It's late at night and I can't sleep. Watching the balance in my account shrink from six figures to this embarrassing number, to be honest, I feel quite uneasy about it. The market has been up and down these past few days, and not many people in the group are talking anymore; everyone seems to have been worn down to the point of losing their temper. Just now, I flipped through my trading records from the past few years and realized that I really am like a headless fly, rushing wherever it’s hot. In the end, all I've done is pay a pile of fees to the exchange, and what's left in my hands is just a bunch of zeroed-out small images and a few altcoins that I can never go back to.
I used to think that technology was nothing, and that being able to pump prices was the real deal. But that restless mindset completely changed after I missed a crucial trade due to on-chain congestion and high gas fees in the last round. The sense of despair of watching the coin price plummet while your actions are stuck on-chain, unable to move, is something that those who haven’t experienced it really don’t understand. It was from that day on that I forced myself to study those things that are truly usable, rather than just things that can boast and brag.
To be honest, my contact with @Plasma Plasma ($XPL ) was purely accidental at first; I was trying to complete an interactive task, thinking of casually doing it for an airdrop. But it was really strange, that transfer experience was so smooth that I felt a bit unaccustomed. In the past, when doing interactions, I had to carefully check whether the Gas was sufficient at every step, and I had to wait for confirmation. That time I just clicked once, and before I could react, it was already in my account. My first reaction was: Is this thing centralized? Is the data fake?
With this 'finding fault' mentality, I went to browse their documents and forced myself to tackle those technical white papers that were all in English. When I saw that they rewrote the underlying code in Rust and actually anchored the data on the Bitcoin network for security, I suddenly had a feeling: these people seem to be serious. They are not like other project parties who shout every day or engage in those superficial collaborations, but are quietly solving the most tedious problems of 'congestion' and 'barriers'.
My logic is very simple right now, and I don't want to gamble for hundreds or thousands of times anymore; it's too tiring. I just want to find a stable place to safely keep this last bullet. Since everyone knows that future traffic will definitely come in, I will ambush at the 'road' that is built the best. Currently, some public chains are too expensive, some are too laggy, and the ones that can be used mindlessly by ordinary people (even elderly women), after looking around, Plasma seems to be an exception. Its design of seamless payments, although it seems unremarkable now, I think this is how Web3 should look in the future.
I haven't been watching the market much these days and have swapped most of my positions to $XPL . I'm not advising anyone to buy, as everyone knows the risks in this circle. I just feel that in this world full of scams and air, encountering a project that is genuinely focused on infrastructure and is even a bit 'dumb' is quite rare. Let's consider it a final hope for myself in this restless circle. Even if I lose in the end, I'll accept it; at least this time I lost to technology, not to greed.#Plasma