I still remember the night I turned $70 into almost $14,000.
Or at least… I thought I did.
It was during peak trench season.
Everybody was rotating from one meme coin to another like sleep didn’t exist anymore.
The call came from a random VC at around 2:13AM.
“Stealth launch.”
“Strong dev.”
“CT influencers entering.”
“Easy 50M.”
The usual trench gospel.
I aped in early around a $280k market cap.
For the first few hours, everything felt unreal.
The Telegram was moving so fast you couldn’t even read messages.
People were changing profile pictures.
Posting wallet screenshots.
Talking about quitting jobs.
By sunrise, my $70 position was already worth over $3,000.
I remember sitting there refreshing DexScreener every few seconds with shaky hands trying to process it.
Then the real greed kicked in.
The chart kept flying:
$4M.
$9M.
$15M.
At peak, my wallet was sitting just under $14k.
And I didn’t sell.
Not because I was “diamond hands.”
Because the trenches mess with your head.
Everyone around you starts making the future sound guaranteed.
“100M programmed.”
“Binance next.”
“Retirement play.”
You stop thinking logically.
You start thinking emotionally.
Then came the first red candle.
Then another.
Then liquidity started disappearing.
The Telegram went from:
“WE’RE SO EARLY”
to:
“Why can’t I sell?”
in under 10 minutes.
The dev wallet dumped.
Mods vanished.
Voice chat died instantly.
And just like that…
The community that felt like family a few hours earlier became complete silence.
By morning, my wallet was worth less than $40.
That’s the part outsiders never understand about crypto.
The trenches were never just charts.
They were emotions.
Hope.
Greed.
Delusion.
Conviction.
Communities formed around green candles and destroyed by one transaction hash.
And honestly?
That’s why projects like @thetcmedia matter.
Because years from now, people won’t remember every token…
But they’ll remember the stories.
The rugs.
The wins.
The sleepless nights.
The communities that felt immortal until liquidity vanished.
The Trench Chronicles isn’t documenting charts.
It’s documenting the human side of the trenches. 🪖🔥
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