Topic: SHAME THREAD (Read 1099 times)

So freebitco.in doesn't show your balance on my mobile browser. I had the idea to hit "bet max" and find out that I had .03, my first tangible holding in btc. My stupid touch screen registered a roll when I tried to change my bet. Back to 0. FML

Dunno exactly, but it was a hot summer's day 2010 or 2011. I had a few minutes time in between two of those unconsciously shimmering but although into the night lasting snap-shots of summer. I thought about encrypting my hdd and how to do it, 'cause I heard something about it on the news and wanted to do some research. And then I stumbled about Bitcoin for a second. Somehow it sticked to me and I did a brief reading. But it wasn't what I was looking for and I left into the next summer experience. I had a valuable good time back then, by far more valuable than going into Bitcoin that day! I don't regret anything!

ha. I came here expecting a different sort of shame thread.  Something along the lines of "I bought some bitcoins, discovered satoshi dice, whoa holy shit I'm up a couple coins....and now my life savings is gone."

I'm glad it is simply a lament to missed opportunities of the past.  I, too, wish I had purchased when I first starting following the currency.  I had the fortune of stumbling onto the idea during my senior year of college, while finishing up my economics major.  It presented a unique opportunity for me to observe this real world experiment and test of economic theory with my education still fresh in my mind.  I couldn't help but think of the Dutch Tulip bubble at first, and it proved me wrong on a few occasions, but I was just never quite 100% sold on it.  I own a small holding of coins, and was able to purchase @ 60, but they were selling for pennies on the dollar when I first discovered it.  Alas, I was a broke college kid at the time, but even my pittance of a bankroll would've netted me a small fortune!  Damn.  Oh well.  My dad told me a story about how he missed out on purchasing cell phone towers with a group of friends in the '80's.  Those guys are still enjoying the profits from leasing them out to the highest bidders today. 

Point is that there will always be missed opportunities, especially when it comes down to financials.  Hindsight is 20/20, and this ride isn't over yet.  We're on a nice peak, and still may not be at the top.  I don't want to get my hopes too far up and am not paying too much attention to the daily price fluctuations and the madness behind all that, but its hard to avoid it entirely. It is nice to know that the small investment I made some months ago is really turning into something substantial.  I'll be holding onto those coins until the ship sinks (if she sinks!), but if I happen to obtain a few more between now and then, I'll certainly hope to profit a bit off them in the short term.  And spend them on actual goods, of course. 

That is the important thing, after all.  The more that BTC resembles "money" in the Austrian sense, the better off all of us will be.  Price won't mean jack shit if we can't carry the momentum we've got into turning this into a truly ubiquitous currency. 

This pretty much applies to life as a whole. None of us knows what the future holds, and we all just take our best guess and hope for a positive outcome

Sounds to me like you've done pretty well.

I applaud ur integrity.
There isn't much of that left in the world we live.
If I were not merely a bit bum I would tip u indeed.

don't worry about it, I think you're in the great majority.

Same story - I heard about bitcoins last year but was focused on other things and didn't do anything about it then.  I did get in on it earlier this year but didn't invest any serious money in equipment or buying coins.  It was mainly an intellectual exercise to see if I could wrap my head around the concept (I worked on Kerberos and SSL, so I had a good start on encryption and public/private key theory).

Ron (retired programmer)

I heard of bitcoin about 6 months ago. I thought it was too good to be true, so I didn't really pay attention. I actually thought about buying some 2 weeks ago, and I decided against it. I finally bought in at $520. Better late than never, I suppose, considering my investment is worth over $1000 more right now.

I first heard about btc in early 2011, i remember buying a bunch online and accidentally getting sent twice the amount I ordered, so roughly 640btc instead of 320btc, I helped give them back to the original sender ever though I didnt have to. Sure they would be nice to have now, but i still feel good about it.

+1 to the shame line
tho i hope there will be welcoming hands after confession.

man can you help a brother out LMAO
but seriously :1ASZ17VUYnWE1B7kiCJaXjVFiPn9YLZDHC

Your not alone, I knew about Bitcoin before April 2013 as well, but I had no balls to put in any significant amount. I was wrong obv

I just learned about it this year and did not know what to make of it. Didn't believe.
The more I read though, I figured, what do I have to lose? so I bought a btc robot with a 3 year contract and bought my first bitcoin for $120. Now I just let that robot do its thing and my account has increased to over 100% returns. WOW! glad I got in. It is paying for itself and then some.
Keep on keeping on fellow newbies. 

If only you knew......

I bought in @ $167.
not in volume though i was just Trying it.
should have went all in.

Back in 2010 my friend and I were chatting about whether or not to start accepting this new Bitcoin thing on our website ... we ummed and arrred about it until we decided that as we couldn't spend the stuff in most places we shopped at, it wasn't a good idea to cannibalise our credit card and Paypal sales.

How foolish. We would have been raking the equivalent of about $4K /month in at the current rate.

No regrets though (at least not that I will admit anyway!) as I bought in at about $38 and they've gone crackers since then!! Wouldn't mind a few more though ; )

I ignored bitcoin until April of this year, because I had used/bought/sold e-gold back in the late 90s, and I assumed bitcoin was something new along the same lines. (E-gold was a virtual currency backed by gold and silver, but ended up being taken over by the feds due to silk road-like activities being done with it.) I now wish I had bothered to at least look into it when I first heard about it, probably when it was first getting started.

Damn Bro, you have war wounds from this shit I see.
You are a BTC veteran
I salute thee.
your experience gives you an edge though.
@ least you MINED.
I wanted CUDA cores so I went Nvidia w/ my gfx card
a radeon 7890 coulda paid the bills LMAO

In 2002 I took an english test, in english class. Turned the test in to the english teacher who had a silver thing in her hand with earphones coming out of it.
I asked "What's that?"
She replied "It's an iPod.It's cool."
I responded "Well they should just make it a phone and call it iPhone."
I continued my life never thinking of that occurence until my sister called me late in 2007 saying
"Hey I hope you invested in that iphone idea you had because I'm calling you on one right now"
DOUBLE FACEPALM
Should've had apple shares the next year when I was 18 making $12 an hour with no kids(I could afford them then).
I will never miss another oppurtunity like that.
I don't even get laid anymore because all I talk about is money.
I speak fiats but all I think in my head is bits and alts.
 

Don't feel bad.  Similar to the stock market with stocks that go to the moon.  Hindsight is 20/20.  No one can blame you that your crystal ball was broke.