A friend of mine generously offered to donate me 5 BTC because he was so into crypto and because he wanted the network to grow. At the time, the total value of the coins was somewhere between €500 and €1000. I thanked him for his generosity but turned the offer down because his finances were in much worse shape than mine at the time. I just couldn't accept that valuable a gift from anyone who was so much worse off than I was.

Had I kept the coins in a cold wallet, you know how much money they'd be worth now, and this is only the beginning of what I believe will turn out to be a violent parabolic run to a six-figure price point at the end of next year. I cannot really fault myself for not stacking up on BTC back when I was first introduced to it in 2013 because it's counterproductive to beat yourself up for past ignorance. Bitcoin's value proposition is much more clear by now than it was between 2013 and 2016.

But what I really regret is not looking into altcoins in early 2017 instead of Bitcoin. Hell, buying a couple of hundred euros worth of STEEM around the time I was introduced to it just to start off my blogging career would've yielded stunning returns by early 2018. Also, Ethereum was only worth something like $30 a coin on the first months of 2017. Buying a little Ether just to try it out in 2015 would've yielded life-changing gains by the summer of 2017 let alone January 2018.

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