In 2010/2011 Bitcoin was really exciting!

[franky1]

People used to talk about "losing sleep thinking about BTC all the time", and it wasn't just about money.
We wanted to set people free.

In 2010/2011 Bitcoin was really exciting!
Are you excited now about the Bitcoin project/economy?
Why or why not?

my excitement was definetly highest up until 2013.. but now its started to wain.

even though i have loads of bitcoin, im not even worried or care about the short term spikes or drops. i se the long term future of bitcoin and so the short term price drama means nothing to me anymore.

instead my emotions are more concerned with the whole corporate control of blockstream and classic.
i wish that there was no control and instead EVERY bitcoin user had all the featres and excess capacity buffer so that every implementation can work together seamlessly without contention and without being so close to the edge that it needs radicals to move people in one direction or another.

EG bitcoin was making 500k blocks in 2013 and no one was crying about capacity risks of 1mb because they all know 1mb was just a buffer for potential future growth. the same mindset should exist today. 2mb+segwit should allow both real capacity potential due to a buffer higher than demand. and also allowing the features to be used by choice rather than force.

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[gilangIDR]

The first time I did not expect. but after I studied bitcoin little by little I finally understood that bitcoin is very interesting. until the day of bitcoin has changed my life. my life for the better. I am happy and I am happy to have known bitcoin.

[hasiramasenju]

in 2010/2011 i'm wasn't know bitcoin so i can't feel how exciting it because my first experience on bitcoin came from 2015 early and that was exciting too because since i had know that bitcoin does really help me from my financial sides

[Imste]

I'm still very excited!

But I notice many that have lost much of the love for Bitcoin, which can translate into a great buying opportunity.
Usually its when people start to give up that the bulls enter the stage.

And when they do, the excitment will be back, mark my words!

[qwk]

We wanted to set people free.
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Are you excited now about the Bitcoin project/economy?

I see a lot of answers revolving about what Bitcoin should have been or could have been.
Personally, I never wanted Bitcoin to be anything else but Bitcoin.

Bitcoin in itself is new technology plus an interesting political experiment with unknown outcome. Exciting enough?

[BellaBitBit]

People used to talk about "losing sleep thinking about BTC all the time", and it wasn't just about money.
We wanted to set people free.

In 2010/2011 Bitcoin was really exciting!
Are you excited now about the Bitcoin project/economy?
Why or why not?

I think there is still plenty of excitement around bitcoin and all of the possibilities.  I like bitcoin for much more than money.  It can have great social impacts on a global scale.

[Flozbrand]

If people have lost faith, that's their loss.

More reasons to be excited in 2016 then ever before. Bitcoin has come to stay.

[pereira4]

I think it's still very exciting and it only gets more and more exciting. The blocksize thing, all the new technologies like segwit and all the new BIPs, all the big hype about halving... the future is very exciting. The only thing I miss from the past is not buying BTC before 2012, but we have still time for bigger moons in next years.

[btcltccoins]

Yes thats year for bitcoin was exciting, because bitcoin was new online currency, and people feel excitement to use it. just like me. but now in that time mostly people know about bitcoins, and the coming years thats call the bitcoins year.

[Rubberduckie]

I was excited because I was mining on my GPu's and it was fun and
affordable.


Before all the criminal bfl's of the world came into existence and with electricity
bills you cant mine anymore (at least around here)

[Jasad]

People used to talk about "losing sleep thinking about BTC all the time", and it wasn't just about money.
We wanted to set people free.

In 2010/2011 Bitcoin was really exciting!
Are you excited now about the Bitcoin project/economy?
Why or why not?

i dont know what happen on bitcoin on 2010 or 2011,at that years i dont know about bitcoin,even dreaming about bitcoin i never do that,but now i know bitcoin have good project,lets wait and see what the best project from bitcoin.

[spendabit]

People used to talk about "losing sleep thinking about BTC all the time", and it wasn't just about money.
We wanted to set people free.

In 2010/2011 Bitcoin was really exciting!
Are you excited now about the Bitcoin project/economy?
Why or why not?

The recent price stability of Bitcoin is really remarkable. This stability helps to open new opportunities as a currency.

[vrm86]

In 2010 most BTC users used to think about it as something, that can change the future. It was completely new idea these days, that had been brought to life. With market value close to zero there was nothing more.
Nowadays, people are also excited, but IMO rather in terms of possible personal financial benefits.

[jak1]

In 2010/2011 Bitcoin may be exciting but not as much as it is exciting now.
At the present bitcoin is at its bloom and moving towards its peak 

[calkob]

Bitcoin is really exciting, i cant wait until i can either be paid in bitcoin or transfer my fiat wages to bitcoin and can then use them to pay my bills.

[btvGainer]

People used to talk about "losing sleep thinking about BTC all the time", and it wasn't just about money.
We wanted to set people free.

In 2010/2011 Bitcoin was really exciting!
Are you excited now about the Bitcoin project/economy?
Why or why not?

I came to know about bitcoin in middle of 2015 so for me 2015 was most exciting year.I know prices were high earlier and people went crazy for bitcoin but since I haven't witnessed that myself I can't say what was the feelings at that time but for me bitcoin is still exciting

[AtheistAKASaneBrain]

The present time is really exciting too. In 10 years, people will look back and say the same about people that is aware of Bitcoin 2016. "Omg it must have been great to buy bitcoin at 3 figures while it was being developed". We are all still early adopters.

[rababo]

At that time I still don't know about bitcoin, I knew it around 2015.
I think the exitement is still happen untill now. People are more aware with bitcoin.

[OROBTC]

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I will be more excited if/when certain BTC-related events come to pass, for example:

-- more merchants accepting BTC
-- easier & private ways of buying and selling BTC   <--- Someone will crack this one sometime, and make a fortune.
-- price going up again...
-- more interesting BTC and blockchain uses (applications) arriving

[Kakmakr]

I think the excitement about Bitcoin came, when in 2013 it breached the $200 price for the first time and then again in 2014 when it went above $1000. People flocked to Bitcoin in droves and we had a real buzz going on in this forum. People were happy and fun projects were started and competitions launched and also some nice puzzles.

Since then, a lot of this excitement has died down and I get the feeling a lot of people are waiting for the price to increase to those levels again for them to sell out. If you entered the Bitcoin scene in 2014, when the price were above $1000, this ride must be pretty terrifying and boring. ^hmmmmm^