Back in 2016 when I started out the FUD was tough to wade through. We had forum accounts here making FUD everyday about many topics, and it seemed as though nobody could be trusted, which is true even today. But one thing was for certain, bitcoin was sure to go up and it did go up from its price of ~700$ to 70k$ today.

I have never been one of those people who quit. But to be that strong willed, you need to have a cushion to rely on. For that I always suggest people to have a stable job. Keep investments in traditional markets along side bitcoin. Those good number will calm your mind when bitcoin crashes which is not uncommon.

I don't recall when exactly I quit the forum, it was certainly after Bitcoin plummeted from $20,000, probably after a few months of seeing no positive changes, I started believing it was pointless. Took years before I even checked Bitcoin's price, if it still existed and how it performed. Long story short, I joined during Covid19 quarantine, either in late 2020, if I remember correctly. It's been over 3 to 4 years since then and I haven't thought about selling not even once.

To be honest, I haven't thought about which will be my selling point, because if I'm anticipating it's going to $80,000, then I'd want to wait for $90,000 or $100,000.

The thing that keeps me vested is knowing the technical fundamentals of bitcoin are still as sound, and stronger than ever. That helps me fight the FUD.
The hashrate keeps going up and making new all time highs, which means the price will naturally follow. To me that's all I need to know.

Bitcoin is still the most powerful and most secure computer network in the world by far, and more importantly is the most decentralized network in the world,
so there can be no single point of failure. Bitcoin was made to do only one or two things, but it does them incredibly well.  

When you start adding a bunch of new features and parts to something, you just introduce more ways for it to fail and compromise security.
Then what you are left with is just another crappy useless altcoin. All bitcoin has to do is keep being a tremendously secure store of value,
that can be delivered anywhere in the world in an instant. Just as Satoshi always intended...Keep it Simple Stupid! The beauty of its simplicity is what makes it revolutionary.

Bitcointalk is a very useful and helpful resource. It has never occurred to me to give up on Bitcoin. I have come too far now to quit. Bitcoin gave me financial freedom and the privilege to do some good to humanity, I don't think I will ever throw in the towel. If it is going to go to the moon, want to see the end of it. If it is going to crash to zero, I still want to see it. I'm here baby and ain't going nowhere.

Before I became a member here I never had any intention of investing in bitcoin rather the plan was to be doing my normal trading and getting funds to take care of some responsibilities but locating the Bitcointalk forum changed everything about the way I see bitcoin and her investors and the information that comes in here on daily basis has been a good piller to my investment life and I don't think I'm interested in giving up even though the price of Bitcoin falls back to zero. Based on what has happened in the past to the earlier adopters of bitcoin I wouldn't mind if the price falls back to $1 because at least I will have the opportunity to buy for my self my children and the next generation to come in my family. Bitcoin is liberty and Bitcointalk is the information gateway for all bitcoin investors.

This not true, a bitcoiner should decide for themselves how much BTC they want to buy and how many percent of their overall investment they want to put in BTC. In my personal opinion, it is not even recommended for BTC to make up all of your investment, you should diversify, i don't mean buying altcoins, i mean buying things like real estate and other investments that are not other cryptocurrencies.

I am being very honest when I say this, but that thought never crossed my mind even once, and this is not because I have an iron will or anything like that, it is just I took a look at bitcoin and at the economy and I cannot really conceive a scenario in which bitcoin does not succeed, and when the crash happened after the 2017 bull run and the price went all the way to 3k and even then I still did not felt any urge to sell, I knew that I could be a long term holder.

For a forum on which the creator of Bitcoin made on then its understandable that this place would really be the sweetest spot for you to get Bitcoin or crypto related information on which you could be able to read up
and able to learn along the way. As for the question of being too close on throwing up the towel on investing on Bitcoin then there are really times or moments that you do have those kind of doubts specially when the market is really that extremely bleeding or something that you do have those thoughts that it might be going into those previous prices back into those previous cycles. There are some who do able to hold up and there are those people who do able to panic sell because they cant be able to handle up their emotions on which on the moment that the market do make out some recovery then this is where regrets do happen.
It is really that important that you do know on how to make sensible actions basing up into your investment whether it could make out some benefits or would really be able to have effects.
So it will be better that you should really that invest on the money that you can afford to lose.

It was pretty exhausting for real, but recent break out have been such a fresh air, but if somehow BTC is doing sideways again just at higher price level, then it'd be the most exhausting bullrun ever and honestly
I start to smell such thing to play out, if somehow this retracement didn't get fast recovery after this weekend.

but as someone that also been holding BTC for quite sometime, any amount of waiting won't make me sell it.