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So, yeah, there may be some differing comfort levels based on starting points and also based on my having had stacked up earlier than you.. perhaps?
Exactly. I've probably told this before but at the time I learned about BTC, I was a student with no money to invest. And once I was at the point of being able to "afford to lose", we were already at "now or never" mid-2017 prices. I would be stupid to claim not wishing to have a bag of BTC on the side now (although I only want enough to have the freedom of not having to work as opposed to Lambos and champagne
), but I sincerely can't regret not having taken such investment risks at a time when I could hardly put some spare money aside.
When I was a college student, I did not have very much money, and I largely invested in very conservative investments with student loans and other kinds of ways to attempt to increase my cashflow... so I can understand some of the dilemma... and even though bitcoin is very easy to invest into and to get into it with whatever amount, it still can be somewhat difficult to figure out how to invest when you do not have a very large cashflow...
So maybe you only have an extra $10 per week while a student, but you might choose to become more adventurous (which I still suggest caution) and you invest $30 per week or some kind of means that really takes away your abilities to enjoy any luxuries.... but then once you get out of college, you might develop an extra cash flow that allows you to invest $100s or $1,000s per week, depending on how many luxuries you want to enjoy or to defer gratification..
When I got one of my decently paid jobs with 401k and all of that, I did invest heavily into my 401k as a kind of preference... but I surely did not have bitcoin available as an option... and there were not very many low fee investment options.. but even the fees on bitcoin seem to be going up.. as compared to what they were in 2014-ish...
So, yeah, I am taking back some of my harshness in my earlier response post to you, but there is still a lesson to all in terms of rooting for down.. which may cause you to get beaten up.. at least verbally.. of course, if any of us watch the BTC price enough, we know that downs do come from time to time.. but bitcoin does seem to be in a kind of punishment mode in terms of going up since $10k or so.. and maybe we can even trace that back to the March 2020 dip to $3,850, there have not been a whole hell of a lot of dip buying opportunities, and concededly, the dip opportunities have been fewer after the early September battles over 4 or 5 digits which seems to have been resolved on the side of the latter.
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It's such an wonderful feeling to be understood and I'm always interested in reading idioms used in other cultures. Thank you!
In case you're reading this Mr. JayJuanGee, Happy Thursday!
We love you.
#nohomo
Aren't you supposed to say something more meanie to me on Thursdays?
I was not bothered by any of that thread of conversation... I also do not tend to be bothered for very long about any of the meanie things.. even though sometimes I might sulk for a bit on some of it.. depending.. on the direction that some of it may end up going...
By the way, sometimes it can be a bit unclear whether there might be some redeeming values to seeming trolls or stalkers, and sometimes playing around with them might actually establish that they are a genuine person who just came at the matter from a bad angle... but sure, there is a saying about not feeding the trolls.. even though each of us will maybe play along with the troll/shills in differing ways.