one thing i did learn especially with shib was to not take profits in non stables like eth. tho i did get burnt when saitama came around with profits sent to UST so not everything is stable. better to USD if anything tho USDC seems good as well from what I seen. I think that what definitely scared me far as profit goes was all the talk about raising capital gains taxes by the democrats. especially since i didn't have much time in the investments, definitely less than a year. i was skeptical about paying 40, 50 or even more of a percentage cuz of all the talk especially during the election season prior. Kind of still am which is why even tho I do take profit, not much these days cuz of the market conditions, i tend to spread it out instead of everything at once. I'll convert stuff to stable but won't cash out any large amounts at one time to not raise any red flags. i think of that stupid idea they had to track every bank transaction over $600 or whatever it was they had been talking about early this year or last year, and i think of how ridiculous the whole crypto and government thing has been thru all this. it seems like they were taking money from SBF and who knows what other involvements they've had in any of the fukkery. hopefully we can weather this storm and get back to better conditions over time. all the fukkery and the industry still running so there's hope still alive.