Mongrel Coin Legend: I Bought MUBARAK at 3:00 A.M.
Lao Chen hasn’t touched crypto in three years.
During the 2022 LUNA crash, he lost 470,000 yuan and cleanly closed his contract account. His wife said if he traded crypto again, she’d divorce him. Obediently, Lao Chen deleted all the exchange apps on his phone, went to work, and paid off his debts the old-fashioned way.
One deep night in September 2026, Lao Chen couldn’t sleep. While scrolling on his phone, he saw someone in a group shouting a name: MUBARAK. He didn’t want to pay attention, but a 95-er who usually never spoke in the group posted a screenshot: principal 20,000, floating profit 60,000.
Lao Chen’s hands began to shake.
He redownloaded Binance and registered, which took him twenty minutes; facial recognition failed three times. At 3:17 A.M., he finally logged in. MUBARAK’s price was 0.033 dollars. Its total market cap was only a few million dollars—just a thin K-line chart on the verge of breaking.
"Anyway, I’ll just lose a couple thousand and try." he told himself.
He bought MUBARAK worth 2,000 dollars—about a little over 6,000 coins. After buying, he went to sleep. He didn’t really expect it to go up.
The next morning, he opened the app and saw MUBARAK up 12 percent. Two thousand had become two thousand two. He chuckled, thinking it was pretty good—but he didn’t plan to sell.
Over the next three days, MUBARAK went absolutely wild. It surged from 0.033 all the way to 0.041. Lao Chen’s 2,000 dollars turned into 4,800. He couldn’t sit still anymore. At his workstation, he secretly watched the charts; his heartbeat was faster than it was during meetings.
On the fourth day, people in the group started shouting, "Target 0.1." Lao Chen thought these guys were crazy, but he didn’t sell.
On the fifth day, MUBARAK broke through 0.047. Lao Chen’s 2,000 dollars were now 8,600. He started doing the math: if it rose to 0.1, he could make 20,000. 20,000 dollars—exactly enough to cover his credit card debt.
That night, MUBARAK suddenly got smashed from 0.047 down to 0.038. Lao Chen’s face went pale at once. He stared at the screen, his finger hovering over the sell button, trembling so hard he couldn’t press it. The group was full of wailing. Someone said, "It’s over—the whales ran." Someone else said, "Cut your losses now!"
Lao Chen didn’t sell.
Not because he had iron discipline, but because he went to the bathroom. When he came back, the price had already bounced back to 0.044.
By the ninth day, MUBARAK hovered around 0.044. In his account, the 2,000 dollars had turned into 11,200. He hesitated for a long time, and in the end sold half, taking his principal out.
The remaining three thousand-odd coins, he kept.
His wife asked why he had been staring at his phone so much lately. He said he was learning English.
Lao Chen knew that his 11,200 couldn’t change his life. But every night, he would open the app and take a look at MUBARAK’s K-line chart. That thin line that had once been close to breaking now looked like a small patch of grass that had just sprouted.
Sometimes he wondered: what if he’d bought more back then? What if he hadn’t deleted the app? What if he hadn’t lost everything on LUNA? Would things be different for him now?
But there’s no "if" in the crypto world.
Only that impulsive moment at 3:17 A.M., and the slightly trembling hands of a middle-aged man in front of the screen.
#MUBARAK #币安广场 #Mongrel Coin Legend
Lao Chen hasn’t touched crypto in three years.
During the 2022 LUNA crash, he lost 470,000 yuan and cleanly closed his contract account. His wife said if he traded crypto again, she’d divorce him. Obediently, Lao Chen deleted all the exchange apps on his phone, went to work, and paid off his debts the old-fashioned way.
One deep night in September 2026, Lao Chen couldn’t sleep. While scrolling on his phone, he saw someone in a group shouting a name: MUBARAK. He didn’t want to pay attention, but a 95-er who usually never spoke in the group posted a screenshot: principal 20,000, floating profit 60,000.
Lao Chen’s hands began to shake.
He redownloaded Binance and registered, which took him twenty minutes; facial recognition failed three times. At 3:17 A.M., he finally logged in. MUBARAK’s price was 0.033 dollars. Its total market cap was only a few million dollars—just a thin K-line chart on the verge of breaking.
"Anyway, I’ll just lose a couple thousand and try." he told himself.
He bought MUBARAK worth 2,000 dollars—about a little over 6,000 coins. After buying, he went to sleep. He didn’t really expect it to go up.
The next morning, he opened the app and saw MUBARAK up 12 percent. Two thousand had become two thousand two. He chuckled, thinking it was pretty good—but he didn’t plan to sell.
Over the next three days, MUBARAK went absolutely wild. It surged from 0.033 all the way to 0.041. Lao Chen’s 2,000 dollars turned into 4,800. He couldn’t sit still anymore. At his workstation, he secretly watched the charts; his heartbeat was faster than it was during meetings.
On the fourth day, people in the group started shouting, "Target 0.1." Lao Chen thought these guys were crazy, but he didn’t sell.
On the fifth day, MUBARAK broke through 0.047. Lao Chen’s 2,000 dollars were now 8,600. He started doing the math: if it rose to 0.1, he could make 20,000. 20,000 dollars—exactly enough to cover his credit card debt.
That night, MUBARAK suddenly got smashed from 0.047 down to 0.038. Lao Chen’s face went pale at once. He stared at the screen, his finger hovering over the sell button, trembling so hard he couldn’t press it. The group was full of wailing. Someone said, "It’s over—the whales ran." Someone else said, "Cut your losses now!"
Lao Chen didn’t sell.
Not because he had iron discipline, but because he went to the bathroom. When he came back, the price had already bounced back to 0.044.
By the ninth day, MUBARAK hovered around 0.044. In his account, the 2,000 dollars had turned into 11,200. He hesitated for a long time, and in the end sold half, taking his principal out.
The remaining three thousand-odd coins, he kept.
His wife asked why he had been staring at his phone so much lately. He said he was learning English.
Lao Chen knew that his 11,200 couldn’t change his life. But every night, he would open the app and take a look at MUBARAK’s K-line chart. That thin line that had once been close to breaking now looked like a small patch of grass that had just sprouted.
Sometimes he wondered: what if he’d bought more back then? What if he hadn’t deleted the app? What if he hadn’t lost everything on LUNA? Would things be different for him now?
But there’s no "if" in the crypto world.
Only that impulsive moment at 3:17 A.M., and the slightly trembling hands of a middle-aged man in front of the screen.
#MUBARAK #币安广场 #Mongrel Coin Legend