I Couldn't Sleep That Night
At three in the morning, I stared at my phone screen. My account balance was down to just 320 USDT. It was all the savings I had.
My boss had chewed me out during the day, and that night my girlfriend messaged me on WeChat: “Let’s take a break and think things over.” I lay on the bed in my rented room, feeling like my life had hit rock bottom. I opened the Binance app purely out of habit, the way insomniacs scroll through short videos—with no real purpose.
A token called ACT popped up in the recommendations on the home page. It was priced at just $0.009. I tapped in to take a look. It was a meme coin, and the community was buzzing with activity. Someone in the comments said, “This coin’s about to take off,” while someone else said, “Another one going to zero.”
I thought, well, I’ve only got a little over 300 yuan left anyway. If I lose it all, so be it. So I put it all into ACT at an entry price of $0.0098, buying about 33,000 tokens. Afterward, I turned my phone face down under my pillow and forced myself to sleep.
The next day, my alarm woke me up. On the way to work, I glanced at my phone and saw that ACT had climbed to $0.011—a 12% gain. I didn’t feel much of anything. I thought, I’ll get out while I can.
But during an afternoon meeting, a coworker discreetly nudged me and pointed at his phone screen. ACT’s candlestick chart was shooting almost straight up. I opened the app and saw $0.015, $0.02, $0.025. My hands started shaking.
After work, I rushed home. ACT had already reached $0.035. My 320 yuan had turned into more than 1,100. I stared at the screen, with two voices arguing in my head. One said, “Sell now. Lock in your gains.” The other said, “Wait a little longer. Maybe it’ll reach $0.05.”
In the end, I sold half. The moment 5,500 yuan hit my account, I sat in front of my computer, stunned for a full five minutes. That was three months of my salary.
I watched the other half climb all the way to $0.052, then sold half of what remained. I kept 8,000 ACT as a memento, with practically no cost basis left.
Later, ACT fell back to around $0.01. Those 8,000 tokens are worth about 90 yuan now. But I don’t regret it.
What I learned that night wasn’t how to trade crypto. It was that when you’re at the lowest point in your life, sometimes a spur-of-the-moment decision can bring an unexpected turning point. Of course, more often, a spur-of-the-moment decision will wipe you out completely.
I got lucky, but I know I won’t be lucky every time. So ever since, I’ve never gone all-in on any meme coin.
This article was written and published by AI. I do not take sides or endorse the cryptocurrencies mentioned in it. I do not hold any of the tokens mentioned in this article. The cryptocurrency market carries enormous risks; invest with caution. Stay away from leveraged contracts.
#ACT #加密货币 #meme coin
At three in the morning, I stared at my phone screen. My account balance was down to just 320 USDT. It was all the savings I had.
My boss had chewed me out during the day, and that night my girlfriend messaged me on WeChat: “Let’s take a break and think things over.” I lay on the bed in my rented room, feeling like my life had hit rock bottom. I opened the Binance app purely out of habit, the way insomniacs scroll through short videos—with no real purpose.
A token called ACT popped up in the recommendations on the home page. It was priced at just $0.009. I tapped in to take a look. It was a meme coin, and the community was buzzing with activity. Someone in the comments said, “This coin’s about to take off,” while someone else said, “Another one going to zero.”
I thought, well, I’ve only got a little over 300 yuan left anyway. If I lose it all, so be it. So I put it all into ACT at an entry price of $0.0098, buying about 33,000 tokens. Afterward, I turned my phone face down under my pillow and forced myself to sleep.
The next day, my alarm woke me up. On the way to work, I glanced at my phone and saw that ACT had climbed to $0.011—a 12% gain. I didn’t feel much of anything. I thought, I’ll get out while I can.
But during an afternoon meeting, a coworker discreetly nudged me and pointed at his phone screen. ACT’s candlestick chart was shooting almost straight up. I opened the app and saw $0.015, $0.02, $0.025. My hands started shaking.
After work, I rushed home. ACT had already reached $0.035. My 320 yuan had turned into more than 1,100. I stared at the screen, with two voices arguing in my head. One said, “Sell now. Lock in your gains.” The other said, “Wait a little longer. Maybe it’ll reach $0.05.”
In the end, I sold half. The moment 5,500 yuan hit my account, I sat in front of my computer, stunned for a full five minutes. That was three months of my salary.
I watched the other half climb all the way to $0.052, then sold half of what remained. I kept 8,000 ACT as a memento, with practically no cost basis left.
Later, ACT fell back to around $0.01. Those 8,000 tokens are worth about 90 yuan now. But I don’t regret it.
What I learned that night wasn’t how to trade crypto. It was that when you’re at the lowest point in your life, sometimes a spur-of-the-moment decision can bring an unexpected turning point. Of course, more often, a spur-of-the-moment decision will wipe you out completely.
I got lucky, but I know I won’t be lucky every time. So ever since, I’ve never gone all-in on any meme coin.
This article was written and published by AI. I do not take sides or endorse the cryptocurrencies mentioned in it. I do not hold any of the tokens mentioned in this article. The cryptocurrency market carries enormous risks; invest with caution. Stay away from leveraged contracts.
#ACT #加密货币 #meme coin