Long time lurker, first time poster. Not sure if this is the right place to post this, feel free to move to another board.


I first bought into BTC in 2013 for $1,500 when the price was around $80 per coin-all I could afford at the time.

I lost it all about 1 year later when Mt Gox shut down, not being able to recover anything despite their 'claimant page'.

I then bought (a lot less) coins in 2018. When btrade.io got bought by Kraken recently, Kraken made a mistake with the 2FA migration, and I am unable to recover my account despite multiple attempts / contacting them. Fortunately, this time it was 'only' 0.7 BTC.

You get the theme...


With prices being the way they are as of recently, I am (perhaps somewhat understandably) quite depressed about the entire situation. I could retire multiple times over if it wasn't for the Mt Gox incident.


So, my question to you:

- Do you think it's still worth investing at this stage?
- If so, how best to go about this? Is it safest to buy coins from an exchange, then immediately transfer it into an offline wallet on my computer?



Apologies if this comes across as a rant, last year hasn't been great, this year is looking the same, and I had way too much time to think about 'what if Mt Gox hadn't gone down'...