Looking at posts from 2010 compared to now - page 2.

Xenrise

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Quote from: samp123 on March 17, 2018, 01:50:34 PM

Just took a little jump back to 2010 to look at what people were posting about. It kind of feels a bit sad now to jump back to the future and see every post about bitcoin as an investment. It would be nice to be in a time where people spoke and cared more about how to best progress the agenda rather than how to make a quick buck Wink

Maybe after the inevitable big crash comes and the price stabilizes, who knows

What are you saying? Bitcoin is the best investment of all time. I don't know if you just wanted to become a some sort of a "funny" guy in this forum. I don't really know what you're talking about either. People from the back, they were investing on bitcoin. So it is still an investment. The hell is your idea?

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Quote from: samp123 on March 17, 2018, 01:50:34 PM

Just took a little jump back to 2010 to look at what people were posting about. It kind of feels a bit sad now to jump back to the future and see every post about bitcoin as an investment. It would be nice to be in a time where people spoke and cared more about how to best progress the agenda rather than how to make a quick buck Wink

Maybe after the inevitable big crash comes and the price stabilizes, who knows

For me it is so interesting and fun to look back at the old,old posts when the first people were posting about the block chain.
i very much enjoy reading the old posts.

justine11

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Quote from: samp123 on March 17, 2018, 01:50:34 PM

Just took a little jump back to 2010 to look at what people were posting about. It kind of feels a bit sad now to jump back to the future and see every post about bitcoin as an investment. It would be nice to be in a time where people spoke and cared more about how to best progress the agenda rather than how to make a quick buck Wink

Maybe after the inevitable big crash comes and the price stabilizes, who knows

Yeah indeed and also, don't forget that in 2010 this forum was clean (no spammers, no and there were threads whose the replies pages were not exceding to 100+ and also they are not repetitive and not talking bitcoin as investment, as helping people, and price predictions (very inaccurate) just to pay the participant in his signature campaign.

Quote from: ethergod on March 18, 2018, 05:01:20 PM

I agree that a lot of the original posters probably cashed out long ago. I've met some who missed the chance to be millionaires by selling way too early. Many underestimated how far bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies would grow.

you clearly don't understand the OP's post? He just saying the forum in 2010 is a lot different from this current state ok?

ethergod

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I agree that a lot of the original posters probably cashed out long ago. I've met some who missed the chance to be millionaires by selling way too early. Many underestimated how far bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies would grow.

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I thought of that just a while ago when I visited satoshi's posts.
It is all about bitcoin and upgrades and fixing it. There is not much about investing or something else. The real bitcoin discussion is there.
But you cannot help it. Bitcoin gained the value of something else and everything will change.
You will just have to go with the flow, it all changes when there is already money that is related with it.

Just focus on the future from here on.

JanpriX

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Buy The F*cking Dip

This is to be expected. Back in 2010, most of people here don't even think that BTC will make them rich in the future. They are just here to check the improvement of a decentralized coin that will provide them financial freedom one way or another. It's much like a hobby for them and something to do in their own accord at their own free time.

Right now, most of the people that got into BTCtalk aim to have the best possible profit out of BTC and other coins. They don't care about the technology anymore. They are just here to post and get paid for it. They buy BTC to trade it to other coins with the hope that it would triple or multiply by hundredfold in the coming days. The objective is very different and so the people too.

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Quote from: samp123 on March 17, 2018, 01:50:34 PM

Just took a little jump back to 2010 to look at what people were posting about. It kind of feels a bit sad now to jump back to the future and see every post about bitcoin as an investment. It would be nice to be in a time where people spoke and cared more about how to best progress the agenda rather than how to make a quick buck Wink

Maybe after the inevitable big crash comes and the price stabilizes, who knows

I've been going back to read the old posts from back in the day too. Sometimes I get a chuckle from people posting in 2010 calling themselves 'noobs.' Lol. It's an entirely different community now but I guess that's what happens when people see lots of money to be made...and we're all guilty. I guess.. It's so difficult to sift through all the pasts about money and really learn something valuable.

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Quote from: -ck on March 18, 2018, 04:15:07 PM

...And yet still the discussion simply turns to how much money the pioneers would have made. No mention of what bitcoin technology has turned into over those last 8 years thanks to those pioneers and how much effort they've put in and most still continue to.

Well there are some of us that except making some side cash care about Bitcoin. I use it everyday in many different websites that accepts it and not only bitcoin or crypto related websites, now many traffic exchanges and ptc sites are accepting it. Also Steam used to accept it until fees got enormously big and it was forced to remove it. I have credit card and many privileges from my bank but I like to use bitcoin as I love paying anonymously and without control from a central authority. Sometimes my bank do not allow some of my transactions as they think that is not me doing them while it is me. Paying with bitcoin is a good way to get back some freedom in the financial world and it is thanks to blockchain technology that I can achieve this.

I also keep majority of my "bitcoin fortune" in my hardware wallet as I also believe it can be the investment which turn my life upside down in a certain moment during not a so distant future. For me bitcoin is "a financial and technological revolution of our century".

-ck

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...And yet still the discussion simply turns to how much money the pioneers would have made. No mention of what bitcoin technology has turned into over those last 8 years thanks to those pioneers and how much effort they've put in and most still continue to.

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Quote from: guybrushthreepwood on March 17, 2018, 02:05:24 PM

Quote from: randythered on March 17, 2018, 01:53:00 PM

You're right about that, it's an entirely different community now because of the money that is there to be made, most of the guys who were here for the tech are probably relaxing on a beach somewhere by now. You can go to certain sections of the forum and find lots of good threads to discuss things, serious/technical discussion would be a good start.

Not necessarily. A lot of these people cashed out when bitcoin hit $1-100. Then even more at $1000. It's the ones that hodled and timed it right selling at the all time high that are probably on the beaches. I think the majority of posters now just dump their coins for cash as soon as they get it because for a lot of them it's seemingly paying their bills.

Yep but they didn't need to be in from beginning to end to still be on the beaches somewhere. If they invested only around 10k then that would mean that each 100x we would have a whole new bunch of millionaires and then they could sell to the next lot of hopefuls. That means we've already had 3+ lots of millionaires using that logic.

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Quote from: interna on March 17, 2018, 02:08:52 PM

I think that very few people would have the patience required to wait from bitcoin prices rising from $1 to $20000 over the last few years. Some people would have sold at $100, $500, $1000 and so on. Very limited people could have imagined that it will reach $20000 one day.

It is hard to have that kind of vision in faith, especially when majority of the world is telling you that you are part of a scam and apart of a criminal system. Combine that with the fact it is a new asset class, you better believe some people are going to sell because they get scared and or don't understand the tech fully. Quite honestly, I don't blame them because I don't know what I would have done in that spot either.

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I think that very few people would have the patience required to wait from bitcoin prices rising from $1 to $20000 over the last few years. Some people would have sold at $100, $500, $1000 and so on. Very limited people could have imagined that it will reach $20000 one day.

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Quote from: samp123 on March 17, 2018, 01:50:34 PM

Just took a little jump back to 2010 to look at what people were posting about. It kind of feels a bit sad now to jump back to the future and see every post about bitcoin as an investment. It would be nice to be in a time where people spoke and cared more about how to best progress the agenda rather than how to make a quick buck Wink

Maybe after the inevitable big crash comes and the price stabilizes, who knows

What makes you think that a lot of those people weren't also in it for the money? I would think that probably only the very first few users who joined this forum we're in it exclusively for the tech and the vast majority of people who signed up after 2012 were mostly in it for the cash. You can also be a fan of the tech whilst hoping to make a bit of money from it like I was.

Quote from: randythered on March 17, 2018, 01:53:00 PM

You're right about that, it's an entirely different community now because of the money that is there to be made, most of the guys who were here for the tech are probably relaxing on a beach somewhere by now. You can go to certain sections of the forum and find lots of good threads to discuss things, serious/technical discussion would be a good start.

Not necessarily. A lot of these people cashed out when bitcoin hit $1-100. Then even more at $1000. It's the ones that hodled and timed it right selling at the all time high that are probably on the beaches. I think the majority of posters now just dump their coins for cash as soon as they get it because for a lot of them it's seemingly paying their bills.

randythered

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You're right about that, it's an entirely different community now because of the money that is there to be made, most of the guys who were here for the tech are probably relaxing on a beach somewhere by now. You can go to certain sections of the forum and find lots of good threads to discuss things, serious/technical discussion would be a good start.

samp123

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Just took a little jump back to 2010 to look at what people were posting about. It kind of feels a bit sad now to jump back to the future and see every post about bitcoin as an investment. It would be nice to be in a time where people spoke and cared more about how to best progress the agenda rather than how to make a quick buck Wink

Maybe after the inevitable big crash comes and the price stabilizes, who knows

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