Trading cryptocurrencies for ten years, I finally understand CZ's brutally honest words: The real risk isn't a sharp drop

I just watched an interview with Binance's CZ, and one sentence completely broke my defenses.
The reporter asked him: "After experiencing multiple crashes like 94, 312, 519, are you panicking?"
CZ smiled and said something that made me stunned for a long time:
"Volatility doesn't really affect me. Extend the timeline to 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, and cryptocurrencies will definitely rise."
Hearing this, my first reaction was—this person has truly seen the world.
Ordinary people see their accounts drop 10%, and their hands start to shake; drop 30%, and they can't sleep all night; drop 50%, and they cut their losses and leave the market, vowing never to touch it again.
But what has CZ experienced?
94: Bitcoin drops from 20,000 to 6,000, losing 70%
312: A 50% drop in one day, full liquidation across the network
519: Bitcoin halves, altcoins crash to zero
Which one wasn't hellish? Which one wasn't a despairing exit for countless people?
But he endured all of it.
It's not luck—he truly understood the essence of cycles.
Data doesn't lie: Over the past ten years, Bitcoin's annualized return exceeds 200%. But you have to hold on.
On-chain data shows: Less than 2% of addresses hold for more than 3 years.
That's why most people can't make big money—not because they didn't buy, but because they couldn't hold steady.
Just open any top gainers list, find a hundred-bagger coin, and look at its K-line.
Which one didn't drop so much that even your mom wouldn't recognize it? Which one didn't have countless people shouting "it's zero"?
But if you extend the timeline to three or five years, those terrifying pits are all filled in.
Volatility has never been risk; the real risk is—you're waiting for dawn but get off early.
Looking back ten years from now at today's market, today's surges and crashes are just a single needle on the K-line.
The question is—
Can you really hold on for ten years?
Share in the comments: What's the longest you've held?