This question is not about "if you could go back in time, you'd buy Bitcoin at 0.5 cents", but more about your own experience since you started researching and get more in touch with Bitcoin or Blockchain technology in general.
To me personally, something I've learned over the years is to stick to a few currencies, keep up to date with them and hodl them tight. If I had an eth for every trade I decided to do just to get a few more eth out of it, or dash, or other cryptos that if I had just held what I mined I would've made the most out of it - I'd have a whole lot of eth invested in random ERC-20 tokens right now. I thought I was clever, trading with having the edge in mind that everything will go up eventually but in the end I was not often prepared for the market swings, the bots, the FUD and general misinformation.
Something that I really appreciate with STEEM is the way it incenvitizes you to hold it by giving you influence over the reward pool and even liquid rewards such as SBD. If many other currencies had been the same I am sure I wouldn't have been tempted to trade with them as much just because my hashpower felt too low. The whole proof-of-brain concept when I first stumbled onto it felt so innovative and ever since the beginning I stuck with it through thick and thin.
I know trading STEEM now and then would have been worth it, it has after all some huge volatility since it still follows the trends of Bitcoin and others quite hard, but I don't regret it as much that I haven't traded with it as I do with other currencies. In the end I feel the trade off for having more influence over the platform daily and being able to do so much with that while remaining safe and holding for the long term is worth it a lot more than being able to gamble on it to earn more.
If I could go back to my first crypto days I would probably just stick to hodling a lot more than I did and I wouldn't have cared as much during the downtrends since my entry would have been so much lower in the same way that Steem is. A lot of people like to panic, take Steem for granted and sell it off. I truly hope some people will at least be holding some and not dump it to the current accumulators cause these markets can change in a couple days and regret is something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
Steemians, if you could go back to the first day you invested in Crypto, what would you do differently?
