And then spent the next hour more depressed than I can ever remember being. So I said fuck it and bought back in.I'm one of the people that gets made fun of here and elsewhere. I got in in Nov 2017 because of the hype train. I didn't understand the tech, and I still don't on a granular level. Thankfully I stayed away from obvious shitcoins and kept things relatively conservative, and made a killing daytrading Ripple when it went briefly to $3, but then I lost big on multiple attempts to buy the Ethereum dip.I put half my life savings into crypto, and I'm down 50% from my initial investment, which means I've lost 25% of my net worth. For me, that has at times felt like a death sentence. I'm a dramatic dude, I guess, and it hasn't helped that my stocks have tanked hard this year, too.Maybe you're in a worse boat than I'm in. Which means you're probably thinking about running away now, too. Just a minute ago Bitcoin dipped to $4,998 on Kraken. Now seems like the time to exit. Surely the freefall isn't over.But during that hour I cashed out, I thought back to that poster hanging on Lester's basement wall in season one of Fargo. You know: "What if you're right and they're wrong?" Everyone I meet in my day-to-day who has chastized me for investing in crypto knows almost nothing about the space.What if I'm right and they're wrong?I thought back to this post I made half a year ago and got downvoted to Hell for. And I realized... so far, I'm right. I just wasn't emotionally prepared for the implications of being right. This story doesn't end at 0. Stay in.
Submitted November 20, 2018 at 12:03AM
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