#币圈起伏落袋为安 After waiting for two years, finally, the money you had in FTX started to be compensated. You happily opened the claims website, only to find that the mainland China region was banned again. Others received their money and started dumping, while you were still waiting.
You thought about it and decided not to care anymore; after all, you had already waited two years, what’s another two years? Adjusting your mindset, you opened the market website and saw that the $ETH you bought at 3800 had dropped below 2700 today, with another daily decline of 5%. You didn’t know what was going on with the airdrops staked in BERA and a bunch of other protocols, cursing E for being useless and hoping V wouldn’t say too much. You begged the foundation not to sell.
You thought to yourself, the March upgrade and the October staking until 2026 will surely bring back returns one day; since you’re not selling anyway, maybe you should send it to an exchange to earn some interest.
You compared several exchanges and decided to throw the remaining ETH into BYBIT to buy a flexible savings product. That night, BYBIT was hacked by North Korean hackers, losing 1.5 billion dollars. You scrolled through Twitter and saw everyone saying not to stand under a dangerous wall, feeling uneasy.
You immediately opened the exchange to withdraw your coins, and as expected, everyone was in a panic, the blockchain was congested, and the withdrawal was still under review. You remembered that the day FTX collapsed was just like this, but there was nothing you could do, and you didn't sleep well all night.
Fortunately, the next day, the ETH you had been waiting on finally arrived, and BYBIT hadn’t collapsed; it even kept buying ETH to fill up, creating a peaceful atmosphere. You sighed, noting that aside from the cryptocurrency prices being weak, everything else in the crypto space was quite strong.
But you didn’t dare to leave your assets in the exchange anymore, so you decided to keep the E in a cold wallet and not touch it. You wanted to find a USDT card for financial management to earn 8% annualized return, which would also be convenient for daily expenses.
Until the next day, you found out that Infini had also been hacked for 50 million. You didn’t know if it was employees running off with the money or hackers accessing accounts again.
Slumped in your gaming chair playing with the USDT card, you felt an unprecedented confusion. Why were you working so hard, yet the crypto space wouldn’t let go of your small amount? You felt that web3 was really too dangerous and decided to return to web2.
So you made the final decision to open the bank app and convert the last of your RMB into a USD fixed deposit, with an interest rate of 1.8%.
Three days later, the news broadcast reported that the exchange rate against the dollar had dropped below 7.5. Looking at the green numbers in your account, you suddenly realized—
It turns out you are the ever-worn living airdrop pool, and the entire crypto world is waiting for you to recharge next time.