Why Do You Have Coins You Hate in Your Portfolio?
The person was telling me, as they were showing me their portfolio on Coinbase, and I asked, "Which of these coins do you think is the worst?" They said, "Well, I hate these two coins." I'm like, "Well, why do you have coins you hate in your portfolio?" And they said, "Well, I bought them, I've lost money on them, and I'm just hoping they'll go up." That I don't understand. Why would you keep them and wait for them to go up? If you hate coins in your portfolio, the thing to do would be to get rid of them, right? Not financial advice.
I'm all in on ICP because ICP is the one coin I love in crypto. I will sacrifice. I will hurt. I will go down to zero — zero — for the coin I love. But I'm not holding a coin I hate in my portfolio. And I imagine some of you are in the same position today. If you go on your Coinbase or your Binance account, or KuCoin, or MEXC, or Poloniex if it still exists — maybe it does — wherever y'all are trading today, Hyperliquid, Dexy — nobody's trading on Dexy — I invite you to go look in your account and see if there's a coin you hate.
Because this is something psychologically that we do to ourselves. Lots of us will bring people, investments, and things into our lives that we hate. Then we'll complain about them. Then we'll feel bad about them. But from my point of view, you have very limited space in your life, in your crypto portfolio, in your relationships. It's absolutely essential to clear out anything you hate, because that's taking up space that could be filled by something — or someone — you love.
The Couch You Hate Is Easier to Get Rid of Than You Think
In crypto, this is so obvious. Sometimes in your house, maybe you have a couch that you hate. It's probably pretty obvious you should just get rid of that couch and buy another one. But in crypto, you have these coins sitting in your portfolio and you hate them — yet you're hoping you'll love them one day. You're hoping they'll go up in price and then you'll love them. But here's the thing: if you hate them now, just because of the price or because of something else, you don't have to keep holding on to them. It's not like a couch, where it might take some work to get the couch out of your house and some significant money to buy a new one. Literally, you can just push a button and get rid of something you hate out of your portfolio. It's so easy.
But I understand, because of human psychology, we often don't want to close the doors on things. It can actually be difficult to look at this coin in your portfolio that you purely feel bad about. You bought it, you lost money on it, and the feeling you have now is that you hate it. Yet there's this sense that it's part of an identity — that this coin is part of me now, it's part of my portfolio. Just like that couch you might hate: well, that's my couch. And the miracle is when you can let go of it and say, that's not my couch anymore. That's not my coin anymore. To honor it: look, I made a mistake buying that coin. I didn't research it. I didn't think that through. I forgive myself for buying that coin, and I'm going to let it go — let it go so I can make space, whether it's cash in a bank or a coin I love like ICP. The miracle is when you can just let go of that.
Opportunity Cost: The 2x You're Hoping For vs. the 50x You'd Miss
It can be hard sometimes. The person on the call yesterday said they were kind of feeling aggravated by having me sit there and witness this and point these things out. But at the same time, just witnessing the honesty of "I hate this coin" matters. I asked, "Why do you hate it?" "Well, I hate the team, the marketing — they're jerks." "So you're still holding money in it?" "Well, I'm hoping the price will go up later." So let's look at opportunity cost. How would you feel if this coin did go up 2x, but ICP went up 50x? Now you'd hate the coin even more, wouldn't you? Because not only did you hate it to begin with, but then you missed out on a 50x because you were hoping this coin would do a 2x.
To me, what a lot of us need to do in crypto is look at which coin we would go to zero with. Which is my ride-or-die coin? I love holding ICP, and that makes it easy. If you have coins you hate in your portfolio, crypto is hard, because it's like you have poison in your crypto portfolio. And with that poison sitting there, you feel bad. When you look at your portfolio, you feel bad. You feel stupid. Ironically, it can be hard to stop feeling bad or stupid until you face honestly in the mirror that feeling bad or stupid is a temporary thing you can do something about.
What Dating Taught Me About Letting Go
When I shared my experience with this person, I said that usually what I feel bad about most is my own decisions. And sometimes people will bring out what I feel bad about and I won't realize it. Like this woman I dated. In a vlog on the Jerry Banfield channel, I talked about it — "the queen goes cold" was one of the most miserable days I've had in a long time. Realizing she's pulled away. It's gone. It's over. It was just agonizing to open my heart and really love someone and go all in, and then watch it go to zero — and then to not play the game that I knew how to play. I'm talking more about that in the vlogs and on my Jerry Banfield dating channel, where we go into all these dynamics as well.
The comparison, though, is that if you clear out space — there were many women I went out with that I was not interested in, and I'm so glad I didn't keep seeing them. And some of the ones that weren't interested in me didn't keep seeing me, and because of that I had space. What was really hard for me in dating and letting go of this woman — the queen, as I call her — was facing that I feel bad about my own behavior. I feel bad that I told her I'd be patient when I'm not going to date one person at a time and be patient. I feel bad that I acted so needy. I feel bad that I took her literally when she said she didn't want to play games — I took that to mean I could just honestly express my feelings and my emotions and what I was experiencing with her, without filtering it and considering my audience. I felt bad about my own behavior.
At first, the first thing I observed was looking at her and being frustrated and aggravated with her and her behavior. But underneath all that was feeling bad about my own behavior, and realizing that the path forward was to forgive myself — because I have to live with myself every day. I don't have to live with her. I might not see her again, but I have to live with myself every day. That's why I make this analogy: crypto can get a bit esoteric and hard to relate to, but you can definitely relate to dating somebody and focusing all your attention on them and what they did wrong, and that they should and they shouldn't. If you can forgive yourself for your own actions, that's the secret to moving forward.
Forgive Yourself First, Then Say Thank You
So ironically, if you really want to have a crypto portfolio you love and you've got all these garbage coins — and to me, almost everything besides ICP is a garbage coin — it starts with forgiveness. Looking through this person's portfolio yesterday, there were coins that were absolutely horrible. One project had literally shut down. They had announced a month or so ago that the project was shutting down — the team themselves said they were shutting down — and still the coin was sitting in this person's portfolio. I'm like, this project literally said they're shutting down; that's an extreme risk on that coin. And a couple of other coins were just "I hate these coins" or "I don't even know what this coin is or what it does." There's an obvious solution. But it starts with saying to yourself: I forgive you. I forgive myself for buying these coins without researching them. I forgive myself for buying something and then losing money on something I now hate. From forgiving yourself, then you can move forward.
That's been my main exercise, and it has been the biggest pain point with dating this woman over the last month. Every time I start thinking about her now — wishing she was different, wishing all this stuff — it's like: I forgive you, buddy. I love you, buddy. I forgive you. I forgive you for how you acted. From other people's point of view, I probably didn't act that bad. But I feel bad that I was so excited, and the way I acted, I didn't give her space when she asked for it. Now I haven't talked to her in a week. It's like: I forgive you. And once I forgive myself, then I can accept the world as it is, and then I can start saying thank you. Thank you that I had an amazing week with this woman. Thank you that I learned so much.
You can do that with your crypto portfolio. You can say: thank you that I learned a valuable lesson. Thank you that I've learned never again will I hold a coin that I hate — never again will I even hold a coin I'm apathetic about. I just bought a thousand more ICP today, which I talked about in a recent video on my ICP crypto channel called I Bought $2,100 More ICP Today. What I will never do in crypto is hold a coin that I hate, or that I'm apathetic about, or that I'm just getting to try and promote it. All the coins I hold going forward will be coins I absolutely love.
Same thing with dating: I will only date and commit to a woman I absolutely love and am really excited to have in my life — and I just have to pace myself on communicating that with her, and encourage her not to watch my vlogs. Same thing with my kids: I absolutely love my kids. Same thing with my work: I absolutely love my work. And if I'm not loving my work as a YouTuber, I need to change how I'm doing it, because there's every opportunity for me to love it. I even hated my work as a YouTuber in 2025. I deleted all my channels.
Deleting My Channels Showed Me What I Love
That helped me return to how much I love my work, because after deleting YouTube and trying to make a business locally, I realized I'm very good at YouTube — and it turns out I'm a dummy and suck at almost anything else I try to do locally. So even if you have to dump your entire portfolio and get rid of every single crypto you have, that kind of reset could help you figure out: which coin could I buy and love? Which coin would I be proud to be in, no matter how the price moves — price up, price down, I don't care, because I love the coin, I love the team, I love the project, I love what it's adding to the world?
To Me, the Only Coin Worth Loving Is ICP
To me, that answer is obvious, which is why I have a whole channel just for ICP. In my view, the only coin worth loving is ICP. I mean, Bitcoin is unlovable to me. I was going to make a crude joke about how bloated and big Bitcoin is — Bitcoin is too big and bloated for me to find any love with it. Same thing with Ethereum: in my opinion it's way overbought, way overhyped, and the technology sucks. The Bitcoin tech sucks too, as I see it — it's all marketing. I can't stand Bitcoin or Ethereum, and I can't stand almost any coin in crypto right now besides ICP, because in my experience the tech itself doesn't do anything fundamentally useful for the world. And all these predators have come in to leech on things like Bitcoin and Ethereum, to extract value out of people in the name of the Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains. That's my opinion, and I clearly wasn't giving financial advice here.
Fill Your Life With Things You Love
What I am encouraging you to do is have a life filled with things, investments, people, hobbies, and a place to live that you love. Fill your life with things you love, and let go of things you hate. Let go even of things you feel apathy about. And yeah — lightning literally struck right when I said that, so that must have been really powerful.
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You can even show me the portfolio you have on Coinbase, and I'll just look at it, listen to you talk about it, and ask you questions. It can be extremely therapeutic. It's not therapy — not mental health therapy or anything like that — but just being witnessed sometimes can move miracles and move mountains.
If you'd like that, you can schedule a call with me and we'll go through it together.
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