I met a guy in a group who does phone screen film in Longgang. He has a small kiosk in a mall—once he starts applying film, he’s been there for six years. His fingers are all callused from it, and he’s saved up around 300,000 yuan.

During the late-year wave of the counterfeit/surrogate coin market, he put 50,000 USDT into a new chain. In two weeks it went up to six figures. In the group, people were posting screenshots every day, saying that by year’s end he’d be able to get himself a used Porsche—and even his kiosk seemed like it might get sold off.

That night, around 3 a.m., I got up to get some water and happened to check. The coin started to plunge. When I looked again in the morning, the project’s Twitter account had been deleted and the Telegram group had been disbanded. The chart sagged so softly, like someone had sucked out its bones.

With that roughly 300,000 yuan in his account, plus a 20,000 USDT loan, more than 90% of it evaporated.

Now his kiosk is still open as usual, but his Moments/posts have gone from showing off “battle results” to being completely quiet. A few days ago he posted a photo of him applying film, with a line: “Still, this is the steady way.”

Do you have any counterfeit coins in your hands that are still pretending to be dead, unwilling to cut losses?

#币圈故事 #risk