There’s a guy in our group who does phone repairs on the Longhua side. His shop counter is less than three square meters. All year round he sits under an air conditioner, and his hands always smell strongly of alcohol.
Back in 2018, he helped a customer fix a screen. The customer didn’t have the money to pay, so he was handed a thousand units of some brand-new at-the-time counterfeit coin as payment. He checked it—each coin was only a few cents, so in total it was only a few dozen. He said, “Sure, it’s better than nothing.” He threw it into his wallet and forgot about it.
Later over the next three years, with its price rising and falling, he never paid attention. Each time he wanted to cash out, he found the withdrawal fees painful. In 2019, his father was hospitalized and money was tight. He went through his wallet hoping he could scrape together a bit. When he opened it, he found the coins had been transferred to a new chain from those few-cent days—each coin was now worth almost two dollars. He calculated that with a thousand coins it would be about two thousand bucks. If it was possible to sell for cash, he could exchange it into RMB to pay the hospital bills. After he withdrew, he never bothered to check again.
Last month he mentioned this casually while eating with someone. His wife went home and looked it up. Now that coin is worth a six-figure amount of RMB.
After he finished, he laughed and waved his hand, saying, “That’s enough, that’s enough—I was saved in a pinch.” No one at the table replied.
#币圈故事 #风险
Back in 2018, he helped a customer fix a screen. The customer didn’t have the money to pay, so he was handed a thousand units of some brand-new at-the-time counterfeit coin as payment. He checked it—each coin was only a few cents, so in total it was only a few dozen. He said, “Sure, it’s better than nothing.” He threw it into his wallet and forgot about it.
Later over the next three years, with its price rising and falling, he never paid attention. Each time he wanted to cash out, he found the withdrawal fees painful. In 2019, his father was hospitalized and money was tight. He went through his wallet hoping he could scrape together a bit. When he opened it, he found the coins had been transferred to a new chain from those few-cent days—each coin was now worth almost two dollars. He calculated that with a thousand coins it would be about two thousand bucks. If it was possible to sell for cash, he could exchange it into RMB to pay the hospital bills. After he withdrew, he never bothered to check again.
Last month he mentioned this casually while eating with someone. His wife went home and looked it up. Now that coin is worth a six-figure amount of RMB.
After he finished, he laughed and waved his hand, saying, “That’s enough, that’s enough—I was saved in a pinch.” No one at the table replied.
#币圈故事 #风险