3:00 AM PUMP
When Lao Chen stared at his phone screen, his fingers were trembling.
PUMP’s price had stalled at 0.005422—that was the price he bought it for three days ago. Back then, BTC had just dropped from 68,000 to 62,000. The whole market was filled with cries of despair. In the group chat, someone said they should sell everything and leave the crypto scene. Someone else said they’d uninstall the app and never touch coins again. Lao Chen panicked too, but he didn’t sell. Not because he was especially steadfast—he just spent only 800 yuan on PUMP. Once he lost it all, that would be that.
800 yuan—there wasn’t even enough for the exchange fees in this world.
He saw it while scrolling the feed. It was a meme coin with a blunt name, and the chart had a bicep drawn on it. Lao Chen laughed at the time, finding it absurdly cute. He remembered the regret of missing out on SHIB in 2021. He remembered a story about a friend buying DOGE and it going up dozens of times. His thumb slid, and he placed the order. No research. No whitepaper. He didn’t even figure out which chain the coin was on.
800 yuan—betting on a bit of fun.
After buying, he didn’t pay attention anymore. Work when it was time for work, pick up the kid when it was time to pick up the kid. In the meantime, GLMR climbed by nearly fifty percent. The guys in the group were going crazy posting screenshots. He glanced at his own PUMP, completely unmoving, and thought, of course—no good ends for gamblers.
Until tonight.
He was already lying down. His phone buzzed. It was a price alert from Binance. He tapped it absentmindedly: PUMP—0.006. It was up 10 percent. Not bad. He turned over, and the phone buzzed again: 0.0062. Buzz again: 0.0064.
Lao Chen sat up.
He opened the feed, and it was nothing but PUMP. Someone said the project team was going to partner with some big firm. Someone said a whale was sweeping. Someone said this was the next hundred-times meme. Lao Chen didn’t understand those English announcements, but he could read the candlestick chart. That green candle shot up like a rocket—from 0.0054 to 0.0065. In twenty-four hours, it was up 20 percent.
His 800 yuan turned into 1,000.
The group chat exploded. The person who’d said three days ago that they were quitting came back again, sending a string of exclamation points and asking whether they could still buy now. Lao Chen didn’t reply. He stared at the number that kept jumping, and suddenly a strange feeling washed over him. Not excitement—more like a nearly absurd sense of relief.
He thought of his stock-trading cousin, holding onto some so-called blue-chip stock and losing for three years. He thought of a friend who bought funds, DCA for two years and still ended up underwater. And he—someone who couldn’t even understand technical analysis—because of his impulsive 800 yuan, watched his assets rise by 20 percent at 3:00 AM.
That’s how the crypto market is. No reason. No logic. Not how many books you’ve read, not how much research you’ve done. It only cares about one thing: when others are afraid, do you dare to hit that buy button?
Lao Chen didn’t sell. He flipped his phone face down on the bedside table and closed his eyes.
Let’s check tomorrow. Maybe when he wakes up it’ll be 1,500.
Maybe when he wakes up it’ll be back to 800.
But what does that matter? In this insane market, staying alive is a victory on its own.
#PUMP #Meme币 #Binance Feed
When Lao Chen stared at his phone screen, his fingers were trembling.
PUMP’s price had stalled at 0.005422—that was the price he bought it for three days ago. Back then, BTC had just dropped from 68,000 to 62,000. The whole market was filled with cries of despair. In the group chat, someone said they should sell everything and leave the crypto scene. Someone else said they’d uninstall the app and never touch coins again. Lao Chen panicked too, but he didn’t sell. Not because he was especially steadfast—he just spent only 800 yuan on PUMP. Once he lost it all, that would be that.
800 yuan—there wasn’t even enough for the exchange fees in this world.
He saw it while scrolling the feed. It was a meme coin with a blunt name, and the chart had a bicep drawn on it. Lao Chen laughed at the time, finding it absurdly cute. He remembered the regret of missing out on SHIB in 2021. He remembered a story about a friend buying DOGE and it going up dozens of times. His thumb slid, and he placed the order. No research. No whitepaper. He didn’t even figure out which chain the coin was on.
800 yuan—betting on a bit of fun.
After buying, he didn’t pay attention anymore. Work when it was time for work, pick up the kid when it was time to pick up the kid. In the meantime, GLMR climbed by nearly fifty percent. The guys in the group were going crazy posting screenshots. He glanced at his own PUMP, completely unmoving, and thought, of course—no good ends for gamblers.
Until tonight.
He was already lying down. His phone buzzed. It was a price alert from Binance. He tapped it absentmindedly: PUMP—0.006. It was up 10 percent. Not bad. He turned over, and the phone buzzed again: 0.0062. Buzz again: 0.0064.
Lao Chen sat up.
He opened the feed, and it was nothing but PUMP. Someone said the project team was going to partner with some big firm. Someone said a whale was sweeping. Someone said this was the next hundred-times meme. Lao Chen didn’t understand those English announcements, but he could read the candlestick chart. That green candle shot up like a rocket—from 0.0054 to 0.0065. In twenty-four hours, it was up 20 percent.
His 800 yuan turned into 1,000.
The group chat exploded. The person who’d said three days ago that they were quitting came back again, sending a string of exclamation points and asking whether they could still buy now. Lao Chen didn’t reply. He stared at the number that kept jumping, and suddenly a strange feeling washed over him. Not excitement—more like a nearly absurd sense of relief.
He thought of his stock-trading cousin, holding onto some so-called blue-chip stock and losing for three years. He thought of a friend who bought funds, DCA for two years and still ended up underwater. And he—someone who couldn’t even understand technical analysis—because of his impulsive 800 yuan, watched his assets rise by 20 percent at 3:00 AM.
That’s how the crypto market is. No reason. No logic. Not how many books you’ve read, not how much research you’ve done. It only cares about one thing: when others are afraid, do you dare to hit that buy button?
Lao Chen didn’t sell. He flipped his phone face down on the bedside table and closed his eyes.
Let’s check tomorrow. Maybe when he wakes up it’ll be 1,500.
Maybe when he wakes up it’ll be back to 800.
But what does that matter? In this insane market, staying alive is a victory on its own.
#PUMP #Meme币 #Binance Feed