Said Don Quijote to Sancho Panza.
There's a saying in my country:
Don't believe in statistics you didn't fake by yourself.
Seriously, it seems hard to grasp for many that you can't calculate reliable overall figures out of datasets that don't consist of a full infection wave/season/
event cycle from start to end. Everything in between are just numbers.
Speaking of Don Quijote... I had a dream last night.. or could we categorize it a nightmare? A little weird, but surely some connections with real bitcoin life, too.
I was at some kind of holiday/family event (it was like christmas.....except the time of the year seemed to have been summer, for some reason, which seemed a weird time to be having christmas, especially in the northern climates), and I was sitting on a couch or something and interacting with relatives, but I still kept clicking on the refresh screen on my Iphone because the bitcoin price did not seem to be moving out of it's then price zone.. so it was stuck in a kind of $100 range.. which I thought was in the $8k to $12k-ish area... and I am not really sure about where the BTC price was stuck exactly... because that part of the dream kind of got subsumed by subsequent happenings in the dream.. but I know that the BTC price was stuck in a narrow range, and it seemed like it had been stuck in that range for several days and was not moving, but I had continued to click on refresh because I wanted to see if it was going to move UP in order to trigger my next sell order.
All of a sudden, I could hear one or two of my relatives in the distance in front of me looking at a TV screen and making noises of excitement, and I had no reason to believe that they were coiners, but somehow they were also watching the BTC price, and even while I continued to refresh my iphone and the BTC price seemed to continue to remain kind of stuck in its zone before suddenly I saw the prices on my phone go shooting up.. and I said to the relative near the TV screen (like a kid or something) that their connection on the TV screen must have been better than mine because now I can see the BTC price going up on my Iphone screen, too... and we were verifying the craziness of the BTC price move as I saw the price going past $15k, then $20k and then all of a sudden it had shot up to around $150k..
I could not really keep track exactly where the specifics of the BTC price was, and I did not really care that much beyond just having excitement that there was so much of a BTC profits cushion coming to me, since I hold way more BTC than I sell, and even while elated, I was dazed and confused about what to do, exactly..,.
Surely, I was happy because I knew that on one of my exchanges I had BTC sell orders going all the way up to $21k, and then on another exchange I had already set BTC sell orders going up to about $35k, so I was feeling a bit smug because all of those sell orders had filled.. yet the price had gone way past my existing sell orders, so I had not made any sell orders between $35k and $150k, and the BTC price was kind of correcting back into a kind of $86k mode.. but I was still in ongoing profits and cushion whether I were to sell any more BTC or not.
So, I remained confused about what to do. I knew that I still had some BTC that was already on three different exchanges that had not already been placed in any sell orders.. they were just sitting there on those three exchange and ready to put in sell orders if needed or if the BTC price were to go up beyond the existing sell orders and adding all of those available BTC on the exchange added up to about 7% of my total BTC holdings..
Accordingly, there was another question in my head about whether to market sell those available BTC on the exchange and put some more BTC on the exchanges, but I was still feeling ongoing kinds of smug, even though i was confused about what to do next..
Sure, even though the BTC price had gone shooting up to around $150k, it had also corrected back down into a bouncing around $86k territory.. And, the BTC price remained a fluid situation, and since I was not even at my main computer, I kind of questioned about whether I could even login to my various BTC accounts to do anything.. but I still continued to feel a kind of ongoing smugness about what had just happened and the degree of cushion that had been established between the earlier stagnant price and the new price.. and there were several relatives at the party (mostly nocoiners), and I kind of feeling an inclination to disclose the other coiner at the party about the BTC price change that had just happened, and I was hesitating to say anything in front of the other no coiner relatives because the relatives at the party were just going on with the normal kinds of back and forth discussions that happen at those kinds of gatherings of relatives including food preparations, eating, drinking and mingling about regular life matters, while I was just continuing to feel so ongoingly smug about how much MOAR richie I had just become in a matter of minutes..
I knew that I, at least, shared the increased richie status with one other person at the party, even though that other person had not even realized the recent BTC price move and even though a few of the others (nocoiners) at the party had previously dabbled in BTC through my discussion and introduction of the matter to them, they had continued to insist on maintaining their seemingly safe nocoiner status and to choose to live vicariously through me and through the other coiner, even though they could have also become richie, like us coiners.
I know.. I know.. I know... this is just a piece of fiction in my head.. but it remains an accurate rendition of what I can remember of that dream that I had... .weird, weird.. and when I woke up, I was still trying to resolve certain aspects of the dream, including what I should have done, or how I should be planning in the event that something like that were to actually happen...
A learning lesson from the dream seems to be to attempt to prepare ourselves even for weird and outrageous scenarios, and part of my dilemma in the dream that caused it to partly feel like a kind of nightmare was that I was feeling a bit lost about what to do next, exactly... or if I should try to take action quickly or just revel in the ongoing good feeling about the BTC price having had shot up so crazily, and to have given me way more cushion (and options), like that.