Quote from: KeyJockey on October 25, 2017, 02:24:06 PM

Hey Guys:

I'm posting this today just in case it's helpful to anyone else... odd as it may seem, in this day and age of everything being constantly 'online' I feel like some of y'all here are actually "friends", even though none of us have ever met, LOL.

I've gotten a lot of benefit from the conversations and advice here over the past couple years and want to say THANKS again to everyone for that, most of all.

Maybe it's just me, maybe just some personal reaction, but... lately... I'm just BURNED OUT.

Srsly can't cope with all this shit, what's happening in the crypto world lately.

It's just too much, LOL. Every day some new goddamn drama and crisis and change and OMG OMG what will we do, what will happen, aaaaah aaaaahhh Tongue

I gotta step back or my head'll explode.

Doesn't help, of course, that I sort of fucked up bad and damaged my "stack" fairly severely recently JUST WHEN things turned down after the epic RUN of ALTS this year, since around March, and as the "alts" (especially XMR after August 21st POP) recently have taken such a big HIT, just as BTC started rallying so hard ahead of all this goddamn fucking "fork drama" going on. And FFS it's NOT EVEN OVER YET, it'll be going on STILL thru probably Nov and into Dec I guess...? Sad

SO... can't deal, man. Srsly. Gotta step back... I gotta TRY and fucking detach at least for a while.

I think what I'm gonna do here is just lock down ALL my various crypto coins into secure COLD PAPER WALLETS, print a few copies and save 'em 2-3 places, then DELETE EVERYTHING crypto related from my computer and just try and STOP THINKING about this shit all day every day 24/7.

Then maybe in a year or so, come back and check the paper wallets and find it's all worth over $1,000,000... OR it's all gone to shit and totally worthless.

Whateva'... LOL

Probably won't come to THAT, probably just need a few days or a couple weeks away to get *clear* again, but... Jeez it's just too much, ya know?

Anyone else feeling like this, just wanted to post and say, "Me too, man! It ain't just YOU". In case that helps

Anyway thanks again, everyone. I'm sure I'll still be around reading here, at least LURKING even if "quiet". This isn't some "goodbye" or anything like that but seriously I just gotta rachet shit DOWN a notch or two.

Best wishes to everyone, and maybe an early "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Holidays" to all... JUST IN CASE I do end up "out" for more than a couple months LOL

I feel the same way. Whether it's just the normal ebb and flow of self-interested human beings or whether larger forces or even "the powers that be" are at work is hard to say. But whatever brought us to this moment of exhaustion and peak uncertainty is quite powerful. I remember the rise of the personal computer and later the rise of the internet. Both were exciting and controversial, but they were nowhere near as mentally tiring as the crypto-wars.

On the other hand, I've never been more bullish long term. The contention and scams and psy-ops are because the stakes are so high. The world needs uncensorable digital money. Vacuums are unstable. It will happen. Probably soon.

Your approach... to just take a break and hodl... sounds healthy. IMHO the worst mistake would be to "cash out" of crypto when there's blood in the streets.

But what do I know?