Everyone that says this doesn't know how hard it was to get back then. I started looking for a way to buy it when it was at a buck fifty, and it took me until i

Everyone that says this doesn't know how hard it was to get back then. I started looking for a way to buy it when it was at a buck fifty, and it took me until it was at four dollars before I finally was able to do the transaction (in cash in person at a cafe in Toronto with a off-grid cryptoanarchist). The easiest way back then was to try to figure out how to install the GPU miner and then just hope that the block difficulty did spike because everyone else was doing the same thing. When I wen't back to start selling bitcoins when it started going north of 50 bucks a coin, it was too easy, Mtgox did a direct wire to my bank account and I was limited to a certain amount per day or month (can't remember). As for buying it now: Right now the bet is whether or not you think that bitcoin will survive governments worldwide trying to clamp down on it and whether or not you think it will scale to billions of transactions a day. I put the first one on about 10% chance of happening and the second one on about 30% chance of happening, so about 3% chance total. If it hits that 3% the maximum I think bitcoin could be worth is about ten million dollars a coin ($10k average purchasing power for a couple billion people). So I made my profit already (on my original bet that it would gain momentum, which it has) and now I'm riding a decently likely (given the payout) lottery ticket.