> You really can’t let it eat you. Nah, it doesn't eat at me, only when a story like the one in this thread comes up. :/ The reality is that I was 25 at the t

> You really can’t let it eat you. Nah, it doesn't eat at me, only when a story like the one in this thread comes up. :/ The reality is that I was 25 at the time and knew absolutely nothing about the financial industry. I still know next to absolutely nothing, but I was serious about being happy to have learned some things due to playing with BTC. I consider it a fairly inexpensive lesson in how it all works... I'm no good at trading, but to this day I can follow stories about the markets a little better than I would have otherwise. I also learned that trading was fun! It almost gave me an appetite to get more into it, but I realized that at the end of the day I prefer spending my time making functional things than pushing money around. The other thing that got me to stop was after trying to get into algorithmic trading, which I just couldn't get to work for me, I finally did a basic correlation analysis on prices and realized there is far more noise than signal into those indicators. Obviously there are ways to predict and profit, but I realized it was far too subtle an art for me, and I moved on to other interests.