Last night, my “zeroed-out” account moved.

Almost twelve o’clock, my phone popped up a notification: $ORDI increased by 40%.

My first reaction was that the app was broken. I hadn’t opened this coin in nearly a year.

When inscriptions were hot in 2023, a friend stayed up late to grab the whitelist; with a few thousand ORDI, his cost was almost zero. Later it rose to $90, and he used it to pay off the mortgage on his old home. Then it dropped to $2, a 97% decline. In the group chat, nobody mentioned the words “inscriptions” anymore.

I also chased it a bit. I lost so much that I couldn’t be bothered to sell, so I just left it in my wallet as a keepsake—like that broken-screen phone in the back of a drawer: I knew it was there, but I’d never thought it could power on again.

But last night, it powered on.

On April 16, ORDI surged from $2.55 to $5.23—doubled. But it wasn’t bought up slowly—short positions were liquidated within 24 hours for $3.31 million, and at one point the long-to-short ratio was 10:1. The shorts were flattened and closed out one by one by bullish candles; they buried themselves.

$ORDI has no project team, no VC. All 21 million tokens were minted by the community itself. What is it worth? It’s worth “a group of people still believe in it.”

My friend sent me a message: “Did you see it?”