I believe that my skin is thick enough to accept a few snipes here and there.  I certainly snipe at you enough, because sometimes you just make me a bit mad with your analysis, which I frequently conjecture that you are tending to error too much in terms of trying to attribute mature features onto bitcoin, and so sure, sometimes I cannot really pinpoint why I am getting so worked up about what I perceive to be your overly bearish analysis, and maybe I become even more worked up when you end up being correct in terms of where the BTC price ends up going. 

But whatever, in the end, maybe even part of my "worked-up-ness" is a kind of exaggeration, too....and in the end, overall BTC's historical price performance (including where we are at currently) has been way the hell more bullish than even I could have imagined to be a realistic turn of events. 

I mean largely my minimum goal, in terms of my BTC investment, was to hope that it performed equally or better than the average of my remaining portfolio (which historically had been around 5.5% average per year), so anything at or above 5.5% average per year would make me feel pretty damned good, and surely, I would even be prepared to receive less stellar BTC price performance because of the fact that I had largely been considering the BTC portion of my investment to be serving as an overall hedge to my remaining portfolio which I perceived to have been way too dollar correlated.

So, ultimately, even if I had screwed up quite a few times in various aspects of my approach to my BTC holdings (which I have a few times), the portion of my overall investment portfolio that is attributed to my BTC holdings has way the hell out performed any and all aspects of my various other investments, and I have no reason to really speculate that in essence, BTC is going to continue to largely outperform all of those other asset allocations, and I am not even trying to talk my book in that respect. 

Before I got into bitcoin, I had thought that I was largely rich enough with my various traditional investments, at least in order to have had prepared myself for a reasonably comfortable life, even if some things kind of go to shit in various ways.  The supplementation of my overall future preparations with BTC has been merely serving as icing on the cake to an already decently good set of preparations....

Sometimes, I may reflect on myself and my own situation, but frequently when I am participating in these various kinds of conversations about bitcoin, I am also trying to account for the various questions and concerns that either bitcoin newbies might have or any members who are in a much earlier state of their wealth and/or btc accumulation stage of life. 

Accordingly, I do try to figure out and argue the case for the hypothetical newbie on a regular basis, and I tend to do that in the real world, too.  When someone asks me about bitcoin, I frequently will tell them to get started right away, and I don't care about what the price is... Of course, one of my reservations is that I will have concerns for anyone who either does not otherwise have their finances in order or someone who perceives themself to have a decently short investment time horizon.. such as anything less than 4 or 5 years.