[horsawlarway]

There was no holding. It wasn't an asset I was interested in holding, it was a medium of exchange to purchase a good I couldn't otherwise get.

The coins would sit in the wallet for as long as it took me to figure out how to place an order on silk-road again, where I would buy down to as small an amount of bitcoin as I could.

I got unlucky the last time through and hit it right when the service went down.

Which is funny - because the attitude that I should be hiding my coins away as tightly as possible is exactly why I'm so non-plussed on bitcoin: It's no longer an medium of exchange, it's a speculative asset with price completely unhinged from utility (which in my opinion is basically just buying black market goods).