My journey into Bitcoin was entire due to the need to send payment across borders as there was FX and several other restrictions in my country. So, I joined Bitcoin just to use it for cross-border payment without knowing it could actually be a way of creating wealth in the future.
Just recently, I was tempted to check my first ever Bitcoin wallet to see what I have done in the past. I was so depressed seeing the volume of Bitcoin that have passed through my wallet without me saving a reasonable portion of it.
I have the feeling that many forum users too have similar experience; do kindly share just maybe I can feel a little better knowing that I'm not a lone.
As you talk about this, I feel the pain more, but mine was a small Bitcoin but a huge amount of Litecoin that could have made me very rich. I started transacting in crypto as far back as 2013 or 2014 if I am correct and there are some wallets I never had access to anymore. Not that my assets were lost, I just stopped using them for one reason or the other. Not to mention the ones I still have access to, and the last time I checked one of the oldest, it was full of LTC transactions in hundreds of them because I was using it for my only deposits and withdrawals in nad from my FX trading account respectively and I withdrew a whole lot of them then.
Just like you, my goal was to deposit through them and get my money back through the cross-border opportunity that eased me from the bank wire transfer stress and extortion. It was nice then and it actually delivered in that regard. But I was too blind not to keep my money in crypto and was just converting it all to banks then. Well, the deed is done, there is no wisdom in biting oneself because of the past. You can still make amends now if you can. I started making money in crypto investments since last year and I know I will make more with time. So, no hurt feelings.