and i never made it

36, started in 2020, down -25% or something, literally never seen profits, broke even like 6 times by now. kek

>>60517878 (OP)
and this is normal with crypto, propaganda tells you otherwise, but money in = money out, so a 10x needs ten to lose it all

>>60517878 (OP)
I'm a 43 year old mad browsing biz that knew about Bitcoin and was trying to buy Bitcoin in 2010 and I never made it.

>>60517878 (OP)
41 learned about btc in 2012,didn't get in until mid 2017. Debt free but still have to work

>>60517878 (OP)
when i was about 11 years old i started playing halo online
i eventually made "friends" with a couple of kids but there were 4 of them who became my "best friends"
we added each other on facebook and chatted about stupid shit while playing halo basically every day
one of these 4 kids, the oldest of the team, used to talk about bitcoin all the time
he called it "the next paypal"
i was about 13 years old when bitcoin reached $1 and this guy was very excited about it
he offered 10 bitcoin to each of us as a gift
one kid accepted but me and another kid declined the offer
i just wanted to play the game and learning about crypto seemed like a hassle to me
over time we stopped playing and talked less and less and by the time i was 15 the group had basically fallen apart
i still kept these guys on my facebook profile until i turned 18 and decided to close my facebook account
before closing my account i sent these guys a good bye message
only one of them replied
since we were all using pseudonyms on our facebook accounts i have no idea what their real names are so i have no way of contacting them again
if only i had know what the future would hold
in hindsight somebody basically offered me 1 million dollars for free and i said no
that is assuming i held those 10 bitcoin until today which is very unlikely but still it makes me feel a lot of regret

>>60517878 (OP)
I knew in 2014 and told everyone I knew about it. I didnt trust Coinbase enough to give my bank account # and couldn't find anyone near me to buy from. I got drunk and forgot about it until 2017...

>>60517878 (OP)
I first encountered BTC in 2010. I wanted to buy some, but I had a "youth" card that wouldn't authorize the payment. Later in 2016, I wanted to buy some again, and... I was scared. I only bought some last year. I have alts that I bought at the same time. I've only seen red. I hate crypto.

In 2017 I was smoking 1/4 oz of weed per week, and buying this off the darkweb for about 0.05 to 0.09 bitcoin per quarter ounce.
So at the lowest price of 0.05 BTC per week, that means I smoked 2.6 BTC worth of marijuana in 2017.
So like $210,000 USD.
That's a little excessive in retrospect

>>60517878 (OP)
Now I feel so much better about wanting to buy BTC at $300 but not being able due to being underage.

>>60517878 (OP)
>Knew about BTC at its inception from a BoingBoing article
>Saw it jump to $900 in the early 2010s

>went to make my own mining rig
>would have had to run a second PC all day long connected to blockchain servers
>buying/selling requires a special crypto account, have to hire a certified public accountant
>"eh, that sounds like a pain in the ass"

Whoops. Laziness kicks me in the balls again.

>>60517878 (OP)
The thing is anon, being early didn't really matter. What matter was a near religious belief that crpyto would succeed, such that taking insane feeling risks were possible.
What you need to understand is there isn't much difference from your situation in 2012 than there is now.

>>60517980
kek

>>60517988
true that's why I'm in it to win it

In order for me to make money in crypto, you need to lose yours.

>>60517980
It's not wasted/lost money tho because you actually got something for it in return that you enjoyed and that made your life more life worthy. Noone knows when our life ends, it may be even tomorrow, so it's not bad to enjoy life to its fullest at any moment possible. Just my opinion tho ;)

>>60517878 (OP)
45, mining my own btc blocks in 2011 lost it all to btc-e takedown and then mt gox collapse

mined the equivalent of $12,000,000 in LTC using kncminers imported by the container in 2015, lost it all to a divorce

> what is fucked

I wanted to buy the dip a few years back when BTC dumped to $3,500-$4,000 almost overnight.

>buy in 0.5 BTC at $2,700 when the money finally reached the account
>panic selling a few days after that unsure if it wasn't going to zero…
>bought a dog a month later with that same money
>mfw my dog is is now worth 50k

the important thing is figuring out what the next bitcoin will be. whats the next investment thats worthless but will trick 99% of cattle into buying it for a decade?

>>60517980
i would KMS if i did that

>>60517878 (OP)
I missed out on 2017 BTC due to being a child.
not happening again.

>>60517878 (OP)
You're not alone

I knew about BTC since 2011, but buying it and making a wallet seemed too hard, it wasn't as simple as it is now.

>>60517878 (OP)
>Knew about bitcoin when it dumped to 18k in 2022
>Didn't buy
>Knew about TRUMP's launch and its very likely albeit short term bool roon
>Didn't buy
>Knew about NPC and PEPE, kind of saw some potential on ETH memecoins
>Didn't buy
>Knew about XMR for half a decade at this point
>Never bought
Why am I like this? It's like I'm not really afraid to trade but subconsciously I'm being a little risk adverse bitch despite my best efforts. Is it just laziness? All of these were pretty braindead easy plays and I didn't take a single one of them.
>>60517935
I'd imagine there's a lot of stories like these from people who got in contact somehow with the nerds from back then that knew about BTC. That one story with the dude winning like 30 bitcoin from some local LAN tournament spawns in my head every now and then.

>>60517878 (OP)
Same age
I bought BTC but in 2016-2018
Never had the balls to go all in so my bag is a little more than 2 BTC.
Still wagecucking in a job I hate because 200k is fucking nothing.
Hope to retire at 50 in my shitty country. I'm probably delusional tho...

>>60517885
but biz is supposed to be the elite taking away money from normie retailers

>>60517878 (OP)
Have you tried just buying and never sell until it makes at least x10

>>60517878 (OP)
Same age as you but I heard about BTC in 2013. I remember looking into it for 10 minutes, and then quickly dismissed it as a scam. Didn't buy crypto until Jan 2018 and then got fucking wrecked in the bear market lol. Still haven't made it

>>60518232
>btc-e takedown and then mt gox collapse
btce was working years after mtgox went off you lariping faggot.

- 2013 first buy and sold all
- 2014- mid 2017 watching
- stacking since 2017
- relatively "low" amount in BTC
- lost 1.5 BTC from 2022-2023 due living off savings
- stacking back up, so many years in 5-6 figure hell is brutal

>>60517878 (OP)
You might still have a chance with AI agents like AIxbt, A47 and others

>>60517878 (OP)
i knew about bitcoin in 2011 and I didnt want to mine because my computer would be too loud

imagine that

About to turn 39 soon, did okay due to winning with trading or just being lucky. Probably have taken low six figures out of the crypto casino overall.

Biggest opportunity costs are the halcyon early days of 2010-2012 when I was well aware of it but didn't get involved until much later and 2014 when I was working shit jobs but buying straight up through Goybase at extremely cheap prices was fully available.

>>60517878 (OP)
>38 in sep
>saw that free BTC faucet website back in the day that would give you a few bitcoins for free
>young me: wtf is this scam
>close tab
Still a scam, but at least I wouldve gotten rich off it.

>>60517885
Not true, when I sell my Bitcoin that I mined to you you get a Bitcoin worth the money you paid me, so while you own the Bitcoin we both have the value of the money you paid. That's the beauty of Bitcoin.

>>60517878 (OP)
I'm 27
I knew about bitcoin back in mid or late 2011 and wanted in. At the time all I had was a shitty CPU/GPU, but still managed to mine about 10 BTC over the span of a year. 2012 my parents went through a divorce and mom moved across the country while I stayed with my dad. Mom took the computer which I didn't give a shit about at the time because to me it seemed my whole world was coming undone.
FF to now, about once a week I think about how much life would've been different if I just hung on to that machine instead of being a poorfag wagie. Realistically I would have cashed out at the 20k mark and gone through college with 200k and make it just like others. But seeing where we are today still stings.

Captcha 0KXXX

Other failed crypto was DOGE back in 2014 where I wanted to be autistic and buy 1M DOGE for 100 USD but couldn't find a reliable way to make it happen.

>>60520807
The second one is the better option. Somehow it's holding up against the bears

>>60517878 (OP)
>be 45
>be loaded
>be hearing about this thang called "Crypto"
>be understanding it's a fucking casino where the house always wins and you ain't the fucking house at all
>be sinking in 30,000 in shitcoins
>be going to the fucking moon
yeah dude, i sure missed out

>>60520847
A lot of the people who were super early got mega-fucked by Gox, so the early days of Goybase (for all their flaws, a legit merchant) is definitely something I would also consider a major missed opportunity for a lot of people.

>>60521012
>Gox
I remember them, scared me into putting my coins into a cold wallet.

>>60517878 (OP)
Similar. I had 30+ BTC in the early 2010s. Swapped it all for Bitcoin (BCH) because humanity needs micropayments and self custody of digital assets as well as a deflationary money. Exchanges and miners pulled a heist for the ticker, pumped their shitcoin and began reorganizing the chain in an attempt to kill Bitcoin. Eventually Bitcoin will win over BTC once people begin to seek shelter from hyperinflation. Then they will see just how shitty BTC actually is.

>>60517878 (OP)
I had 38 BTC on mount gox I have an image in my brain clear as day like it was yesterday

>>60520922
>I wanted to be autistic and buy 1M DOGE for 100 USD
i did this in dec 2013 and stored the DOGE on cryptsy exchange. all gone due to "hack". never bought back in.

>just finished high school in 2011
>live in the middle of nowhere and can't get work because I don't have a car
>only money is birthday money I've saved over the years
>don't even have a credit card or paypal
>hear about this bitcoin thing
>internet money? how is that any better than runescape gold?
>whatever i want to buy steam games so maybe this will be a way to get some
>download wallet
>takes days to sync
>eventually starts mining
>computer sounds like a jet engine and bedroom heats to a sauna level
>whatever I'll just leave it for a few days
>3 days later, can barely sleep from the fan and coil whine and sweating my ass off
>still 0 btc mined
>fuck it
>close btc wallet
>peaceandquiet.jpg
>try to get btc other ways, learn about faucets
>wow they used to give more than 1 btc? all they give is 0.001 btc now
>whatever i'll claim them once a day for awhile
>forget after a few days, go to college, focus on studying
>hear about btc going to 1k and crashing
>damn I missed my one chance to make it, guess btc is dead now, I can't even find the wallet with the faucet btc anymore
>dogecoin seems funny, even though it already went up and crashed, I'll spend a few months mining that with my shitty school laptop
>accumulate 70k doge, stop mining and forget about crypto again
>finish college, get big boy job in 2015
>friend tells me to buy eth in 2016
>"lol just like dogecoin" I joke but I didn't look into it at all
>forget about it until march 2017, hear coworker talking about accumulating eth
>read about it
>shit this is really cool
>i have some money now, guess I'll buy some
>start buying as much as I can but coinbase limits me to $300/week
>price keeps rising
>panic wire transfer 4k to a random bank in japan and all in eth with it
>get into ICOs
>portfolio tops at 850k early 2018
>hodl until entire portfolio crashes to 30k like a retard
>fuck it, diversify into 1 btc, 32 eth, and 5k link, and random other shitty alts
>be me today
>only have 330k

>>60517878 (OP)
Most people our age knew about BTC since like 2011-2012.
Most of us just didn't understand the idea behind it, it was just "neat internet money", and usually if we thought about it, it was in the news for sky-rocketing and everyone thought it peaked.

>>60517988
This. Most of us OP's age heard of it. But most people didn't "get it". Most people still don't "get it" today.

>>60517878 (OP)
I remember one drunk night me and my freinds tried to figure out how to buy it but couldn't figure it out it was 5 dollars ftw

>>60517878 (OP)
>>60517884
>>60517914
I Remember the First threads on /b/ and /g/ about bitcoin in probably 2009/10.
I remember a day in 2013 the first time browsing /biz/ thinking "maybe I can make some money following this board "
I remember to talk with a friend who use to train with me that was sceptical about Bitcoin at 200$, and I told him that is gonna pump even more
I remember that I solved some captcha in exchange for some bitcoin in 2010 or 9, but I used to create a lot of mails accounts and some I don't even remember.
Finally I decided to buy crypto in summer of 2020 try to send money for buy 2k of doge and 2k of ETH I can't connect to my bank account because I'm in Thailand.
Go back to my country decide to buy in May 2021 I bought doge and others coin doge pump because SNL musk, than everything start to dump , I continue to buy, the second pump in November I go back green, than dump again.
So I close my positions and put everything on TRX and stacking everything seems going good.
December 2023 swap to doge
2024 Doge pump finally I make some money
Swap my doge for FET in march More money.
FET do the merge
Dump
I lost almost everything, but I learnt a lot of things