what did it feel like holding BTC during this time?
>>61045325>these bags are heavy and worthless
>>61045325Bobos were euphoric calling for $3k
>>61045325at that point you were resigned to your fate and, if anything, happy to be stacking at an extremely low price. after a certain point the bear market actually became very comfy. much comfier than this year has been
>>61045325pretty good since my DCA was like 36k because of that, and I knew bitcoin was going to go up again eventually.
I couldn't stop buying it, Bobos were gloating .
>>61045325I had an asian girlfriend and completely forgot about crypto until november 2023.
>>61045351ThisIt was boring as fuck, but when it dumped it was welcomed as to dca in more
>>61045325I just stopped looking at my portfolio and bought more every month regardless lmfao. Smash bought 2btc when it hit 16k.
>>61045325Yeah I was here. Sentiment was in the gutter. Deep down I had a feeling it would recover, but at the time $100,000 seemed so far away. I felt bad for the snail poster, bobos were berating him and laughing constantly. They filled the catalog. Was a depressing time. Snail got the last laugh. Glad I bought and didn't get sidelined like the people that were waiting for $10,000.
>>61045514How did you do it?Psychologically I mean.
that was nothingI remember when we went from 6k to 4k during the bsv vs bcash hashwar holy fuck the amount of dunning kruger, gloating and arrogance from retards was unrealthe only thing that made it bearable, believe it or not, was seeing linkies make memes about their project now, the vishnus and the cashies are very silent, their blocks very empty as well
>>61045325I boughted more, it was too obvious
>>61045325Honestly, it was very easy to navigate and it's a massive failure if anyone slightly informed failed to take advantage of it. The final dump (FTX collapse) came exactly 4 years after the 2018 bottom. It was such an obvious buy opportunity.
>>61045527nta but for me it was just conviction. I want to own bitcoin, so when it's cheap I want to buy it. But you need to believe in it to ignore what everyone else says, doing your own research is key to cultivating deep conviction
>>61045527Where else would you put your money?
>>61045325I am punching myself in the dick for only committing pity party portions of my savings to BTC during this time. I feel slightly better than if I didn't at all, but still. FUCK
>>61045325Bitcoin stayed between 22k and 35k for like a year. So kinda like now where the price has been between 105k and 120k for 9 months except the number is higher.
>>61045325I thought I was part on an elite squad of smart people and that we were going to make our own society based on bitcoin and no one else mattered. Now everyone is getting into it.
>>61045523>Sentiment was in the gutterI’ve been around for a while and sentiment feels like absolute shit atm. I would rather live through another 2023 then to be going through whatever the fuck it is we are in right now.
>>61045523Forget that. 6k in 2021 or whenever it was was tough as it crabbed there for a while, then suddenly dumped to 3k and people shat themselves, me included.
>>61045325Grim, but not as bad as 2018-2019. In December 2017 my stack was worth $200K, then a few months later I barely had enough to live on for a year. It recovered a little more, and then March 2020 hit and the Great Shanghai Sniffles Panic caused it to crash back down to $3900. I was like "welp, at least I can sleep on my mother's couch until she becomes an insufferable rage-bitch again and I kill myself."In 2023, my stack was still worth $170K at the bottom.
>>61045325Pretty bad, I got blackout drunk at some family's summer camp and explained Bitcoin and how it was going to rip soon and everyone made fun of meNow those same people hate me and act like they deserve some gains
>>61045325It was boring and demoralising but I kept DCAing and majorly increased the size of my bag.
>>61046093This is true.Retail way was far more Bullish on Crypto in general in 2023 than it is today.Its like everyone is suddenly priced out and got shown the door and thus have no interest to bother sticking around anymore
>>61046366Bitcoin is a luxury good now.Only the rich can afford wholecoins, the poor are priced out.
>>61046366No it's not true things are insanely more bullish right now.The bottom line is we're rich and will get richer, the question is how the network will develop core vs knots or blackrock vs fedi, ect.
>>61045325That was when ETF rumors started. Honestly it was the most excited I've ever been in bitcoin.
>>61045325i had useless, mog, pepe and spx so i quite literally didn't care much. i was kinda hoping all of this shit would crash so i would finally be free but alas, no dice. hence why im still here, holding the same shit. they still work to this day.>>61045523i was a pussy back then just like most of you but in retrospect it really made a lot of sense to just buy. if you weren't already holding a shit ton and seeing a big fat red -90% turd in your folio, buying was the obvious, braindead play
Rather amazing to see newfags brag about getting in at 50k. I got in at sub 20k and still think I was late to the game.
>>61045325felt like tether was printing usdt and pumping bitcoin with literal fake money. define fiat. tether. bitcoiners are the biggest hypocrites.
>>61045325https://youtu.be/E9mBJ0a_aAQ
>>61046363you violated rule number one, do you know rule number one?
>>61045325This is no different for me buying shib right now. FUD is at ath but i am loading up.
>>61046381if even one piece of childporn gets loaded onto the blockchain with wide open op_return filters, the bearmarket will get long and dry, and numbers could go down as low as 50k or below, depending on whether private equity divests from networks which share CP. the climate attack vector on btc would be seen as a joke compared to the CP attack vector in comparison, in future retrospect.
>play with alts for multiple cycles>finally convert to being a btc maxi this cycle after being actively raped nonstop>holding my retarded alts through the bear period was far more painful and humiliating than holding btc would have beenim excited to go back
>>61045325Easiest money I ever spent. I watched articles from Keynesian "experts" like Paul Krugman and Jim Cramer hailing the end of crypto. I started buying at the $17k range or so. After BTC started trending toward ATHs again in late 2023, I started buying silver hard. I never sold the BTC but I changed my strat because then silver had become the most underbought asset, and it was still in the $20 - 25 range there. Soon I'll be looking at oil and energy stocks in the next year or two when silver mania is reaching a fever pitch.
>>61046201That was 2018. I remember. It traded at 6k for so long it became a stablecoin. Then boom 50% drop to 3k.
Kinda bad. I was traveling the world and selling in the 20-30k range to keep it going. I lost nearly 3BTC during that time period. But, you can't buy youth, so I still think it was worth it. I'm counting on this upcoming crash to get those BTC back.My mood markedly improved once we got over $40k again.
ive been in crypto since 2017 and its been the worst 8 years of my life bar none
>>61047417this.
>>61045325Why can't we return to zero?BTC is just numbers...
>>61045325I kept waiting for it to go lower when it was in the teens and missed the bottom. I did start buying at $20k and had loaded up by the time it was at $32k. It felt late at the time but I felt pretty confident it wasn’t going lower again, and it didn’t.
>>61046764My man we might see triple digit Bitcoin again, and it may not even be a good time to buy. The rug is going to get pulled out any day while redditors are fomoing in at the top.
>>61045325It was frustrating. I was buying at 17k but didn't have enough cash to slurp as much as I wanted.
>>61046764Are you fucking retarded. Do you know how much CP is already on Bitcoin? A lot.
>>61045523i have a whole bunch of screenshots i saved from here right after ftx collapsed. the bobo posting was off the charts but i knew that right then was the generational btc bottom, now whenever i think about that time i smile
Felt like opportunity.
>>61045356>I couldn't stop buying it, Bobos were gloating .could have easily been the cope of the century>>61046016>Where else would you put your money?put some in LOST and participated in the pointless program to earn rewards
>>61045325comfy as hell since that's when I bought with my entire cash pileIt was basically instant profit and has only pumped from there
>>61045325good, like a winner. because i knew it would eventually go up a lot.
>>61045325I sold a rental property and bought.
>>61045325Those days will come back, those who work at an actual job and DCA will make it.
>>61046366It's a shame BTC wasn't priced in Sats from the beginning.
>>61045325Generational dip buying opportunity.
>>61045325Felt pretty much like pic related
I had bought at $67k and the dip wasn't fun but also I never felt like I should sell. Unfortunately I also wasn't in a position to buy more--my wife was pissed about the loss as it was. But I had strong conviction and rode it out, and still holding
>>61045325Like any other time. Actually it was good to get a discount
>>61045325Been here since '16. I'm numb to the lows, and the highs. But look at everything going on with usd, if you're gonna save money somewhere, where else?
>>61045325I was buying.Sold half of my stack when we touched the fist 60k and then another 1/4 when we hit 70k.I basically spent all of the Biden recession buying every new low.
>>61045325i have never been so demoralized as i was back then, that fucking double top broke me
>>61045325EVERY DAY WAS NIGGER DAY
>>61045325It was really shitty bc i also bought a bunch of alibaba right before cccp disappeared jack ma so i wanted to an hero
>>61048465Man you really should never listen to what this place has to say huh? Only the biggest negative people post here, completely braindead to anything ever being positive. Except during peak mania, then this place is filled with people telling how everything will go to moon. I guess that in this age the real high iq thing is to be able to stay positive when a person is constantly bombed with negative information thanks to the internet.
>>61048465I kick myself in the ass sometimes because my gen x uncle told me not to buy because it's going lowerI still got in sub 25k but I could've almost had double my stack. I was literally watching the charts dump right in front of my face that night too
>>61055425>Only the biggest negative people post here, completely braindead to anything ever being positive. the real high iq thing is to be able to stay positive when a person is constantly bombed with negative information thanks to the internet.yeah, you need autistic levels of self-conviction to make it if you browse this site, there is a constant barrage of negativity.>>61055462based genx gatekeeper. you still bought at a good price, dont be greedy and stick to your guns next time.
>>61045325If you didn't sell the top, clinical depression.
>>61055479nah he's a fagbut he did taughted me a valuable lesson on trusting my own instincts so there's that
>>61055479Or just realise that chuds and bears are stupid, excessive negativity is stupid and like 90% of anons aren’r intelligent, despite thinking that they’re ”red pilled” and have it all figured out compared to ”normies.”
>>61055490normies are the negativularitythere is nothing in existence on this planet that can satiate a normie's lust for mockery ridicule and judgementit's the only way they can possibly feel anything past the room-temp low-functioning frontal-lobe SSRI induced fluoride daze they exist inbathwater is more exciting to engage with than a normie
>>61045325Bought mid 6 figs of BTC at $30k right before it pumped. Felt absolutely great.
