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I hear bunch of stories about people that had tons of bitcoins when they were $5 and sold them when they got $20-30-40.
A lot of them were pulling their hair out when it got to $1000 because they could have had hundreds of thousand  or even millions dollars now.
So, what's the maximum amount of bitcoins you ever had?

Ever held*

Sorry OP had to...

Hedl*

Sorry, had to.

Like I'd even say that publicly on a forum...

OP, I don't think a whole lot of people will be honest in this thread unless they have less than 1 or something.

What would be the point of going around and saying "I'm holding 100 BTC!"?

OP, what is the most amount of money you have had in your bank account?   :P

40M

it's ...over 9000!?!?!!!


ever hdle...

sorry OP, had to..

I think you might find that people would either be too depressed to answer this truthfully, or too rich.

I still hold all the coins I've ever bought, unfortunately it isn't very many.

I had around 800 once.

once

OP, whats the maximum exposure of a girl you ever had?

Sounds like a virgin doesnt it?

Fine, I'll answer... 413.76290120

:D

I've been accumulating more lately, trading against alternate currencies....

I'm on pace to hit triple digits next month.

I am very late comer. So maximum i hold is 0.05 btc. But i own 10k dogecoin.

A little over 30 BTC back when they were around $120... Man if only I held on a couple more months... :P

I had around 50... but then lost half of them in gambling.

860 BTC

I'm not asking how much you have now. But how much you had when it was cheaper and sold early.
So basically I'm asking about a missed opportunity not the actual balance of the people.

Not to brag, but about 0.003.

cool! ..close .03

Haha! Atleast the amount is rising, hopefully it'll grow to a nice sum in due time :)

A bit more than 0.1 ;)

It's trick question. You cannot hold virtual currency.

ah, you got me :)

i had 2 btc around 2 years ago after i won it in a giveaway. then i lost the wallet

517

Spent most of it on drugs, women and fast cars... The rest I just squandered ;)

Damn, but you lost them? Or gambled them away?

A little over 0.1 but I'm hoping to buy some when the price drops some more (a lot more).

Nows the time man, bitcoins lost around $300 in a few days. So buy buy buy. or sell?

I'm buying a little bit, but I'll get more if the price continues to go down (obviously)...

Almost 5 digits, back in the days..

Personally I believe that everyone (i.e, us the early adopters) should own at least 1.00 BCT. With the exchange rate going at $675, it is not hard to buy one. Trust me, you'll be grateful when BTC crosses the 1 million mark.

Bought $10k worth at $17/BTC in June 2011 before the slow decline. I did some buying and selling to get it up to 800 as the price fell below $10/BTC.

Then it kept falling, my goal was 1000 BTC. So I put it all on Bitcoinica, where I could short the price. My biggest short was when it was at $4/BTC and falling, I was ready to stop the short at $3.50 but it fell to $3.60 then climbed over $4.50 squeezing me out. I lost about 300 BTC on that one short.

It seemed sketchy that each of my big shorts was squeezed out just before I could make money so I pulled my 400 BTC out of Bitcoinica. A week later they were "hacked".

I needed money for a downpayment on a house from every money source I could come up with in 2012 and sold it all at $11/BTC.

150BTC
many thanks to Bitcoinica, genjix and PhantomCircuit that i now only have a fraction left

Ouch, at least you have something left to play around with

What a story, I wish I had gotten in bitcoin back then :(

Do you want numbers, or war stories?
For numbers, you would have posted a poll, with choices e.g. btc<1, 1<btc<10, 10<btc<100, 100<btc<1000, 1000<btc etc.
But you didn't do that, so it looks like you prefer narratives.

I once held a 25 BTC casascius coin in my hands.
Unsure if I had one of the 1 BTC coins in my hands at the same time, so it could be a little more ;)

Well, I hope your house gained a lot of value... What a story.

In my own wallet and belonging to myself... 11860 BTC.  Good memories...

Youch! What happened?

So you don't have any coins now?

I had around 400 at one time as well... This was after IOcoins were taking off the exchange and I was close to half of the hashrate for a while. I mined 100's of thousands which I sold for several hundred bitcoin when they eventually came back from the dead.

300 in Feb'13
-120 for a car
-80 stolen
-50 margin trading
-50 on random purchases
=0 coin now  :(

Should have put them all on a paper wallet and not margin trade… ugh

Only double digits, but I first heard about it a year ago. Made some mistakes as well, like selling at ~$500 when I thought it couldn't get any higher  :(

One thing I think a lot of newbies fail to fully appreciate is that "back then" bitcoin was a small, fascinating topic that not many cared about. Plenty of us saw the potential, yes, and really believed early on that it could change the world....but in terms of investment, I think many of us thought we had A LOT more time to accumulate. The speed at which price/adoption/impact/awareness has grown has completely taken me, at least, by surprise. I remember in Q1-Q2 2012 when bitcoin was <$5 for months thinking (and saying to my wife) several times "we should buy a lot more bitcoin", but not pulling the trigger cuz I just didn't feel any urgency and had other things going on in my life.

I thought it would take 5-10yrs to get from 2011/early-2012 to where we are today.

Add "viral adoption dynamics" to the "things bitcoin has taught me" column (already a very long list).

Aye, that's a very valid point. It's now a totally different landscape and it's easy to think that you would've bought 100,000 in 2010 and just sat there until now or beyond. If that had been the case the price probably would've reached $100,000 within the first week.

I wonder what people will be writing about this period of time in five years or so.

Damn its so futuristic to read all the stories from you "veterans" I wish I had been in the game earlier... or maybe not cause either you are banging your head every day for have lost a once in a lifetime opportunity or you are very very happy... I think its pretty safe bet that Hollywood will make a movie about btc in 5y+ time when its 10k+ and basically has been widely accepted

With that in mind do you think the price acceleration will slow down now?

How did most of the very early adopters like 2011 get into the game? Where did you read hear about it

I first read about it in 2009 on a website devoted to economics. I forgot about it completely for a long time.

I occasionally checked up on it in the subsequent years but didn't buy any until October. All throughout that time I had lots of fiat parked doing effectively nothing. No idea why it didn't occur to me as I'm fond of insane risks.

Despite that it feels far easier to bear than having had thousands run through my hands.

Dunno about prices rises. It sure as shit is still a once in a lifetime opportunity.

This has been posted in a similar thread recently. It's still quite a read if you missed it. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=388169.0

what would the hollywood movie about bitcoin be focused on? a lot of geeks sitting in dark rooms reading reddit and other online forums? who will play the winklevoss twins?

dunno I know how I want the end of movie to look like.... the winklevoss buying back facebook from zuck with btc =)!

It has to slow down at some point, but I think we can get into the next order of magnitude on the same fundamental adoption dynamics that have brought us this far. Bitcoin's total "market-cap" is about $8B-$9B today. That's equivalent to the M2 money supply of a lot of small/medium nations, the personal net worth of the world's richest individuals, and there are lots of publicly-traded companies with higher market-caps. At a "market-cap" of $50B, those statements are all still true. Bitcoin today is a toy in terms of global economic influence, and that would *still* be the case at a "market-cap" in the $50B range. To me, that implies fairly unencumbered rise potential for a bit longer.

Start scaling another order of magnitude after that, though, and the dynamic changes, for the first time. In the 100s of $B, bitcoin is worth far more than any individual, many nations' M2 money supplies, almost all publicly-traded companies... I think the change in the scale of global influence at that point is material to adoption velocity. Bitcoin will *really* be disrupting incumbent systems and governments at that point. While I think better technology and systems ultimately win, I also think it'll take time to meaningfully change some of humanity's fundamental means of interaction (money) from the ground up.

That said, I was wrong about how quickly we'd get to where we are today, so who knows...



I saw a story on Slashdot.org in spring 2011, I think.

I use to have 800 coin for a month when its $8 , i was digital game trader before and i think i am the first who accept bitcoin as payment but who knows the price would ride so high when i already sold them :*(

yeah I bet so many people sold most of theirs when it hit $30 for a second time in 2012.
Because back then nobody thought it will go much over that all time peak.

Less than year later it's $1100.....

i'm pretty sure nobody imagined that

It never hit $30 in 2012.

This is correct. This has not happened in '12. It did in '13.

ah ok, i stand corrected

You can only HODL it.

Which apparently is what everyone who isn't currently preaching doom while simultaneously begging for btc in their signature is doing right now. :)

I actually have a friend who has his own pizza story. In Hamburg Germany a few years ago it was in fashion at this one place (?) to buy pizza with btc. He said many people did that. Anyway, he swears he spent over 5000 btc on a pizza. He is actually pretty noticably upset by it and won't really tell me how many. They really (obviously) had no idea about what btc was. I say that at least in part because he said he has 1 btc now!

hopefully he got Papa's dipping sauce with that

My peak was about 600.

Now my entire net worth is less than 10 bitcoin.

Well I dont know exactly how many at one point but when I first learned about while playing my favorite mmorpg final fantasy 11 an online gamer gave me 5000 of them to play with, and explained to me how I can mine them with my PC. I was to busy with my whole gaming business I never really paid attention those BTC he gave me will never be in circulation unfortunately.

I was then re-introduced when they hit about $4 and at $4 I was kicking myself in the ass... Now that I seen $1200 I tend to try and forget it ever happened.

I still talk to the guy who gave them to me here and there and now play final fantasy 14 with him on occasion not the same crack addiction as 11 was however.

Almost 3000 BTC.

About 50 BTC but I gave about half away.

I given away more bitcoin than dollars (%) but that doesn't stop the hoarding articles.

After hearing some of these stories, I'm kinda glad I got in the game much later than many here... I'd be kicking myself so much if I had "lost" thousands of them.

just started with bitcoins , don't own much at this point of time , nd i still think its not too late to start with btc, just observing market at this point of time and this a roller coaster ride , as much as to answer the question asked the answer is <1btc

its ok in 5 years people will be,

<> I had 1 bit coin and now only 1 70mBits


<> wow a whole BTC???? how'd you loose it....I wish I could get earlier like at 1300 each "ATH' lol.

whom you are referring too.?
you answered many question but can't figure out the question .!

0.1BTC now invested in mining ;)
http://pbmining.com?ref=tontsa74 (http://pbmining.com?ref=tontsa74)

I had about 800 BTC once, but than I found a hooker who accept bitcoin and I lost everything.

That bitch.

haha a hooker accepting bitcoins.. that's something new to me.. ! just asking : where she accepts i.. i heard not many accepts in back pocket. IYKWIM

If he gave you 5000 he must have had a lot. I wonder if he kept hold of them?

Nein bitcoins.

Escorts in California are starting to accept them.

I know he cashed out about 15k btc when they hit $30ish

That was still a decent take.

Max Keiser holds about 25,000 so no real suprise at his evangelising.

Once had about 1,100. Much less right now. Lost a bunch from ukyo.loan and weexchange and labcoin.  Sold 250 at $400 :(. Wish I had waited another 2 weeks to sell, I would have an extra $150k from that sale. Also, now I'm facing a $40k tax bill, lol.

6500 (i own slush's pool).

foolish, sad, and disrespectful... slush has done more for the community than ten of you (pool, stratum, trezor etc).

Lol yeah, because it's easy to find someone who will meet you in person to give you a hundred grand.

First, assuming you are ok with tax evasion...

1) it is hard to sell over $100k in bitcoins in person.

2) Let's say you worked your ass off on local bitcoins and did. Now you have $100k in cash. You can't just deposit that in your bank account. Anything over $5k and they will fill out a form and report you (but they can't tell you they did!). And if you make multiple deposits of <$5k you can get charged with "structuring" which is itself illegal. Essentially, you have to launder your bitcoin gains. Not very easy.

3) When you use that $100k to buy something (say a downpayment on a house), the IRS is going to want to know where all that money came from.

.8 , started getting into this about 3 months ago, with a $250 gpu to start mining altcoins. stalked the boards for any new coins and mined them early. 

dogecoin actually came out a few days after my card, mined up about 2mil at 300kh/s, i think about 3m+ as stolen by the shady pool where people are trying to get the law involved getting back from that pool which had problems for over a month. luckily i switched a few days after release though the dif started to go up by then

I have 8 btc right now. I will not sell them before price rise to 1500.I bought at 850 most of coins

It's not this easy, unfortunately. If you report x amount on your taxes and buy a house (or a car) that only someone with x(2) income could afford, then the IRS will want to know where all that extra money came from. I agree that if you're reaaallly careful you might be able get away with it, but is the extra work worth the risk? Getting audited isn't exactly fun. The penalties are huge and the law is on their side.

had 40BTC, once.

 :(

lol if you had hold you would be rich now.
I have 8 btc right now, most ever

There's something in my diary about operating with 200BTC in gox in 2011. Unfortunately I had a dire need of cash when bitcoin was at $5 and I was forced to sell some.

I had 1000 back in my day.

This was about .0002% of all BTC in circulation at the time.

just predicting how this sorta thread will run in 3 -5 years time.

I have about 0.6 BTC at the moment, spread over different exchanges and cryptostock. I want to get to 1 BTC in March. I DEFINITELY want to have at least 1 full BTC. Lowering of the Prices does help and I use it to get cheap BTC.

Max i had was 0.066 BTC. Spent some on dinodirect , and made some more, so now sitting on 0.058 BTC hoping to get to 0.1 BTC by the end of month , donations welcomed :P . (not a beg)

1 bitcoin. :(