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I anticipate your feelings being quite widespread. I only had $200 in them after cashing out, but I've still felt terrible when the price drops. It's rather odd

I anticipate your feelings being quite widespread. I only had $200 in them after cashing out, but I've still felt terrible when the price drops. It's rather odd. This is the first time I have ever participated in an actual exchange market with volatility and all. I built a trading bot, and was making a couple of dollars a day trading my 0.17 BTC. A few weeks ago I was feeling suicidal based on not buying some a couple of years ago when it was $10. My family has been having a rough time, and I kept thinking that I had missed my chance to pull us out of the hole we are in. This is a crazy and interesting time to live in, and I'm glad I'm still here even if Bitcoin didn't make me rich.

eclipxe 13y ago
U.S.A. Suicide Hotline 1-800-273-TALK (8255). Remember, it's just money.
- tachion 13y ago
  I love when people just like that are assuming that everything has to happen in U.S.A. and that world around it doesnt exist ;)
  - pontifier 13y ago
    I'm truly annoyed when people latch onto a single word, and forget everything else you are saying.
  - pdx 13y ago
    Your comment is only valid because that's a 1-800 number. 1-800 numbers are free to call in the USA, which is why many people have them, but their downside is that you can't call them from outside the USA. Upon first discovering SIP addresses and that everybody on earth could have an email style phone number that would be free to call, I have been waiting and waiting for the world to transition to SIP addresses instead of phone numbers. If such a thing occurs, someday, then publishing a phone address from one country will not be a problem. I'm sure the folks at the suicide hotline would gladly take calls from anywhere in the world, if they could do so for free. Sadly, as things stand now, they could publish a SIP address, but nobody would know how to use it.
mcv 13y ago
You can't change the past, man. I also regret not buying them years ago, but I can't change that. Look to the future. Personally, my future looks good enough even if I never buy any bitcoin. If buying bitcoin makes you worry and possibly risk depression and suicide, you'd better stay out. Yes, other people are getting rich somewhere, but that doesn't have to mean anything to you.There's always someone getting rich somewhere. There's always someone winning the lottery. Do you terrible when someone bought a lottery ticket and won millions? That stuff just happens. Let it go. If you've got a job paying more than $50k per year, you're still in the richest 1% of the world. Don't worry so much. You're doing very well.
DustinCalim 13y ago
Be here now.
rwallace 13y ago
I know what you mean. I never did buy into Bitcoin because when I became aware of it in 2012, I looked at the historical price chart and thought the bubble had come and gone in 2011 and I'd already missed my chance to get rich. Ended up pointing out to myself, hey if I had the power to go back in time, I wouldn't spend it going back to 2011 to get rich, I'd spend it going back to 1920 to kill Hitler. If I don't feel bad about not being able to do that, there's no point feeling bad about not getting rich on Bitcoin either. As you say, it's a crazy and interesting time to live in.
marvin 13y ago
Don't kick yourself for not trying to speculate yourself out of economic difficulties. Things can just as well go the wrong direction if you try to do that.

eclipxe 13y ago

U.S.A. Suicide Hotline 1-800-273-TALK (8255). Remember, it's just money.

tachion 13y ago
I love when people just like that are assuming that everything has to happen in U.S.A. and that world around it doesnt exist ;)
- pontifier 13y ago
  I'm truly annoyed when people latch onto a single word, and forget everything else you are saying.
- pdx 13y ago
  Your comment is only valid because that's a 1-800 number. 1-800 numbers are free to call in the USA, which is why many people have them, but their downside is that you can't call them from outside the USA. Upon first discovering SIP addresses and that everybody on earth could have an email style phone number that would be free to call, I have been waiting and waiting for the world to transition to SIP addresses instead of phone numbers. If such a thing occurs, someday, then publishing a phone address from one country will not be a problem. I'm sure the folks at the suicide hotline would gladly take calls from anywhere in the world, if they could do so for free. Sadly, as things stand now, they could publish a SIP address, but nobody would know how to use it.

mcv 13y ago

You can't change the past, man. I also regret not buying them years ago, but I can't change that. Look to the future. Personally, my future looks good enough even if I never buy any bitcoin. If buying bitcoin makes you worry and possibly risk depression and suicide, you'd better stay out. Yes, other people are getting rich somewhere, but that doesn't have to mean anything to you.There's always someone getting rich somewhere. There's always someone winning the lottery. Do you terrible when someone bought a lottery ticket and won millions? That stuff just happens. Let it go. If you've got a job paying more than $50k per year, you're still in the richest 1% of the world. Don't worry so much. You're doing very well.

DustinCalim 13y ago

Be here now.

rwallace 13y ago

I know what you mean. I never did buy into Bitcoin because when I became aware of it in 2012, I looked at the historical price chart and thought the bubble had come and gone in 2011 and I'd already missed my chance to get rich. Ended up pointing out to myself, hey if I had the power to go back in time, I wouldn't spend it going back to 2011 to get rich, I'd spend it going back to 1920 to kill Hitler. If I don't feel bad about not being able to do that, there's no point feeling bad about not getting rich on Bitcoin either. As you say, it's a crazy and interesting time to live in.

marvin 13y ago

Don't kick yourself for not trying to speculate yourself out of economic difficulties. Things can just as well go the wrong direction if you try to do that.