About a month ago I discovered Darkcoin. I bought in over .02 after reading about what it was trying to do. I invested far more than I should have as I was certain it would keep going up.
I am in absolute despair right now, I still haven't told my wife how much I lost. Honestly, I'm terrified of the thought. It was money we could have used as a down payment on a house, or to send the kids to college. Money that pretty much would have been useful somewhere else.
We live in an apartment and have been saving for a house for years.
I'm sick to my stomach now. I can't sleep at night because my mind races through series of 'what-ifs.' I honestly don't know what to do. How do I tell my wife the money is gone?
I'm thinking about leaving everything behind and going off to some other country as that is how heavy the burden feels right now. I know my kids would miss me but I can't stand the thought of them knowing how much of a failure I am.
It's hard to read about all these people talking about all their profits and how much they made. I hope they realize for everything they've gained is off the back of someone like me who saw something they thought was a worthwhile investment and got burned.
#1 rule of investing is to never invest more than you can afford to lose. I made $24,000 profit from darkcoin and last week I invested .3 btc on miningrigs to mine razorcoin and it turned into over $8000. When I got into crypto I would spend 12 hours a day soaking in patterns and learning everything there is no to know. I sacrificed many many MONTHS of researching before I start making any significant profit. Advice I can give you is learn from your mistake. Just know that no matter what you think you are going through, there are people going through much worse. I read about a guy who just sent half a million dollars to an old MTGOX address because he thought it was a mintpal address or something. People die everyday and they never see it coming, trust me shit could be worse if you are on here talking about it.