In the summer of 2011 I spent my life savings on Bitcoins. Took me about two years of following the ins and outs of the community before taking the plunge. Sho

In the summer of 2011 I spent my life savings on Bitcoins. Took me about two years of following the ins and outs of the community before taking the plunge. Shortly thereafter I lost my job and had to do a fire sale of everything to keep pushing and living in a city that is now more expensive than New York City. Back then, to me, bitcoins were worthless. I couldn't pay rent, my landlord laughed. I couldn't buy food, no one even heard of it. It was still too nerdy, showing people a long chain of non-sensical numbers and letters didn't elicit confidence that I am a sane enough person to not pay for goods and services with dollar bills. So I decided to sell all of my bitcoins. The exchange I bought the coins from went bankrupt but the operators were decent enough to at least cut a check for me. A year later. But I could have been a millionaire. Could have been somebody! Then again, when I think about it, really think about it I missed out on: - first dot com boom - first round of war profiteering - housing market boom - second internet boom - second round of war profiteering - the forex boom - the gold boom - AAPL - GOOG To quote the greatest warrior-poet of our generation, Kanye West: Now everything I'm not, made me everything I am.