Sure, we know that guys can do whatever they like in regards to their bitcoin portfolio management, yet it is also part of our abilities to proclaim if some membrer is managing their bitcoins badly (or promoting inferior practices), and I suppose we don't all have to agree that trading bitcoin tends to be a practice that is inferior to investing - probably more so for the longer bitcoin history, and sure of course, past performance does not guarantee future results.. even though bitcoin's long term investment thesis does not seem to be getting weaker..


It seems to me that making it through a whole bitcoin cycle likely gives you quite a bit of street cred... not that any of us can really verify how many coins any of our peer wall observers have accumulated and/or how they might be maintaining their stash, not that we need to get into the discussion of any exact numbers, anyhow.


I have had the very same problem with a couple of my nieces speaking quite loosely even within my earshot, and proclaiming that I have a lot of bitcoin, and even coming up with specific numbers that seem so damned unreasonable.

I have some other acquaintances saying things too, and when they say things in front of us about their conversations with other folks, there are some senses that they are likely speaking way too loosely and frequently wanting to come up with specific numbers.. so if they don't have the numbers, they will make some estimates.

I even have had several adults come straight out and ask about how many I got, which is really quite poor manners, even though I understand why the curiosity remains part of their desire to fill in blanks, since based on what I said, it could be x, y or z.

I also have an adult cousin who I shared some actual details about some specific wallets that I control, and I come to realize that I probably disclosed more than I should have had... since the same point (or similar points) could have had been made with smaller amounts... Perhaps?


I have had certain ideas to have certain "nice people" help me out with certain kinds of things, yet when they sometimes go overboard in regards to their degree of snooping or wanting to know about things that are on a "need to know" basis, I sometimes will consider that they might not have any "need to know" more than they already know.  It is not easy to figure out how much disclosures to make, especially sometimes when there may be "projects" that we are working on that could justify "needing to know" more, and so it can be challenging to figure out how much to disclose... and which areas might become acceptably vulnerable.. so for example, if this portion of a stash is found out about.

I have a few different bitcoin related budgets that are related to a presumption of the existence of a certain quantity of bitcoins, yet I do not necessarily make the full quantity of bitcoins to be available within folks able to spend from those budgets.  Maybe it would be easier, if we have a budget or a relationship, and I bring a certain quantity of bitcoin, and you bring a certain quantity of bitcoin, so then we both have bitcoin in the mix, but then some folks might bring capital and others are supposed to bring labor, so they might not necessarily have the same quantity of bitcoin to bring to the table... yet hopefully they have talents to make up for their lack of capital to bring to the table.