$PI There are plenty of “big-brained” people in the community who think they’re prophetic and ahead of everyone else, who claim they’ve seen through the project team’s real face and believe that anyone playing Pi is a fool. They’ve been completely led around by the couple. Everyone wants to get rich overnight.

It has to be admitted that, in the community, there really are many people who essentially don’t understand the project at all. They’re just being brainwashed by well-intentioned live-stream hosts with ulterior motives, then led by the nose—yet for a project with several tens of millions of people, aside from Nicolas and A Diao, among the pioneers’ elites there are still plenty of true professionals: longtime old “grass” veterans who’ve been rising and falling in the crypto world for years, people with professional backgrounds in the financial industry, long-time blockchain players, business owners, and even people with ties to the Zhao-family system within the authorities. For this group, it can be said that even if they aren’t necessarily financially independent, they are basically middle-class with worries about food and clothing largely taken care of. Are their minds really less sharp than those of these loudmouth hecklers and blackmailers?

Maybe I’m not smart, but logically speaking, no scam project can deceive tens of millions of people for seven years and still actively embrace legal oversight. Apart from KYC and KYB, the project hasn’t imposed any compulsory requirements on anyone, hasn’t forced people to invest fees—whether it’s running nodes, participating in the ecosystem, or trading through exchanges. Whether you frame it as “investing in the future,” or you call it “human greed,” these are all individual actions. Adults must take responsibility for what they do, win or lose. If you can afford to gamble, you’ve got to be able to afford to lose. That’s what a real man should do.

If a project won’t let you participate without putting in money, and you have to criticize the project, criticize Nicolas and A Diao—given the current situation, that’s understandable. But participation has zero threshold; it’s entirely voluntary. What else is there to say?

As a person, stay low-key and be cautious with your words—don’t let your speech reveal your character. When you get hit, stand up straight; if you gamble, accept the loss. Not all of these tens of millions of people are fools.