Topic: There is nothing like it since the past 12 years - page 5. (Read 886 times)

I am motivated by your story, the world has never been an easy place for the male child, especially those who come from a poor home. Yes know that there investments out there that will make people become financially stable, but nothing does it like bitcoin. I have made a resolution that I will start my bitcoin journey, hopefully in few years from now I will tell my success story too. I have a little job am doing but the pay is not much but from it I am able to be buying bitcoin on weekly basis as I am being paid on Fridays. I know patience is required to succeeded in bitcoin investment.

It was quit an impressive move to achieve your success. But starving yourself was not a good decision because food is life instead of that you should just cut expenses down to meet your weekly DCA. For example if your DCA strategy was sorpos to be $10per week, you will reduce it to 5 or $7 at least you will still have a little to feed . Design is the necessity of life and hence if not properly taken care of it might result to what will still Leed to selling of your save coin. So next time take good care of yourself, save in bitcoin and also have an emergency fund.

Coming from a rich family does not guarantee that their children have more advantage to invest than poor. You can't just generalise it because most rich folks also find it hard to lay their hands on their parents wealth. and some reason are because the parent thinks if their children are exposed to money early, it will corrupt them.  By so doing of creating a wrong expression make their children to hustle on their own. So not all rich kid has the opportunity to invest in Bitcoin because most of their parents are also not a fans of crypto currency.

Same here. I have no other means to make it to rise from poverty but Bitcoin. I have to keep on holding to the very little amount of BTC I have since it's the only wealth I have to go on.  If my family had some spare that they could invest in BTC, I would have told them to buy more but because of the rising prices of everything today, I doubt they will have something to set aside for something that is not tangible.

I'm just curious why you would have to eat one meal a day when you are living with your parents. You can serve your parents, be their handy man and do the house chores for them and cook for them, I'm sure they can feed you more than once a day.

We are actually on the same shoes mate, from pandemic to the recent supertyphoon that our provinces hard hit, I thought it will just end right there because I have no one to ask for help since signal coverage and electricity was restored more or less 7 months after the catastrophe. My mobile phone and laptop were fully damaged that is why I almost lose any hope.

With the courage to help myself and my family I sold my silver coins collections in the hope of slowly getting my self up on my own knees in other words this self reliance helps me slowly recover. I got few hundreds of dollars with those silver coins and bought a new android phone from it that is why I came back here on the forum though not yet fully recovered from that devastation and stressful days, Bitcoin paying signature campaigns really help me with my own and family's needs from the time I got accepted from it.

Right now, I am saving my weekly Bitcoin rewards on purpose because I already learned the lesson from the past. Government aid are there to be honest but unfortunately distributions were very political. That is why standing on our own feet and surviving during or after the catastrophe does make sense. So invest in Bitcoin, precious metals and real estate if you want to survive.

Thanks for asking, I used every source possible back then, from pocket money to online jobs like pay to click, I even did a lot of faucet claiming too, just like many people on this forum.

There was also a time where I won some good amount of Bitcoin from Freebitco when it was still very new, it's been a long time, I joined few HYIP websites, I also did few free lancing jobs then, I included my parent especially my father because I don't feel the tiger parenting from their side, he supported my journey and he was very understanding, I bet I've posted something related to this before.

You can read more about this here...

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.61816354

The biggest struggle for normal people, even more poor people of course, is that in order to make more money you need to make a big switch in the way you manage money and the way you live your life. Why? Because 1) nobody is there to explain you how finance works 2) you have so many problems simply covering all the monthly expenses that you don't even think about investing or stuff like that. That's the reason many people with low income will have a low income pretty much all their lives while rich people oftentimes get richer and richer. Of course if you already have money it's easier, but with the right mindset you can actually change your life. And this is exactly what bitcoin does.

Anybody that is privileged to learn about Bitcoin and do the right thing by holding it will not live to regret it, because before now, even till date, people are still skeptical about it, many people still liken Bitcoin to a Ponzi scheme where it'll crumble one day and people will lose all their investments. Understanding that Bitcoin is a reputable and valuable asset that guarantees financial freedom in the future is the way to go, it has the potentials to keep increasing in value as the years goes by. I'm happy for the OP for believing in Bitcoin, when most of us where still thinking whether it'll withstand the test of time, today is still not too late for newcomers to start accumulating and holding it, it'll be one of the best decisions anybody can make.

I was never in such a bad situation, but there was a time when I was just getting into the crypto market, when Bitcoin was crucial for me to be able to buy food, and I was a full-time student, so finding a different job was very hard. But I did need to pay the bills and rent a flat back then, which was partially why I was in somewhat of a struggle. I'm really happy that you managed to change your financial situation, I understand that escaping poverty (breaking the cycle of poverty, especially) is a very hard thing to do.
But when possible, I do think a person should earn money on a regular basis instead of fully relying on profits from long-term holding.

Bitcoin is now on the journey of it's fifteen years and there have never been any to compare to this wonderful digital currency we have, maybe if we never appreciated anything about new developments, then this one is worth given a consideration for a well done job to Satoshi Nakamoto being a success, one thing I like about bitcoin is in rendering it various opportunities to everyone willing to partake of it without much or any demands being attached.

I'm a little bit confused with your story. You had no job but you were already investing, "gathering some Bitcoin for long term hold"? How did you do that? Where did you get the money?

And then you were wretched, looked old even if you were still young, and you even eat single meal a day, but you were living with your parents? How could you feed yourself when you have no source of income? And why should you look after your stomach and couldn't eat 2 or 3 times a day when you're living with your parents?

Anyway, thanks for pointing out that you "can't advice anyone to do the same today." I agree. I advice anybody to live a good life. If the price to pay for that is to have no Bitcoin, it's still worth it.

You surely had it the easier way thanks to your parents but, still count all of your hardships with your own journey. And when you've like this is a do or die thing, you got me there because we've got the same opinion when I've known Bitcoin for the first time and understood that it's an investment. Looking at its past where people have probably bought it at a cheap rate might have been holding several years ago when I was still new. And by that time, I've realized that it's never too late and just like today, some newbies might think that they're still too early because like in the past that we've thought of the same thing. It might not be easy but if they've got conviction just as yours, it's never too late but things can be easier if you believe before it finally becomes stable in terms of its pricing soon. But IMHO, we're still quite far from seeing that happen.

Your journey is not easier without a source of income, it doesn't exist.

Without cahs flow, you do not have any means of putting money into Bitcoin, even if all your needs are catered for. Anyone joining Bitcoin now to get rich should realize also that the ROI is no where near what it was ten years ago. They would not get lambos with Bitcoin, except they already had a very good source of income.

If you want to get rich, build your income and reduce your expenditures and liabilities, then invest.

Firstly I want to congratulate you on your achievements over the past 12 years. Anytime I come across Early adopters like you it make me wish I was an adopter too in the earliest time.
I must say you seem to be a very disciplined person from your write up because it takes a hell lot of discipline for someone to be able to hodl without a source of income. I bet if you didn't have some assistance from parents you may not have been able to. Because it seems very illogical to be hungry and claiming to hodl Bitcoin.

I don't know who needs to hear this, I had no job when I started gathering some Bitcoin for long term hold, I looked wreteched for few years, I eat single meal per day, I looked old at a young age, like those who don't want me to carry on my BTC journey used to tell me, but in the end it all went well, where did I get my conviction? I had no other means to have a better future than this, it was like a do or die something for me then, something inside me just appreciate the existence of BTC, like I know something like it was coming to safe me, which I can't advice anyone to do the same today.

What I am saying here is that it's still doable if you have the conviction to make things happen, if you crave for changes you will go any lent to make things happen in the right manner and ways, but having a source of income will make things more easier for you, I still considered my story as a easy one because I had my father then, I had a roof over my head in my parents home, and also I don't pay any bills, it was just me and my stomach to feed and my BTC wallet to fill up.

For someone who came from poor home it will become a very big battle to conquer poverty, and for those who come from average or rich home, it becomes easier for them to have a better future because they will have more money to take risks, if you are from a home like mine, you need to strive hard, my battle took me three years, if I have never know Bitcoin and I decided to take the path that everyone in my country was into it would have been harder for me, judging from the present conditions of those who almost stopped my Bitcoin journey, I am not shaming anyone, I am just saying that Bitcoin is worth every shot.

Because since the past 12 years, there is no investment that does it better than Bitcoin, you can't find anything like this anywhere else, it's worth every fight and hustle, but your journey will be way easier if you have a source of income, don't give up, always give your best short, you are on the right path.