I moved to Hawaii with my 2 best friends in 2013. I invested 50/50 in pretty aserious BTC mining set up with one of those friends, Zac. Zac was super intelligent and years ahead of his time with tech stuff. The only reason I invested into it with him was because how convincing he was about blockchain tech and decentralization. Problem was, Zac had a major drug problem. The worst kind, a functioning genius addict with the ability to easily fund his habit. We mined 77 or 87 btc on my last count and he was holding all of them, he had plans to invest them and I left him in control of them before his worst downward spirals had begun. Fast forward to 2017, Zac had been through 10+ rehabs and i considered those BTC lost and had all but forgot about them. Zac had moved back to CA in 2014, but he ran away from family back to Hawaii early this yr(17'). I got a call from his mother asking me to check on him at the place he was staying and learned he was found dead of an overdose. After his passing I kept seeing/hearing signs from other friends getting into crypto and about 1 month ago decided to re invest. I have over doubled my money in just short of 3 weeks. I spent about 2.5 yrs prior to this day trading stocks and in the short time I've observed and traded these crypto markets the regular volatility makes every day seem like Christmas. It Makes me miss my old friend Zac, now that I have the Crypto Bug and he's not around to chat with. I'm highly motived to build upon the fundamental truths about decentralized currency that Zac imparted on me 4 years ago.
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That's such a sad story. Drugs suck. If anything is to come out of that situation is that Zac has introduced you to a really, really amazing time to be involved with crypto. I love that although you've lost all that Bitcoin you still keep plugging away. That's to be commended!
Not a day trader myself, but I can totally see why if you were doing so it'd seem like Christmas!! I'm more of a buy and hold, and prize out of my cold, dead hands type of guy lmao