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Topic: SoftBank Founder Masayoshi Son Lost $130 Million on Bitcoin (Read 368 times)

legendary
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Very surprising to hear that despite all his experience and expertise, he dumped the coins when the prices were very low. Would have made sense if some teenager was doing this with his pocket money. I guess he was hard pressed for funds and therefore made this move. Imagine what would be his reaction, if Bitcoin climbs to new ATH after the next block reward halving (I am not joking, as of now there is a very strong chance of another bull run just like what we had during the second half of 2017).

As someone pointed out above, he probably entered with a huge capital. So he probably did what most institutional traders do. Enter at a desired price point, set a desired take profit, and a stop loss. He probably just hit the stop loss and triggered the sell is all. He might have lost $130M but we don't know what the capital was. Was the loss 1% of his bankroll? 5%? That's acceptable risk in any measure of market trading.

I've lost plenty of money myself trading and gambling but these were all acceptable losses, at acceptable risks.
sr. member
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IS this true i cant able to beleive the person who can vanish Uber from Asian countries by funding rivalries huge amount could make this kind of foolish decision . If it the news is genuine then i think every genius will have some foolish thing to do in life.
full member
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Very surprising to hear that despite all his experience and expertise, he dumped the coins when the prices were very low. Would have made sense if some teenager was doing this with his pocket money. I guess he was hard pressed for funds and therefore made this move. Imagine what would be his reaction, if Bitcoin climbs to new ATH after the next block reward halving (I am not joking, as of now there is a very strong chance of another bull run just like what we had during the second half of 2017).

well that's normal . this isnt surprising at all because this scenario do actualy happen at all times especially to an expert and wealthy people as they are the ones that take big risk when investing  but if ever he see's the bitcoin reaches a new ath i think he will be shocked and he will  felt a little regret on why he sold his coins too early  . ath can probably happen this incoming month's and right now i feel sorry for those who are weak handed that will be missing this ride  .
legendary
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Very surprising to hear that despite all his experience and expertise, he dumped the coins when the prices were very low. Would have made sense if some teenager was doing this with his pocket money. I guess he was hard pressed for funds and therefore made this move. Imagine what would be his reaction, if Bitcoin climbs to new ATH after the next block reward halving (I am not joking, as of now there is a very strong chance of another bull run just like what we had during the second half of 2017).
hero member
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he tested bitcoin on the wrong time and even exit is wrong time so he saw loss most probably he might have waited for more time untill the market recover

He saw his BTC is losing its value faster than his breathe so since we are talking millions worth of BTC then he probably decided to pull the plug and limit his losses. He lost his bet and this is their ways to make money., Its either they make millions or lose millions.
jr. member
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he tested bitcoin on the wrong time and even exit is wrong time so he saw loss most probably he might have waited for more time untill the market recover
legendary
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His mistake was selling when he should have held and waited till the next halvening and next bull run.
he don't know how bitcoin work when he buy some and hold e asecond, price get down and make panic his and sell it quickly. he must be learn how bitcoin price on market work
Ucy
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From the article:

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Last year, Didi Taihuttu sold almost everything he owned, poured it into bitcoin and moved his family into a trailer park. In this episode of Moving Upstream, WSJ’s Thomas Di Fonzo goes on a year-long journey with the “Bitcoin Family” as they bet everything on a decentralized cryptocurrency future.

Wow, he made a crazy decision with this one.  I wonder how a person could make so much money in his life and not know how proper investment works. This Probably is an inherited wealth or it came from easy sources.
hero member
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Billionaires problem but its will probably not affects his current wealth.

Some billionaires are good in investing their assets in different companies and stock market but when it comes to bitcoin or cryptocurrency market they are bleeding too bad and the reason why other rich and famous are taking a step back in buying BTC in the market.
full member
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His mistake was selling when he should have held and waited till the next halvening and next bull run.

Don't you know the golden rule of investing in bitcoin or cryptocurrencies in general? Buy high, sell low!

I thought it was buy low and sell high!  Tongue

A lot of really rich people are fucking dumb. Serves him right for acting like a total douche, I guess.

To be fair, for a bank owner? The $130m is likely to not be a significant amount of money for Masayoshi Son. I mean, the dude has a net worth of $24 BILLION for Jeebus sake. Compared to us, the $130m he lost might just be like an equivalent of a poker night for us.


Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayoshi_Son

I agree, this is just bits from his money. But I can't come of a reason why he would sell. I think he knows all the details he needs to know about bitcoin including the halving and the coming bull. But why would he sell? Especially now that bitcoin is slowly going up again and considerably somehow is getting traction.
hero member
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Some people have to be the idiots who sell low. He bought high in 2017 and sold low in 2018. The dumps had to come from somewhere and now we know who was liquidating their holdings.

Reading such stories makes me feel good. He didn't know what he was buying and bought after a recommendation from someone else. He spent a lot of money at once without cost averaging. We all know people who did it.
legendary
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A lot of really rich people are fucking dumb. Serves him right for acting like a total douche, I guess.

To be fair, for a bank owner? The $130m is likely to not be a significant amount of money for Masayoshi Son. I mean, the dude has a net worth of $24 BILLION for Jeebus sake. Compared to us, the $130m he lost might just be like an equivalent of a poker night for us.


Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayoshi_Son
Wow, I also think that way, if he have this amount of net worth taking this gamble and risking with such little amount of money for him is not consider as a big loss, he can continue and make another things in life maybe crypto is not for him or maybe he's analyzing his next move if he's still planning to continue playing inside this market, we never know what will happen next but one thing is for sure, this man will recover this money whatever venue of investment he will choose to go.
full member
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Don't feel sorry for him, hes still super wealthy.  What about the people that went completely broke and are living on the streets.

Anyways all he had to do was hold and he wouldn't of lost a cent but I guess he lacked the patience.

Well, that's the simple truth, that he was unable to hold make him run at lost. Although supper rich, personally; i feel sorry for him to loose such huge amount, even though to him is a small amount. Nothing is more rewarding than the power of hold in the world of cryptocurrency investment. Actually, there are coins am holding and will hold till the market comes up.
full member
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There is an ultimate rule in the world of cryptocurrency which every investor should stick to "Buy when its low and sell when it's high", Billionaire son Masayoshi forget these rule and got trapped. Let him be very much aware that Bitcoin is far different from the traditional way of investment as the cryptocurrency is volatile. This will be a lesson to other investors to alway hold when the market is down.
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legendary
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A lot of really rich people are fucking dumb. Serves him right for acting like a total douche, I guess.

To be fair, for a bank owner? The $130m is likely to not be a significant amount of money for Masayoshi Son. I mean, the dude has a net worth of $24 BILLION for Jeebus sake. Compared to us, the $130m he lost might just be like an equivalent of a poker night for us.


Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayoshi_Son
legendary
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-founder-masayoshi-son-lost-130-million-on-bitcoin-11556017200

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Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder of SoftBank Group Corp., made a huge personal bet on bitcoin just as prices for the digital currency peaked, losing more than $130 million when he sold out, according to people familiar with the matter.

His mistake was selling when he should have held and waited till the next halvening and next bull run.


Why does it bother anyone at all?? A lot of people had taken loan from credit card to buy bitcoin back in late 2017 and still neck deep in debt! They also could have awaited till the next bull run!

But the son of the billionaire is still a billionaire! Nothing really matters to him! So why the news have any significance?
hero member
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Don't feel sorry for him, hes still super wealthy.  What about the people that went completely broke and are living on the streets.

Anyways all he had to do was hold and he wouldn't of lost a cent but I guess he lacked the patience.
hero member
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Well this is a clear example of how rich people make silly mistakes  Tongue
It might be true that the amount of loss Son faced would not be a big deal for him but it shows us that we might make a wrong decision in the right time.
If he would not have sold it at low price,  he could have got the opportunity to sell it a higher price. May be things went wrong with him but learning from other's mistakes is what we should do right now.
legendary
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Oh well, I guess he is one of those irrational buyers during the December peak, everyone was calling that Bitcoin has formed a bubble already but people are still dumb and still buying and pushing the price because they think it will still go parabolic. But I'm sure he has other investments as well and will probably cover that lost in about a year. But for us mere mortals, we really need to be careful before throwing out money in a market wherein the price is very unpredictable.
sr. member
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Can't read the full the article, but from what I can gather, he bought btc during the bull run (probably at its peak), strange how someone like him would make such a newbie mistake: give in to FOMO and then panic sell during the drop. Then again, $130M is pocket money to someone who's net worth is around $23 billion and is among the richest man in the world...Makes me wonder if there are other billionares out there who made the same mistake but haven't made it public.

Just goes to show you there are a lot of people who are extremely rich but completely dumb about markets. Personally I knew someone who bought 250BTC when it was just $200 each. He then bought a lot of altcoins and lost when they crashed. He had 25BTC left and sold all for $250 each.

I told him to hodl until $10,000 but he did not. He must be having regrets until now.
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