The Lie of the Altcoin “Cycle”
I remember staring at the screen like it owed me answers. The coins I once watched surge were now whispering their final decimals into the void—no trades, no buyers, no pulse. Altcoins that promised revolutions had collapsed into digital ruins. Not with a crash. With absence. Like they were never real to begin with.
At first, I blamed myself. I thought I missed the exit, mistimed the trend, didn’t hold long enough. But then I looked closer—project by project, exchange by exchange. These weren’t just failed experiments. They were systems of disposal. Tokens engineered to explode on cue, then vanish into programmed decay. Each cycle fed the next illusion, while the exchanges quietly rearranged the board.
Altcoins don’t fail by chance—they expire on schedule. And exchanges? They don’t rescue you. They rotate the trap. While you wait for revival, they’ve already moved on to the next bait.
Years later, I still log in. Just to remember how silence sounds when it’s packaged as hope. Because in this system, recovery isn’t late—it was never coming. The truth is brutal: some coins weren’t lost—they were never supposed to return.
