I wont bore anyone with my sob story of buying 33,000 ETH at the IPO and selling it at $2.00 the minute it went live for trading. I've been prescribed Lithium, Xanax, Prednisone, and Oreo cookies for that already.
I've been all-in on Bitcoin since June 2012. I played with alts for one purpose. To try and grow my Bitcoin stash, and when I sold my Ethereum, I was elated because I'd just massively increased my Bitcoin count.
I'm creating this thread in large part because I know the mentality over at /r/bitcoin if you express any dissenting opinion on anything, and they find out you own Ethereum. So for the record: I haven't owned any until today, and nothing I write is colored by my holdings of any coin. I try not to be low-integrity like that. If I pointed you here to read that, please internalize it and don't marginalize my opinion because of your weird hatred for the "ethereum shitcoin".
I have a bitcoin bumper sticker, license plate, and was the primary distributor for yBitcoin magazine in both Miami and San Diego. My loyalty to the coin and the cause are indisputable. I also own the site dedicated to the Genesis Block Newspaper: http://www.thetimes03jan2009.com
That having been said, it was not until this week that I finally felt a genuine sense of doubt that Bitcoin would accomplish its goals. Anyone familiar with the debate going on, and the idiocy in the behavior surrounding it, knows what I mean. I have always wondered if a decentralized system with no leader could ever make decisions. I've grown disgusted with how people act in polarizing debates, and when it gets to be too much, I start looking elsewhere.
I truly feel at this time that there is no light at the end of the tunnel. And that scares me.
When Andreas Antonopoulos posted his Medium blog this week however, that was my final straw. Everything that comes out of that guys mouth to me is Gospel. I have my reasons for that. But when someone like himself clearly states that "systems which are actually able to evolve" (paraph) are going to be making massive waves in crypto, while simultaneously tossing out the idea of people diversifying to Ethereum .... I listen.
It's a little difficult struggling to afford 50 eth when I formerly held 33,000. But I have always operated off a vibe with crypto investing, and while I did "only" make $66,000 instead of $1.6 million, I have never been wrong in any of my crypto investments yet. (knock on wood). I was struck with an overwhelming awareness of Ethereum's future growth yesterday, and I haven't felt that about anything other than Bitcoin in a long time.
My "vibe" is telling me that ETH just took (over the last several weeks) a major step towards long term sustainability and use.
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