I never went "sideways". From the beginning (2012) I was bitcoin only. Even that I mined for few years and some pools were offering merged mining of some shitcoins with BTC, I dumped them directly in the pool, not even withdraw to an external wallet and then swap them for BTC.
The bcash story was fun indeed, a lot of distraction. I swap my freshly BCH into BTC after 2 weeks they fork the chain. I wanted to do it in the first day, but weren't available the tools to do that swap. Also you had to do it wisely, not to reveal your BTC keys etc, was quite dangerous. And after that you have to effectively move your old stash of BTC to a new wallet to be sure nobody could trace them based on the BCH swap.
Between 2012 and 2018 I wasn't so toxic maxi, but after that episode with bcashers I went full against anything that is not Bitcoin. Being a Bitcoin maxi is how you keep your integrity.
the difficulty in dumping those forks was what kept me from doing it at all - i suppose i 'lost' the chance to increase my holding, but i don't really regret it as, like you say, swapping them out discreetly wasn't trivial, and was beyond me - i remember people publicly crowing about it and thinking how they were doxxing themselves - i'm glad you were able to capitalise on the trouble the forkers caused - all in all i came through those weird times untouched by the drama, so i'm at peace.
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My main reason to dump the shitcoins wasn't to "get rich" ending up with more BTC. But to TAKE more BTC from those losers that wanted my freshly created BCH. It's another perspective, I know... 😂😂😂😂
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The question wasn’t if I had to dump the bch but when :)
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The other stuff always seemed like a joke to me. I was reading about how to mine bitcoin with a raspberry pi (seems like a fantasy now) in Make magazine. After that, things like "Doge" were obviously not intended to be taken seriously. Amazing to me that anyway actually lost their ass on stuff like that. But then again, I'm no success story either, so I'll just stop tossing stones from recycled, glass bungalow.
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what was your personal observation ( after that episode with bcashers)?
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In which sense?
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i mean your personal views on the blocksize war (before and after) ...were you indecisive on which camp (big or small blockers) etc...
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Ah no, I was never indecisive. I always wanted small blocks. I just wanted bcahers to dump their BTC (more BTC for me). They do not deserve to have any. Just die into their own vomit.
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