I'm always passionate about succeeding, sometimes too much. That's the main thing that can drive me over the line. It doesn't have anything personal against anyone. I can even end up insulting myself in order to do things faster sometimes, if I see that I'm not efficient enough in what I do.
That's crazy but it happens. That night things escalated quickly, mainly because I was frustrated about the customer services I dealt with, who literally treat you like a bandit, filming you on cam and forcing you to take pics with your ID card... and then you come and say I'm doing that kind of stuff for fun. From that point everyone tried to have the last word and I don't even think anything else mattered, especially when you feel everything's happening the wrong way for you in the crazy marketplace. Again, I am driven by a unique thought that is the fact I no longer wanna depend on banks. As soon as possible. So walking on a razor-edge can get you nervous fast, especially when things don't go your way because of people and if at the same time people mock you. I explained it to you fully in another post just below that article you made about what happened that night.
I lost the ability to speak with you when you started editing all your comments so many times, like three times each comment... but we are building a bridge now.
I discovered blockchain or at the time, bitcoin in 2013, everyone said it was an awful idea, our parents, our friends, our teachers.
This is why we are defensive about being early adopters because it took us months to trust blockchain as well, but that was still years ago.. We had keep our coins through the great bitcoin depression between 2014-2017, then it shot up in price and everyone wants to buy in. Thus, making the network slower and more expensive to use.
I know this is because of that the network is slower and more expensive to use. If I edited my comments so many times, it is mainly because I was looking for the best way to end it and explain why I reacted like that in the first place, but it was already too late. That's true I can rapidly get on my nerves if someone puts in the last straw. I'm always playing with my limits in a way. Most of the time, I manage controlling them. I don't like talking about the past though. I don't regret not managing to get Bitcoin earlier. I was not such a computer passionate at the time, more a pure scientist who enjoyed physics without thinking about informatics more than as a means of calculation. Basically, I had no reason to think about it. I was working hard in internships and passionate about astrophysics.
But at a time I decided to turn my life around, doing more concrete things, things that could have a direct impact on the world, more technical things, I was sick of always staying in theory. And I didn't like the prospect of teaching always the same thing year after year to students after a thesis.
So since a few years back things have changed. I have mastered many programming languages, some computer science, ethical hacking (you never know what you gonna need, still learning) and studied seriously this new crypto world during a year. Initially, it was some interesting youtube channel talking about the darknet market and other funny alternate news that the traditional media hide from us that made me discover it, as the guy became enthusiast about cryptocurrencies too.
But maybe if I understood earlier I had to be independent from banks, I would have discovered the possibilities that Bitcoin could offer me earlier. Though now I'm looking at the future, not the past, knowing if you invest the right way inside the top 30 coins (diversifying your portfolio, putting your eggs where it can burst), you will end up (statistically) with some interesting gains, and even could end becoming a millionaire. I do it both for the passion of overrunning the old, obsolete "bank-system" and in order to fulfill my "self-sustainment", libertarian mentality.
Also for the fact I'm a technology enthusiast, in this world, you always gotta keep learning. So basically, thanks to Steem I converted, I made Ethereum in only 15 days after signing here. So I'm quite happy. As my main strategy is to keep it and put my gains inside other coins in order to generate more gains. That's why I was nervous about customer service on those sites. They could do things faster, that's all I was saying, even if it is a bit saturated as literally even the "average Joe" wants to join in the hype.
Maybe the only regret I could have is to have been so wary at the beginning, promising myself to enter the market only when I weigh all pros and cons, and there was work to be done, 2 years back from now, I studied and kept studying it when I had time. I looked for all the red flags saying which site could be a scam. Looked for all the Ponzi schemes, or sites vulnerable to hacking. And now I have a shortened list of the least vulnerable sites and the most interesting sites to both trade and deposit fiat money. So I have all the main cards to go and put my strategy into action (my strategy also took time to plan). But you gotta be patient with that type of customer service and all those verifications. That's literally months I've been doing that and testing many sites. And now I'm reaching the conclusion. If I knew it took so much time, I'd have gone on the sites just before, but again, I didn't know which were the better sites at the time. So all in all, you don't have to regret not getting something before, you have to look forward because there will always be more opportunities to make profit, all those altcoins are there to burst at a time. You just gotta seize the right opportunity. There are more than 1370 coins right now.
The main thing is when you know where you want to end up, whatever it is, I believe you quickly manage to get the different actions you have to do to achieve it. Like if I can't put in money into crypto right now because the sites are just saturated, I try to interact as much as possible on this site and put as much interesting posts, replies and comments in order to at least get steem and hold it, this is still interesting even if it is typically something oscillating between 5 and 15 dollars.
But anyway, you can still convert it when you want. And I guess the judicious strategy is to convert it on a high with a promising cryptocurrency which is on its low, that's the best way of trading I guess; but you gotta set up limits in order not to be waiting, freaking out and telling yourself "when should I buy" :D
I know you don't have to be too emotional in this market, but what disappoints me the most is the fact I was planning on buying Ethereum just after christmas and before new year, as I predicted there would be a main fall there, it happened.
But because of the sites that took even longer to verify me and are still processing (I will write an article about my awful experience with them so far, as the only site where I managed to sign up and be verified doesn't accept fast credit card, payment and as I don't wanna have to deal with my banks and eternal bureaucrats' queries...), I just wasn't able to put my strategy into action at the right moment. So basically this is the only thing that frustrates me. I could have got Ethereum when it was still at 700$ provided I didn't depend on Internet to get it. Where I am there are literally no physical distributors, there is the "house of bitcoin" in Paris, but the fees are very high and it doesn't provide ethereum yet.
Buying Bitcoin right now is just crazy. Some people are still doing it. Even if it gets to 80 000, it won't reach that in a year, and when it does reach it, you will only have a multiplication factor of 4, which is very low in that cryptoworld. I believe Bitcoin is just the "transition" currency which allowed this market to be actually created, but now Ethereum seems to be the future, with smart contracts, faster transactions, so a more complete way of doing it; Bitcion is the "good old" coin; it will stay up for a time, keep going up, but its destiny is to be replaced by something more efficient...anyway, nothing's lost, I guess Ethereum can't keep on going high.
There are always new opportunities to buy at a low I guess. In any case, most predictions are saying Ethereum will hit several thousand dollars next year. So it is an interesting coin to keep, whatever amount of it you have. Then there are also companies that literally pay you in cryptocurrencies if you want.
Ideal thing is working for an ICO that is likely to burst and pays you in Ethereum or whatever else that increases in time ; if you trust it, you can hold it for 1 or 2 years or even more :D
To sum it up, I totally trust this world, because people are just sick of banks, I mean generally. I don't see why this market would not replace banks at a time, so what I'm investing is really based on my trust. I don't believe any single second this market is not here to stay. This is the future of money for me. Technology replacing the oil companies and the banking directors. At last :D