/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>28175766
Me. I had $500 in it. Figured it was gone so I held. I sold it all when it hit $50 for the first time. Was certain another mega crash was incoming and this was my time to get out and actually make some money.

It causes me daily anxiety to think about

>>28175766
with today's prices I've spend at least 500k worth of BTC or drugs

>>28176294
How do you feel?

>>28175766
2013 here, I'd be surprised if there was anyone from 2012 or earlier here

>>28176199
it crashed when it hit $100 wtf are you talking about. You would have had plenty of chances to get back in.

>>28175766
At one point I owned 900 BTC. Down to 2 now. I did it wrong.

>>28175766
That's nothing. I remember when someone posted bitcoin to /b/ as soon as it came out, I thought it was for videogames. I try to forget about it

>>28176199
>It causes me daily anxiety to think about
Don't think too much about it man.
I'm pretty sure that 99% of holders from that time sold at some point when they saw real money. If someone asked me in 2011 what's more likely to happen in 2021: murrica getting destroyed by asteroid or BTC hitting 40k+, I'd go with space rock for sure.

>>28176355
You’d be surprised. biz is one of the oldfaggiest boards, if not the oldfaggiest.

>>28176460

I am from 07,
I used to trade bitcoin for TF2 hats and keys.
The people that held I think they just forgot about them.
Kinda like how I forgot about my TF2 keys.
Not sure how much they are worth now but definitely not 40k.
Maybe 2 dollars instead of 1.75

>>28176355
I started posting on 4chan around 2006
never gave a single fuck about crypto until like 2013/2014 but buying it was so confusing that I gave up
I made a btc-e account and didn't even get anything from doing that apart from getting my email leaked

Mined mine on this son of a gun with dormitory power boys. I can’t believe Sergey was cloud mining back then, he really is visionary I’ll give him that.

>>28176739
>still fucking up posts
>still can’t triforce

>>28176565
>>28176355
I predict it won't be that way forever. I think most oldfags are like me and left 4chan(/b/) around the 2012 cancer years and only came back for /biz/.

>>28176460
I sold it and never looked at crypto again for about half a decade. Do keep in mind these were my high school and early college days, the fact I made any money on something I was certain was a scam just felt like a stroke of luck and I shouldn’t mess with it a second time

>>28176535
I know man, I’m sure there are tons of people out there with thousands of BTC in a wallet they forgot about when it was barely worth dirt. It’s still hard to shake that lingering thought that making it was at my fingertips and I let it slip away.

imagine being that guy who dropped 20 BTC on pizza in 2011 because using it as a currency was still a goal back then
that's like a million dollars now lmao

>>28175766
yep. I'm the one that made that thread, back when /g/ actually had a pretty significant influence on the market. I was trying to fud so I could accumulate. I'm now a gorillionaire. AMA

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>>28176565
>2013
>oldfag
Another proof daily stormers, /pol/tards and mobile posters destroyed 4chan

>>28177061
It was 20k btc for the pizza anon, 20k...

Who are these people that leave 4chan. You don't leave you just switch boards until you find a culture you like.

>>28176579

Those 1.75 keys are now worth 2.5 bux and some are worth 5 to 7.
Unironically a good investment.
I will cash out and buy some mc coin.

https://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/730/CS%3AGO%20Case%20Key

>>28177156
2006 here, new friend

>>28176355
2011 here... I lost my private key for one wallet, formated the hard drive... but I had a second wallet with a few more BTC and so I bought in 2013 games on steam and origin for BTC, using key seller websites.

...I've never played the games...

>>28175766
>it was really this easy to become a billionaire

First bought in January 2012

>>28176355
Why?

>>28175766
i bought bitcoin in 2005

>>28176924
>I’m sure there are tons of people out there with thousands of BTC in a wallet they forgot about when it was barely worth dirt.
Once BTC hit the news with $1000 price, I'm pretty sure that most of them rushed to their mom basements in hopes of finding their wallets on old hardrives (even my grandma knew about Bitcoin in 2017). I was one of those too. Mined a bit when I was toying with idea of internet money in early 2010's. Missed the selling boat when it hit $1000, but once $2700 hit the news I sold all of it w/o thinking much.
Do I regret it? Kinda, but no one can predict the future, the top or the bottom. Profit is still a profit. It's better to gain little than gamble your house and savings away.

>>28177328
Sorry for your loss

I was struggling in the years it took me to move out of the hood. I needed all the resources I had to get out. Its nice to think I could have held BTC this long but I was desperate for money. Im on my way to Baller Town now though.

>>28177328
>...I've never played the games...
Bought TTORtanic expansion for 0.25BTC
It was pretty fun tho

>>28177192
BTC was like 50¢ in 2011 tho

I was studying computer science when around 2006?? I remember me and all my nerd friends discussing what an interesting concept it was. Not a single one of us bought any.

>>28176883
>>28176355
I’ve been on 4chan since 2009. Only started lurking /biz/ in 2020 though

>>28176199
I had well over 500 BTC at one point and it all went away when my laptop with the wallet was stolen. I mined every single one on that very same laptop.

>>28177463
>no one can predict the future, the top or the bottom. Profit is still a profit. It's better to gain little than gamble your house and savings away.
This. People focus too much on missing the top but don't see the other end of hitting the bottom. It's always easy to say what you should've done when you see everything in hindsight. It'd be like feeling bummed you missed the lottery after the numbers are drawn. You didn't have the same information in the past.

>>28176294
Ditto. Probably a bit more, there was a time where I was buying considerable amounts of drugs for college students. So with BTC at 40k I've easily spent over 1M+ in today's prices. Never held any cause I was too sus, did hop on the ETH train though, so I'm not doing bad. Right now I'm bullish on ADA long term.

Started lurking like 11 years ago when was 12, didn’t start lurking biz till 2017. It’s changed me.

>>28175766
Pain

>>28177599
>2006
b8

I'm from those days in terms of 4chan but never bought until 2018. Even then it was a tiny amount which I managed to drunkenly lose access to. Basically I'm never going to make it. But I also didn't have the money to consider putting some in until very recently

>>28177686
sorry to hear anon. if it's any consolation you can just tell a story how you were part of one of the highest robberies ever at almost $25,000,000. maybe you can turn it into a book and make a bit of money from it.

Does anyone have the one for Eth? It still makes me mad /biz/ talked me out of getting in when it was under $1.

>>28177061
Imagine all these guys which lost their coins in another way. Just read about a German who got 7000 btc on his wallet but can’t remember the password. He tried 8 times to unlock it and only has 2 tries left and spent hundreds of hours in searching for the paper he noticed it on. >>28177080


At this point I guess I would just throw this thing away and try to forget it.

I remember using some gambling site for 0,1 bitcoin per spin
Was basically the only legitimate way to use your coins back then

>>28178499
Me too, I was on a minecraft server that paid out btc for blocks broken

Made a cool $200

>>28178707
>$200
at the time, or...?

>>28178749
At the time, don't even feel bad about it honestly, I can't say OH FUCK IF I HAD ONLY HELD, I was in a totally different headspace, same as 20k btc pizza bitch, it's brand new tech and you're just like wow cool, I'm getting paid for doing nothing!

Course it would be cool if I had it now, but again, in that mindset I probably would have sold at 500, 1000, 10000 since I was working bullshit dead end jobs. When money is sparse, you don't think of what it could be in 7 years, you wanna burn it

>>28175766
first time I ever heard the word Bitcoin was in 2012 in relation to mining it, probably from /v/ or /g/
didn't know what it was besides some software obviously and didn't pay it any more thought than that
perhaps until I heard about it next in the bubble of late 2013

people don't realize that in the moment you don't think about these things, not in a broader context, not at all, unless they become something later

I even got excited in late 2013 early 2014 about bitcoin and learned then what was thought by many,
that it was an epic darkweb currency that was totally private and basically free to transact anywhere in the world (about a third of that was right)
and I tried looking into it, with the intention of mining it because buying was too opaque and weird and Mt.Gox had scared me off that route anyway,
but as I watched it go down to $800, then $600, then finally $400 I just lost enthusiasm and literally forgot about it

I completely forgot about bitcoin twice as I said above, only in 2017 did I jump back in as soon as word reached my hears and eyes that bitcoin had gone back to $1000
and I realized what was going to happen again (and is happening right now to a new batch of newfags this year, and will likely happen again in another 4 years
[unless there is a 16 year macro cycle wherein the fourth 4 year cycle is overall bearish, but I digress])

been on 4chan since the eternal summer of 2008, which now doesn't seem so new anymore, I shiver

>>28175766
EXACTLY like rubic fudders now. Holy shit.

i was using btc to buy weed on the original silk road market, i used to trade like 5 btc for half an ounce. i didn't keep any. i was right though, using it like a currency as satoshi intended. the world is wrong.

>>28175766
I love pics like this, it proves that no one on biz knows what the FUCK they're talking about.

>>28176327
high probabaly

Honestly who didn't sell Btc from those days without getting lucky or just being overtly optimistic?

>>28176355
Bought my Btc for $100 from a friend in April 2013.

Never sold.

>>28179880
Me. Because I didn’t know how nor did I care. I’m like fuck it. $100 what’s the worst that could happen?

Guess I found out.

>>28175766
Some are. Some not. Aleph is here to build the future desu

Why is entire crypto market frozen after yesterday Elon's announcment and when is it going to end?

>>28179890
Based
Happy for you anon

>>28179967
You held ~10 BTC all this time? That's amazing bro

>>28176729
same 2006 but 2012

>>28175766
>trannys already spammed MUH pyramid schemes 2011
No I understand why they're so salty

4ch 2007
btc 2012
current holdings: 0 btc

>>28176355
I've been on 4chan since about 2007. I loaded up on bitcoin in about 2011 and sold for about $16k in the mania of 2017/2018. I quit my job and blew all of my gains in a year. feels good man, I'd do it all again.

>>28180449
They most likely 41%'ed years ago.

>>28177258
i get loads of weird shit on games i play through steam(badges or something)mostly shit that will fetch 3pence. what is that all about? should i have not sold all my badges n that?

>>28176355
Been on 4chan since 06 faggot

The worst part is I sold those with a small loss

>>28177156
>MUH STORMFAGS
It has been 10 fucking years let it go

>>28176467
God damn anon, I am truly sorry. How the fuck have you not bounced back...

>>28176729
Same

I have actually failed to follow through with three fucking easy plans to make me a multi millionaire over the years, all would have worked but my retarded friend keeps finding new ways to convince me to do the opposite

I've cut all fucking ties holy shit never listen to anybody else, get your own ideas and follow through then stick to the fucking plan

>>28178499
what is btc used for now

>>28181359
>what is btc used for now
The same thing as gold, mostly, except you can't fondle it or listen to it ring.

I bought in 2013 and lost money, bought again in 2017 (Ripple and Lumens) and made some money, but sold everything because I felt like crypto was taking over my life and I had to focus on my studies. I graduated last year and found a well-paying job, and got back into crypto just last month because a co-worker talked about how much he had made during this bullrun. At least I have enough disposable income now to put some serious money into it instead of just pocket change, so I hope I'm not too late to make it.

>>28176355
i can't remember when i came here first. i remember being on /b/ though and people would give away btc or doge coin. there was a faucet website i would fill captchas for and get btc. i lost all that of course. another wallet and btc stack lost to time. i think it was the first year or two of btc.