I really don't know if $124k was the top or not. I know that i'm holding out for too long too often, which makes me bad at "timing the market".
Still, i remember LFC is much better in this regard, but in a market situation which is as complex as today, even he could be wrong.
But what i know for sure is that each Satoshi i sell is no longer mine.
#sellwhenyoumust
Every Bitcoin we sell is a mistake in the long term but life comes at us fast. I have enough Bitcoin to fund my life until I die and leave an inheritance to my kid.
That doesn’t mean I want to be a wage slave and struggle by HODLING everything to the grave. Bitcoin is here to free us from misery and improve life. If you can upgrade your life because you bought early, by selling some corn you should do it.
I just can’t reiterate how much this cycle has disappointed me. I just can’t justify selling any more at this price, if I was going to at 109k then I should have done so in January, sickening really how poorly Bitcoin has performed in 2025. You can guarantee though that as soon as stocks have a big correction or we go into a recession, Bitcoin will shit the bed and dump more than everything else.
Maybe the best opportunities are selling more near the top of cycles and buying the blood in bear markets because simply buying, for example today & HODLING, isn’t going to give you any better returns than the stock market for 3-4 years at least.
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We still have to see when and how this cycle ends. I sold a little bit at $118k to buy a new car, but there is a batch of corn waiting to be released for future buys.
At least i was pretty good at identifying the final capitulation at the bottom of each bear market i witnessed, so even if my top2top returns aren't x4 but maybe only x3, it will be good enough for me. OK, mindrust may have beaten me one time, but he still was the loser regarding this occasion
On the other hand, i am talking about selling and bear markets when the top wasn't confirmed yet.
What frustrates me the most is that the holdings are shifting from private to institutional, at the loss of price rise. Once this is over, there is a chance for higher prices.
What really pisses me off is how the retail market changed, or vanished. There is so much volume being handled by OTC and derivatives, and it even hinders Bitcoin's success. Crazy leveraging doesn't help it either. This went way out of hand, imo and that are the reasons for frustrating cycle development. It's basically a series of range-bound sideways fuckery, every time until the greedy manipulators are fed, then (probably) the same people drive the price by buying BTC, to have enough powder to shoot leveraged longs.
Watching from the sideline, patience should define the winners.
When it comes to lifestyle, i was trained by my past life to stay humble and not spend more than i have to. There are enough special interest and "hobbies" that make me going and some are quite expensive, but i always work on optimizing my cost of living. My wife stopped asking me "if you have so much corn, why don't you spend more of it?". The answer is always the same: "I don't want to because i don't have to".
Then there are the jealous ones. They don't show it or don't try to show it, but i think many of the newer WO's are envious looking at OGs that bought considerable amounts of BTC when the price was low. Well, understandable, but not a good way to look at things. If someone feels bad because of the success of someone else, he makes a big mistake. When you project this behaviour onto retailers, you have a valid explanation for their absence in this cycle. They are grumpy because they "missed the train", "it's too expensive" and "the era of great returns is over".
Yes, you can see it as a downward spiral, but there is sufficient upwards movement to compensate for, but the real question is:
For how long?
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