many such cases of lying NPCs

>>60614456 (OP)
In 2012 bitcoin probably seemed like some nigerian prince tier scam, lol at ops retarded hindsight. If you were some turbo geek than maybe you understood but for normal people no chance

>>60614456 (OP)
I didn't know about Bitcoin until 2019...

>>60614456 (OP)
I was 15 at the time. I told my dad to buy but he didn't listen. Now I remind him every day whenever he annoys me or tries to talk back to me.

>>60614456 (OP)
Yeah I "knew" about it as in I heard it being mentioned somewhere but didn't know what it was

I knew about it but didn't have any money to buy because I was 12 so I tried to mine some and turns out you need something called a "GPU" to mine and whats that so i never mined any btc

>>60614456 (OP)
One of my coworkers says that he bought and lost hundred of bitcoins during his military service (year 2002). Everybody at the office believes him.

>>60614817
I told my dad about it in like 2018 when ETH was $100 and BTC was crashing to $3000. He said "hey Anon...Shhaad uuupp" like Archie Bunker.

im in my late 30s, every normie in my circle knew about bitcoin from 2010, some of them used it for buying drugs online in the very early days.

the point is they did not keep any bitcoin, they used it as a medium of exchange, they didnt hold it, it was only purchased, to be used to buy drugs, and then abandoned when they no longer used that method of buying drugs

im not sure why you think this isnt believeable

its just depends on your age and interests

the people im around are late 30s and have always been online since the 90s

>>60614456 (OP)
Was a NEET without a care in the world posting my riced up animu desktop on /g/, remember seeing threads about bitcoin pop up when it was worth pennies.

That was unironically me, some guy offered btc as payment and I reported him for scamming

The real unforgivable mistake was I could have bought at 6k and didnt even tho I understood it much better at that point

it doesn't matter

>>60614456 (OP)
more common than you think.
not 'normie' but still. a lot of guys who were into technology and linux etc. knew about it but no one had the foresight to 'invest'

In 10 years we're all going to be the retards for not buying chainlunk for under $20, when it's trading at $5k.

>kek no way chainlink will go to $5k
That's what they said about bitcoin

>>60614456 (OP)
I actually did know about it in 2012 because of an obscure indie game called Vidiot Game (made by one of the guys who worked on Barkley Shut Up and Jam Gaiden)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVzP-8bnzC4

One of the endings even has you getting rich off bitcoin. That's how I got interested in bitcoin initially, but I didn't actually buy anything until I got like $20 of DOGE in 2014. I tried setting up mining for Bitcoin earlier, but got bored and put Linux on my PS3 to play emulators instead. Played a lot of Bonk's Adventure that summer, shame I didn't focus more on getting Bitcoin but it was fun.

It worked out anyway, got into crypto for real in 2017, so I still made millions.

>>60615214
https://gzstorm.com/vidiot-game/
Link to the game

>>60614456 (OP)
i really did when i was still a normie high schooler because my friends were buying pot, xanax and mushrooms on silk road using it. but i did know about it for real in like 2016. and now everyone thinks im rich cuz i talked about it back then, but im retarded so my net worth is still below 50k

>>60615208
lol. not buying your bags you bought for 20c. chainlink had its run up and is now at his forever peg to btc. buying chainlink at 20 will give you btc gains from here but with 50x the volatility and risk. i have more respect for shitcoin buyers

>>60614456 (OP)
i spent 0.5 BTC on drugs back in 2012. i spent 12 hours a day on a computer so i really have no excuse for not buying BTC or mining it.

I knew about it, that's why I'm on /biz/, but I've never had a job where I made enough to actually invest enough into a NON-SCAM and make it. I had like 100 bucks in 2013 and tried to use paypal cash to buy Litecoin "before it blew up" (this is when LTC was new), but realized there was no way LTC would ever hit bitcoin's highs because it was just a retarded knockoff.

>>60614851
Based lying 42yo

>>60614885
Your dad is based.

>>60615208
Shut the fuck up linkie.

>>60614456 (OP)
>tfw was already buying shitcoins and losing money back in 2017 instead of just holding BTC and ETH and doing nothing
I was just too greedy and uninformed

>>60614456 (OP)
I knew about it in 2011, but didn't buy until 2018

>>60614456 (OP)
No, they are right. Most people that weren't around back then have the wrong impression on how niche it was.
2009: high IQ nerds only, extremely niche.
2010, 2011: average tech nerds and normie drug users.
2012: already reached into the normie mainstream. In early 2012 there was a Bitcoin episode in the TV show my girlfriend used to watch. Ultra normie show (the good wife).
2013: During the bubble Bitcoin hit the reddit front page and TV news, so almost everyone knew about it.

>>60614456 (OP)
I bought and spent several bitcoin on silk road and SR2 buying strips of acid. I would also donate BTC to websites like the pirate bay. One cool thing I bought with BTC back then was a tshirt from silk road, I think I might've been one of the only people to ever buy one of those. I used to wear it around, but no one ever recognized it. I still have it too. I found out about crypto from /g/, but at the time no one saw it as an investment vehicle. It was a countereconomic black market currency that you actually used instead of hoarding

>>60614456 (OP)
Literally anyone who was a regular drug user in the 2010s new about it

>>60614456 (OP)
The Chad who actually bought and hold

I did because I was a broke child and people on /b/ kept telling me to do Bitcoin faucets for free money whenever I asked how to make money.

>>60615487
I got free bitcoin for playing minecraft over 10 years ago.

>>60615347
This. Back then, Bitcoin was not thought of an asset to invest in, it was seen as a shady way to circumvent using dollars for illegal things (Silk Road and even more heinous shit on the dark web). Even in tech/cryptography circles, we understood the technology, but questioned how it would fare in the real world. Remember that Bitcoin was not created to build wealth per se, it was created to replace currency, and currency is backed by governments, who have armies. America killed multiple dictators (Hussein, Qaddafi) for threatening the USD. Internet nerd money didn't seem likely to beat the might of the US Government.

Actually trading Bitcoins for USD required you to use an exchange. Exchanges, historically, were the biggest weak points for Bitcoin - Mt. Gox was the biggest for example and it ended with bankruptcy and a bunch of stolen Bitcoins. The whole thing smelled like a speculative bubble. Everyone advocating for Bitcoin was an autistic weirdo, which didn't help convince anyone.

Hindsight is always 20/20, and there's always an element of faith/luck to speculation. I think the people who won were the ones just smart enough to understand the theory of Bitcoin, but autistic enough to not really question it. Everyone laughs at the 10,000 BTC pizza order guy in 2010 now, but that was how people thought of BTC back then.

>t. old

Someone wanted to donate some bitcoins to me back in that era but i was too lazy to figure out how to set up a wallet and i thought it was a scam

then again i would have probably sold way before $100 already

Everyone did hear about it by about 2013 and even in 2012 many would have been aware but the thing is just hearing about it didn't mean shit, you actually had to be smart/patient/stress tolerant enough to see what was going to happen and hold that long.

Back when I first bought in 2016 or 2017 I told my close friends on FB about it but no one did anything other than one who bought 0.6 and sold it like a year later.

The only people I know who've actually done well from it were those who were extremely successful people before touching it. Just hearing about it or "almost buying didn't mean shit" if you couldn't see what was going to happen, didn't have any money to invest, couldn't handle the vol etc.

Like if you bought 100 on Silk Road and then spent them on drugs you didn't "almost make it", you weren't close cause without a proper understanding of it, extreme patience and extreme stress tolerance you wouldn't have made it to the present day.

>>60615553
I feel like the concept was/is easy to understand the hard thing was seeing that it would have value and application to people which required general intelligence rather than the autism comp sci type intelligence. You were just more likely to hear about it if you were involved in tech.

On the other hand me and the other people I know who've made serious money were exceptional at maths/physics type subjects so maybe not.

>>60615638
>the hard thing was seeing that it would have value and application to people which required general intelligence
It's totally the opposite. The autism/tech intelligence saw the theoretical concept/value of Bitcoin (replacing fiat with hard algorithms that can't be tampered with), the stretch was people thinking it would matter in the real world at all.

Lots of reputable, smart bankers/traders with millions of dollars knew about Bitcoin, but wrote off anyone even discussing it as a fringe technology. These people weren't nerd/autistic types. I'm not knocking nerds, obviously if I had been more of a nerd and dumped $10k into BTC in 2010 I would be retired now.

I invested a thousand dollars into btc in 2011

Ama

>>60615679
Yes that is what I'm trying to say, the hard part wasn't understanding it it was seeing the real world value.

Loads of tech types knew about it as well and dismissed it. I feel like you were far more likely to know about it in first place if you were involved in tech but if you couldn't see the real world potential it didn't matter.

>>60615468
How long have you been holding?

>>60614456 (OP)
>no legal clarity
>no historical precedent
>largely associated with crime, drugs, and child abuse
>multiple attempts to ban it
>many countries did ban it before later reversing course
>no easy on ramp or off ramp
>required technical literacy to self custody
>wild west of internet scams ran rampant in crypto
Jeez, yeah I wonder why they didn't buy. It's almost like it was a sure failure that miraculously overcame the odd being stacked against it.

>>60614456 (OP)
I was 18 and I had like $5k to my name with college coming and no job.

In 2014, I thought I was too late. Luckily came to my senses and picked up a stack after Trump 1.0 election in 2016.

The misc shilled it to me at around 200 bucks and I didn't buy it because I am the world's hugest phaggot

>>60615468
Larp

>>60615553
Good post. I was one of those tech adjacent lolbert types back in 2010 and this mirrors my experience. Always liked the idea of bitcoin but was doubtful the mainstream would ever adopt it (arguably it hasn't because it's not a currency now, "just" a liquidity sponge, but I'm not complaining).
>>60615638
I didn't buy in until a decade later in 2020 because I had to see it survive a severe bear market to have enough confidence to buy desu. So it's about intelligence (seeing the trend) but also risk tolerance (acting on it). I also didn't buy in the early days because self-custody was much more complicated than now and I was lazy.

>>60614456 (OP)
I knew about BTC in 2012 and never bought.

Every millennial who was on reddit knew about bitcoin in the sense that it was internet money.
We did not however, understand why it was going up, what money is, what fiat is, etc.
Also it was difficult to get for normies back in 2012.

By 2013 and for the next few years, it was known some people made a ton of money, but mostly it was being laughed as this scammy thing that losers get into thinking it will make them rich. MSM, Youtubers, every media platform made fun of Bitcoiners back then.
Additionally, when you would try to understand Bitcoin, you would wind up reading all this shit about blockchain. Even if you kind of wrapped your head around it, it still didn't explain why Bitcoin had or would in the future, go up.
People knew of bitcoin, they did not understand bitcoin.
By the late 2010's, it seemed more like some thing most people missed the boat on and still didn't really get.

You need to put all this in the proper context, and it's probably difficult for younger people:
In the early 2010's, the average millennial did not invest. They did not own stocks. They did not know anything about that. They were busy with the fact that they got rugged on their careers by the 08 crash and trying to finally get their foot in the door so they don't have to work at McDonalds.
We didn't have Robinhood or Webull. People didn't know where to start with investing. Let alone bitcoin.

Youtube was nothing compared to what it is today, and stuff like ChatGPT did not exist. Researching stuff was a lot more laborious and nobody was even thinking about investing.
Zoomers have a wildly different environment. They download an app on their smart phone and just start buying stocks. They have a million influencers talking about every stubject all day long.

>>60615553
>Everyone laughs at the 10,000 BTC pizza order guy in 2010 now, but that was how people thought of BTC back then.

Precisely. Most people knew of BTC, it was just thought of differently. Like someone getting rich off a pokemon card collection or some other "nerds get lucky" kind of thing.

In 2012 I was playing halo reach and spend 8 fucking years browsing /pol/ before going into /biz/ because it was mostly boring stock markets discussions.
also in 2012 it was very hard or complicated to buy Bitcorns
now imagine living anywhere outside the US where almost everything was banned

>>60614822
We all did. The narratives around it were different. It wasn't taken seriously as something that would replace what we considered "real money" and nobody had the financial understanding to think otherwise. It was just "internet money" that could be used if you wanted to buy something illegal.
The Bitcoin Standard came out in 2018, and I think it's since then that the narrative really started to change around what bitcoin is. But by then, it was already something cemented in most people's head as having missed the boat on.
I only started to understand BTC about a year ago when I had coworkers who are bitcoiners and would hear it talked about all day long.

>>60614502
even geeks thought it was going dump

>>60614885
same lol. my dad told me he would buy btc if it hit 3k and when i told him at that time 'u said u would buy it at this price remember' he was like UHHH IDK ANON MAYBE LATER. he had like, well over 6 figures sitting in his bank account then too but i had almost no money from working my little cashier cuck job and surviving the last bear market. nothing i could have done.

>>60614456 (OP)
Where would I even have kept it? On an HDD? You know how many HDDs I've had since 2012? I would have lost that shit years ago and thought nothing of it.

>>60615626
>Like if you bought 100 on Silk Road and then spent them on drugs you didn't "almost make it", you weren't close cause without a proper understanding of it, extreme patience and extreme stress tolerance you wouldn't have made it to the present day.

Yeah, this. I keep hearing people saying they would have been billionaires now if they bought when they first heard about it, but no, you wouldn't. You would have sold at the first 10x, maybe even sooner.

In 2026, 10k btc will buy 2 large pizzas and a liter of cola