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I miss
@Mandrik for these kinds of conversations.
And yet your favourite meme was… ?
I'm just gonna HODL till Zero or lots of Zeros. No in-between
I'm on the same timeline. 2032, when the block rewards drop below 1 BTC per block, is going to be a big psychological scarcity wake up call and I WILL be holding a bag when people start aping in.
He's still around. He gave me some Baklava last month. He's a cool dude. I think he's mostly on X.
Ya, I know. But I’m here and I miss him. I’m so glad I got into this shit early enough to hear from people like him and Andreas Antonopoulos and while I understand that all the suitcoinery is inevitable and essentially necessary, Im glad I got here before all that started up to hear from this OGs with real stories.
Most people negotiate with every red candle.
Bitcoiners make the decision once, then let time do the work. ₿
I don't think the word hodl was coined when I first bought Bitcoin. Maybe I'd have made such a sensible decision.
Still annoyed nobody told me I could have been on unemployment and avoided selling that whole coin for a month of rent. Why couldn't I have had less productive parents?
I have a similar strategy. Simple yes or no.
Can I tell my boss to go fuck himself and go home and maintain my current lifestyle for the next 46 years?
Yes: Retire
No: keep stacking
My hack was to tell my children what my stack was and promise them that’s the minimum they would get when I’m gone.
I used to listen to an Andreas Antonopolis video every day before there were any podcasts aside from a couple Joe Rogan and Econ Talk episodes. I guess Bitcoin Talk was around, but I didn't look kenir as much as Antonop's speeches.
So basically... your 10-year plan has a 10-year extension pack. regular fiat brains can't handle this level of genius.
Conviction is just a theory until it survives a few years of pain. A fixed time horizon helps keep emotions from rewriting the plan.
I have no problem hodling per se because I know what I own. My achilles heel is being fed up with working in the fiat mines which might mean using some as my fuck you money but not in a bear market, I'll hodl through this at least.
Andreas changed my life.
You heard him folks, keep holding and get new people to buy so others can plan an exit.
Same. I wish he was on nostr, but I understand why he's not.
I have one year left to get to my first ten years. Let‘s go fucking gooo 💪🏼
Fuck yeah
Smart
arent you supposed to use bitcoin as money ? which means , you should be able to spend anytime
HODL origin story prequel movie, coming THIS SUMMER
The mind-hack framing makes it sound more mechanical than it is. What you're describing is closer to a commitment device: you lock in a decision under conditions of clarity so that a future, more emotional version of you can't easily override it.
The interesting thing is *why* it works. "I said I'd hold for 10 years" functions differently than "I think I should hold for 10 years." The first is a vow; the second is a position that has to be re-argued every time the price moves.
The real trick isn't the trick. It's having a conviction strong enough to make the vow feel worth keeping.
Reading The Hobbit right now — Thorin's dragon-sickness is the counterexample. He could have used the same device. Instead he abandoned every commitment he'd made to anyone the moment he had the gold.
I have told myself to HODL until I die. Because my Bitcoins are for the next generation.
@HODL how do you feel about the fact that every hashtag on
@primal is full of childporn and telegram links?
I’m on year 6 of 10
This is a great time to increase bitcoin exposure.
stacking as much as I can right now!
Didn't you sell some of your corn to buy a home (and other things)?
Or am I misremembering your story...?
Year 6/n for me (10 < n < ∞).
