The summer of 2018 was unusually hot. I clutched the ten thousand yuan I had saved from my part-time job, sitting in front of an old computer in my rented room, my finger hovering over the 'buy' button on the exchange for three minutes. At that time, no one would have thought this seemingly impulsive transaction would turn into the string of numbers in my bank card six years later — thirty million.
In fact, I didn't even understand the term 'crypto world' at first. I didn't dare touch those hot big coins with my ten thousand yuan, so I spent three days scrolling through posts in the forum, and finally split my money into two halves: one half bought Ethereum, which was less than one yuan at the time, and the other half was placed on a small public chain with a tongue-twisting name, backed by a team in Singapore. The day after I bought it, it dropped by 15%, and I couldn't sleep at night staring at the K-line chart, calculating the 'worst-case scenario' on my phone's calculator. In the end, I realized that worst case, I could just start over, and I felt a bit relieved.
The real test came in 2020. The market crash in March was like a giant stone thrown into the market; the coins in my hand lost thirty percent in a day, and the forum was filled with posts about 'liquidating and leaving the market'. I looked at the less than four thousand yuan left in my account, remembering the days when I saved money by skipping meals, but I didn't click 'sell'. It wasn't because I was confident, but because I was lazy — at that time, I had just changed jobs, working overtime until ten every night, coming back to my rented place and collapsing into bed, and I had forgotten to keep an eye on the market. Two months later, when I remembered to check my account, I found that the small public chain had quietly increased tenfold because it had established a payment scenario, and Ethereum had slowly crawled back to the buying price. That day, I smiled at myself in the mirror in the company's bathroom; when a colleague asked, I could only say, 'I found a hundred yuan.'
Later, I didn't dare to be 'greedy' either. During the craziest part of the bull market in 2021, the small public chain rose to two hundred times its initial value. I liquidated it in three batches, leaving only Ethereum. Some people advised me to chase new coins, saying 'earning less is losing', but I always remembered that spring in 2020 when I wasn't keeping an eye on the market — the money in the market is like a tide; it's not the thought of 'earning more' that can carry you away, but knowing where you want to stand.
Now the thirty million in my account, half of it is the profit from those two coins, and the other half is what I accumulated over the years through regular investments and buying low and selling high. Occasionally, I pull out the transaction records from 2018; looking at that transfer of '10,000 yuan', I remember that summer's sweaty T-shirt and the faint light from the computer screen.
In fact, there is no 'legend'; it’s just that I didn’t panic when the market fell and didn’t get greedy when it rose, relying on a bit of luck and many moments of 'not acting impulsively', slowly walking to today.
And now, I have discovered a new coin in the primary market, which is the mythical MUA. It has deviated from its own market's self-cannibalization model and is aligned with the mainstream market. This point does not require innovation; I discovered it and got in with about two thousand dollars last year, and it has already increased by over twenty times!!! Everyone pay more attention to it!!! #MUA
