I've never bought a new car - they depreciate 50% over their first 3 years, and about 10% on leaving the showroom - but if I had I reckon that would have been the worst decision of my life !!

Re. investing - best you can do is manage the risk and hope you're up when you need to cash in.

Bitcoin, for me, is a little different, say, to investing in shares/funds/assets - cos I actually believe in its utopian potential.

So I'll be holding and spending BTC.


ps. regarding the "cult" aspect of this forum/bitcoin. I know what you are saying - but then again just about any shared interest could be likewise defined. My general opinion is that this forum is a broad church. The yanks manner takes a bit of getting used to for a small town Brit like myself - christ you'd think they invented the fucking thing to here some of them talk  -  but some of them (a few) are,actually, clever fuckers. They just need to understand 1) Satoshi was English  and 2) we wrote the book on Empire - and ours lasted considerably longer than theirs has. And ours actually gave something back 

   Approach everything here with scepticism and assume everyone is on the make - that notwithstanding there's a lot to be gleaned here from quite a few smart people. I still come here anyhow, in spite of everything.