Is there now that kind of darkness, the bottom, the feeling of nobody caring like when I bought the dip in April? Actually, there is. I feel like this time the feeling is even stronger than back then. In reality, there are only two big waves to make big money: November last year and May this year. The rest were not much. Now I'm holding spot with the mindset of making big money for the third time. But this time, I feel like the success rate isn't as high. Still, I think there's a high probability I can succeed.

The first super big pump started on November 5 last year. The second was buying the dip in April and then the huge rally in May. The difficulty of making money and the amount of pain endured in the second wave was much greater than the first.

Assuming the spot I’m holding now at the bottom achieves a third success in the near future, will this third round be even tougher and require more endurance than the second? Judging from the current situation and timing, I think this third time is even harder than the second.

The first time was last November, after going through August to November when altcoins didn’t rise at all, and also facing the biggest risk in the crypto space—that Trump might fail and not become president, possibly destroying the whole industry. Only after that uncertainty was resolved did things start to rise. From October 27 to November 5, altcoins dropped nonstop for seven or eight days, beating retail investors to the ground. That wave was really hard to catch.

The second time, crypto dropped from December to April, breaking 80,000 several times at the bottom. The first half of the year was all bad news, not a single positive thing, not even a single reason for retail investors to hold on. Lamentations everywhere, corpses everywhere, every influencer being criticized. Live stream viewer and subscriber numbers plummeted. The whole crypto space was dead. Major coins had daily trading volumes of just tens of thousands, altcoins only a few thousand. At that point, I went all in. I endured for a month. My darkest time. My mind was blank. My work was a complete mess, I was a wreck, like a walking corpse. Then in May, a miracle actually happened. Fate treated me well, but I was also tough enough. After that success, my whole mindset reached a new level. That difficulty was no less than being captured as a POW during the war with Japan, enduring all sorts of torture without saying a word. That period, I was truly in hell. It was a life-or-death test. If May hadn't rallied, maybe I would have collapsed in June.

This third drop is much harsher than the second. Prices keep dropping. The whole structure is broken. Many influencers have turned bearish and are shorting without thinking. But I’m still holding long. But this time, I'm not in a desperate situation anymore. Now, I'm basically at the coin flip; I'm just betting it lands heads. The difficulty in every aspect is even greater than the second time. The only thing not as hard as the second time is that I have more money now than I did then. If you take that out, the third time is several times harder than the second. It's not wishful thinking. The second time, I staked everything, my life and fortune. If I lost, I'd have to start over from nothing. All my hard work would be wiped out. If I lost, my life would be a mess, I’d be the biggest loser. Luckily, I won. If I lost, I’d be done.

This time, I'm not betting my life and fortune. I can afford to lose this time. Once again, I'm standing at the crossroads of fate. Can I reach a new level after already rewriting my destiny? If I win again this time, how much will I win? Will it be as huge as the second time? No one knows. But my intuition strongly tells me I'll win again.