Two years ago my grandpa told me I was an idiot for investing in cryptocurrency. Today I sold some BTC to help him pay for his hospital bills.

My grandpa currently doesn't have private healthcare, he fell off the stairs and luckily only broke his arm, it was a triple fracture, he is covered by universal healthcare but we were told he needed to wait between 2 to 5 months for a team of specialists to perform the surgery, so my family opted for a private clinic instead.

Grandpa insisted he wanted to pay all by himself, but in order to do so he would have had to spend all of his life savings since it's a really expensive surgery and he needs a prosthesis. So we split the bills between my dad, my uncle and I. Now, I won't tell my grandpa I used crypto money to help him, the biggest satisfaction was being able to help my family, and all because of my initial investment in crypto. I'm still HODL and DCAing btw. But no amount of money/cryptocurrency can replace the people you love, remember why you got into crypto in the first place, people matter, money comes and goes.

I needed to tell somebody, so I'm sharing my story here. I don't come from wealth so, hadn't I invested in early 2019, I would've never been able to help my family financially. That's why I'm so thankfull with the whole Crypto ecosystem, and you people are all part of it.

So I guess this is the same piece of advice we are constanly repeating on this sub, but it's the truth, if you DYOR and understand what you are getting into, no matter what the project if you believe it has potential they don't let anybody discourage you, invest wisely what you can afford to lose and HODL.

Edit: Spelling.