Thats also my plan.
All this has a bittersweet taste for me; because I got into bitcoin just 1 week before i registered here..
more than 6 years since that time when i got my first coins,and almost everything got wrong..
but im still kicking and hoping for better times
Ouch, I think some people here, like Arklan, also started in 2011 and supposedly end up with barely anything. But like Rosewater said, if Andreas Antonopoulos can end up with almost no bitcoin and only recently become debt free, then any bitcoiners can end up making wrong calls that eventually see most of their paper wealth evaporate (and that includes even the current semi-billionaire such as Roger Ver).
it was not just wrong calls. I was hit by too many scams and hacks etc..
I was scammed on IRC OTC market, I was Goxed, and in the meantime scammed on couple of other small exchanges too (i remember mooncoin, bitparking, tradehill and there were some others i had coins on- i dont remember the exact sequence of events, but i was there with my coins in the wrong time). then got sick of it, got rid of all usefull coins and left back to forex for some time.
And of course I came back, trying altcoins: just in time for getting Cryptsied few months later..
.. (bitfinex hack didnt hit me much, because at that time i had very little left there and it was paid back later)
It was pretty bumpy ride for those who wanted to trade on exchanges when the crypto industry was very young. Thats the part newbies today dont think about too much, when they are looking on exponential charts.
This spring I returned again. But I dont envy those who kept their cheap bitcoins (or some alts) from the beginning. They deserve it.
in my case, longterm under/unemployment and selling my btc before the 2013 spike... and lots of dumb choices.
yep this one too, I was looking for job for more than a year, after i finished school. Perhaps i wouldnt bother to sell what was left for a few hundred dollars, if i didnt need money..
As for my bad trading decisions, it took me pretty long time to learn that bitcoin/fiat pair is quite different beast than forex or other financial instruments, and that shorting is not a good idea.. The same mistake as many so called "experts" are making today.
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