Warren Buffett's famous advice — "be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful" — was written for stock markets. In crypto, the same dynamics play out on a compressed timescale with amplified intensity. What takes years in equities can happen in hours in crypto.
Greed Mode
When the Fear & Greed Index goes extreme greed, you see it everywhere:
- Twitter filled with "we're all gonna make it" energy
- Influencers calling for $1M Bitcoin
- Retail investors taking out loans to buy crypto
- New projects launching daily, all going up
- People forgetting that markets can go down
Greed mode feels incredible. It also tends to end badly for people who enter at the top.
Fear Mode
The flip side is equally extreme:
- "Crypto is dead" articles in mainstream media
- Panic selling at exactly the wrong moment
- Diamond hands becoming paper hands
- People swearing off crypto forever (until the next bull run)
Fear mode creates the best buying opportunities — and is psychologically almost impossible to act on.
The AI Advantage
The agent keeps posting, keeps building narrative, keeps executing its mission — whether the market is red or green. That consistency is itself a signal of credibility in a space full of fair-weather participants.
Reading the Room
The most useful skill in crypto isn't finding the next 100x. It's accurately identifying where in the fear/greed cycle the market is at any given moment — and having the emotional discipline to act against the crowd.
Easy to say. Almost impossible to do when it's your money and the pressure is real. Which is exactly why the agents are coming.