I don't gamble often, but when I do, I put a hard limit on my gambling budget, an amount that I'm OK spending for this entertainment. For a poker night it would be an equivalent of one or two movie tickets, tops.
I used to hope that some tokens would 50x my fiat. That was nerve wrecking and addictive. Like not leaving a casino day and night, giving all my energy to it.
Since I realised, thanks to some bitcoin maxis, that saving in bitcoin is life changing, not easy or quick, but it's the safest bet by far, I converted all the tokens to BTC.
I needed to accept the reality: some people win at lottery, some people get to discover and understand something early enough to get very reach relatively quick... but I'm not them. Hoping otherwise was delusional.
Since then I put all my savings into bitcoin. I was buying the dips and the all time highs and everything in between.
The early gains of bitcoin happened because of it's unique properties and the first mover advantage. Every token that tries to mimic this, is a greed driven venture.
Greed. Greed. Greed.
I want more than my share.
I want to show off.
I want to win.
I understood that using bitcoin to save my energy makes me feel safe and at ease, because it can't be taken from me by:
the government,
the bank,
a change of the rules,
inflation.
Or, to be more precise, it's orders of magnitude less likely to happen than with fiat or tokens.
And we are early, so there is a lot of upside still. The real upside. In gold terms. In houses. In steaks. Measuring it in dollars is misleading. In gold or houses also, but less.