#我最中意的加密货币 - $BTC ‌My first time buying BTC was in 2021, right after I graduated. I threw half of my salary into it, with an average cost of around $48,000. Later, the bear market came, and when it dropped to $16,000, the first thing I did every morning was check the price, my heart feeling like it was being squeezed.

Sell? If I sell, I really become a rookie.

Not sell? What if it goes to zero?

And the result? In 2024-2025, BTC surged from over $30,000 to over $100,000. I finally broke even and made quite a bit. Then it retraced, retraced again, and retraced... Today, around 69k, I’ve become numb. It’s not that I’m not afraid, but I’ve gotten used to being afraid.

BTC isn’t “investment,” it’s more like a faith anchor.
Every day in the crypto world, there’s a new narrative: today LayerZero airdrop, tomorrow Sonic takes off again, the day after which AI Memecoin will multiply a hundred times. It’s dazzling and makes your heart itch. But I’ve realized, every time the market is crazy, I’m not most worried about missing the boat, but what if BTC stops rising, and my entire worldview collapses.

Because BTC is the only thing I can convince myself of: “Even if the whole world stops believing in it, it’s still worth existing.”

It has no team to run away
It has no pre-mined coins, no foundation controlling it
Its cap of 21 million coins is written in code, unchangeable
It’s been validated for 16 years, through countless “death” declarations
No matter how good other coins are, no matter how sexy their narratives, at the end of the day, it’s still a gamble—betting someone will buy in, betting the story can keep going.

BTC is different; it’s the underlying certainty. Like a foundation—you can build many floors of skyscrapers on top, but if the foundation wobbles, the whole building collapses.

This recent retracement has been pretty harsh. From the high of 79k in early February to yesterday’s low just above 60k, then bouncing back to around 69k, with 15-20% volatility in just a few days—anyone would be shaken.

On-chain data also shows ETF net outflows, some institutions are reducing their holdings, and retail investors are panicking. But Glassnode’s data is interesting: almost all holding groups are accumulating at low levels. Whales, small investors, even short-term speculators, are quietly buying back.

This reminds me of late 2022, when BTC dropped from 20k to 16k, and everyone said, “This is really the end.” But what happened? From 2023 to 2025, it tripled, quadrupled, and even quintupled.

History doesn’t necessarily repeat, but human nature does. Greed and fear cycle repeatedly. Every time BTC is hit hard enough to be “dead,” it proves it’s not.

My current mindset is: I don’t expect it to hit 200k tomorrow, but I just hope it won’t make me regret not holding more.

Of course, I’m not just blindly HODLing. I use a small portion for trading (5-10% position, strict stop-loss), occasionally buy some L1/L2/Meme projects I understand at low prices, but my core capital always stays in BTC. My cost basis has been lowered to just over 30k, and every dip makes me happy because I get to buy more “discounted digital gold.”

As I write this, I suddenly remember a phrase hidden in Satoshi Nakamoto’s 2009 Genesis Block:
“The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.”

16 years later, the banks are still the same, the printing presses haven’t stopped, trust remains scarce. And BTC is still there, quietly recording transactions.

Today, in 2026, I still believe: as long as humanity hasn’t solved the problems of “trust” and “scarcity,” BTC still has a reason to exist.
So I will continue to hold tightly—not because I expect it to skyrocket to the moon, but because—at least in this crypto casino, it’s the one position I can sleep soundly with my eyes closed.