Back to collectionAfter the Flash Crash, One Plan Holds
Background: The studio was in its year-end push after the playtest night, when market risk abruptly overwhelmed ordinary conversation. Today: In the early hours, BTC plunged from 53,000 to 42,000; liquidations across the market exceeded USD 2 billion, and leveraged longs were wiped out overnight. Impact and next: The screenshot shifted the discussion from guessing the bottom to personal discipline, while showing that regular buying did not mean declaring the market had bottomed.
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Background: The studio was in its year-end push after the playtest night, when market risk abruptly overwhelmed ordinary conversation. The Night Watchman, a long-standing community member, saw the panic in the chat and knew others might treat his own regular buying habit as a point of reference.
Today: In the early hours, BTC plunged from 53,000 to 42,000; liquidations across the market exceeded USD 2 billion, and leveraged longs were wiped out overnight. On Saturday morning, the chat filled with candlestick charts. The Night Watchman posted his recurring-buy screenshot with the words, “Week 46, buying as usual.” When someone asked whether he feared a further fall, he made no market call and simply clarified that he was following his plan.
Impact and next: The screenshot shifted the discussion from guessing the bottom to personal discipline, while showing that regular buying did not mean declaring the market had bottomed. The studio still had its original schedule to meet; the Night Watchman would continue to face volatility, and not everyone in the community would necessarily follow his approach.