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I just want to firstly thank Satoshi and all the early bitcoin devs for literally creating a whole industry. Without bitcoin and crypto I would stuck in an office job as a middle manager. Bitcoin literally gave me and many others a way out. I am able to now create and build projects that would not be possible without bitcoin due to massive barriers to entry in the legacy world. And I am so grateful to Satoshi and co.

With that being said. What would you be doing if bitcoin did not exist?

I'm personally just so financially and emotionally invested in Bitcoin that I honestly don't know what I'd be doing. Probably would still be in the technology side of things looking for the sort of "next big thing". But Bitcoin just has the perfect mix of bizarreness and actual plausibility that I couldn't even think of any other thing right now that I'd be passionate in.

To be honest, I'd go as far as say that I probably wouldn't know what I'd do with my life if Bitcoin ceased to exist(theoretically) for whatever reason lol.

Will probably still be trading stock, commodity, forex, programming etc if the internet remained in existence.
I have always preferred working from home because people were just weird, and i never really do well in crowded place or noisy environment.

Honestly if there was no Bitcoin I do think that in few more years we would have gotten one. There would be a scientist sitting back in his house thinking about how unfair the whole centralized system is... Plus he would already be working on it.

Having bitcoins integrated in our lives is something inevitable. It's much needed. Even though most of the world is democrats but at the end of the day the manipulation is sick to it's core.

I do think that if there was no Bitcoins I would not get an opportunity to work online on such platforms internationally and grow as a whole. At the same time it just makes my life easier , I am able to transfer money internationally without any additional efforts, without additional paperwork being submitted to the banks and them creating it a much harder job than it should have been.

It's a blessing for us.

Probably be taking my PhD honestly, as I was an aimless academe nerd for years until I met bitcoin in 2014. Upon knowing its possible uses for my own benefit, I started investing a lot of time and effort in knowing more about the cryptocurrency until I was able to shake off the PhD trap. Most of my colleagues who took up their PhD completed it, though at the expense of an immense debt and a not-so-good financial rewards on their employment.

I don't think I would die without Bitcoin. Quite a strange question. Have you been able to raise your capital with Bitcoin? So you're in luck. But that doesn't happen to everyone. Someone was able to lose a decent amount of money by believing in Bitcoin.
Therefore, it is foolish to ask what people would do without this or that. As if just one thing determines the whole life of a person. It all depends on the people themselves, how they manage their finances, and how they can earn them. Surely, if there were no bitcoin, another coin would appear, or something similar to it.

Listen mate, first of all Bitcoin is not a full time earning source for me.
And i too came to know about Bitcoins when I searched for how to earn money online.
So if today if the Bitcoin won’t exist, then I would be still doing some other micro tasks in order to earn online.
I guess my story is similar to almost 60% or more people who reading this post and we all are proud of Bitcoins.
Lastly we all thanks to Satoshi for creating this amazing invention and made earning so easy.

If bitcoin didn't exist then I'm still pretty sure that I would never experience how useful this decentralized currency is. Before bitcoin existed, maybe we were all just people who always depended on a centralized government currency which most people thought was very unfair. Bitcoin gives us financial freedom and we can also increase financial privacy which we cant do with fiat and its banking system.

I got to know bitcoin and this forum in early 2017 and by then I already had a full time job that I still enjoy. Bitcoin has never stopped me from working in real life even though I have improved financially since getting to know bitcoin. So basically bitcoin is not the reason why I don't do anything regardless of the presence or absence of this asset. Before bitcoin existed, I was a worker and after bitcoin is more than a decade old I am still a worker.

if bitcoin didn't exist maybe i would do another job, and buy other stocks, as technology advances, and the internet advances, even if it doesn't exist, i'm sure others will emerge, i'm sure there are many
There are many smart people in this world. I'm sure we will not be hungry and become unemployed, if we are lazy that's another story..

To be honest, throughout my life, the existence of Bitcoin changed the economic situation for me and my family. I can meet the needs of the house, buy clothes, family interests, pay for hospital health insurance. and everything related to Bitcoin finance contributes greatly.
all can not be separated from the benefits that I got while in the world of trading Bitcoin.


and if Bitcoin doesn't exist, then I can't say how my fate will be until now . This is a confession and a confession that I make based on an experience that I will share with my descendants later.

It's not enough to thank Satoshi, if we can meet him then I want to hug him.

our task is not finished, and Satoshi left a history that we must protect, preserve and continue to spread to every corner of the world that Bitcoin can change a person's finances regardless of where he is and where he comes from.

I would still be doing website development just focused on another niche.

I cannot think of what would I be doing if bitcoin's not there. I'm not into understanding how such markets work and it did help to learn and understand even the simplest and basic knowledge about it. Well, maybe I'm not the same as I am today if there's no bitcoin.
I would probably be stuck into not learning markets and I wouldn't probably think about any investments because it's also bitcoin that has thought me how to invest.

Would be accepting fiat or credit cards for all of my services and wouldn't be earning for writing like i'm doing here right now, Other than opening a blog to get paid through advertisements.

But I do wish I knew about bitcoin back in 2009 there could be hope that I lost my wallet on some hard drive.
Then trying data recovering methods on the hard drive to recover the wallet most likely because I would've sold those bitcoins in 2013 when the initial pump happened,

Then realizing it later in 2017 when the bitcoin price blew up again and thinking i should've had held bitcoins.

Sounds like me! ;) I am thinking about myself but yes, most of us would have sold anyway if we had Bitcoin from 2012 or even earlier. A lot of respect to those who held through all the crashes and bull runs, but hard anybody can do that without losing all your sleep during the night.

if no bitcoin:
1. can't know what cryptocurrency is
2. do not know the development of digital finance
3. can't transact across the border
4. Can't have big finances
5. impossible to be in this awesome forum
6. Unable to know the world news which is full of market manipulation
7. will not know what FUD, FOMO, TREND, and other things related to digital money are.

and there are many things that we cannot mention here. plus during covid 19, maybe we will just be unemployed, not sure where to get income during the lockdown that is still in effect in my country.

Bitcoin plays a major role in cryptocurrency market if bitcoin would not be exist then none will have the knowledge of crypto or even blockchain because blockchain is famous just because of bitcoin and if bitcoin would not exist then none could transfer from one country to another without needing the third party.

If Bitcoin didn't exist I don't think very much would change in the world. There would be a lot more money in offshore bank accounts held by multi-millionaires and billionaires, because cryptocurrency has given them an extra way to move money around without being hassled by government agencies who would otherwise be able to track most of it. Most of the money would likely be invested in companies that return profits to their owners (the shareholders) either through dividends or employing earned profits productively back into the business. Gold might be a tad higher because it has always been a safe haven asset, and maybe obscure forms of collectible items from trading cards to whiskeys would also be priced a bit higher.

Great OP, this made me literally think!

I am biotechnologist in Bosterbio group and my part time job is Pencil carving. So for it is very clear that I would have spent more time in the Laboratory with my rats and microbes and cultivating them everyday. Lolz. May be would have been more focused on the Pencil carving and do more orders. With bitcoin most of  the time I am excited to leave the office and dive into crypto world.

Due to bitcoin I extended myself out biological field, went for the mining operations, learnt the tech, explored the bitcointalk forum and knew the different ways of interacting with crypto currencies and earning them.

This became huge part of me now. So yes, probably not having bitcoin seems pretty unrealistic by this time.

I would still be making investments into another things. I've already made an investment into gold for example. But I'm really happy that we have Bitcoin. It can be much more profitable than anything if one knows what he/she is doing.

if there is no Bitcoin then I will only take care of my family and be a good housewife... :D

Bitcoin is a miracle, my life has completely changed 180%. I became more interested in technology and the latest news about cryptocurrency developments. thank you satoshi for creating Bitcoin, love you.

Being into the crypto space really gives me a lot of opportunity like investing in bitcoin, trading in the market, and making a profit on it. So many opportunities like doing signature campaigns, being exposed to blockchain games, etc.

I believed without bitcoin or if bitcoin doesn't exist I guess I'm not exposed to this financial stuff and probably I don't really have something or even savings, since I just save a lot and learn a lot when it comes to financials and investment when I started in cryptocurrency and bitcoin.

But for sure at some point, I wanted to have a small business and probably buy a small apartment so that I could buy a passive income, or maybe just invest everything on real states.

Congratulations OP on your progress! Your achievements are reflected in each one of us. Bitcoin gave us the freedom we have long wanted. It is a pity that there is still so much meanness in the world that they limit the world's population and especially the most vulnerable.
There are still rulers who oppress their citizens violating the right to choose and feel free.
Without bitcoin I would also be working in an office earning an income that barely covered my needs.

Bitcoin is a revolution really! If it hadn't hapenned the horizons of many lives would have disappeared along with their hopeness!

Without Bitcoin I would keep on trying something which could defeat what Bitcoin defeated!

Thanks to Satoshi Nakamoto for offering such a non letal weapon for us to combat a maquiavelic system which was surprised caught in the trap of technology!

^ Without BTC? Probably when it comes to payment method, we are still using an e-payment fiat or a debit/credit card, and probably during the pandemic, still people using fiat and continue to spread the virus, good thing there is BTC that help us on becomes paperless payment. Regarding trading, probably people trade on stocks without cryptocurrency is boring in trading. Nevertheless, we should be thankful to the creator of BTC that until now there are many people who benefited most of what they/he created.

If there was no Bitcoin I'd probably be working my ass off to pay the bills and I'd be more scared. I'd sleep less and be more tired.
I wouldn't be able to say no to a job and simply pick the better ones out there because I wouldn't have this much savings and a small income from forum campaigns.

In a way Bitcoin saved me from having to live a hard life. It gave me choices I wouldn't have otherwise.

Some people here express the opinion that if it wasn't for Bitcoin then another coin of such sort would appear soon. Well, I wouldn't be so sure about that.

Let's not forget that Satoshi is a genius, his idea is very original and differs significantly from what we're all used to. It's one thing to know the technology, be smart and have the professional skills to create technology, but it's quite another to be that creative.

In addition, the fact that Bitcoin isn't easily accepted by a lot of people, and even now, after years of efforts towards the adoption there still is plenty of people, even in IT, finances and business still deny cryptocurrencies, think it's a pyramid or that crypto system has no future indicates that cryptocurrencies may be way ahead of the current overall intellectual level of the population.
Same as centuries ago scientists were considered heretics and burned by the inquisition)

When it comes to financial aspect then theres no doubt that Bitcoin did really changed up my life as i do able to free myself with that 8-5 dayjob that i do have on where i did really make myself sustainable and making out some real world business came from my profits here on crypto which is really a great or big help to start up a new journey and thats only for personal experience but in overall then lots had been helped out neither personal or the entire community as a whole in terms of new payment system.If bitcoin hadnt existed then we do just simply been stucked into the old traditional system that we are in as of this moment.

If there is no Bitcoin and also no crypto exists, I will live with my life like previously before interacting with crypto.
My job will be probably still the same, as a worker in a company, getting bored work time and also must obey the rules of the company as well. Or probably I will continue to be a teacher at a school.

Crypto really changes my life. Although I am not working at any company again right now, being a self worker at home, day trade, it really changes my life. I can work from anywhere if there is an internet connection. And I can take some holidays whenever I want.. really thank full to crypto.

and now there is btc . you cant do it anymore ? of course you can because btc can be done remotely .
you can see your family anytime and whats better now is that you can provide sufficient income to them .

all of us that are into btc had somehow change our life but we got into btc because we are interested in technologies before btc came out and it didnt hard for us to understand btc .

now we live in the era btc has been created, i work in the office every day and i work to get digital currency only work in my spare time so if btc has not been created by satoshi i still work in the office,

I would probably find a part time work and continue being enthusiastic with my studies in college but it didn't look like it will be the case otherwise and I wouldn't be going on different places to travel and eat because money is definitely going to be tight everytime.

This thing is what would be my destiny or faith if bitcoin doesn't come into picture. I mean for sure up until now I am a full time employee working my ass off, smelling the dirt in a construction site to be able to pay bills, to pay rent of our house and other expensive expenses. What I mean about expensive expenses is that living today cost you more I mean almost cost you all of your monthly salary and left nothing for a savings, it is just like your living in a rat race where your expenses is following after you receive your salary and that is totally horrible.

Lol, that highlighted part relates to me perfectly, I do remember while trading on huge amounts I couldn't sleep, because of the excitement from the trade when 5% goes up and down.

Then having a thought as if you're going to make the trade-in profit because you might never reach the profit percentage, and ended up selling everything just to sleep.
And then the next day the coin crosses your profit percent and you wish you would have had slept without worrying about the coin's future,

So the TIP is: Thinking about the trade before executing it and don't mess with in between unless necessary

I would be working in a shitty 9/5 job and investing my savings in traditional financial assets-stocks,bonds,retirement funds,etc.Most of the crypto users would be going the same thing in a world without cryptocurrencies.
Bitcoin had a great impact over my life.Without BTC,I would have been flat broke 4 years ago.
There were ups and downs.Happy moments and regrets,but I don't view Bitcoin as the most important thing in my life.After all,Bitcoin is just a financial asset.Bitcoin is NOT your best friend or your girlfriend. ;D

I am very grateful that I was able to meet Bitcoin, to learn and understand cryptocurrency. I think all of this is very interesting. My mind is not very smart, but after I came into contact with cryptocurrency and blockchain, I found that my mind began to change. Be flexible and learn a lot of knowledge about investment. If I don’t have Bitcoin, I might still be an ordinary employee working in a certain company or choose to continue studying. Although I have not achieved the freedom of wealth, I have gained wealth on this. Enough for me to live well, it changed my life, and blockchain technology is gradually affecting the whole world.

If Bitcoin does not exist, everyone will still be on their feet either working to satisfy their employers, company, or organization or still likely doing online jobs, tasks or survey which is very obvious.
The discovery and development of Bitcoin interface has really attributed to the vast innovative expansion of the crypto world significantly increasing the size, liquidity and the expansion of the entire crypto market, allowing new ideas, developers and easy and simpler environment for new crypto traders and investors. Without all these developments, life would never be easier for you and I when it comes to making money online.

If I have not been exposed to Bitcoin, I may also invest in other projects or stocks, or I may open a shop with my friends to do a little business, but I think even if there is no Bitcoin, there will be other cryptocurrencies. Will appear, I think this is the inevitable trend of the world's development, and it is unstoppable.

I will still search for online jobs and make money from the internet. Besides that, maybe I will search for offline jobs because I need to get a job for myself and my family. I already work an offline job, but I need to search for other things to make more money.

But after bitcoin invented, I can make money from bitcoin and I still use my time to make more money from crypto. Yes, we are really grateful to bitcoin because bitcoin helps our lives to make money.

I would still be googling for how to make money online and find the financial independence we all dream about.Luckily I found Bitcoin and I found it by doing that search "how to make money online" back then so it made me curious.I started learning about it everyday until in 2016 I build some rigs to mine Ethereum.I still do mine now Ethereum with a much powerful rig but if Bitcoin didn't exist,I would still be searching for that perfect internet opportunity to make money online.Until now I don't know anything that comes close to Bitcoin or crypto in general that can partly fulfill (we all keep our crypto looking for that full financial independence) our dream of financial independence.

I don't know if i don't come into this field maybe i can be more richer than now. I got a lot of money when i graduated from my college, so that money i got from BTC make me lazy and i'm so stupid not using that money in the right way. So, right now i just shit in my office from monday - friday. T_T

If there are no bitcoin so i will stay as employee in company maybe. Until now i not leave my job yet although maybe income from crypto is higher. But i will always made it as side job because no one know when crypto will have down period like this and for amateur trader like me, i prefer to take a rest than force myself into trading that have big risk for me because i'm still not good in risk management.

Regret always comes later, when we have what we have, we forget ourselves, we can't control ourselves, many people succeed in bitcoin, but most of us, waste of money, after all is done we just regret everything, so learn from mistakes, even though we can get money easily from bitcoin, but we have to have a side job too, for savings in our old age, good luck there is bitcoin, if there is no bitcoin our finances may be destroyed more..

I also spend most of my day in the office because if you don't have bitcoin we have to prepare an alternative method in advance. Bitcoin makes investing a lot more profitable but it is risky if not applied at the right time that's why I work in the office for my daily life.

I also ask the same question on myself.
Would I be with my family right now if crypto didn't exist,
Because I only gain courage to ask my wife back then because I am earning a good amount from crypto.
What would my job be if crypto didn't exist?

There are still many activities that I will do if there is no bitcoin or cryptocurrency. Work as usual as an employee or someone who trades food, clothes and others. Reasonable income for an employee.
that's how it was when Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies never existed.
But fortunately Cryptocurrency is still around and crypto is a pretty good source of income compared to work as an employee. Cryptocurrencies provide an opportunity for everyone to become an investor or a digital asset trader.

Probably would do what I would have done before bitcoin was invented. Oh wait, I was a teen who had no financial responsibility or didn't care about anything haha.
If bitcoin wasn't here, probably would have invested in the "regular" things like most people do like stocks or metals.
Except 1 and 5, you could do or know literally everything even if bitcoin didn't exist. FUD, FOMO and Trends aren't a bitcoin exclusive thing. And if you found work paying in bitcoin, you could have found work paying in fiat.

I'm interested to know what's your previous job on crypto that you earn a lot money? I'm a Filipino translator and bounty hunter before but my salary on my real job is still big compared on my crypto earnings. So I'm interested to know your source of income here in crypto which makes you fully depends on it.

We can't ignore the whole system of decentralization as there would be others who might come up another thing which will solve the problems of centralized system and i would be on the platform.Even if we need to ignore that totally, than i might be playing with codes for real life, IMHO.  Or maybe doing forex trading for an extra source of profits. :D

Because I have a permanent job or employees for me if there is no bitcoin no problem and maybe only rely on monthly salary income from where I work which until now I am still working.
bitcoin is just a promising extra income for me and maybe if there wasn't bitcoin i wouldn't have anything that i currently have from bitcoin income which i don't necessarily get from my monthly salary.
This is actually an easy question to answer, and if you think about it for as long as we've known bitcoin until now and if bitcoin didn't exist, we don't know what will happen in 10 years.

Those who know about Bitcoin will certainly be thankful. It was such a great opportunity that arrives in the most challenging world.
If Bitcoin had never existed, I'm still doing what I've been doing this time. Even I'm investing in Bitcoin and sometimes do trades, I still keep my stable job. We never know how long this crypto will still exist and that having a stable job is the assurance that we could still make a living if the time has come the Bitcoin will be gone. 

I am an entrepreneur, and my friend introduced me to this Bitcoin. 
And from Bitcoin I can earn a lot of income, if this Bitcoin does not exist then I will continue to run my job because that is my daily source of income to meet the needs of my family.

I actually still have a lot of things to do. But, since Bitcoin began, life has been much easier for me. I also worry less now about life and career opportunities because I know that there would be something that would be left with me even if the world turned its back on me. In short, Bitcoin opened  that another door of opportunity and path for me.

I think I still the same as before. still working as web developer, still doing business from the past until now. the impact of bitcoin and crypto that I experienced is that it makes all transactions easier for me . bitcoin / blockchain system will be more and more popular in the future and addapted in many aspect.

We're still using a centralized system and it looks like it's the pinnacle of financial technology is the banking system, if that's no bitcoin. and it's very boring because only certain people can control and develop a centralized system. Now, with the decentralized system of blockchain it is getting better and now all of them can develop their financial technology.

Without bitcoin i can't graduated from my college because my familly force me to go work instead of go to college because the economy situation. With bitcoin i can get extra money + paying my college with my own money. So, i'm very gratefull to know bitcoin in 2017 period.

Many people learn BTC as early as possible, somehow I have a close relationship with one of the early investors whom I worked with.
I was planning to be trained as a confectioner back in 2013 so I tried to be trained first in the bakeshop of my relative to learn bread and then pasty school. I might just be working for my own bakeshop if I didn't learn to have my online job and bitcoin.

I would be convincing Cristiano Ronaldo (#CR7) to enter the business of VR Games and Top Spaceship Simulators  8)
Car racing is one of my favorites videogames. I hope one day I can be in a VR spaceship simulator navigating Google Earth VR for free.