Quote from: justdimin on Today at 06:22:23 AM

Quote from: BenCodie on July 25, 2023, 09:52:00 PM

We can always remind ourselves and others about the precautions and steps to make sure that holdings are secure to prevent loss, though I'm sure that there will always be mistakes and irresponsibility (both are human nature after all) and therefore Bitcoin will always receive involuntary donations.

I agree with that, I do not think that they donated to make sure that the supply drops and the value would go up. I think they just involuntarily did that by making a mistake.

In the early days, I'm sure many played with the theory of destroying coins in attempt to effect price. Or, believed they were contributing to the ecosystem by destroying coins. Of course it would be a very small percentage of people vs. involuntary/mistakingly...though still some people may have nonetheless.

Quote from: justdimin on Today at 06:22:23 AM

I have done that before, there is some money out there somewhere in the world that I used to own. I am fine with it and at peace because it was about 10 dollars back then, and probably somewhere close to 3k today, and will probably be more later on.

Me too. It sucks, but that's just how it goes! You have to also remember that you could have spent or sold those coins at any point from then until today, and when you think of it that way you find more peace in knowing that either way you may not have ran the whole hodl marathon to date.

Quote from: justdimin on Today at 06:22:23 AM

However, I had the chance to get more of it when I can and decided not to, so it is going to be a different situation. In the end we are talking about a situation where it is going to be difficult and we need to learn to live with it and can't really make a big difference in the end when the time comes.

Agreed....and deciding not to now at a point where the future is so obvious, is a much different regret to earlier days. Let's hope ourselves and others do better for our future.