Each of us have similar story like you op. I start using bitcoin from 2016. I worked on a app and received some dollar in Bitcoin as reward, after that I started investing with Bitcoin while it was 200-220$ per Bitcoin and i had around 7-8 Bitcoin which i made from trading and investment. Sometimes i feel regret as if i could have knowledge about btc but here is game! Future is unpredictable, most of us here didn't imagine Bitcoin could cross 67k$ ath but i think it is better to think about future. How to use those opportunities which will come in upcoming days
Your stories is what serves a lesson and aslo a motivation for those of us that didn't actually get that opportunity to have UpTo 1bitcoin in their wallet or even got the opportunity to be around during that period and am pretty sure that everyone is currently keen on their HODLing to actually see how the future unfolds, that's if their is more positivity as the growth and adoption of Bitcoin gets bigger and bigger by the day.
Sometimes I wonder if I hadn't found this forum and all its teaching about HODLing and accumulating of Bitcoin, especially the master lecturer @jayJuanGee, how would be with my Bitcoin today maybe, I would have probably traded it and lost it because of all the positive ads I do get on how trading is effective not knowing that it's a deadzone for anyone actually thinking of accumulating some Bitcoin anytime soon during different strategy like the DCA.
From your mentioning of an aspiration for getting to 1 whole coin, that likely is becoming more and more unreachable by newbie bitcoiners, so each of us just need to attempt to create BTC accumulation targets that are reasonable for our own circumstances, so maybe we start out striving to get 1 million satoshis, and then after we reach that we might strive for 5 million, and then 10 million and then 21 million and then 50 million.. and gosh, if we end up getting to 50 million, then we have reached 0.5 BTC... so we do what we can, and it could still be possible to reach 1 BTC or multiple BTC, but likely not very possible or easy for normie no coiners who have not yet even started to take bitcoin accumulation seriously enough to figure out a plan to get started in their BTC accumulation journey as soon as possible.
Any of us, even the brand new bitcoiners, are still likely advantaged if we are ready, willing and able to get started in our BTC accumulation journey right now, even if we are feeling that our own budgetary situation might not allow us to yet be very aggressive, but if we treat these kinds of BTC accumulation in a serious way, then we might be able to increase our level of aggressiveness with the passage of time and still be advantaged, relatively speaking, by getting started.
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.
For sure there still could be some questions regarding where you are choosing to store your value whether you are actually making money or just storing it, and if you are redistributing the value from time to time, there can also be questions regarding how much you might apportion in each category of crypto.. and hopefully you are not too distracted in terms of storing very much of your value into non-bitcoin kinds of crypto... which may or may not end up working out, but if you know some of the parameters for getting in and out of various crypto.. WHICH IS A BIG IF, then you still have to figure out where you might want to store the bulk of it, in the event that you are not trading like a degenerate gambler with all of it.. .. and surely in this thread we are mostly talking about storing in bitcoin rather than shitcoins, which much of the reason why I would suggest that the overwhelming majority of normies don't be fucking around with shitcoins at all (except maybe for transactional purposes and/or if they cannot control their gambling/trading tendencies to keep it less than 10% of the size of their bitcoin holdings.. and surely there may well be some guys who have more experience trading and/or gambling and who are able to play around with more than 10%, but guys like you (if you are one of them) EarnOnVictor are likely the exception rather than the rule in terms of the dangers of trading and/or holding much if any value in shitcoins.