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I can't say it enough..

I love Bitcoin. I tell everyone about it. To some, I know they think I'm crazy. Like if I'm trying to get them into Herbalife or some other Pyramid Scheme.

I've been in it since 2011. Back when everyone called me crazy when it was $3 per Bitcoin. Everyone came back to me after the news hype/$1000 per Bitcoin in 2013.

I owned 1/1000th of the mining network at one point this year, had 1000 Bitcoins in 2011 (yes, sold at a slightly higher price), and have done countless low cost transactions.

Anyways.. I love it, love the anonymity, I hate the banks, love freedom, love Bitcoin.


Cheers.

1000btc??!!?? So you must be super rich with all the stash of bitcoin that you accumulated  ;D
Gosh, I always wonder why I came in so late to the party. My interest in bitcoin only started this year and if only I could at least backtrack to at least year before that I discovered bitcon.... things would have been different.

I think he said he had, which probably means he sold it as well. Some people were definitely early to the boat, but a lot of them,
 even got out early when the price simply might have doubled.

It depends at which price he sold.  1,000 btc isn't an incredible amount.

Bitcoin is indeed incredible, im seeing adoption with my own eyes while browsing various services on internet.
Depends on area of services bitcoin adoption is sometimes as large as 50% for example (especially for computer hardware etc.)

Nice story, always good to see early adopters.

Guys who kept their coins till now can just sit back and relax.

You need to have balls to not sell your coins above $100 when you only paid $3 for them.

Bitcoin is just 5 years old and still in its infant stage. We are still early adopters. Comparing with the highest price in 2013, the price declines to its lowest level. It is a good time to accumulate some bitcoins before you will regret not to buy as much as you can when the price will climb to $ 2000 next two or three years
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If I had 1000btc at one point and sold most of it at low prices, I wouldn't be so happy as OP. I will be kicking myself for being so short sighted.  :D

I've been obsessed with Bitcoin since Jan 2013, when my boss introduced me to it, wanted me to find out if it was legit... let's just say I got hooked too.

Wow, we are still early adopters, this is game changing technology, all I want to do is get more cryptocurrencies, who's hiring for Bitcoin?

Cheers dude, thank you for your motivating thread! :)

People just think about the price, that's right we all want to have some money for our future. On the other hand, Bitcoin's usableness is the most important issue for spreading BTC around the world.

I remember OP. He was a noob at mining with GPUs . He was just a high school kid back then. I guess hes in college now?

Despite all the problems and yet to be conquered hurdles with Bitcoin many of us still love what it has done and has yet to do.

Thumbs up dude, I feel the same, although I entered the game a lot later.
But who cares, I have a nice job, a lovely girlfriend, some smart kids and good health.
I have some patience to end up owning 1000 coins as well :)

But you made sure you registered at this site in april 2013?
Did you buy your hero account?

Its quite a lot of coins.  Very small percentage of people own
that many coins today.

Yeah me too, I just love using the Bitcoin, the low transaction fee is just awesome. Hope it stays the same.

i love bitcoin too. i learned about bitcoin a few months ago and i can see it becomming bigger and bigger.

Good motivation thread man! Yeaah i love bitcoin too and love working with bitcoin!

with 1,000BTC you don't need to work :-X

Lol, gotta love us early adopters...

Had quite a stash too, but lost most of it trough scams, which is quite unfortunate. Losing huge amounts of money is like a trigger for some people to kill themselves, I however am still alive but I still think of that loss a few times a week.

Anyway, I'm in love with Bitcoin since end 2011-begin 2012. My advice: keep hold of your bitcoin, I mean, if it bubbles to like 10.000 than you could consider selling some but look at the history:
2011- 1BTC= 2$
2012- 1BTC= 10$
2013- 1BTC= 500$
Begin 2014- 1BTC = 1200$
End 2014- 1BTC = 400$

What was 2$ is now 400 and will be 20000 at some point.

Don't. You are going about it the wrong way.


It is.

For argument's sake may I remind you that your account is from 2012 not 2011. (Sure you got in before that).


1/1000th of the mining network huh? Must be a great achievement.......


I love it too Josh, and hate the banks and all that, but you have failed to understand that there is no anonymity in Bitcoin.
There is probably a reason why you posted this thread and it is not because you love Bitcoin.
It is because you fail to understand why nobody pays attention to you - like the other early adopters.
That is because they actually understand Bitcoin.


Your welcome.
Now please spend some of your "wisdom" to actually help promote Bitcoin rather than your image.

It is always a confidence holding bitcoin and knowing that you are holding a fixed percentage of the total money supply and no one can inflate the supply to dilute your holding's value. Even gold/diamond can not achieve this

Of course the biggest concern is security, this part is extremely troublesome to deal with, so far no solution can be as good as old banks: Without a powerful security solution, who dare to walk on the street with 1000 coins without a bodyguard? (Like in the film IN TIME)

Why would you walk around with 1000 BTC?  Put them in cold storage.

I did a lot of my bitcoin trading on the bitcoin web of trust IRC wayyy before I even knew that bitcointalk.org existed. I've actually never even directly bought btc through these forums. The WoT was used wayyy more for bitcoin trades than forums in the past. With that being said I'd guess the OP also bought btc through the WoT in the beginning.

i also love bitcoin..haha..it easy to easy to get just do some task

Gold is so yesterday. Bitcoin is amazing! Its going to be the game changer of the future!

Probably. But it is always a good idea to diversify too.

Yup I know what you are talking about. Was there when bitcoin hit $31, then $2, then $2, $3, $4....

the rest is history.

Watching bitcoin grow is like watching a child grow.

If at that time I already know and have 1000 bitcoin, then I am selling at a price of $ 1000.
Maybe my life at this time will be more established :)

that's the reality has always been short of expectations  ;)

In hindsight, everything looks easy.
If we all had got into bitcoins at a few cents and got out at $1000, we wouldn't have had to work any more.  :)

Awesome! :D

That's great you've written about this. Sometimes people do think you're trying to sell them herbalife's bs. I have found that when you are honest, let them know you're just enthusiastic, AND if you can tell them how they will benefit (this requires you to understand them), then they are even more excited about it :D I have yet to write an article about this. I don't write, and i'm not a great writer, but I know I'm able to help newbies appreciate Bitcoin. Thanks for sharing your bit!

hellooooo ... lend me a time machine pleaseee ,
i'll go back to the past and bought much bitcoin .. lol
im also late to know what is bitcoin :(

late ? wtf are you smoking? Ask around to see if anyone you know use and has bitcoin.

We're still early, when bitcoins being used by millions of ppl everyday, guess what bitcoin price will be?

This reminds me of that meme about apple's co founder who sold his half of Apple for $800 cause he didn't think it was gonna take off, lol. It's still early days with btc.

i love bitcoin, but i hate to say it, that no one called me crazy cause i never told anyone abou t it, not even my closest family members.

owned about 2750 at the peak.  but sold most of it for drugs

yeaa sure i think im late to know about bitcoin, just know btc 1 years ago with high price ..
just imagine if i knew bitcoin in 2009,, it would make me rich now :p 

Man, 1000 Bitcoins!??   :o

Wish I had a Hot Tub Time Machine to go back to 2011 and mine on some video cards...

I'm in the same boat, I'm a believer in Bitcoin.  Love everything about it.  It's underlying technology, it's anonymity yet public ledger, the blockchain, the international money without borders, the potential to disrupt the existing financial infrastructure in every country, etc..

Definitely a good time to get involved.  Just needs time to marinate.

Sure but would you have really bought it then?.. You have to give it to early adopters, they bought it when others weren't buying. It's easier to say it now since you have seen it was a profitable investment but at that time nothing was for sure and they believed in it and they saw potential which others didn't and now they're getting their rewards for that.

And btw I also love Bitcoin, even though I haven't seen the other side of the decimal :D

Right. There were a number of people who sold when bitcoin hit $5.00 and when it hit $15.00 as these figures seemed even higher to many hodlers then what $1,000 is to many people today.

Out of curiosity OP, at what level did you sell your 1k BTC for (if you don't mind my asking).....I am sure many people are curious to know as well

those 1k btc were probably made at early stage, easy and free money basically

Whenever I hear stories and anecdotes like this, it makes me think of those other ones like the 10,000 BTC Pizzas or the 7500 BTC wallet on a PC in the landfill.

Man, those were some wild wild west days, where mining was so easy, and the value was basically pennies or sub pennies.

If only we all knew what we know now, back then.

nah i have no idea,... i'm not even sure will buy bitcoin at that time,, haha
the future is a mystery.. lol

Whats the thought on price on BTC 2015?

Depending on just how early he started/stopped mining it may have well been 'free' money as int he very early days of mining the computers were not using up much more electricity then they otherwise would have been using

If you sold all the Bitcoins you had, probably you don't like Bitcoin very much...