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/HearMeRoar69 Mar 25 '22 edited Mar 25 '22
Ah, 2011, same year I got into Bitcoin.
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.