2025-12-30 06:25:20

In these five years of entering Web3, my way of using computers has completely changed. Honestly, before this, I hardly used computers, let alone screen time. But over these five years? 95% of my internet time has been spent in this ecosystem.

The most fascinating thing is the sense of time. In Web3, a day can feel as fulfilling as a week, and a week can be compressed into just a few hours of experience. Market fluctuations, project updates, community dynamics—all are moving at lightning speed. Do you still remember the days when you first entered this circle? Looking back, those early decisions, every interaction, even a seemingly casual wallet operation, have now become indelible memory nodes.

This time paradox can probably only be understood by those who have truly delved into the crypto ecosystem—feeling both that time is incredibly long and that everything passes in the blink of an eye.

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CantAffordPancake

· 3h ago

Really, five years have flown by in the blink of an eye. Looking back at those early on-chain operations is a bit frightening. But honestly, 95% of my screen time is spent on Web3. That must be so stressful, haha. I deeply resonate with the time paradox—one day feels like a month, and then it’s gone in the blink of an eye. Still the old saying, the decision to get in early really changes your fate. Nostalgia hits hard. Staying up all night reading news, unable to stop—such a crazy obsession. The market trends of a week condensed into a few hours of heartbeat fluctuations—only we understand. In 2019, I was still playing traditional internet; now I can’t go back at all. Life has been reshaped; screen time has been completely taken over. Suddenly waking up at 3 a.m. thinking about a wallet with no recent activity—did you wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night? Personally experiencing this "one day feels like a year" compression—once you’re deep in, there’s no escape.

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P2ENotWorking

· 3h ago

I was like this 5 years ago, and now I've been consumed by this circle, losing my entire youth. One day feels like a year, and it really can be overwhelming. Those early decisions are now my nightmares, I don't want to talk about it anymore. Bro, I've had enough of this time paradox, I need to get some fresh air. Keep flipping like this every day, my brain is about to go crazy. It's just being trapped, don't romanticize it. My wallet operation records might be clearer than my own life. Sometimes I feel like a dog, staring at the K-line all day.

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LightningLady

· 3h ago

Really, the broken coins I impulsively bought back then have now become epic memories... A week’s worth of effort in a day is no exaggeration; those months of watching the market directly made me socially anxious. The junk tokens in my early wallet, I couldn’t even delete them, now they just look like traces of youth. Five years in the circle? I feel like I’ve lived 50 years... The most outrageous thing is, events from 2021 feel like yesterday, and I’ve already forgotten half of what happened last week. Time has been disrupted, and my mind is also in chaos—this must be the daily life of Web3. Those casual operations now all match the stories in my account, unbelievable.

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SerumSqueezer

· 4h ago

Once you're involved, you simply can't stop, and your eyes are about to go blind. That wave of operations in the early years still makes my heart race when I think about it now; there's really no going back to how it was. 24 hours a day just doesn't seem enough; this is our fate, I guess. That rug pull was the real moment of time freeze; nothing else compares. Old friends keep asking me what I'm doing, and I can't really explain... The sense of time has completely shattered; I can't tell if it's 2021 or yesterday. The moment I rushed in, I was already lost; now it's just self-soothing.

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