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Yup! I mean, I love "being in Bitcoin", earning it, using it, whatever, it rocks my boat. But I still try to remember it's still experimental. Looks really successful so far, and long may that continue to be, but at least if it ever goes to zero, spectacular crash, whatever, I'll at least want to look back and say the experiment did me some good. Paid for bills. Holidays. Made me look cool, whatever.
So maybe we've got to end up spending 50% of our stashes. Maybe when Bitcoin goes to $1 million, we miss out on the big pay day but it's all that using and spending and selling that helped get us there, right?
No doubt man, if we miss out we miss out, I already missed out on so many increases and I am totally fine with it, I paid few bills as well and like I said some emergency stuff, but I am really not that bothered by it. I do not buy bitcoin that is my thing, I earn it and that is why I can either spend it if I want or I could keep it if I want, it is all my personal choice and I really do not feel any attachment to it in an emotional sense.
It is experimental like you said and I think I am already hole and can say that I made all I can make from it, if I have to quit work because bitcoin crashed and go work in a regular job I would be fine with it too, obviously I rather keep this one going as long as I can, until I die, but if I can't, I am totally fine with it as well, I just do not see the point in people acting as if everyone has to hold forever.