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My friends be like:

The sheeple will be sheeple. They never research and pull the trigger on a great opportunity. Then they want to bemoan their lack of initiative afterward.

Even smart people like my father who is a brilliant CPA had opportunities in the 70's to buy BRK/A, in the 80's to buy Microsoft or Apple, and in the 90's to buy Amazon or Google. But he never did, and now he just says "I wish I had bought [this or that]..." He didn't even look at Netflix before it became a thing.

Moral of the story: Don't be the 99.99% who are always looking in the rearview at missed opportunities.

For some reason people remember things they should have done but didn't.... while at the same time tend to forget a lot other things they didn't do (and shouldn't). Memory is selective it seems. Things are just how they are, all the rest is bullshit.

I try to keep things in check..and have done worse things with BTC this year..but the one that stands out as an OUCH!

Is the 1.01 BTC I paid when BTC was worth about $1,150 bucks...thus I paid at $18,920.73 btc now $19,109.94 to pour cement in an old
cistern in my basement to level the floor up....for a workshop there....again OUCH!

I did worse, last year...but reminded every time I sweep the workshop floor. Ack!

Yeah, I understand your pain... but then... why not also punish yourself for spending $50 in a nice dinner instead of having bought a potentially winning ticket of the lottery? Things are how they are. And we are doing very well

Again, I've done dumber this year (2 Bitmain D3's that will never ROI at 2.51 BTC w/PSU's etc)

But, again...damn tough to sweep the floor in the workshop w/o this crossing my mind....

ON THE OTHER HAND....if I added up all the BTC I spent (don't look at your Jan 2017 hot wallet...it is ugly) I could be beating myself up

I should just think when I sweep the floor, better the twinge about that, over the angst of adding up all the dubious stuff I got with crypto this year ..shudder

an inoculation against 20/20 hindsight as it were

the mind is a funny thing