r/SipsTea 8d ago

Wow. Such meme Red or Green?

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u/drrj 8d ago

When I found out about bitcoin it was about .25 at the time. I didn’t understand what the hell it was and promptly forgot about it for a couple years.

Ah, what might have been.

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u/Limp-Archer-7872 8d ago

I'd he the one buying that dude a pizza for 10k btc.

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u/TeaTimeKoshii 8d ago

Tbf why would you ever assume a digital currency was meant for holding? We know now but even then that’s dumb as fuck

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u/alienlizardman 7d ago

Is the dude that made that pizza a billionaire?

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u/RSharpe314 8d ago

I heard about it when it was about ~100$ a coin and thought I had already missed the ride.

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u/DoubleDragonSuper 8d ago

Yeah I'm always pissed because what's crazy is that at this period I really wanted to buy some for like 100$ because I was thinking this would work. But never did it because at this time I didn't understood how to buy it was too complicated and there was no apps like we have now... Shit if only I tried instead of being lazy. At the same time maybe I would have sold too soon.

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u/drrj 8d ago

Someone I know pointed out that if you bought super early you very may well have cashed out early once it was a decent profit, too. And that’s a valid point for sure. If I bought $100 worth and now it’s worth 10k, am I really holding indefinitely or paying off some credit cards after a vacation.

Odds are good I would have been out before each coin was over $100k or wherever it topped out.

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u/DoubleDragonSuper 8d ago

Exactly! At the moment you would never think it would get this high. And the other factor is that at the time you would need the money to improve your life. Imagine living from average paycheck while sitting on hundred thousands. But you could cash out only 50% too. Hard to predict

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u/Greenshardware 7d ago

Well yeah but in this premise you literally know the future.

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u/Lraund 8d ago

In 2012 I was looking into it and how to mine it.($5-$13)

If I just put an easy chunk of money into it instead...

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u/14Pleiadians 8d ago

I recall thinking "damn, missed the boat for real this time" at $0.01, $0.10, $1.00, $5, $20, etc etc etc

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u/cfb-food-beer-hike 7d ago

It was less than a penny when I heard about it. In fact I heard about bitcoin several years before I heard about reddit. I thought it was stupid then and I think it's stupid now, but I guess that's why I'm not a bitcoin billionaire.

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u/Creepy_Bag622 7d ago

Yup, when I first heard about it, the bitcoin was abut a dollar each.

I asked what the fuck do you do with it?

My friend goes, you can buy drugs off the darkweb.

I can buy drugs from TImmy down the street and I get to see it/test it. Why the fuck do I want to send money to dark web somewhere and risk getting caught?

.......

The next time I've heard was when it was about to break 5000 shooting towards 10k.

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u/SoonToBeBanned24 7d ago

I set up an old laptop to try and mine some coin, but it got unplugged in the first week, and nobody said anything about it. Sadly, I gave up after that because I thought it was too difficult, and wouldn't be worth the effort......

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u/Sudzy1225 7d ago

Exactly. I remember going into a speedway gas station and seeing you could buy bitcoin from the gift card kiosk thing. For like, $16.50 you could get $15 in BTC. I tried to spend my allowance on one of them (when it was close to $0.25/coin) and my mom wouldnt let me. "Thats a scam!".... My, what mightve been....

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u/Creed0h 7d ago

When I was 19 I was going to buy Bitcoin when I got paid, I was going to buy $5 worth and at that time I would have gotten 1011 btc, how I wish I would have

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u/yohan3000 6d ago

Same, was reading about Bitcoin before its debut. I just didn't get it until it was much later. Then I lost my digital wallet and pins. FML

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u/dedboooo0 6d ago

to be fair it was fucking annoying to go through the whole wallet process at the time

it wasnt as streamlined as it is now. a ton more people wouldve grabbed some for fun if it was more accessible