I have not really been lucky at taking financial risks, but that has never stopped me from trying. Although the fear of losing money has to some extent incapacitated my ability to invest, but last year, 2025, I decided to be a risk taker while still being calculative, of course.
Looking back at all the times I had staked up my fiat in money-doubling schemes, it has always ended up with me losing. And really nothing hurts more than losing money in an investment that did not generate that money to begin with. So with Hive, it was staking back money generated from the system that way; the losses were not as devastating.
Quite unfortunately, it has always been me missing out and not taking advantage of bull runs here on Hive. It’s either I have all my tokens staked, or I let greed get the best of me by keeping them in hopes of a higher reward.
This bad habit of mine did almost cost me my bro tokens. In fact, just before the Bro project crashed last year, I had purchased more Bro at a little above $1 with hopes that it would skyrocket like it had been the previous months.
Notably, the day that bro crashed due to a massive dump resulting from the unexplained behavior of the owner, I was fast asleep. I woke up to my bro reduced to nothing, and as much as I wanted to panic, it won’t change anything, so I calmed myself.
Funny how I had the urge to buy more bro during the dump but I was too scared to seize the moment, and just when bro showed potential and pumped, I was able to get some of my investment back, but then I had missed out on the opportunity to cash out real big. Again, the sad experience of always missing out on opportunities of investment doubling.
Another miss I had last year was with Hive token. You see, I had a lot of hopes for the hive token last year, most especially seeing how the price of Hive skyrocketed to 6 cents during the holidays the previous two years. Sadly I had all my Hive staked, but for the following year, 2025, I was sure to not miss out on any opportunity at Hive pump.
In fact, I had started accumulating Hive from the beginning of last year, so much so that I had pegged a lot of my financial responsibilities on Hive. Notably, I had accumulated in such a way that I could withdraw and still have something reasonable left to stake up some HBD. Quite unfortunately, last year ended with Hive at its lowest so far.
Was I devastated? Yes, I was. In fact, if it were me before, I would have plunged deeply into depression and missed out on the fun that the holidays have to offer. Really, nothing prepared me for the disappointment, especially given the fact that 
Even when @Abenad told me it was wishful thinking, as Hive has no tendency of hitting the bull run, I felt if I had a stronger faith, maybe, just maybe, a miracle could happen.
Well, to further heighten my anxiety, I got in a challenging situation that took a toll on my finances; thus, I desperately needed Hive to come through for me. But then, regardless of my expectations, I had made some backup plans, as I have since learned to never put all my eggs in one basket.
So seeing how Hive didn’t rise up to the occasion, I had to fall back to fiat, and with the knowledge of how limited available funds were, I had to whip up the scale of preference theory/opportunity cost and attend to my situation according to needs.