If you are anything like me...you remain involved with crypto currency for a number of reasons:
Its addictive...I admit it...I'm at work now but obviously not working...I love using this as a distraction...reading stories...blogs...checking coin prices and portfolio value...and I've convinced myself that its one of the healthier distractions I can have...
You have a vision on how this may change the world...when I first got on board I loved the concept...seemed like a no brainer...I'm older...but I see how my grand kids from day one have a screen in front of their face...I know that having cash in a "real" leather wallet is foreign to my children...its all digital...shouldn't money be? ...and a world wide connection? ...Wow...
It is a technology that could someday bring the internet to a whole new dimension...
You've made some money...face it...reward is sweet...I got in around 2014...bought some bitcoin...at that time had come down from its peak over $1,000 to $700 range...bought some more around $800....saw it go down to $600...bot some...then almost crash down to nothing so picked up some more around $200 each...then got lucky...hung in...it survived...then heard of Ethereum...decided why not? That did well...gave me incentive to be more active...look at other "altcoins'...buy....sell....win...lose...
Being at an age where I'm closer to retirement than not...You are afraid of where the country and world is financially...you have little faith in "paper assets"...believe the stock market is very over valued...think its a matter of time before all the debt and deflated interest rates play havoc with the current markets...don't remember the last time a bank paid you anything worth while on your money...do believe in real estate...but I'm not cut out to own and manage properties...and feel that gold and silver had its day and aren't very practical forms of currency should things go south...
Meanwhile....You've already "survived" multiple highs and crashes in this market but held on for dear life...and while its nerve racking to see what you've accumulated cut in half in just a matter of days...you like the constant test of your belief...enjoy trying to "read the market" ..."see the trends"....enjoy the hype...but keeping to the hope...and most important of all...feeling fortunate that for today...I live in a country that allows me this opportunity to ride this wave....
So I want to keep this door open in hopes that someday...the walls are brought down for all the citizens of this world....and just maybe...this "blockchain" is the building block to do just that....