http://www.newsbtc.com/2017/06/12/steve-wozniak-bitcoin-price/“I remember getting interested in bitcoin some time ago. It was $70 for a bitcoin, man and I went online and you had to have a special bank account at a special bank and I couldn’t buy any bitcoin so I gave up. Eventually I got some of them at the $700 stage and it went down to $350. I didn’t invest, I did it so I could play with bitcoin.”
I went through the same frustration back then.
I'd watched the price double from under $15 to over $30 while I researched Bitcoin, dual-key cryptography, SHA-256, etc., and realized it wasn't some kind of scam.
I was convinced it was game-changing disruptive technology, and wanted in. To my dismay it wasn't that easy. I hadn't discovered BitcoinTalk yet and foolishly thought I could buy coins through the usual channels. I even wasted a week transferring funds from my bank to Paypal! LOL
I persevered and eventually I was able to buy some coins by using a complicated system of making anonymous deposits into a Cavirtex account at a local bank with extra cents added as a code to identify my pre-ordered deposit. After a few hours wait, I could buy coins.
By then the price had doubled again to $68. I cursed at having to pay so much and wished I'd found out about Bitcoin a half year earlier. I could have wasted the same amount of time and still bought for single digits.
Within weeks, the banks had shut down those Cavirtex accounts and they then used a series of deposit systems which also kept getting shut down. Buying coins wasn't easy back then.
Now it's a snap. You don't even need to risk your money and lose your anonymity by using online exchanges. Bitcoin ATMs are everywhere, some at competitive prices, and it's not hard to build a base of OTC and personal bitcoin contacts if you live in or near a decent-sized city in a developed country.
Steve Wozniak and I could both have used a site like this back then:
https://coinatmradar.com/
