I think staring at charts is not waste of time if you like that and enjoy doing it. Maybe for some of you who enjoy other things in life such as going to the beach or go to the party, be with your girlfriend,. Or if you make more money on other things.
Yes I enjoy all those things, and more. What's the point of having money if you can't enjoy it?
You can enjoy with money in a different ways. Some are enjoying to buy a house or a good car, some good food and drinks, some are spending in a casino or for women. Some even enjoy to donate or give money to help other people, animals, to preserve nature, wildlife, to find the cure. People have different desire and joy.
I'm not sure you can say I enjoy HODL'ing. Especially with the recent price dump. But, I don't NEED the BTC to be cashed out. Also being older, I may only HAVE 1/4 century
(25 years) of life left, if I'm lucky, so if I don't take a chance on my belief in BTC/Crypto...wodon't matter much by then anyway.
So riding this out and accumulating some dust on the way.
I think the price dump is miner capitulation myself 60% of scrypt-pow miners are Bitmain L3+s and convert their LTC to BTC mostly I think. Also same for sha-256 or Bitmain S9's
also likely at 60% of the equipment on sha-246. Thus they are all still? kinda hanging in there.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/no-capitulation-bitcoin-miners-completely-unfazed-by-price-dropSo, IMHO, a lot of miners were big on HODL'ing which they can't do now due to real-life issues like electric costs/data hall rent or mortgage/etc. Most big miners in the USA anyway
work for themselves .they will dump BTC till it hurts rather than go back to work for someone else. So real-life issues for them must spend the coin, can't hodl as they wish, have
real-life bills/family/issues due probably by the 10th of any month. Also, it is the end of the month now. So that lack of HODL'ing by what is usually the 'cheerleaders of BTC/LTC/Crypto and
them having to spend on top of such...is likely a big trigger for those who speculate and trade that things are going south.
But what do I know? I just HODL (mostly) since 2013.
So maybe it will go beanie baby...I'll still is likely to have passed a bit after 25 years (knock wood) and have no debts/house paid/ and other investments to keep an OK retirement.
So hell, let it ride. I have to just keep believing after drinking the 2013 kool-aid..that BTC/Crypto is like a 'virtual land' where the value of such is reflected in the amount of land
the adoption and use of the land and the amount of land still to be tamed. (ie...the last 3 million BTC to be mined).
So the price of BTC is based on the amount of BTC vs Adoption vs real-life usage as a store of value or a virtual gold.
IF I am right, this too shall pass. I am basing all my 'dust accumulation' on BTC eventually in some way or someday getting back to $10k per BTC and accumulating dust by
selling crap on eBay accordingly. This is if I'm right. Also, if I'm right on the above, I'm assuming my 'traditional investments' are gonna take a pretty good hit in what I see
as a 20-40% correction/recession on such. So it is a wash, with BTC/Crypto acting like "Plan B" and saving my butt.
IF I am wrong, and somehow BTC/Crypto is regulated to the dustbin of history as beanie baby money. Well that means the that very rich and connected and powerful are in charge
which probably means my traditional investments are fine and it is just young people and others starting out that will have a much tougher time to get by in the world. In other
words, more centralized control of money and onward and upward to someday perhaps Trillionarires.....but again, flat wage growth for the last next 40 years like the last 40 years
won't affect my old ass...so its a wash.... I get beat up on my BTC/crypto dreams as a loss but traditional world money and investments let me slide at my age.
hardly fair.
I would PREFER that BTC/Crypto go up in value in a more modest sustained manner along with a better more fair bit of capitalistic improvement over the next 25 years I could watch.
But anyway, from my old ass point of view...let the BTC/Crypto wise, what the heck. Again, selling crap (attic mining) stuff I'd otherwise die with for BTC/Crypto 'dust' to add to the
hoard. Stuff to do in my retirement.
Brad