I will say an old friend is texting me chiding me for not selling and buying my retirement house. That's always a good sign, or then again... maybe he is right this time?
That is very funny... I am presuming that this "friend" is a nocoiner? Sometimes friends might end up "knowing too much", and probably you deserved a certain level of chiding anyhow because you likely had been "rubbing in" your friend's ongoing lack of taking you (or your BTC investment) seriously. So here's his opportunity to get back at you, no?
I mean aren't you suffering cAPSLOCK? You are only around 3x UP from September and you could have been 6.5x up.. NOT to mention that your costs are likely way the hell below $10k anyhow, so we are just considering what has happened to your portfolio since September until now, and gosh it hardly seems like any kind of suffering situation.. except for someone wanting to chide about ONLY being up 3x from September rather than 6.5x, and I suppose that the dweeb friend also is suggesting that you "better sell now" while you are still up.. and trying to
knock some common sense into you (that is the common sense of a nocoiner, which is hardly common sense when we really consider the matter).
Of course I suffer a little during these times. Even though I have learned to avoid as much of the pain as possible and have grown a bit more spine than I had way back when I also have more to lose now than ever. If you had told me I would ever been in a position to lose or gain what I can lose or gain in a single day I would have been astonished. But I would also have been delighted.
A problem I would like to have, as I say.
But that does not change the fact that all of our "numbers" have been up 2x what they currently are, and that is painful.
My friend will never reveal to me whether he has bought Bitcoin or not, though I told him about it at sub 4 digit prices. He did buy some ripple and Bcash I know that... *sigh*. I am hoping he has bought a little Bitcoin too. But I think he has done OK in the stock market. He is just frustrated that he thinks I have enough to retire and that not having done so means I am greedy.
For me the equation is simple. The amount I have to gain by putting off retirement is enough to make it an easy choice to be able to still work, and even throw the occasional couple K at Bitcoin on days like today. I bought the last time we were near 30, and today. Actually today I got it at 29980. HA!
I am a simple man, who leads a simple life. My descendants will have wealth they cannot believe if I am right about this bitcoin thing... I often wonder if that is a good thing...