From 1000U to 1 million U

A Zhe rushed into the cryptocurrency world with 1000U, not even understanding the K-line charts. His first investment was in an obscure altcoin that no one was paying attention to; it dropped for half a month, and his account dwindled to 600U. He spent a week eating instant noodles in his rented room.

Later, he forced himself to learn technical analysis, printing out valuable information from forums into thick notebooks, staring at the charts until three in the morning. One time, he discovered a project that was mistakenly sold off; the team was working diligently but got dragged down by the market, and he gritted his teeth and invested all his remaining money into it.

That half-year felt like walking on a tightrope. He rejected the temptation of “getting rich overnight” and only operated in markets he understood, saving a portion of his profits and analyzing losses. One time, during a market crash, his account shrank to only 20,000U; he stared at the screen and told himself, “The real opportunities hide behind panic.”

A turning point came one early morning. A public chain project he had studied for three months suddenly announced a significant upgrade, and he decisively increased his investment. Watching the K-line suddenly rise from a horizontal trend, the account number seemed to ignite, jumping from 50,000U to 200,000U and continuing upward.

Two years later, A Zhe looked at the number “1,000,000U” in his account, his fingertips gliding over the densely packed transaction records on the screen. He hadn’t forgotten the anxiety that initial 1000U brought him, nor the analysis notes from each late night. As he stood up, he transferred half of his assets to stablecoins: “Money is the result; learning to control desire and persist in understanding is what has truly been gained.” Outside the window, dawn was breaking, and he planned to use this money to open a small studio, first putting up a line on the wall: “Slow is fast.”