I'll make a conscious decision not to buy a lottery ticket, yet I deserve to hit jackpot. Now I'm depressed since that didn't happen. Your line of thinking right there.
Well said.
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Well said.
I don't like the word entitled in my case. To me entitled is fitting of say a woman expecting special treatment because she has a vagina. Because the entitlement does and can receive the privilege. In my case who in the world is going to give me a million dollars even if I do feel entitled?
Sugarcoat it however you'd like, but what you feel is exactly what entitlement is. Majority of the people do want the life of the riches, nothing wrong with that. But you feel like you deserve it without having to do shit. You knew about bitcoin in the early days, yet did nothing about it and took absolutely no risk for it. So tell me again why the fuck you deserve it? And even then, you lost nothing from this, yet somehow it brings depression?
I'll make a conscious decision not to buy a lottery ticket, yet I deserve to hit jackpot. Now I'm depressed since that didn't happen. Your line of thinking right there.
The Winklevoss own 1% of all bitcoins and they had the balls to hold all over the 1k peak, they didnt sell a single coin, thats determination to hold long term.
I don't know how much they bought them for but 1% of all bitcoins at $1200 is $252,000,000...makes my head spin. How much more money do they want?
it's sentences like above that make me have no sympathy for you.
your overall view is of an immature 16 year old.
No idea what in my sentence made you say that but hey I'm not far off 16 years old anyway
The Winklevoss own 1% of all bitcoins and they had the balls to hold all over the 1k peak, they didnt sell a single coin, thats determination to hold long term.
I don't know how much they bought them for but 1% of all bitcoins at $1200 is $252,000,000...makes my head spin. How much more money do they want?
it's sentences like above that make me have no sympathy for you.
your overall view is of an immature 16 year old.
The Winklevoss own 1% of all bitcoins and they had the balls to hold all over the 1k peak, they didnt sell a single coin, thats determination to hold long term.
I don't know how much they bought them for but 1% of all bitcoins at $1200 is $252,000,000...makes my head spin. How much more money do they want?
The Winklevoss own 1% of all bitcoins and they had the balls to hold all over the 1k peak, they didnt sell a single coin, thats determination to hold long term.
It's easy to say in retrospect you would or wouldn't have sold but the same thing happens when buying in. People say oh if I would have invested in at as soon as you heard of it I'd be a millionaire etc, but the problem is they didn't. The people who have faith or take the risk are the ones that get rewarded and there's always people that didn't and regret their decision after the fact.
^^OP, this is the answer to your question boiled down to a few sentences.
Same as any other commodity, you can look at Gold and say "why did I not buy?" or Oil "why did I not sell?".
Also another fact: in order for someone to be rich other needs to be poor - and the truth is not many people is rich and will never be rich.
You need to realize this and if you don't like it, you need to work harder or smarter than the rest of the crowd.
Personally I do not believe in fiat, I think we will see a major collapse in our life time, so all those millions of dollars of you "could have had" could turn out to be worthless at the end of the day.
If anyone should have become an overnight millionaire it should have been me. I've been involved in virtual economies for many years now (mmorpg gold exchanges) and if anyone should have had the foresight to become an early adopter of bitcoin it should have been me but instead I was wasting my time fucking around with virtual gold. I wake up every morning feeling depressed.
even if you bough bitcoin in 2010 you had already sold it at 10 USD or 20 USD.
It's easy to say in retrospect you would or wouldn't have sold but the same thing happens when buying in. People say oh if I would have invested in at as soon as you heard of it I'd be a millionaire etc, but the problem is they didn't. The people who have faith or take the risk are the ones that get rewarded and there's always people that didn't and regret their decision after the fact.
If anyone should have become an overnight millionaire it should have been me. I've been involved in virtual economies for many years now (mmorpg gold exchanges) and if anyone should have had the foresight to become an early adopter of bitcoin it should have been me but instead I was wasting my time fucking around with virtual gold. I wake up every morning feeling depressed.
even if you bough bitcoin in 2010 you had already sold it at 10 USD or 20 USD.
Storage issues need to be addressed (the average person has no idea about the multiple layers of security that you have to implement for safe storage) and anonymity issues but apart from a few other minor things, I completely support and have faith in the bitcoin protocol. Though I do worry that if Satoshi were to dump his coins, bitcoin would be in serious troube.
Storage issues will easily be sorted in the future. There will be all sorts of hardware wallets with extra security (biometrics etc). If you have faith then try buy or earn as many coins as you can because we can still be early adopters. As for satoshi dumping his coins that is a concern but if he was going to do that he prolly will have done so a $1k.
If anyone should have become an overnight millionaire it should have been me. I've been involved in virtual economies for many years now (mmorpg gold exchanges) and if anyone should have had the foresight to become an early adopter of bitcoin it should have been me but instead I was wasting my time fucking around with virtual gold. I wake up every morning feeling depressed.
even if you bough bitcoin in 2010 you had already sold it at 10 USD or 20 USD.
Thanks for the advice everyone, I do appreciate it. Those people who are berating me for wanting to get rich quick, I don't understand where you are coming from. Who doesn't want to get rich quick?
I think it was more they thought you expressed the idea that you were entitled to be rich due to your effort. Tell that to millions of poor Africans who I'm sure very hard as well.
Anyway on the positive look into Gems Messenger I believe its going to be MASSIVE potentially bigger than Bitcoin.
I don't like the word entitled in my case. To me entitled is fitting of say a woman expecting special treatment because she has a vagina. Because the entitlement does and can receive the privilege. In my case who in the world is going to give me a million dollars even if I do feel entitled? The poor Africans bit you mentioned is irrelevant; just because they work hard and not rewarded, doesn't mean I should feel differently.
Sure there's not many people who wouldn't say no to instant richers but most people don't expect to get it from doing nothing. Many have to work hard for it and it doesn't magically just come calling. Tell me, what is your opinion on bitcoin? Do you have faith in it as a technology?
Storage issues need to be addressed (the average person has no idea about the multiple layers of security that you have to implement for safe storage) and anonymity issues but apart from a few other minor things, I completely support and have faith in the bitcoin protocol. Though I do worry that if Satoshi were to dump his coins, bitcoin would be in serious troube.
Thanks for the advice everyone, I do appreciate it. Those people who are berating me for wanting to get rich quick, I don't understand where you are coming from. Who doesn't want to get rich quick?
I think it was more they thought you expressed the idea that you were entitled to be rich due to your effort. Tell that to millions of poor Africans who I'm sure very hard as well.
Anyway on the positive look into Gems Messenger I believe its going to be MASSIVE potentially bigger than Bitcoin.
I don't like the word entitled in my case. To me entitled is fitting of say a woman expecting special treatment because she has a vagina. Because the entitlement does and can receive the privilege. In my case who in the world is going to give me a million dollars even if I do feel entitled? The poor Africans bit you mentioned is irrelevant; just because they work hard and not rewarded, doesn't mean I should feel differently.
Sure there's not many people who wouldn't say no to instant richers but most people don't expect to get it from doing nothing. Many have to work hard for it and it doesn't magically just come calling. Tell me, what is your opinion on bitcoin? Do you have faith in it as a technology?
Thanks for the advice everyone, I do appreciate it. Those people who are berating me for wanting to get rich quick, I don't understand where you are coming from. Who doesn't want to get rich quick?
I think it was more they thought you expressed the idea that you were entitled to be rich due to your effort. Tell that to millions of poor Africans who I'm sure very hard as well.
Anyway on the positive look into Gems Messenger I believe its going to be MASSIVE potentially bigger than Bitcoin.
I don't like the word entitled in my case. To me entitled is fitting of say a woman expecting special treatment because she has a vagina. Because the entitlement does and can receive the privilege. In my case who in the world is going to give me a million dollars even if I do feel entitled? The poor Africans bit you mentioned is irrelevant; just because they work hard and not rewarded, doesn't mean I should feel differently.
What other coin could give you Bitcoin-tier results?
Very few coins have any real possibility of selling for $1,000.
BUT -
Bitcoin started selling for about $0.01, whereas now we can buy altcoins for $0.000001. Even if they're worth less than 1 satoshi, we can buy them under other market pairs.
So Dashcoin doesn't have to give me Bitcoin-tier results, because I didn't pay the Bitcoin-tier price of $0.01. If you buy 1,000,000DSH for $0.50, it doesn't have to perform like Bitcoin. It doesn't have to trade for $1000, or $100, or $10, or $1.00. Your 50 cents will grow into $10,000, if Dashcoin goes as high as 1 penny. And if you're chasing the overnight Bitcoin millionaire dream, that 1 penny price will make you a millionaire from a $50 investment.
Of course, Dashcoin might not survive long enough to be worth 1 cent each. So, if that's what you're going for, you could buy $50 worth of a few other coins too. Now you have a much better chance at that million dollars (much better, but still not much), and you've invested $1000 into 20 coins instead of $50 into 1 coin. You might say lottery tickets are easier, but these coins are better than lottery tickets even if you're just a greedy speculator. Because even if they don't "hit", you can still sell them anyway.
Thanks for the advice everyone, I do appreciate it. Those people who are berating me for wanting to get rich quick, I don't understand where you are coming from. Who doesn't want to get rich quick?
I think it was more they thought you expressed the idea that you were entitled to be rich due to your effort. Tell that to millions of poor Africans who I'm sure very hard as well.
Anyway on the positive look into Gems Messenger I believe its going to be MASSIVE potentially bigger than Bitcoin.
Thanks for the advice everyone, I do appreciate it. Those people who are berating me for wanting to get rich quick, I don't understand where you are coming from. Who doesn't want to get rich quick?
If anyone should have become an overnight millionaire it should have been me.
With this sense of entitlement, I'm glad you didn't get shit from BTC. Typical get rich for nothing crowd.
Bravo.
If anyone should have become an overnight millionaire it should have been me. I've been involved in virtual economies for many years now (mmorpg gold exchanges) and if anyone should have had the foresight to become an early adopter of bitcoin it should have been me but instead I was wasting my time fucking around with virtual gold. I wake up every morning feeling depressed.
I have a friend who shares the same problem.Every morning he wakes up regreting not investing early in BTC.
Yet I think even now we still have big chance to be early adopters and gain significant wealth.
bitcoin was my one and only way of becoming a millionaire in life and it was right under my nose.
Right now there is another way, and 4 years from now you'll wish you had been doing that instead of moaning on a message board.
If Bitcoin continues to grow, it could be comparable to Visa. But then there's still room for Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. If you want a million dollars for a $100 investment, look at which altcoins have that potential. Me, I'm working both angles - if I buy 1BTC and it gets to be worth $10,000, I still won't be able to retire early. But if I buy a bunch of altcoins and let them grow into 20BTC, and then those 20BTC are worth $10,000 each, then it's a good start.
Besides, have you even thought about what you would do with a million dollars? I mean, would it really make you happy? Or would you be online 4 years later, saying "I wasted my time chasing bitcoin and a million dollars, and I missed the chance to get married and be happy."
Lol no, I would be happy with 1 million dollars.
But the thing is, who the fuck is going to grow 1 BTC into 20 buying altcoins when most are scams? I can only think 2 altcoins I would put some BTC long term, and we dont know the amount of BTC needed. Im thinking minimum 1 BTC invested and praying to Saint Satoshi that these alts make it big.
Well that's the trick.
#1 is this coin an outright scam, or will it increase in value over time and with more users, just like Bitcoin?
#2 is this coin cheap enough that I can buy a significant amount for a few dollars?
#3 is the price already in a bubble, or is now still a good time to buy?
Then you just buy and wait 4 years. That's the part most people can't understand. They wish they had bought bitcoin for a penny, but what good would it have done them? They would have sold it for 50 cents and considered it the profit of a lifetime.
True, but past performance doesnt mean history repeats itself. What other coin could give you Bitcoin-tier results? It was the first coin, I dont see any other coin being able to deliver such gains. I mean when was the last time a coin gave really good gains? Darkcoin? and look where is it now.
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