...You are telling me you never regretted at least one small thing all throughout your crypto journey?
Nope. I read a lot before investing and go after the source of information then check again if it's not a lie.
I don't follow other people, I don't get "influenced" by other people and I don't buy into promises of future development and use cases.
I also know how to handle critical stuff safely, encrypting everything and using cold wallets on dedicated machine.
This are basic 101 stuff but seems it overwhelms a lot of people due to greed and buying into the "next big thing" etc.
I'm just starting to get envious
. But for me, there is always a warning that says that it’s not scary to be confident; it’s scary to be very self-confident. You say that you don’t follow people, but you learned everything you know and can do from people (it’s not the gods who burn the pots). Nevertheless, my mistakes, as m2017 writes, are that I knew about Bitcoin from its first days, but I didn’t buy it at that time and didn’t listen to the advice, which, of course, was not enough. Another mistake is believing in altcoins, but I think many people make this mistake. But what you, MeGold666, say about the deafness of people holding funds on centralized exchanges is absolutely true. They need their own experience, and here the saying about self-confidence is appropriate. It is always better to gain experience from the mistakes of others.