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What were you doing 2009-2013? Why weren't you acquiring Bitcoin?

>> No.3997394

>>3997391
In Army. Didn't aquire Bitcoin cos I was busy pissing all my money away on booze and hookers.

>> No.3997402

Thought it was a scam, way too high and not money-hungry enough to do research. But I got in when it was around 3.5k, and that's enough for me.

>> No.3997410

>>3997391

Was in highschool with no knowledge of it, then in uni with no money for it, then a neet who wanted to buy but still with no money for it.

>> No.3997467

>>3997394
T the same, but in the Navy.
Also, watched a news program about people getting ripped off and scammed back in 2011.
Assumed it to be true and forgot about it, till 2017....

>> No.3997484

>>3997391
Learned about BTC when it was 10$

cba to setup wallet and all that shit and i was poor HS student working in restaurant

most i woulda ever bought was 10 BTC.

spent all my money on weed and alcohol.

friend who told me bought 50 BTC, sold 35 at 300$, has 15 left.

>> No.3997496

I was aware of it from the constant spammers on /b/ but I was too busy looking for porn to fap to because my internet was extremely limited at the time. Also I was intensively saving and refused to spent a cent more than I needed to.

I remember the price was around $13-30 but I never bothered to look into the threads. FML

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>>3997391
>wanted to get in through mining for autistic reasons
>gtx460m was worthless for mining in 2011
>preordered a bfl jalapeno at some point but cancelled it because of the absurd delays
>bitcoin went into an ice age for 3 years anyway

>> No.3997513

Read the original satoshi whitepaper on somethingawful in 2009, dismissed it as some mathematical techno mumbo jumbo bullshit. Forgot about it until 2012 and got into cryptos seriously then

>> No.3997516

Sauce on pic I would pay 1 BTC to lick her feet like the pathetic pajeet I am

>> No.3997524

>>3997391
that heel looks smelly.

>> No.3997528

>>3997496
Same here bro. There were many BTC threads on /b/ back in the day and I completely dismissed it.

>> No.3997544

>>3997391
I thought it was just like some scammy PayPal alternative WoW gold shit and ignored it

>> No.3997595

>>3997391
It was too hard at the time so I gave up. This was around when it first got talked about on 4chan.

>> No.3997602

I didn't have a way to purchase it because i was underage, and was too stupid to learn how to mine it.

>> No.3997614

>>3997391
it seems most faggots here were playing WoW

>> No.3997690

this shit is so fucking stressful and life consuming

>> No.3997820

>>3997512
gtx560 here
still using it in my rig
was making $2 for every $3 of electricity
the price was $10 ;-;

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>>3997820
are you me?

>> No.3997905

>>3997881
if you have more than 1 btc, i wish i was u

>> No.3997914

Being a hs faggot playing wow

>> No.3997919

>>3997391
I heard about it, but I didnt follow up on it, too complacent and distracted. such is life.

>> No.3997927

>>3997391
was mining in 2011. was not worth it for and also was not wagecucking back then.. didnt really understand how money works. fml

>> No.3997965

I knew of its existence but never really bothered to look it up, did not even know what it was at the time. Fast forward a few months ago, I over hear some people in a subway talking about graphics cards and bitcoin, so I thought it was a PC gaming thing which piqued my interest, so I did some research.

Now I wish I could go back and yell at my retard self.

>> No.3997996

I did, but I spent it to buy drugs

>> No.3998002

I was fucking girls like a stupid normie.

>> No.3998016

>>3998002
2 girls
at the same time

>> No.3998054

>What were you doing 2017? Why weren't you acquiring Shitcoins? Why are you not stacking altcoins?

>> No.3998063

>>3998054
note like:
>2020
>altcoins are all dead and gone except for monero and eth

>> No.3998093

>>3998063
if the market cap continues to grow even remotely like it has these past two years you'd be set, If you buy eth or monero now.

>> No.3998100

saw ROLL for BTC threads on /b/ in 2011, never thought someone would really deliver. And couldnt even think about how big BTC is going to be in 2017. Forgot about cryptos since last month , started trading and got fucked in alts by fork kek.

>> No.3998317

>>3997391
had a coinspot account loaded up and ready but no place would accept my damn AU credit card. forgot all about it till start of this year

>> No.3998586

>>3997391
but I was anon, along with spamming threads on /b/

>> No.3998613

>>3997391
Honestly i'm online 24/24 and i only learned about bitcoin in 2013. I have no idea how that happened

>> No.3998647

Had been a neet for years. 2009 I got a job and met my wife. Was very busy and stopped using my computer. Hadn't even heard of Bitcoin. Definitely something I would have got into if only I knew about it. I used to trade sell in game currencies. Sad me

>> No.3998657

>>3997391
I was in highschool not giving a fuck about anything and shitposting on 4chan.

>> No.3998703

I was though but sold low thousands would havr been set at 23

>> No.3998835

>>3998647
yeah, same. met the girl of my dreams in 2009 and started living with her. i kept myself off from my pc and the internet. I was a hardcore hardware guy and I even won a bounty for a paypal bug back in 2008. I know i would have made billions by now if i hadnt met that girl. we broke up 2 years ago.

>> No.3999050

I actually tried to buy in 2012 but you had to send your birth certificate, passport and bank statement to the exchange. It was too greasy so I bailed.

>> No.3999157

>>3998835
ahahaha oh fuck

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>>3997391
I was 11

>> No.3999216

Being stupid and buying stupid shit DESPITE knwoingnabout it.

I shudda bought when it reached $100

>> No.3999252

>>3997391
I was 10-13.

>> No.3999316
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3999316

>Fell for the uni meme
>still convinced in a deunk/drug induced stuper i bought some btc somewhere down the line
>regularly check my old hard drives and emai accounts just to make sure

>> No.3999319

why anyone talks about zcash ? its awesome as well

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>>3998835

i wonder how many of us would have been millionaires by now if we didnt listen to a fucking woman

>> No.3999439

>>3999316
same here with this account >>3998317
but i knew for sure i had some because they were giving a free 0.5 btc for new registrations

i checked yesterday, turns out it was 0.005 btc

btc was around $200 at the time

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3999846

I purchased 2000$ worth of silver instead of bitcoins.

Heaviest bags ever

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>>3997996
This

>> No.4000242

>>3999846
Literally me in college, plus I bought gold at $1500.

JUST!

>> No.4000350

>>3997391
I was in my early teens at the time. In fact I remember early high school hearing about bitcoin and wanting to buy some, but back then the only way was thru Localbitcoins which sounded super shady. Thought I'd get robbed and kidnapped if I met up with someone in person with a fat stack of hundos in my pocket. If coinbase had existed back in the day and it would've been that easy, I would have many bitcoins now.

>> No.4000425

>>3997391
Faping to boipussys and smoking weed while lurking /b/.
I remember some guy did a thread saying he had 50000$ to spend, and someone said to invest in btc
>2011

>> No.4000660

>>3997391
selling drugs and in college being brainwashed

now im awake

>> No.4000713

I don't get how the fuck I missed BTC completely. I spent my entire time on the internet playing Runescape and World of warcraft, I don't know how i didn't notice anyone mention this.

>> No.4000818

>>4000713
Same here.

>> No.4000964

2011 was when I first heard about BTC. 2012 is when I tried to buy in.
Coinbase was a fucking mess still and I didn't trust giving them my information.
Plus it was impossible to buy BTC for years outside of that unless you used shady Russian or Japanese sites.

>> No.4002279

I tried to mine some bitcoins in 2009-2010 but my modem software kept crashing and I was too illiterate to fix this issue.
Also I was like 16 and didn't care enough to mine some hundred bitcoins with was literaly nothing cash wise. Maybe I even managed to mine a block, but it never showed up as I was too stupid to set things up at that time.
My second attempt was to buy me 3-4 Bitcoins for like 40§ to get some drugs off of silkroad. Unfortunally silkroad got busted bevor my account was verified, so I didn't bother because what else is Bitcoin useful for except for drugs?
Nearly had a heart attack as I pict up a newspaper 2 month later with a big story about how Bitcoin was now worth 1400+$
I wonder how rich I would have been now... probably would have just blew everything on drugs anyway.

>> No.4002291

>>3997391
Playing World of Warcraft and jerking off

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>>4002279
Just get some Chancoin when it hits $1 mark.

>> No.4002314

jacking off and being a high school shitter on runescape

JUST

>> No.4003010

>>3997391
I had just graduated college with 50k in debt trying to make it in one of the worst job markets ever, so all I trying to do was survive

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>>3997391
>graduated from high school in 2010
>heard about BTC shortly before Mt. Gox
>tried to mine with a shit GPU
>eventually gave up
>BTC was worth around $1000 at the time, so I never bought any because I couldn't even buy a whole coin

Ark is my last chance.

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>>3997516
fucking disgusting, Ranjesh

>> No.4003138

I heard about Bitcoin when it was spread for free on /b/. Maybe a year later i saw that it was 200€, thought i was too late. Set up my coinbase account in 2015, checked the price i think it was again 200€. Didn't finish setting up the account because of verifications. Thought that nothing going on with it anyway. Didn't bother to check on it again until some months ago when it hit 2000€

>> No.4003171

Stopped playing Runescape before BTC was a thing. Heard about it in 2011. Was too young to "get it".

>> No.4004027

>>3997391
First heard about BTC via namecoin around nov 2011, looked it over, thought the tech looked good, very promising for decentralisation. Silently wished them luck and never thought about the profit potential.
Hear about it again 2013, watch the bubble full of pink wojacks, fomo in near the peak. It all worked out in the end though, but I could be so rich if I'd been a little more engaged that first time.

>> No.4004085

>>3997394

Heard about Bitcoin from a friend.

"Internet money bro"

Both of us didn't understand market cap.

Oops.

>> No.4004200

tossed 500 bucks into btc and alts back in 2013
somehow ended up with 200k now being lucky in the shitcoin roulette (2014 and 2017)

day dreaming of a noncucked life
i just need another 25x

>> No.4004297

I wasn't even aware Bitcoin and blockchain tech exists until late 2013. Which is strange because i'm online 24/7 and a CS student. But i immediately realized the revolutionary potential and accumulated in the bear market so i'm quite well off now.

>> No.4004412

Here I am, now, not knowing shit about it still. But I want to learn. I wonder if it's too late? I want to get into this with a couple of hundred of $, but I literally know nothing about investments, crypto and the like. So if any of you here would like to explain it to me like I'm 5 (Steve Carrell "Office" reference), I'll be glad to hear it.

>> No.4004730

>>3998835
money can't buy dreams, Pluuk

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>>3998002
haha, stupid normie missed out on btc gains

>> No.4004827

>>3997391
I was in school and had no knowledge.

I finished school and saw people talk about it on /g/, had no money and wasn't doing any research in how to get it.

Got money and a fiance but still didn't do research.

Got into crypto 4 months ago, haven't lost anything, but I am sitting on my $1000AUD without any profit either.

I either buy in to something, hold for too long (OMG) and breakeven, or buy and sell too early making small amounts to only lose what profit I did get on some shitcoin.

At least I am not in the negative yet. So A+ for effort, I spose.

>> No.4004990

>>3997391
>14
>third world country (not mexican nor pajeet)
>didn't even speak english
>had never used the internet before
>let alone browse this shithole

So yeah a lot of things needed to happen....

I tried to do research in 2013 when the price was around $120 but didn't understand shit, didn't see the point. The thing that made me wake up was when I saw the price at $770 last year and that same day I found Andreas Antonopoulos on Youtube along with the full list of shitcoins at coinmarketcap. Such a beautiful moment, I felt just like when Neo said ''I know kung fu''.

>> No.4005272

>>3997391
REEEE fuck off I was a teenager and didn't realise how important it was, now I have a job in computing and an interest in crypto I have been accumulating

>> No.4005336

>>3997391
Gib picnic gurls

Didn't even Bitcoin. Still unclear on the concept.

>> No.4005364

>be me
>hey look here, you can buy a bag of weed for 5btc
>"nah man too risky"
>what is this btc shit, can't people use real money?

i don't even remember the price but it was like 1btc = 50$ at the time and i was a shithead stoner

>> No.4005383

join the discord p&d guis https://discord.gg/F7tEJgU

>> No.4005442

>>3997391
as neet i was playing games all day long. 16/24.
any my gpu was loud as fuck.

i thought its waste of electricity and that could jump on that at any moment (was thinking that reward will be same)

>> No.4005613

>2010
>get 5BTC from a faucet
>a few days later the wallet gets flagged by my shitware antivirus
>quarantine and kill
And that's the story of how I deleted $30k.

>> No.4005686

>>4005613
you deleted

C:\Users\YourUserName\Appdata\Roaming\BitCoin

?
cause wallet .dat is there

>> No.4005723

Heard about it for the first time when Assange was getting fucked over by PayPal not allowing people to give money to Wikileaks.

I don't know why I didn't invest then. And I don't know either why I suddenly decided to invest in it two months ago.

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I was wage cucking and I though Bitcoin was a scam.

Lost my Job, Spent 10 Months in County.

After spending $30K In lawyers, and $3K in my bank account, I saw bitcoin crash to $1800. I took out all of my 401K and didn't buy Bitcoin.

I bought 100Th/s of mining power. I have a regular income of 0.02101 btc a day.

I'm literally making a living off the block chain, I was in the lowest point of my life. I didn't hesitate spending that much on one single thing that may or may not work. But I believed in it.

>> No.4006433

>>4005613
>how I deleted $30k.
if you will find your dat life in appdata and restore btc can i get very very small amount >:-) ?
186J1XjsrCSbhNFUdjkPvzsux4LD4fnQXy

>> No.4006449

>>3997391
I was living on the street.

>> No.4006459

>>4005769
what did you do?

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4006463

Step up the crypto trading game, add me on Skype: CryptoAnna

>> No.4006481

>>4005613

That's a fun story on how you can tell your grandkids on how you deleted $50 million dollars

>> No.4007250

It hovered around $500 for years, i didn't expect it to ever do much more than that desu

>> No.4007261

>>3997391
tfw when too low IQ to understand bitcoin till this year

>> No.4007309

>>3997394

was at Fort Bragg during this time, where were you?

>> No.4007356

I was in middle/high school, and had no money or means to acquire it anyway.

>> No.4007371

>>4007356
Same senpai. Was balls deep in some tight poose. Totally worth it though am I right??

>> No.4007381

>>4007371
I have never seen a vagina or touched a woman.

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>>3998063

>> No.4007395

I think I actually mined a little
lost the HD tho

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>>3997391
>Got into bitcoin in 2013
>Lost money in mtgox crash.

>> No.4007403

Heard about it ona pickup artist forum in 2011. I was too into picking up chicks to buy some bitcoin.

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>>4000242
you got Peter'd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fUkiW9Lg5I

>> No.4007788

>>3997391
i was young and stupid

>> No.4008761

>>3997391
I heard about bitcoin at the end of 2012 -- although I made shit for income back then I'd buy as much bitcoin as I could anytime I had extra money. Did that for the last few years.

I've been hodling ever since. Feels good man.