Good story, @gratefuleveryday, about what might have been. You've honestly said what many might hold back on acknowledging. The likelihood, even if you had purchased it, that you would have held on to it.
Given the roller coaster ride of crypto investing, very few could honestly say they would still own theirs.
"Do you have any physical crypto tokens?"
The closest is to have bought and HODLed PAXG, which claims to have physical gold backing it. Is that actually true? 🤷♂️
Yes, it's easy to dream about holding a bitcoin purchased in it's infancy, but all it takes is one impulse to sell it, thinking you're making out at 5K or 10K.
Any token that claims to be backed by physical assets is that - a claim. My assumption is that any claim like that must be true, but unless there's a third party verifying it, I would force myself to be a bit of a skeptic. I suppose as long as the token value matches the gold, it doesn't matter, until gold goes up like a mega-rocket, then it'll put the value to the test.
!BBH