When the crowd chased FOMO, I wrote a silent report on crypto’s emotional tides—no AI, just human data.

I didn’t set out to chase virality.

I was sitting at my desk in Logan Street, coffee gone cold, when the notifications flooded in—not from hype, but from whispers:

‘How did you know this was real?’

The AI video that hit 210K plays? A synthetic echo of FOMO. But behind every view was a human tremor—the hesitation before buying BTC when your portfolio feels like ash.

My team at CoinMetrics built models to map these rhythms: not algorithms of greed, but patterns of loneliness encoded in chain behavior. We tracked private messages from women aged 25–34—free agents who traded their anxiety for clarity.

They didn’t ask ‘Is this profitable?’ They asked: ‘Did you feel it too?’

This isn’t about tools. It’s about the silence between buys.

I used Python not to predict price—but to listen to what fear sounds like when the market sleeps.

Last week, Veo—the model they called ‘the next big thing’—went live. But I knew: no algorithm can quantify grief. Only data anchored in lived experience can.

The most dangerous trend isn’t FOMO. It’s forgetting that we’re still here—thinking alone, in the glow of a screen, at 3 AM, reading numbers that don’t lie.