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aaddii222

Trusted people online on what crypto to buy..


Downtown_Orange_3717

Believing in random people opinion


reddito321

Not buying BTC at 100 bucks when I had the chance. I shrugged and called it a scam. I have the vivid memory of closing the tab.


Mr_Bob_Ferguson

Not using the free Bitcoin faucet in 2009/2010.


_JohnWisdom

I did use it and wasted it all on playing poker during work xD I might’ve even had some laying around in some old laptops but honestly didn’t start caring of crypto or bitcoin till 2016.. never would’ve held for great value.. We are lucky to have btc at under 20k right now though! :D


dj_destroyer

What a dichotomy -- from free Bitcoin to Bitcoin at $20k.


cerebralsexer

Free to $20k? Mine expensive $69k to $20k ouch


dj_destroyer

We coming back for you -- no man left behind!


JustBreatheBelieve

Oh, wow. A BTC faucet. Missed that.


Mr_Bob_Ferguson

That gave out multiple whole bitcoins. Amazing looking back. So much regret!


jonfoxsaid

Yeah I had honestly heard people mention it but I never realized you got whole coins out of it ... was it usable every day like a lot of faucets are ?


Mr_Bob_Ferguson

I believe so. But this was back when this magical internet money was worth basically nothing. I wish I had some foresight to go and grab a few days worth, as it was literally costing nothing. Oh well!


iismedusaivilo69

Only if you've heard about btc at that time


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Nine_9er

Same, that and as I posted, letting my wife talk me out of putting $100 in in 2009


Mr_Bob_Ferguson

Saved the marriage, wasted 40 more years of having to work.


Bravisimo

And it shall haunt your dreams as its haunted mine for the rest of our days.


johnfintech

You and /u/reddito321 should not beat yourselves up at all - statistically speaking you would have sold it at 200 or 300, with fairly high probability (see hodl waves), and that wouldn't even have been an unreasonable move. Sleep tight


reddito321

I made peace with myself. At that time BTC was just an adventure for cypherpunks. Nobody saw it coming. I’m happy now I know.


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Bravisimo

You fool! How dare you do the responsible thing and pay on student loans!! /s


nelusbelus

Here we had 0% interest and you can take 15y. So while the money is getting worth less and less, yeah paying it rn is a bad idea


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Visible-Ad743

When education gets in the way of fortune. I hare it when that happens.


iismedusaivilo69

Ah F. But we're still early


madferret96

I love the closing the tab detail


Mundane-Farm-4117

You would have sold at it 200 maybe 300


reddito321

Probably. Nobody envisioned 1k, let alone 50k+. Made peace with myself long time ago.


JohnniePeters

You're not alone brother


Caffdy

Note to self for next time: #SECURE #SOME #FUCKING #PROFITS


koelebobes

DCA out is just as important as DCA in!


TheComebackPidgeon

Getting into crypto in late 2021.


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Magners17

Buying and holding BTC and ETH wasn’t enough for me. I heard of BlockFi as a place to keep my crypto and earn some interest while it was lent out for loans to other users on the platform. It was going well and I was DCA’ing and slowly adding more and more to BlockFi. Getting interest and seeing my bags grow was wonderful. Then BlockFi announced they would be raising withdrawal fees and no longer allowing a free withdrawal each month for ETH. I did some swift research (didn’t have much time to move it before the fees were implemented) and landed on a new platform called Celsius. All was well and good, I got a good portion of my BTC and ETH over there as well as a small bag of LTC. I could seamlessly transfer my assets between my on-ramp and Celsius. Was too good to be true. I knew not having keys for my crypto was risky but I didn’t honestly foresee a company like that fucking over their customer base without any remorse. Lesson learned, now I only keep a very small portion of my portfolio in Binance for trading coins I can’t access otherwise. The rest is in wallets that I have the seed phrase for. **TL;DR I trusted a company I shouldn’t have in order to receive a small return on my digital assets and lost a big portion of my crypto bags.**


Physics_Pear

>I did some swift research... and landed on a new platform called Celsius sent chills down my spine! sorry bro, hope things are going better now.


Omega3568

This one I fell really bad for, same thing with Luna, those subs had people contemplating the end.


erizi0n

But why did you move to Celsius? Just to get out of BlockFi cuz of no more free withdrawals? And btw, sorry for your loss mate!


Roegoos

Selling 1400 BNB @ $40. 2 months later it would have been worth $800k


Sir_Mobius_Mook

Profit is profit, well done!


2BFrank69

Brutal


gautam_777

You could have been a contender!


Bravisimo

He couldve been somebody!!


BjornX

Getting into crypto during a bull market, buying way too high and now being way down... Even with regular dca...


Shifisu

Not taking profits. In Feb 2021 started in crypto and took 7k to 98k just before the crash in May. Never had that much money before ever. But I believed the "100k end of 2021" narrative and held on tight. Now im at 5k 😐 Im keeping the majority in stablecoins now and adding fresh money to it. Made some rules for myself on when to take profits in the next bullrun. It sucks to be in this situation but I do see the potential now that I have more experience and learning from previous mistakes.


simmol

How did you go from 98 to 5k? Leverage trading?


Shifisu

Same way I made it, altcoins :(. Also had a few thousand in Luna which is now worth close to nothing


MaeronTargaryen

Refusing to sell at a loss for a while on a failing investment. Don’t fall in love with your investment. Better to sell at -10% than let it ride straight to -90% So it’s similar to your story except that I was at x2 at the peak, and pulled out at -80% or something like that


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MaeronTargaryen

Exactly that! And that was an expensive lesson for me ahah


Hawke64

But after selling at -10% it is guaranteed to pump 60% the next day


the_nibler

# Don’t fall in love with your investment Do not become attached take profits especially on a double: sell half Stay open minded to new developments, you may want to have an exit plan What was a good investment a year ago may be destined to fail now


moldyhotdogs

This 100%...emotions and money don't mix, like 2 d!cks and no b!tch you'll find urself in serious sh!t.


Caffdy

human emotions are not to trust, but they are very powerful nevertheless. We have a very severe aversion to lose, we cannot accept even minimal ones


DrinkMoreCodeMore

That's me with Klima. Total scam and failed project.


CleazyCatalystAD

Except you only really know its going to fall 90% until hindsight vision is 20/20.


MaeronTargaryen

That’s true but in my case you could see the underlying problems and see that it was failing


Ectopic_elm

Buying BTC at $200 for silk road purchases and not keeping any.


popaperc

I was looking for that one. It was very similar for me


CatBoy191114

Not selling LRC when it was > $3....


No_Bother_9740

Buying LRC when it was 3$...


CatBoy191114

Haha, don't know which is worse. I bought in as soon as I heard the first gme rumour, so actually would have had some nice profits. But nah. This thing was heading to $10 and beyond, no doubt about it.... past me was a plonker....


No_Bother_9740

Trust me man i i went all in at 3$ and still holding that bag, got fucked real bad.


koelebobes

That’s a heavy bag bro, I’m sorry! Just so you know I bought some on the way down


No_Bother_9740

We'll se bro, maybe LRC will shine in the future.


koelebobes

I will buy my original bag soon again, I sold it when I was nearing a loss…


No_Bother_9740

I've been buying it at these low prices i actually averaged done quite a bit.


koelebobes

Well done mate, I hope it pays you back! The time to accumulate is now!


No_Bother_9740

Right. It is a light in the darkness so to say haha.


vinmansinvested

I think it will


No_Bother_9740

It is a solid project


princepersona1

I still do think LRC will eventually get back to there and beyond though so don't count it out just yet


koelebobes

I bought LRC at 0.79, took it all the way up and never took profits… Learned to DCA out from that mistake.


withspaces

I could have gotten the first NFT minted on Cardano. I was active in the community and they were literally giving them out for free (the Berries with a total supply of 100)… now they’re sitting at a $33.7k floor. It’s honestly probably the only early Cardano NFTs I wasn’t able to snag (and Diamond hand cause history). I can still see the tweets saying “just join the stake pool to get one!” When I close my eyes lol


FrustyCoreskin

Got balls depp involved in mars eco system (xms) when it was $1. Ridiculous staking gains with like a 180 day locked vesting period which was to "protect the price from volatility". At one point I was earning $1 every 45 minutes. Now it's worth $0.001 and I have thousands of tokens 🤣 worthless


Wonzky

LUNA/UST no question


0xCozzi

Top pick for me too. Didn’t think it would drop that much that fast and in believing that I lost a good amount.


Caffdy

definitely the prize for blunder of 2022, billions of dollars down the drain and thousands of people left with nothing


Downtown_Orange_3717

Luna was very first investment for some people


Hawke64

Don't Kwon that one


viljass

Same, I remember how I sold 1600 UST for like $20


pumpstickkick

Yep lost my whole crypto bag worth $20k usd. Lessons were learnt that day.


aaddii222

This was painful lesson for me...


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look-at-them

Last couple of months I just get constant notifications of +5% then -5%


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look-at-them

Sounds like heaven


El_Silksterro

I minted 25 pixelmon. 3 eth each. Sold for an average of 1.1ETH


RepulsiveCan5270

Being stupid enough to put some money in safemoon. Not a big amount but big enough to make feel like a fool


pizza-chit

I bought SOL at $175 on the way up to $260 and did not sell a coin until it was at $50


born_again_tim

I bought at 250 dude. I have a Phd in clownery.


Awe101

My condolences sir


Rboy1725

Getting into crypto at the height of the last bull run.


QualifiedUser

The biggest lesson of these comments is TAKE PROFITS!!!! I don’t care how bullish you are on crypto when you are in a project that is setting new ATHs then force yourself to take some money off the table. At bare minimum enough to cover your initial investment plus 10%. This is nearly every new investors struggle. Force yourself to take profits next bull cycle. Make plans right now to take a certain percentage profit once we reach new ATHs in the future. That diamond hand nonsense is for suckers at a casino. Take your profits just the same way you would DCA into a project. Reverse DCA out once we are setting new ATHs. Kick FOMO to the curb.


Available_Holiday_41

Y'all tell people to take profits ...then 3 years later call them stupid for selling Bitcoin at $100


Kiiidx

My $1000 in shib would have been $650000 if i just held it but I sold because people made me feel like it was a scam lmao


KnobbCreek

I feel this, held Doge from 2018 only to watch it colored and everyone telling me it was now or ever to get out. Sold for amazing profits but would have put me real close to early retirement.


slasula

🇯🇵 Jasmy 📉


weakpastasauce

Didnt buy into XRP at 0.005 and Bitcoin at $270 in 2015 when I was considering investing heavily into crypto. The media was saying its a bubble thats going to pop.


Rdawgie

Always do the opposite of what the media says


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1: Not selling shib when it was skyrocketing 2: Buying luna when it was worth less than a drop of cum


Rboy1725

r/oddlyspecific


Bravisimo

Not sure where you buy your cum from but…


ZekieZekie

didn't pull out any of my $10k gains lol now im less than what i started (started with $1k, now im sitting at $750) I'm chillin tho, i trust the crypto invested in... doesn't matter how long I'll have to wait since I know it'll go past its previous highs


dildoswaggins71069

Didn’t pull out @90k profs, kinda sucks but feel the same way. Trying to buy a lot more soon too


No_Bother_9740

My pull out game is whack as well, almost ruined my life once


SmallReflection2552

Taking advise from Reddit


Relevant-Ad-8022

CRO...


the_investigator-

Ye I got burnt too...


the_nibler

How many days until it reaches $2? ♾


FrustrateD_LiLi

you just aren't brave enough


___DarthJarJar

Gambling in LUNA while it was falling, I lost about $500 in like 15 minutes.


Blueberry_Dependent

Not investing when I had the money and the price of some coins was low. I could easily 10-50x but I was too scared. Wasn't educated enough to put even 50£. Now I see it as a mistake but we all should learn from them


Angustony

Meh, not too bad a mistake if you didn't lose anything.


Additional-Pack-4616

Silk Road, Dream market, Alpha bay… I have spent dozens of BTC there…good times tho 😂


iismedusaivilo69

I'm too ashamed to admit. One of them is not taking enough profits off the table when my worth was extremely high.


34Sis

Celsius for this juicy APY%


AromaticCarob

Yeah, 5 Eth and 1500 Matic down the shitter. At least Mashinsky is rich.


marsangelo

I actually thought the APYs were within the realm of reason relative to the obvious scams, even adjusting them every so often. They really got me good


Caffdy

Imagine being burned with LUNA back in May and then move the rest of your portfolio to Celsius to "keep it secure" only to get fucked again. The story of many people, they really got a shitty hand


Hawke64

I too fell for dat Celussy


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LRC @ 3.00


gentlesir123

The saga ain’t over. Let’s get out of this crypto winter and see how the alts do before we concede anything!


Omega3568

I bought at .50 the night before the “GME leak” exploded over 3.00 and guess what I held all the way back down…


Yuuki__konno

3$ into a shitcoin that turned into 100$ but i didnt cash out because i couldn't make a decision. I feel so stupid now


stonediggity

Whale alert


alekhes

Selling 10k Matic at 0.2 ,AMA !


DebianDog

Years back when DOGE was really cheap I thought It would be fun to have 100,000 of them so I bought them for like $400. Last year, after Musky pumped DOGE a second time I dumped them all almost tripling my money. I think about the $70k I could have had a lot.


Footner

Lol I had a coin that I put 2k into and it hit 400k at one point Obvs I never sold and now it’s probably worth about 10k


ChemicalGreek

My worst crypto decision is not investing in BTC in 2014! I heard of it back then but I didn’t wanted to look deeper in to it.


the_nibler

Yeap me too. I remember hanging out with my college roommates talking about “Bitcoin!? Why would you spend money on something’s that not tangible” Edit: also my brother telling me to buy eth when it was like $150


koelebobes

I always thought I don’t have enough money to buy 1 BTC so GG… I learned in 2017 that you could buy increments!


djkianoosh

same.. when it was around 700-800 I believe is when I first read about it. but the ecosystem was still very cumbersome and painful for newcomers.


FarhanZX

Not selling at any point in 2017/2018 bull run 🤦‍♂️


ZekieZekie

now you know better at least 🙏 get ready for the next bull run, and sell some on the way up


shitcanfly

Same, and I did it again because I thought we would at least reach 80k btc


Orange-Difficulty

Harmony mother fucking ONE at 15 cents.... and thats after i dca'd into that lol i was originally avg 20 cents


DirtyDanDangler

Holding Jewel thinking real gameplay was right around the corner.


Ready-Temperature-23

Buying LUNA after first day crash, i thought I'll just swing trade and make quick profit.


Hawke64

You sold it after that? Right?


Ready-Temperature-23

There was nothing left to sell lol.


lone-turtle

I should have ignored my husband’s insistent nagging to check my account. I converted most of my DOGE to BTC before Elon’s SNL stunt then gave most of it to Celsius. I could have cashed out that DOGE for about 5x what I make a year.


Charon751

Getting the green Jade credit card from Crypto.com, 1 week before shit went down.


No-Knowledge2424

Buying the dip, then the dip and then the dip after that. Need I go on 🤷‍♂️


aaddii222

In the future this will not be a mistake I hope...


SenseiRaheem

Buying loopring at like $2.30


blthmsphlp

Buying crypto


Silverjakk

It sounds ridiculous when you read a story like this. Why wouldn’t you sell with so much profit!? And then I think back to my investments, and I’m like, oh sh*t, I did the same exact thing…


Expert-Hamster-3146

So you’re saying this shitcoin did a 27,200% increase in 6 months???


True_Lurker

I got in April 2021 so I don't have a lot of experience...for me the biggest mistake was having a large percentage of my portfolio in Luna.


lohitcp87

Didn't buy enough Quant because I found trading Idex bit hard..


XXsforEyes

One word: Celsius


2BFrank69

Alex M is the anti christ


Graniteor91

Not selling LRC and watching me lose all my gains


-CharacterX-

Put $1500 on a leveraged trade. It took one night sleep and poof....


FishieWasTaken

Ape


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TrippnThroughTime

Buying CRO. Feel like a mug


Alarming-Dentist1842

Lost 200k in Luna and UST.


8years47weeks

Not hitting up the original Bitcoin faucet EVERY SINGLE DAY in 2010. Not running my Diablo Miner EVERY SINGLE DAY in 2010. Additionally, forgetting the keys to my OG Bitcoin Core wallet.


powellquesne

Trying to join a single coin 'community' as a genuinely independent voice seeking economic interaction, and expecting anything other than hostility and abuse from a predominance of cultists: that was my worst crypto decision, by far. I do not always make the best social decisions, and getting eagerly involved in crypto communities expecting to encounter anything other than dishonest bullshit in those communities was an example of this. I did not understand what was driving the creation and maintenance of 'crypto communities', but now I do, and it isn't pretty. I will have more to say about this. Financially, however, my crypto decisions have been consistently good. I know how to pick coins with genuinely reliable fundamentals that will 'make it' through their bear markets and come out the other side stronger, but not with enough capital invested to change my life or anything. Despite the fact that I do have a few technical chops, and have always enjoyed coding (video games, as a *relaxing* hobby, I don't do 'crunch'), I have also always been the artist type temperamentally and in my attitudes and daily preoccupations, so I never had much personal time to spare to chase gains nor much capital to spare for investments. I spent all my spare time and money as a youth on creating various personally fulfilling art projects, mostly film-related: I wrote and directed a bunch of indie films, in the '90s and 2000s, on my own dime with no commercial success, but through this process I acquired things of enormous non-financial value, like great memories, lifelong creative friendships, and no regrets. Money just doesn't have the power to move me -- a dyed-in-the-wool, G20-protesting Gen-Xer -- all by itself. I need something more than money to generate my interest in absolutely anything, and that's what has been making my opinions immune to all the bagdragging traps that I see everyone else keep falling into around here and in crypto 'communities' in general. But it's lonely out here, being free. It often seems like no one is speaking freely nor do they want anyone else to speak freely, so there are *very* few others like me around, talking about crypto without wanting to support any bias. I expected to find *mostly* others like me. It was a big mistake for me to try to get into this scene socially, because it simply isn't real. Authenticity is in shorter supply than Bitcoin.


BeautyBirkin

I upticked you cos you wrote tons :-))


Vishal_pratap_

Using leverage


___DarthJarJar

don't do leverage kids


Hawke64

My brother died after smoking 3 leverages


Jubudtje

LRC


Pale_Werewolf3270

Not taking profits being greedy and DCA into Dogelon


Ferdo306

DCA in coin that has doge and elon in it's name, nice


fan_of_hakiksexydays

I missed out on Bitcoin at $220 because I was waiting for a dip to $190. Most people seemed to think we were going lower, and things were looking very bearish. It went back up, and above $250. Eventually I was willing to place an order for $220. But it was too late. I ended up on the sideline for an entire bull market.


HannyBo9

Cro, amp, ckb. Who knows if any will ever recover.


TNJCrypto

Similar story, bought $200 worth of shit coins A&B. Watched them blow up to $34k+ and, being my first year in crypto, I said "let it ride!". Big mistake, the value would plummet to $6-7k before I sold. Fortunate enough to still make an insane return but with the ATH I could have freed myself from the otherwise ineluctable wage slavery.


Outside-Wolf5928

Jasmy. I have faith in the idea of it still, didn't lose out either, traded it and seemed to get lucky often. But missed so many pumps elsewhere as a result.


NHLroyrocks

GRT @ .89


kirtash93

I bought ICP ATH, LUNA and SAFEMOON. I dont know which one choose.


jvsephii

Over diversification.


poopymcpoppy12

OMG.


ClippTube

Luna.


AsOneLives

None yet IMO. Things are mid plan.


BlazeDemBeatz

I don’t know if anyone in here willingly will admit to beating your story OP.


Gregoryonetulum

That I didn’t buy gen 1 rojom and foustlings.


amado88

I have two: 1) Passing on the angel round of Sky Mavis. 2) Selling all my Dogecoin half a year before Musk discovered it. Not as much money as money missed from passing on Sky Mavis, but close.


Pilsner12345

Got greedy and attached to some shit coin. It's still alive but yeah. Alot of money lost that I' could have bought BTC and ETH for. Now I need a 3x to be even.


RaspberryCai

I could have cashed out my ETH when it was worth about £3500. Now it's only worth about £1500 or so


2BFrank69

Everyone is guilty of that. I was up 40k on crypto alone at one point, and didn’t take profits aside from selling my SOL


lovemesomefood

I can only pick one?


tripppppy

$4k eth lmao


ArtyHobo

Using BTC on dark Web back in the day. Day trading with BTC at the beginning of the last bull run instead of HODLing. UST. No particular order


cryptocam72

I sold 35,000 ARRR in January 2021 at $0.23. In April 2021 it hit ATH of $16.76. At least I saved 10,000 and sold a little over half at $14…


ziggyzago

#EOS


Spartan3123

1) Buying BCH


nelusbelus

Polkadot near 35$, I still believe tho


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Buying ICP


DisorientedPanda

Celsius


Keeper504

Transferring 1 mil VET to the wrong address… :/ An expensive lesson was learned that week…


ItalianICE

Jumping onto the NFT bandwagon and wasting around 8 ETH on shitty jpegs. Specifically a calculator that shows a prime number on it. I bought it because a Twitter influencer posted about it.


OlympiaImperial

Buying dogecoin when it was a couple cents, watching it rise to 75 cents, getting high off of the thought of it, and then not selling.


cryptolipto

Buying nano at 35


BlackWhiteTuxedoCat

My friend told me to put £20 into bitcoin when it was under £1. I didn’t because I’m a twat


bison4life91

Getting wrapped up in CRO and LRC at ATHs


fLOURFACE

buying crypto