Monero is volatile. Down 30% months happen. Down 60% years have happened. This is the cost of holding an asset whose value derives from its utility, whose utility derives from its privacy, and whose price discovery happens on thin venues subject to the suppression dynamics described above.

The framing that helps: you're not holding a price chart. You're holding a tool — a way to transact privately, to send value across borders without permission, to opt out of the surveillance infrastructure of conventional finance. The price reflects what the market thinks that's worth at any given moment. The utility is constant.

Hold what you can afford to forget about for five years. Don't margin. Don't lend. Don't put it on an exchange overnight. The asset class is young; the regulatory landscape is in motion; the only thing you fully control is your own custody.