let's go back to the year 2015. January of that year. bitcoin had been falling falling falling, nothing but falling ever since peak of 2013. a peak that I did not sell. it wasn't "fuck you -I am retiring" amounts of fiat worth that my btc stash was worth on that peak, but it surely was more money than I had ever dreamed of possessing. yeah, saw it all dwindle. like water you try to hold in your hand. I got seriously invested in 2013 and all I saw in that year were fucking immense fiat gains. evaporating fiat gains all through 2014. hired a manager for my business. he demanded me to invest some cash into the business and I thought he was right, I should invest in my business. 2014 had left me disillusioned. in January 2015 bitstamp got hacked and since I was on the brink of selling I had lots of btc on that exchange in that moment.
whooosh - all gone. like another mtgox. I freaked out completely. in the back of my mind I thought that bitstamp would somehow not end up like mtgox 2.0, but that was just a feeling.  I had to reconsider my attitude towards bitcoin. it dawned on me that it was just a speculative pipe dream I was curating here. fuck this shit. I own a real life business that made me decent money and I also liked the work. why the fuck was I chasing some weird "get filthy rich" scheme when I had a decade long business that worked quite well? I almost gave up. almost. decided that if bitstamp would recover I would sell 100 btc and put into my rl business. bitstamp did recover, got all coins back.

so I did. sold in February 2015. got €20k and invested that in the business. posting this so noobs can learn and not do the same mistake. never sell your precious corn. that was $1.8 mio mistake, currently. if you sell 10btc during next dip it will be the same in a few years. if you sell 1 btc during the next bear, it will be the same in a few more years. hold on to the holy corn.