The blue light of the screen at three in the morning reflects a pale face. The sound of keyboard tapping is particularly clear in the empty room. This is James Wynn's 327th late-night trade. No one knows that the 'crypto gambler' pointing the way on Twitter is currently staring at the wildly fluctuating Bitcoin price on the candlestick chart, his finger hovering above the mouse, trembling slightly.
From small-town boy to the 'Child of the Version', five years ago, no one would have believed that this bespectacled programmer who stuttered would stir up a storm in the cryptocurrency world. In 2021: with a principal of $2,000, he bet on the Ethereum merge in Binance's leveraged contracts, multiplying it by 87 times in three days under 40x leverage. In 2022: when the market collapsed, he shorted LUNA against the trend, harvesting $14 million in a single day, and the comments section flooded with 'the reincarnation of the Wolf of Wall Street'. In 2023: tagged as a '600k whale', he accurately escaped the peak during the surge of PEPE coin but was liquidated at the $100,000 mark of Bitcoin, losing $37.42 million. Behind the halo: every seemingly easy profit tweet hides 23 hours of bloodshot eyes watching the market, an Excel sheet reviewed repeatedly at 4 a.m., and the blank space on his wife's divorce agreement left unsigned.
Loneliness is the fate of traders. Do you think I am in a casino? No, I live on a more brutal battlefield.” James's pinned tweet hides the truth of a professional trader: information island: when retail investors chase the 'Trump coin' trend, he has long discovered liquidity traps in chain data. Trust dilemma: the team collectively resigned due to his insistence on increasing his position in MEME coin; now he manages a cold wallet worth $230 million alone. Self-game: trading records show that he often modifies his take-profit and stop-loss points late at night, as if negotiating with another self. The $37.42 million liquidation happened at midnight when Bitcoin fell below $105,000. He later admitted in a private channel: “Actually, I had anticipated it early, but I couldn’t let my fans down. Gambler or prophet? The community's evaluation of him is torn into two extremes: believers see him as a 'market prophet', and some even mortgage their houses to follow his PEPE coin operations. Critics accuse him of utilizing social media's 'survivorship bias', selling anxiety with a 1% success rate, but few notice a draft he deleted after the liquidation: 'If I could do it all over again, I would rather earn $50 million less to have those nights dining with family.'
To all lonely gamblers, the story of James Wynn has long transcended the ups and downs themselves. He is a spiritual totem in the crypto world and a magnifying glass of human weakness. The 40x leverage magnifies not only the profits but also the cracks of greed and fear. The crowd of fans cannot cover the buzzing of the computer fan late at night. The label of 'Child of the Version' will eventually be replaced by new hot topics, only the sound of keyboard tapping echoes eternally. When you cheer or sigh for his gains and losses in front of the screen, perhaps you should ask yourself, are we merely spectators of a wealth game, or are we gazing into another lonely soul's struggle?
