I was there 3000 years ago during the initial kickstarter and got taken in by the grift for the $5 starter ship.
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Your crime is your punishment :hahaha:
Ha ha, imagine being wrong about something in the past. Couldn’t be me.
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That’s part of the scam I suppose, makes it a lot easier to con someone into dropping money into this shit if there were folks who made money with it some time in the past.
Bitcoin wasn’t a scam, it was created by an actual ideologically driven AnCap and for years the main bitcoin peddlers were people who genuinely believed in it as the currency of the future. It wasn’t until Ethereum that the floodgates opened and it became scams all the way down.
Bitcoin is still inefficient and will never replace centralized currency, but I think it was created by someone who genuinely thought it would be a good thing for the world. It wasn’t, of course, because AnCap beliefs are simply wrong, but I do think it was supposed to be a sincere effort.
Chances are if you were in early enough to get rich from it, you would have been one of the people taken by the early hacks like Mt Gox or have them on a hard drive you forgot about
I wonder how many coins have been taken out of circulation by hardware loss/failure? It’s gotta be a significant number.
lol I had a hundred of them in college when they were worth pennies or a few dollars. at the end of the school year, we scrapped that computer for parts and I’m pretty sure the hard drive went to a landfill. the coins were a novelty and I was pretty sure they wouldn’t replace money so I didn’t sweat it. I did sweat when the coins went north of 20k, though. slightly more hoarder tendencies and I’d have had “never work again” money.
I’m still sitting on a fifth of a bitcoin that I got for free. It was worth $12k at one point, no idea why I didn’t sell it then. Not rich enough to not need to work, but still a good bonus.
I actually had a fourth but I cashed some of it in 2018 to buy a Switch and some games.
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tbf there’s at least $5 worth of gameplay out there already. You didn’t fall for the scam like some people. I’m assuming you got you two candy bars plus tax worths of SC
Was it? I honesty don’t even remember, maybe I just bought a skin or maybe I am just trying to forget getting milked for $50.
At least I knew bitcoin was a scam from the start but then I’d be fuckoff rich if I’d mined a couple coins when I learned about it extremely early on :agony-minion:
