what was your attitude when you first got into bitcoin? was it to get rich quick? make some dollars? learn the tech?
and how has it changed the more you've learnt? did you go from a moon kid to a serious scholar of the tech or even more of a moon kid than before?
i started off as interested in the dollars, then got more and more fascinated by the whole world around it, now i think i'm starting to come out the other side a little.
the more i've learnt about this scene the more screwed up it seems and i don't see how it's gonna cure itself. there's money to be made but i might be doing it no longer believing in its immediate future.
cryptocurrencies will never go anywhere but i'm starting to think what's around us now will be looked back on as the experimental and growing pains phase rather than anything that directly survives and is built on into the future. uncool but from the heart.
what about you?
Definitely in my case it is to get rich quick.
I strongly believe that a lot of other people have started the same way as i started, naive, immature, thinking bitcoin is the way for them to get a million dollars in no time, thinking that they have the perfect strategy in gambling, etc etc.
I first looked at bitcoin when i looked at options to gamble anonymously online, as a result i came across sites such as PrimeDice and Just-Dice.
I was spending up to 6 hours a day on these sites just reaping faucet and chatting away, and when i had that 0.1 BTC i would deposit and lose it all.
Definitely not a good idea to gamble, there is no perfect strategy. House always wins.
However bitcoin gives you the opportunity to essentially bet against the gamblers as well, which means that you can be the house. That way, you can win in the long run instead of losing all the time.