I have absolutely zero sense of “I don’t deserve this”..
Even things I have got “lucky” on weren’t scammy and I feel good about them..
I don't really disagree with anything that you say, except that I want to make a point regarding attempts at humility.
I think that we all need to recognize and appreciate humility, including that we have been lucky as fuck to both be able to dedicate time into an investment that has performed quite well, and also to have been able to obtain performance levels that are considerably outsized relative to any other asset class.
For me, I had some anticipation that my BTC investment may well perform well, but I still set my own expectations low because on a personal level I find it much more fulfilling to have an investment that outperforms my expectations rather than having pie-in-the-sky expectations that end up only being directionally correct but somewhere out of reach from what ends up actually happening.
Part of the difficulty in bitcoin remains that even some of the more bullish of scenarios ended up playing out, even if sometimes it may be difficult to appreciate some of the "where we are at" aspects of bitcoin and complain that we are not above "100k" or some other arbitrary number based on some random considerations about how x, y or z is ruining BTC's performance blah blah blah. So, in essence, I remain both grateful for where we are at, and grateful that I had some luck along the way regarding some of the temptations that you mentioned.. and also some persistence in regards to letting matters play out rather than getting scared.. and for my lil selfie, part of the whole psychological and financial soundness matter has also seemed to have come from my NOT having had overinvested and making sure that I have other resources available - surely also called attempting to best assess my situation and to be able to feel prepared for either BTC price direction.
For sure, along the way, any of us could be kicking ourselves when we see that BTC prices ended up going up 2x or so each year rather than our prepared for possibilities of lower amounts, and then we can kick ourselves and say to ourselves: "I should have bought more... blah blah blah".. but the reality of the matter remains, that at any particular snapshot moment, each of us should be attempting to do the best that we can based on what we know (or knew at that time) rather than kicking ourselves regarding I could have done better.. and hopefully, each of us is also able to learn a long the way in order to figure out if there might be ways that we could do better based on the information that we know (and have learned along the way).
Surely, there may well be guys who figured out that they over sold or that they did not buy nearly enough, and for sure the clock is not going to go back and to give another chance in that regard.
Talk me out of putting a newbies goal (0.21 BTC) into Monero..
Have fun staying poor.
Why? You can use Wasabi or Samourai, or any of the centralized sites / mixers / exchanges. Without shilling other shitcoins, there ARRR a couple other privacy coins out there.
Do you need super privacy or just good enough privacy?
I will also add
Utopia USD - it's a new decentralized privacy stablecoin. So you can not only make anonymous transactions, but also keep your money in a stable rate 1:1 to US dollar. It's quite new, so I think it needs time to gain its popularity.
I understand that you are trying to make a connection to the dollar, but what is the connection with BTC? Is that potential scam stable coin only connected with one potential scam exchange? There would be some risk getting involved with some kind of new product, unless you are wanting to point out some kind of reason that we should be interested in something that happens to be "new", because of course, there are all kinds of new things (shit) out there in the shitcoin space searching to scam you out of your bitcoins, and this happens to NOT be the "what's new in crypto" thread, if you had not noticed.