Topic: Remember when Bitcoin was new and..... - page 12. (Read 4647 times)

When I started bitcoin price was 200 $, I remember freebitcoin faucet was more then 800 satoshis, price started to go up and rewards to go down. There was a lot of poker free roll tournaments, with very nice prizes.
Now price is 3 times more then year ago, even then was great time for buying bitcoins. I didn't have money for that, but I suggested that to everyone I know, people didn't take me for serious.

I remember the first time some geek came up to me at a party all stoned out, telling me... " Bitcoin is going to be big, my man " ... I was in no mood to accept financial advice from a stoner, so I just

said, Yea and forgot all about it. A few months after that, I was surfing the Net to find the best prices on a new Nvidia GPU card for gaming and I landed on a YouTube link, where people were mining

Bitcoins with GPU's... that got me interested and I went down the rabbit hole. 

When BTC was new, some gave me 130 coins, instead of a pay check for a job I did that was worth roughly 600$. Every day I'd check on them and some days their value went down but most days it went up.
It was really exciting and I felt really lucky because I wasn't a bitcoiner, in fact I was not even happy to receive them in the first place. I was upset not to get 600$ and was mad at the guy who gave them to me lol.

then over time their value went up to roughly 40k, then they crashed and went down to 10K, I was devastated for a while but made the correct choice not to sell the coins and they went back up to almost 160K but I sold at 65k as it was going up. ( it went down 20 bucks in a day and I panicked it was happening again)

It was to this day my most life changing event and I'm thankful for finding it all the time.

I'm a personal trainer and even though no one offers to pay in BTC, I still let my clients know I accept it because of the one time it payed off

We ordered one of the first Asic Miners in 2012 and we were also too late to the game for bitcoin, I sold my half to a friend who set up a mining room and still makes good money to this day trading tghe machines around and mining altcoins

Where do I Sign up? 

I wish I could started using bitcoin since 2011. But unfortunately I have started adopting bitcoin from 2015 when it was already popular and used by many people. So I have started earning in fractions from faucets.

Then I started trading bitcoin and also started p2p loans, then I started seeing big money. If I had started using it since 2011, I could have made a fortune for me by now.

I remember i bought my first bitcoin when its price was around 200$ and now its 3 times more than that.I was collecting few satoshies from the faucets like moonbit and many other faucets.I also used to collect the dogecoins at that time.At that time price of dogecoins was much higher and loved to collect them more than the bitcoins.

I remember a time when I needed all day or even more to make 0.001 btc or 1 mBTC. Claiming faucets that give no more then 1000 sat. per claim, and that was a good prize. Now I spin slots where is 0.5 mBTC minimum spin, I made a nice progress in just few months.
I also remember when price was around 300 $, struggling to pass 350 $. And look at the price now almost doubled and its gonna go more up, at least we are waiting that to happen.
I can just imagine what early adopters remind about, they are full with incredible stories for sure. Eh how I didn`t saw bitcoins a bit earlier.

Well im just newbie in bitcoin but before i remember bitcoins before some offering or telling me about bitcoin they said that i can earn in bitcoins.. 2011 i was looking for earnings online i just ignore bitcoins before that i didnt know if bitcoin is scam or not.. its a worst thing that i just ignore that bitcoins before.. and now the price of bitcoin is high and we are now adopting and holding bitcoin to make a profit..

i remember a time when i sold 1btc for 800USD... good times. hope they come back.

Yeah, I think very few people would not cash out a significant portion of their Bitcoins if they experience such a rise in value.
Can't imagine someone buying coins for like 0.10 dollars and holding that to sell at $1000

The early days were more fun though, a lot more community driven effort here on the forum, people literally giving away nice amounts of Bitcoins for various services etc.

chances are they were scammed off him or he sold for not very much. the first massive spike was $32. A $64,000 return on what might have been a few bucks would've been enough for most people. no one could've known how quickly it would rise from there.

Chances are he cashed out when the price went up considerably, so chances are he's quite well off right now and he's probably still working. 2000 Bitcoins back a while ago was a hefty return when the price spiked, and chances are even if he sold them today he would be doing incredibly well. That's something like... a million dollars actually. If he was to sell them each at $500.

with your track record you'd better be careful. some whale on here might track you down and keep you chained up in his basement doing trades for him.

Honestly , I consider myself newbie in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies , because Bitcoin caught my attention only few monthes ago , but I have been learning from others in this forum .
I heard about the person who bought Bitcoins by some Dollars he had , then he forget about that , when Bitcoin price reaches $1000 , he remembered his Bitcoins and opened his wallet to find $800k in it , how much he was lucky ?

I remember gavin andresen having his own faucet.

I remember selling 60 BTC for £75

We all goes up to another level. It is just for a good start and it helped. It will make you think also rhat every satoshi is important specially now with its price. When I think of how hard it is to get some back then I am getting aware of wasting it in gambling and hyips cause every bit is money in my eyes.

When I first was taught a little about BTC it was just over the $1200 peak and the guy telling me about it thought it might start going back up again any minute, he was killing it on DOGE, he gave me my first .01BTC to cryptsy to trade..

I sold some DOGE @ 242sat, bought DRK in its first couple days on an exchange, watched XPY hit $20, made a killing on and witnessed the AUR pump..
Those were the good old days for me..

I just traded and traded trying to bank more and more BTC never really caring what the BTC price was other than how its movements effected ALT trading, I never really cared what the BTC price was because I always did and still do believe in BTC..


By the time the big UNB pump was over I had turned my .01 BTC into over 1.25 BTC and sold most of it around $300 to buy the intercooler I needed for my Turbo Porsche project because I was really broke in real life and it was summertime time to be outside not staring at crypto books for 70 hours a week..

IDK if I regret selling then, sometimes I do and sometimes I don't..


Started trading again and made a bunch more BTC again and this time I bought a casascius coin with all of it so I won't just spend it on something..

I had to borrow .01BTC the other day to get back in trading and was able to pull 230% profit, over trippled it in a couple days so I payed it back and have enough BTC to get my trading on again now..

Maybe these are still the good old days.. I don't think the good times are over, it has all just begun..

I came to know about bitcoin a bit late,around 2013 and i also started in from faucets like many others and i used to work all day in faucets to earn few pennies of satoshies.But still if i could compare with today that amount was good.I used freebitco.in faucet a lot and was able to won 0.01btc approx few times in one roll.

i'd love to see more average joes but we're nowhere near that yet. we have pioneers, scammers, weirdos, the curious and maybe some regular folks too. no one writing on here is average. most people would still think we were all nuts.