Haha, Im doing just fine thanks.
Ive been here since 2011 (not with this account, forgot my old one), BTC was about 60c when I first noticed it. - I remember "OMG! Bitcoin has achieved *parity with the US$ !11!",
I mined about a half a coin with my own video card (back when that was possible and the cuda miner software client first came out) just to have actually mined my own. Ive even downloaded and perused the Bitcoin source code myself, just to have a look around a get a feel for it, Im only average at C code, but I can read it well enough to understand whats going on. I do Python and Assembly normally.
I've quietly sat through the run ups and drop backs to $3, $12, $32, $90, $266, $1200 and gradually increased my stash whenever I had some spare cash to punt on a risky long shot, but one with a practically infinite upside and a limited downside.
Ive bought quite a bit of stuff with Bitcoin, using prepaid VISA cards for anything I couldnt pay for directly in BTC, and on occasion even managed to buy a card loaded with $ when the BTC was high.
I couldnt resist temptaion, and sold a very small percentage when they were just over $1000, and made my total investment back many times over.
And all throughout that time, I have seen more bears, trolls and flat out idiots come and go than you would believe. I remember when Proudhon was *the uber-bear in here, and saying how ridiculously overvalued BTC was at $10, and that his analysis was that bitcoin was really worth about a dollar or so. Where's he today ?
So, Doomsayers and Chicken Littles and other johnny-come-lately's. Flap your wings, cluck and scream, and run around in circles all you like, its mere entertainment to me,
Bitcoin isnt a get-rich-quick scheme, any more than buying Shares in Microsoft was in 1986 (I was there).. I see it as investing in Technology that will hopefully (likely) change the world for the better. It might take 10 or 20 years, who knows?
But Fiat currencies *all have one thing in common. they *ALL eventually FAIL. Bitcoin is something *new. It might succeeed, it might not,.. I *DO know that there is nothing with more potential promise out there right now. This is the best new e-money tech that has come along in ages. Its worth a punt, and some dedicated support, not a quick pump'n'dump to try and squeeze out a little cash like most of you clowns are trying to do with it.
So Cluck away Chickens, those with vision, understanding and persistence will always triumph in the end.
