<story><title>Show HN: The Coinbase FOMO Calculator</title><url>https://vidacode.github.io/CoinbaseFomoCalculator/</url><text>Made this using Power BI and the Crypto Watch API. 
Started making this in November 2021, but never got around to publishing it, so that is the reason for the &amp;#x27;FOMO&amp;#x27; in the title - probably a good thing if you &amp;#x27;missed out&amp;#x27; on the crypto hype late last year. Now it serves as a way to see how much you &amp;#x27;saved&amp;#x27; by not putting in money.&lt;p&gt;Hope someone finds it fun!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>fishtoaster</author><text>A good counter to &amp;quot;I could have made $X bazillion if I&amp;#x27;d gotten into Y thing at Z time&amp;quot; is to remember that you could have doubled your money at the horse track yesterday by betting on the right horse at the right time.&lt;p&gt;So the only question is: what&amp;#x27;s different between Y thing and horse betting?  Did you have enough information at Z time to know you should have invested?  Or are you just wishing you could have predicted the future?&lt;p&gt;Anyway, that&amp;#x27;s the framing I use to counter the regret of not getting into any given asset that&amp;#x27;s appreciated a lot in a short period: BTC, tesla stock, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ramraj07</author><text>The issue is that many of us WeRE present and actively monitoring crypto. Heck I even tried to mine bitcoin back when you had a chance to mine one in your own gpu. I even thought maybe I’ll buy a coin or two; it’s only 20 bucks each!&lt;p&gt;But “better judgement” said that it’s a currency it shouldn’t appreciate so why bother unless you want to actually use it?&lt;p&gt;So if there’s regret it’s because many of us feel almost penalized for applying better judgement. It’s like you’re rewarded for stupidity. Not a single person I know and actually respect invested in crypto, and half brained idiots I know have become millionaires. So yeah this is not like horse betting.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: The Coinbase FOMO Calculator</title><url>https://vidacode.github.io/CoinbaseFomoCalculator/</url><text>Made this using Power BI and the Crypto Watch API. 
Started making this in November 2021, but never got around to publishing it, so that is the reason for the &amp;#x27;FOMO&amp;#x27; in the title - probably a good thing if you &amp;#x27;missed out&amp;#x27; on the crypto hype late last year. Now it serves as a way to see how much you &amp;#x27;saved&amp;#x27; by not putting in money.&lt;p&gt;Hope someone finds it fun!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>fishtoaster</author><text>A good counter to &amp;quot;I could have made $X bazillion if I&amp;#x27;d gotten into Y thing at Z time&amp;quot; is to remember that you could have doubled your money at the horse track yesterday by betting on the right horse at the right time.&lt;p&gt;So the only question is: what&amp;#x27;s different between Y thing and horse betting?  Did you have enough information at Z time to know you should have invested?  Or are you just wishing you could have predicted the future?&lt;p&gt;Anyway, that&amp;#x27;s the framing I use to counter the regret of not getting into any given asset that&amp;#x27;s appreciated a lot in a short period: BTC, tesla stock, etc.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rplnt</author><text>With BTC especially, my argument (to myself) is that if I weren&amp;#x27;t lazy and got BTC at $20 I would have definitely sold at $100.</text></comment>