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Dude I've been HODLing since 2011 nothing can make me feel depressed anymore. I've seen it all. I'm freaking invincible.
Do you not have any cash flow in order to buy more BTC since 2011? 2011 was a very tumultuous year in BTC-landia..
Surely, I was not even cognizant of BTC in 2011 besides maybe I might have heard the word, but I really don't remember having any kind of meaningful knowledge at all about BTC, besides hearing the name, until late 2013.
I mean in 2011, the BTC price went from sub $1 to $32 and back to $2 and up to $5.
Those would have been decently trying times for any BTC HODLer, also maybe which part of 2011 that you got into BTC and how much you got in for, approximately how many coins relative to your overall wealth or investments in other things could be factors, too.
Even though I don't really have any reason to NOT believe you, but shouldn't we be taking your representation regarding HODLer status and trying to relate to some of us more active HODLers with a decently-sized grain of salt, especially if you do not provide us with any kind of meaningful context regarding what HODLer since 2011 means exactly.
For example, there is a difference between obtaining 10 BTC and forgetting about them for a few years, or holding 1,000 BTC or more, but if you were a person of considerable financial means, then even having 1,000 or more BTC might have just been stuck in some kind of "forgot about" location, but is that a HODLer in the same kind of way that many of us current quasi-aware-and-in-touch BTC HODLers would consider BTCHODLing?
I mean, even if you got a decent stash of BTC in 2011 in the 100s or more, what did you do between 2011 and late 2017 when your account got registered on this forum? Did you get your BTC from MTGOX or some other methodology of obtaining them? There were not too many ways to get BTC in 2011. Mining is another story, but that would be more of a complicated and involved story, too, which would have likely caused you to have some decent amount of actively monitoring your BTC stash, no?
Unless you were largely detached from even understanding the value of your BTC holdings (which is possible), then maybe you would have done something with your BTC stash since 2011? There has been a whole hell of a lot of BTC movement and development in BTC since 2011, and in other words, that is a long and difficult amount of time in BTClandia - including a lot of damned uncertainties regarding price and even BTC's likely success, and there are hardly any actual active people in BTC-landia that bought any significant amount of BTC in 2011 and did not do anything with their BTC between 2011 and 2017 and even currently..... Those would be unicorn kinds of people, and therefore there should be some kind of a story there...
Surely, I personally take any inference of the existence of any unicorn with a decently-sized grain of salt.
Also, it is possible that you had another account in this forum? Your current user name is only registered in late 2017 - which registration of such account happened to have happened during our last BTC run-up hype, but might not have been a great time for anyone to have been registering an account here who had a 2011 HODL BTC stash to register an account during mania times - but sure, anything is possible, I suppose, but still seems like it would be an interesting backstory - especially if you assert that you just held through all of the chaos and that you were NOT monitoring your BTC investment.
On the other hand, if your investment in BTC in 2011 had seemed to have been a decently small amount from your perspective (depending on your other investments, even several hundred BTC could have seemed like a very small investment), but then all of a sudden, BTC's price had risen in 2017 had perked your attention because all of a sudden what you had considered as a kind of "write-off" investment began to become way more valuable than all of the rest of your non-btc investment portfolio combined... hahahahahaha.. That could be plausible, too, but we should hear that from you rather than me, no?
TLDR: (somebody made a request that I do this "TLDR" thingie-ma-jiggie a decently long time ago, so therefore I am trying to conform a little bit) What is the context of your proclaimed HODLer of BTC since 2011 status, serveria?