Quote from: dakiller322 on Today at 01:06:46 AM

Quote from: Biodom on April 13, 2021, 11:37:39 PM

Quote from: dakiller322 on April 13, 2021, 11:13:56 PM

Quote from: Searing on April 13, 2021, 08:02:38 PM

By the By today is my 8th Year Anniversary of finding out about Bitcoin! April 13th, 2013!

I have memories of buying my first bitcoin in April 2011, and I just searched my email to see if I could fit the exact date.

27th of May

OK, close enough.

Wiring $500 to MtGox. Sketchy as frig.

I just don't have my original forums account here, someone nicked it.

that should have been about 50 btc, give or take aka $3mil today.

I then went back and spent a bit over $2.5k total over the next 2 weeks. I had 168 btc total back then.

I do not have 168 btc now though. I learnt my Hodl lessons in trading. Easy to make btc in a bear market, hard when it turns bullish, as it did in 2013.

I am doing well though, your estimate isn't far off. I've sold off ~$250k worth between 2017 and today.

Maybe this rendition shows that BTC can rescue even pretty short-sighted and seemingly inept strategies to cause the largely BTC HODLer to still come off as seeming to be close to genius, even if having less than 1/3 of their original BTC stashes.

A kind of balance remains in terms of needs to take some profits along the way and holding onto a sufficient quantity of BTC and surely each of us are going to come to those balancing considerations in different ways, including that if we have something like less than $10k of investment into BTC (if I am getting these facts correct?), but over the years, we are able to take $250k out as cash and we are also still holding onto BTC that exceeds $3million in value, there would be and should be a certain feeling of empowerment and maybe even feelings of fortune to feel that you are and have been playing largely with house money.

Maybe you, dakiller322, have not given enough facts, but it does seem that you have a pretty great return on what appears to have been about a less than $10k investment, unless maybe I am getting your investment quantity wrong, no?

Quote from: d_eddie on Today at 01:51:54 AM

Quote from: dakiller322 on Today at 01:06:46 AM

Easy to make btc in a bear market, hard when it turns bullish, as it did in 2013.

Easy bear market -
Drink vitriol, short the corn
hybris gets punished.
#haiku

Hybris = hubris? Is that what you mean, d_eddie? or did I miss something?

I looked up hybris and I got hybris meaning the same as hubris in ancient Greece.. even though we are not ancient greeks here, are we? Or you, d_eddie, are trying to lurn us some things?