i followed you @a-0-0

It's been crazy, and if I'd known better about the process, I could have cashed out a big chunk and reinvested it super effectively.  But it's all a learning curve, and I think what's happening now will feel like pennies later on!  And I just feel a nice bit of relief watching the prices start to climb again.  ..and I powered up a nice amount in the meantime with the lower price :)

hell yeah. because all i did was invest time. can't wait till it peaks again

Hmmm, I emotionally survived because of my general numbness, but I got a harsh one. I put half of my savings in crypto when I saw it rising, last year, but the fees cut my savings, leaving me 1/3 (because I made many wrong choices).

Then, it all went up and I was pretty glad that I had invested. Then it all went down and now I have less than what I started with... except that I did gain a lot in a few investments, so when everything crashed, I ended up having around 3/4 of my initial investment instead of 1/3, so I think that I'm pretty well off, considering.

Now I'm doing the same with Steemit, except I don't have any more money to throw into it. I'm just seeing what happens, trying to earn as much SP as I can, getting new savings here, and I'd say that I'm pretty ok, if a pretty anxious too because I really believed that the bullish market would continue for a few months in december.

(I'm dumbfounded that I read your whole post and wrote all of this in like 3 minutes, lol)

posting is very amazing my friend very like. thank you for sharing friends. please help me friend @acidyo

You're absolutely right..
It's not perfect but it's still better than any alternative we've ever had.
There are some problems still with steemit which I hope will be addressed along the way. 

posting is very amazing my friend very like. thank you for sharing friends. please help me friend @acidyo

I am hoping it has a short drop again next week when I put more money in. But hopefully soon at least steem grows further which I know it will.

I was broke before and am still broke XD Can't kill what's already dead!

I'm a survivor, the rollercoaster was hard and i was left with deep emotional damage that will follow me for the rest of my life but i survived... I hope all of us learned a thing or two in the last bull run so that when the next one comes, we take the proper steps to secure our gains earlier and be less affected by the bear when he inevitably comes again! I know i'm a wiser person now than what i was in October-November when the wild ride up started!

since i entered the world of crypto i felt like playing on a roller coaster, my mentor repeated it to me many times, cryptomonedas require patience and cold heart, although many authors are read and the graphics when they show the low you can feel terrified, i had a positive mind to survive without a heart attack, now we expect a great recovery, happy evening
Excuse my English, I use a translator

With the crash I lost about 60% of my investment, in January I had doubled it but I was greedy and did not withdraw profits.

Yesterday although I saw from start to finish the STEEM and SBD pump a I decided to hold them because I trust in the platform and the project, although I was tempted to sell at $ 3 and buy a little lower I preferred not to risk.

The fact that these cryptocurrencies rise in value when the btc is going through a bad time fills me with joy, it means that many people are beginning to know us and to be interested in this revolutionary decentralized social network.

I also think that for now the best thing is to HOLD our STEEM POWER, in the future, when everything has been a success, the price of now will seem very low.

Hi acidyo,

Thanks for asking.  

I survived it the bear market with BTC because I did not buy at ATH but around $8k so, I have been Hodling .

Thinking of buying more BTC once it retrace down this friday.  How about you?

I am actually happy that the negative trend finally seems to be over!

I took advantage of the crazy increase of the SBD price by exchanging it for steem at 0.8 sbd for each steem, which I am quite happy about it because I was scared about the possibility of sbd remaining lower than steem for ever haha.

So I exchange the sbd that I got and power that up!

Well I survived, I invested at the beggining of the year so I lost about the half of my investment in USD and around a 40% respect to Bitcoin, I applied the HODL meme to TRX and paid for it.
Today I'm green in USD and BTC because of contests, airdrops and scalping, it was a very hard path but I have learned a lot from it.

Mehn I would say I did but definitely not on my own . Having people like @kevinwong, @investing, @hitmeasap, @taskmaster4450, @dragosruoa, @exyle, @stephenkendal to mention but a few has been really motivating. 

They helped in their own various capacities with their posts and analysis to keep us abreast and tell us what's was going on every step of the way and made us go along with every single thing happening on the blockchain and the crypto space in general. Its been a roller coaster ride but I would say I made it. 

Not forgetting those who also kept us entertained every night , making us forget about the FUD for a few hours with their gaming skills, talking about @acidyo and @strawhat..you guys have just been awesome.

Wow,.. Truly, I cnt wait to see what Steemblockchain has in stock for us. We are not where we want to be yet, but we are better than we used to be. I really dont know much about powering up and the best time to do it. But I know its always grace to take out less and power up more.

I like living life on the edge. How many of you feel the same?

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I agree that steem would not go down to 1$, i guess no one will want that, although we don't know when the market will shine or has dawn, but we can still hope for the best and let's hope that it will shine in the later run, we should believe in steem and never loose hope... 

I pretty don't have a lot of Steem but I have some bitcoin and Ethereum sitting in my wallet. I thing the roughest ride I have had so far is with Ethereum as I bought in in January at around $1400 each and now it's sitting just under $400, not nice at all. But as someone who doesn't panic sell, I have just focused my attention in other areas not necessarily sitting to cry as the wave blows us around. I'm new to crypto investment but I have learned that there 've been bad times before and people survived it, so I guess I'll survive this one too.

Surviving here among the ones that go with the highest bids ,even  if their post is not worth just making some space out in the trending block...that sucks ....that really needs a fix.
I personally to believe in steem alot coz there are still many who will make this run till the end and those are developers and great authors.

I stopped looking at my portfolio because it just looked like a scene from 300 (The Spartans movie, Ahoo!) 

I just concentrated on getting and holding a little EOS, some Steem and a whole bunch of airdrops and bounties that I can hold on to. I am still practicing my invest only on amounts that you can afford to lose. 

While many decided to refrain from posting in Steemit because the rewards was low. I took a different stance and posted more. I usually posted two articles a day so that I can space it between 12 hours so I can still get a busy.org upvote which I am lucky a few whales follow me and even if they don't vote for my content just being part of those that follow my account boosts it in the percentage of upvote I get from Busy so win-win for me. 

I have stopped self voting as part of Asher's League of Curation and Engagement and I am in the top 5 engagers but more because I can see my vote can be used to lift morale on people that I leave votes on. I was able to give about 700+ votes on almost 300 people for last week and leave a comment as well so I am pretty happy about that. 

In all I still believe in Steem even if a lot of naysayers are saying Steem is dead. We recently had dbooks and steem.films role out and then the hivemind update just happened so for me I'm just gonna keep a healthy outlook on stuff and keep holding. 

Who know I might just become a whale someday with a lucky coin that i held on to (Damn you Dogecoin and all the people I slapped with it in Reddit!)

Well, it indeed was an emotional rollercoaster, many were tempted to sell their sbd when it hit the peak, my friends were laughing at each other because some of them sold their sbd for FIAT a couple days ago and missed the chance to get more, and others were pretty much just screaming in excitement xD

It was a nice ride and I hope that sbd's go up a lot more, but for now, I will hold onto my sbd's, just to see how much I can get for waiting a little longer.

Playing on the safe side can, sometimes, be more beneficial than to just risk it ;D

To be honest, I didn't know what to feel.  But what I do feel is that it may get even better this year, and that I'll finally be able to get my laptop.  I still got faith though.  (❍ᴥ❍ʋ)

For me it was easy ... when I started in steemit the value of the steem and sbd were $ 1, and for me that was the most wonderful thing of the world!! ... THE REST IS ADDED <3

No. I died several weeks ago when everything hit its lowest. I've just been a spoopy ghost haunting the Steemit website. But, it's looking like it might be my time to move on to the great beyond. You know, that big old blockchain in the sky... ~~Invest in Christ coin, now!~~

I sold everything at bottom. Ill wait until it hits ATH to buy again :D

I'm still here and wary that it's not over yet.

I'm glad it's up right now and I hope it holds, but what goes up can come down, too. The decision to hang around and keep on steeming has to be based on more than just what the price of STEEM is at any given moment, so that's what I've been trying to do. Find that reason. Then it doesn't matter what the value is, I'm doing what I feel I should do regardless.

great post indeed.
personally I am still crying a bit because I bought some BTC at around $10500 so I still need to be more patient, Because I will still call it a crash until  BTC reach $10500 at least.