Quote from: ivomm on Today at 12:48:31 AM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on January 19, 2022, 08:01:06 PM

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Gotta question your judgement when you had been considering that selling 60% of your stash would have even had been a good idea while BTC prices were moving through (above and beyond) it's 2017 ATH and through another zone.
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Yes, I made a mistake, because I saw the possibility to buy mining equipment that would bring me 3x more coins in the next 2 years than with my current equipment. I owe >80% of my stash to the mining anyway, so such risks are part of my job. I started buying the gpu's and literally on the next day all shipments from UK stopped. The price of the gpus increased 3x while I was searching for other options.

Of course, there are no real easy ways to know some trade-offs that you may well be contemplating, especially if there is some kind of business / or complicated investment decisions that depend upon a variety of considerations that would not be too easily to consider here or even to lump into more straight forward trade-offs that guys might consider making. None of us can step into your shoes or even understand without very many specifics, and if you start to provide too many specifics that might not be good for your OPsec either.

Surely investing into bitcoin related businesses complicates the calculations too.. so none of us can really second-guess you regarding those kinds of matters even though there are some changes in the thoughts about whether it is good to invest in bitcoin mining equipment rather than buying bitcoin directly.. and surely some of the China shut down of hashrate in that jurisdiction in 2021 - provided quite a few surprise windfalls to incumbent miners who were already set up or close to being set up, but still it may well be questionable whether investing anew in mining is a good decision - and so there are likely a lot of factors that are somewhat subjective that would be involved in weighing which way to lean.

Quote from: ivomm on Today at 12:48:31 AM

Meanwhile I changed my mind about a villa that I liked and so I decided to rebuy back at least the last sold coins when the price fell to 30K. So I improved my ratio from 60% to 38% sold bitcoins. Hopefully with my current old equipment I will recover another 10% this year. I had to spend about other important stuff.

Probably too many subject matters to try to calculate, so really difficult for me to add this to calculations that I already attempted to assert regarding selling so much while the BTC price is going in the zone of its previous ATH... It seems a pretty big gamble, and surely it could have ended up paying off by either going through with whatever outside of BTC purchases you were contemplating or even if BTC prices ended up dropping back into the mid to lower $20ks.. and surely we did have some pretty unforgivable behavior from BTC during that time... we had a shoot up pretty much from $17k all the way to $42k (between November 2020 to January 2021), and ONLY a short correction down to $30k in January 2021 and then a resumption up to $64,895 that took until April to get there (without any real significant corrections) before correcting down to $28,800 a second time...so yeah, if anyone sold any significant amounts of their BTC in that $17k to $30k arena they did not have too many opportunities to buy back and mostly would have had to buy back at a loss or break even if they had been lucky, if buying back had been their intention at the time that they sold.. and that is part of the reason that I frequently suggest that when any of us are selling our BTC, we should sell in small enough amounts that we are not intending to buy back...so there can be risks in either selling to much or changing our minds about actually wanting to buy back after we had already sold thinking that odds are pretty good that we would have buy back options (that did not end up playing out in what ended up being a gamble that did not pay off).

Quote from: ivomm on Today at 12:48:31 AM

Later that year 2021, I nearly lost my father and got myself very ill because of the stress. All this cost more money and nerves. I can't get proper medical treatment here, so I consider moving to another country. And if things continue to be so bad for me, well, I will expand my donations to various children related charities. But let's think positive and hope for something good to happen. Bitcoin is hope after all.

For sure personal crises, emergencies and even health of self or family members can exacerbate and complicate matters even further, and for sure we could end up selling larger portions of our BTC stash because we do not want to deal with the additional stress that we might consider coming partly from some of the extreme volatility of BTC.. so those are personal calls regarding what to do that might not end up lessening our stress .. and could even increase our stress and we end up not feeling good about how they played out.. and whether we did the right thing or not, we might have felt that we were pressured into it.. and so then the question might just be whether we feel that we can mitigate some of the damages and/or learn from how we might have handled that situation better. In the end, there might not be anything that we would have changed in what we had done, even though we end up NOT being happy exactly regarding how things turned out.. a smaller BTC stash or whatever.....

And, probably plenty of us make a variety of mistakes along the way, and maybe even repeat some of our mistakes - and sometimes we might either be a bit reluctant to admit some of our mistakes or we may well sugarcoat them a bit, and in the end, maybe it does not matter a whole hell of a lot... and sometimes sharing them in this thread could help us to work through some of our mistakes somewhat, too.. ..

Of course, if some of the mistakes are bothering us, it might be good to put some of the information out there or even present the matter as a "friend's issue" or a hypothetical. Or we can change some of the numbers around or some of the percentages in order to attempt to preserve opsec and to make the same points, if we are striving to work through some of our mistakes...and it is also understandable that sometimes we might not want to get into too many details beyond admitting "mistakes were made.".. There are probably not too many of us who are completely exempt from the "mistakes were made" label, especially the longer that we have been in bitcoin and the more adventurous we attempt to be in terms of how we hold our coins, trying some varying kinds of services and even keeping some money on exchanges or trying some new wallets or lightning network and we might well end up losing some coins (not even getting into shitcoin temptations.. which really should be taken to another thread if wanting to go down the discussion of those kinds of mistakes - or even the supposed all the money made through shitcoin gambles).