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btc_throughawayon Ask HN: Do you feel bad about 'missing the boat' on investing in Bitcoin?

Thank you.

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btc_throughawayon Yahoo Finance has added over 100 cryptocurrency quote pages

This is called slippage.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/slippage.asp

btc_throughawayon Ask HN: Do you feel bad about 'missing the boat' on investing in Bitcoin?

I didn't miss the boat.

I bought the boat, was known as the shipmaster, and then set my boat on fire, along with myself.

Bought $10K+ of BTC in 2013 near the peak, traded it up to $60K even though BTC had crashed, talked to everyone and anyone about it and was known as the "Bitcoin guy". This was a lot of money for a high schooler / freshman.

By 2015 I had added another $10K of my own money. Much to the chagrin of my friends and family. Discouraged/depressed, and wanting to just lead a normal life where every waking moment wasn't spent thinking about BTC/alts, I took riskier and riskier positions until I blew up.

And I was relieved, for a while, until BTC started rising again. Now I can't get away from the discussion, and people are messaging me about it even if we hadn't spoken in years.

I would be okay with just losing $20K, but I'm honestly losing my sanity seeing and hearing about Bitcoin everywhere, even at work. The worst part is that no one knows I've lost anything. They all think I'm some genius.