Some nights I think about this, and I just wanna cry. (How i missed the bus)

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Quote from: Joe_Bauers on July 17, 2014, 01:13:58 PM

Good. No use in turning this into a course on social engineering Wink

I know what company it is now anyways... Though I am not telling.

It was obvious it was Yahoo! from the start.

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Good. No use in turning this into a course on social engineering Wink

I know what company it is now anyways... Though I am not telling.

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Quote from: Joe_Bauers on July 17, 2014, 12:58:08 PM

The moral of your story is, don't go to work for AOL Wink

AHHAHA nope! It was not at AOL>

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Quote from: dimfot on July 17, 2014, 08:22:58 AM

oh man you are a hero that you worked there and saved all this money for the company.. i would suggest them to burn down the facility and take the insurance.

we managed to get out of there! it was not fixable. You simply had to move out.

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I think it is still to early to say that the proverbial bus has been missed as there are all sorts of new technologies coming out (eMunie, Etherium, Maidsafe, blockchain tech) that may take off even more than Bitcoin! The cryptocurrency revolution is only starting (many make an analogy to the 1996 Internet before things really went mainstream).

The best bet now is to keep up with the trends and try to look ahead to where things are going. My bet is on these next-gen cryptos that will lead to more and more decentralization (and more and more privacy).

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Quote from: Minecache on July 17, 2014, 11:55:04 AM

Quote from: chopstick on July 17, 2014, 11:15:59 AM

Doesn't matter. In the future All you will need is like 10 bitcoins to have a cool million bucks. Are you content with a million? Im hoping I can get at-least 20 BTC by the time mainstream adoption takes off.

My personal target is to try to get to holding 1 millionth of the total of all mined bitcoins. With 13 million already out there I'm very far short of holding 13 so far. Sad

Heck, at least you have a goal in mind. That's better than a lot of others out there. Especially at the point when bitcoin becomes the de facto transactor. 1 millionth of any major currency is definitely a substantial amount of money.

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Quote from: chopstick on July 17, 2014, 11:15:59 AM

Doesn't matter. In the future All you will need is like 10 bitcoins to have a cool million bucks. Are you content with a million? Im hoping I can get at-least 20 BTC by the time mainstream adoption takes off.

My personal target is to try to get to holding 1 millionth of the total of all mined bitcoins. With 13 million already out there I'm very far short of holding 13 so far. Sad

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Doesn't matter. In the future All you will need is like 10 bitcoins to have a cool million bucks. Are you content with a million? Im hoping I can get at-least 20 BTC by the time mainstream adoption takes off.

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Quote from: giveBTCpls on July 17, 2014, 09:20:41 AM

Well, I heard it in 2010 and I didn't buy because it was always linked to criminal activities. Then I realized when it exploded that it had a legitimate use. My life has never been the same since. Depression hit hard. Never had 1 BTC yet Cry

Welcome to capitalism, enjoy your financial and spiritual poverty. No sane capitalist will give you free wealth in exchange for nothing, myself included. Sorry about that.

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Quote from: Beliathon on July 17, 2014, 08:51:33 AM

As a former IT guy, those pictures made me want to gouge out my eyes and eat them.

You should also know that you have NOT missed the bus, it has not even left the station yet, let alone reached the shuttle that will take you beyond the stratosphere and up into the cold black of space.

No, we've missed the bus. Not missing the bus = making 1 million cash at least. He'll never make a million of purchasing power with that few BTC (whatever the equivalent with fiat is in the future is irrelevant, im talking, the purchasing power of 1 million dollar now being the equivalent in the future of 6.5 BTC), let alone people like me, that don't even have 1.
The ridiculous % of price increase has already happened. For us to get legit gains BTC would need to go 100K at least. Cry

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Well, I heard it in 2010 and I didn't buy because it was always linked to criminal activities. Then I realized when it exploded that it had a legitimate use. My life has never been the same since. Depression hit hard. Never had 1 BTC yet Cry

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https://youtu.be/PZm8TTLR2NU

As a former IT guy, those pictures made me want to gouge out my eyes and eat them.

You should also know that you have NOT missed the bus, it has not even left the station yet, let alone reached the shuttle that will take you beyond the stratosphere and up into the cold black of space.

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oh man you are a hero that you worked there and saved all this money for the company.. i would suggest them to burn down the facility and take the insurance.

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Quote from: BitCoinDream on July 16, 2014, 06:19:49 PM

I was just looking and wondering at these pics...

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https://i.imgur.com/xu81nwg.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/lYlzxnO.jpg

How do they manage ? Huh

added a couple more.

My goodness... if a problem takes place, it would be next to impossible to detect !!!

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Quote from: ixne on July 17, 2014, 05:54:55 AM

After the first big crash in 2011 (after reaching the ridiculous peak of $32), the death of bitcoin was declared and many people sold their bitcoins in the following months at a loss somewhere around $2-5. Since I saw the whole thing as a donation, I never bothered to sell mine.

I was never really involved in the Bitcoin community back then but I knew about it from a forum I used to frequent and would read articles about it from time to time. I remember watching the price spike to $32 and then crash to $3 and I felt relieved because I had considered buying a couple coins (even going so far as to making an account at Mt. Gox) but I was too lazy to actually go through with it. I remember reading threads here where people were crying over their lost wealth. The atmosphere of the forums just after the 2011 crash was really bleak and hopeless and many people thought the project had failed. Once Wired published an article called "The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin", I thought the whole thing was dead so I lost interest. Never would I have imagined that I'd be back here in three years, buying up fractions of a bitcoin at $500 per coin.

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Quote from: culexevilman on July 17, 2014, 05:44:54 AM

I think we all have a moment in time where we wished we were back in 2009, but on the bright side, 5 years from now bitcoin will either be successful or broke, you can choose make a better choice today. Dont be shortsighted, history will repeats itself.

This can't be applied on everyone. Some of us were back in '09 and '10 while the majority didn't, but one can't live like this.

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Everything is easy in hindsight. I remember buying bitcoins when they were $5 and feeling slightly embarrassed about wasting cash on magic internet money. Back then things were much more underground and unsure. Most people, myself included, probably didn't really expect bitcoin to succeed, even if we thought the idea was brilliant. There were a lot of questions about potential bugs, what ASICs would do if/when they were developed, hard forks, upscaling, and legal questions that just had not been encountered yet. I just looked at my purchase like a donation to an interesting cryptographic protocol that I wanted to support. After the first big crash in 2011 (after reaching the ridiculous peak of $32), the death of bitcoin was declared and many people sold their bitcoins in the following months at a loss somewhere around $2-5. Since I saw the whole thing as a donation, I never bothered to sell mine.

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I think we all have a moment in time where we wished we were back in 2009, but on the bright side, 5 years from now bitcoin will either be successful or broke, you can choose make a better choice today. Dont be shortsighted, history will repeats itself.

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