Just had to get this off my chest:

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[wachtwoord]

People are stupid.

[RodeoX]

I wonder how many of those who complain about early adopters would think it unfair had bitcoin gone down the toilet? Would they feel obligated to give them some of their money?
Those first bitcoin peers took a chance and it paid off. It makes me laugh how many who were unwilling to take the risk are now crying because the risk is greatly reduced and valuation has soared.
Which bird is it that gets the worm? Oh yeah, the EARLY bird.

[CasinoBit]

I think one point you failed to address is that there are multiple alternative cryptocurrencies, feathercoins, terracoins, litecoins, namecoins, ripple etc etc. So these people can become the early adopters of these coins themselves at the current moment.

[Coinseeker]

I just wish I had heard about it sooner than a month ago.  I'm a risk taker and I'm sad I missed the early boat but, I'm truly happy for all of you who took the risk early and are reaping the rewards.  You take big risks you deserve big rewards once and awhile.   

/stands and applauds

[Herodes]

Posts outside of this forum, and even here, are full of comments talking about early adopter unfairness...

In general, too many people are jealous of what other people have that they don't have themselves. This is an indication of being a 'small' person. Typically the same persons would look at some rich dude depicted in a magazine and think he's repulsive. His crime: Being rich.

I think it's part of human nature, most of us want everything, but we don't want to do much for it. Those taking the risk of investing early on, or using the system in the very beginning was visionaries, or risk-takers or high stake gamblers. The definition is for you to decide.

The point is that wherever and whenever somebody has gained something that's outside that of the norm, someone somehow is bound to complain.

The same people complaining about early adopter unfariness would've not complained if they were an early adopter themselves (then they would be happy...), and if somebody had told them: Invest now, and reap the benefits later, they would've probably not've invested anyway. What - internet play money ? Ponzi - pyramid scheme - hell no!

Full disclosure: Not an early adaptor, and not jealous of anyone with a lot of money. 

[cbeast]

Your grandchildren will complain about you being an early adopter for getting in on the <$10000 BTC and the >1 BTC/block mining.

[BitcoinAshley]

It's just another way for the Occupy Wall St. Bears to whine and complain about how we should instate SocialistCoin with built in inflation and government regulation.

Seriously, every single fucking market works the same way. Price was very low when demand was very low. Now demand is higher, price is higher. People who bought when demand was low now are sitting on boatloads of cash, it's just math. Sure, it's nice that they have cash and it sucks that you don't. It has nothing to do with "unfairness of early adoption" or "evil speculators," it's just the way shit works. Mathematics and economics. People need to lrn2market.

The late birds can't complain when the early birds get the worm... they just get up earlier the next morning.

[Elwar]

Those same people are pessimistic about all new technology and will be in the same boat for everything in their lives.

The thing is, most of the early adopters did not just buy a few thousand bitcoins and then just sit back and wait. Most of them played an active role in getting Bitcoin to where it is today.

Those people complaining could easily put in the same effort into something else with the same amount of people putting in the effort and reaping the rewards.

If the same people that created Bitcoin had put the same effort into curing cancer and benefitted from the sale of the cure those same people would be complaining about those greedy cancer curers.

[johnniewalker]

Posts outside of this forum, and even here, are full of comments talking about early adopter unfairness...

How can people on the one hand call investors "suckers taking crazy risk with a nerdy fantasy currency" and in the same breath call them "unfair beneficiaries of an early adopter scheme" when their risk actually pays off?

No one stopped you from investing in bitcoins or getting in early (and no one is stopping you now, either). You didn't do it because you were averse to the risk. So, stop complaining about how it's "unfair."

This is like a bailout in reverse: Take the risk that goes with speculation, but Lose you lose, and win you get accused of unfairness.

Anyone giving any merit to that argument at all is 1) an idiot 2) jealous 3) possibly communist.

[QuestionAuthority]

Posts outside of this forum, and even here, are full of comments talking about early adopter unfairness...

In general, too many people are jealous of what other people have that they don't have themselves. This is an indication of being a 'small' person. Typically the same persons would look at some rich dude depicted in a magazine and think he's repulsive. His crime: Being rich.

I think it's part of human nature, most of us want everything, but we don't want to do much for it. Those taking the risk of investing early on, or using the system in the very beginning was visionaries, or risk-takers or high stake gamblers. The definition is for you to decide.

The point is that wherever and whenever somebody has gained something that's outside that of the norm, someone somehow is bound to complain.

The same people complaining about early adopter unfariness would've not complained if they were an early adopter themselves (then they would be happy...), and if somebody had told them: Invest now, and reap the benefits later, they would've probably not've invested anyway. What - internet play money ? Ponzi - pyramid scheme - hell no!

Full disclosure: Not an early adaptor, and not jealous of anyone with a lot of money. 

This^

[Wardrick]

I would of definitely invested in BTC, or at the very least mined them if I had heard about them years ago. It sucks because I always jump on opportunities like this. Kind of sad how I was on multiple forums involving online currencies and never heard a thing about Bitcoin , guess it shows the amount of faith all the people using it had.

[wachtwoord]

Full disclosure: Not an early adaptor, and not jealous of anyone with a lot of money. 

Oh, I am jealous. I just don't think someone having something is unfair just because I want it.

[Apraksin]

Absolutely jealous myself, but can´t say I think it´s unfair. Mostly I just kick myself for not getting in two years ago when I first heard about it, but at the time it seemed like way to much hazzle for a not so techy person to grab a hold of some coins 

[SRoulette]

People are stupid.

And hypocrites

[WishIStartedSooner]

I would of definitely invested in BTC, or at the very least mined them if I had heard about them years ago. It sucks because I always jump on opportunities like this. Kind of sad how I was on multiple forums involving online currencies and never heard a thing about Bitcoin , guess it shows the amount of faith all the people using it had.

I kick my own ass everyday.

I might have thought of myself as you think of yourself in this regard. But I don't because I actually did stumble across BTC in 2010.

I would have thought of myself as a person with a nose for cool things. I'm always the first to dig up the torrents, the fretsonfires, and everything else that is fucking awesome among the people I know.

But I found this thing in 2010, read Satoshi's paper, and this is exactly what I thought, "Wow, this sounds cool, but nobodies using it and it seems to want my money. I should wait a while."

Didn't come back until a year later, and didn't start saving until February 2013.

Currently feel like an idiot.

[wachtwoord]

I would of definitely invested in BTC, or at the very least mined them if I had heard about them years ago. It sucks because I always jump on opportunities like this. Kind of sad how I was on multiple forums involving online currencies and never heard a thing about Bitcoin , guess it shows the amount of faith all the people using it had.

I kick my own ass everyday.

I might have thought of myself as you think of yourself in this regard. But I don't because I actually did stumble across BTC in 2010.

I would have thought of myself as a person with a nose for cool things. I'm always the first to dig up the torrents, the fretsonfires, and everything else that is fucking awesome among the people I know.

But I found this thing in 2010, read Satoshi's paper, and this is exactly what I thought, "Wow, this sounds cool, but nobodies using it and it seems to want my money. I should wait a while."

Didn't come back until a year later, and didn't start saving until February 2013.

Currently feel like an idiot.

We all feel like that at times (for various reasons). Hind-sight is 20/20 and this wasn't a sure thing when you first looked into it. The concept and idea are very elegant and extremely nice, but in the end it takes people to actually pick up on it and there is no way to predict whether this will happen.

Anyway, no use reminiscing on lost opportunities in the past. Learn from these and go for the opportunities in the present

[Wardrick]

If somebody introduced me to Bitcoins years ago I would probably have my own island sailing the Caribbean by now 

I'm in the process of mining Litecoins though. I can't be bothered mining those stupid Alt. Currencies like BBQCoin lol.

[MGUK]

Here's a consideration:

Perhaps some people just hold the moral value that a persons worth and holdings should be based on their contribution to society.

Whilst I don't begrudge the people who have a dick load of coins, when compared to the rest of the world, I don't believe it's "fair" (but I also can't propose and alternative)

For someone to earn literally millions of dollars, for buying and hoarding some virtual currency is not "fair" when you consider how little teachers, nurses, civil servents and generally the rest of the world get paid for working their asses off day in day out.

If all the Mr Binmen and and all the Mrs Midwife who gets paid £50 a day were to stop turning up to work, we'd be up the creek without a metaphorical paddle. The world keeps spinning if people don't buy bitcoins.

It doesn't take skill, and it doesn't contribute anything towards society buying and sitting on a boat load of Bitcoins, although actively trading is a slightly different matter.

"but footballers get paid more" or "but <insert retarded celebrity> gets paid more" is not a valid counter argument.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

I'm jealous as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore! Is there any way we can go back to the days where we all paid a 3%+ transfer fee for the privilege of spending our own money? This Bitcoin thingy fucked everything up.

Anybody, and I MEAN ANYBODY, who doesn't regard getting in now as an early-adapter opportunity has serious problems and should seek help. Seriously, for these people espousing such a line of thinking have the potential to want to blow something up. Not only does their elevator not reach all floors, they're in a boat with one oar in the water, pushing all the bottoms wondering why they can't get to where they think they want to go in life.

No use giving them a quarter to hunt a clue, for they'll think it's a communion wafer and try to eat it, provided they don't think it's an Avalon chip, readying to build a rig using it as a processor first, and when that doesn't work they'll eat it.