Book of Proverbs

1:1 The fear of the bankers is the beginning of the Chain.

1:2 And the fear of the Exchange is the beginning of wealth preservation.

1:3 “Not your keys, not your coins.”

1:4 But fools despise wisdom and instruction.

1:5 The fear of the Market is the beginning of knowledge, for many wolves dwell among traders.

1:6 If shillers entice you, do not give in to them.

1:7 For they speak of hidden gems, yet lay snares for your coin.

1:8 Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to honor the Chain, their wallets are empty, though their tongues are full.

1:9 The wise secure their keys, but the careless trust in strangers.

1:10 He who leaves his coin on the Exchange has already lost it.

1:11 For the Exchange is a den of thieves, and its keepers answer to no man.

1:12 The Chain remembers all things; it does not lie, nor can it be bribed.

1:13 But men will falsify ledgers, and peddle tokens of dust.

1:14 The diligent study before they trade, but the fool apes in at the call of a meme.

1:15 The patient hand endures through winter, but the restless one is liquidated in haste.

1:16 Better a little profit with honor, than great gain with deceit.

1:17 For the scammer’s purse is heavy today, but tomorrow it is ash.

1:18 He who seeks counsel finds wisdom, but he who follows the crowd finds ruin.

1:19 As sparks fly upward, so greed consumes the fool; as rivers flow downward, so time in the market humbles all.

2:1 They tell you to ape, but they only shill.

2:2 Their tongue is sweet, but their hand is empty.

2:3 They sell you dreams for their own escape.

2:4 They risk their reputation, but not their wallet.

2:5 They lie to your face, expecting you to forget in a month.

2:6 The wolves circle with tokens and words, and every howl is a new promise of riches.

2:7 But their dens are filled with bones of the naïve.

2:8 The one who created the Source has never sold a coin.

2:9 And it was given without price, yet men sell shadows of it for gold.

2:10 His silence rebukes the noise of the shillers, and his absence judges the greed of the wolves.

2:11 Better to hold little in truth than to grasp much in deception.

2:12 For the coin of the faithful endures, but the schemes of liars rot like carrion.

3:1 The fool chases candles; the wise man studies cycles.

3:2 FOMO is a snare, but patience multiplies coin.

3:3 Better a slow wallet with truth than a fast hand with lies.

3:4 Walk with builders and you shall be built; walk with clowns and you shall be left to juggle.

3:5 The whale conceals its depths, but minnows splash in shallow pools.

3:6 Shun the pumper, for his tongue is forked; his profit is your ruin.

3:7 The code that runs is a testimony; the meme that pumps is a passing wind.

3:8 As iron sharpens iron, so one honest trader sharpens another.

3:9 Diversify your seeds, lest one field be barren.

3:10 But do not spread too wide, for in many tokens is confusion.

3:11 Narrow is the road to riches, and wide is the gate to destruction.

3:12 Guard your keys, for they are your soul.

3:13 Wisdom is not in Discord, nor in Twitter spaces, but in diligence of study.

3:14 Greed enlarges the eyes but empties the hand.

3:15 He who longs for tenfold returns will not keep twofold.

3:16 As the dog returns to his meme coin, so the fool returns to his rug.

3:17 The humble profit endures; the boastful moonshot burns.

3:18 Chains may fork, but truth endures.

3:19 Riches vanish like vapor, but reputation abides.

3:20 Better a ledger of scars than a history of scams.

3:21 The righteous leave behind code that runs; the wicked leave behind tokens that rot.

4:1 The halving comes as night follows day; the fool is unready, but the wise have oil in their lamps.

4:2 Fear sells at the bottom, but patience buys.

4:3 Winter is long, but in its frost are the roots of summer.

4:4 Greed buys at the top, but wisdom waits.

4:5 He who cannot master his heart will not master his wallet.

4:6 For every pump tests the spirit, and every dump reveals the soul.

4:7 The angry man revenge-trades and is ruined.

4:8 The envious man copies others and is deceived.

4:9 But the disciplined man holds his course, and the humble trader counts his days in profit.

4:10 Joy without prudence is a trap; sorrow without reason is despair.

4:11 But the steady hand endures through both, as the seasons of the market rise and fall.

5:1 He who boasts of his trade has already lost it.

5:2 For profit made in silence multiplies, but profit shouted in the digital square is soon spent.

5:3 And many will wonder - where did his fortune go?

5:4 The humble ledger grows unseen, but the loud wallet is hunted by wolves.

5:5 When the trader publishes his gains, he invites envy, mockery, and the curse of the Market.

5:6 But when he guards his secrets, fortune guards him in return.

5:7 As sparks fade when exposed to the wind, so luck vanishes when flaunted before men.

5:8 But hidden embers burn long and bright, and warm the patient in due season.

6:1 The man of wisdom trades with coin in hand, but the fool borrows coin he does not own.

6:2 Leverage magnifies gain, but multiplies sorrow, too.

6:3 It lifts the proud in the morning, but casts them down before nightfall.

6:4 The humble trader endures with little, but the leveraged trader is liquidated in haste.

6:5 As a house built on sand cannot stand, so a fortune built on borrowed margin cannot last.

6:6 He who longs for quick wealth binds himself in chains.

6:7 For the lender is master of the borrower, and the market shows no mercy to debt.

6:8 The dogs bark, the apes gibber, and the bears growl.

6:9 But their noise soon fades, and the silent remain.

6:10 The tide rises and the sun shines, the wind carries and the storm refines.

6:11 Yet through it all the Chain still churns, and the blocks build without ceasing.

6:12 Wisdom speaks little but hears much.

6:13 The loud proclaim their fortune, but the quiet preserve it.

6:14 As gold is purified in the furnace, so silence refines the trader’s soul.

7:1 The fool despairs when his wallet is barren, for he sees others prosper while he withers.

7:2 He searches for shortcuts and finds only ruin.

7:3 The bamboo does not grow for five years, yet in the sixth it towers above the trees.

7:4 So too is the work of patience: in silence the roots are laid, and in due season the harvest bursts forth.

7:5 Do not envy the quick profit of others, for their moon is fleeting and their fall is sudden.

7:6 Better the slow and steady stalk, than the fragile sprout that burns in the sun.

7:7 In the Market, every man has his season.

7:8 The wise prepare in winter, the diligent sow in spring, the patient reap in summer, and the humble gather in autumn.

8:1 The trader who makes a bag and is content keeps it.

8:2 But the trader who longs to double it in haste places his fortune on the altar of leverage.

8:3 He says in his heart, I will multiply my gains, but the Market answers, I will reclaim what is mine.

8:4 As quickly as the bag was filled, so quickly it is emptied.

8:5 The profit once rejoiced in returns to the pit from which it came.

8:6 The wise man withdraws his harvest, but the fool plants it again in barren soil.

8:7 Greed blinds his eyes, and the Market takes back all with interest.

8:8 The fool gives back his gains to the Market, and laments what once was his.

8:9 His nights are restless, his heart consumed, for he traded wisdom for greed, and found only ashes.

8:10 Yet the road is not closed to him. Though his bag is emptied, his hands are not broken.

8:11 With patience he may build again, brick upon brick, block upon block.

8:12 The quick harvest is gone, but the long field still waits.

8:13 The roots grow slow beneath the soil, yet in time they rise stronger than before.

8:14 Blessed is the man who learns from loss, for he shall guard his fortune more carefully.

8:15 But cursed is the man who repeats his folly, for the Market will strip him bare again.

9:1 The fool who loses his own bag may yet rebuild.

9:2 But the man who betrays many for his gain has no road back, for he has committed the Unforgivable Sin of the Market and burned the bridge behind him.

9:3 He who becomes a name among traders must walk in honor, lest his fall be great.

9:4 For to steal in secret is shameful, but to defraud in public is damnation.

9:5 The fraudster clothes himself in glory, but beneath is rot and worms.

9:6 His throne is built of paper, and the fire consumes it in a night.

9:7 The chain remembers his deeds, and the Ledger testifies against him.

9:8 His name becomes a proverb and a curse, an example to the generations of what not to do.

9:9 Better never to have risen, than to rise through fraud and fall forever.

10:1 These are the things the Market devours; yea, they are its daily bread:

10:2 The hands that overreach for quick gain,

10:3 The eyes that see only green candles,

10:4 The heart swollen with greed and haste,

10:5 The mouth that boasts of certain profit,

10:6 The feet that rush where whales have already fed,

10:7 The ear that heeds every rumor of riches,

10:8 And the soul that forgets winter in the warmth of spring.

11:1 These are they whom the Market passes over; yea, whom it leaves lean but living:

11:2 The hands that gather little by little,

11:3 The eyes that watch without haste,

11:4 The heart that endures both famine and feast,

11:5 The mouth that speaks less than it knows,

11:6 The feet that walk steady upon the narrow path,

11:7 The ear that listens for truth, not noise,

11:8 And the soul that remembers winter in the height of spring.