I am the poorest early adopter in the world

[Bizmark13]

Well I was able to get back into a couple of old hard drives which were gathering dust and it turns out I was actually quite a fan of Bitcoin back in 2011. Looking at my browsing history, the earliest references to Bitcoin are Google searches that I made in mid-2011. This was just after I learned about it from a forum I used to visit. Then I can see links to this forum (but back then it was called Bitcoin.org) and a site called We Use Coins.

I can see that I then searched the phrase "buy bitcoins" and then registered an account at Mt. Gox but didn't do anything after that. I think I made a MyBitcoin account too but I'm not sure. I also signed up to a site called Bitcoinplus which lets users generate bitcoins using their computers. Amazingly, when I entered my email address, I found out that my account is still there but because the hardware I used was very poor (I was mining on my laptop running Windows XP), I was only able to generate 75,000 satoshis:



Then, as I go further up my history, I see that I browsed these forums quite a bit. I can see references to laszlo's pizza, the person who got hacked and lost 25,000 BTC, a topic called "new real tangible physical bitcoin coin" which I'm guessing probably refers to Casascius coins, and the announcement thread for Namecoin. By the end of 2011, the references to Bitcoin start to fade and it seems I lost interest by 2012.

Technically speaking, I guess this makes me an early adopter. I was into bitcoins and even obtained some while the prices were still in the single digits. But with only 75,000 satoshis to show for it, I must be the poorest early adopter in the world.

[BitCoinNutJob]

Technically speaking, I guess this makes me an early adopter. I was into bitcoins and even obtained some while the prices were still in the single digits. But with only 75,000 satoshis to show for it, I must be the poorest early adopter in the world.

lol that sucks, i made mistakes not buying @ $50 myself.  If the price keeps dropping we all going to be poor again.

[Mellnik]

  Because Bitcoin was made to make early early early adopters as rich as possible.

[Lethn]

Pffft, I can beat that, I had 0.00BTC when it was around $50 I hadn't invested anything, it's only until recently that I've truly been getting into it and earning myself money because I was researching and learning about it, I should have taken part in the early sig campaigns though because they were paying out a lot back then I would have been making a lot of money if I had but I suspect the process is going to repeat itself this year so I'm going all in now.

[HarmonLi]

Wow, that's impressive. Yeah, sure it's sad that you didn't manage to acquire more BTC back then, when it was still 'easy'. But keep in mind: Even if you stayed on track, there's no guarantee that you wouldn't have lost your BTC due to some scam, bad trading decisions or whatnot. Maybe that's at least a small consolation

[Q7]

If the price falls further you will get your chance for redemption for your missed golden opportunity. Probably not buying at $10 per pop but considering current price at about 270, it's still considerably cheap

[--Encrypted--]

I know bitcoin since 2011, and just get started in 2014
So, i don't have any bitcoin

lol the first I've found out about bitcoin was on 2010, when I was looking for cough ways to make money online cough.  

at the time I thought it wasn't worth it.. imagine my surprise when I saw a news about BTC back in Sept. 2013.

[Bitcoinpro]

use it to empower yourself watch the blockchain see where your money goes and see how it comes back to you

the whole silkroad anonymous stuff was lies

[mindrust]

while %90 of the people are crying because they saw bitcoin just a blink before 1000$ moon (like me); it is really sad to see people aware of btc in 2011 and still crying.

don't be sad tho, i may be in the same position too. who would f*ckin believed if someone said "1 btc's price is going to be 1000$ one day" in 2011?

[GGGGG]

Don't worry, you'll have a second chance to get in when the price is at the bottom. Shouldn't take long the way it's going down. 

[Lethn]

All your Bitcoin are belong to me

[sandykho47]

Actually i know bitcoin since 2011
But at that time i don't understand what is bitcoin, so i just let it go

And after know bitcoin become huge success, i have so much regrets
So, i just telling everyone to know bitcoin so nobody will regret like me

[MataKhobRazi]

Buy now. Then just wait.

And come back in 2020, you will see people posting in this forum "sh*t, I heard about bitcoin in 2015 when it was only ~300$, and now it is more than X0'000$". etc. etc.

[Flashman]

I first heard of bitcoin about then, and remember finding it would take 183 days to generate a block on my best CPU, and it had a value of cents each. I am not quite sure if GPU mining had just started or not, and I didn't come across pools back then, so I "back burnered" the idea until I had better CPUs or whatever.

Then January 2013, I was in a "computer refurb" cycle and was going to have a media server and HTPC on a lot of the time, and thought, hey, let me look into that bitcoin thing again. Well, by then things had started to move, I found out about GPUs , I found out about ASICs and got my arse in gear.

Anyway, I managed to scrape together about a half coin mining on (slow) GPUs in early 2013, and ordered ASICs, which have made me a handful more.

However, since I came back to it with BTC at $30, I would have been FAR better off just buying coins at the time, I could have bought a hundred or two.

The consolation is I guess that mining feels more like taking part.

[Serge]

interesting, you had to browse some logs and histories to find out you were "quite a fan" =)

hey, maybe, if you dig deeper, you find out that you created it?

[gadman2]

Buy now. Then just wait.

And come back in 2020, you will see people posting in this forum "sh*t, I heard about bitcoin in 2015 when it was only ~300$, and now it is more than X0'000$". etc. etc.

Very unlikely in 5 years.

[Mewtwo]

Buy now. Then just wait.

And come back in 2020, you will see people posting in this forum "sh*t, I heard about bitcoin in 2015 when it was only ~300$, and now it is more than X0'000$". etc. etc.

I sometimes wish i could freeze myself for another 6 years to wake up to a lore valuable wallet.

[Daniel91]

In our life we make many good choices and many bad choices.
At least nobody is death in this story
You are still alive and bitcoin is alive to!
So, forget all your negative feelings, do something else, more constructive at the moment and keep eye on the value of bitcoin.
When bitcoin rise again, sell your bitcoin.
It may took more time now than first time but eventually you will earn good money, so don't worry to much about it!

[Omikifuse]

At least you just sign uped in Gox then did nothing.

Some people borrowed money or invested personal savings and hold them in Gox, and lost them all.

No profit but no loss is not as bad as you might think

[countryfree]

You shouldn't have tried mining at all. Using a few faucets back then would have brought you more BTC. They were the good old days! I've missed several opportunities too, it happens to us all.