1) Bitcoins:
Properly protected BTC cannot be hacked or stolen from you. It is a modern miracle and one of the most secure possessions you can ever have.
2) Genuine enthusiasm:
I arrived here (in 2011) ~1 month before the first major troll invasion. This community was a paradise of quality discussion, debates, active projects, and tons of optimism. I remember people sharing stories about lack of sleep due to wanting to read, learn, and experience the next developments in Bitcoin's exciting adventure.
Genuine enthusiasm can never be stolen from you, but too often we surrender to the general darkness which seems to be almost everywhere.
Is the future still bright?
Do you remember the last time you were really excited about the Bitcoin project?
...or anything at all?
1. Your funds are not safe neither in "cold storage". Read:
http://www.coindesk.com/research-hackers-install-backdoor-bitcoin-cold-storage/many of you says: "cold storage is the best". well. it is not. that explains many hacks in Bitcoin which some of the bitcoiners considered to be very safe.
2. the genuine enthusiasm is necessary when you deal with a bubble like Bitcoin..otherwise the bubble cannot grow. it will remain a little bubble
1. Do NOT misinform people with half news.
Ivan Pustogarov, a researcher at the University of Luxembourg's cryptology research group, said an attempt to smuggle compromised ECDSA code into a popular open-source wallet, for example, would be discovered by the public.
"In open-source [software] on a large scale ... The code will be analysed at some point in time and the malicious implementation detected," he said.
Unless you are carrying compromised ECDSA, which is almost impossible if you use an open source wallet like Bitcoin core, your coins are secure.
2. History has proven it multiple times...
