What stopped you from starting crypto earlier???

[Ikhp07]

WHAT STOPPED YOU FROM STARTING CRYPTO EARLIER???

Pretty much everyone knows about crypto at this point, even if they don't understand it.

I heard about crypto not quite ago and, I didn't take action due to some factors that are most likely the reason others didn't

WRONG INFORMATION:
The first time I heard of crypto I didn't know what it was about so I asked some person's around me and the way they explained it to me made it sound like it was a Ponzi scheme and even my parents were against the idea of Cryptocurrency they believed it to be an online waste of time project and I believed them and I regret taking their words😞😞😞

MONEY:
even after discovering that Cryptocurrency isn't a Ponzi scheme I still faced even a greater challenge which is MONEY. I got acquainted with cryptocurrency but wasn't able to participate in it because I had no money. I decided to start doing airdrops on TELEGRAM and after sometimes I eventually got some SHIT-COINS which didn't worth anything so I couldn't exchange them. it wasn't until recently that a friend of mine whom I'm indebted to introduced me to BITCOINTALK. And since then I have participated in several bounties and there've been some great results from the bounties and very recently I made my first exchange, though it wasn't that much it still made me very happy.

I know I might not be in a position to give anyone advice on this platform because I'm still a NEWBIE, but I do know that we live in a world where fake news strive online because very few tend to verify what's true and what's not. And also feel free to share with us your own experience that also made you delay if you have any.

[mk4]

I'm pretty sure that was the common reason why people scoffed at bitcoin initially. Telling me that we have a new digital currency that an anonymous person created just reeks of scam in the surface level. I mean, most people think that we don't even need a new currency; so why create a new one? I sure had the same exact opinion back then, until I've learned about the flaws of fiat.

[Rruchi man]

WHAT STOPPED YOU FROM STARTING CRYPTO EARLIER???

At about the time i first heard about crypto, it was during a season when there were a lot of ponzi schemes ongoing in my locale. There was "MMM", "Crowd rising" and "Zarfund", all names of leading ponzi schemes that many including myself were victims of. "Zarfund" particularly was crypto based (bitcoin), where a certain amount could get us some little bitcoins, then via crowd funding accumulate this bitcoins.
After they all went offline with out bitcoins and fiat, I wallowed deep in Skepticism about anything crypto or making money online. It took a while, a miracle and some testimony of some friends who were early birds for me bounce back and push skepticism away. So skepticism was my reason.

[YOSHIE]

WHAT STOPPED YOU FROM STARTING CRYPTO EARLIER???

The word 'stop' in my opinion there is no such term, as long as we want to do it we can certainly do it, especially in today's crypto era, there are hundreds of types of crypto that we can trade and also invest, don't have to have a lot of capital, small capital can enter the crypto world, many successful people in the crypto world with minimal capital, while they have the knowledge to do.

Yes, I see you are in the Bounty campaign section and also with your Alt named: @Odijiehumphrey, my advice, if you want to last long here, obey the Bounty rules, read all the rules they apply, you will get more crypto/tokens there.

And one more thing, if possible in this forum there are many types of paid Bitcoin Paid campaigns, try not to get involved in Bounty first, focus on your ranking, if you have reached the conditions required by the Bitcoin campaign, you can easily get Bitcoin/crypto here, without thinking about scam tokens etc.

[pooya87]

You keep saying "crypto" but most of the reasons you mention are wrong about altcoins. For example many of them are scams and could even be categorized as Ponzi schemes since they run similar payment tiers that resemble the Ponzi scheme.

In fact I didn't start with "crypto", I started with bitcoin and interestingly enough I only started after I found out that bitcoin is a currency and can be used for payments whereas 2 years before that in 2012-2013 someone gave me some wrong information that bitcoin is "solving mathematical problems and getting paid for it", so I never even bothered checking it out back then.

[Pmalek]

Lack of knowledge about what it really is, and not enough interest to find out more about it. I didn't see a reason why we needed a decentralized payment system, and how can money (value) be moved around without some sort of intermediary. There were other alternatives that I was happier to use. Being in control of your own money is still a new concept, after so many generations have used and been taught to use and trust banks. Bitcoin was something unknown, created by someone unknown, and used anonymously. I didn't think it would work...

[lovesmayfamilis]

You keep saying "crypto" but most of the reasons you mention are wrong about altcoins

Because the OP probably has no distinction, and he calls everything cryptocurrencies. If we talk about Bitcoin, I recognized him from the very beginning of its appearance, but, like many here, I did not believe in him. I worked with Liberty at that time, but suddenly they were banned, but bitcoin was mentioned everywhere. And I decided that this was another scam.
We all get smarter with age.
But as for the OP, it is clear that he desperately needs money, and instead of studying, he spends his time on bounty programs, creating account after account. And today his next account should be banned. It can also be said that someday he will understand and regret the wasted time.

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Ikhp07

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[KingsDen]

I didn't just start doing bounty because I love doing bounty I started so that I can save money for my schooling. I am a first year PHARMACY student and you can't just imagine me asking my parents money everytime. And me doing bounties doesn't affect my studies that's why I choose to do it, not because there's fun in it .
And also concerning my  first account it got ban the first few weeks it was created because I had no idea how the system works in BITCOINTALK.so you can't blame me for trying to help myself make little money.

Everyone has their stories;
Maybe everyone desires to earn;
But you cannot earn by working against the forum;
If the forum is to help you in some financial gains, then learn to respect the forum.
You cannot just join a forum without the norms and start earning.
Then, do you know that once banned you are not expected to return to the forum with another account?
You have to learn in order to earn.
@Lovesmayfamilis said you will regret of wasting your time, I think you are regretting it already.
You can visit this thread and learn, incase you might recommend this forum to your friends and loved ones. As for you, I can't determine your fate.
Some avoidable forum mistakes of Newbies

[BernyJB]

I learned about cryptocurrency when BTC was the only one, and was almost worthless. At the time, the "knowledge" was that BTC was a "scam". And the whole secrecy around it didn't help.
Ever since, I've seen countless people being scammed with BTC. Basically, a guy gets a computer and puts up a Marketplace ad (or Mercado Libre, in Argentina), and starts meeting people in a starbucks store. Later on, those people invariably come looking for him, and he's nowhere to be found.
So, last year, in about August, I think, a former coworker stated he was looking to get into crypto, and I advised him not to do it. On October 14^th, he showed me a screenshot of his BTC wallet. He had started a month earlier with $60, and now had $1156. That definitely got me thinking.
So I started investigating and getting courses at Udemy, and then I joined this forum.

The money thing I'm still trying to deal with...

[Lucius]

I first learned that there was Bitcoin sometime in late 2011 and early 2012, but I have to admit I didn’t understand at first what it was about, and most of the comments I read were mostly negative. I think it's a story shared by many, it was just a different time and there were a lot more people who were skeptical to say the least than those who actually knew what it was all about.

Really? I had no idea that once ban you ain't supposed to return to the forum.😩😩 Does that means this Account will also be ban even when I don't go against the rules of the forum??

25. Ban evasion (using or creating accounts while one of your accounts is banned) is not allowed.

This is the rule of the forum, but of course, it all comes down to whether someone will link account A with account B (which happened here), and then it is up to the moderators/admins to make the final decision. Rule number one, always read the forum rules before you start using the forum.

[noorman0]

I didn't doubt it from the start, but that's how the economy is in developing countries where not everyone has savings and long-term planning. When I was told about bitcoin, the first thing I understood was investing in a company that only the upper class could afford it and that required huge capital. I thought there are many ways to turn money as a regular income other than investing.

[Ceyflix-Rez]

I always love new ideas and new technologies but when I heard about crypto my mind just went against the idea, thinking what else is more important than Fiat lol 🤣🤣 I can say I have a very small mind and thoughts at the time but I'm glad I joined in 2017, still made some good ROI at the time

[Husires]

Most of them are due to uncertainty, inaccurate information, fear of learning something new, and losing or profiting quickly.
Most of these fears are uncertainty and ignorance, and therefore learning and practice will reduce these risks.
We do not forget that most of our relationship with money is limited, and even trading in the stock exchanges was organized and did not bear fluctuations of 10% or the huge increase in prices.

We all may not have known about cryptos, but I am sure that after knowing them, the probability of investing in them in the next three years will be the greatest.

[Stalker22]

I think I was a bit scary. I also like having a level of control over where my money goes and some things can be pretty risky. Even the first investments I made were in commodities because of their stability and the fact they have more chance of achieving something. So, when I saw the emergence of cryptocurrencies, I never thought that they would have any significant value or become a threat to fiat currency or the central banks.

What made me come around was the element of peer-to-peer transactions. Also, the fact that the technology has been improved over time and the development has been led by the crypto community itself.

[Darker45]

The same goes here. When I first heard of Bitcoin or crypto, it appeared more like a scam than a project with huge potentials. When I searched the keywords crypto and Bitcoin in the internet, the word scam was also oftentimes attached. There was simply too much smoke that I thought there must have been some fire. And I myself got scammed. So there was really some doubt at first. But then the more you hear about it and the more effort you exert in knowing what it really is, the more you will understand its real deal. Welcome!

[traderethereum]

I never heard anything about crypto back that year as I do not access the internet too often like others.
But when I browsed the internet, I found an article talking about bitcoin as something that people can trade at the exchange, but it was different than stock.
So I began to search what is bitcoin and fortunately, the faucet website came to me with many coins that I could get for free.
When I started knowing about bitcoin, I have not stopped myself from researching bitcoin and other altcoins because that makes me excited and want to have more and more info about crypto.
With help from the crypto faucet website, I can have many coins in my wallet so I started to trade it to have more bitcoin and that is what I did until now.

[libert19]

I'm hooked to crypto since came across it in 2013/14, however certainly could have made better investment decisions.

[Gorosden]

I was one of the unbelievers in crypto currency because of unknown reason, oh yea I used to compare crypto to the almighty bubble of dotcom years back but later in 2017 I started regretting my decisions, a friend gave me a BTC in 2016 I rejected it lol 🤣🤣🤣 

[sheenshane]

I was one of the unbelievers in crypto currency because of unknown reason, oh yea I used to compare crypto to the almighty bubble of dotcom years back but later in 2017 I started regretting my decisions, a friend gave me a BTC in 2016 I rejected it lol 🤣🤣🤣 

It seemed we had the same mindset when crypto was first introduced to me, I have an attitude of "to see is to believe" and years back when Bitcoin had an ATH in the last quarter of the year 2017, that's the time I've regret why I refuse to accept when there's someone willing to teach me at that time.
I was thinking of Ponzi scheme before but now, I've realized that I was wrong.

How much the amount of Bitcoin that you rejected? 

That's why I didn't force someone if they don't believe in crypto especially in Bitcoin, I let them realize themselves after seeing good news about Bitcoin which isn't hard to find proof about Bitcoin legitimacy and worldwide adoption.  In fact, it's now a very trend on the internet.

[Peanutswar]

I heard already the bitcoin and many people make an investment in it so I keep trying I make an investment just to have extra money, after a few weeks the profit I get is almost 70 USD and then I try more and make it as a reinvestment not all the time there's a profit on that hobby, after few months there's a bear market that day I experience the bitcoin falls to 3k USD and my hope is gone but of course, its my money and decision those risk gives me a lesson always know the market not all the time you can leave your assets and chill.