I simply do not agree with you. My savings are composed by X fiat and X BTC. I don't multiply the total amount of BTC I own x the USD/BTC exchange rate. I think this is the difference between you an me: you want to speculate with bitcoins to produce fiat profits. On the contrary, I made a gamble with bitcoins - if I lose, let's be it. If BTC truly succeeds, my life
really changed.
I knew this was my choice from the very beginning. Why?
Because BTC can change the world, it has an amazing potential - and I believe my strategy is the only one that will enable me to maximize that potential.
Because BTC is
extremely risky, and in my opinion my strategy is the only wise one - with it I have my soul in peace.
Then: use the search tool in these forums. Check the 2010 and 2011 posts. You will read about people that had
hundreds of thousands of Bitcoins that cashed out just one year ago... To buy a nice flat (for example:
http://sc5.io/blog/2013/02/sc5er-intro-the-bitcoin-guy/). Well, I've made a choice: I'm in it for the long term. Sure, I can accept using a little part of my BTC to buy something I cannot afford with my fiat savings - let's say a nice car. But I'm sure as hell that I'm not here to reap fiat profits, I will not let greed or fear to take over, because everyone who did that made a mistake.
I'm here to play this game till the very end.
I'm here till then end too... but I'm putting a portion of my bitcoins to work market making. Somebody's got to take the risk of getting washed out on the spikes up if we want to have any hope of even temporary stability. Usually, it retraces a good bit, but whatever USD I can't get back in for a profit goes to paying down student loans. When I'm debt free, I may have to revisit my strategy.