"In the mosaic pieced together from fragments of timelines, if a date must be pinned down, it would be July 15, 2025—I sit at the pier in Tsim Sha Tsui, scrolling through the digital void. Bitcoin had just broken a new record high the day before, but it doesn't seem satisfied with the throne of the mortal world. It yearns to fly into space, literally—using orbital wallets and satellite nodes to shoot transactions into the universe, escaping the jealous hand of gravity. Imagine: a cryptocurrency comet streaking past the Kuiper Belt, carrying fragments of our souls encoded in the blockchain, engraving another life. In one, I am a wave-riding trader; in another, I am a skeptical bystander. All connected, like echoes in a hall of mirrors. Or perhaps, these are just bridges to an era we have never dreamed of?"

———📘Fire Treasure Essays