{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"Diyana (npub19a…4v28l)","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub19aftr8lpgz8knmswjz0d3l9vzwx97dcvqh0zfuxcxu9d57t4yv3sz4v28l","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"True story...\n\nThe day or two before 7/30, I was feeling this nagging anxiety to check whether my tiny stack was still there... (the oracle within activating, I guess). I hadn't checked in a while, and I found myself mentally bracing—imagining staying calm, grounded, and collected in total acceptance if I were to discover it was all gone.\n\n\"Fuck it. It is what it is. Just breathe. Life continues. It's not the first time. You're already at zero anyway.\"\n\nI'd started to #studybitcoin, and it was overwhelming. I was taking it one giant elephant bite at a time.\n\nI'd taken the step to move off exchanges and was researching hardware wallets...\n\n...then life became hell. I entered the worst year of my life, and I've just been doing my best to recover from the shell shock. Still am.\n\n...I never got to the hardware wallet part. I did buy a device—not a Coldcard—but I ultimately chickened out because of the concerns people were raising about it. I even hung out with a cryptographer who had worked on that team and shared my reasoning for not moving to it. He seemed to nod in agreement. I also didn't buy a Coldcard, despite how heavily it was marketed, because of the concerns some folks were expressing.\n\nThat was all part of my DYOR.\n\nNow I'm kind of in freeze mode. I really don't know what to do, but I feel like I should do something. I'm just not sure what. Kind of immobilized.\n \n\n"}