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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I have a friend in NY who lost a thumb drive with bitcoin on it in 2011. Every year or two he goes a little nuts and searches his entire apartment for it, but obviously has never found it. I think he threw it away and doesn't remember, but the exercise of searching helps him exorcise the demons.

I put about 10% of my investment portfolio in bitcoin, personally. It's way too volatile, at least for me, to go in big, but I can trust that every 3-4 years people are going to go insane buying it and the price will spike. If you're already invested you can benefit.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

10% of your portfolio is big.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I s'pose.

But compared to the silly geese who take an extra mortgage out to dump into crypto every time it hits an ATH, it's nothing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I had a fraction of Bitcoin mined, not bought, in early years when you could do that on a desktop PC. It was so unimportant for me, that this is the first time I've remembered about this. I suppose it costs now enough to care, but I still don't.

While

he goes a little nuts and searches his entire apartment for it, but obviously has never found it

happens to me with searching for childhood's toys, old drawings, attempts at poetry. But not this.