thanks for the encouragement. it is getting better. I can see the vision now of a new social Internet. this feels like the early days of Bitcoin
good tip. will do.
thanks. I'll do that right now.
#asknostr lightning address that's free and pseudonymous? any tips?
thanks! still figuring it out. seems like a friendly place.
Just finished the phone call with my friend. I helped my friend get onboarded with nostr:npub1tftc33ttam85wraffce62cgtvvjrmttquqlv6a0agtfm5nl4vues82xar5 and they bought their first sats tonight. Let’s go! 💪🏻
#bitcoin #btc #orangepill nostr:note187gqjd0g0yjmcjapgrcze85sqe7vwerr933jcla0f6gd4pt6wa9qes49mz
why swan and not another exchange?
That's exactly my attitude as well. So many people see HODL as the opposite of trading. I completely agree with you. I HODL, and I also want to increase my stash, that's why I trade. The two can go together.
Yea, you guys will be telling your kids, when 1 bitcoin is 1 million USD. :o
in this moment every trader...
#bitcoin #trading #meme #plebs #zap
https://video.nostr.build/84e82940cf44e19e78ad81f04a0dfdcf4e753f737aed9e886e3735c53ab7bab6.mp4
So true.
Love it! I was degening on 15m today. Then I remembered and went back to 1d. Oh. We still mooning. 😃
I was inspired by nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs
Here’s my story
In my mid twenties I was living with my girlfriend and working as an engineer. We got engaged and shit got really rocky between us and we ended up breaking things off. And I spiralled, I quit my job on a dare to do my side hustle full time but financially it was a bad move it wasn’t making enough money and I had a mortgage and bills. I thought I could make it work.
I ended up moving into the city and renting my apartment out below what my mortgage was and began working PT as a valet while still trying to make my business work. But I was going broke. I had a lot of fun and enjoyed the city but things financially were not working out.
Finally the real estate market rebounded and I sold my apartment for a small profit and decided to go traveling to SE Asia and Australia and learn to surf. It was amazing and I met a new girlfriend who had invested in her friends bitcoin company. I asked her a million questions about it and bitcoin, she knew nothing she just trusted her friend. I bought some on coinbase and it started going up. I was hooked. I had no idea about bitcoin tho I just knew most investments didn’t appreciate so quickly.
I bought more bitcoin than shitcoins, again I had no clue what I had stumbled on but my gut said I was on to something. I bought more on my credit card at 20% interest. I thought I was going to be a trader I was making money. I went to a coffee shop and traded almost every day.
Eventually my trip came to an end and I was making money and thought I was a genius. Then the market crashed 80% and more on the shitcoins. I became depressed, and anxious I was in a bad financial situation I had debt from my business and blown the profit on my apartment from traveling (worth it haha).
But I didn’t sell it all I just consolidated most in to bitcoin and just Hodl not buying any I was broke. I met my now wife we started dating she was very smart and successful, we have a passionate love affair and I got her pregnant. We had our first kid together I went back to my old engineering job and the everything crashed again and my net worth went negative in 2020 I had some investments and my bitcoin but they went lower than my debt. I cried. I had a family now and was broke. But I had an income and we made it work.
Then bitcoin rallied and I started buying again and finally started to really learn about bitcoin. I sold my shitcoins went all in on bitcoin and saw my net worth skyrocket (for me). And things were good.
Price crashed again but this time I understood what Bitcoin was and I was still in much better shape then in march 2020.
This time is stacked hard. I took it serious, I knew what I was buying. I understood what Bitcoin was. This time was different. I was positioning myself for the future. For the next cycle and the ones after that, low time preference, lower price means more sats.
Bitcoin hits $100K and life is good not perfect but good. All the ups and downs in bitcoin are a good analogy for life. The principal of rhythm, tide goes in tide goes out, ying and Yang.
Any thoughts of getting back into trading? Any lessons learned from the crash?
If you didn't you never would have taken the time to write the note. Nostr & how you get your sats are two different things one does not matter against or with the other. The other way to get sats or purchase bitcoin is with cash. Theres the https://bisq.network/ which is a site to search for traders around where you live. You give them cash they give you bits right on the spot. Skeptical sure meeting a stranger online but the traders who give the sats for your cash are mostly rich people.
The likelyhood of a trader scamming you is minimal because then their rep on bisq would be ruined & they would be an outcast.
Have you tried Bisq? I'm glad it exists, but I haven't had the guts to try it yet.
