Topic: What Bitcoin did for me (Read 1766 times)

I have heard of so many "would've, could've should've, etc" me included. I made the mistake of purchasing a mini rig  when btc was sub 8 dollars (yea, those coins would have been worth millions at the peak, even today they would be worth around 1.6 million. But I cant cry.. While I could have been rich, my financial picture is much much better than it was before bitcoin, I just wish I would have not sold all the coins that I had for just a few dollars a piece..

I first heard about BTC back in 2010. I installed and set up Multibit back in 2011, and promptly did nothing with it. Never even grabbed anything from a faucet. Didn't know they existed. Just saw various random posts in weird places. "Oh look, that person is giving that other person some of those internet point things." I remember going to MtGox very early on, back when BTC maybe a few dimes or a dollar or something. They wanted me to wire some money halfway around the world. Wasn't worth the risk to me to get some internet point tokens that I'd be handing out to people I'd never met.

The computer I installed it on went into storage, and I didn't open it again for a long time.

Then when BTC hit $30ish, I figured they were on top of some colossal bubble that was going to crash. BTC was going to be worthless. I figured I was seeing the end of the magic internet point system. That didn't happen. I started a new job, and went back to ignoring it.

Suddenly, it was November of 2013. I had stabilized myself financially, and BTC wasn't ignorable anymore.

I bought .1 BTC in November through CoinBase, at $700/BTC. I watched it climb and climb and climb, and then crash. In a panic, I transferred the value of my BTC to LTC, which crashed a lot harder. I converted my .1BTC to 3LTC, and then over the next few months, I watched the BTC/LTC value diminish more and more.

Since then I've been reading a lot and researching a lot of things and I'm at about .5 BTC across several wallets in Electrum, although I'm trying to get an Armory setup going on my Linux Mint machine. Never really used Linux prior to this, other than a few Live CDs used for data recovery and testing. I've also been talking to others about BTC to see if I can't seed the idea in their mind that maybe there might be something to this whole thing, something more than a get-rich-quick scheme, although you could probably do it if you're clever enough.

All in all, it's been fun.

im just not shy to point out and warn people when i come across a scammer.

Okdokey.... you really believe that it is your job to hunt down injustice on the bitcointalk forums?

Do you wear a spandex costume while you do it?  How does someone enter you "League of Internet super truth dude's"?  

Do you even realize how ridiculous you sound?

you will find that unlike some, im not afraid to ask questions. i have many clients some seeking multiple skills and in this case i seen a guy that said h was becoming a lawyer, so i wanted to test him out to see if he was any good.

as for the other people in the community, there has been a large influx of scammers and people pretending to be genius programmers, whomi later find out that they are dead-weight. so its easier to catch them early.

im just someone who is not afraid to hold back, as many seem to blindly trust others and get lead down the dark path.

i have in MANY occasions helped out numerous people, invested lots in many projects and gave people subtle hints to help them along... yea i can be subtle when i want to be.

a forum after all is for public discussion and debate. so holding back info, not asking questions, not helping, not being public.. is kind of the opposite to what a forum is designed for.

if you want me to be happy and agreeable with everything people write. i can them to a website that when they write a message, they get an auto reply that tells you how great you are.

You seem to believe you are the final arbotor of truth on the internet Frackly... you have been drinking your own cool-aid too much dude.

Why do you believe someone has to authenticate themselves with you?  Believe it or not, you opinion is just that, and not actually worth any more than anyone else's.

so one last time. ill make it easy
there acts of law, and then there is legal statutes. which holds more authoritative weight?
if you knew the difference between a "Court of Quebec" and the "Superior court"?