Let’s be real — no one plans their best trades. Sometimes it’s just vibes, caffeine, and a gut feeling at 2:00 AM.
That’s exactly how it started for me. I wasn’t out hunting for Filecoin. I wasn’t following any alpha group. I was on Binance, bored, scrolling through the charts like a lost degen, when FIL/USDT caught my eye. Down bad. Oversold. Forgotten. Basically screaming, “Buy me if you dare.”
So I did.
I threw in a decent chunk — nothing reckless, but enough to feel something. $4.36 per FIL. My logic? Simple: real-world use case, decentralized storage, decent dev activity, and almost no hype. Perfect cocktail for an underdog pump.
Plus, everyone on CT was too busy chasing meme coins. No one was looking at infrastructure plays. I wasn’t trying to go viral. I was trying to catch a wave before the herd arrived.
No pump. No green candle. Just silence.
The next few days, Bitcoin dipped. ETH looked shaky. My FIL bags? Floating like a dead fish in a sideways market. I started asking myself the usual post-ape questions:
“Bro… did I just buy a ghost chain?”
“Why isn’t this pumping?”
“Should I have just bought PEPE like everyone else?”
But I held. Not because I’m diamond-handed. Just because I was too stubborn to accept I might’ve fumbled again.
Then came the shift.
Some Filecoin partnership news dropped — minor headline, not even trending. But the chart? It twitched. Volume picked up. Then a few whales started accumulating. I saw the wallets. I saw the green spikes. My inner degen screamed: “This is it.”
Suddenly, CT started whispering again. Not shouting. Just whispering — and that’s always the sweet spot.
