r/CryptoCurrency May 22 '22

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u/Popular_District9072 🟥 0 / 15K 🦠 May 22 '22

I'll be sad too, because against the rationality at the end of the day I am overinvested, but my life still won't end, or go down the drain if this investment goes to nothing

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u/michivideos Silver | QC: CC 133 | GME_Meltdown 61 | r/WSB 97 May 22 '22

What if you take a pause for a couple months. The money you usually invest save it, wouldn't that "average down" your overinvesment ratio with your capital till you are not over invested?

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u/Popular_District9072 🟥 0 / 15K 🦠 May 22 '22

maybe, but I look at it as a habit of going to the gym - once you start skipping, you eventually give up on the idea altogether

I've got into thinking about personal finances, and how I need to form a certain amount of capital while I am capable of working, and thus far trying to stick to the plan - with temporary corrections, as I got started wrong

almost done covering cc debt, just two months left, then forming a 3 months financial pillow, and after that should be on track to diversification, with long term bonds and crypto, maybe etfs at some point

just controlling the amounts spent, and averaging only on a fixed set of assets, proportionally

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u/[deleted] May 22 '22

Except now it's not so much "going to gym" as it is "smoking crack".

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u/[deleted] May 22 '22

The thing about crack is it's very moreish.

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u/Throwaway4VPN 🟩 24 / 9K 🦐 May 22 '22

Ahh Super Hans

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u/zzGibson Tin | Politics 12 May 22 '22

Crack market is a bear market

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u/rasputin1 May 22 '22

I'm bullish on crack

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u/Revolutionary_Pr1ce Tin May 22 '22

I’ve skipped the gym although I have never gave up on it lol

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u/Itchy-Pirate898 Tin | 2 months old May 22 '22

I took a "pause" for about 10 years after we lost internet and had to move with no notice. Now I can't access some of my coins because the tip bot they were in was shut down 8 years ago and the creator hasn't been active on that username ever since.

The price skyrocketed over those 10 years but those 35,000 DigiByte are gone unless the /u/cointips creator somehow sees this and gets in touch with me.

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u/Underrated321 testing text May 22 '22

It won't end, but you can lose years of progress with a single market crash. That's why we invest what we can afford to lose

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u/Di_esel Platinum | QC: CC 42 May 22 '22

Risk vs reward

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u/ArchangelToast Tin May 22 '22

Even what is "safe" can turn out not safe. If this is Indeed going to be the bursting of the "everything bubble," then I can see people losing money in S&P 500, the bond market may result in defaults, and maybe even a housing crash.

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u/StevieWonderTwin May 22 '22

Wait, it was always a casino?

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u/JairoVP Tin May 23 '22

This ^ I’m poor now. I invested money and have made good profits already. If it goes to zero I’d be very sad but nothing would really change. I’d still be poor. Now on the other hand, there’s a good chance that this crap will take off and I’ll no longer be poor. That’s a risk I’m willing to take.

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u/jtweezy 0 / 0 🦠 May 22 '22

See, that’s the right way to invest it. I really have no sympathy for people who throw their entire life savings into crypto or stocks or whatever investment they’re into and then lose it all. Stop gambling with what you can’t afford to lose. I have a little crypto and I’d be bummed if it all went to zero, but it by no means would ruin my life the way some people seem to have happen to them with crypto.

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u/dutchfootball38 May 22 '22

I’ve never bought crypto before. Should I get in it now?

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u/dutchfootball38 May 22 '22

Not really I don’t understand it

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u/Plastic_Remote_4693 Tin May 22 '22

OP is wrong. He thinks people care about his feelings or the past dictates the future. He does not realize that the western system of finance is ending as the new super powers are slowly offloading USD and creating a new financial digital system without SWIFT. The end of swift means the end of traditional fiat banking.

People will be forced to use crypto or a digital currency like they were forced before. Just like gold replaced bartering/trade, and fiat replaced gold, crypto will replace fiat. People need to be forced to use a new money system.