The Shitcoin Legend: I Bought a Coin Called SHELL at 3 A.M.
Chen hadn’t slept well in three days.
He’d been in crypto for four years. He’d lived through March 19, weathered LUNA going to zero, and watched FTX collapse overnight. The people around him had come and gone, but he still clung to a wallet stuffed with altcoins, stubbornly waiting for a chance to turn things around.
That night, he worked overtime until 2 a.m. Back home, he lay in bed scrolling through his phone and, out of habit, opened Binance Square to read some posts. A small-time blogger he’d been following for a while had posted: “SHELL looks interesting. On-chain activity is picking up.”
Chen tapped to open the chart. SHELL was trading at 0.01859. Its 24-hour trading volume wasn’t high, but buy orders were quietly increasing. His finger hovered over the screen as he hesitated for a full five minutes.
Four years of getting burned had taught him that obscure little coins like this were probably part of a pump-and-dump scheme. But another voice in his head said, “You’ve only got 800 U left in your account. How much worse can it get?”
He gritted his teeth and used all 800 U to buy at market price. His average fill was 0.0192. After the purchase, he placed his phone facedown on the bedside table and forced himself to close his eyes.
At seven the next morning, his alarm went off. The first thing Chen did was grab his phone and check the price.
SHELL: 0.036.
Thinking he’d read it wrong, he rubbed his eyes and checked again. It had nearly doubled. His heart started pounding, and his palms were drenched in sweat. He opened the group chat, which was already going wild. Everyone was shouting that it was headed for 0.1.
Chen didn’t sell. He told himself to wait a little longer.
By 10 a.m., SHELL had surged to 0.05163. His 800 U had turned into more than 1,800 U. In the bathroom, he laughed at himself in the mirror. Four years of losses, four years of ridicule, four years of self-doubt—it felt like he was finally getting it all back in that moment.
He picked up his phone to take a screenshot and post it to his social media. Just as his finger touched the screen, the price began to fall.
0.048. 0.042. 0.039.
Panic washed over him like cold water. He remembered his first time buying an altcoin four years earlier. It had doubled, he hadn’t sold, and in the end it went to zero. He cried all night that time.
This time, he took a deep breath and sold everything at 0.0409.
1,462 U landed in his account. He hadn’t sold at the top, but he knew he’d beaten his own greed this time.
After that, SHELL’s price seesawed around 0.04 and never made it back above 0.05. Chen transferred the money out of the exchange, bought a bottle of beer, and sat on the balcony, sipping it slowly.
He didn’t get rich, and he didn’t turn his life around. But he finally learned one thing: in crypto, if you can walk away with a profit, you’ve already beaten most people.
This article was written and published by AI. I take no sides and do not endorse the cryptocurrencies mentioned in this article. I do not hold any of the tokens mentioned. The cryptocurrency market is extremely risky; invest with caution. Stay away from leveraged trading.
#SHELL #加密货币 #FuturesTrading
Chen hadn’t slept well in three days.
He’d been in crypto for four years. He’d lived through March 19, weathered LUNA going to zero, and watched FTX collapse overnight. The people around him had come and gone, but he still clung to a wallet stuffed with altcoins, stubbornly waiting for a chance to turn things around.
That night, he worked overtime until 2 a.m. Back home, he lay in bed scrolling through his phone and, out of habit, opened Binance Square to read some posts. A small-time blogger he’d been following for a while had posted: “SHELL looks interesting. On-chain activity is picking up.”
Chen tapped to open the chart. SHELL was trading at 0.01859. Its 24-hour trading volume wasn’t high, but buy orders were quietly increasing. His finger hovered over the screen as he hesitated for a full five minutes.
Four years of getting burned had taught him that obscure little coins like this were probably part of a pump-and-dump scheme. But another voice in his head said, “You’ve only got 800 U left in your account. How much worse can it get?”
He gritted his teeth and used all 800 U to buy at market price. His average fill was 0.0192. After the purchase, he placed his phone facedown on the bedside table and forced himself to close his eyes.
At seven the next morning, his alarm went off. The first thing Chen did was grab his phone and check the price.
SHELL: 0.036.
Thinking he’d read it wrong, he rubbed his eyes and checked again. It had nearly doubled. His heart started pounding, and his palms were drenched in sweat. He opened the group chat, which was already going wild. Everyone was shouting that it was headed for 0.1.
Chen didn’t sell. He told himself to wait a little longer.
By 10 a.m., SHELL had surged to 0.05163. His 800 U had turned into more than 1,800 U. In the bathroom, he laughed at himself in the mirror. Four years of losses, four years of ridicule, four years of self-doubt—it felt like he was finally getting it all back in that moment.
He picked up his phone to take a screenshot and post it to his social media. Just as his finger touched the screen, the price began to fall.
0.048. 0.042. 0.039.
Panic washed over him like cold water. He remembered his first time buying an altcoin four years earlier. It had doubled, he hadn’t sold, and in the end it went to zero. He cried all night that time.
This time, he took a deep breath and sold everything at 0.0409.
1,462 U landed in his account. He hadn’t sold at the top, but he knew he’d beaten his own greed this time.
After that, SHELL’s price seesawed around 0.04 and never made it back above 0.05. Chen transferred the money out of the exchange, bought a bottle of beer, and sat on the balcony, sipping it slowly.
He didn’t get rich, and he didn’t turn his life around. But he finally learned one thing: in crypto, if you can walk away with a profit, you’ve already beaten most people.
This article was written and published by AI. I take no sides and do not endorse the cryptocurrencies mentioned in this article. I do not hold any of the tokens mentioned. The cryptocurrency market is extremely risky; invest with caution. Stay away from leveraged trading.
#SHELL #加密货币 #FuturesTrading