Quote from: NR007 on Today at 05:53:10 PM

I came back after being in another business for a long time and was very surprised that the 0.2 btc I safe in my wallet had turned into thousand of dollar in just a few years. Even the 33 gram of gold I bought could not bring me an advantage in this amount compared to bitcoin. I have sold all of my bitcoin at the time they were $55K, which is awesome.

Ok. So you got about $11,000 from your 0.2BTC. Presumably most of that was profits, and there may not have been any kind of desperation in regards to that $11k, since you forgot about it for a few years.. yet you did not provide enough details for us here, to understand a lot of your specifics besides your gloating over something approaching a $11k profit... or a windfall.

You know I had a pretty close acquaintance gloat over selling around 0.5 bitcoin around $3,800-ish ($1,900) in 2017, and that bitcoin had been acquired below $700 ($350) in 2016 (so a profit of around 5x or $1,200). That person has been expressing quite a few regrets over the years.

At this time, with the BTC price hovering around $38k, you might feel like a genius because you currently are UP in your sale, yet you could buy back at this lower price.

Alternatively, you could wait for a further dip and buy back (that is if a further dip happens), or you could buy back part of the BTC that you had sold at current prices or some variation of current prices or you could just remain a nocoiner from here on out and gloat during this window period in which you are appearing to be in profits relative to fiat.

You are the best person to judge your own circumstances, and guys in this thread are going to really vary too in terms of how they would approach such a matter about which you are currently gloating if they were faced with the same facts, and I would suspect a minority of the regulars would feel comfortable keeping that value completely in dollars given recent BTC price actions, but there are likely a few of us who would be o.k. with that.. not this cat.. but hey.. just saying.. ..

Actually, some active guys in this thread can be seen professing that BTC prices are going lower than the current $30k bottom.. and perhaps at some point they will be changing their tunes, too.. because some guys like to talk their book too, even though they act like they are not talking their book.

Also, sometimes it can be difficult to know if some guys are putting their money where there mouth is or if they are just making proclamations in a public thread in order to entice others into actions that they are not taking themselves.. not sure how effective that would be, but some guys surely seem to engage in that kind of behaviors.

Surely, not even I expect each of us to exactly be describing his position before some aspects of it executes. Even in my case, I generally have a kind of systematic practice that I tend to follow and I am pretty open about it, but I do not tend to give the exact numbers very often, but sometimes even something approaching exact numbers or percentages might be relevant to certain kinds of discussions.

Nonetheless, in recent months, I have created some variations in my systematic practices because I am attempting to achieve some kinds of real world targets, and I am disinclined to share too many of the particulars until I am mostly finished with the executions to achieve the goals that I am attempting to achieve. If whatever I did is seeming kind of relevant, I will probably share aspects of what I did once I get closer to achieving my goals, and I am not even so naive as to presume that I might not have to adjust aspects of my tactic along the way too, especially in the event that my targets are not met in within my real world timeline expectations. I have had to do this a few times in the past, and there can both be uncomfortable periods, but also some unwillingness (at least from yours truly) to share details until the whole situation has kind of sorted itself out and reached a kind of resolution, at least from my perspective.