Only strong balls win by onealfa

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Only strong balls win
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Some days I drive for Uber, and it's clones. I like driving, and I like talking to people. Most of the times, when I see even the smallest interest from my rider, I talk about crypto currenncies. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Steem. I like advocating, promoting  this technology.

Few days ago I got an interesting rider, and even more interesting, advising conversation. The guy was maybe at age 27-29, obviously a computer geek. He was a bit surprised by my stickers on the dashboard. 

https://i.imgur.com/bH4VmJx.jpg

**"What? You accept Bitcoins?"**

Surprisingly to me, soon I discover, that my riders knowledge in cryptos is almost as good, as mine. In fact, he was very good at this. A very rear case...

Finally, the conversation went into this:

Me: when did you got involved?
**Rider: well, that was maybe in late 2010. BTC then was $0.20-0.30**
Me: did you purchased them?
**R.: Sure ! I purchased, and I mined quite a few. Even plain CPU could do this. Graphic cards were doing miracles!**
Me: So you gained quite a fortune?
**R.: Yeah...  I did... sort of...**
Me: ???
**R.: Soon I got a new car, new apartment... some cool dress, gadgets**
Me: Do you still hold some coins?
**R.: yeahhh...a small fraction of a coin...**
Me:  you sold em all !?
**R.: Well,  you know...only hard balls can resist a temptation, when your asset increases in value over 800-900 times.  
I sold most of them, once BTC raised to $190-$200. A 900x fold gain! Can you imagine this? It was insane**
Me: yeahhh..I agree
**R.: If I could hold them all until today, I would be a millionaire. Millionaire. From a miserable $100 starting investment...by doing nothing....ehhh....Instead of 900x fold increase, today I would enjoy a 10000x fold increase. Unfortunately, all are gone...gone forever**


I really don't knew what else I could say to that smart, but unhappy guy. So we drove in a silence for a while. Soon he left my car.

# Only strong balls win. 
Never forget that. Even at biggest temptations.

Vic @onealfa

(top picture from https://cointelegraph.com/)
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@mar71n ·
Great read, thanks. Well I think that Bitcoin is going to the moon and that guy will be still millionaire in some day! :)
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@jawdy ·
thanks for sharing, 900x is a shit-your-pants kind of return so i cant blame em lol @onealfa
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@bobskibob ·
Great story. deja vu anyone ?
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@kabir88 ·
That's a great story @onealfa, it's always important to step back and look at the bigger picture.
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