ETH Was Still Falling

Every word seemed to pour salt directly into panic. He had originally planned to buy spot. Eighteen million dollars in local currency, roughly his life savings, sat behind that decision. He had spent years as a product manager at an internet company. The salary was decent, but after rent, tax, food, and the endless inflation of daily life, what he managed to save had been scraped together one month at a time. Pei Yanzhou was not someone who had never thought about living steadily. He simply knew too well that a normal, disciplined life might lead to a respectable middle-class shell, but still leave financial freedom far away, like another ocean entirely.