Panic and turbulent, these words are no exaggeration to describe the cryptocurrency circle in recent years. What force prompted Tsubasa Ohzora to invest his entire fortune for three years at a time? Of course, you can say that it is because the amount of funds is small, so he is confident to leave it there. This is indeed possible, but can we also try to get to know this legendary figure from another perspective?

The cryptocurrency world is a zero-sum game. Everyone who enters the market wants to win, but where there are winners there are losers. Who usually loses? Those who lose their patience.

Ozora Tsubasa has lost money before. In 2014, Bitcoin experienced a sharp drop. He lost more than 1 million yuan at that time to more than 100,000 yuan in an instant. He was very depressed for a while. "People are just not satisfied. I slapped my thigh every day at that time, thinking that it would be better if I sold it earlier." People are like this. They are afraid of missing out before buying. After the price goes up, they feel that they bought too little. After the price goes down, they regret not selling it earlier. This is a vicious circle, but there is only one core: when you make a lot of money once and enjoy the pleasure of getting rich overnight, you can no longer accept the reality of "earning less."

But Ozora Tsubasa saw through this early on. He believed that "buying and selling are not the best way to test an investor's overall quality. Rather, it is patiently holding on across bull and bear markets and criticism."

He warned his friends that the most taboo thing in investing is emotionality, "Only by managing your emotions and staying objective can you persist." From this perspective, his investment style is also quite Buddhist.

If gamblers also have self-cultivation, then what is reflected in Ozora Tsubasa is: continuous learning, staying rational, not hesitating when it is time to act, and not getting off easily once you have made a move.

But knowing is easier said than done, how many people can actually do it?

Some people say that Ozora Tsubasa won because of faith. People in the cryptocurrency circle love to talk about faith, but how many people know that it is not faith that makes them make money? They just happened to encounter a good opportunity and then did some things right. This is the fundamental thing, but the reality is that some people have spent their entire lives and still cannot find the secret.

If you believe this, Tsubasa Ozora may be your best role model.