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LeatherMint | 10 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +10 
 For the past 1.5 years I have dedicated my entire life to the craft for opportunities like this and it's happening.

Yet I have this feeling I'm going nowhere and should've just found a better job and stack sats like a regular person.

I don't know where I am at. I traded the ability to stack sats in exchange of building a portfolio. Which is great in 10 years, but today I'd have more sats if I had simply worked a full time job.

It's the low time preference thing since the beginning. Do I want to make some money next cycle? Or do I want to be an hyperbitcoinzed craftman in 10 or 20 years.

The choice seems simple and it was a no brainer for me 1.5 years ago but after all this time of not getting richer, the doubts are on me really often.
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kylesylvestre | 10 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 The doubts are part of the journey. I wrestle with the same feelings. I hope you find the clarity you’re looking for. As always, the community is here to listen. 🙏🏻
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Jay [NEW NPUB] | 10 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 As a proud owner of two of your wallets, I can at least say that the time you've spent so far hasn't been wasted. It's a tough road for sure.
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₿eni₿idi₿ici | 10 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 It is always a difficult trade-off between what opportunity and experience brings to you which you convert into income, vs. what your passion and interest bring to you, which becomes your art—doing what you have skills for and people are willing to pay for it vs. doing what you are passionate about

There is never one answer for the correct path

So try not to look back—you become fortunate where your work is your art, and your life reflects it
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DugandRupe | 10 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It’s not about the fiat you could have made, but sending a message and giving people something to spend their sats on. 🫡🙌
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Bee Aye | 10 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 your making a high quality brand where you make real shit, and thats something unique and valuable in whatever would have happened, hyperbitcoinization or not. hope that helps quell the hindsight of what you could have done 🤙
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lightningspore | 10 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I’m in the same boat. At least my stack hasn’t gotten materially smaller during this time where my income is way down. 

I tell myself I am optimizing for building my future goal lifestyle atm. Hopefully I stacked enough in the previous years. 

But at bitcoin at 75k and even my previous income level, it was hard to make significant improvement in my stack, so lifestyle was a better ROI.