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If the market drops, you may easily end up with bags of unwanted coin. And that's why I said that it was risky. And I stopped. It was one of my good decisions, since I didn't get to lose money on that, only time.
This.
I still have coins in my portfolio that I bought in 2017 because of this and I'm still waiting for them to turn positive at some point. However, these are only very small positions (< 100$) and serve rather to remind myself to keep my hands off high-risk trades.
Trading has become completely uninteresting, especially in some countries in the EU - including mine - because you always have to take the taxes into account (2017 was more wild west like with lots of "anonymous" exchanges which didn't require KYC). For example, in Germany every trade is automatically subject to tax, which may be as high as 50% ...