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Funny how life is :) 5 BTC for free in 3 sec... today people are working hard to earn 0.01 BTC

https://web.archive.org/web/20100703032414/http://freebitcoins.appspot.com/

That's a nice piece of history. I wonder how many people took advantage of that site. However, nothing will ever beat the BitcoinPizza.. How much is that up to now? $250M? Crazy amounts regardless haha. Please share more of these as it makes me feel better about being late to the party.

Well I would have probably sold all BTC at $1 so I don't have so much regrets also :P

Yeah funny and yet very disappointing on my part. Who wouldn't want 5 BTC, right? Even a single Bitcoin would make anyone feel great. If just bitcoin introduces itself to me that time. I even struggle to earn 0.01 BTC, and it would take me almost a 3 weeks to have that. But since nothing is to be done with that matter, all left to do is to earn more btc as much as we can. A hundred of 0.01 is equal to 1BTC right so the right term for this is "patience"

It is nothing. Just psychological issue. The value could have dropped or it could be another coin that become popular.

Don't work anymore.... :(

who knows, maybe 5-10 years later you will say the same about todays faucets

Damn, that's crazy to think about. My heart almost dropped when I read "5 bitcoins per visitor", the I remembered that this was an archive of a site 7 years ago.

I find the bitcoin pizza day thing awesome too. I remember I heard about bitcoin in 2011, but I never gave it any thought, and only started caring about it in like 2016.

I wish I was the one who heard Bitcoin in 2011 ;D . I just started recently and been seeing regrets to those old ones and new ones so here I am saving Bitcoin and expect that Bitcoin's price would increase multiple folds and say that I am thankful I encounter and known Bitcoin no late enough and look back that 1 satoshi (just an example but might be probable perhaps) that we have today seems not having too much of a value but in the future it would be equivalent to $1 (just an example don't take it to seriously). The point is that be glad that you have known Bitcoin today which is better than not knowing at all.

That's incredible I wish I knew about Bitcoin back then.
I remember reading stories here on the forum by people, who mined Bitcoin in the early days and some of them even lost some coins due to hardware failures, but it didn't bother them. A drive with 20 bitcoins broke? Who cares about recovery it's like 50$ worth of coins in there, I'll mine more next month. ;D

To think that I once donated 500 BTC to Gavin's faucet ...


 ::)

Here are the first BTC exchange rates by NewLibertyStandard - http://newlibertystandard.wikifoundry.com/page/2009+Exchange+Rate

Whilst the BTC history books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_bitcoin  cite BitcoinMarket as the first 'automated' bitcoin exchange - NewLibertyStandard in fact established / calculated the first base BTC dollar value from actual electricity usage - the free market approach clearly worked more successfully for the price.

I also had a website making manual exchanges before the BitcoinMarket existed
- https://web.archive.org/web/20100617031313/http://www.bitcoinfx.cz.cc/

I'm certainly not a bitcoin millionaire today. Being to early to the crypto party is no fun!

Still here though!

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7TuFy0fcuw   8)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2ku1A5Ox8U

Yeah that's really funny, I wish that
I already knew bitcoin back then.

That's crazy. 5 bitcoins just solving captcha - it's $11680 at current price. That's insane amount today, then it was just pennies. And I'm sure then was more such faucets with similar rewards. It's one of the best indicators, how everything has changed in just 7 years.
But I'm not sure is it worth to regret that I didn't joined bitcoin then. Probably, I would have been sold bitcoins when it reach few dollars price. End of story.

No one has ever predicted that bitcoin is going to be so expensive like today, it is too late to regret now, but maybe you still have a chance to get rich with bitcoin, who knows in the next 10 years the price will go up until 100k$, and if you got guts, invest in alt coin, who knows alt coin is going to make you rich in the future

time machine
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A lot of people would have sold once something like this happened, it's not like anyone was able to see the future and a ton of people would have cashed out early because Bitcoin is incredibly unpredictable. I probably would have cashed out at $1 back then too, since I would never have been able to see the future from the point I was in.

Hope you are talking about the faucet site started by Gavin Andresen,yes he did give away a huge number of coins and he was really happy doing that to make people aware of bitcoin and what he did was a great thing back then,but one thing you have to remember is just check the price of bitcoin when it all happened and no one would keep their coins this long,even if i mined a million coins i will sell everything when the price of bitcoin reached $20 because back in the day i never expected this to be this valuable .

That's an amazing piece of bitcoin history. Who would have thought...

I used to play Blackjack with Bitcoins and remember a time where I'd bet .5 or 1BTC on a single hand. Now, I'm betting around .01 a hand and that's tough to do sometimes.

And in 7 years the history will repeat itself (or before). So, be ready when the time comes, every satoshi counts. Today you can think micro earnings tasks are too low and worthless, but if you store your earnings for the future it will worth a lot!

The pizza history is an amazing example what you shouldnt do, or atleast you shouldnt regret in the future, if you need something use fiat instead bitcoin, imagine tomorrow it worth 50k dollars and you spend it to buy something.
For other side we cant keep forever bitcoin, a lot people had several coins and the most of them exchanged into fiat soon as possible, nowadays people does trade with more knowledge about bitcoin potencial, something 7 years ago no one could predict.

Wow, nice find ! I whish I knew Bitcoin back then, I've learn about Bitcoins in 2011 but only invested in 2013, what a shame, lol :P

the thing is, at that moment nobody even knew bitcoin can be worth >$2000!
you may have said bitcoin is awesome and can rise up a lot but it certainly didn't look possible when price was practically nothing.
after some point when the little adoption occurred and the community grew, the number of nodes and miners (with their PC) grew then it became clear that bitcoin has a real potential. I think somewhere around $100 it was certain. I wasn't around back then but I certainly know it now and I will never repeat the mistake of selling my coins cheap at $3000 that would be throwing it away. nothing below 10K for me. :D

Well, times are a changing and things that would have been worth a ton now didn't seem like it back then. To be fair, it probably did help to spread Bitcoin during the initial phases and if everyone knew how valuable Bitcoin would end up being they likely would have completely skipped on the growth portion and just held their investment, turning it into just a series of bubbles.

Yeah , I agreed with you , Here I myself made 6000$ in the 8 months hardwork of the signature campaign and bulk trading but in the last day I made 12000$ in btc just in 24 hours ( or less ) .
I think this is like a miracle that I made this much amount of the Bitcoin earning profit , because in the starting I was weeping with my hardwork for the 1-2$ but in present I made this huge amount of profit just by the wait and do nothing .
Well here I Cames to know about the Bitcoin fully that wait for one year and I don't need to do hardwork more and just make money by the wait and wait with patience .
Here I am again thinking that the condition of the ETH is like Bitcoin , so here it would be more better to have eth also for the future , because ETH and dash are only two which can be comparable in the future  against Bitcoin .

I really feel sorry that I only know bitcoin when it's at $ 900, BITCOIN is too strong, if I invested in it since it was born, maybe, now I'm very rich. And now, it's still a good place to invest, take advantage of it.

I can relate to these newbies running to exchanges and buying a few bucks or a hundred of every single shitcoin out there just in case if few years from now they could become millionaires.

Don't forget if you are paying 0.0009 as a fee for 225 bytes of data ten years from now that amount could potentially worth $50 or even more who knows.

Many believed they could successfully clone and repeat Bitcoin but as you can see they're just some sad sorry coins sitting around exchanges

Waiting for new blood to suck it dry out of life, and if you try to think about these things then I could say I wish I thought about facebook idea myself now I would be rich.

Exactly, it's never too late to invest in it because the same 5 BTC could be worth 6k$ each by next month and that will be another $15,000 increase in just a month and not 7 years so I will urge all newbies who can to invest something into it and watch your profits grow I no time.

I was not around at the time and always thought Gavin only gave away his own bitcoins. Now I see someone posted that they donated 500BTC towards Gavin's faucet back then. What would be nice is if Gavin could reveal the total amount of bitcoins that they distributed to faucet users back then. It should show the Blockchain evidence, so that we can check how many of those coins have been used over the years and how many are still unused in cold storage. ^smile^

Damn, this can make some good stories, if people are just willing to share.

The day when Freebitco.in FREE ROLLS reach 1 or 2 Satoshi per hour, we will kick our ass that we did not use it more. I guess the price will be between $4000 to $5000 per bitcoin when it reach those levels. ^smile^



 

I think it's not too late to get the profit 7 years again, the price of the bitcoin 7 years will reach $20.000 or more, so we will benefit more than 800%, I recommend to buy bitcoin now.

This is sort of possible to do.  The wallet address for the faucet is: 15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC

If we look on blockchain at that address: https://blockchain.info/address/15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC we see a total of 19,750BTC.  That is a current valuation of $47,830,550.50 and the current balance is $2.81.  Without knowing what percentage of coins (if any) Gavin kept, I think we could assume that over 19k Bitcoins were distributed to users.  Of course, some people abused it and I do remember seeing threads from Gavin with different ways to prevent people from double dipping into the faucet.  

I remember that site I used to collect from that faucet on the later months of 2010. I have earned 5 btc at that site but I was not so keen about bitcoin before since I thought it was useless. There are no exchange which I can sell my bitcoins and the value is very low. Last 2013 I reformatted my computer and along with I lost my 5 bitcoins. How I wish I can still recover my files and withdraw my 5 btc and sell it today.

Yes it is a very funny thing but cool, at least it is true also maybe in the future it's hard people will struggle get 1000 satoshi in his wallet

Struggling to get 1000 satoshi, it's too early to talk about such things. No one can predict anything for the future. We can count on the development of bitcoin, but do not judge it wrong. Even professionals make mistakes, so you should not assert it.

It's always nice to see this kind of stuff. But you have to realize that most people that were around back then probably did not hold on to most of their coins as they already had 10x price increases back than that were considered to be insane.

Holding all this time is really difficult for anyone not fully behind the disruptive capabilities of this tech.

You expect that it would work still as of now? If it does then op wouldnt mind to share at all and spoil all the btc on that site.. Its really somehow regretful that we didnt jump in the boat on the earlier days of bitcoin and yes life is funny which bitcoin is almost free on those days and now earning a little satoshi is already hard but well theres no need to think off so hard about the past better to focus on present and into the future.

Around 2 years ago or so, it wasn't that hard to get around 0.01 or 0.02 BTC per day from using multiple faucets and getting paid through Faucetbox (RIP).
People would still say they weren't really worth the effort, well at the time it wasn't, but with these prices you would have a really nice amount if you just saved it.

I wonder if todays faucet claims could be worth a lot in another few years? Are faucets still a thing now with these high fees?

So don't think too much about regret, because if we just a time traveler or even a fortune teller tell us what to be done. Lucky to those preserve their bitcoin long time ago, the most important thing now is your knowledge about the potential of bitcoin and the future of it.

People are always saying that faucets are waste of time and they say same thing today,but they do not take into consideration that value of coins can be changed in the future.In time when BTC price was around 200-250$ we can make nice amount of satoshi every day,and today they are worth ten times more,not bad for 2 year time.

There is time when faucets pay 5 BTC,today is in the range from 10 to 100 satoshi,and with price increase rewards will go even less.Regarding fees,there is few microwallets like FaucetBox where we can accumulate coins and withdraw at desired treshold.

If i have this i would go back in time where you can earn 1 bitcoin in just a second too bad i only knew bitcoin have high price this year well goodluck to me goodluck to all i hope we can earn 1 bitcoin in the future  ;D ;D

Exactly. I wish i was also a part of the pioneering group  of bitcoin community who really are so lucky right now all their what ifs before are all paid out right now for those who stays and believed

Yes. that was 7 years ago when just few of people really attracted and believe in bitcoin, as time passed by and bitcoin become more famous and traded everywhere, the price increase and harder to get it without big amount of money. Yes, looking at the past and you will envy how easy to get bitcoin and maybe you could be rich right now, earn $10,000 or more. BUt, there is no point to think and regret what we don't know 7 years ago, just live in this moment and planning for the future.

Don't wish that you were part of that group. Every decision you make here in life leads up to certain instances.

Instead you should think about believing now and stay here to support BTC and Crypto. The people that will find out about BTC in 2022 will say the same thing about you: "I wish I was around in 2017 when BTC was only $1000-$2500. My life would be so great if I just bought a couple of BTC back then.

It's all a cycle, it will never be too late to get in to BTC or any legit Crypto.

At least that's the way I see it.

That is a very huge amount of bitcoin for free and i'm sure back in that year the bitcoin price is very cheap so it is not that loss to spend or give bitcoins away for the people because it is easy to get bitcoin again. If i knew bitcoin earlier like in 2010 then i'm pretty sure that i'm already a millionaire right now and you are right, now, the people are working hard to just earn 0.01 while back in the days it is easy as pie.

I remember times when I started to use faucets, then average reward was 500 satoshi, there was many faucets which were paying 1000 satoshi rewards. Today 100 satoshi looks a as good reward, but then we ignored faucets with such low rewards. I remember that already few years ago peoplewere saying faucets is waste of time. But these satoshis which I claimed few years ago, today is worth few thousand dollars. Not bad waste of time, yes? And now it's hard to predict, how much 100 satoshi claimedtoday, will be worth after few years.

Down from $2500 to $2000 in '3 seconds' now.  :o

Excuse me but he pizza guy knew exactly what he was doing and it's is exactly what we all should have done in the same instance. BTC would be worth nothing without parties willing to trade, buy and sell. To show the way on how internet money could be transacted with zero faceless suit middlemen taking a cut. The pizza was freely bought and the purchaser more than happy he spent $20,000,000 on 2 Papa John pepperoni pizza. We all would have done the same.

Great find!

I just solved the captcha twice...i suspect my payments are just working their way through the confirmations. I'll get back to you all after the status changes form "pending".... ;D ;D

I remember when I got it and now it just disappeared because of failure of my computer I had. I forget about it since I always thought bitcoin will never reach that popularity.

It is definitely your bitcoin lost because you did not carefully, maybe if you still have your bitcoin surely you are already rich, but not late to get profit because the price will increase.

It's quite scary how much these faucets paid back then.

I regret not claiming from it because one of my friends actually told me about bitcoin back in 2010 and i didn't bother listening to him because i thought it was some sort of virtual gaming currency, sort of like Second Life Lindens if you play that game. I've never really looked into it like most people until 2013 when the price spiked and then fell back down again.

There were multiple opportunities for people to grab and get cheap/free coins, but most didn't bother. That's why if you want to get rich, always ALWAYS look out for new technology and innovations, don't be afraid to invest a little time each day browsing them ;)

This is so cool, because we can see how bitcpin rises from its smaller value up to reachings its peak now. How amazing it is right? What if we purchased big amount when it was cents before? Maybe we are so rich now, this is how I regret things in the past as we can see the difference.of having it before than purchasing fes coins of bitcoin.

Ho Ho Ho, Gavin's old faucet, of course when I was in bitcoin it was already down from a long time, Just imagine making 5 BTC with a random click (and technically if you used it for months regularly would have already became a millionaire).
Also other than that, if you use 100 dollars or so you could buy an exorbitant amount of 2 cents BTC.

This is great especially now that every bitcoin have gained a very considerable value. I wish I've known bitcoin sooner like any other who's been in the business for many years and counting. So this is a history that is good to look back on and now we should do our best to learn more especially new ones like me and save some amount of bitcoin which may double or triple or more in the next few years so that we would not regret missing this opportunity.

yeah , I bet no one was expecting that BTC would be near 10$ in the future at that time  ;D ( personally I didn't know bitcoin at that time )
but who knows , maybe after 7 years 0.01 will worth 15K usd
then a similar thread would be created and so on  ::)

It really is a neat piece of history back when a faucet was still worth something, now it is more of a liability than anything else due to the cost to send one input on the blockchain and the value of that input likely being worth less than the sum of the transaction sent.

It hurts to look at it. But to be honest I would most likely have sold at $10 to get the new fifa  :D. So it's ok.

These is so called a long term investment because if you save that Bitcoin at that time and not spent a little then you be a millionaire by now.

Heh, let alone the faucet, if you were mining in the earlier days you would be hitting multiple blocks, continuously with a CPU! That's some science fiction for us now but the older posts in the forum shows this clearly, I wonder if these people knew how BTC will turn out like.

it funny to know that in 3 sec you get 5 BTC free.
But my disappointment is hard to get 0.01 BTC for one week.
thinking that it is unfair  to those people working hard to earn 0.01 BTC. and fortunate to those people receiving free 5 BTC in 3 sec...

Those people are early birds and early birds are always thew winners or one of the luckiest person in the game. So if you are a lucky person and you are in that time then you already enjoying a lot of profits but if not then the only thing that you can is to work hard because that is true for a newbie, it is hard now to earn at least 0.01 bitcoin per week.

Yeah, it can lead most of us to lots of regrets, but it is useless to think about the past. A time travel machine still doesn't exist and we cannot go back to those times.

The people who used that site, the early miners and adopters deserve to having earned all those Bitcoins because they were ahead of the times.

It would've been really amazing considering that it was for free back then and now it's very valuable. That's how life is, you got to see the value in something for the future and probably enjoy what it has to offer in a few years. That's one of the best things to consider, so keep your eyes open for more opportunities. ;)

This kind of moments is one of a lifetime, remembering 5 years ago where everything is just laughing on cryptocurrencies saying that it is a bluff and only few believes in it and that's me 3 years ago. I know I regret it when I just set side the opportunity on earning and buying BTC, but still the past is past, what we are telling right now ( like pizza, or free BTC ) is just a little reminiscing of the past. I think it's just a reward to people who are early believers, that take a leap of faith first before knowing the consequences and now they are somehow rich ( unless they are a gambler or not good in handling money ). They believe in it even tho they never know what is bitcoin's future. They make the best of every opportunities and time given to them (but buying a 10k Bitcoin pizza is another story ,haha).

“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”
― George Harrison

I was one of the guys actually did not laugh at it but gave no regards to cryptocurrency during the 2015  because that was the time bts was introduced to me by a friend.  I still remember the price at 600$ and not caring about it. I deemed it as a waste of time and money because you need that kind of money just for 1btc. But during those days I only made about .1 during those years because i was still studying and i am so bored with it. So i guess i am not the only guy here who really regretted those past decision huh.

Agree :D it is free in way back time sort of they can buy  a pizza and it is paid with bitcoin. Sort of it is easy to give a bitcoin on that the day but now it is very difficult to earn a 0.001 . you cant earn it in 3 secs but whole day it is sort of you can earn it

If i only knew this before i have already 10,000$ by just only solving captcha.
A very frustrating moment,  and you can never bring back old memories. ;D ;D

Haha Nobody expected bitcoin to be highly adopted like this so i doubt many people took up on that opportunity.

I bet that many people back then were laughing at faucet users as they do today, but who knows how much a few satoshis (which is the average hourly reward nowadays) could worth in 2024?That's why I still believe that claiming from a few decent faucets is not always a waste of time, but also a good opportunity to own a good amount of money in a few years from now.

While it is nice to see how much bitcoin you could have earned back then, there is a big difference between getting that bitcoin back then and still having that bitcoin right now, just look at the classic example of the guy that bought that pizza for bitcoin and even if you did not do that, would you still have your coins after the first pump, or would you have sold your coins at the first opportunity.

No one can really tell what future is up to, the opportunity that lies ahead is a thing that we can predict definitely. That is the main reason as to why people who have hold that amount of Bitcoin didn't end up having that today.

But that is such a good history to look back seeing how much Bitcoin has grown into and the people who are into it. So now that we have seen what Bitcoin is capable then let's just get ready for the future ahead knowing that the price would increase more than what it is as of today.

Gosh when you say it like that it makes me wanna punch myself, like Tyler Durden in the fight club. I will just wait for time travel then, go deliver that ONE PIZZA, and be a millionaire. Hindsight is 20/20.

With no doubt,early birds in bitcoin were lucky enough to enjoy a well settled life.But whenever a new concept is introduced,most people avoid it blaming that it would not exist more.Only a few trust in such new inventions and invest their time and even money.By that way,the early birds deserve it.

Even though there is a temptation of solving the captcha on that archives page, we all know that it will not work anymore. Anyways, it's nice to see the growth of bitcoin and looking back it feels a little bit guilty for not jumping in earlier. However, I am sure that we will be laughing at my this reply when we will read it after 5 or 10 years. I believe that we are still in the early stage and bitcoin is yet to show it's real potential.

Maybe in ten years we will be like, I should have busted myself claiming from faucets ten years ago, but at the same time that will be a very risky bet, since at this time it is better to just get a job and buy bitcoin instead, so instead of trying to claim from faucets we should get a second job and buy as much bitcoin as we can in order to benefit from it in the future.

Because bitcoins increases its value as time passes by, we should expect this kind of outcome. I won't regret my previous exchange of bitcoin just because the price today is much larger than yesterday though it had a drastic change. The most who profits here were the ones who saves and bought bitcoins at its earlier years. If this trend of bitcoin continues maybe 50,000 $ can be earn in a minute or an hour but who knows.

It looks very funny and also very annoying, it's very easy to have a btc and it becomes too easy to sell without anyone thinking of saving it at that moment, because I'm sure there are only a few people who still keep it up to now. , Feeling sad, happy, disappointed will exist and we will walk together because this is life, keep moving forward to make the past as a lesson.

Absolutely agree. I think spending time on faucets without a strong referral network is not a good value for time task at least at this moment. Even if Bitcoin reaches $100,000 (as predicted by recent market research) in that case reward of 1000 Satoshi would be worth $1. However, on the other hand, a person can earn and save much more than $1 so he can directly buy bitcoins as per his capacity imo.

Batk then people didn't even know about bitcoin let alone having to waste 3 seconds of their precious life for 5 worthless pieces of virtual crap that nobody uses anyways? No thanks.

This is why you keep your minds open-minded. Don't focus on the old stuff. Look into the future.

Sometimes you don't even need to invest anything to it, just a few seconds and you might be rich.

Wish that faucet was still open. Lol

Thats right today people hard work to get 0.01 bitcoin . Those people earn bitcoin last 7 years and hold their bitcoin until today are very happy because they earn a lot of money if they sell their bitcoin. But no one know what the price of bitcoin after few years and for  sure many people are sell their bitcoin on that year only people are lucky because they believe in bitcoin.

So this really is a historical moment and a generous faucet though in the past the users don't even know how generous it is but right now we will commemorate this and truly that those who believe in Bitcoin at its early stages and saved it up are rewarded a lot of money as of today unless they have spend it all and didn't hold on to it.

Is faucet claiming still a thing in 2017,i thought it is done and dusted,what are the best faucets out there at the moment and how much satoshi you could claim per minute,is it really worth it,i do not really think that it is worth the time to spend in faucets as you could make more trading than in faucets.

I dont agree that faucet claiming is good today as they pay of each faucet is lesser then penny and if you properly work on this forum then you can earn much more then what you can earn in faucet, faucet earning is only through affiliate bonus if not it is totally waste of time.

Damn, 5btc for free just by solving one captcha. This kind of thing is an addition that makes me regret on why I haven't discover btc 7 years ago. I wasted most of my time in front of computer in doing ptc on which I didn't get good result. I often searching "earn money online"  before and it was just ptc showing of in the results and some other scam stuff which you can earn only cents which the same price of btc by that time. Damn.

If you read through my post history here on bitcointalk. You will see I did a simple task of signing up under someone's referral link to DropBox for 5 BTC.

It is very crazy to think about.

well maybe in 7 years later we will regret that we dont save up some bitcoin
but no one know,can altcoin beat bitcoin in 7 years? can we save some coin for future?

That's how things went, and even though how many times we look back in the past, these realizations won't do any good since it's already in the past. What we could do is just see what things there is in the present and make something good come out of it.

Oh and the 10,000 bitcoin pizza in 2012...

Who knows, I dont think anyone thought BTC will reach to this heights one day, that too in just 7 years. ETH or LTC may cross BTC in the future as people are more interested in adapting those than BTC, it became an investment lately.

The fact is that we can not predict 100% accurate results. Recently, I read the news about market research that predicted that Bitcoin will reach $100,000 in next 10 years. Yes, even some altcoin might become extremely valuable in that period. However, I would prefer to keep my at least 70%+ investments in bitcoins in crypto investments.

Makes me so sad :( Did you so the next year it was o ly 0.001 how come ? That's a massive drop. Sometimes I really wish I had bought that mining hardware and mined at a loss. That loss would become s huge profit as we all know. Shows what never taking risks can lead you.

Imagine you did these captions long ago and forgot the wallet :( That would be the worst.

Yes, but at the same time, there are lots of instances where a person obtained a good number of coins and then he just squandered those coins buying something completely useless, or they just lost those coins or the password and now they don’t have a way to get access to those coins, it must be incredibly painful for those people to know they had a fortune in their hands and that they let it go.

That's a amusing thing to see knowing how much Bitcoin would be valued at some years later. It makes me wish I had paid more attention to the hype years ago.

Maybe I'm late for the party, but if only bitcoin still with $ 100 I also do not want to come, and now it has reached $ 2300 I will join the party  ;D

We could be saying the same thing after 7 years again. I would say stop regretting and start investing  :P I wonder how many people used that site, got some coins and forgot about it or did not care at all lol.

Good point about not dismissing all faucets as a waste of time! I still stick to a very select few (okay, actually only two now) that only require a minute or so all together and I just mindlessly click every few days. Yes, they give out less and less but collectively, and with their values slowly gaining over time, they're worth a bit more than spare change these days.

That's just really something if only we all knew that the price would be this high maybe all of the early adopter would be millionaire by now,
And how I wish that I found out about bitcoin earlier .

I knew bitcoin since 2013 but even after those 4 years and i didn't understand how important it is and what possibilities it unlocked till the last summer. I started to collect my bitcoins since last year and they will stay in my stash till i achieve my financial goal, just like my gold bag. They ain't for sale till that moment comes.

There are 3 types of people who heard of bitcoin in the past:

1) The people who see bitcoin as a pump&dump scam which can collapse at anytime. While i agree with the p&d part, they are wrong on the scam part. If bitcoin was scam, it could have dropped to zero and never revived from there. Some of those people also think they lost the bitcoin train so they take their chances with alts. Understandable.

2) Those who know what bitcoin is and how it works. They spent considerable amount of time in the world of crypto yet they still have suspicions because of the volatility. They experienced gox crash, they suffered the loss from 1k$ to 200$ for years. Some of them lost their faith and dumped their stash for cheap and never looked back. I was one of those guys.

3) This is the real community which is formed by real hardcore bitcoiners. Those people never sell a satoshi. They buy bitcoins regularly every month and if the price makes a nose dive, they buy more than planned. They realized the potential long ago. The day when Gox was crashed, while everybody was bleeding like pigs and running around like headless chickens; those people were laughing. They pray for a crash. They don't pray for a price rise. Because they know the prices will rise eventually. What is unexpected for them is a price drop. Now i am one those.

The only way to know that will be to fully grasp the revolution that bitcoin signifies, it is very easy to say that we will hold the bitcoin but the truth is that many of the early adopters spent their bitcoin and now are doing the best they can to try to earn as many bitcoin as they can the same way we are trying to do it, so it is very likely nothing would have changed.

Why keep thinking backwards? It is characteristic of people who continued to fail, better think 7 years again because the price bitcoin will reach $10.000, then we can still profit $7000/btc.

This captcha was better than the actual google's one where you have to spend time clicking pictures

Interesting, I do see that the price of bitcoin will increase but not to some gigantic extent.
So yeah look at history and take lessons from that. Investing in a technology like bitcoin may be a very wise one.

If you know the bitcoin price will reach like that for sure you will not sell all your bitcoin on the day you met bitcoin. Those people are very lucky who met bitcoin on 2009 for sure they will be happy because rhey earned a lot of money if they sell it. For sure if they thousands of bitcoin they bitcoin millionaire now. I hope I know bitcoin so I can buy more bitcoin with cheap price and sell it to become millionaire person.

Bitcoin behaves very similar to tech stocks back in the 90s, bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general can give to us earnings that far surpass anything there is in the market, for the simple reasons this is a market that ten years ago it did not exist, so this makes bitcoin very attractive from the point of view of investors since we are always looking for something that give to us the biggest earnings.

I'll agree that it behaves similar to tech stocks in the 90's but Bitcoin actually has a real foundation to stand on that will surpass anything we've ever seen in the history of mankind (even greater than discory of fire!!).

All jokes aside, I agree with you that it is attractive for investors.

When I was just starting back in the days and I still dont know this community Ive spent hours, spinning some rolletes clicking ads and solving captcha and that is one of the most boring part of my life.


And they are the one who pioneered and take the risk too, so I think they are not lucky because if they didn't believed in this technology, bitcoin's price won't even reach this high and its just a shit con and it wont became trendy. Thanks to those who believe and increase the market cap on the first place. Some of them are millionaires and I think some are billionaires.

Why mist you remind us ?  >:( It makes me sick to think of the crap stuff I was doing for money back then when all i needed to do was click a few buttons and it would be like a scam becoming true. I say scam bexyou always get crazy crap on the internet promising to make you so much money but this time with Bitcoin it happened to be true.  ;D

Since you were doing shit stuff for money ,the bitcoin that was given out by Gavin was not having any valuation and no one ever thought that it would have any value anytime soon nor in the distant future,it was just like a fun token to be sent to different addresses and have fun and since it did not have any monetary value you would not even care to collect those.  :D and that is the case with most of the people and even if they collected they could have sold everything for $10 and not more than that.

Yes I might have done the same if not at $1 maybe at $10 I would have sold them for sure so it's better to stay happy with whatever we have now than regretting what we missed out on 7 years ago.

I hear what you are saying. They just we're playing around with a new idea. I think most people who have lots of bitcoins today forgot about them.

It is easy to say after. On the radio a company here had stocks 30 years ago for cents now they worth millions. ^^ so you see you never know.

I don't really see a reason as to why people post about this. The past is the past, let go of it. Nothing that you will ever be able to do now will ever place you in that same situation that you had 7 years ago. Even though it is a good thing to be thinking of, maybe we should focus more on the future and spend time in earning money through smart investments or through selling services.
I used to have a few bitcoin 2 years ago that I sold as part of a panic when the price drastically fell one time. I regret my decision so much selling at such low price compared to the prices that we can see today. However, its not just bitcoin that this principal can be tied to, its basically any investment opportunity that eventually turned golden> Big tech companies that started out very small are just a few examples.

If you know that, maybe everyone is now a millionaire! Past time we can not predict the future. Just like now we can not know what tomorrow's bitcoin will be like.

Yea that's still a real possibility considering the fact that we are still early adoptors and knowing that bitcoin still has a lot of growing potential in the upcoming years.

Everyone knows the example of the pizza, but where is the guarantee that it was actually? Perhaps this tale was invented to stimulate demand for bitcoin and increase its price. Now everybody likes to repeat the same success and invest a lot of money in bitcoins.

correct and its just warming up so we do have a lots of time  before the real value will start so instead of regretting those past years why not start all
over again and wait for another 7 years and see how successful we are because we start to keep it and store it inside our wallets.

I think 7 years later a single payment from a faucet site will be equal to $100 or more and new people will be just surprized when they see this like us.

But you need know 7 years is long time and not easy for keep patience waiting this time unless you use free time money for buying Bitcoin, keep it in could wallet and forget it until the price of Bitcoin reach to highest price or after 7 years.

History is actually well worth visiting, because it is a light on the path to the future. Not taking time to understand it and figuring out why certain things happened would amount to missing same and similar opportunities over and over again, because opportunities do come around and not once as some people choose to believe.

With what we have seen of Bitcoin especially how resilient it has become against all odd, we can right say, that today is yet another great opportunity to ride Bitcoin's trip to the moon as in couple of years from today, people are likely to look back and wished they took action today!

Now is not the time to look back to regret. If I knew this before, I would have become a millionaire! No one can predict what will happen. So instead of looking at the past, move on to the future.!

Nicely put! I think I was 1 and am now becoming 3.

I don't understand how Bitcoin could have been seen as a "pump and dump" seeing as it was the first coin ever made... so that would not have even been a thing. Furthermore, it took years to get to where we are now with hundreds of cryptos out there. Back then there were only a handful of relevant altcoins. I could agree that many people thought BTC would fail and still do to this day.

Regretting from the past is we cant never move forward. Instead lets ride with the movement of bitcoin price in the future we can earn profit by holding on what we have. Though we cannot predict of the price, there is a time to invest and hold.

Oh isn't that interesting. 5 Bitcoins per visitor, it never ceases to amaze me when I see people would probably had heaps of Bitcoin when the price was like a couple of cents. Wonder if the owner of the site is sitting in a pool right in his beach house with his huge amount of Bitcoin. I bet everyone reading this is just regretting their decisions once again.

I think that we can continue to grow Bitcoin, so maybe the people who are holding Bitcoin right now can see the day where one Satoshi is like a dollar and we are all living in mansions, due to Bitcoin's price.

It's all just a psychological problem just coin prices whenever going down, so coin coins the other can be popular because there is a decline in the price of other coins.
It is now really gambang to get $ 15,000 at this time

Was claiming faucets from the beginning of 2013 but never knew they would amount to something until the latter part of the same year. Back then, claims were 0.5-2 btc depending on how lucky you are lol. But nowadays, people are considered lucky when they receive 10000 satoshi after a simple captcha solve.

It's too late to be sorry now, who could predicted that? Like who could have predicted todays' price of bitcoin when it first appeared. Things are changing very fast. Faucets today are just the waist of time and resources and it's mucher better to spend that time on something else. It' better to look in the future and find some new chances for making mney on bitcoin. I'm sure that new opportunities will appear all the time, we just have t know how to recognize them.

For example bitcoin signature campaigns. You can then make a lot of BTC and become millionaire in the future.

Yes no one never know that bitcoin price will come this far so there is no reason for us all to regret that we did not embraced bitcoin right after we heard about it. The important thing now is we are now aware what is bitcoin and the benefits that crypto can give us. If we keep on looking back then we cant move forward, lets focus to the future we will have with cryptocurrency because its going to be awesome.