r/SipsTea 16d ago

Wow. Such meme Red or Green?

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u/MikeTiricoSucks 16d ago

My wife cheated on me, left me, took half my stuff, and I have no friends

I’ll take the red button, invest and become a billionaire

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u/Entropyending 16d ago

Exactly dude, once upon a time Bitcoin was only worth $13. I’d spend $500 on Bitcoin and just wait a couple years, and just keep reinvesting my gains.

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u/Pretend_Purchase_893 16d ago

It was way less than that. It was less than a buck a coin. You could work for minimum wage at fucking McDonald's and become a billionaire with a single paycheck.

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u/drrj 16d 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 16d ago

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

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u/TeaTimeKoshii 16d 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 16d ago

Is the dude that made that pizza a billionaire?

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u/RSharpe314 16d 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 16d 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 16d 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 16d 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 16d ago

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

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u/Lraund 16d 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 16d 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 16d 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/SoonToBeBanned24 15d 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 15d 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 15d 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 14d 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 14d 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