THE FIRST GREEN CANDLE
He remembers it perfectly. Small buy. Big feeling. For eleven days the number only went up, and for eleven days he believed the world had finally handed him something.
i was early. i was so early.

I. ORIGIN
Everything is over.
It is 3:41 AM. The room is one monitor wide. The chart is a staircase going the wrong way and he has memorised every step.
He remembers it perfectly. Small buy. Big feeling. For eleven days the number only went up, and for eleven days he believed the world had finally handed him something.
i was early. i was so early.
Liquidity left the way people leave parties — quietly, in pairs, without saying goodbye. The group chat went from 400 messages a day to a single 'still holding?' every third week.
He does not sell. He does not buy. He refreshes. It is not hope exactly. It is the shape hope leaves behind when you take the hope out.
define hope.
He is still here. That is the whole story. That is the entire point.
You bought the top and stayed for the view.