I think my ability to be so abstract is largely related to the extreme emotional volatility I experience in crypto. Only through pain taken to its extremity can one produce content with depth. Such painful insights... So I've stopped encouraging anyone to come here anymore. As for where I go from here, I don't know...

A few days ago I chatted with a newbie who just entered crypto recently. I told her that in the past, you could buy a meme coin, go to sleep, and wake up the next morning to find it had gone 10x or even higher. There was no PvP concept at all—just pick a good coin, be patient, and hold... She thought I was deceiving her, but that really did exist...

It's quite frustrating, no—it's quite schizophrenic... But I don't know how to describe how I feel right now.

Sometimes I think: what is meant to be will be, what is not meant to be should not be forced. In this dark jungle that is crypto, one careless moment and you become someone else's prey.

"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye or something. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around—nobody big, I mean—except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some goddam cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.

I know it's crazy. But that's the only thing I'd really like to be."

This is from the final passage of J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye." I think crypto needs someone like this—a watcher. Who should it be? Of course, someone who has lost enough to quit but still has affection for this industry... Let's encourage each other.