Parable of The XRP Investor

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An introverted kid withdrew himself from the crowd. He was thinking, and needed absolute silence to give this thinking the power it required. You see, recently he found out about the crypto markets. A friend had told him about a life-altering project that would be used by all banks to send money around the world. The friend had been bragging about the incredible return he'd made by ''investing'' some of his savings into the project's coin.

''I'm as genius as Warren Buffet. If you want to make money, you better listen to me!''

But the kid knew better, and we should give him some credit for scrutinising the whole situation on his own. When his friend came to him the next day to tell him about even more profits he had made with his investment in the banking coin project, the kid simply replied with: ''Who knows what's good, and what's bad.”

''What do you mean?'' the friend asked. ''I've made a ton of money, of course it's good!''

''Who knows what's good, and what's bad.''

The next day he met with the friend again. This time he didn't look all that happy. ''What happened?'' the kid asked. ''I've lost everything..'' The kid looked his friend curiously in the eyes. ''How is that even possible?'' The friend scratched his head, and sat down on the sidewalk. ''Well, I didn't include a destination tag when I send my crypto coins to another exchange. So, I've lost everything.''

The kid took a moment to think about the matter. The previous evening, in his attempt to scrutinise the crypto-space, he had read about the so-called ''destination tags''. He remembered reading somewhere that forgetting to provide the ''destination tag'' didn't necessarily mean that funds were lost. ''Just contact the exchange, I think there's a good chance that you can get the crypto coins back.'' But, the friend didn't want to hear it.. ''It doesn't matter, I've lost everything.. This is such a disaster.''

The kid sighed, ''who knows what's good, and what's bad.''

A few weeks later the friend still hadn't heard back from the crypto exchange. He had grown used to the fact that he'd lost it all. But, then, all of the sudden, all crypto coins started to rise even higher than they'd already done before! So-called ''moon'' season was consuming all of his attention.

''If I hadn't lost it all, I would've sold it right now and made a fortune!'' – he said to the kid, while he shed a tear. The kid didn't comfort his hurting friend, but instead only replied with: ''who knows what's good, and what's bad.'' To which the friend replied furiously: ''I could've made so much more money, now I have nothing! Of course this is terrible! You are so stupid!''

Fast forward two weeks most crypto coins had surpassed the ''moon'', and were well on their way to reach ''mars'' before the week's end. Everyone was euphoric, except, of course, the friend. ''If I hadn't lost it all, I would've sold it right now and been practically royalty!'' The kid had to laugh and asked: ''If you could, hadn't you sold it two weeks ago already?'' ''No, I definitely would've kept them! But, unfortunately I have nothing, because I lost it all.. This is so bad!''

''Who knows what's good, and what's bad.''

Then, out of nowhere, the friend received an email from the crypto exchange stating that they'd recovered his crypto coins and credited them to his account. As you can probably imagine, the friend was euphoric! He was dancing and singing in the middle of the street; that's how happy he was. His crypto coins were worth more than ever before. ''So you're going to sell everything now?'' the kid asked his friend. ''No, of course not, that would be stupid! This bull-market is just starting, and I'm not planning to miss out. This is the best day of my life!'' Again, the kid conveyed his favourite sentence to his friend: ''who knows what's good, and what's bad.''

The day after the friend had reclaimed his lost crypto coins, the crypto market started to fall into a steep cliff. All of the sudden it was red all across the board. During the night, while they were asleep, his crypto holdings had depreciated with almost 50%! The kid asked his friend if he was ready to sell his crypto coins now. But, the friend didn't show the tiniest sign of doubt, and concluded that this was just a small bump in the road. The project of his investment was going to solve the global liquidity problem, what meant, according to his rationale, that it was still incredibly undervalued! Short after he made this audacious statement, the crypto markets bounced back a whole 10%. ''It's good that I didn't sell because of this small bump in the road.''

''Who knows what's good, and what's bad.''

The next day the market turned around again, and his crypto holdings depreciated another 30%. And a week later the value of his crypto holdings was even below break-even..

The friend approached the kid with tears in his eyes: ''I've lost everything.. This is terrible. Cryptocurrencies are scams, and XRP is the worst!''

To which, as you can probably guess, the kid replied:''who knows what's good, and what's bad.''

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