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Or simply sour grapes. He is right that your investments cloud your thinking, but maybe he doesn't have enough experience to understand that the desire to see the price go down against something you decided to never buy, or recently sold, is driven by the same bias.

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For context, I've been an early bitcoin core contributor and paid 7.5 btc for this old laptop. In all fairness, I've only profited from btc and am still invested, but it doesn't change the conclusions I've had to accept.

I stick to the index funds. I have no idea how web3 shenanigans affect me. I still haven't seen a comprehensible use case for it.

All good reasons not to get involved. But I don't think that's as cogent an argument to convince others despite it being used as such on this board quite often.

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