There was this post I came across today while scrolling through
reddit, this person lost 2 bitcoin after 8 years of stacking. Frankly speaking, what touched me was not even the amount this person lost, but the sentence he made
"it is not about finishing the race first, at this point, i just want to finish" that line stayed in my head.
Here on Bitcointalk we are more focus on discussing about bitcoin in terms of price, cycle, ETFs, adoption, and numbers going up, meanwhile, behind every wallet there is a real person who have spent years making sacrifices to accumulate bitcoin.
And there was a part in the post where he said that bitcoin gave him peace of mind because they had inflation, a weak currency and financial uncertainty, And this made him to see bitcoin as form of protection, and not a get rich quick scheme or investment.
This is where things got serious, this dude was not only questioning his security set up, he even questioned his belief in bitcoin itself, and this made me think of something we rarely discuss here on bitcointalk which am going to leave you guys with this question.
When people lose their bitcoin investment what exactly do they lose? because it is not only money.
if they lose their Btc investment, it can feel like they have lost everything and back to zero, unless they have other investments on different platforms... I agree that it's not just all about the money, It also means losing the years they've spent on sacrificing and holding onto their coins, along with the opportunities and things they had to set aside just to keep their investment. Those were years of hoping that Bitcoin would eventually give them a better and more stable life in the future...But let's look at the brighter side. If that happens (losing their Bitcoin investment), it's definitely painful, but it can also be seen as a greatest lesson. They may have to start over but not from the scratch coz they'll have gained experience and knowledge that many new crypto investors don't have. They can also apply the strategies and techniques they've learned from the years of holding btc which may help them to make a better decisions in their future btc investments.