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On the first morning after the mass liquidation, community members began checking who was still around. The marketwide liquidation figure set a historical record. The price had risen from the spike's low, but the group did not regain its old ease.
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On the first morning after the mass liquidation, community members began checking who was still around. Node operators also had to pick questions worth answering out of the messages left by the crash. The space Sisyphus left when he quit the group in the early hours of October 10 drew more attention than the rebound on the chart.
The marketwide liquidation figure set a historical record. XAI fluctuated between $0.025 and $0.030 and closed at $0.028. Someone in the group began naming “survivors.” When people saw that Sisyphus's avatar had gone gray, the conversation shifted from who had bought the bottom to who had taken a loss. Someone wanted to ask his execution price, but the Night Watchman urged the group not to invent a story for someone who had left and to keep current requests for help in view.
The price had risen from the spike's low, but the group did not regain its old ease. Sisyphus did not return, and nobody knew how much he had recovered on exit. The Night Watchman decided to answer node questions separately from expressions of distress so that people needing help would not be lost in the flood of messages. That day's roll call could not say how many would stay after the liquidation.