Lots of newcomers to ethereum:0xe0f63a424a4439cbe457d80e4f4b51ad25b2c56c, myself included Wanted to say something about the whole "persist forever" thing I've been in crypto since 2017. I've seen some brutal crashes. Real nuclear winters. Months and months of bleeding, with seemingly no end in sight Every time you thought it couldn't possibly go any lower, it did And then it went lower again. And again. Imagine having millions on the line, watching your portfolio get absolutely destroyed, while the entire world tells you Bitcoin is dead. That it's a scam. That you're an idiot for still believing And these people didn't just hold through it They kept stacking Through years of uncertainty, ridicule, and drawdowns that would've broken almost anyone, they refused to fold Fast forward a decade and now we hear about how "lucky" those early Bitcoin holders were As if they just happened to buy the right thing at the right time Nobody talks about what it actually took to hold. The conviction required to watch everything collapse around you, over and over again, and still believe Those people didn't just get lucky. Their persistence, with real skin in the game, helped turn something the world laughed at into something the world could no longer ignore They helped manifest that reality And that's what I think people need to understand about "persist forever" This isn't about holding for a year or two, surviving a couple dips, and expecting to be rewarded Persistence itself is the mechanism. It's how something that seems impossible today can eventually become undeniable That's how movements become reality Lock in buddy, we're still in the first quarter