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@FourCrossedWands comparing Leo to Warren Buffett lol. It must suck to be a no-coiner. I would stay away from crypto discussion if I had no clue what i was talking about.

A bull run starts the moment a bear run ends, and the bear market for BTC ended in November 2022. It's been going up since then. For every $1000 you put in at the bottom would now be worth $6500. That's 550% from the bottom. If you're buying BTC now, you're risking way more than the previous years, so to say the bull run hasn't even started yet is just not reasonable.

But keep in mind, the steepest rise is in the last phase of the market (when things go parabolic). That's why I was "mocking" Leo's tweet. He sold during a consolidation phase during a bull market, confidently calling for a "crash" (bottom in his words). You can't know. What if these prices are the next bear market's lows? You should know by now how crazy things can get at the end. Most coins haven't even hit their previous cycle's ATH. You can enter in the last phase of the market and still make the majority of the gains (if you pick the right coins, of course), But yeah, buying BTC here won't make you millions probably.

Not everything is up so much. ETH hasn't done shit this cycle yet. And you just proved my point by hodling ETH yourself. You're not going to sell it because you see and know it's going higher most likely. To ATH first & then probably 6k+, Pullbacks in a bull market are small & rarely ever more than 20-25%. You had a lot of time to accumulate between March and November this year. That's like 8-9 months of consolidation, and thinking that after such a long consolidation, the market will only go up for a month and then enter a bear market is just crazy. Have some conviction. Apart from holding things long-term, I was lucky enough that I entered at the lows this cycle, probably average buy just above 20k for BTC. I also went heavy in Solana at the lows, was buying it from 25usd all the way down to 8usd (it's now above 240). I knew Solana was a no brainer. And I've had it staked for a long time now, which brings me a salary worth of SOL just from staking alone. So I'm just holding, not trading. Planning to sell everything in a few months or when things go really crazy. If I wanted to trade, it would bring me just unnecessary stress, which I learned in the past is not worth it. And if I didn't have any crypto right now, I would probably go all-in in ETH, because it will most likely make up for it in the coming weeks/months. It's the safest bet right now or at least it was near 3k-ish. But you won't make it big with ETH, but it's low risk. It won't make you 5-10x like other coins can. Considering the bull market might be 60-80% over, it's hard to make it unless you take on more risk with coins that have low market cap. Or you go really heavy with safer ones.

Not to brag, but I have to state a few facts about myself, because otherwise you'll just think I'm a typically guy who gambles their money away. I bought my first BTC at 4k in 2017 and went all-in soon after because I saw the potential to change my life pretty much immediately. Thanks to BTC and me being quite early, I've been able to become financially free. I no longer need to work a 9-5 job. It wasn't an easy path, but it was worth going all in, even though I sacrificed so much to accomplish that. It's crazy to think that some people have to work 30-40 years to get the amount of money you can get in one crypto cycle (if you're smart about it). It makes you think that society really is a scam. Anyways, I agree that if you've made life changing money, then you should sell most of it, no matter where we are in the cycle. Because you never know what happens, and if you've made enough, it doesn't matter. Greed can make you lose all of it. @integral Im assuming that you're not heavily invested in BTC, nor have made a lot of money in BTC/crypto. I see that you have no conviction or at least not all of it. If it's so easy to just wait for everything to drop 80-99%, why haven't you accumulated everything at the bottom and come to the point where you can say "I've made it financially"? It's so easy to say "I'll buy lower, when everything drops 98% and then go all in", but when the worst of the bear market comes, no one wants to buy at the lows, because everything seems hopeless and bottomless at that time.

@integral If it was so easy to just sell and wait for the crash so you could buy lower, then we would all be Warren Buffetts, wouldn't we? How do you know it's more likely to crash? You're just guessing and you have no clue. Yes, eventually, another bear market will come. We don't know when and at what price. But you can look at the historical data and guess a little bit better based on that, because you see what the market tends to do at certain times. But to say that it's more likely to crash right now is just ridiculous. what does "crash" even mean to you? And what if you sell at 60k or 70k, and then BTC goes over 100k and never again drops below, let's say, 90k. What then? The train has left and you're waiting for "the crash". Just guessing and waiting for a crash won't get you far in investing game.

@FourCrossedWands Do you own any BTC or any other asset?

@FourCrossedWands one who understands the bitcoin 4 year cycle thing - that bitcoin goes up immensly post the halving event and post election - does not sell their bitcoin in the middle of a bull run.

Exactly.

"If only I hadn't sold..."

The slow way is the fast way. or Patience is the fastest way.

You're buying scams. There is no faster way to lose money than to be in a hurry to make money.

You can make yourself look way better in a picture (good lighting, angle, picture taken after a workout). That doesn't mean he looks like that 24/7. Chris is lean and that's it. Nothing special about his muscle size. His physique is achievable naturally.

I agree with everything you said but one thing - that he's on steroids and HGH. This guy doesn't really have that much muscle mass. He's just lean. When you're lean, you look way bigger in a sense. You can look like this if you have decent genetics and work out for like 5 years consistently. How do I know? Because I've pretty much done that. Anyways, the whole fitness industry is cancer. Everyone is just trying to sell you something. They want to make you believe that you can get everything in your life with a fit body and sell you supplements that don't really work and "special" workout programs that are complete BS. And this guy Chris is the epitome of that.

How to Win Friends and Influence People In general, I think that one book can't change your life that much, or at least not enough. One should rather focus on becoming the kind of person who reads regularly. So, it's more about becoming curious as a person and developing a passion for learning. What kind of information you consume on a regular basis (books, audiobooks, YT, podcasts, etc.). Each book (and each podcast and other things) changes you in a little way, and then this adds up over time, over the years, and you become a completely different person, with a completely different worldview.