I’ve never really received advice directly from a real Bitcoiner, mostly because I don’t actually know one in real life. Only shitcoiners. 😅
But I’ve gotten a lot of great advice here on SN instead. Things like:
Stop staring at the price every day and start understanding why Bitcoin exists.
Don’t trust, verify. (At first it sounded like a slogan. Later I realized it’s basically a life philosophy. Learn things yourself. Run a node if you can and so on).
And honestly, the most practical advice of all (probably):
Protect your keys and stay humble.
"chill bro, ur gonna be fine"
Use bitcoin, don't just hoard it. Heard this from Jack Spirko of the Survival Podcast during Covid. He said if you want to understand something you can read lots of books and listen to podcast (which I also did) but there is no substitute for using it.
So I set up many wallets. Moved bitcoin. Bought things with it. Set up lightning nodes. Set up miners. Sure, knowledge is power but using the tools increases my conviction massively. Buying bitcoin is one thing. That's the start. If that is all you do you will probably sell it all and regret it. If you actually understand it by using it you reach another level of conviction.
Push through that fear or laziness and use bitcoin.
Centralized wallets are death.
Bitcoin is money
"Don't optimize for price, optimize for accumulation habits." Sounds simple but it completely reframed how I thought about volatility. Once you stop watching the chart daily and just focus on consistent stacking, the emotional noise gets much quieter.
Stop staring at the price.
Not your keys, not your coins
Obi-wan told me long time ago: read these 9 pages of Bitcoin whitepaper and you will learn to use a powerful force.
Years later....
Seems like in my environment I'm the one who says something about Bitcoin and everyone ignore these words so far.
I did the same and ignored lots of advise people wrote on bitcointalk, Twitter, etc.
e.g.: DYOR, Hodl, not your keys not your sats and of course "stay humble stack sats".
I remember how I read "...stack sats" and can't understand how my $5 converted into 0.0005 bitcoin will help me in the future.
If any newcomers will read this post I'll recommend to read two books. Bitcoin standard - it helps to understand why do we need Bitcoin; Mastering Bitcoin - helps to understand how Bitcoin is working inside
Don't advertise all your BTC