u/DaLastComeBack_I_Got

Im an older person (mid 40s). I've been working since I was 13. My parents taught me the basics of saving $. When I was young (13-16), I would work in the summers to earn money to buy stuff for myself (radios, Super Nintendo, speakers, Michael Jordan shoes, tapes and CD players, etc). Instead of playing around all summer with my friends, I worked to earn my own money. I worked in a field cutting fruits and vegetables so the owner of the field could sell them at his roadside stand. People from all across the county would come to buy his fruits and vegetables. This was the genesis of my understanding of money.

Fast forward to my 20s: I had a good work ethic I had learned from my parents, and I had a vocation that paid very well. I basically learned to be a technician for vending equipment. However, instead of investing, I simply saved money in my bank account, and then spent the rest on bills, alcohol, poker, and girls. Although I did always save like my parents taught me to do, I never was any further ahead than the next guy because I had no knowledge of investing. My parents never taught me that.

Fast forward to 2021: I had a friend from High School, Jason, who hit me up out of the blue on Facebook. This was a guy that I spent my freshman year in high school with in my economics class working on a stock market investment project. Basically, our economics teacher made everyone team up with a partner to learn stock market investments. I knew Jason's older brother because we played on the football team together, so it was cool to team up with my buddy's younger brother on an academic project. Anyways, back then, you had to read the newspaper to see prices, and buying and selling took days. Well, Jason and I bought AT&T as our backbone and some other good stocks like Microsoft in our mock portfolio. We ended up coming in 1st place at the end of the year. I explain all this to explain why he randomly called me up in 2021; I guess he never forgot me from that project we did together in 1994-95.

He wanted to tell me about a short squeeze he discovered about GME. I had no clue WTF he was even talking about because, like I explained, I was preoccupied by work, alcohol, poker, and girls. Anyways, I drove over to his house one night in Jan 2021 to crack a few beers and catch up on old times (he lived on the other side of town). That's when my investment "career" started.

Jason showed me that it was possible to invest on a phone. Prior to that, I only thought you could do that by calling a brokerage firm and looking in the newspaper for prices. He literally showed me that he had bought GME at $10 and it was (at the time) $300. That's what got me hooked.

Then, I started researching because I have a masters degree in management and administration, which forced me to learn the skill of research. That's when I found BTC. I ended up passing on GME and buying AMC. My first buy was $10 even. As soon as I bought, AMC went to like $12. So, I bought more. I could give more info about the craziness of AMC and GME back then, but this is a BTC post and I need to get to the part about BTC.

So, all my friends were completely about GME and AMC (and I was in AMC), but I noticed BTC. At the time, it was around $34k or so, if I remember correctly. I waited till BTC was at $26k, and I started buying heavy. Unfortunately, it fell down to like 17k and I sold fir massive losses. This all happened because I still, at that point, did not understand what BTC is.

By the time BTC went back to $25k, I knew what it was. I went all in. I took loans out, spent all my free cash, and als I DCAd every day. Then, BTC ran. I held. Then BTC fell hard again. I held. I learned to NEVER sell my main stack of BTC. NEVER! Its okay to short term trade with a side stash, but never trade your main stack of BTC.

Now, 2026: Jason never bought BTC. He stayed with the bs GME play. That's the difference. 2 guys that had the same IQ, the same drive, the same goals, but not the same vision of what BTC is.

This whole post can be boiled down to one very specific choice: you can either buy BTC and surpass everyone that doesn't. Or, you can keep sleeping and miss out on a new life. Don't be a Jason.