1000 sats \ 0 replies \ @handsome_latino 22 May 2022 \ on: Ask SN: what's the stupidest thing you've bought? bitcoin
Our family rented a newly-built apartment a few years back. We bought a bunch of new furniture / appliances.
The apartment had a terrible smell (I bought a machine to measure formaldehyde and was off the roof).
With a newborn son and everything going on we decided not to stay there and lost quite a bit of money staying in hotels, selling the stuff for cheap and the down payments (it wasn't worth to fight it).
Terrible experience, but that year my professional life went very well. I always think everything happens for a reason.
That and the time my friend convinced me many years back to split 1 BTC into five other coins that I don't even remember the names -- Cardano, Iota, and some other fancy pants names. After two weeks of stress and gambling I turned everything back into bitcoin. Phew.
Honestly the worst part of it all was the wait time sending it to the exchange. My friend is now a maximalist and we often laugh about this incident.