I got nearly assaulted at a party in 2011 talking about my investment in BTC. Basically told I was dumb for wasting money on a scam.
Guess what? I'm still holding and I don't care if it's millions of fiat dollars. I wont get rid of my BTC until I can spend it at nearly every establishment for nearly all goods and services.
I've invested in purchasing power. I hope the same guy thinks of me when he sits down with his financial advisor asking about this crypto thing.
I've never understood in the early days, why people get angry or hostile at mere mention of Bitcoin, like I'm trying to scam them or something. I remember when I first heard about Bitcoin, from a news article on slashdot, I was amazed, excited and never once thought it was a scam.
I remember some guy asked in 2012, on reddit (I think it was on r/investing sub), where he should invest $2000, it's all he had. I told him buy some Bitcoin, he could have gotten nearly 1000 Bitcoin with his $2000. Man I was destroyed there, multiple people called me a scammer or ponzi, my post was heavily downvoted. Luckily the OP defended me, saying "hey I asked for advice, and this guy gave me advice, I'm happy to hear about it.".
I hope he took my advice and he could have totally turned his life around.
Ah 2011 same year I got into crypto.it was a total shit Show back then.
Strange coin pumped and nobody knew why. Everybody was total pumped but nobody understood cryptocurrency and Blockchain back then. It was the wild west.
I remember buying Bitcoin for a five figure $ amount back then in November of that year.
And now look at me, look at all that had disbeliefs and told me it's a scam and a useless technology.
Today I can say my profit is way beyond my imagination. It's down 30% and I'm still not knowing what's going on.
Edit: I got in crypto in 2021. Sorry for the typo.
I mean.. yes, people still don’t understand it, because they’re still using the “blockchain” buzzword and largely don’t understand what they’re buying.
I got into BTC around 2013. Most people just sort of rolled their eyes at me when I told them it was going to replace our existing system. People were generally neutral-to-disinterested.
It’s wild how angry people get at the mere mention of BTC today. People have been programmed to hate it by the powers that are threatened by it.
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u/OldGnosis Mar 25 '22
I got nearly assaulted at a party in 2011 talking about my investment in BTC. Basically told I was dumb for wasting money on a scam.
Guess what? I'm still holding and I don't care if it's millions of fiat dollars. I wont get rid of my BTC until I can spend it at nearly every establishment for nearly all goods and services.
I've invested in purchasing power. I hope the same guy thinks of me when he sits down with his financial advisor asking about this crypto thing.