In the group, there’s a guy who does renovations in Sakata—he tiles the place. He’s been doing it for ten-odd years, and his hands have calluses harder than the soles of his shoes. He has a habit: every year at the end, he finishes collecting all the labor payment. He keeps enough for the New Year, and then splits the rest into two parts—one he saves, and the other he casually spends on a few coins.
In the spring of 2019, he went to work for a homeowner to tile the balcony. The homeowner was into technology himself. While watching the work, he chatted with the tiler and told him about something new—domains on Ethereum. They cost only dozens of yuan each. You can buy them and hold them. Back then, he thought it wasn’t expensive, so he treated it like paying for a drink and casually bought a few. The money he spent was still less than his daily labor payment.
After that, he forgot about it.
That autumn, his old father in the family was hospitalized and needed to pay a deposit. For a moment he couldn’t come up with enough cash on hand. He dug through his phone and remembered he still had those few domains. When he checked the prices, he found that half a year hadn’t moved much—and they were actually down a bit compared to what he paid. He couldn’t be bothered to research. He just sold everything and got a few thousand yuan out of it, exactly enough to cover the deposit. And he muttered that the stuff on the computer was really unreliable.
You all probably know what happened next. That batch of domains later kept climbing all the way up. There was one with a short character name—rumor has it that at its most expensive, someone listed it at a six-figure price and there were still people willing to take it. One time he was eating during a workday when he saw someone pull it up on their phone. He paused his chopsticks for two seconds and said, “Forget it—my dad’s sickness was more urgent back then,” then he went on eating his boxed lunch.
A few days ago, someone in the group brought this up. He算了一笔账 (calculated it himself). He said that if those domains had been kept until now, they would be enough to pay off the mortgage on the home he lives in all at once. After he posted that, he ran off to pick up his kid from school and didn’t say more.
Have you ever had something like this? You sold something back then just to solve a real, concrete problem, and only later did you realize you’d sold it right at the starting point? #币圈故事 #风险
In the spring of 2019, he went to work for a homeowner to tile the balcony. The homeowner was into technology himself. While watching the work, he chatted with the tiler and told him about something new—domains on Ethereum. They cost only dozens of yuan each. You can buy them and hold them. Back then, he thought it wasn’t expensive, so he treated it like paying for a drink and casually bought a few. The money he spent was still less than his daily labor payment.
After that, he forgot about it.
That autumn, his old father in the family was hospitalized and needed to pay a deposit. For a moment he couldn’t come up with enough cash on hand. He dug through his phone and remembered he still had those few domains. When he checked the prices, he found that half a year hadn’t moved much—and they were actually down a bit compared to what he paid. He couldn’t be bothered to research. He just sold everything and got a few thousand yuan out of it, exactly enough to cover the deposit. And he muttered that the stuff on the computer was really unreliable.
You all probably know what happened next. That batch of domains later kept climbing all the way up. There was one with a short character name—rumor has it that at its most expensive, someone listed it at a six-figure price and there were still people willing to take it. One time he was eating during a workday when he saw someone pull it up on their phone. He paused his chopsticks for two seconds and said, “Forget it—my dad’s sickness was more urgent back then,” then he went on eating his boxed lunch.
A few days ago, someone in the group brought this up. He算了一笔账 (calculated it himself). He said that if those domains had been kept until now, they would be enough to pay off the mortgage on the home he lives in all at once. After he posted that, he ran off to pick up his kid from school and didn’t say more.
Have you ever had something like this? You sold something back then just to solve a real, concrete problem, and only later did you realize you’d sold it right at the starting point? #币圈故事 #风险