26A – Celebrating Failure
I failed terribly at investing in bitcoin. Bitcoin was something I had been hearing about for two years now, and I never believed in it. It wasn't until early December of 2017 that I was really interested in investing, but I still didn't. Then around Christmas of 2017 it had almost doubled since early December, I was really kicking myself in but for not investing. Then it came down to about half and started rising again. I thought to myself that enough was enough and it was time for me to pull the trigger. I invested a good amount of money into it, from fear of missing out on the gains. Unfortunately shortly after some announcements were made and bitcoin went down a lot. I lost almost %70 of my investment. I learned to not invest out of emotions. I learned to not invest because that's what my friends were doing. and more importantly, I learned that I should really do research on something before investing. I'm glad that I only invested what I was willing to lose - a p