Ponzi had just quit his job pre-liquidation; second blowup felt different because he'd replicated success before.

Like, you were still working, obviously. Like, what was kind of going through your head, saying, you know, I'm not leaving. I'm not giving up. Dude, unironically enough, I had just quit my job. And I was like, I'm all in crypto. Like, right before this too. It always happens that way. But the difference this time was I had blown up in the past before, not to this caliber. But it had affected me so psychologically the first time, where this time when it happened, I was like, okay, I got here the second time. It wasn't luck. I've replicated it. I can do it and like, obviously that wasn't the initial reaction, right, in the first 24 hours.