Many people say that if the price drops, it will never go back up. But I want to say this: in today’s crypto world, which coin hasn’t dropped? Even ADA is almost done for.

As long as the project team keeps moving forward with Pi network’s construction and infrastructure—so that developers can easily come in and build the ecosystem on Pi—then as the ecosystem gradually grows, the practical value of Pi will naturally become apparent. Getting the price back up is only a matter of time.

If someone says Pi’s price keeps falling and the official team does nothing, then that would really be disastrous. But exactly now, the “concepts” that the community originally criticized are, one after another, being pushed outward.

OpenMind has run computing power on Pi through 7 nodes, and the official team is soon going to release a feature that allows the first 100 nodes to rent out computing power, connecting with businesses. If commercial institutions use it, they would need to pay in Pi.

The core point is: if your product isn’t good, would you dare push it to the market? Otherwise, it’s easy to get exposed and end up getting slapped in the face. That’s precisely why we’re waiting for market validation: if 100 nodes can deliver on computing power output, data security, the entire Pi Pay payment system, and more—so that commercial companies feel comfortable buying computing power on Pi—then wouldn’t this also be real verification of usability for the community and for those of you who only judge whether projects are good or bad by secondary-market prices?

So, can you say that in the future, with more than 420,000 nodes, they will be able to become a force driving value because there is genuinely rentable computing power—thereby boosting the secondary market?

Including Pi’s recent update on the 0.6 node side: it allows you to deploy mainstream AI locally in just a few easy steps, making sure the data has privacy and security.

Are those professional developers really that stupid? You download it and use it—you’ll know whether it’s reliable or not.

This also applies to proposals like PIRC.

If the coin price drops to the point of “dying,” and you blame everything on Pi, you can come up with a thousand and one reasons. But—haven’t the couple run off, right?

CIDI Games: even the “rich people” skins—there are 70 of them. That’s real money, using 700,000 to 800,000 Pi that players recharged through Pi Pay. The players who recharged haven’t encountered any risk of stolen coins, or risks of not receiving credits in a timely manner.

And for the CIDI platform that has been running for nearly 2 months: even roughly based on the gaming enthusiasm of about 250,000 players, you can estimate that at least 4,000,000 Pi have entered CIDI. This is liquidity with practical utility—not “withdrawing” just to speculate on coins.

Let me give another example. You may be able to say, “Well, we don’t have those concepts that they talk about.” Yes—but I think it’s worth taking as a reference.

In the year 2000 internet bubble, Intel’s stock price also fell from over 100 dollars to 5 dollars—a decline of more than 90%. But would rational investors and shareholders curse Intel, just because the bubble burst? No, because they saw that although there was a technology bubble, humanity would still need the internet, would still need computers, and would still need various improvements in computing speed in the future. So they continued to hold for the long term, even doing dollar-cost averaging—until today, when we can see Intel’s development and stock performance.

So from the beginning, Pi Network has emphasized practicality: you need this network and all the tools built on it to let many people who are just getting into web3, and also those already in web3, truly build ecosystems on Pi—rather than merely speculating and trading coins.

Besides, the official team has said since 7 years ago in its whitepaper that Pi is a long-term social practice project. If you want to get rich in the short term, go look elsewhere.

After all, you mined it—got it for free through lightning. If you run into trouble because you bought it on the secondary market and got trapped, that’s investment—that’s risk. If you use leverage and trade contracts with Pi as the underlying asset, and you lose money—that’s what you deserve. Gamblers should die.