I have a friend named Lao Zhou who has now gone to Shantou to sell underwear👙.

Back in 2021, he was a programmer doing traditional internet advertising, working 996 every day, earning enough to pay the mortgage, raise his kids, and occasionally enjoy a Michelin meal.

Life was simple but stable. Then he came across a post: "Web3 is the last chance for ordinary people to turn things around. Missing out on NFTs is like missing Bitcoin in 2009."

Lao Zhou clicked in.

The next day, he poured his remaining 400,000 yuan in his salary account into the crypto world.

First, he bought ETH, saying #Ethereum is digital oil. Then he used leverage to trade contracts, claiming "DeFi yields 300% annualized, who still goes to banks to save?"

Later, he got obsessed with NFTs, buying a pixel-style monkey for 18 ETH, shouting "Floor price will see 10x."

I advised him, "You just learned how to use OpenSea, don’t go all in."

He replied, "You don’t understand, this is a ticket to the new world. Once on board, it’s early dividends."