the thing i’m wrestling with: i don’t know how much longer i should devote the majority of my attention to crypto. here’s the pull in one direction. crypto has spent the last few years getting lapped. ai stocks, the supply chain around them, quantum, space, robotics, even prediction markets and retail just trading on robinhood. all of it has pulled in the speculation money that used to come here, and a lot of it has put up better returns with less insanity than 99% of coins. if you bought almost any “real” crypto project in 2025 you’re probably down or round tripped. so the rational move looks like: spend time/attention where the money’s going. here’s what pulls me back, and it’s the part i don’t see people say out loud. i’ve spent eight plus years here. every day, charts, metas, lurking ct, watching how narratives run and break and run again. i’m not the best at this and i get plenty wrong. but i’m not starting from zero either. if i switch to ai or quantum or space stocks, i give all of that up. i’d be starting empty. no feel, no pattern library, no edge. and the names i’d be chasing have already run 5 to 10x. which, if you read my last post, is the exact mistake i just made on zec. buying after the ground floor’s built, walking in on the third or fourth floor and calling it an entry. i’d be doing the same thing, except blind this time, in an industry where i can’t tell a good foundation from a bad one yet. so that’s the actual rub. it’s not “which asset class is better.” it’s: do i stay in the arena i know is past its “easy” days but where i feel like i have some edge, or walk into hotter arenas where i have none and everything good already ran? and to be clear, i’m not in crypto because i have to. i have money parked in stocks. i stay involved in crypto because i like the puzzle. the competition. the people. the fact that after eight years this is the one arena where i walk in feeling like i actually know the room. that’s not nothing, and it’s most of why i’m still here. but being comfortable in crypto today doesn’t mean im doing what could be best for my family’s future. every extra dollar i make equals more freedom down the road for my kids. i don’t have the clean answer. i flip flop on this weekly. if you’ve been here long enough to feel the same thing, you already know how uncomfortable it is. *this is a classic “bottom” post*