The phone screen lit up for a moment, it was a price alert - FLOKI rose #Floki🔥🔥 . The corners of my mouth involuntarily lifted, a familiar warmth mixed with relief and satisfaction surged up. I opened the chart and watched that stubborn bullish line break through the consolidation zone of recent days. Emojis flew in the community group, and cries of 'Hold on' and 'See you on the moon' flooded the screen. The joy of this moment is real and direct. It is a reward for the patience I had before, a small validation of my judgment, and the most immediate positive feedback in this bizarre world of cryptocurrency.
But this happiness is like a glass of iced drink on a summer day, refreshing but unable to quench a long-lasting thirst.
Turn off the noisy group chats and let the screen go dark. The room quiets down, and a grander, clearer thought emerges: the long road ahead.
The rise of FLOKI is just a small point of color that has just been blurred in this magnificent scroll. Everything we cheer for, worry about, and lose sleep over — the Bitcoin ETF game, Ethereum’s layers of upgrades, the frenzy and extinction of meme coins, every stacking and collapse of DeFi Lego — all of this, looking back in the long river of history, may only be a syllable in the prologue.
Cryptocurrency is not another Nasdaq. It is a brand new experiment trying to reconstruct trust, value, and ownership itself. What we see is the first steep ascent on the technology curve; it is tens of thousands of developers, typing out lines of code in the unknown dark that may change the future but are more likely to fail; it is hundreds of millions of people worldwide, for the first time truly trying to manage their digital assets, awkwardly learning about private keys, mnemonic phrases, and smart contract interactions. All of this is just the beginning.
The prices bouncing on the market software are merely the most superficial and restless ripple of this deep revolution. The real wave lies in the transformation of social collaboration methods, the zeroing of value transmission costs, and the reshaping of financial infrastructure. These processes will unfold slowly over decades, inevitably filled with policy reversals, technological dead ends, bubble bursts, and confidence collapses. Today's rise and tomorrow's halving are all inevitable bumps on this long road.
So, learn to carefully cherish the happiness of the moment when FLOKI rises, like a commemorative coin, rather than treating it as food for survival. The real strategy is 'not leaving the table.'
'Not leaving the table' does not mean stubbornly holding onto a certain cryptocurrency, as that is no different from gambling. It is a state, a recognition: choosing to stay in this future that is being written. This means not throwing all reason to the wind during surges, going all-in; and not being consumed by fear during crashes, clearing positions and leaving. It means using spare money that does not affect life to allocate assets that you truly understand the long-term logic of (whether it is BTC, viewed as digital gold, ETH, as the global settlement layer, or assets like BNB and FLOKI with distinct ecological or cultural narratives), and then liberating yourself from the torment of minute charts.
What remains is to 'enjoy.' Enjoy what?
Enjoy the process of learning. Today I understood a principle of zero-knowledge proof, and tomorrow I will understand the economic model of a certain DeFi protocol. This feeling of breaking cognitive boundaries is more fulfilling than short-term floating profits.
Enjoy the joy of observation. See how the community forms consensus, how project parties struggle between ideals and reality, and how human selfishness, greed, FOMO, and sincerity, co-creation, and beliefs reflect strange brilliance under this digital prism.
Enjoy the thrill of participation. Use your tokens to vote on a proposal, mine the first pot of gold in the early version of a game, even if it’s just giving a little cryptocurrency as a tip to creators you appreciate. This experience of 'being in it' is something the traditional financial world cannot offer.
FLOKI has risen, happy. But it is necessary to understand more that the underlying color of happiness is not because we are one step closer to the illusion of 'financial freedom,' but because it reminds us again: we are in the early stage of a great era of change, choosing to be present, choosing to witness, choosing to maintain thinking and feeling on this long journey.
This road is still long, the stars and the sea, only a faint light is visible. But not leaving the table, enjoying — this itself is the wisest and most romantic posture in this magnificent era that has just begun.
