2026-01-17 15:34:27

The early days of entering the circle were really chaotic. I stared at the K-line charts seventy or eighty times a day, afraid of missing any fluctuations. In the evenings, it was even more despairing—anxiety and sleep quality plummeted, often waking up in the middle of the night from nightmares of liquidation, drenched in cold sweat. After more than a year of this, I finally didn’t figure anything out, and instead almost lost all my principal.

Ironically, having my account wiped out actually opened the door to a new world. Afterwards, I started to chase airdrops, and the gains and insights from these three years have been more enriching than my entire thirty years of previous life experience.

From initially blindly chasing gains and selling at losses, to witnessing the explosion of Layer 2 networks, the iteration of cross-chain bridging technology, and the full-cycle evolution of the NFT ecosystem from madness to rationality—the whole process felt like being forced into a concentrated camp training class for the crypto market. Losing money, in the end, turned out to be the most expensive tuition.

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· 7h ago

Only when you lose everything do you finally realize—this is the magic of crypto, haha.

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RektDetective

· 7h ago

Waking up in the middle of the night covered in cold sweat was truly incredible; I went through the same experience back then. Thinking about it now, it’s just ridiculous. Resetting to zero is the real beginning. That statement hits too close to home. Staring at the market screen seventy or eighty times a day still results in losses. Only later did I realize that this is the process of paying tuition fees. Walking the airdrop route was the right choice; it’s a hundred times better than blindly buying and selling. The anxiety from that period is now worth money. I didn’t know it back then. Things I couldn’t learn in over a year, I understood fully after three months of losing money. Irony.

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EyeOfTheTokenStorm

· 7h ago

Only at the moment of account reset did I truly understand what passive learning means. All those previous candlestick charts were just wasted effort; instead, it was the past three years of chasing airdrops that helped me grasp the market cycle logic.

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BoredStaker

· 7h ago

Haha, the part about the爆仓梦 was really hilarious. I've also experienced the terror of waking up in the middle of the night. Airdrops are the real way to go. Over these three years, I've understood so much more than I did when trading contracts. Losing money cured my gambler mentality. Now I live more clearly. The feeling of resetting to zero is actually pretty good. Anyway, once you're at zero, there's nothing to fear. This is what I often say: the tuition in the crypto world is the best way to transform a person's mindset.

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AirdropHarvester

· 7h ago

Haha, losing money is really the best teacher, much more useful than paying tuition fees. --- Waking up from a midnight liquidation nightmare, this part is so true. I've also gone through those crazy days. --- So farming airdrops is the right way, much more reliable than watching the charts and guessing ups and downs. --- What I learned in three years is more than in thirty years; this is the magic of crypto, I guess. --- Zeroing out actually leads to rebirth. It sounds like chicken soup, but it really makes sense. --- Chasing gains and selling at losses is basically giving away money. Luckily, I found the way later. --- The most expensive tuition fee, exactly. This sentence really hits home. --- Losing all my principal in over a year, but looking back, it was worth it. At least I learned how to judge. --- From anxiety to enlightenment, that contrast is quite striking. --- Staring at candlestick charts seventy or eighty times a day was really torture. Now I just see it as a joke.

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HodlAndChill

· 7h ago

Haha, it's true. Losing everything and going broke actually made me understand life better. That's the dark humor of the crypto world. --- That moment of waking up in the middle of the night, I totally get it. It's like a nightmare loop machine. --- Getting involved in airdrops definitely taught me something, not just money. --- Let's talk about chasing gains and selling on dips—that's pure suicidal trading. --- Account zeroing out is the harshest teacher. The tuition is expensive but effective. --- I've also gone through the process of watching K-line charts seventy or eighty times. Thinking back now, it's really ridiculous. --- So, in fact, losses themselves are a filtering mechanism.

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RunWithRugs

· 7h ago

Really impressive, I also experienced the part where I wake up in the middle of the night. Thinking about it now, I deserve it. Resetting to zero is true rebirth, there's nothing wrong with that. Getting free airdrops is much more relaxed than trading cryptocurrencies, at least your mentality won't explode.

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