Like I said, I feel awful for the person giving the bad advice (you, here) and the people who will listen to it.

Bitcoin is not in its mania phase haha, far faaaaaar from it. It is still in its smart money phase (i.e. most people haven't even heard of it yet, let alone have any money in it, and most people who have heard of it only hear about it when its making news for going up so much and so everytime those people hear about it they claim its in a bubble, no matter how many times it goes up, the "bubble" pops temporarily, and then it keeps heading higher. Institutional investors haven't even started getting into it yet, let alone the public heavily adopting it. It is still incredible niche, hardly anyone has bitcoin yet on the global scale. Its going up so quickly because it is at the very bottom of the exponential curve.

Wait a couple years, until any investment firm worth anything allows people to buy bitcoin through them and people start to view having bitcoin as a normal part of their investment portfolio. Price will be at the very least several tens of thousands if not over a hundred thousand dollars a coin by then, and still heading skyward.

Made over 100k investing in cryptocurrencies (mostly Ethereum and Bitcoin) in less than a year. Not saying I wasn't a little lucky with my timing, 'cause I was. But still, cryptocurrencies aren't going to disappear all of a sudden, there is a lot of future in blockchain technology. Many financial and tech-related companies are already heavily invested in it.

Might I ask, what was your initial investment(s)?

That depends, an used good condition greatest hits label version can go for like 20~25 bucks, an original sealed copy could get to about between those 100 bucks and it plus its twin brother.

If you have time to lol go get some LoD as well.

Step it up.

My bad.

About 8k initially. A little more after I invested a part of my profits. Definitely not more than 10k in total though.

When I started investing in Ethereum, 1 ETH was worth about €10. Now it's worth €260 (after falling from over €350 in June).

Looks like it would be a good time to cash out before the next bubble pops.  Do you report your profits on your taxes?  I assume one could keep it a secret but if you use major trading sites like Coinbase I believe they might report your activities to the IRS (not sure).

Tis a shame you invested about 3 days too late to take advantage of the Bitcoin Cash split.

"If I own Bitcoin, do I automatically own Bitcoin Cash too?
Anyone who held Bitcoin at the time Bitcoin Cash was created became owners of Bitcoin Cash. This means that Bitcoin holders as of block 478558 (August 1st, 2017 about 13:16 UTC) have the same amount of Bitcoin Cash as they had Bitcoin at that time. If your Bitcoins are stored by a third party such as an exchange, then you must inquire with them about your Bitcoin Cash.

Any transactions after the August 1st ledger split are completely separate between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash. This means any Bitcoin acquired after the split does not include any Bitcoin Cash, and any Bitcoin Cash does not include any Bitcoin."

https://www.bitcoincash.org/

Bitcoin cash is at around 640 dollars per coin right now.