You can't even conceive of the POSSIBILITY that I may have an understanding of the situation that you lack. I'm crazy lucky, and one day that luck will run out, you tell yourself. Time may prove you correct, but in the mean time, perhaps a little humility would serve you well. We all have much to learn.
yeah yeah...u bought in double figures or whatever and now u are loaded...but you are holding cos you think your lines of crypto-code are worth so much more than current spot.
Hooray for you, why don't you go and start up your own consultancy....except don't, cos there is very little I have read from you that has made me think that 'this billyjoeallen really seems to have a handle on what is going down in Bitcoin land'.
What are you going to do in your 'consultancy'? Charge people a fee for listening to stories about how much money you made from HODLING and how they too should invest and HODL?
As I said before, I plan to focus much more on merchant adoption. I am honest enough to admit that for now this is more for publicity than increased revenue and savings on payment processing fees. My target clients are largely people who waste a lot of money on futile political activism. I plan on convincing them that Bitcoin adoption is a much more effective tactic for achieving their aims of a more business-friendly environment in which to operate.
My personal investment story is anecdotal. I am the first to admit that maxing out credit cards three years ago to acquire my stake was recklessly risky. I wouldn't recommend that to anyone. My decisions are colored by ideology, but I think most people's are too and at least I am aware of it. The more useful story is when I convinced my father to buy in at $31/BTC and the market crashed to $3/BTC and stayed below his purchase price fr a year and a half. I am the first to admit I have no crystal ball, but he wasn't buying for the short term, so he came out ahead (so far). I didn't push him to buy more than he was comfortable losing. A good consultant IMHO is not primarily a salesman, but an information resource.
My personal investment story is anecdotal. Investment strategies are based on risk tolerances, goals and time horizons, so I don't use myself as an example to follow.