In the summer of 2011 I spent my life savings on Bitcoins. Took me about two years of following the ins and outs of the community before taking the plunge.
Shortly thereafter I lost my job and had to do a fire sale of everything to keep pushing and living in a city that is now more expensive than New York City.
Back then, to me, bitcoins were worthless.
I couldn't pay rent, my landlord laughed.
I couldn't buy food, no one even heard of it.
It was still too nerdy, showing people a long chain of non-sensical numbers and letters didn't elicit confidence that I am a sane enough person to not pay for goods and services with dollar bills.
So I decided to sell all of my bitcoins.
The exchange I bought the coins from went bankrupt but the operators were decent enough to at least cut a check for me. A year later.
But I could have been a millionaire. Could have been somebody!
Then again, when I think about it, really think about it I missed out on:
- first dot com boom
- first round of war profiteering
- housing market boom
- second internet boom
- second round of war profiteering
- the forex boom
- the gold boom
- AAPL
- GOOG
To quote the greatest warrior-poet of our generation, Kanye West: Now everything I'm not, made me everything I am.
Shortly thereafter I lost my job and had to do a fire sale of everything to keep pushing and living in a city that is now more expensive than New York City.
Back then, to me, bitcoins were worthless.
I couldn't pay rent, my landlord laughed.
I couldn't buy food, no one even heard of it.
It was still too nerdy, showing people a long chain of non-sensical numbers and letters didn't elicit confidence that I am a sane enough person to not pay for goods and services with dollar bills.
So I decided to sell all of my bitcoins.
The exchange I bought the coins from went bankrupt but the operators were decent enough to at least cut a check for me. A year later.
But I could have been a millionaire. Could have been somebody!
Then again, when I think about it, really think about it I missed out on:
- first dot com boom
- first round of war profiteering
- housing market boom
- second internet boom
- second round of war profiteering
- the forex boom
- the gold boom
- AAPL
- GOOG
To quote the greatest warrior-poet of our generation, Kanye West: Now everything I'm not, made me everything I am.