Almost made it stories

[Anonymous No.57685876]

>discovered bitcoin in early 2013
>sold in 2018 and made a 40x return
>realize I would be a millionare now if I just held

Kill me

[Anonymous No.57685903]

>>57685876
Closed my long on NVDA when it dumped during covid.

[Anonymous No.57685926]

>>57685876
Sold all my alts for btc before the 2020 run which would have net me minimally 7 figs. Still had a lot, but then lost 99% with leverage. Now my networth is a measly 25k at 28.5. I still think this is enough for 7 figs with my new knowledge/wisdom, but barely.
Yes, I feel like shit. I could have retired at 25 with a million dollar home (at the time) and didn't have to wagie anymore

[Anonymous No.57685936]

>>57685876
>off by 3-6 years
you weren't even remotely close cousin, stop kidding yourself crying over couldawouldas, that's for chicken-shit babby investors

[Anonymous No.57685937]

>>57685876
>sold
Retard alert. HODL is the only way.

[Anonymous No.57685957]

Literally everyone knew about BTC in 2013 and didn't scoop it up.

[Anonymous No.57685966]

>>57685876
>held BTC and ONLY BTC during the last bullrun
>sold near the top
>only got a 5x out of it
>lost most of my gains from that run to Bayhorse
At least I pulled out before my portfolio went back to five figures, so the losses weren't completely rope-worthy. I jumped back in on ETH and ONLY ETH back when it was under $1,000 and currently my portfolio is at $250K, so hopefully things will go better this time (inb4 I somehow only make 5x again).

[Anonymous No.57685984]

>>57685966
You dumb fuck. Put at least some money into promising alts. Eth might hit 10k

[Anonymous No.57686030]

>>57685984
I ended up also getting 500,000 DOGE for this reason, but I don't know if that's gonna go anywhere. I was counting on it to go up alongside BTC, instead BTC shot upwards while DOGE got stuck at $0.08. I'm hoping Elon does some shit down the line to bring it back to life since he managed to retain some of his fanbase through his turbulent acquisition of Twitter.

[Anonymous No.57686121]

>>57685876
>sell 5 million XVG after making a few hundred bucks, useless shitcoin for daytrading
>John McAfee randomly shills it and pumps it to $.25 not long after
that shit eating faggot. if he didn't get Epstein'd I'd be angrier

[Anonymous No.57686271]

I had 389,000 FTM and sold before the gigapump

[Anonymous No.57686286]

>browsing /biz/ when ETH is still relatively new and being shilled hard in 2016, was ~$12/ETH at the time.
>find a thread about “bitbean”
>decide to drop 5k USD into bitbean instead of ETH
>end up losing the key to my bitbean wallet anyways

[Anonymous No.57686302]

>>57686286
Another time
>buy BAO finance right at launch because I think the name/icon have massive meme potential and it was right during the foodcoin craze
>put ~5k usd into it
>it giga crashes the next day
>starts to pump, I panic sell and walk away with like 10% gains
>proceeds to x100 1 week later

[Anonymous No.57686322]

I’ve posted this before but
>see people posting about Link when it was $0.25
>tell my Jewish finance friend about it
>tell him I’m thinking about buying a small stack of 5k usd worth
>we spend an entire night drinking and he convinces me it’s a bad idea. Literally spent 5+ hours FUDding the shit out of me
>assume he’s smarter than me about these things because he’s Jewish and in finance so I don’t buy any
>link proceeds to hit $50 during the ‘21 bullrun. Want to cry realizing i missed out on a million in gains
>that same friend later calls me
>”hey anon you were actually right about chain link that’s crazy huh?!? Actually, after that night I ended up researching it a bit more and I bought myself a few grand worth. I made tons of money thanks for the tip bro”
>tfw it’s 2024 and I still hold 0 link and still haven’t made it

[Anonymous No.57686331]

>>57686271
I sold it at the literal bottom at .002 cents

[Anonymous No.57686352]

>>57685957
Im 31 years old and I only found out about bitcoin in 2020

[Anonymous No.57686370]

>>57685876
buying modafinil with bitcoin in 2012
sold all the bitcoin end of 2013 to buy league of legends skins

[Anonymous No.57686388]

>>57685876
im 30 years old and recently ffound about Stock market analitics AI, world is quite fucked thanks to this kind of shit.
Thanks Truflation, Thanks Zuckerberg and Musk

[Anonymous No.57686398]

>>57685876
Bought roids with bitcoin in 2014. Never saw it as an investment or cared about investing at all until a few years ago

[Anonymous No.57686421]

Dont worry i sold my 500 eth for 120 each

[Anonymous No.57686450]

>>57686322
Holy shit bro that's brutal

[Anonymous No.57686458]

>>57685876
>>sold in 2018 and made a 40x return
The problem is "on how much did you invest that a 40x wasn't enough".

>discovered LTC in 2013 because I thought bitcoin had pumped too much
>LTC is fucking worthless then and now
And that's the story about how I didn't have any money back then so I wouldn't have made it anyway.

[Anonymous No.57686463]

>>57686450
i think this is a great example of someone who does the exact opposite of what you should do in crypto for a profit

[Anonymous No.57686466]

>>57685876
> in 2011 friend offers to give me $100 of this new internet money called bitcoin because he bought $500 worth and had some leftover that he wasnt going to use after he bought weed from some dude in amsterdam on a drug forum

>busy playing counterstrike and dont want to install some random sketch program that sounds like a chink trojan virus

>politely decline

>that sack was probably worth like $100 million today or more

[Anonymous No.57686551]

>>57685957
I'm 37, and terminally online, and I don't think I ever heard of BTC or crypto until 2018.

[Anonymous No.57686629]

>>57686551
how is that possible when the mt gox hack was fucking in every news article for a month

[Anonymous No.57686779]

>>57685876
>beginning of pandemic 2019-2020
>Everything crashing
>literally just discovered /biz/ and decided to try investing for first time ever since I got a decent job
>don't know much of what I'm doing
>see btc at 4k
>see ETH at less than 100
>had enough to buy 2BTC and some tons of ETH
>I'll be safe and only invest a little
>a little
>like $100
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Anonymous No.57686823]

>>57685876
>had over 500k LINK from presale
>sold for 60 cents (wow a 6x!)
>could've had 8 figures
>might've even sold the ETH top and rode ETH to 4800, making almost 9 figures
That was probably my one path to becoming a billionaire and I blew it.

[Anonymous No.57686829]

If i expect that any anon may send me 2,000$ from this post, what is the chances of this?

I never made 2,000$ before. If i really received, I will start my own business. Any anon may really help me out?

If so, please send me a mail to [e-mail]

[Anonymous No.57687054]

Try again with something else. Kas, Super, hell even Link at this point. The world's your oyster.

Also stop being a faggot, you did very well, stop trying to find ways to be an emo doomer femboy.

[Anonymous No.57687284]

>>57685876
I sold at 16k because I had given up hope.
it's horrible to have to start from scratch knowing that I could have just waited, at least spx makes things more easier for me, the power of anime is real

[Anonymous No.57688146]

>>57685957
I was 12 at the time and had no means of buying it

[Anonymous No.57688160]

>>57685957
I vividly remember seeing the news about it hitting 1k for the first time and thinking "damn I missed that, that sucks"
Would only buy it for the first time at 30k years later, lmao

[Anonymous No.57688170]

>>57685876
>had 110 ethereum
>sold it because ethereum kept drilling in 2020

life's too easy if it's not on nightmare mode

[Anonymous No.57688181]

and how will this knowledge shape your future actions?

[Anonymous No.57688328]

>>57685876
I've got a bunch
>be me
>PTSD from a toxic family
>can barely take care of myself
>wage.png
>buy one BTC per paycheck with BTC at around $100
>sell 33 btc for $250

>wagie friend mentions biz and says I should check it out
>See endless link threads, presale is coming up
>Burger so don't bother getting in
>Decide to buy a few days after the ico at 11c
>Every paycheck end up buying more
>Decide to swing
>Somehow flip my 50k a year job into 100k link which was my original goal all along
>Get bored
>Sell 100k link and switch to bat
>Bat dumps, link crabs
>Link moons
>Get pissed, switch to req
>Req dumps, Link moons more
>End up with 0 link in the end and lose the money chasing pumps

>Win 6 figures in fantasy sports
>Lose 6 figures betting college football

>Turn 500 bucks into 500k on weekly boomer options
>Lose 250k in an hour

>Research SPCE, decide it will giga pump sometime soon
>Chase weekly calls for 5-6 months to no avail
>Have weeklies expiring Friday
>Decide to sell Thursday at 2pm for a small loss and try a different stock
>Wake up the next day to the news I was waiting months for, stock pops 50%
>Would've turned 2k into 250 and recovered the 25k I blew chasing it
>Stock I switched to did nothing

>Sign up early at binance, cz gave everyone early 50 free bnb
>Decide to buy 7500 bnb since it was cheap
>Sell for $1 and a 2 or 3x

Shall I continue? >>57685876

[Anonymous No.57688508]

>>57685876
>someone told me to buy ETH in 2017
>learned about chainlink in 2019 even bought a ledger but didnt comit
>had 100k inheritance in early 2021 and put it all in xrp
just kill me already

[Anonymous No.57688513]

also I literally read about bitcoin in 2012/2013 though it was really cool but didnt looked into it
FUCK MEEE ARRRGGHH

[Anonymous No.57688518]

>>57685876
Yea

[Anonymous No.57688528]

>>57688328
>>sell 33 btc for $250
I literally screamed out loud when I read that
fuck me m8

[Anonymous No.57688537]

>>57688528
I mean, atleast he didn't buy 2 pizzas for 10k btc

[Anonymous No.57688553]

>>57685876
bought eRSDL at 0.0008, Didnt sell at $1.70. Made a clean $150k tho

[Anonymous No.57688562]

I tried to buy $10 or so of BTC in 2009 but got frustrated when I couldn't setup a wallet. I ordered Iraqi dinars instead. When BTC was worth a couple hundred bucks and started making headlines, I figured I missed the boat and was priced out.

I bought a bunch of nulink because I thought it had better moonshot potential. I didn't buy any link til it broke $1.

When buying Shib, my wife asked me to help her buy some as well. I told her not to bother because it was so risky and the gas was so high.

[Anonymous No.57688605]

>>57688328
Bro you're terminally ngmi
Just hodl

[Anonymous No.57688635]

>>57685957
My story is as sad as knowing about it, wanting to buy thousands when the bitcoin pizza story came out but having no idea how outside of ebay. Then I learned I needed a digital wallet, whatever the fuck that was, to do that, got even more asshurt and said fuck the whole thing.

Theres not a day that goes by it doesnt hurt. Laziness kills lads. If lack of knowledge is the only thing keeping you from your dreams, go learn what you need to know and fucking do it.

[Anonymous No.57688643]

I've posted in the original threads for shib and luna inu, didn't buy just fud.
Also, of course, like everyone else I know about bitcoin years ago. There wasn't an exchange then just a page that you bought it from and paid with paypal. Didn't buy because I didn't want to get scammed with internet funny money somehow.

[Anonymous No.57688680]

>>57688328
>>Sell 100k link and switch to bat

oh no non on onono no no no

>he's just like me

[Anonymous No.57688722]

>>57686322
Lmaaoooo I never kek'd so hard at a made up story before. The Zionist agenda.

[Anonymous No.57688992]

>>57686629
he only went to porn sites, the terminal coomer.

[Anonymous No.57689974]

>>57688513
I THOUGHT IT WAS A SCAM
HAHAHAHAHA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH

[Anonymous No.57690651]

>>57686322
Nahh you gotta fight that nigga broski.

Captcha ssx jxw Is he a sexy jew? Captcha seems to think so. If hes a sexy jew then you gotta fuck him.

[Anonymous No.57692023]

>>57685926
Pressure makes diamonds brother.

[Anonymous No.57692166]

>Sent some bucks to an exchange in early 2013
>exchange goes bust two days later

Would have been 0.1 BTC and I would not have held it but man I could have used that at some point

[Anonymous No.57692831]

>>57686629
I don't think crypto was as big as you remember it being back then, I don't even remember seeing anything about it on sites like Reddit which I used to frequent back then. I didn't start browsing 4chan until 2017, but I didn't start browsing /biz/ itself until 2022. I had a cushy job back then so I suppose I would have been dismissive of crypto anyway.

[Anonymous No.57692988]

>>57688328
There's clearly a problem that goes beyond investing.

How patient are you in other aspects of your life?

[Anonymous No.57693043]

>>57685957
I remember seeing it for 12 dollars. I was confused as to why it was 12 dollars. "One BTC should just be a 1:1 with a dollar"
Idiot lol

[Anonymous No.57693343]

>>57686322
above average larp, kekked a bit

[Anonymous No.57693404]

Short to pay for my home rent. My home rent is like 3000$. This month didn't go good for me. Can any anon help me to pay for my home rent? If any anon may help me out please send me reply through mail [e-mail]

[Anonymous No.57693458]

>>57685876
Discovered Bitcoin when i was like 12 years old, didn’t really know what it was about it was just some internet stuff. It was like 2 cents at the time. I, coming from a fucked up drug household, was unironically looking for a way to buy weed and heard about the Silk Road. Even if I had bought some i probably would’ve lost the password or some shit, but yeah i could’ve gotten like 2000 bitcoin for cheap as fuck at the time, if only we had known Kek.
I still even knew about it at 250 but thought that was a lot of money. Fuck me man. Now i just stack my poorfolio
If i make enough I’ll probably sell all at once
If not im just gonna keep stacking a couple bucks a day for the next 5 fucking years I’m tired of this shit
We know by now that every 4 years or so they go up so you might as well just fucking stack during the bear why am i so dumb and why was i buying silver coins fuck

[Anonymous No.57693651]

>>57685876
Trying to gamble up to 17k USD for stem cell treatment for kid. X109 long on near before nearcon. Faggotty ass Dex scamwicks me to liquidation and then Near skyrockets. Would have made about 40k, enough to cover everything needed plus the taxes but ended up liquidated. Anger ensues. Back to saving up my pennies.

[Anonymous No.57693771]

>>57686629
Never ever heard of mt gox. Remember talking about bitcoin with a friend in 2015 as something that had already pumped.

[Anonymous No.57693790]

>>57692831
Did you completely miss the whole "deep web" fad going on?

[Anonymous No.57693841]

Made 500k last bullrun in 2021. Knew it was the top, got confident in swing trading, stopped working, started trading while living a "make-it" lifestyle.
I afforded 2 free years, spent it all and lost it all. Now I'm back to 0.
Everyday I think about How I can end myself in a proper way.
I have a very normie lifestyle now (gf, work, studies, friends...) But inside I'm f* broken. Everyday I take a knife a put it on my neck on the main artery but I don't have the courage to do it.

[Anonymous No.57693876]

>>57693841
Why? Because you made some money and had fun for a few years?

[Anonymous No.57693964]

>>57693876
Because I knew and I know that 500k wisely invested on boomer indestructible stocks like Visa, Mastercard, and some others I would get a 40k (inflation resilient)yearly divivend with a folio also inflation resilient for the rest of my life which means I could have had kids without being a broker overworked father, I could have bought my first flat/house and renovate it properly, I could have stopped living like a f* powerless bug.
Instead I living again like a dead rat waiting for my waging salary every month so I can buy my gf a monthly date/restaurant and have some time together once a month.
I had peace of mind for the rest of my life and I threw it like a f* retarded chimp

[Anonymous No.57693973]

>>57685957
I read from a magazine that you can buy a pizza for bitcoins. Simply keep your laptop on for months. It seemed like a cool tech to try out.

[Anonymous No.57694314]

in 2009 I built my first pc and for fun I wanted to learn how to do folding@home which is like mining but you provide gpu power for scientific research.
While reading about folding, I found a thread on the hardocp forums about bitcoin mining but the concept about mining money didn't make sense to me and I didn't want to prematurely wear out my gpu. I'm not even sure if bitcoin had an exchange value at the time.
Instead I played Left4dead and watched hd porn which was the main reason I needed a new pc.

[Anonymous No.57694549]

>>57685876
damn,,,,i thought i had it bad when i googled "top investment opp" 2009... er 2010... cant rem... and this thing came up i never heard of before called bitch-coin..... i think it was like $1.17 i had about 6500 scratch money, fuck you money.... what did i buy instead??? a landscaping business...... wow

[Anonymous No.57694719]

>>57692988
he busts early and often.... she hates him... "seething" in the shower

[Anonymous No.57694748]

>>57692988
I have complex PTSD so I guess that plays into it. I have definite impulse control issues. Not even meming I should easily be worth 10 million or more. If I just used reasonable asset allocation I would've turned a few grand a year invested into millions. I was hyper early on BTC, eth, link, bnb. Not just looking and saying hey I should buy, but putting everything I had and risking it on actually buying early. Instead of going 100% in, why didn't I just throw 5-10% in and hold for 5+ years. I would have a huge stack of cash.

I'm also up 5 figures lifetime sports betting, playing fantasy sports and trading short term stock options. But then I find a way to stupidly lose it hopping on whatever else. Trading crypto or playing a casino game or something dumb.

I just wish I had someone to manage me personally. Let me go wild with my own process and picks and convictions but instead of throwing $15k into it and barely having money leftover for food, just put in 1500 and keep grinding for the next play. Forget I even have it, check back in a few years. Minimum 10 million probably way more if I would've done that. Too late now, crypto and everything else is gay and kiked. I missed my shot

[Anonymous No.57694750]

>>57685957
I remember reading threads about people mining bitcoin on their desktops on /g/

[Anonymous No.57694815]

>>57685876
this is a seethe thread.... "We arent gonna make it are we?"

[Anonymous No.57694828]

>>57694748
What's crazy is how hard I also shilled everyone I knew about BTC, eth and link. Especially link. I remember a hot, milfy supervisor at work who seemed to like me and was kinda flirty. I mentioned a new investment that was gonna help me retire early and she told me to write it down for her. I wrote chainlink...it was like 20 or 25c at the time. I was telling random customers, friends, family, my bosses. Begging them to buy. Gifting my family 50 or 100 link for mother's Day or Christmas, setting up their finance account. Convinced my dad and uncles to buy some. As lame as it sounds, I literally knew. I was all in. I was shilling hard here and irl. I couldn't wait to get paid every 2 weeks so I could buy more. I knew 10k stack was probably enough but I wanted 100k to actually make it. And I did it. I had it. But boredom set in. Link kinda just crabbed around 40c. I had $40k which was almost a year's salary and the most I've ever had. I figured I could just buy back in a few days with a small loss at most. If I lost even 10k link who cares, I'd keep working and get it back within a month. But no. Literally as soon as I sold and bought bat, I lost 15% within a few hours. It was eerie like I literally bought the absolute top somehow. I guess that's what I deserve. Years of hard work, research, shilling, all down the drain

I first heard about BTC when it was below $1. 60 or 70c I think. I was playing poker for a living so always had a few grand sitting around and ready for a silly gamble. I bought my first BTC at around 100. Oh well.

[Anonymous No.57694839]

>2016
>Decided to buy 10 bitcoins for the fuck of it
>It was like 7k
>Big price tag for my meager wage
>Every news outlet was demonizing bitcoin
>I wasn't so hot on paper wallets
>Talk to a programer friend about it
>Talk me out of it because bitcoin was a fraud, a scam, only used by criminals and about to be outlawed by every government

That motherfucker cost me like half a mill.

[Anonymous No.57694874]

>>57686466
The lowest price in 2011 was 72 cents, and the highest price was $32. A hundred dollars worth of Bitcoin at 72 cents would have been $7 million today (139 BTC), and a hundred dollars worth at $32 would have been $159k today (3 BTC).

Might want to skip the $100 million part the next time you tell this story

[Anonymous No.57695665]

I had 26K in the bank in 2011 and heard of Bitcoin at 96 cents on a news channel about some nerds trying to sell some digital form of payment. In my head without researching or thinking, I was like "Hmmm, maybe I should put a $1000 in. Kek, oh who am I kidding? Who's gonna use this funny money when Paypal already exists!". Turned the TV off and went to work like a good wagie cagie to Mr. Shekelstein. I blame fucking Elon Musk! POS!

[Anonymous No.57695695]

>>57685876
>read about Bitcoin in 2010
>immediately try to buy $8,000 worth
>can't find a way to buy
>get frustrated and give up

The universe fucked me

[Anonymous No.57696045]

>>57685876
Sold out of BTC before 2016/2017 pump, put it all into Tron.
Road TRX from .001 to .30. then down to .04. watched life changing/instant retirement disappear.

[Anonymous No.57697450]

>>57694874
i ddont know faggot i never did the math i just know i would have been retired and wouldnt need to worry about money today. it might have even been in 2010 i dont remember the exact year because i lived off campus for a few extra years after graduating but i was definitely moved out by end of 2011. so maybe it was 2009 or 2010 somewhere in that window. unfortuantely im still wagecucking. in the end i suppose its for the best because if that happened im not sure i would have held to the max anyway, i probably would have sold when it hit $3,000 thinking i won the lottery. also my friend might have come asking around for some back or some shit and it could have created a rift between us so in the end i guess it was for the best. im sure he would have felt like shit later on finding out he gave away a million dollars to me. im not sure what he end up doing with them, he probably bought more designer amsterdam weed.

[Anonymous No.57699061]

I lost one BTC giving it to one of the "yield farms" shilled here on /biz

[Anonymous No.57699068]

>>57685876
Had 19 Bitcoin in 2015. Had 500,000 dogecoins in 2015.

[Anonymous No.57699197]

>>57685876
sold some tokens early but no regret. there's more money to be made. I'm not selling SUPRA early when it launches.

[Anonymous No.57699607]

>>57685903
I'm only going to slurp Supra token for this Q1.

[Anonymous No.57699826]

>>57694828
>I knew 10k stack was probably enough but I wanted 100k to actually make it.
If that is the case, you should have at least kept 10,000 LINK when you sold the rest out of boredom?

[LebAnon No.57700105]

>>57685876
>t. living in hyperinflation
waged 4 years to save up 10k and gtfo
central bank did a ponzi
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/02/opinion/lebanon-protests.html
left making 300$ a month trying to survive

[Anonymous No.57700212]

>>57685876
I remember this autistic druggie dealer telling me about Bitcoin around that time. Thought it was kind of dumb. No one took Bitcoin seriously until the silk road was created and people saw it worked.

[LebAnon No.57700257]

>>57700212
now its monero
sound money, safe mode

[Anonymous No.57700626]

>>57685876
Haha. I can only imagine. That is why I'm taking actions now and stacking Sui, Sei, Strk and waiting for Hydro online to launch.

[Anonymous No.57701928]

>>57692023
God bless you.

[Anonymous No.57702074]

>>57685876
No regrets on my end. I got into BTC when I was just 19, diving in headfirst with no lack of knowledge. Now, at 28, I've made bank on different altcoins. And now, I'm not sleeping on the DePIN narrative. Silencio, Peaq, Natix, and Arkreen are at the top of my watchlist.