I wake several times during the night. There’s lightning flashing. Thunder grumbling. A cat trying to get comfortable. My wife sawing logs. And I wonder if my kids are asleep. They’re getting older now. Teen and preteen, but storms are still scary, right?
I don’t sleep well, anyway, so this storm doesn’t do much but prompt me to check the weather radar on my phone. It, of course, is bedside. Always there. Waiting. Listening. Recording. It’s bad and shameful to feel so connected to a device, but I think as long as I know that, I’ll be okay. Besides, it’s showing me the obvious. There’s a wide swath of digitized yellow, red, and green rolling over Michigan. And it’s moving away. While I have the phone in my hands, I check prices.
I do this whenever I wake. I’m at the point now where I cannot tell if I’m having trouble staying asleep or I’m simply waking to check crypto prices and news.
Orchid is up over 100%. Of course, I had a bag of it months ago. It sounded like a good investment. A good idea. But then XRP went down and I figured why not take money out of Orchid and some others and put it into the Garlinghouse can. That’s when I was really stockpiling XRP. I’ve slowed on that. Have even sold some. Well, not some, quite a bit. I wanted to use that money on projects that I felt had a better chance in the short run. I’ll get back into the XRP game. Probably later today. I have a feeling it might pop. Wait, isn’t that called FOMO?
I am fascinated by crypto. I am trying to better understand the technical aspect of it, the specifics of particular projects, but what interests me most is how people react to it. I’ve tried explaining XRP to family and friends. My father-in-law kind of gets it. My parents don’t get it, but would like to earn money off it. My brothers are disinterested. I have one friend that listened and invested in XRP, VET, and MANA. That was over a year ago. We drank a lot of wine together during that stretch. Since COVID hit, we’ve kinda lost contact. I sent him a message when VET moved through one cent. He said he hadn’t checked his holdings in months.
I envy that fucker.
I keep an eye on my holdings because sometimes I don’t want to hold. I want to speculate. Be brave. Gamble…uh, I mean, invest. I don’t chase risers much. Though I must say I bought a tiny bag of Orchid as I started writing this. Some platforms make it too easy. I seriously hit two buttons and bought crypto. I love it. I do my best to watch for dips. That’s a no-brainer, but it takes practice. You have to leave emotion out of it. Sure, you’ll make mistakes. Heck, right now, XRP could be flying to the moon, and leaving me behind…
…Okay. It’s not. I had to stop and check. Twenty-nine cents.
.29
Orchid is at sixty-nine.
.69
That’s what makes this space interesting and exciting. Stuff goes up. Stuff goes down. All you can do is research, put your money on the table, and play your hand. And I encourage all of you to research. You can never do enough research. And Twitter, by the way, isn’t the best place for that. Sure, you can tell if something’s brewing by how many times a crypto is pops up in your feed, but for the most part, stick to the news. Whitepapers. Do a Google search. And don’t always read articles that support what you believe. It’s best to balance your information diet. Not just with crypto, but with everything.
Okay. That’s it for now. It still early in the morning and I want to dig in to the market.
Enjoy the day! Make good decisions!
~cryptokj