Wifey dropped a huge renovation project on my head (not unexpectedly)...she says..."you can afford it".

The bounce to the rescue..sold a bit of some alt on a 100% bounce, lol, and the work is covered with excess.
No way I would be selling btc, that's what alts are for (aka selling).
The best part does not bring the subject of selling btc anymore after it recovered above the 2017 high, which is just fine with me.

A small story: many genes have minor alleles (gene variants) with a rather high prevalence of 1-10%. This is humanity's (or any species) "insurance" card in case something truly horrible like HIV comes. Case in point: CCR5 is needed for HIV infection, but 1% of the population is fully immune to it because of CCR5 mutation/inactivation and 10% are not fully immune, but protected to a degree. Therefore, even if we had NO medicines against HIV, we (human race) would have survived it, like chimps did their virus (SIV).

IMHo, alts are those 1% 'weird' alleles, not really needed, but a hedge in case something would happens to bitcoin. Therefore, it is my philosophy to invest small sums using fiat and then sell the rips, fully or partially.