Why does losing ~10,000 satoshis feel so bad?

[minerpumpkin]

I get the same feeling too. Bitcoin feels like it is worth a lot more than its equivalent value in fiat. When you loose a dollar, it's no big deal, but when you loose 0.001btc, it feels like $10.

I'd actually subscribe to the complete opposite of that claim. I think many people wouldn't care if they lost some BTC. Bitcoin is still in its infancy and therefor many people still just have fun using it for the sake of just using it. Also that many zeros behind the decimal point make it look rather shabby, even though it isn't 

[acs267]

Because it's value could change in the near future, possibly not even being less than a penny. And, almost any amount of Bitcoin is still Bitcoin. Thus could be sold for currency, or money.

[ranochigo]

Hi all, faucets suck. How can i make more bitcoin? only buy? 

Look around the forum, post and learn somethings. When you reach member status, join a signature campaign, you can easily post constructive posts as you can advice people better. Your time also wouldn't be wasted.

[Sindelar1938]

Probably because some of us believe that 12k satoshis could be worth 1m satoshis at some point....

[KimNam]

forget about faucet and BTC, you earn only 10000 satoshi for three days and you'll feel so bad if you lose it in just one bet
i earn 20000-30000 satoshi / day form my referrals, and just gamble it away for 3x-4x profit
if i loose, i'm not feel bad, since i didn't waste my time t earn it

[ranochigo]

forget about faucet and BTC, you earn only 10000 satoshi for three days and you'll feel so bad if you lose it in just one bet
i earn 20000-30000 satoshi / day form my referrals, and just gamble it away for 3x-4x profit
if i loose, i'm not feel bad, since i didn't waste my time t earn it

Not many people can have that much active referrals, you would need a lot of time and planning to get so much referrals.

[MelodyRowell]

forget about faucet and BTC, you earn only 10000 satoshi for three days and you'll feel so bad if you lose it in just one bet
i earn 20000-30000 satoshi / day form my referrals, and just gamble it away for 3x-4x profit
if i loose, i'm not feel bad, since i didn't waste my time t earn it

Even 20000-30000 satoshi is really little, I won't feel a thing even if it was hard work from faucets..

[FUR11]

Because it's value could change in the near future, possibly not even being less than a penny. And, almost any amount of Bitcoin is still Bitcoin. Thus could be sold for currency, or money.

It could be worth basically every imaginable value in the future. 10000 Satoshis could buy you a car or not even a single cent. It only makes sense to value the Bitcoin at their respective point in time. That Pizza for a couple thousand BTC could of course buy you a house today, but that's not how it works!

[KimNam]

Not many people can have that much active referrals, you would need a lot of time and planning to get so much referrals.

yeah i need a lot time to promote it few months ago
when I found out about bitcoin

Even 20000-30000 satoshi is really little, I won't feel a thing even if it was hard work from faucets..

yeah agree, that's why i just bet it away, just for fun 
faucet is really wasting time

[Yakamoto]

Not many people can have that much active referrals, you would need a lot of time and planning to get so much referrals.

yeah i need a lot time to promote it few months ago
when I found out about bitcoin

Even 20000-30000 satoshi is really little, I won't feel a thing even if it was hard work from faucets..

yeah agree, that's why i just bet it away, just for fun 
faucet is really wasting time

Faucets are a waste of time, I think that's been confirmed now.

I lost $2.50 while trading some NXT, it felt kind of bad, but not like heart-breaking bad. I can easily get what I lost on it, thanks to signature campaigns.

I made about $0.30 from faucets (Lots of faucets) over the course of a month when I was first starting out, felt good to have some BTC but now it feels just like a waste of time.

Betting away faucet money is fun though, you don't ignore that...