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I will admit that there are not a lot of guys can even get through a whole BTC cycle without getting distracted into trading/selling/gambling when they should still be in fairly early stages of their BTC accumulation journey, so yeah a lot of guys lack patience to really continue to accumulate and to get to some kind of a meaningful BTC accumulation leavel in which the BTC accumulation helps to inform them about the next steps rather than talking theoretical nonsense about supposed needs to sell BTC in order to diversify... and all of those kinds of mumbo jumbo talking points that tend to show that their thinking is distracted by perceptions of short-term fiat "profits."
You may have aware that not all of the users discussing in this thread have a good financial background. They are also very likely to be unemployed and just hoping for a signature campaign to bring in profits - while their knowledge of investing is learned over time.
For sure, part of the reason to participate in a forum like this (and even in a thread like this) is to bat around ideas including talking about experiences or our making plans and strategies related to bitcoin, so surely I am already aware that the already existing experiences, knowledge and/or cashflow situation is likely to vary quite a bit among members, and so even if my post seemed to have some direct criticisms of Troytech, I am not largely still just attempting to respond to the points that he made in a generally applicable way, including providing my opinion about what seems to have been some inconsistencies in the current ways he is talking about bitcoin in contrast to some of his earlier posts.. and while at the same time emphasizing that this is an investing thread and not a trading thread. Similar kinds of criticisms can be given in regards to a member who is seeming to mix up ideas of trading in regards to their investment discussions whether they have a lot of discretionary income or not.
They certainly understand the strategy theoretically - but chances are, they don't have the courage to do what they say.
Whether poor or rich, it can take a long time to build up good habits, and surely folks who have low levels of discretionary income will be tempted to invest beyond their discretionary income, so then they end up devolving into trading/gambling rather than investing, and sure there can still be ways to accomplish both, yet those kinds of trading discussions seem to go beyond the scope of this thread.. .since there is a bit of presumption that guys are investing from their discretionary income and they are able to dedicate 4-10 years or more to their investment into bitcoin, and yeah, I understand that not everyone is going to agree to those kinds of parameters or even end up practicing in accordance with investing rather than trading.
I don't mind the theory they put forward as long as it's not misleading - but not all of them understand how to apply it properly. It's even possible that they sell bitcoin every signature campaign payment period [instead holding it long-term] just to make ends meet, and then how do they build a portfolio or diversify assets when other budget support is not available.
We do spend a certain amount of time engaged in semantical arguments in this thread, so there is nothing really wrong with repetition of ideas and clarification, and surely I understand that there could be cases in which guys might come into bitcoin with intentions to invest, but they may devolve into some other practice that might be trading or gambling or selling too much too soon because they had not realized that they had invested beyond their discretionary income and a variety of scenarios in which putting theory to practice can really help guys to learn, even if some of the learning ends up being through mistakes.