At 3 a.m., staring intently at the candlestick chart, experiencing a rollercoaster of a few dozen U.S. dollars, then turning around and a big shot saying "to the moon," a few hours to financial freedom.

What right do they have?
Honest truth: the fundamental principle of making money is not working.
The most diligent people in the crypto world often can't make big money; programmers stay up all night losing hair and earning a fixed salary, project teams don't write code, relying on packaging stories to earn hundreds of times more.
Short-term traders sit anxiously watching the charts; exchanges don't care about price rises or falls, only collecting fees. Miners hear the machines roaring; Wall Street's ETF doesn't buy a single mining rig but earns trillions in market value.
Because they are working, while others are setting up a game.
Working means selling your time, producing a linear output—this is a linear model. Setting up a game involves designing rules, delivering, and matchmaking—this is an exponential model. Technology is a cost; selling air to retail investors is where the profit lies.
What if you have no capital?
Create an information gap! You don't know which chain to buy, but you know where the "dirt dog" news is; connecting the two becomes a trade. You don't need to build your own public chain, just know who has a chain and who wants to play.
The world isn't short of people staying up late coding and watching charts; it lacks those who understand emotions and design rules.
Don't be brainwashed into thinking that hard work leads to wealth; hard work isn't capital—it's the price paid when there's no way out.
Learn to go from a laborer selling time to a game designer setting up the rules; get closer to money, stay away from physical labor. If the direction is right, taking it slow doesn't matter.