I got together with the wrong person. That woman cost me $15k in 3 months, burned through all of my savings for her amusement and made me take a $6k loan for furniture and a flat. Lemmings, what’s your sad story?

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    I was mining bitcoin in the very early days (when bitcoins were worth pennies). No idea how much it was and is worth now, but I am pretty sure I’d never have to work again if I still had access to these bitcoins.

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      Omg. I hate you for making me check BTC

      I once owned 0.35 BTC, sold it for about $800

      Now it’s worth about $35k

      Fuck me

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      I remember sites where you could play games and bitcoin was basically used as a score/prize - if I’d spent half my lunch hours playing I’d be set for life nowadays.

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        It’s best not to lose your mind over it, like the guy who has been searching for his lost disk in a dump for 10+ years. Here have a funny gif to cheer you up:

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          I also had a Bitcoin wallet on an old laptop I used of my fathers that he eventually sent to the dump that I very much considered trying to get back for a while. But I decided down that road lay madness. It still makes me sick to think about. Not as much as it used to. I’ve come around to literally throwing multiple lifetimes worth of money away.

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      On May 22, 2010, now known as “Bitcoin Pizza Day,” Laszlo Hanyecz, the Florida man, agreed to pay 10,000 bitcoins for the delivery of two Papa John’s pizzas.

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      Nine months after the purchase, Bitcoin reached parity with the U.S. dollar, making the two pizzas worth $10,000. In 2015, the fifth anniversary of Bitcoin Pizza Day, the two pizzas were valued at $2.4 million. On May 22, 2024, Bitcoin was at just over $69,181 making the pizzas worth…you get the point.

      https://www.investopedia.com/news/bitcoin-pizza-day-celebrating-20-million-pizza-order/

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      My story is when you could first buy them when they were worth pennies and a friend wanted to invest with me in them. Only wanted us to each put in $100 at first. Just didn’t believe they’d catch on.

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        I mean, you weren’t really wrong about them catching on. Usage by everyday people is vanishingly rare and it’s certainly not trending in a positive direction. They’re just… worth a lot now… for some reason.

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          Well, I think it stems from wanting some form of currency that’s not as volatile as the currency of countries and is universal. The problem (from my uneducated stand point) is that too many coins came out around the boom. Making it so that an alternative currency couldn’t be viable. But since Bitcoin was the “first” it’s still held on to its value.

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      I was down on my luck and had to sell a dozen bitcoin for like $80 a pop so I feel you lol

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        Ouch, that hurts. Well, we can only change the present and future, so that’s what we should focus on.