I kind of have a figure in my head regarding how much it is (was), and I consider it as a very significant amount, even though probably it is only a few percentage of my overall BTC holdings - since I have moved a lot of my BTC holdings off of exchanges and never had any kind of policy to sell large amounts of my BTC on the way up.. even if the BTC price were to stay up.

Many here might recall (since I repeat my lil selfie so frequently) that I have a policy and practice of ONLY selling a relatively small percentage of BTC on the way up.. so there is a kind of built in presumption that is built into the way that I attempt to engage in BTC portfolio management, regarding what if the BTC price were to go shooting up without any kind of meaningful/significant correction that would allow me to by back while the BTC price were to be shooting up, and would I have to question myself about whether I still would be happy that I had sold the amount of BTC that I end up selling on the way up without having regrets about it. 

In some sense this little mistake that happened yesterday provided an opportunity for a variation of that vision to play out.. but the ONLY thing ended up being that it was a mistake, so the BTC price ended up coming back down to where the price was prior to the mistake... So it is almost like getting the benefits of both worlds.. the BTC price going shooting up, but then correcting back down almost immediately.

Another crazy angle, is what to do?  what to do?  Do I just buy back everything and increase my BTC stash by a pretty good sized chunk.. or do I kind of divide up the whole chuck of "extra money (BTC and USDT) that was not expected.. in other words the extra money (value) is like icing on the cake.. it was not anything that I expected or even needed - but in some sense, at the same time, since it was a pretty good sized free gift, then I largely just decided to plug aspects of it back in, and also to just keep what I am doing - but maybe just increase some of my budget in the coming year or so (merely based on this happening), even though we might get some more windfall that allows for more increasing of some of the budget that applies to many of us longer term HODLers who might already be mostly shaving off BTC from time to time, and a kind of mistake that just happens, helps to resolve some of my dilemma regarding how to possible shave off some value from time to time, my dilemma (to the extent that I had a dilemma) has been resolved for me.. including quite a bit of windfall (bonus value).

Since Binance is getting quite a bit of heat recently (even in the courts), I did move a bit of the extra BTC that I had bought back off of the exchange, and I probably will just continue to move BTC off of that exchange as some of my currently adjusted BTC buy orders are likely going to continue to get filled (and the various ways that I will likely continue to convert that extra USDT into BTC - or otherwise maybe spend it in the coming months/or maybe year.. and then also there are chances that BinanceUS assets could get frozen too.. yet it is difficult to know how likely that is .. including the ongoing petitions from the US Govt. currently including the SEC, but could end up involving the DOJ at some point in the future.. since the US Govt. seems to have such a hard-on against Binance (and BinanceUS) in recent times).

I wonder if my little windfall was as good as Goldkingcoiner's 80x mistake?  Who knows?  Could be a question/answer that is relative?  relative to our own circumstances.  how long was goldkingcoiner able to live off of his 80x mistake?  Sometimes the ramifications are quite extensive because it allows for potentially long term rippling benefits.. that are not always easy to quantify.. just like some of my decisions in 2014/2105/2016 had long term rippling effects in terms of having more bitcoin to work with rather than someone who might have taken  a more conservative (or whimpy approach) to their BTC accumulation during those times.


It's like being in the right place at the right time.

I know someone who recently got a lot of his/her BTC caught up in various bankruptcy situations.. and other ways of losing his/her BTC due to sloppy management of the holdings.. and in some sense I feel bad because the totality of my gains from this mistake seems to be worth close to the amount that the other person has lost (or otherwise got tied up), and so there can be some value in terms of staying alive and having some BTC to play with during these kinds of weird but sometimes fortuitous times.