"Old K turned off all trading software, and on that terrifyingly quiet afternoon in 2026, he silently pulled out a yellowed screenshot - it showed predictions of 'Bitcoin 25K' that people had laughed about two years ago. No one took it seriously then, until the cold reality truly arrived."
That predicted chart has been circulating within the circle for a long time: In 2026, Bitcoin might retrace to $25,000.
"Alarmist!" Almost everyone thought so at the wine gathering two years ago. The frenzy of the bull market had not yet faded, and everyone believed they could escape at the top. Only Old K, an old miner who had survived three rounds of bull and bear markets, stared at that chart in silence for a long time. He remembered when BTC dropped from twenty thousand to three thousand in 2018, and the exchanges were so quiet that you could hear the echo of the mouse; he recalled after the LUNA crash in 2022, those who once shouted 'diamond hands' suddenly went silent.
'The market will not bottom out in hope,' Old K only said this one sentence at that time, 'It will only quietly turn around when everyone stops caring.'
Now, time seems to be spoken in that chart. Narratives are shattered one after another, trading volumes wither like riverbeds in a drought, and in the encrypted channels of social media, the last few big influencers who insisted on daily updates have also stopped. The real cold winter is not the panic during a crash, but the long, quiet decay where faith is frozen inch by inch.
At this point, people finally began to truly understand the weight of Old K's words from that year.
But Old K was not despairing. Because during those two frenzied years, he did something that almost everyone did not understand: he systematically exchanged part of his profits into assets like @usddio that pursue stable value and adhered to the #USDD以稳见信 allocation principle.
At that time, some laughed at him for being conservative: 'Not going all in during a bull market, are you waiting for a bear market?'
Old K just shook his head: 'A bull market is the time to realize dreams, but a bear market is the time to store 'seeds' for the future. And 'seeds' must be kept in the most stable places.'
This is not just as simple as hoarding coins. This is a profound understanding of 'value storage' and 'timing options.' At the peak of a bull market, all assets are filled with bubbles and liquidity is flooded; while in the abyss of a bear market, true wealth is not the lower coin price on paper, but the 'stable purchasing power' that you can act on at any time, which will not self-consume due to fluctuations.
When BTC really slides to 25,000 dollars, when most people are either deeply trapped or have long given up and left, those long-silent #USDD in Old K's wallet become the most precious resource in his eyes. They did not evaporate because of the market crash; they quietly lay there, waiting for a historically significant window to collect core assets at an extremely low cost that everyone else overlooks.
'The market builds a bottom in despair, but only those who have prepared 'stable ammunition' in advance have the ability to pull the trigger at the bottom.' Old K later wrote in his diary.
This, perhaps, is the ultimate significance of 'seeing trust through stability' advocated by @usddio in the complete cycle: it is not only a safe haven in a volatile market but also a 'strategic reserve' that preserves strength and guards the seeds of the future during the long winter of a bear market. The source of confidence does not lie in blindly believing that it will never rise, but in being certain that no matter how harsh the market, you have the ability to survive until the next spring and enough capital to plant the seeds of the future in the frozen ground.
If 2026 really comes, will you be the one shivering in the cold, only able to watch, or will you be the one who has long prepared food and fire, able to calmly walk into the wilderness as a sower?
The true cyclical narrative never belongs to those who chase the excitement at the peak of a bull market, but to those who, deep in a bear market, still believe in the light and firmly hold onto their matches.
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