Sovtoshi on Nostr: To be frank the thing that drove me to all this was panic and fear for my specific ...
To be frank the thing that drove me to all this was panic and fear for my specific situation in COVID, which they would not have had. I am a single income household on a modest salary considering I have a family of 7. Canada was making new rules all the time and if I lost my job, I would have only got 1 benefit payout to support 7 people, which would have been completely unsustainable. That pushed me over.
That said I would like to think that I would have listened if someone had truly tried to tell me about Bitcoin, but it's hard to know if I would have. Once I dug it took 2-3 years to know about markets and Bitcoin which was part of the process of necessarily understanding "money"
For maximum gains, I would still trade a bit at the most obvious times. The thing that then made me go 100% all in was conviction and morality/ethics, which required more of a departure from greed more so than courage.
Courage is somewhat of an abstract concept, but if courage has a lot more to to with stern alignment of your actions based on priorities and conviction, in that sense, i suppose I do I have courage.
That said I would like to think that I would have listened if someone had truly tried to tell me about Bitcoin, but it's hard to know if I would have. Once I dug it took 2-3 years to know about markets and Bitcoin which was part of the process of necessarily understanding "money"
For maximum gains, I would still trade a bit at the most obvious times. The thing that then made me go 100% all in was conviction and morality/ethics, which required more of a departure from greed more so than courage.
Courage is somewhat of an abstract concept, but if courage has a lot more to to with stern alignment of your actions based on priorities and conviction, in that sense, i suppose I do I have courage.