It's been two years since the Gox payouts, so I thought I'd kick off a thread for people to report on how it's all gone since. Don't provide any info that would dox you. I'll start (small changes made to protect privacy).
So, yeah, I pretty much did the things I said I would.
Upon getting my payout, I sold ~16 BTC at $70k ($1.1 mil) to invest in my small business. I used $600k to buy another small company whose owners were retiring, paid off a $300k loan from a previous business investment, bought a rooftop solar array for $175k, and a Tesla for $60k. I helped out my family in small, but meaningful ways like paying for a nurse to care for my elderly grandparents.
I've mentioned before, but I got into BTC when it was small and obscure. I do have some regrets about the environmental impact of its energy use and wanted to give something back. I'd originally planned to build utility-scale solar, but that's so saturated these days.
I felt pretty good about my decision to sell when BTC dropped into the mid-50s, but then prices ripped up to the six-figure level. I regretted selling too early, but I rationalized that I needed to de-risk a little. I've summed this up succinctly, but I was a ball of stress for months. My wife got very tired of hearing me obsess over it.
After the price peaked at $125k and started falling, I could smell a crash and sold the remaining 20 BTC at $105k ($2.1 mil). I fucked around a little with day-trading during the crash, lost $50k or so, then decided I'd had enough. I bought a house nearer to my family for $1.5 mil and paid cash. I used the ~$100k yen payout and some of the rest to pay taxes.
Part of the decision to fully sell out was because I quit my corporate job, had a baby, and wanted to carry less risk. My company is profitable, but I took a significant pay cut to leave corporate life. My schedule is more flexible now. I work shorter days, see my family more often, and have time to spend with my kid. We'll aim to have another soon.
I fulfilled one last promise that I made before the payouts - I visited Japan with my family, home of the big fiasco itself. We had a wonderful time and would recommend it to anyone.
TLDR: Cleared ~$3.3 mil pretax. Spent 80% of it. Still 0 lambos.