It's crazy to think that investing into a single bitcoin at the start of last year and putting it into the NXT IPO would have turned $13 into $5 million in the space of a few months (and with practically zero effort too).

If you are young it will hardly be your biggest mistake, there will be other big opportunities until there are not anymore.
Big mistakes not to make are losing your family or doing something that could put you in jail for a long time.

Something wrong with your life if the biggest mistake is related to money...

Don't take that phrase so literal. The great depression, wasn't called that for no reason

Heat of the moment statement. I'll hop on here in another 25 Years (if im still alive) and then tell you what my biggest mistake was Let's hope hindsight is 20/20

Its not necessary that holding on to big IPO's will always do you good. Considering Ethereum, I am not sure what might happen with the coin, considering the number of people who bought in on the IPO. The market cap will have to be huge to profit all the participants who bought in on the IPO.

Dear mistercoin, I feel your pain as I've personally experienced it couple of times once in BTC and another in LTC. However, it doesn't bother me at all. The thing is you gain a lot every time you lose. You are in such position cause you were one of the very first who believed in a specific crypto project. Whom continue believing in a successful crypto gain higher revenue. Where whom continue believing in a failure crypto would continue losing. The hard question is when to believe and when to give up on a crypto. I've been thinking about these questions for a long long time. These are very hard questions to answer namely with all crazy crypto market changes happening on daily basses.

Lately, I've reached a reasonable simple strategy that I would have never reached it if I never tasted losing crypto opportunities. The strategy is quite simple "BUY and FORGET". Oh yea, if you like and believe in a crypto project buy in and forget about your investment for years. All you need to make sure of is to invest in cryptos that advance the technology. In another words just focus on cryptos that apply new technologies that never been seen before. If you think about it Bitcoin was the first crypto to apply a new technology that never seen before. NXT took steps toward decentralized crypto economy that never been applied by any other crypto before. Ethereum and Maidsafe is another extreme advance in crypto technologies that would take the whole internet into another dimension. NEM is applying tons of new technologies innovating the internet economy. And probably much more.

My advice to you look forward and do not waste time looking backward. There are multiple opportunities ahead of you. Are you ready to adapt these new technologies? Are you prepared to invest in Etherum, maidsafe, NEM, ......? Whenever you are remember our simple strategy "BUY and FORGET" don't "HIT AND RUN"

this topic explains why Nick etc are pushing etherium crap..

maybe not 100% but mostly i bet..
guys want to go back to flash mining wankery

a second chance to get in on the ground floor of a new coin you fabricate
and then make stories about how you had 100,000 etherium at launch etc..

Shake it off and move on. Blocknet will be your next big chance. Blocknet Ito soon.

So should i or shouldnt i sell my NEMstake?