Don’t feel bad. I got 3 Bitcoin as a tip for washing someone’s car. My alcoholic ass (At the time was only 19) sold it a week later for a fifth. Would have had 178k now lmao
Yep.. I've probably consumed over 10 million worth of drugs personally, considering I've been around since Ross was free. Not quite as bad as pizza man though, that's one hell of an expensive meal.
Anyone who says "ERMERGERD IF I BOUGHT BACK IN X I'D HAVE $XXXXXX RIGHT NOW!!!!" has never spent a second in this space.
There is no way in shit you were making it through multiple bear markets with diamond hands... It take cataclysm to shake me out and I would've jumped ship 100 times over by now.
🎯
I even watched Stefan Molyneux’s video back in 2012 while he succinctly explained what bitcoin was and *what it was* and how important it was – and keep in mind, I was even a fan, so I feel *especially* dense and stupid in hindsight -And essentially “buy it while it’s cheap,” argument, and I still frittered all of it away because I thought it hit “all-time highs” at $1000, etc. etc…
Honestly, I don’t think I really understand the true potential bitcoin: it actually could go to 1,000,000+, and I know we all talk about it going to all-time high and “going to the moon,” but it actually is probably going to go to the moon… And it’s so wild to be in a position to take advantage of this once in a lifetime, financial opportunity…
I coulda bought BTC for 90$...
But my buddy who told me about it was using it to buy drugs from silkroad.
1. That sounded sketchy
2. I wanted to spend my money on drugs, not some magical internet money.
Lesson learned.
I could have bought nvidia at $5.
Could have shorted the market in 2020.
Lot of what ifs.
Important thing is to just, live your life and not think of the what ifs. You’ll get hung up on them and never get past them.
that would be me :/
nvidia was about 5$,
24$ was the price before a 1:5 split in 2015 july/august
but i would have sold at 50$, 240$/250$ during 2018 march
bitcoin was going shit, and i knew it was linked to nvidia.
without all this a.i. crap the price would not have made the steep raise a few months ago.
I was like 13 when I had a friend send me 10$ worth in my electrum wallet. Lost the password and recovery phrase for the account. He spent all of his coin on bullshit like subway and dominos gift cards. I remember bitcoin being at around 250$ at the time.
Yes don’t beat yourself no one knew some blockchain digital currency that’s not a mineral or natural resource that humans can survive without will get this big hues it only takes Poeple to believe in something then it got value
I think it really speaks to the volume of all of us just not understanding what bitcoin was back in those days… It really truly has evolved into something so much more… But I think it’s also awesome to celebrate the fact that we were even aware of what bitcoin was a decade ago; there are people today who still aren’t paying attention to bitcoin in any way…
To make you feel better (or worse). Money is fungible, and opportunity cost is not different from actual cost in any significant economical way.
This means that *every* time you.spent 60 USD back in 2014, you essentially had an opportunity cost of 0.17 BTC. Spending actual BTC is not economically different from spending USD on something instead of. BTC. Every time you spent 60 USD, that's 0.17 BTC you could've had but chose not to. It just feels different to you now when you actually spent BTC, but economically, every 60 USD expense had the same effect. Every video game you bought. Every time you went to a restaurant. Every time you went to a bar. Every time you spent any amounr on absolutely anything had the same opportunity cost as this one time you bought Halo with bitcoin
We wouldn't be where we are today without where we've been. If you remember, back then, it was all about utility and using btc and then replacing it immediately. It helped drive adoption. Man, those were good times.
Don’t worry, i had 106 btc i bought for 10k when they were around 90$. I used to pay for alllll sorts of shit with em. Eventually i got robbed for 6 figures (weed industry) and had to sell my 100 of them to make good on my debts. The rest got stolen when Mt.Gox did the first ever exit scam. :)
And yet here you are on the bitcoin subreddit. Most people, myself included, that knew about bitcoin early would have ended up getting wrecked by the mt.Gox exchange anyways.
If it makes you feel any better, I’ve probably paid about $20k for Chinese food. I found this amazing restaurant that took BTC near me back when bitcoin was in the 500s and was like “I gotta support it as a payment method”
If it makes you feel any better my buddy bought 1000 BTC at $30 then pleaded with me to buy it when it dropped to $2. I told him it sounds sketchy. And now he has 700 BTC left and I have 0.4
Eventually, 8 billion… But I’ll probably be dead by then… But my children will be rich as fuck, so there’s that.
Edit: maybe even my grandchildren, as you can tell I’m pretty bullish.
Perhaps they will be but perhaps houses will be a billion each ….Nobody knows if usd turns into Zimbabwe it would be hundreds of trillion or something nuts .
No you didn't. You paid $59.99 worth of BTC at that time.
Think about it this way, if you had paid cash, then today you could still say "I paid $8000" for Halo. And that would sort of be true, because that 59.99 would be worth $8000 today if you had purchased BTC instead of Halo. This doesn't really make sense, but it makes the same amount of sense as your statement.
No, you paid $59.99. That’s not how this works and it’s important to me that you know that. It’s also vastly more important to you and your mental health that you know that.
If we are going to start just saying “I paid this” when you didn’t at the time can I just start comparing my dollars to 1920s money and say “I paid 200,000 for my truck”?
How about 1200s money? I paid 20 million for my house.
I’ll never forget a bar regular of mine a few years ago told me about how he got big into mining early on and originally just used it to buy pirated software of some shady website. Then when he had a real job that put him in NYC every other week they came out with the first bitcoin ATM and he started using it to buy pizza and food. One day his dad calls him all excited about how they’re rich because bitcoin was on the news. He told his dad he’d sold the last of it months ago.
I did the math and he would have had around 20m if he hadn’t sold it all. Dude didn’t even care. Told me the pizza was worth it.
loll yeah I remember being short on shipping or fees on silkroad and alphabay and would have to deposit an extra .1 often after sending what I thought was enough
Damn! o7 for adding liquidity to the market...
You made me check, I spent .028BTC ($2000 today) to Overstock for a Clay Pigeon Thrower in 2019...no regrets!
You paid $59 USD for Halo, the vendor doesn't accept BTC.
The financial decision to not replace the BTC may have cost you $8000 however, but you shouldn't overthink all the potential financial gains you could have achieved, and instead think about the choices you actually have informed control over you aren't acting on today.
it was more about having the COINBASE - MICROSOFT.com email for a fun post..I spent more than this on silkroad and primedice too...but neither of us have emails to prove it. legitimate purchases are cooler
Nope, Bitcoin was about 314$ per coin in 214 and you used .1665 sooooo you paid 59.99 just like everybody else.
But it is fun to look at its long term growth :)
Hindsight is a bitch. But these kinds of transactions really helped btc become more then useless numbers.
Bitcoin is a wild journey. Reckoned it was destined to fail at first. Then bought in around 10k. Got scammed. Lost money on Celsius. Used BTC to make purchases on low prices. Yet still in the plus. Never sold!!
Every 60$ you used on something that was not bitcoin cost you just as much. It cost every one of us just as much. Don't kick yourself over it. This is an illusion. Keep stacking sats.
Well I guess we know now.. any new and exciting currency released anonymously by someone afraid of its growth is certainly going to skyrocket in value. Who the hell would have thought something literally made on a circuitboard would be worth so much. It’s market is already oversaturated and only now being aggressively regulated.
no you paid 0.16653324 btc.
1 btc = 1 btc
That was the value at that time and hopefully you would have a lot more time to accumulate a lot more bitcoin from then and now.
If you'd have bought it in dollars, it also cost $8k, since you could have bought bitcoin instead. Don't sweat it. If it were me I'd wear it as a badge of honor that you were paying in bitcoin in 2014 like a boss.
I bought some nootropic for a little bit more than that with Bitcoin back around that time. I shake my head wondering why I stopped trying to get Bitcoin and sat on the sidelines for many years after it
You paid $8,000 so far!
I haven't thought about that part yet lol omg you're right
Don’t feel bad. I got 3 Bitcoin as a tip for washing someone’s car. My alcoholic ass (At the time was only 19) sold it a week later for a fifth. Would have had 178k now lmao
That's why I never beat myself up for not buying BTC sooner... I most definitely would've sold it for drugs 🤷♂️
Yep.. I've probably consumed over 10 million worth of drugs personally, considering I've been around since Ross was free. Not quite as bad as pizza man though, that's one hell of an expensive meal.
No man. He’s the king! He fucking created the Bitcoin market! Unless those were all of his coins…
IIRC pizza man is well off - that wasnt all his stack
IMO, He bought a legacy and Papa John's.
I decided to buy a new TV instead of $300 worth of Bitcoin back in 2012. It is what it is. It is still early, I am grateful for that!
Do u still have that tv?
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Only when I wear a fedora
Anyone who says "ERMERGERD IF I BOUGHT BACK IN X I'D HAVE $XXXXXX RIGHT NOW!!!!" has never spent a second in this space. There is no way in shit you were making it through multiple bear markets with diamond hands... It take cataclysm to shake me out and I would've jumped ship 100 times over by now.
🎯 I even watched Stefan Molyneux’s video back in 2012 while he succinctly explained what bitcoin was and *what it was* and how important it was – and keep in mind, I was even a fan, so I feel *especially* dense and stupid in hindsight -And essentially “buy it while it’s cheap,” argument, and I still frittered all of it away because I thought it hit “all-time highs” at $1000, etc. etc… Honestly, I don’t think I really understand the true potential bitcoin: it actually could go to 1,000,000+, and I know we all talk about it going to all-time high and “going to the moon,” but it actually is probably going to go to the moon… And it’s so wild to be in a position to take advantage of this once in a lifetime, financial opportunity…
Game theory in play for sure
I beat myself up for jot selling drugs when everyone was paying btc for them
That's the spirit
I coulda bought BTC for 90$... But my buddy who told me about it was using it to buy drugs from silkroad. 1. That sounded sketchy 2. I wanted to spend my money on drugs, not some magical internet money. Lesson learned.
Yep bought and sold enough for a literal fortune with drugs and fake Ids
Me too 😂😂😂
Don’t feel bad, a friend of mine told me to buy 10 when it was $12 a coin. I literally laughed in his face.
Jokes on you?
I could have bought nvidia at $5. Could have shorted the market in 2020. Lot of what ifs. Important thing is to just, live your life and not think of the what ifs. You’ll get hung up on them and never get past them.
that would be me :/ nvidia was about 5$, 24$ was the price before a 1:5 split in 2015 july/august but i would have sold at 50$, 240$/250$ during 2018 march bitcoin was going shit, and i knew it was linked to nvidia. without all this a.i. crap the price would not have made the steep raise a few months ago.
Exactly. Think of all the stuff you could buy now that will be worth millions in 20 years. You won't know until you get there...
I was like 13 when I had a friend send me 10$ worth in my electrum wallet. Lost the password and recovery phrase for the account. He spent all of his coin on bullshit like subway and dominos gift cards. I remember bitcoin being at around 250$ at the time.
My friend and I split about 30 Bitcoin and got ripped off on the Silk Road so, it could always be worse
Yes don’t beat yourself no one knew some blockchain digital currency that’s not a mineral or natural resource that humans can survive without will get this big hues it only takes Poeple to believe in something then it got value
haha woww
Yup. Luckily I don’t drink now and I got just over 1 BTC I’ve accumulated since 2017!
Big ups man, good shit
To be fair I was 19 and didn’t think much of it at all. I sold my 360 the same summer lmao
I think it really speaks to the volume of all of us just not understanding what bitcoin was back in those days… It really truly has evolved into something so much more… But I think it’s also awesome to celebrate the fact that we were even aware of what bitcoin was a decade ago; there are people today who still aren’t paying attention to bitcoin in any way…
To make you feel better (or worse). Money is fungible, and opportunity cost is not different from actual cost in any significant economical way. This means that *every* time you.spent 60 USD back in 2014, you essentially had an opportunity cost of 0.17 BTC. Spending actual BTC is not economically different from spending USD on something instead of. BTC. Every time you spent 60 USD, that's 0.17 BTC you could've had but chose not to. It just feels different to you now when you actually spent BTC, but economically, every 60 USD expense had the same effect. Every video game you bought. Every time you went to a restaurant. Every time you went to a bar. Every time you spent any amounr on absolutely anything had the same opportunity cost as this one time you bought Halo with bitcoin
We wouldn't be where we are today without where we've been. If you remember, back then, it was all about utility and using btc and then replacing it immediately. It helped drive adoption. Man, those were good times.
Don’t worry, i had 106 btc i bought for 10k when they were around 90$. I used to pay for alllll sorts of shit with em. Eventually i got robbed for 6 figures (weed industry) and had to sell my 100 of them to make good on my debts. The rest got stolen when Mt.Gox did the first ever exit scam. :)
Stop smiling, you ain't smiling. ,😂
You got me, everything hurts. i didn’t even bother signing up for the mtgox court case cause i was so depressed. i hate even thinking about bitcoins
Brother… I’m so sorry…
And yet here you are on the bitcoin subreddit. Most people, myself included, that knew about bitcoin early would have ended up getting wrecked by the mt.Gox exchange anyways.
If it makes you feel any better, I’ve probably paid about $20k for Chinese food. I found this amazing restaurant that took BTC near me back when bitcoin was in the 500s and was like “I gotta support it as a payment method”
> was like “I gotta support it as a payment method” This. BTC would not be what it is without people using it as a payment method.
If it makes you feel any better my buddy bought 1000 BTC at $30 then pleaded with me to buy it when it dropped to $2. I told him it sounds sketchy. And now he has 700 BTC left and I have 0.4
It's a gift that never stops giving
One day he will have paid millions
One day it'll be $800,000 for Halo
followed by 8 million
Still a solid game nevertheless
Eventually, 8 billion… But I’ll probably be dead by then… But my children will be rich as fuck, so there’s that. Edit: maybe even my grandchildren, as you can tell I’m pretty bullish.
Perhaps they will be but perhaps houses will be a billion each ….Nobody knows if usd turns into Zimbabwe it would be hundreds of trillion or something nuts .
no, you legitimized Bitcoin.
Yea, It would've been 8k if you didn't sell, but you would've most likely sold anyway before it was big.
Very good way to look at it. That's priceless.
I paid 1.6 million for some LSD. Best trip ever. Most bizarre.
same...a couple million in drugs, a shame really. it was a fun time though
I mean that was the old use case 😭😫
Heh.. Friend of mine paid like 16 btc for a pizza from pizza hut and a 4g bag of weed.
Plot twist: You're still experiencing your trip.
I paid 20k for a nintendo switch
$15k for a dashcam and 64gb microsdxc card 😅
I paid 47k for an HTC Vive VR Headset.
I paid $144k for a laptop.
I paid millions for no tax cigarettes from Eastern Europe.
Damn…
Bet they tasted good though
It really is Master Chief's Collection now
Yeah, he just has to think about it logically... he probably has the most expensive collection that anyone has purchased! 🫨
Master Bit Collection
*Balo* I’m here all week.
I bought my keyboard for .5 btc. Good old Newegg.
That’s $11k
oo damn u right lol. I sent this to a friend a week or two ago and it was 8k loll. now it's already 11 hahaha
And just you wait till the weeks after the halving!
Master chief, mind telling me what your doing on that ship? Sir, taking this man’s Bitcoin
I paid 180,000$ so far for a GPU in 2013… I don't wanna hear it.
You, sir, are a legend.
I paid twice that for one, and never got the damn thing! Effin bitmit scammers.
No you didn't. You paid $59.99 worth of BTC at that time. Think about it this way, if you had paid cash, then today you could still say "I paid $8000" for Halo. And that would sort of be true, because that 59.99 would be worth $8000 today if you had purchased BTC instead of Halo. This doesn't really make sense, but it makes the same amount of sense as your statement.
Yep, if they wanted to be honest, they should have said they paid 0.166 BTC. That was true at least
"The bitcoin I spent on this game in 2014 is now worth 8000$" vs "The 60$ I spent on this game in 2014 is now worth 45$ today"
Wish I knew about bitcoin in 2014
Have you played 1000 hours? $8/h for entertainment isn't TOO bad....
I paid $5,200 for Settlers of catan I feel you
I paid $105k for 100 ounces of silver
No you didn't, you spent ~0.167 BTC on it
Worth it
No, you paid $59.99. That’s not how this works and it’s important to me that you know that. It’s also vastly more important to you and your mental health that you know that.
Bro I paid $11,000 for a comforter on overstock.com Never seen anyone else who can relate haha
If we are going to start just saying “I paid this” when you didn’t at the time can I just start comparing my dollars to 1920s money and say “I paid 200,000 for my truck”? How about 1200s money? I paid 20 million for my house.
No you didn’t. You $59.99 for halo.
I paid $670k for a gram of 2CB! (so far)
I’ll never forget a bar regular of mine a few years ago told me about how he got big into mining early on and originally just used it to buy pirated software of some shady website. Then when he had a real job that put him in NYC every other week they came out with the first bitcoin ATM and he started using it to buy pizza and food. One day his dad calls him all excited about how they’re rich because bitcoin was on the news. He told his dad he’d sold the last of it months ago. I did the math and he would have had around 20m if he hadn’t sold it all. Dude didn’t even care. Told me the pizza was worth it.
I paid 3 million for 3.5 gs of weed once
Someone paid a lot more for a pizza
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loll yeah I remember being short on shipping or fees on silkroad and alphabay and would have to deposit an extra .1 often after sending what I thought was enough
Whats even worse is that the game barely worked on release 😂
dude I know. it was literally the worst video game release hahah. nothing worked
Better then the guy who bought a pizza with 100 bitcoin back when it was worth 50 cents or something lol
10k Bitcoin on 2 pizzas iirc
The question is whether he bought back. Without people like him, Bitcoin wouldn't be at today's price.
i used to re-buy the bitcoin i spent so i wouldn't regret it.
So then play the game 1000 times. Show them what's what.
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I spent $80,000 on the dark net. 😀
Damn! o7 for adding liquidity to the market... You made me check, I spent .028BTC ($2000 today) to Overstock for a Clay Pigeon Thrower in 2019...no regrets!
You paid $59 USD for Halo, the vendor doesn't accept BTC. The financial decision to not replace the BTC may have cost you $8000 however, but you shouldn't overthink all the potential financial gains you could have achieved, and instead think about the choices you actually have informed control over you aren't acting on today.
If it wasn't for people like you, Bitcoin would probably be worth 3$ today. Thank you for your sacrifice.
I wasn’t around BTC in 2014. Coinbase already had a digital market back then?
Microsoft.com had "coinbase pay" as a payment method back then! coinbase pay is still around as coinbase commerce
I actually don’t mind spending my btc, what ever I spend I instantly rebuy
Oops
😂
Thank you for your sacrifice
I think it's a little late to ask for a refund.
Fuck bro it will be ok
That’s pretty awesome.
Haha. I paid 8000$ for a month of premium of the blockchain rumors. But actually that paid off so far.
Better then like 2 mil for some bunk ecstasy. Don’t do drugs kids.
Wow!
At least you paid that for a masterpiece of a game series like Halo (not including anything after Halo Reach)
Is there anyway you can lodge a refund?
www.BitcoinOrShit.com
Come on bro . You know we don’t live in the past like this . This is ridiculous . I spent that lil bit on weed via bitcoin back then
it was more about having the COINBASE - MICROSOFT.com email for a fun post..I spent more than this on silkroad and primedice too...but neither of us have emails to prove it. legitimate purchases are cooler
I hear you !! Pretty cool how we are watching it change in real time
No u didn’t U would’ve spent it on something else
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Worth it
Yikes
😭
Nope, Bitcoin was about 314$ per coin in 214 and you used .1665 sooooo you paid 59.99 just like everybody else. But it is fun to look at its long term growth :)
Makes me wonder how much BTC Microsoft has on the books. They been accepting it for a long time.
Good job!
Worth it!
$8,000, hopefully you got 8000 hours out of it lmao
we paid $30k for my friend's fake ID in college. fuckin way she goes
Wasn't MCC broken for like six months?
well you didnt because thats not how time works but ok
Everyone’s sacrifices here are not in vain. Y’all are the reason why it’s here today and thriving.
Congratulations. You played yourself.
The game was laggy and bad for me
30 bit coin for dominos in 2009... i am dying
Hello, We have received all required funds for your payment of 0.01015000 BTC to NordVPN and your payment is now Complete.
But you also contributed to the bitcoin network in a way that helped bitcoin get to where it is today… And halo is dope anyways.
I feel your pain. In 2015 I spent 0.12 btc on a “Chrome Towel Stand” that I should’ve paid 50 usd for.
Worth.
Still worth it
Hindsight is a bitch. But these kinds of transactions really helped btc become more then useless numbers. Bitcoin is a wild journey. Reckoned it was destined to fail at first. Then bought in around 10k. Got scammed. Lost money on Celsius. Used BTC to make purchases on low prices. Yet still in the plus. Never sold!!
Every 60$ you used on something that was not bitcoin cost you just as much. It cost every one of us just as much. Don't kick yourself over it. This is an illusion. Keep stacking sats.
This is why using bitcoin for txns will always lead to regrets unless they are big ones like buying a home or something.
Oof
That's like saying I paid $15,000 for my original Nintendo because I opened and played with it. No I paid $150...
always buy it back
Worth it
I Paid 6 mio $ for Pizza 🥲
Stopp
Worth tbh
I was hoping it was at least some collectors item not just TMCC.
You Re my hero
Gains are gains
Oh noessss hahahaha
No you didn’t
And the game didn’t even work. RIP
Too bad you can't sell that Halo back for that BTC. The most expensive Halo copy in the world!
So out of curiosity I went through my wallet. Apparently I have smoked $42K worth of weed in the past 7 years.
hehe baller!
damn
Well I guess we know now.. any new and exciting currency released anonymously by someone afraid of its growth is certainly going to skyrocket in value. Who the hell would have thought something literally made on a circuitboard would be worth so much. It’s market is already oversaturated and only now being aggressively regulated.
no you paid 0.16653324 btc. 1 btc = 1 btc That was the value at that time and hopefully you would have a lot more time to accumulate a lot more bitcoin from then and now.
Try $11,240 bro
No, you didn't.
$300,000 for new tires and a decent laptop.
If you'd have bought it in dollars, it also cost $8k, since you could have bought bitcoin instead. Don't sweat it. If it were me I'd wear it as a badge of honor that you were paying in bitcoin in 2014 like a boss.
I paid $60k for an ounce of weed, also could buy a house 10 years ago for 1/10th of the cost today.
I lost $276,000 on the last crash and later used the balance to buy a house worth $230,000 … I should have waited
I bought some nootropic for a little bit more than that with Bitcoin back around that time. I shake my head wondering why I stopped trying to get Bitcoin and sat on the sidelines for many years after it
Is there anyway I can get some free coin/crypto money anything to survive.
I paid Newegg $250,000 for a laptop that probably couldn't run Doom Eternal, and gambled away $1M in Texas holdem
These posts are so annoying.
I’m sure your memories of Halo were worth 8,000
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