You know it's bad when the lift gets quieter than usual.

For two weeks our building WhatsApp had one uncle forwarding voice notes about "the next big crypto." By the end, six of us had bought in.

Then one night around 2am — liquidity gone, dev wallet emptied, Telegram vanished. Even the admin changed his display picture to a cartoon frog before disappearing.

About 1.4 lakh down between all of us. Now every time the lift stops on another floor, we all get very interested in our phones. Nobody mentions crypto anymore, not because we learned anything, just too embarrassed to ask who lost the most.