Delayed response, missed this reply before, rather than ignoring it.
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hey, by the same thinking...bitcoin is untested too, just a beta software, no wonder the latest version is 0.21.1
10 year wait for results is not productive as some might be immunized by 5-10 different vaccines in the interim.
I waited *almost* 10 years until I invested in Bitcoin, once the blockchain was tried and tested. I knew about it for years, but never trusted it, as I'm naturally a skeptic
It seems to me that you are exaggerating a wee bit, even if perhaps you did not start to invest into bitcoin until 2018-ish - sometime after registering your account here.
Not really I don't think, more badly explained I think. I did "invest" prior to account registration in 2017, but this turned out to be for quick gains, as came "late" into the market basically around $5K, so didn't want to get rekt
Otherwise invested properly as a hodler in 2018. So in summary either I waited until BTC was 8.5 years old, or 9.5 years old. Hence: *almost* 10 years. But more to the point...
One thing is knowing about bitcoin in 2009 or 2010, you are not saying that you knew about bitcoin then, are you?
I think you misunderstood me. I meant I waited until Bitcoin was almost 10 years. I didn't mean to imply I quite knew about it in 2019/2010 no, but sure I see this was the implication from sloppy English.
Definitely wouldn't have waited around if I was engaged with the software back then and saw it trading for cents! But ultimately wasn't computer literate by then so would have been impossible for me, plus very odd. I did find out about it in 2011 when a homeless hacker-ish friend claimed "this could be worth thousands now it's worth $1", therefore wanted to crack some free internet for us in order to mine some coins... But ultimately he never got that connection sorted. There was no strong enough WEP available from the neighbors, was trying dictionary brute force WPA prior to reaver/WPS, so gave up after a week. He instead got some coins P2P, followed by selling around $5-10 for some high grade weed (a classic case)
Then again exposed in Winter 2014 while living with a core dev & (legal/unofficial) "hackspace" for a few months. I did learn a lot, but they were too busy getting high for me to take them seriously. Even when they weren't on acid, it seemed like they were on acid basically. But ultimately, even while being computer literate by then, it still seemed too young and too high risk despite the potential. Especially while beginning it's down-trending at this point after blow off top + had no money then anyway
Plus the crew were annoying af to live with, proper waste of space, so put me off for personal reasons investing in "their ideas".
And really no investment was really available in those earlier times - except mining and bitcoin largely did not have a price until mid-2010. and that was quite vague and weird (such as two pizzas for 10k bitcoin).. so I would not even have considered that there was any meaningful "investment" opportunity in the financialization sense of the word (not just talking about time to mine it or to involve yourself in BTC development or some other kind of investment) into bitcoin until perhaps 2011-ish.. and of course, more and more opportunities for financially "investing into bitcoin" came about with the passage of time.. and moreso maybe in 2013 when more exchanges came about such as Coinbase and Local bitcoins and some others began to become more available.... .. but even then.. still pretty damned niche of an investment - so sure.. somewhere between 2011 and 2013 seem to be about the earliest of days for financial investing into bitcoin - niche as it was (unless you want to explain some other ideas about what you mean by missing out of investment opportunities into bitcoin by nearly 10 years..
For sure there wasn't a mainstream investment opportunity, especially from the UK. The housemate had already had their unlicensed exchange shut down by UK PLC after making bank so it didn't seem like a sensible idea to try and buy some coins either, even from Coinbase
Probably shouldn't add that last part in, as those involved back in these times in this location will know very well who I am talking about. But sure, I was around this scene, and could be one of hundreds of people uninterested in Bitcoin
So maybe if you say when you found out about bitcoin and describe the kinds of "investment" opportunities might have been available to you in your earliest days of exposure that you failed/refused to partake in...
I think you can tell from my past exposure with Bitcoin, it was relatively high and twice over, being in the the circles I was mingling in. Mining doge in 2014-205 was also standard practice from a housemate I'd be living with for example.
(An ex-housemate I still don't know the username of on here to be honest, but was involved in bounties on here while not busy taking heroin or otherwise)
Don't get me wrong, I am not proclaiming that you are totally off of the planet - because surely there are some particulars that you could likely flush out to bring better meaning to what you are describing - rather than some concepts that could be very easily misunderstood or even mislead people into thinking that there were real and meaningful investment opportunities in bitcoin in the early days beyond for the real geeks and internet nerd specialists (not suggesting any kind of denigration of the nerds).
TL:DR: It's ok, I hear you. Primarily I didn't explain very well the "waited 10 years part". More like waited 6/7 years in total ish, followed by waiting for Bitcoin to become 8/9 years old.
Hope that helps specify the previous response
But sure, the more diverse research the better! After Bitcoin there were more than 5-10 different currencies that came about as well.
Nice try though
Gosh.. comparing bitcoin research and virus research seems a stretch of a topic.. and who really wants to talk about some some 5-10 different currencies in this here lovey dovey bitcoin thread, unless perhaps we have some shitcoins that we feel like bashing..
Precisely my point, hence this wasn't my initiative as to me it seems like a very dumb comparison
I was just trying to show how stupid the analogy actually is, thanks for your assistance
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