It's a tough divide. About half my friends are in, but nobody really capitalized when I was passionately shilling at 16k.
One guy took a 7 hour car ride with me exactly after FTX and I told him exactly how this would play out. He didn't really get in until 70k.
We smoked cigars to celebrate 100k and there was some bad vibes from those who were obviously under allocated. It will probably be even worse at 500k and 1M.
I have a childhood friend that is class of 2021 and remembers me talking about it even before I ever bought it, and then we hung out and I explained it all . He ended up going balls deep, bought the bottom heavy in 2022 when the ops were panic selling, and has 7+ btc now. I am so proud of him. But that’s like the only success story. My buddy from class of 2017 barely has 1 btc still and is pretty pissed he didn’t go harder lol
That's a great story. I do have two people who have been very successful thanks to my shilling which is the best feeling. It's crazy how fast it runs away from you if you're not in. Friends taking trips and buying ski passes in 2022 for what could've been 0.2 Bitcoin. We all make our own futures.
Yeah I was so used to my friends being pussies that it caught me off guard, someone finally believed in me. He is a blue collar guy too which they seem to have got it easier, they deal with real world realities everyday, not coddled in an office. If they mess up there are immediate consequences
True, plus their livelihood is actual proof of work and not just some fiat grift. Fiat grifters are easily threatened by reality.
I should really be thanking all these people for being major pussies. I'm class of 2020, and 2022 was the best year of my life. I was too young to really earn money prior cycles and I was given an opportunity to basically go back in time and buy below the 2017 high. It's crazy how many people gave up then.
No balls whatsoever lmao.
Agreed, the competition has only really arrived this year lol
Good ol 2022
Couldn’t work for like 8 months that year. 😂 Thankfully, I went hard before that. 2023 was a good year to stack too. Better sentiment and price were low for most of the year.
2022 was unexpected for me lol but luckily I was still living low key so I wasn’t really effected. But I didn’t see that drop coming at all . Freaking ftx 😂
Yeah, I sold my Jeep in January at a gain to stack more because I thought we were going to bounce back up, and it just went lower and lower the whole year lol
Better to be too optimistic and miss a few sats than be bearish and miss the whole thing
It truly teaches low time preference lol . Just wait. The market will figure it out eventually! lol
First bear market and Bitcoin denominated paychecks just kept getting bigger. I started thinking I must be insane because I'm basically getting away with robbery right now 😂
Bear markets have a time and a place. I'm just glad to have done the work needed to enjoy things now.
Most ppl don’t take advantage of them, they get shaken out thinking it will keep going lower. The exception to the rule is to stack heavy in bears. So pat yourself on the back.
I’m batting a 0 on range pilling lol
Pretty rare when you find someone that’s receptive to it. Like nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs says, “we were meant for more” but not everyone is
Hodl better start planning the 6.15 millionaire party soon 😂
Lmao facts. ~162k by Vegas conference day easy.
I’d guess by early January
When I started stacking i just stacked sats without urgency. Then I came across Hodl on Twitter and he was like ‘ Hey Pussy if you ain’t 6.15 you ain’t stacking hard enough. Stack harder pussy ‘ Got me focused for sure 😂
I’ve told this story already but I joined bt end of 2018 at the bottom of the bear, and I just remember everyone calling for $1500 and then I see hodl posting screenshots of him buying whole bitcoins at a time and calling everyone pussies. I was like that’s my guy 😂
He was great and still is. But the’18-‘21 era was the best.
You know what’s funny? This post has me reminiscing. I took so much shit for being so convicted, so publicly. Most of the well known bitcoiners at the time were telling me to be careful and reasonable etc… meanwhile we now live in the world where I was right and everyone that listened is now meaningfully richer than they otherwise would have been. It’s funny in retrospect. I was always going to be right. It was inevitable. The conviction came from that understanding. It didn’t just appear out of nowhere. Ops need to realize that their worldview cost them millions and will continue to do so.
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I know they say this every time but I struggle to see how we ever have a 70% drawdown again. It's just too obvious now that this isn't going to die.
We won’t. The entire market has evolved. The ppl that parrot that suffer from recency bias fallacies. Can’t critically think. Blackrock wasn’t working for us last drop lol and major fraud was everywhere . It grew up this year
Agreed. I would love to see all of these "diminishing returns" shitheads rekt. Such a small minded way to think. I can guarentee you in countries with real shit currencies they aren't talking about diminishing returns. Absolutely no reason why we cannot be at 500k next year.
They say that while also asking “what happens when we run out of supply?” Lmao
It's literally Econ 101. Funny thing is I tried to shill my high school Econ professor with this exact logic and he didn't get it. He's a pretty big libertarian too. I suppose he just saw me as a student and he's too well off to try and adjust. He was like "that's not what the Krugman textbook says" lmfao 
Yup, all my econ professors are still probably gold bugs lmao
I have a decently high hit rate but I was a debate kid and used a lot of meme warfare. The ones who really get it I also had to buy books for before it actually clicked lol.
It's nice having a few in because they will finish the work for the rest. Gotta pass the torch.
Now it’s on BlackRock to do the marketing
