#2026年比特币行情展望 Three days, forty thousand gone.

This is not a scare tactic; it’s a real story from 2018, when I was living in an old rental in Shanghai. The room was stifling, and the old fan was creaking nonstop — but I couldn’t care less about the heat. The candlestick chart on the screen was flashing red and green, and I was glued to my chair, fingers trembling uncontrollably on the mouse.

Just three days ago, I was still at the peak. The account showed a floating profit of up to 430,000, and those soaring numbers made me feel a bit elated. Staring at the screen, I was already rehearsing the future — quitting my job, moving to a better place, achieving financial freedom… It all seemed within reach. I truly believed it then, feeling I had hit a turning point in life, with confidence in every breath.

But the market doesn’t care about your dreams.

In the early hours of the third day, Bitcoin suddenly plunged rapidly. Candlesticks dropped one after another, with no pause. The floating profit was swept away like a pile of blocks, collapsing in an instant. By the time I reacted, more than half of my principal had been cut. The remaining numbers in my account were blinding — 70,000 yuan.

The room was dead silent. The fan was still spinning, the morning takeout had gone cold, and I didn’t dare to move even a little. At that moment, my chest felt blocked — not because I was upset about the money, but because I suddenly realized something: I hadn’t truly grasped anything.

Later, I understood a principle — the market never warns you before giving you a sweet deal, but it will never be soft-hearted when pulling back. The profits you think you’ve “gotten” are just illusions floating on the screen; as long as they haven’t been truly secured in your pocket, they’re just fleeting shadows. Making money and actually earning money are two vastly different things.

That was my first profound conversation with the cryptocurrency market.