• Syndication@lemmy.today
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    15 hours ago

    I hate myself so much for not saving it when I was buying it at $150 when it was new. I just thought it was a cool and niche privacy currency that you could buy drugs with, not something normies would go crazy over…

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      15 hours ago

      I had a friend who told me to buy Bitcoin when it cost cents. I didn’t, because at the time it required you to send your ID to an unknown entity.

      The same friend had previously recommended that I learn Hadoop. I didn’t because I didn’t have the proper setup to host it and when was it going to be relevant to my job? Incidentally my current job relies - and my previous job relied - heavily on HDFS.

      I’m extremely sleep deprived and can’t remember the third thing, but there was a third thing that would have been extremely lucrative if I had followed his advice.

      Once I recognized the trend I asked him for the next suggestion. He said I should start my own business. I didn’t because I don’t have any ideas.

      Maybe I should start a business.

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      12 hours ago

      Friend of mine found his old bitcoin wallet that he used to buy drugs online in the 2010s and still had some in it. He’s now buying a house with it lmao

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      15 hours ago

      I was going to set up my shit PC to GPU mine in like 2012 or 13 or whenever it was when it was a novelty but I was like “nah, I can’t justify purchasing a video card just for that” (my shit PC had onboard video)

      I’d be living in a fucking mansion right now, because the world went nuts. Man, the only time I decide to be responsible…

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        15 hours ago

        Ah dude I completely feel your pain. I could have had a nice house and a nice life and now I’m stuck in a crappy home that is falling apart :(

        I liked the idea of a privacy focused currency, but at the time it wasn’t accepted at any stores or really anywhere practical, so I didn’t feel the need to hold onto it. It was very much considered a novelty.