I doubt that we can blame students for wanting to get ahead, even though the whole cost of higher education (especially in the USA) has become outrageously fueled by debt and so then screwing up various incentives.  I was a bit delayed in going to college, but I still ended up having a combination of loans and grants, and overall my college debt was reasonable, but yeah that was mostly all accomplished more than 25 years ago, so the costs have gotten even more crazy in terms of higher education being one of the areas that had been going up way higher than the cost of living, and then the government issues debt (and subsidies) and the universities seem to raise their prices based on how much subsidies the government has been getting.  I am not against education, and I think if we are individually figuring out our potential for cost benefits, we are considering the costs and sometimes maybe not being very sure about the marketability of any field that we might be choosing to pursue.


Surely that is part of the problem in regards to selling and expecting to buy back cheaper.

You may end up with way fewer coins than you could have had if you had stayed focused on accumulating through buying only.

Once you get to an over-accumulation status, then sure you can sell some coins, but not necessarily with expectations of buying back cheaper.

We've seen it over and over and over in this thread... and guys doubling down and tripling down and the price keeps going up instead of their hope for down.. and then down doesn't come until later and at much higher prices, and then pretty soon we don't see those guys around here  any more.

We have amongst the best, if not the best place to put value and accumulate it, and you want to try to be smart and trade it?  Go figure.


Ok.. fair enough. I thought that you gave a 2022 date earlier.. .. even though surely we know that you were sitting on a lot of cash in 2022.

In the end, it is your deal, but you are describing it and even seeming to brag about some of these trades, so you put trading and also shitcoining (silver, copper, etc) as compared with bitcoin investing into question.


Yeah.. silver another burden... and if you are wanting to concentrate on your supposed improvement since 2017, you likely are barking up the wrong tree since you could have had done quite well if you started concentrating on bitcoin accumulation since 2019 rather than the various inferior investments that you mention from time to time.  You probably could have gotten close to 30 BTC from 2017 to present.  I don't necessarily want to know the specifics of your actual holdings except you are mentioning actual numbers (or invented numbers,.. either way.. we don't need to use actual numbers). .


The purpose of my various questions is not meant to insult, but instead talk about and respond to substantive ideas that you are bringing up from time to time.


Yeah.. perhaps the mining had done good.. and had some good periods.  It seems quite complicated to figure out the numbers...


I don't want to make this personal, but even if you started to get serious about accumulating bitcoin in mid-2018, then that likely would have had been better than trading.. or maybe even mining.. but yeah you had business partners in the mining portion until just recently, so I understand that sometimes there can be difficulties to figure out times to break those relations, which you ended up doing in the last 2-3 years..

You don't need to respond further with your particulars... but we could outline some hypotheticals or even discuss some of the underlying substantive matters without getting so personal.  You inject personal information that then puts your claims into question.. Maybe you should not be sharing so much information, since I think guys should be able to ask questions about the substance of any of the posts of other guys, but sometimes guys don't bring up certain details... . but if you bring up certain details then they become relevant and fair game for other guys to ask about.