Venting about missed opportunities

[drltc]

I first read about BTC before GPU miners became popular.  I was thinking about writing my own when I saw others release the first ones, then I got discouraged when I read my machines (which all have nvidia cards because they're better for gaming) weren't cost-effective.

[lbr]

since when nVidia cards are better for gaming?

[asciicat]

I have 5 btc in a corrupt wallet, and I spent another 5 btc later, and I missed buying litecoins when they were $0.50. Not too angry about the litecoins but I really want those corrupted coins back.

And of course, hindsight is 20/20. Knowing what we know now, who the hell wouldn't buy a lot of bitcoins if they could have?

[drltc]

I got back into BTC when I read about BTC and Ripple in several articles floating around the blogosphere in recent months.  Just in time to have missed out on the possibility of bitcoins that cost ~$10 instead of ~$100.

[Operatr]

Don't worry, this is still the beginning. Bitcoin has to become about 1000x larger to reach the market cap of the Dollar, that 100 could be 1000's someday as Bitcoin consumes broken local economy's. Im just getting in now, and seems like the perfect time to, and be a part of driving the system forward.

[hubbabubbabaker]

Don't get attached.

[gweedo]

I spent another 5 btc later

How is spending bitcoins a missed opportunity? If you never spend the coins then the economy would just die. So that isn't a missed opportunity that is help building bitcoin to what is today!

[neuronet]

2006 was too frustrated with the funding process to follow through with purchasing eventhough I firmly believed BTC was something to behold.  Forgot about it for a few years and voila.  Had the same feeling when I bought Lululemon stocks at $32 a share.  It was just much easier to buy stocks for me than BTC's.  I agree that BtC has more upside potential than stocks for the perceivable future.

[gweedo]

2006 was too frustrated with the funding process to follow through with purchasing eventhough I firmly believed BTC was something to behold.

Bitcoin wasn't around in 2006? You knew about bitcoin a full 3 years before it was launched and a full 2 years before it was announced?

[Mogumodz]

I missed out on the corned beef slice in the fridge earlier today, went to make a nice tasty sandwich and it was gone

All I want is corned beef now!

[malevolent]

2006 was too frustrated with the funding process to follow through with purchasing eventhough I firmly believed BTC was something to behold.

Bitcoin wasn't around in 2006? You knew about bitcoin a full 3 years before it was launched and a full 2 years before it was announced?

I think we found The Satoshi.

[uneone]

I can only imagine how many people who feel even worse than I do. Someone who had a few hundred bitcoins in a wallet and then wiped the OS thinking they were basically meaningless. Flash to now when that would be worth 30,000USD and that would be some real regret.

Im just pissed I never bought them at 0.13.

[Wekkel]

Don't regret but act now. Act today, use the opportunities of this moment in time. Did I hear something about LTC ? 

[uneone]

I am mining LTC with my AMD Phenom II X4 (BIOS unlocked cores 3 and 4) and getting ~30Khash/s

What hardware is worth getting currently to efficiently mine ltc? All my searching has shown a few buggy miners (cgminer) that use the gpus but still for only a few hundred Khash/s.. It crashes the drivers on my nvidia

What is your opinion on the future of ltc? I believe the longterm strategy for handling the currency growth is better suited for current investment.

[lbr]

What hardware is worth getting currently to efficiently mine ltc?

7790

[neuronet]

2006 was too frustrated with the funding process to follow through with purchasing eventhough I firmly believed BTC was something to behold.

Bitcoin wasn't around in 2006? You knew about bitcoin a full 3 years before it was launched and a full 2 years before it was announced?

My bad, it was 2009.  06-09 is a foggy part of my life. 

[cryptohunter]

Yeah it really is annoying, i sold too many bitcoins too early grrr. Never mind still mining away.  Those waiting it out to buy again at $50 i think will probably kick themselves when it takes off again.

Again i agree that i think a lot of countries with broken systems will dump their fiat and get into something more solid that they can trade easily each day, that nobody can take from them without at least a lot of effort. Not just inflate their worth away or close the bank door.

[Endgame]

Realizing you have missed an opportunity is frustrating. Fortunately there are always more opportunities, you just have to be ready when the next one comes along.