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legendary
Activity: 3836
Merit: 4969
Doomed to see the future and unable to prevent it
I sold most on the 2017 run-up and didn't want to mention that during the winter while people were suffering because I'm not that kind of person.

Do I wish I had that now?

Yes but do I feel stupid for doing it?

NO


Hahahahaha  fair enough.. .. and how gentlemanly of you not to be rubbing in your smartie pants during the sufferenings of many of us mostly HODLers.

As many peeps who follow this thread likely realize, I have always been a bit too chicken shit to sell large portions of my BTC stash, ever since I got into BTC, even in the 2017 run up and the 2018 correction and various times in-between and even before 2017.

I must be dumb.

Only dumb if you suffered because of that decision otherwise smart.


I actually don't feel as reluctant to sell large portions now, but I just don't know where I would put it, so I suppose, I just remain stuck on the default of ongoingly HODLing and riding the waves... unless something attractive comes along, I suppose.

There is no other place that is safer to hold your wealth so your way ahead of the game. Smiley



Anywhooooo.. ... so when did you buy back your BTC.. assuming that you did.. was it incrementally and at various points or did you do a small number of lump buys?  Another part that had always scared me, too is to sell significant portions of BTC (in theory) and then figure out at what points to buy back in... so hypothetically, if I were selling, then I would get nervous and end up buying back with hardly any profits... So not really sure about how to resolve that angle, except the system that I already established for myself, which seems to conform with my comfort levels regarding allocation and largely just staying in BTC.

Well I've already given up more opsec than I tend to but nuff to say I have not sold anything since then and have been adding where I can as this is the safest place to store your life savings.
legendary
Activity: 3920
Merit: 2349
Eadem mutata resurgo
^ in fact rich is a number in the mind, like bitcoin ... the trick is getting rest of humanity to believe the number in your mind means the same to them as the same number in their minds
legendary
Activity: 3836
Merit: 4969
Doomed to see the future and unable to prevent it
^I'm rich (in my mind anyway, wtf that means),  but I still have a number like every one else does, rich or poor.
https://soundcloud.com/sirazimuth/jadedstone

Rich is a state of mind, as long as you have food cloths and shelter you are ahead of most of humanity for its entire history.


legendary
Activity: 3388
Merit: 3514
born once atheist
^I'm rich (in my mind anyway, wtf that means),  but I still have a number like every one else does, rich or poor.
https://soundcloud.com/sirazimuth/jadedstone
legendary
Activity: 3920
Merit: 2349
Eadem mutata resurgo




... i'm not sure if being just rich is a super power anymore??

... probably you have to be super rich
legendary
Activity: 3388
Merit: 3514
born once atheist


 dunno but IWSN.


Try Crisco in a ziplock and stuff it in the couch... no balloon needed.....
legendary
Activity: 3920
Merit: 2349
Eadem mutata resurgo
legendary
Activity: 3990
Merit: 4597
It seems whatever your brain latches on first.
One time I looked and it was cw, next time ccw.
disturbing.

EDIT: It changes if I close one eye.

EDIT 2: Here is another anecdote-there is a spot in your retina, which has no light receptors, called the optic disk (blind spot). Yet, you don't see a round hole in your vision field.
Your brain performs 'filling-in', like an advanced photoshop and you don't notice anything unusual, the field of vision is smooth. There is some way you can find the blind spot, but it is a bit involved.

... if you focus on the ballerina's foot she goes one direction, focus on the top of the head and it reverses

hmm...not for me
for me if I look at the head, it goes in a certain direction, then reverses, then AFTER it reversed and I look at the feet, it does not change again (for the second time).
The clincher is that it changes once, then stays put (experiences could vary, of course).
legendary
Activity: 3920
Merit: 2349
Eadem mutata resurgo
It seems whatever your brain latches on first.
One time I looked and it was cw, next time ccw.
disturbing.

EDIT: It changes if I close one eye.

EDIT 2: Here is another anecdote-there is a spot in your retina, which has no light receptors, called the optic disk (blind spot). Yet, you don't see a round hole in your vision field.
Your brain performs 'filling-in', like an advanced photoshop and you don't notice anything unusual, the field of vision is smooth. There is some way you can find the blind spot, but it is a bit involved.

... if you focus on the ballerina's foot she goes one direction, focus on the top of the head and it reverses
legendary
Activity: 3990
Merit: 4597
It seems whatever your brain latches on first.
One time I looked and it was cw, next time ccw.
disturbing.

its also started one way and then reversed and gone the other way half way through a couple times.

yes, that happened too.

EDIT: at least the bathtub water typically swirls cw (in the Northern hemisphere). The legend says that it goes ccw in the Southern, but HM (or any other "southie") need to make an appearance to confirm if it is so.
legendary
Activity: 2520
Merit: 3038
It seems whatever your brain latches on first.
One time I looked and it was cw, next time ccw.
disturbing.

EDIT: It changes if I close one eye.

EDIT 2: Here is another anecdote-there is a spot in your retina, which has no light receptors, called the optic disk (blind spot). Yet, you don't see a round hole in your vision field.
Your brain performs 'filling-in', like an advanced photoshop and you don't notice anything unusual, the field of vision is smooth. There is some way you can find the blind spot, but it is a bit involved.

Use something small - like a small coin in your hand. Keep it on the side, far from the center of your visual field. For example, keep your arm extended forward while you hold the coin. Look and focus straight ahead, so the coin is on the side of your vision. Slowly bring your hand closer until the coin is "gone". They key is: don't look at the coin. Keep looking ahead. The blind spot is on the side, and you will find it when your hand (that is, the coin) is at the right distance.



It seems whatever your brain latches on first.
One time I looked and it was cw, next time ccw.
disturbing.

its also started one way and then reversed and gone the other way half way through a couple times.
CW for me now, on first (re)sight! It really is unstable, but when it settles it's harder to "flip" than the dishes.
legendary
Activity: 4354
Merit: 3614
what is this "brake pedal" you speak of?
It seems whatever your brain latches on first.
One time I looked and it was cw, next time ccw.
disturbing.

its also started one way and then reversed and gone the other way half way through a couple times.
legendary
Activity: 3962
Merit: 11519
Self-Custody is a right. Say no to"Non-custodial"
I sold most on the 2017 run-up and didn't want to mention that during the winter while people were suffering because I'm not that kind of person.

Do I wish I had that now?

Yes but do I feel stupid for doing it?

NO


Hahahahaha  fair enough.. .. and how gentlemanly of you not to be rubbing in your smartie pants during the sufferenings of many of us mostly HODLers.

As many peeps who follow this thread likely realize, I have always been a bit too chicken shit to sell large portions of my BTC stash, ever since I got into BTC, even in the 2017 run up and the 2018 correction and various times in-between and even before 2017.

I must be dumb.

I actually don't feel as reluctant to sell large portions now, but I just don't know where I would put it, so I suppose, I just remain stuck on the default of ongoingly HODLing and riding the waves... unless something attractive comes along, I suppose.

Anywhooooo.. ... so when did you buy back your BTC.. assuming that you did.. was it incrementally and at various points or did you do a small number of lump buys?  Another part that had always scared me, too is to sell significant portions of BTC (in theory) and then figure out at what points to buy back in... so hypothetically, if I were selling, then I would get nervous and end up buying back with hardly any profits... So not really sure about how to resolve that angle, except the system that I already established for myself, which seems to conform with my comfort levels regarding allocation and largely just staying in BTC.
legendary
Activity: 3990
Merit: 4597
It seems whatever your brain latches on first.
One time I looked and it was cw, next time ccw.
disturbing.

EDIT: It changes if I close one eye.

EDIT 2: Here is another anecdote-there is a spot in your retina, which has no light receptors, called the optic disk (blind spot). Yet, you don't see a round hole in your vision field.
Your brain performs 'filling-in', like an advanced photoshop and you don't notice anything unusual, the field of vision is smooth. There is some way you can find the blind spot, but it is a bit involved.
legendary
Activity: 4354
Merit: 3614
what is this "brake pedal" you speak of?




What if it looks like she's waving one leg back and forth in front of her?

or worse, no movement at all. as i have animated gifs set to only play once and the 1st couple times i saw this in a post it was at the last frame so done with the animation. but since i didnt know it was an animated gif and thought it was just a static jpg optical illusion thingie i stared at that last frame of the gif for, well, an embarrassingly long time expecting some perspective change before i caught on and refreshed the post lol

edit: cw. usually.

 
legendary
Activity: 3598
Merit: 2386
Viva Ut Vivas




What if it looks like she's waving one leg back and forth in front of her?
legendary
Activity: 3836
Merit: 4969
Doomed to see the future and unable to prevent it
I sold most on the 2017 run-up and didn't want to mention that during the winter while people were suffering because I'm not that kind of person.

Do I wish I had that now?

Yes but do I feel stupid for doing it?

NO
legendary
Activity: 4242
Merit: 5039
You're never too old to think young.
I've still got a couple of BTC logo ballcaps which I bought with Bitcoin. This one is the most recent and it's over 6 years old:



I got it because I was sick of people seeing my first one with the proper orange logo and thinking I was a Boston Bruins fan.

Needless to say, I haven't worn either one for years. Almost everyone can identify the Bitcoin logo now.

I seem to recall paying about a third of a coin for the first one. I was happy just to be supporting the Bitcoin "movement" by using it to buy something.

Of course that was a lot of money for a ballcap but I have no regrets. I feel I was doing my part.

Hopefully Laszlo is living extremely happily ever after. He more than did his part.
legendary
Activity: 2590
Merit: 4839
Addicted to HoDLing!
I bought a Trezor for 0.13 BTC. It's now worth $7,272.  Shocked

Looking forward to the day it will be worth $100,000!

Is that all?
Mine was 1 BTC.
But it does have 'First edition' embossed on the back.

Yes, that's all. In fact, that's the only purchase I've ever made with Bitcoin. I've also given $1 worth of coins to some of my students and colleagues, for motivating them to get involved (now worth several hundred dollars, and probably lost already—nobody really cared). All the rest I've been HoDLing. I feel almost ashamed... As if I didn't give enough support to the cause (usage of Bitcoin as a payment method). But... How could I bring myself to spend something so precious? The way things are going, I don't see myself selling any coins, unless I need them to buy some expensive product or service. Certainly not to convert to fiat to sit at the bank, and certainly not to buy coffee, Trezors, mobile phones, or Netflix subscriptions. There's my regular fiat income for those.

"First Edition"? Mmm... Nice to have. Don't tell me it's an all-metal one! I would love to own one of these. Mine is just the plain, plastic, standard version. Works great though. Has never failed me. Good design.
legendary
Activity: 1795
Merit: 1208
This is not OK.
I bought a Trezor for 0.13 BTC. It's now worth $7,272.  Shocked

Looking forward to the day it will be worth $100,000!

Is that all?
Mine was 1 BTC.
But it does have 'First edition' embossed on the back.
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