I met a girl I know—she works as a Chinese language teacher at an elementary school in Pingshan. She’s been teaching for over ten years. In her朋友圈 (friends circle), she only ever posts classroom group photos and book notes. Even grabbing红包 (red envelopes) online, she’s not particularly good at it.
Last September, she suddenly asked me. A parent of one of her students had given her a book about Bitcoin. She flipped through a few pages, couldn’t really understand it, but she found the term “electronic gold” pretty interesting. I didn’t take it seriously. I just casually said, “It’s too volatile—don’t touch it.”
Then this March, she told me that starting in October of last year, every time her monthly salary hit her account, she would transfer three thousand yuan to buy Bitcoin—every single month, without fail, like paying the water or electricity bill. I asked her why. She said she didn’t really know, so she figured she’d just treat it like saving money for the kid. She wouldn’t sell if it dropped; she wouldn’t even check if it went up. At one point, it fell by 30%, and she didn’t know because she couldn’t be bothered to open the app.
A few days ago, she finally opened it and found that over 300,000 yuan was just sitting in her account—while her initial investment was only a little over 40,000.
When she told me this, she was sitting in the school office grading student essays. Her tone was as calm as someone talking about cabbages getting more expensive at the vegetable market. I asked her what she planned to do. She said she would withdraw a hundred thousand yuan to buy a new computer for the child whose parent had given her that book. The rest she would keep there. “I’ll deal with it when I’m older,” she said.
You could call it luck. But her habit of dollar-cost averaging has never stopped—even during New Year when she goes back to her hometown, she’s still setting alarms to keep it going. You could call it knowing the game, but until now she doesn’t even know what a miner is. The only “logic” she’s picked up is: “Don’t use money you need for living to trade. Use spare money to slowly hold and burn it off in there.”
Later, I also talked to a few friends in my circle about it. Everyone fell silent for a long time. Someone said, “I’ve been trading for so many years—staring at charts and doing analysis every day—and in the end I still couldn’t beat a teacher who just clocks in on schedule.”
Do you know anyone like this around you—a completely unguarded idiot who just picked up a huge windfall?
#币圈故事 #The Faces of Humankind
Last September, she suddenly asked me. A parent of one of her students had given her a book about Bitcoin. She flipped through a few pages, couldn’t really understand it, but she found the term “electronic gold” pretty interesting. I didn’t take it seriously. I just casually said, “It’s too volatile—don’t touch it.”
Then this March, she told me that starting in October of last year, every time her monthly salary hit her account, she would transfer three thousand yuan to buy Bitcoin—every single month, without fail, like paying the water or electricity bill. I asked her why. She said she didn’t really know, so she figured she’d just treat it like saving money for the kid. She wouldn’t sell if it dropped; she wouldn’t even check if it went up. At one point, it fell by 30%, and she didn’t know because she couldn’t be bothered to open the app.
A few days ago, she finally opened it and found that over 300,000 yuan was just sitting in her account—while her initial investment was only a little over 40,000.
When she told me this, she was sitting in the school office grading student essays. Her tone was as calm as someone talking about cabbages getting more expensive at the vegetable market. I asked her what she planned to do. She said she would withdraw a hundred thousand yuan to buy a new computer for the child whose parent had given her that book. The rest she would keep there. “I’ll deal with it when I’m older,” she said.
You could call it luck. But her habit of dollar-cost averaging has never stopped—even during New Year when she goes back to her hometown, she’s still setting alarms to keep it going. You could call it knowing the game, but until now she doesn’t even know what a miner is. The only “logic” she’s picked up is: “Don’t use money you need for living to trade. Use spare money to slowly hold and burn it off in there.”
Later, I also talked to a few friends in my circle about it. Everyone fell silent for a long time. Someone said, “I’ve been trading for so many years—staring at charts and doing analysis every day—and in the end I still couldn’t beat a teacher who just clocks in on schedule.”
Do you know anyone like this around you—a completely unguarded idiot who just picked up a huge windfall?
#币圈故事 #The Faces of Humankind