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I'm still confused (starting to fill with regret?) about bitcoin. I remember lively discussions with friends circa 2012. None of us bought. We'd be centi-mil

I'm still confused (starting to fill with regret?) about bitcoin. I remember lively discussions with friends circa 2012. None of us bought. We'd be centi-millionaires? Is HN now full of mega-millionaires, since the community is full of tech-savvy early adopters? Raise your hand if you made over a million. Raise both hands if you've made over 10 million.

maxencecornet 9y ago
>I remember lively discussions with friends circa 2012. None of us bought. We'd be centi-millionaires? Most people talked about it, few did buy. But the feeling when you've bought and lost the ability to recover your wallet is even worse then not having bought some ! I actually did buy some, but lost my wallet, like so many I know my adress, and the coins are still there, but I can't do anything about it, not idea where my backup wallet.dat is.. I mean, it's pretty tough to keep track of your digital assets for years, while your mind in thinking about work, friends ect..
Grangar 9y ago
I sold almost all my over 2000 coins back in 2011. No one who has bought big back then has held on all this time, the only new crypto millionaires are those who find old wallets just now.
joshstrange 9y ago
Ehh, I tell this story often enough when BTC comes up but here it goes: I mined (on a CPU) 100 BTC solo back when it was first released. They weren't worth even a $1 at that time. Here I am now and I doubt I even still have the hard drive that I mined them on and if I did have it I have formatted it many times over. Those BTC are lost for forever. Whenever I feel a pang of anger/guilt I just remind myself that I would have sold when BTC hit $8 if not even sooner than that and in some ways that would be worse than what really happened.
twayamznacct 9y ago
Thoughts like these are what have really reduced my will to live. If I had made a simple decision back then there's a good chance I'd never have to waste my life working again. I could have been freed by now, to live a life dedicated to whatever I wanted to do, whenever I wanted to do it.
heywire 9y ago
I'm still holding on to my dogecoin, just in case... /s

maxencecornet 9y ago

>I remember lively discussions with friends circa 2012. None of us bought. We'd be centi-millionaires? Most people talked about it, few did buy. But the feeling when you've bought and lost the ability to recover your wallet is even worse then not having bought some ! I actually did buy some, but lost my wallet, like so many I know my adress, and the coins are still there, but I can't do anything about it, not idea where my backup wallet.dat is.. I mean, it's pretty tough to keep track of your digital assets for years, while your mind in thinking about work, friends ect..

Grangar 9y ago

I sold almost all my over 2000 coins back in 2011. No one who has bought big back then has held on all this time, the only new crypto millionaires are those who find old wallets just now.

joshstrange 9y ago

Ehh, I tell this story often enough when BTC comes up but here it goes: I mined (on a CPU) 100 BTC solo back when it was first released. They weren't worth even a $1 at that time. Here I am now and I doubt I even still have the hard drive that I mined them on and if I did have it I have formatted it many times over. Those BTC are lost for forever. Whenever I feel a pang of anger/guilt I just remind myself that I would have sold when BTC hit $8 if not even sooner than that and in some ways that would be worse than what really happened.

twayamznacct 9y ago

Thoughts like these are what have really reduced my will to live. If I had made a simple decision back then there's a good chance I'd never have to waste my life working again. I could have been freed by now, to live a life dedicated to whatever I wanted to do, whenever I wanted to do it.

heywire 9y ago

I'm still holding on to my dogecoin, just in case... /s