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> While I made some money selling (2013), it was just enough to pay off my loans, buy a place and invest a bit but nothing close to its current valuation. I bought my first Bitcoins around 2011 and did a little bit of trading and ordering pizzas and whatnot early on. I think cumulatively I may have had about 60 Bitcoin over these last ten years. Early last year I sold the last ones to get a nice apartment. So in some ways I'm in a similar situation, though I would "only" have about a million Euros if I cashed out now vs. your 100 million. I don't have regrets about buying pizzas for prices that would now correspond to extra rooms to my apartment or whatever: If we early market participants hadn't been willing to spend Bitcoin and to sell it off to other traders, there wouldn't have been a market, and the project would have died. Interested parties wouldn't have been able to get Bitcoin, the infrastructure around it wouldn't have developed, and the price today would be zero. We took one for the team, and we both did profit from it nicely as well. Yes, others profited more, but that doesn't keep me awake at night. What I do have regret-like feelings about is selling around March-April last year, in the middle of a local minimum. Waiting until now, in hindsight, would have netted me close to 5x the returns, but it seemed highly implausible at the time. And I'm happy with the place I bought, even compared to significantly more expensive properties I see on the market. Um, I have no real conclusion except I can relate to how you feel. I find my job interesting, but often tedious, and am looking forward to saving up and hopefully being able to retire around age 50-55. Hang in there! And yes, therapy/mild antidepressants are good things to try. Good luck! |