@_mattwelter only one answer sport, mens sana in corpore sano. And by sport i do not mean boring gym, i mean a sport that challenge you and can make you dream same as you dream when you build things!
I have same syndrom, i managed it with a lot of Alpinism
two things that I believe are not true about the crypto crash
1) "low-risk trading strategies shouldn't have gotten liquidated"
- Running an arb trade, or a long/short trade, is NOT "low risk". It may have lower directional price risk, but it does not have low risk. Counterparty risk is always a high risk, which is what you're taking when you cross-collateral across multiple venues, or if you concentrate all of your assets at one venue. Crypto trading has incredibly fragmented liquidity, like corporate bonds, and these risks are always prevalent. Also, leverage is always a big risk, which is what you're using whenever you have a long and a short at the same time. Those running these strategies were taking high risks, and hopefully they knew that.
2) "Retail got liquidated"
- As my colleague @ArcaChemist always points out, crypto isn't really just "institutional" and "retail". There are 3 types of crypto traders:
a) retail
b) "Crypto-native 7-8 fig portfolio retail who farm and trade in huge size all over DEXs and CEXs"
c) institutional
True retail did not get rinsed yesterday. True retail trades on Coinbase and Robinhood in small sizes, and many only own BTC, ETH, SOL and a few memecoins. Most don't know what a Perp DEX is, and don't use leverage. Many probably don't even know crypto really broke since their positions are down 10-20%, in line with the 5-10 other times per year this happens.
It was the "crypto-native 7-8 figs retail" that got rinsed yesterday. This is the group that uses massive leverage, understands all the different DeFi venues, and willingly accepts the risks that got them rich in the first place via being early to protocols and farming.
This does not make it better per se, but it's not the same thing as a bunch of Uber drivers losing their life savings.
“If I put $100 in Bitcoin in 2010 I’d have $2.8B now.”
No.
If you bought $100 of Bitcoin in 2010 and watched it go to:
$1k → $100k → $1.7M
and did nothing
Then watched $1.7M go to $170k
and still did nothing
Then watched $170k go to $110M
and still did nothing
Then watched $110M wither to $18M
and still did nothing
Then watched $18M surge to $390M
and still did nothing
Then watched $390M deteriorate to $85M
Then watched $85M climb to $1.6B
and still did nothing
Then watched $1.6B shrink to $390M
and still did nothing
Then watched $390M surge to $2.8B
and then for some reason finally decided to do something…
Then yes, $100 in 2010 would be worth $2.8B today.
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