Topic: Been away from Bitcoin and cryptos since 2015... What have I missed? (Read 1517 times)
March 13, 2017, 06:35:40 PM
Younhabe missed out on quite a bit. There was a crash bitcoin dropped to $240 then went up and doubled to $500 then shot up to $800 and had a steady climb to ehst it is now. Check the graph out for more. Dont blame yourself man you never knew. Hell none of us could know bitcoin would gp up by 4x in a single year. Alsonpast year WS the year of altcoins but never fear there many altcoins being released all the time. Just fear the scams and lies. Stay safe fellow bitcoiners.
March 13, 2017, 10:14:46 AM
you missed BTC being rejected by ETF, although that was very recent, you must have heard about it by now.
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March 13, 2017, 09:42:07 AM
How did you stored your bitcoins all this time?
March 10, 2017, 06:44:08 PM
You had missed a lot if things, we got the halving now the amount is 21million and then some of the movie mention about bitcoin so the bitcoin popularity now is very good and alot of alt coins keep on pop out and if you notice now the price is very high
March 10, 2017, 05:51:15 AM
You missed much, but probably these last months have been some of the most impressive in the history of bitcoin, bitcoin reached all time highs, surpassed the price of gold and it is likely it will go over 1300 very soon.
I hope he didn't miss much about bitcoin because in the year 2015 because the price bitcoin is low in the year 2015.
At that time if he can buy some bitcoin means now he will made some profit through bitcoin.
Yes, very soon the price of the bitcoin will reach to 1500$ it will surpass the gold in coming days.
March 09, 2017, 11:20:41 PM
Howdy! I knew about Bitcoin since 2011 but only became seriously interested in late 2013 just after the big price rise that happened prior to Mt. Gox going under. I was quite a frequent poster on these forums until the first half of 2015. Then I went to college and studies got in the way of posting so I kind of lost interest in Bitcoin for the most part.
I was pretty deeply involved with the cryptocurrency scene during those months. I bought coins through LocalBitcoins (which I still hold to this day
), gambled with them, ran my own faucets, traded altcoins, printed my own paper wallets, took part in signature campaigns, and mined with USB miners for fun. However, my knowledge of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies pretty much stops abruptly at around 2015.
So my question is this, what are some of the major developments that I've missed and should know about?
(For example, I remember learning about how GPUs were used to mine BTC in 2011 but that info was well out of date by 2013.)
You have Missed Many Important things about Bitcoin Like You Don't Enjoy the Bitcoin when it was Just Near About 200-300$ And You also Missed the Bitcoin Mining Because Now a Days Bitcoin Mining is Not Profitable Because Of the Block Reward is Halved Due to the Halving Passed Last Year......I was pretty deeply involved with the cryptocurrency scene during those months. I bought coins through LocalBitcoins (which I still hold to this day
), gambled with them, ran my own faucets, traded altcoins, printed my own paper wallets, took part in signature campaigns, and mined with USB miners for fun. However, my knowledge of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies pretty much stops abruptly at around 2015.So my question is this, what are some of the major developments that I've missed and should know about?
(For example, I remember learning about how GPUs were used to mine BTC in 2011 but that info was well out of date by 2013.)
March 09, 2017, 02:54:11 PM
I don't think you missed a whole lot other than Block-reward halving.
March 09, 2017, 01:03:56 PM
It seems you missed Cryptsy's closure at the end of 2015 and if you really didn't hear about it, you are actually lucky you didn't get burnt.
I wish I was as lucky as you did.
I wish I was as lucky as you did.
March 09, 2017, 05:00:50 AM
If you had enough money to invest in 2015 and if u knew how to trade you could be a millioner by now 
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. March 08, 2017, 11:13:18 PM
Not much just a lot of arguing, the fun starts now! Especially if the ETF gets approved! 
March 08, 2017, 10:46:41 PM
Hey Lorenzo,
You and I are in the same boat I was into digital currency pretty heavy in 2014 - 2015 and then life got in the
way and dragged me out of my happy little corner of the crypto 'verse. I am back again, though, and renewing
my goal of having at least part of my income come from bitcoin (and a handful of alts).
Cheers and welcome back!
Cynthia
You and I are in the same boat
I was into digital currency pretty heavy in 2014 - 2015 and then life got in theway and dragged me out of my happy little corner of the crypto 'verse. I am back again, though, and renewing
my goal of having at least part of my income come from bitcoin (and a handful of alts).
Cheers and welcome back!
Cynthia
March 04, 2017, 03:21:48 AM
Then I went to college and studies got in the way of posting so I kind of lost interest in Bitcoin for the most part.
In software matter, a lot have been upgraded. New features in core, segwit ready, pruning old blocks and many optimizations.In price matter, its as you see, you get back on ATH
so not best time to get back in term of investment. 
March 04, 2017, 02:53:06 AM
Most changes are already covered, I will try to add some extras:
* anonymous altcoins got more attention and traction (also quite a debate about which is better or if aren't they illegal)
* there are much more altcoin ICO IPO schemes, many are investing big money in promoting their new coins (harder to say which coins worth investing or not)
* there may be more opportunities to mine altcoins than in 2015 (ETH/ETC, XMR, ZEC, XZC, ... not only ETH)
* some coins rose a lot, including Bitcoin, some are even more forgotten, some are trying to draw more attention (SegWit in LTC)..
All in all there were quite a lot of changes
* anonymous altcoins got more attention and traction (also quite a debate about which is better or if aren't they illegal)
* there are much more altcoin ICO IPO schemes, many are investing big money in promoting their new coins (harder to say which coins worth investing or not)
* there may be more opportunities to mine altcoins than in 2015 (ETH/ETC, XMR, ZEC, XZC, ... not only ETH)
* some coins rose a lot, including Bitcoin, some are even more forgotten, some are trying to draw more attention (SegWit in LTC)..
All in all there were quite a lot of changes
March 04, 2017, 02:43:24 AM
You missed much, but probably these last months have been some of the most impressive in the history of bitcoin, bitcoin reached all time highs, surpassed the price of gold and it is likely it will go over 1300 very soon.
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March 03, 2017, 05:18:27 PM
You picked a very interesting time to come back since you're here during this huge increase in price (to over $1250 and, probably temporarily, over the gold price per ounce), and that might be why you came. Part of the reason for it is the ETF, which people seem to be pretty excited about.
Since the halving in July 2016 mining is not profitable for any normal person who isn't part of a huge company - the mining is now mostly concentrated in the hands of a few companies, many of which are based in China. There's also a couple of major cloud mining services like Hashnest but none of these new services are a good investment in my view and many of them are scams (Hashnest and a couple others are most likely not scams, just poor investments).
Transactions are a big problem at the moment with thousands of transactions stuck in the mempool at any one time, even those with good transaction fees (I've been sending a small amount of Bitcoin with ~3 mBTC transaction fees for over 2 hours with no confirmations), but solutions to this are being developed, the most prominent of which are Segregated Witness and Bitcoin Unlimited, neither of which people can seem to agree on due to various dramatised issues.
As its own investment Bitcoin is definitely great right now due to its volatility caused by traders around a kind of safety net from its strong community.
Since the halving in July 2016 mining is not profitable for any normal person who isn't part of a huge company - the mining is now mostly concentrated in the hands of a few companies, many of which are based in China. There's also a couple of major cloud mining services like Hashnest but none of these new services are a good investment in my view and many of them are scams (Hashnest and a couple others are most likely not scams, just poor investments).
Transactions are a big problem at the moment with thousands of transactions stuck in the mempool at any one time, even those with good transaction fees (I've been sending a small amount of Bitcoin with ~3 mBTC transaction fees for over 2 hours with no confirmations), but solutions to this are being developed, the most prominent of which are Segregated Witness and Bitcoin Unlimited, neither of which people can seem to agree on due to various dramatised issues.
As its own investment Bitcoin is definitely great right now due to its volatility caused by traders around a kind of safety net from its strong community.
March 03, 2017, 02:47:47 PM
A few people claimed to be satoshi, master-P (an escrow on this forum) scammed like 20BTC, and segwit didn't take off. Other than that uhmmm... normal forum drama LOL!
March 03, 2017, 02:44:20 PM
you missed the rally which exceeds gold price
March 03, 2017, 01:50:25 PM
That's why bitcoin is very interesting a lot of surprises happened. 2015 when I used bitcoin for the first time which has a price of 500dollars per 1btc and didnt make a serious move to study the bitcoin until I came back and regained my interest but Im little bit late because from 500USD now it has 1200+USD,what a big surprised, I missed a lot too.
March 03, 2017, 07:45:43 AM
Well, Though one year is really short. You have missed a lot things since you left. Bitcoin reach the ATH and still kicking. In fact, we surpass gold's price. Just like that. We crashed at the middle of 2016 and recovered at the end of that year. And now the price is really high and could possibly rise up to $2000 if the ETF is approved by SEC. The rally is unstoppable.
March 03, 2017, 07:24:52 AM
Howdy! I knew about Bitcoin since 2011 but only became seriously interested in late 2013 just after the big price rise that happened prior to Mt. Gox going under. I was quite a frequent poster on these forums until the first half of 2015. Then I went to college and studies got in the way of posting so I kind of lost interest in Bitcoin for the most part.
I was pretty deeply involved with the cryptocurrency scene during those months. I bought coins through LocalBitcoins (which I still hold to this day), gambled with them, ran my own faucets, traded altcoins, printed my own paper wallets, took part in signature campaigns, and mined with USB miners for fun. However, my knowledge of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies pretty much stops abruptly at around 2015.
So my question is this, what are some of the major developments that I've missed and should know about?
(For example, I remember learning about how GPUs were used to mine BTC in 2011 but that info was well out of date by 2013.)
I was pretty deeply involved with the cryptocurrency scene during those months. I bought coins through LocalBitcoins (which I still hold to this day
), gambled with them, ran my own faucets, traded altcoins, printed my own paper wallets, took part in signature campaigns, and mined with USB miners for fun. However, my knowledge of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies pretty much stops abruptly at around 2015.So my question is this, what are some of the major developments that I've missed and should know about?
(For example, I remember learning about how GPUs were used to mine BTC in 2011 but that info was well out of date by 2013.)
First welcome back and your are lucky not to have your account hacked.
1. Bitcoin gaining momentum as of now because of all the SEC decision looms on March 11
so price is rising in anticipation of the decision.
2. Bitcoin transaction fees are rising. Blockchain is always clogged. As a result,
3. The whole BU and Segwit drama is still ongoing. Whether to do a hard fork or soft fork.
4. Online dice game is still there up and running and most likely earning a lot of money now.
That's only I can think of right now.
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