ETH and XEM

It's not a beauty contest.   They both have their utility.    My btc may grow or go to zero, my gold keeps me warm at night when I know it's safe in its various storage places.  

Since the time of slaves, money could buy freedom and it's still true today.   It's harder to be happy without freedom.   

Freedom today means freedom from mortgages, bosses, working more than living, etc.

Good day today.    Couldn't get back in exactly where I wanted but a nice $900 bump on most of my trading coins.   

It might go to 18 cents.     No one knows.   

Holding and moving 300K into my exchange account to increase my holdings when we hit rock bottom.    And this time I think I'll go heavier ETH.

Wait until it bottoms out.     Just monitor the buy and sell columns of 2-3 exchange accounts and that should give you enough of an indicator.

It will drop to $850.32.      Thus I will have a profit of $50 on the bulk of my coins.   

Of course money can buy happiness with a *.    You can't buy it directly, there is no happiness store, but if sleeping late makes you happy, if reclining to 180 degrees on airplanes make you happy, if not having any debt/not having a boss, having a paid in full college fund for your children, etc. make you happy, then yes, money can buy those things.   

It doesn't mean more money = more happiness though. 

:-)

Maybe this year.   Maybe never.

If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.   

Singapore.    As an added bonus, no capital gains tax, no inheritance tax, and no income tax on interest income.   So your crypto profits that are converted to fiat and put into fixed deposit accounts (or whatever you like), all of the interest income is tax free.    Kind of a boring place to live though, but the perfect place to use as a piggy bank.  

Or it could be a further downward spiral.    The market is the market.   Anything can happen.

I hold a core amount and also trade.   

Who said life was fair?   In my opinion we all get what we deserve.  

I have very little technical ability, but I do have a high savings discipline so by luck, I had funds to put into btc when it was still in the lower atmosphere.

Look at Jack Ma, he has well known 'low' tech ability.   In the early years of Alibaba, he could barely use a computer.   It doesn't mean he doesn't deserve to be where he is.

We all use our different abilities, we all... for the most part have two hands, two legs, etc...  we just don't all have the same results from our efforts.   That's life.    

Well, I'm one who certainly appreciates crypto and the returns I've made from them, pretty much more than I need for a lifetime, but even if we're just talking about btc, I'm quick to admit that it does have some serious flaws.   Any transaction system that can have transactions "forgotten" and not processed and you cannot follow up with anyone to check on it has a problem in its foundation.    And like anything else, it's difficult to build on a flawed foundation.  

Even dealing with a dinosaur bank like HSBC or Citibank, they've never lost or 'forgotten' a single one of my transactions, and yes, even if I have to be on hold for an hour, I do eventually get to talk to a human to sort out any problem I might have.   They have other problems and flaws of their own of course.

Reduced holdings to 50%.      40% eth.   10% 3-4 other coins as longshots. 

Refugees, and that includes those who have to flee with whatever they can carry as well as middle class refugees can much more easily move their 'wealth' from point A to point B without having to worry about getting robbed along the way.     Imagine if the Jews fleeing Germany during WWII or the Vietnamese fleeing Vietnam before and after the fall of Saigon could simply survive the journey, convert their wealth back to fiat, gold, or property with a few keystrokes and simply get their lives restarted within a few weeks or months.      

All markets are manipulated.   Just make sure you aren't the plankton. 

Well like anything else, limit your risk. I typically sweep any value over my target holding amount into other currencies or gold.