I’ve never really received advice directly from a real Bitcoiner, mostly because I don’t actually know one in real life. Only shitcoiners. 😅
But I’ve gotten a lot of great advice here on SN instead. Things like:
Stop staring at the price every day and start understanding why Bitcoin exists.
Don’t trust, verify. (At first it sounded like a slogan. Later I realized it’s basically a life philosophy. Learn things yourself. Run a node if you can and so on).
And honestly, the most practical advice of all (probably):
Protect your keys and stay humble.
Centralized wallets are death.
Bitcoin is money
"Don't optimize for price, optimize for accumulation habits." Sounds simple but it completely reframed how I thought about volatility. Once you stop watching the chart daily and just focus on consistent stacking, the emotional noise gets much quieter.
Stop staring at the price.
Not your keys, not your coins
Obi-wan told me long time ago: read these 9 pages of Bitcoin whitepaper and you will learn to use a powerful force.
Years later....
Seems like in my environment I'm the one who says something about Bitcoin and everyone ignore these words so far.
I did the same and ignored lots of advise people wrote on bitcointalk, Twitter, etc.
e.g.: DYOR, Hodl, not your keys not your sats and of course "stay humble stack sats".
I remember how I read "...stack sats" and can't understand how my $5 converted into 0.0005 bitcoin will help me in the future.
If any newcomers will read this post I'll recommend to read two books. Bitcoin standard - it helps to understand why do we need Bitcoin; Mastering Bitcoin - helps to understand how Bitcoin is working inside
Don't advertise all your BTC