Patience. If you refuse to learn patience the easy way (self-discipline) then you will be forced to learn it the old-fashioned way (suffering).
Bchxbt has topped again. All logic tells me that Eth is doomed for the foreseeable. Are the next leading black markets going to use the free software world's meritocratic hard asset, or the Mossad's 20% corporate tax coin, the coin that took down alpha bay?
I don't know how long it will take the next legit DNM leader to emerge. But I do know it will do 10x the traffic of SR1, and it will be using XMR. That means XMR $1000 USD is less than a year away. Possibly less than 6 months away, in a rationally discounting world (unlike this one.)
When people try to excite your emotions, they are seeking an advantage over you in the market place. Rely on facts and logic. You will find a cool head wins over a hot heart most of the time.
Great post.
It can be a bit hard from time to time to rely on facts and logic in this space, even when I have a job just because of that. All these ICO's out of nowhere that do an instant 20x enriching a small group of people, obvious scam coins (premined/instamined etc) and inferior fungibility coins mooning, '20% corporate tax coins', etc etc.
This while Monero is there right in front of them, it is beautiful in so many ways that I sometimes wonder why a majority can't seem to acknowledge this.
But I persist and only invest (and use!) in what I understand having long term value. Monero (and Bitcoin) I could easily just not touch for a decade, there are currently very few other crypto projects that fit this criteria.
We will see but here is to the crazy ones.
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http://gavinandresen.ninja/keeping-it-simpleLearn from other successful, long-lived open source projects. “Do one thing well”. Stay focused. And don’t try to be perfect, just make sure you get better over time.