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If the last ten years have taught me anything, it’s the importance of patience and thoughtfulness in decision making. I used to hold a double-digit stack of BTC, and sold them all in 2015 in protest of both the project’s technical direction (small blocks, Segwit, Lightning, etc.) and abusive straying from its cypherpunk roots (censorship, Blockstream’s capture, etc). In hindsight, it was an expensive mistake, because the upside of hodling (now I the millions of dollars) was at least two orders of magnitudes greater than the downside (tens of thousands). I wish I had read Antifragile and learned to navigate asymmetrical bets sooner. Not long after, I also resigned in protest of being passed for Partner promotion at a Big Four, against the advice of my peers. I eventually made it at a different firm, but I took a needlessly circuitous route to get there. 1/3
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In fairness, all your decisions have been principled and correct. They were the right choice on a longterm scale, even if it led to missing out in shortterm benefits. In the case of bitcoin, this hurts. The numba go up ponzi part of this once interesting experiment went higher than anyone could reasonably think. But still, how likely are we to retain our own character when we adopt the hyperrational self-serving outlook? I think there's always a price to pay. Maybe the price is ok sometimes. But we can also win "enough" to not have to pay the price at all. And, once winning enough is a binary state, then the principled man gave up nothing to have everything.
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