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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Invest what you can; Not what you can afford to lose.
by
lionheart78
on 23/08/2025, 22:08:43 UTC
The point I raised here needs wider publicity because it is a different and rare opinion, that is why I made the post. So, you are so wrong to call this post a spam. I will appreciate if you withdraw your statement.

I believe this is subjective; some people can see this as a spam thread while others don't.  So if one person sees this thread a spam, it won't change their perspective even if you write an infinite pages of reasons.

Anyway, this statement is a bit tricky, "Invest what you can;  Not what you can afford to lose" and is somehow devastating when applied to all investment.  This encourages people to invest without thinking about their capacity to accept risk.  It nullifies the idea of weighing carefully before spending money to invest.  This also shows short-sightedness since investing now in what you can does not consider the possible situation of tomorrow. This is like splurging everything without any reserve.

I believe I know where this phrase is coming from.  It is because Bitcoin has been surging since the day its market opened (although there are fluctuations everywhere) but this does not warrant the future event of Bitcoin.  Besides, this also does not mean that we have to be careless in our investment. The prior statement also reflects on this quoted message.

Investing clearly requires risk. So if you can invest what you can afford to lose, that’s fine. But if you can invest more than what you can afford to lose, much better, because that only means you are attracting excellent returns when your investment pays off. And in an investment like bitcoin where hodling alone guarantees secured profits, seeing bitcoin price is still capable to reach its new all time high, then it’s never a waste of time and money if you can invest even on an amount you can’t afford losing.