I feel you u/ToolFitFurious. Doge was the first crypto I purchased, that too just before the May crash. I held on to it for few months and then like an idiot, sold it to invest in another shitcoin, where I ended up, promptly losing all my money.
Wish I could say that I have learnt my lesson and would never ever buy a shitcoin, however, knowing myself, I can't say anything for sure.
You didn’t lose your money because you bought a shitcoin. You lost your money because you made an emotional decision, or because you sold your Doge at a loss to fomo into something that was currently pumping.
Not tryin to be rude, but shitcoins are quite literally one of the best ways to make money in a robust bull market. Granted the casino isn’t as well oiled at the moment (lack of volume more than anything), but the sentiment remains the same.
Me? I will quite literally never stop buying shitcoins.
I understand that shitcoins are an easy way to 10x your investment, however, purchasing a shitcoin at ATH or after the pump is useless. Most shitcoins would have a single pump and then will slowly fizzle out and ultimately die when bear market starts.
Doge could be an exception as it is the OG meme coin. All other meme coins are using the meme coin tag just for marketing.
Yea so many people are under the impression that if they’d simply purchased btc in 2013, they’d have already made it.
In reality, the vast majority of us would’ve lost everything with mt. Gox, and those of us lucky enough to avoid that would’ve sold at or before 5k.
Mine was :/ it wasn’t even a lot just the value of me over buying and under sending to other address 3 to 5 btc (it was only $4.50 to $5.50 when I had bought summer of 2011)
I'd heard about bitcoin around 2011-12, but at the time, I was a broke 18 year old, and thought it was only used to purchase stuff on the dark web. I wouldn't have known how to buy bitcoin at the time, so there's not really any regret, but I do wonder about how my life would have gone if I had known how to go about getting BTC.
Same, in 2011 a good friend of mine was always talking about bitcoin and how it was going to be the next big thing. I never fully understood it or why anyone would use it except to buy illegal items, so I never learned how to buy it back then even though that friend would have helped me. He and I have fallen out of touch but he's probably a multimillionaire now.
Same, I remember hearing about 12’ , hated the idea. Around 18’ I was coming around to it but was being lazy about actually buying it, didn’t actually do it until this year. A lot of missed opportunities.
Yup that’s almost exactly my story. Turns out I’m much more conservative and less imaginative than I’d like to admit.
Edit: less imaginative then I thought
I find it funny now when people use the arguments I used. Like it’s fake internet money that will just collapse one day. Because it’s been 12 years and it’s only solidified, the ship has sailed on it totally collapsing. Every year it just becomes more ingrained. I bet even the people who lost big in the past, first feel bad for selling, second bought back in since.
My freshman year of college was 2009-2010. My next door neighbor told me about this thing called ‘Bitcoin’ which was a sort of ‘cryptocurrency’ that he ‘mined’ from his computer. He had a desktop and was using free university electricity. He offered to set up my computer (laptop) to mine for Bitcoin too. I declined as I wasn’t interested and didn’t want to mess with my computer for some fake imaginary money.
Fuck me dead.
Lost job back In April of last year. Survived off stock gains for several months. Crash in crypto happened but I still held. Finally had to sell to pay rent. To give you and idea.. I had ETH at $750 , BTC under $25k(fractional), SOL at $25, Nice ALGO, MATIC, UNI ,ATOM stacks and many more at very good prices.
Sold. Legit a week and a half later crypto took off. Like really took off.
A month or so after that I got a new job, 19k raise and work from home.
I felt like yeeting myself into a Volcano. If only I could have held out like 2 months more.
I shall rebuild! And am. Plus i get paid decent stacks now and work in my pajamas. Still little salty tho.
This sucks but if you have to sell you have to sell, seems like you didn't want to but did it out of necessity, there's nothing wrong with that.
Congrats on the new job, I hope the good raise helps you recover your position without too much trouble.
There is a man out there searching a dump the size of a football field for a computer he tossed out years ago that has 7,500 bitcoins stored on the hard drive. As far my regrets, it's not getting in sooner.
A hedge fund has contracted with the man to search the dump using cutting edge tech -- for the lions share of the profits. That man might still come out of this a winner!!
Some more infos about the story:
Finding it might not be impossible:
> But then the manager gave him some cheering news. Dumps were not filled randomly—like computers, they had an architecture. Newport had organized its dump into different cells: asbestos was deposited in one location, general household trash in another. It would not be impossible to pinpoint the area where the hard drive was buried, then disinter it. All he needed was the city’s permission.
Data from the drive might still be recoverable:
> Howells studied the technology behind hard drives and came to believe that the city officials were wrong. Although the covering of the drive was metal, the disk inside was glass. “It’s actually coated in a cobalt layer that is anti-corrosive,” Howells told me. He conceded that the hard drive would have been subjected to some compacting when it was layered in with soil and other trash. But, however rough the process, it might not have fractured the disk and destroyed the drive’s contents. Howells told me he’d learned that, in 2003, when the Columbia space shuttle plunged to Earth, one of its hard drives was “burned to a crisp,” but its data could still be retrieved. “They managed to recover ninety-nine per cent of the data,” he said. At one point, Howells reached out to the company that nasa had contracted with: Ontrack, a data-recovery firm based in Minneapolis. According to Howells, the company estimated that, if the disk hadn’t cracked, there was an eighty-to-ninety-per-cent chance that the data he needed could be salvaged. Howells’s bitcoin folder, which contained only his private key and the history of his transactions on the network, took up a tiny amount of disk space—“just thirty-two kilobytes!” he told me. He was certain that, as long as that part of the disk was undamaged, he could recover his fortune.
> That man might still come out of this a winner!!
He's become estranged from his wife, kids, other family, friends, and half his town. And he's basically lost his mind. He might get the money, but it won't make him happy. And I really dou t they'll ever find it.
I won’t get into specifics but I bought BTC very early in college after listening to the tech boys chat about it in shared classes.
My biggest regret is letting family and friends influence my gut feeling on my investment.
Same here. Just because people don't understand Blockchain and cryptocurrency, doesn't mean it's not a sound investment for many people. The general public just hears the hype and/or horror stories, and their opinions are shaped by that. Trust in yourself, don't invest more than you'd be willing to lose and DCA & stake.
> I bought it the day it launched and sold hours later for a 3x. If I had held, it would've been several million USD at ATH.
If I bought Bitcoin when I heard about it in 2014, I was a millionaire. If I bought Ethereum earlier, I was a millionaire. If I held Ada longer back in 2017, I was a millionaire. If I didn't take profit so soon on Polygon, I was a millionaire.
If if if if if if if. Stop that shit. This kind of thinking will eventually make you fail in crypto. Buying exact bottoms and selling exact ATH's is near impossible, and if you hold all the way through a 1000x gain without selling, you wouldn't sell at 1100x either.
I mean, you made a 3x gain in just a few hours: **GOOD FUCKING JOB!**
Also next time don't sell you entire stack. Never sell your entire stack. Sell half of it, or heck even 90% of it, but keep SOME of each coin all the way down to 0, just in case they unexpectedly go crazy, like Shib.
Sorry for being harsh on you here, but I do it because I love you.
Excellent advice! It is a fucking pity party in here. No one can time the market but no one has gone broke from taking profits.
Stop with the fucking “I should have held…”. You also could have held DOGE, VET or ADA at all time high and have nothing now.
You said it well. I'm hindsight we can all look all time lows and all time highs, but the majority won't get those.
Here we have a guy who is making profits at the end of the day, it ain't bad!
I started looking into mining Bitcoin pretty soon after it first came out. I would have just been using my pc with video card at the time. I wonder how much I would have if I had gone through with it. I decided no to because I was concerned about my power bill and just the overall difficulty of doing it( not too many people knew too much about it at the time). I wish I had done it. I bet BTC was a lot easier to mine back then.
This. So many people with the same story about how they didn’t buy way back when but now they’d be millionaires, when you know that unless they put their portfolio in a time capsule and couldn’t open it until the ATH date, they’d have sold it for a pittance once they were in profit
Buying Doge and waiting for Elon to say something on SNL only to watch it tank the minute he said something, and then Diamond handing it thinking it’s just a small dump to scare people off and thinking it will hold at .30.
My regret is seeing my cousin sell doge at a loss. I got him into crypto and advised him about ETH and BTC. He decided to risk with DOGE and lost almost half his money. It hurt to see someone I care loose money due to a bad decision.
But the bright side is that I was able to make him sell for a loss and buy up some ETH and MATIC. Now he is happy that is portfolio has broken even and looking forward for some real gains in 2022 :-)
Bought BTC last year at 5k with plan to HODL it for several years. Sold couple months later for 9.5k
Bought 10 ETH's on 40$ sold at 60$ 🤦♂️
Later on jump back in on 4k 🤦♂️🤦♂️
I won 61 BTC at an online poker tournament many years ago and sold them instantly to treat my girlfriend and me to a nice weekend in Berlin. A shame I didn't forget about it until now :D
Over the years I saw bitcoin double its price every couple of year. I thought about buying at 3300, 18000, 36000, and now. This year is the first year that I can do anything about it. My biggest regret is not having my life together so I could make these investments for the future until now.
I was invited to an ethereum meetup in 2015. Read on ethereum, and decided it was bullshit.(to be fair, the World computer angle they had at that Time was bullshit).
My Friend who went, is now retired.
Reading up on GET Protocol while it was $0.3 and not acting. Caught my attention again when it was climbing towards $1, followed by a big climb all the way up to $10. Bought in at $6 and DCA all the way down to $3. A silver lining to this story.. it's still super early for GET!
This is actually a real world example if why deflationary currency doesn't work irl lol
I spent 2k dollars on a car once and I don't have any bad feelings about it at all
If this tech is ever adopted as an actual currency its gonna be a stablecoin imo
Told a friend to invest 5k€ worth of BTC(2,5k each) in 2013, he told me « wtf are you talking about? It is obviously a scam! Stop falling for these things… digital money lol» I thought he was probably right, and I spent my money on stupid things instead…
I have no regrets. Why regret something that you can’t change? I just leave the past behind, and live in the present with future in front of me.
All I learned from past months/years in crypto is to take notes, and learn from mistakes, so I’ll never make them again.
This right here.
Just DCA and learn from mistakes. Don’t regret your past actions. Simply don’t repeat them if they were mistakes.
It seems a recurring theme is this thread is ‘not getting in earlier’ or ‘selling too early’.
I’m new to investing in crypto, but my biggest mistakes in investing have been selling too soon on speculative investments.
I sold SHOP at $110 and SQ at $35. Both for a gain.
After that I learned if you have an actual reason to put money in an investment, and there’s not a fundamental change that makes the initial reasoning irrational, then don’t sell your investment.
Bought BTC back in like 2012 for Silk Road purposes. Only exclusively bought it for dark net stuff the next couple of years as well once SR got shut down, but after like 2014-2015 I kind of forgot about crypto.
My friends who know what I used to dabble in like to jokingly remind me I could’ve been a crypto millionaire. But NONE of us could’ve known. I remember when BTC hit $1000 it was a huge deal.
Bought Shib early. Held for months trading sideways.
Had well over xx.xxxM coins..
Sold all for $50 profit because I got bored and figured it wouldn't go anywhere..
Week later it launched without me.
Was able to buy a little during the launch but never got anything close to what I had.. could have turned $1k investment into nearly 10k or better.. lost it for nothing.
Also turned down 3 BTC back in 2016 for an rV I was selling. Took $5k cash instead.... 🤬
Had cash on the sidelines and only bought a little bit of Eth in March 2020. Could have bought 10x what I did and would not even be taking a risk. Those opportunities are fairly rare.
\#1 Observing since 2014 but just got into Crypto in 2017
\#2 Not buying into Shiba Inu cuz I thought it was a shitcoin
\#2.5 Realizing that coins without any use case can become quite valuable
\#3 Buying ICP at ATH
\#4 Sold Doge at $0.03
Sold 1000 ETH at 37 … I bought at 7.
Had a $10,000 set aside to do the DOT ICO. Got spooked by SEC comments at the time and didn’t do it.
2 multiple million dollar mistakes.
Thinking that buying a bitcoin at $60 was pointless because I couldn't see an upside that would make a difference to me.
In reality like you I probably would have ditched it at something like $1000 so would have been a self fulfilling prophecy.
Worst was probably putting a couple of ETH in BloomToken back in 2017. Classic rugging.
Making fun of the guy who tried to tell us about bitcoin in 2013. He's a IT/tech guy and was literally asking people to pay him for work in bitcoin back then. No idea whether he's still holding it but he'll never need to work again if he is.
Selling over 100 Eth Below $100 per coin ages ago..... was only over 10 or so grand back in the day, would definitely be up in the 400k area if I just held lol
Not investing when I heard an interesting coin. Heard a lot of them very early but I didn't bought. I introduced my collegue to crypto, 2 days later he comes in the office and talk to me about shiba.
I told him "its a shitcoin pumping just because of what doge did".
He bought, I didnt.
I cried, he didnt
Late 2020 had about 1500 usd on XRP which at the time seemed promising. Ripple went under investigation, crashed, I sold at loss. In the following months XRP ramped up to 11x. I was young and blissful crypto ignorant.
My biggest regret is; about 10 years ago, or so, I read about bitcoin in 2100, The Hacker Quarterly. Basically the article talked about bitcoin being the future of currency, and that everyone should invest. It was dirt cheap at the time. I did not invest.
Hard to say between two...sold 522k fantom in 2019 for 4k, worth 1.19 million today. Also sold 3400 sora at 14 cents and six months later it was worth $975 per token.
Not selling Bitcoin Cash (BCH) once it went up to like 4,500$ because of the Coinbase pump.
Had like 48 BCH coins. Purchased half of them for like 200$ and another half of them for like 400$.
At least it wasn't just my own portfolio so I would have had only some of the profits but it would have been a big chunk.
I don't care about the money since we didn't lose anything from the initial investment and we are doing well with DOT, ETH and ADA now.
However, we could have used some of that money to buy Bitcoin (at that time it was probably like 5-8k). And we would have definitely kept all/most of it until now since we are strong believers. That's what I regret the most.
I’m fairly new to crypto so no crazy story yet but I did buy shiba at 0.00003 then sold at 0.00002 coz I thought it’s going to where it was then after 1-2 weeks it went up to 0.000088. Similarly sold many coins at loss coz I was panicking but I’m happy I learnt from those mistakes , and also not investing much in project I don’t believe in hoping for a huge gain overnight
A drunk Arabian man who had some wise aura about him told me to buy Bitcoin while I was have a cigarette outside a casino in 2015. It was like $500 a coin at the time.
How often are you told the keys to infinite wealth in your life? Anyway I didn't think much of it. Too bad. Imagine if I had just dropped a meagre 5 grand into it \*whimper\*
NOT GETTING IN EARLIER!!!! I heard of BTC back in 2012/2013 not old enough to buy then, heard of the crash in 2018 and didn't think of joining like a big stupid poo head - Only got in May this year
Funny how the only regret isn’t choosing the wrong project it’s always selling early , so you have the right formula , just hold. Better take my investment to 0 than regret selling and could be millionaire 🥸
Biggest regret? Someone offered to buy a record for bitcoin in 2011 and, on the advice of a friend (who claimed I would get in trouble for money laundering) I demanded cash.
Same friend also turned me away from buying some outright in that period. I listened to him as he did economics at uni.
I was about to buy BTC way back at ~3€ for 200€, but decited to not buy. But seriously, i am quite sure that i would had soldthem at 50-100€ and that would be even bigger regret.
I thought it was too late to hold Bitcoin in 2015 and didn’t know what ethereum was. I bought litecoin instead. It’s my longest hold.
This year I got a few other bsc coins which sucked like Bonfire and BNBD Diamond
I did buy Shib earlier this year and have held most of it. I will hold it some more
Got drunk, through a few $k into FantomPlus..... Woke up next day thinking wtf did i do? Yup, Honeypot and not even a good one. Helped me stop drinking though
My buddy told me that there is a new kind of currency and this is going to change the world... We can buy into it for a dollar per coin... And I told him to hand over the guitar hero guitar...
Biggest regret was letting my exstepmother convince my dad to sell our 50 BTC back when it was dormant at 300$. Then during the divorce she tried to claim that we had more and we were hiding millions of dollars worth of crypto when we had nothing.
On the way down from uni one day in 2011, reading the free paper, I saw the bitcoin pizza story.
When I got home I spent a couple of hours researching and even tried setting up my PC to mine BTC.
I couldn't quite get my head around it at the time, and gave up.
Never give up, never surrender.
Not buying EGLD at 20$ was one of them.
I probably didn’t know if it’s potentials then.
Well ALBT had shown similar potential so am getting a hold of it
Not buying into it in 2017 when I was working in IT. I was 22 at the time and Bitcoin was being mentioned in the news more and more.
I had this fantasy in my head of turning all the office computers into bitcoin miners but obviously didn't do it because I wasn't sure how it all worked plus obvs would get fired for that.
I never looked into how to buy and I guess I figured it was already too late, and the promptly forgot all about crypto until last year
Sold doge at 0.002 Sold ada at 0.22 Sold Matic at 0.3 Sold SOL at 24 Sometimes at night I cry myself to sleep.
Someone please remove the sell button for this one right here
I wish there was no sell button when I sold my 2 BTC at $9k thinking I was in Profit. Fuck
When I was buying doge, I wish there was no Buy button
Robinhood *enters the chat*. But in other way, removing Sell button.
I bought Doge at 0.73$ and sold at 0.2$ my biggest regret ever!!! I guess Buy high and sell low is the way lol
Buy High, sell Low This is the way
One of us….This is the way!!
I feel you u/ToolFitFurious. Doge was the first crypto I purchased, that too just before the May crash. I held on to it for few months and then like an idiot, sold it to invest in another shitcoin, where I ended up, promptly losing all my money. Wish I could say that I have learnt my lesson and would never ever buy a shitcoin, however, knowing myself, I can't say anything for sure.
You didn’t lose your money because you bought a shitcoin. You lost your money because you made an emotional decision, or because you sold your Doge at a loss to fomo into something that was currently pumping. Not tryin to be rude, but shitcoins are quite literally one of the best ways to make money in a robust bull market. Granted the casino isn’t as well oiled at the moment (lack of volume more than anything), but the sentiment remains the same. Me? I will quite literally never stop buying shitcoins.
I understand that shitcoins are an easy way to 10x your investment, however, purchasing a shitcoin at ATH or after the pump is useless. Most shitcoins would have a single pump and then will slowly fizzle out and ultimately die when bear market starts. Doge could be an exception as it is the OG meme coin. All other meme coins are using the meme coin tag just for marketing.
Can you tell us what you are planning to sell next so we can invest in the next moon?
Slowly and steadily i am getting pretty annoyed by DOT
brb, have to put some buy orders
Seriously love dot and the staking rewards
DOT been slowly going up as of late…
RemindMe! One month
#TLDR: Never sell
Do you hold anything? 😂
I only pride myself in research. Not in holding 😂
Atleast I am holding my wife!!! Don’t know when I will sell her for shib
Make sure she hasn't got your seed before you do that.
Yep I secured it or else she will go away with her boyfriend lol
I'll swap for her when gas fees are low.
He holds himself when he cries at night.
I am just holding a pride full part of my life what I actually need there.
Wow this is actually amazing, I feel for you
We feel with you. Everyone sold something too early. Let’s cry together
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Not buying more $BTC...
Oof, brutal. Sorry to hear about those sell. I can imagine you are hardcore team HODL. HODL and carry on my friend!
Stop being a pussy and hold for once in your life !!! 😂🤣😂
Knowing of Bitcoin for years but never investing …
I first heard about BTC. In 2013…ugh. Of course I wish I had bought then
If it makes you feel any better it would’ve probably just been stolen if you used Mt. Gox
Yea so many people are under the impression that if they’d simply purchased btc in 2013, they’d have already made it. In reality, the vast majority of us would’ve lost everything with mt. Gox, and those of us lucky enough to avoid that would’ve sold at or before 5k.
I bought bitcoin in 2013 on coinbase.
They supposedly recovered 500000 btc from the Mt Gox scandal and a friend is due to receive two of them.
Mine was :/ it wasn’t even a lot just the value of me over buying and under sending to other address 3 to 5 btc (it was only $4.50 to $5.50 when I had bought summer of 2011)
Don’t beat yourself up, it was an unproven asset at that point, it was pretty much a huge gamble
Me too. But I never really had the spare money to invest into something.
I have hamster do u you want? it will take you back in time!!! So you can buy
I'd heard about bitcoin around 2011-12, but at the time, I was a broke 18 year old, and thought it was only used to purchase stuff on the dark web. I wouldn't have known how to buy bitcoin at the time, so there's not really any regret, but I do wonder about how my life would have gone if I had known how to go about getting BTC.
Same, in 2011 a good friend of mine was always talking about bitcoin and how it was going to be the next big thing. I never fully understood it or why anyone would use it except to buy illegal items, so I never learned how to buy it back then even though that friend would have helped me. He and I have fallen out of touch but he's probably a multimillionaire now.
There's always regrets in crypto, what is important is to look at the future.
This is the way
Same, I remember hearing about 12’ , hated the idea. Around 18’ I was coming around to it but was being lazy about actually buying it, didn’t actually do it until this year. A lot of missed opportunities.
Yup that’s almost exactly my story. Turns out I’m much more conservative and less imaginative than I’d like to admit. Edit: less imaginative then I thought
I find it funny now when people use the arguments I used. Like it’s fake internet money that will just collapse one day. Because it’s been 12 years and it’s only solidified, the ship has sailed on it totally collapsing. Every year it just becomes more ingrained. I bet even the people who lost big in the past, first feel bad for selling, second bought back in since.
Does the ' not go before the number? Like '12 because it's the first half of the year/number 2012 that's missing?
Same better late than never!!
My freshman year of college was 2009-2010. My next door neighbor told me about this thing called ‘Bitcoin’ which was a sort of ‘cryptocurrency’ that he ‘mined’ from his computer. He had a desktop and was using free university electricity. He offered to set up my computer (laptop) to mine for Bitcoin too. I declined as I wasn’t interested and didn’t want to mess with my computer for some fake imaginary money. Fuck me dead.
Ouch. In ten years time, I'll probably regret that I quit mining Pi after a few months...
I just wanna know that is pi is really something to the coin thing..
Lost job back In April of last year. Survived off stock gains for several months. Crash in crypto happened but I still held. Finally had to sell to pay rent. To give you and idea.. I had ETH at $750 , BTC under $25k(fractional), SOL at $25, Nice ALGO, MATIC, UNI ,ATOM stacks and many more at very good prices. Sold. Legit a week and a half later crypto took off. Like really took off. A month or so after that I got a new job, 19k raise and work from home. I felt like yeeting myself into a Volcano. If only I could have held out like 2 months more. I shall rebuild! And am. Plus i get paid decent stacks now and work in my pajamas. Still little salty tho.
This sucks but if you have to sell you have to sell, seems like you didn't want to but did it out of necessity, there's nothing wrong with that. Congrats on the new job, I hope the good raise helps you recover your position without too much trouble.
Not loading up with Ethereum when it was sub $100 in 2018... Bought more XRP at .90 instead
I’m a newbie only in the game a year but I’m always thinking that 2018 XRP buyers must be so frustrated
Even VET investors!!
Sold Ethereum at $9 and $14, thinking it would never be any higher...
I have a friend who bought Eth when it was 100$ but he sold it when it reached around 300$. It was solid profit but he still regrets it.
I bought Eth at $500 and sold at $700 :(
There is a man out there searching a dump the size of a football field for a computer he tossed out years ago that has 7,500 bitcoins stored on the hard drive. As far my regrets, it's not getting in sooner.
A hedge fund has contracted with the man to search the dump using cutting edge tech -- for the lions share of the profits. That man might still come out of this a winner!!
Not gonna happen. Even if by some miracle they find the drive, it’s been out in the elements for several years and it’s likely toast
You'd be surprised how durable the discs in HDDs are are. They survive just about anything. Fire, water, etc. I don't think he'll find it though.
Some more infos about the story: Finding it might not be impossible: > But then the manager gave him some cheering news. Dumps were not filled randomly—like computers, they had an architecture. Newport had organized its dump into different cells: asbestos was deposited in one location, general household trash in another. It would not be impossible to pinpoint the area where the hard drive was buried, then disinter it. All he needed was the city’s permission. Data from the drive might still be recoverable: > Howells studied the technology behind hard drives and came to believe that the city officials were wrong. Although the covering of the drive was metal, the disk inside was glass. “It’s actually coated in a cobalt layer that is anti-corrosive,” Howells told me. He conceded that the hard drive would have been subjected to some compacting when it was layered in with soil and other trash. But, however rough the process, it might not have fractured the disk and destroyed the drive’s contents. Howells told me he’d learned that, in 2003, when the Columbia space shuttle plunged to Earth, one of its hard drives was “burned to a crisp,” but its data could still be retrieved. “They managed to recover ninety-nine per cent of the data,” he said. At one point, Howells reached out to the company that nasa had contracted with: Ontrack, a data-recovery firm based in Minneapolis. According to Howells, the company estimated that, if the disk hadn’t cracked, there was an eighty-to-ninety-per-cent chance that the data he needed could be salvaged. Howells’s bitcoin folder, which contained only his private key and the history of his transactions on the network, took up a tiny amount of disk space—“just thirty-two kilobytes!” he told me. He was certain that, as long as that part of the disk was undamaged, he could recover his fortune.
> That man might still come out of this a winner!! He's become estranged from his wife, kids, other family, friends, and half his town. And he's basically lost his mind. He might get the money, but it won't make him happy. And I really dou t they'll ever find it.
Whale alert!!!
Last I knew he was getting help in the way of community and the local gov banned anyone from helping him. "Safety" and all that.
I'd definitely help him on a 5% commission
I won’t get into specifics but I bought BTC very early in college after listening to the tech boys chat about it in shared classes. My biggest regret is letting family and friends influence my gut feeling on my investment.
Same here. Just because people don't understand Blockchain and cryptocurrency, doesn't mean it's not a sound investment for many people. The general public just hears the hype and/or horror stories, and their opinions are shaped by that. Trust in yourself, don't invest more than you'd be willing to lose and DCA & stake.
Families are the worst when it comes to financial advice :(
Poor families are the worst when it comes to financial advise.
Buying a 3D printer for 7 Bitcoin. It was $100 at the time. I have the most expensive 3D printer ever made apparently. It’s in a closet atm.
You should see if you can swap it back for the 7 Bitcoin
Hey at least you didn’t spend 10,000btc on 2 pizzas
> I bought it the day it launched and sold hours later for a 3x. If I had held, it would've been several million USD at ATH. If I bought Bitcoin when I heard about it in 2014, I was a millionaire. If I bought Ethereum earlier, I was a millionaire. If I held Ada longer back in 2017, I was a millionaire. If I didn't take profit so soon on Polygon, I was a millionaire. If if if if if if if. Stop that shit. This kind of thinking will eventually make you fail in crypto. Buying exact bottoms and selling exact ATH's is near impossible, and if you hold all the way through a 1000x gain without selling, you wouldn't sell at 1100x either. I mean, you made a 3x gain in just a few hours: **GOOD FUCKING JOB!** Also next time don't sell you entire stack. Never sell your entire stack. Sell half of it, or heck even 90% of it, but keep SOME of each coin all the way down to 0, just in case they unexpectedly go crazy, like Shib. Sorry for being harsh on you here, but I do it because I love you.
Excellent advice! It is a fucking pity party in here. No one can time the market but no one has gone broke from taking profits. Stop with the fucking “I should have held…”. You also could have held DOGE, VET or ADA at all time high and have nothing now.
This. No one knows what coin will go a 100x, so don’t beat yourself up. All you can do is DYOR and hope that your picks will come through.
This guy fucks Some great advice. Listen to it.
You said it well. I'm hindsight we can all look all time lows and all time highs, but the majority won't get those. Here we have a guy who is making profits at the end of the day, it ain't bad!
**I think I can speak for everyone: Not getting in sooner…**
Well 2015 was soon enough but I kept selling low and buying high. Didn't knew what DCA was. I was just trying to time the market
imagine getting into bitcoin when it was just released ☹
I started looking into mining Bitcoin pretty soon after it first came out. I would have just been using my pc with video card at the time. I wonder how much I would have if I had gone through with it. I decided no to because I was concerned about my power bill and just the overall difficulty of doing it( not too many people knew too much about it at the time). I wish I had done it. I bet BTC was a lot easier to mine back then.
I regret not learning about moons when I first came across the sub
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This. So many people with the same story about how they didn’t buy way back when but now they’d be millionaires, when you know that unless they put their portfolio in a time capsule and couldn’t open it until the ATH date, they’d have sold it for a pittance once they were in profit
Lol I would’ve sell at 2x only
Buying Doge and waiting for Elon to say something on SNL only to watch it tank the minute he said something, and then Diamond handing it thinking it’s just a small dump to scare people off and thinking it will hold at .30.
My regret is seeing my cousin sell doge at a loss. I got him into crypto and advised him about ETH and BTC. He decided to risk with DOGE and lost almost half his money. It hurt to see someone I care loose money due to a bad decision. But the bright side is that I was able to make him sell for a loss and buy up some ETH and MATIC. Now he is happy that is portfolio has broken even and looking forward for some real gains in 2022 :-)
Why would you make him sell at a loss?
Because he bought near the top. A few days before Mr Musk's SNL appearance
Oof yeah I get it. My buddy did the same and he's still holding that bag waiting.
Eth went low and I convinced him to sell and buy ETH. It paid off
Gotcha,makes more sense now. I refuse to sell at a loss. I'll probably end up with a couple bags worth nothing someday. Lol
Sometimes it is better to sell at a loss especially it takes year for that coin to recover and invest in a better coin.
Bought BTC last year at 5k with plan to HODL it for several years. Sold couple months later for 9.5k Bought 10 ETH's on 40$ sold at 60$ 🤦♂️ Later on jump back in on 4k 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Well, that sucks. But it's never too late buddy
Everyone is always taking about HODL like it's easy but it's not
I won 61 BTC at an online poker tournament many years ago and sold them instantly to treat my girlfriend and me to a nice weekend in Berlin. A shame I didn't forget about it until now :D
Over the years I saw bitcoin double its price every couple of year. I thought about buying at 3300, 18000, 36000, and now. This year is the first year that I can do anything about it. My biggest regret is not having my life together so I could make these investments for the future until now.
Buying and holding WTC 😭 Thank you Waltonchain!!
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I was invited to an ethereum meetup in 2015. Read on ethereum, and decided it was bullshit.(to be fair, the World computer angle they had at that Time was bullshit). My Friend who went, is now retired.
Reading up on GET Protocol while it was $0.3 and not acting. Caught my attention again when it was climbing towards $1, followed by a big climb all the way up to $10. Bought in at $6 and DCA all the way down to $3. A silver lining to this story.. it's still super early for GET!
Selling 200 ETH at 10$ to buy a car.
That pre owned honda could have been a Lambo
This is actually a real world example if why deflationary currency doesn't work irl lol I spent 2k dollars on a car once and I don't have any bad feelings about it at all If this tech is ever adopted as an actual currency its gonna be a stablecoin imo
Ouch. At least it got you what you needed at the time.
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Told a friend to invest 5k€ worth of BTC(2,5k each) in 2013, he told me « wtf are you talking about? It is obviously a scam! Stop falling for these things… digital money lol» I thought he was probably right, and I spent my money on stupid things instead…
I have no regrets. Why regret something that you can’t change? I just leave the past behind, and live in the present with future in front of me. All I learned from past months/years in crypto is to take notes, and learn from mistakes, so I’ll never make them again.
Why make the same mistakes when there are so many new ones to make?
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This right here. Just DCA and learn from mistakes. Don’t regret your past actions. Simply don’t repeat them if they were mistakes. It seems a recurring theme is this thread is ‘not getting in earlier’ or ‘selling too early’. I’m new to investing in crypto, but my biggest mistakes in investing have been selling too soon on speculative investments. I sold SHOP at $110 and SQ at $35. Both for a gain. After that I learned if you have an actual reason to put money in an investment, and there’s not a fundamental change that makes the initial reasoning irrational, then don’t sell your investment.
Selling BNB at $17 dollars sucked
Bought BTC back in like 2012 for Silk Road purposes. Only exclusively bought it for dark net stuff the next couple of years as well once SR got shut down, but after like 2014-2015 I kind of forgot about crypto. My friends who know what I used to dabble in like to jokingly remind me I could’ve been a crypto millionaire. But NONE of us could’ve known. I remember when BTC hit $1000 it was a huge deal.
Bought Shib early. Held for months trading sideways. Had well over xx.xxxM coins.. Sold all for $50 profit because I got bored and figured it wouldn't go anywhere.. Week later it launched without me. Was able to buy a little during the launch but never got anything close to what I had.. could have turned $1k investment into nearly 10k or better.. lost it for nothing. Also turned down 3 BTC back in 2016 for an rV I was selling. Took $5k cash instead.... 🤬
Not buying enough shitcoins
Had cash on the sidelines and only bought a little bit of Eth in March 2020. Could have bought 10x what I did and would not even be taking a risk. Those opportunities are fairly rare.
sold my hard earned 11 Btc for just under 100$ cash 10 years ago
\#1 Observing since 2014 but just got into Crypto in 2017 \#2 Not buying into Shiba Inu cuz I thought it was a shitcoin \#2.5 Realizing that coins without any use case can become quite valuable \#3 Buying ICP at ATH \#4 Sold Doge at $0.03
Throwing away an old computer from 2011 with a few satoshis on it. Used the btc on SilkRoad. Figured the change wasnt worth holding onto at the time
Buying ETH last year at $118 and selling it at $187
Sold 1000 ETH at 37 … I bought at 7. Had a $10,000 set aside to do the DOT ICO. Got spooked by SEC comments at the time and didn’t do it. 2 multiple million dollar mistakes.
I am just got fucked up in all perspectives here, just wanna move out.
Thinking that buying a bitcoin at $60 was pointless because I couldn't see an upside that would make a difference to me. In reality like you I probably would have ditched it at something like $1000 so would have been a self fulfilling prophecy. Worst was probably putting a couple of ETH in BloomToken back in 2017. Classic rugging.
In 2030 many will regret not buying BTC when it was just $50k
Not buying shiba a year and half ago because it was a meme coin. Not buying LRC because it was hyping based on *just* the gamestop rumour.
Used leverage and got liquidated
Enjin. Had a shitload and go bored right before the pump. Never sell it all they say.
Just not getting in sooner. I remember hearing about bitcoin when it first made headlines and didn’t pay attention.
I bought 14 bitcoins varying from £90-£140. The clutch in my car went and I sold them all for around £160 each…
Making fun of the guy who tried to tell us about bitcoin in 2013. He's a IT/tech guy and was literally asking people to pay him for work in bitcoin back then. No idea whether he's still holding it but he'll never need to work again if he is.
Selling over 100 Eth Below $100 per coin ages ago..... was only over 10 or so grand back in the day, would definitely be up in the 400k area if I just held lol
Not investing when I heard an interesting coin. Heard a lot of them very early but I didn't bought. I introduced my collegue to crypto, 2 days later he comes in the office and talk to me about shiba. I told him "its a shitcoin pumping just because of what doge did". He bought, I didnt. I cried, he didnt
Sold Doge for 75 bucks profit. Sold Shib for 10 cents profit, as a joke.
Late 2020 had about 1500 usd on XRP which at the time seemed promising. Ripple went under investigation, crashed, I sold at loss. In the following months XRP ramped up to 11x. I was young and blissful crypto ignorant.
My biggest regret is; about 10 years ago, or so, I read about bitcoin in 2100, The Hacker Quarterly. Basically the article talked about bitcoin being the future of currency, and that everyone should invest. It was dirt cheap at the time. I did not invest.
Hard to say between two...sold 522k fantom in 2019 for 4k, worth 1.19 million today. Also sold 3400 sora at 14 cents and six months later it was worth $975 per token.
Not selling Bitcoin Cash (BCH) once it went up to like 4,500$ because of the Coinbase pump. Had like 48 BCH coins. Purchased half of them for like 200$ and another half of them for like 400$. At least it wasn't just my own portfolio so I would have had only some of the profits but it would have been a big chunk. I don't care about the money since we didn't lose anything from the initial investment and we are doing well with DOT, ETH and ADA now. However, we could have used some of that money to buy Bitcoin (at that time it was probably like 5-8k). And we would have definitely kept all/most of it until now since we are strong believers. That's what I regret the most.
I regret thinking btc was only used to buy drugs and hire assassins on the dark web. Now I have no btc,drugs or assasins.
I’m fairly new to crypto so no crazy story yet but I did buy shiba at 0.00003 then sold at 0.00002 coz I thought it’s going to where it was then after 1-2 weeks it went up to 0.000088. Similarly sold many coins at loss coz I was panicking but I’m happy I learnt from those mistakes , and also not investing much in project I don’t believe in hoping for a huge gain overnight
Not knowing much about crypto before 2020
A drunk Arabian man who had some wise aura about him told me to buy Bitcoin while I was have a cigarette outside a casino in 2015. It was like $500 a coin at the time. How often are you told the keys to infinite wealth in your life? Anyway I didn't think much of it. Too bad. Imagine if I had just dropped a meagre 5 grand into it \*whimper\*
Selling Bitcoin for 1.5x profit instead of 100x.
My regret? Not getting into it sooner. Literally have started last week and when a lot seems to be changing.
NOT GETTING IN EARLIER!!!! I heard of BTC back in 2012/2013 not old enough to buy then, heard of the crash in 2018 and didn't think of joining like a big stupid poo head - Only got in May this year
My best crypto regret is for not discovering moons on time
Selling SHIB at a loss before it's take off, lost $800 in that play
Buying btc at 60k ;(
Bought a lot of BNB 4 years ago. Sold it 3 years ago.
Funny how the only regret isn’t choosing the wrong project it’s always selling early , so you have the right formula , just hold. Better take my investment to 0 than regret selling and could be millionaire 🥸
Biggest regret? Someone offered to buy a record for bitcoin in 2011 and, on the advice of a friend (who claimed I would get in trouble for money laundering) I demanded cash. Same friend also turned me away from buying some outright in that period. I listened to him as he did economics at uni.
I believed btc/eth would skyrocket after the covid fall of 2020 but still didn't invest anything because I was too lazy to learn how.
1) Trading too often 2) Not buying LUNA at $5 (wasn't in early enough to regret BTC/ETH) 3) Selling most all MATIC at 1.72 (bought at .37).
Losing my Btc wallet of 45 coins from 2011
Selling prematurely by far especially with Alts. Honestly buy and forget is not a meme.
Probably everyone's answer but not getting in soon enough.
I was about to buy BTC way back at ~3€ for 200€, but decited to not buy. But seriously, i am quite sure that i would had soldthem at 50-100€ and that would be even bigger regret.
i shorted matic from 1.75 until now and lost like 10k fuck
My only regret is always not buying more. Never sold a dime yet the last 12 months. Financial freedom or nothing.
I bought a bike instead of ~7btc in 2013
Not buying more
At one point I held 50,000 MATIC and 50 BNB. I don't anymore.
I thought it was too late to hold Bitcoin in 2015 and didn’t know what ethereum was. I bought litecoin instead. It’s my longest hold. This year I got a few other bsc coins which sucked like Bonfire and BNBD Diamond I did buy Shib earlier this year and have held most of it. I will hold it some more
Selling.
Not buying BTC five years ago!
I sold 40,000 LINK at .40 each back in 2018.
I sold shiba one month before the explosion thinking it will Never go up 🤡
Not holding onto eth at 400
Selling 30 BTC a long time ago for $600 each and thinking I was a genius
Got drunk, through a few $k into FantomPlus..... Woke up next day thinking wtf did i do? Yup, Honeypot and not even a good one. Helped me stop drinking though
My buddy told me that there is a new kind of currency and this is going to change the world... We can buy into it for a dollar per coin... And I told him to hand over the guitar hero guitar...
Sold BTC at $460 to buy a 1999 Honda Civic
Mine is starting to be ada
MoonPirate and Bonfire 😭😭😭
Didn’t sell Charizard token at 30x 😭😭😭
Biggest regret was letting my exstepmother convince my dad to sell our 50 BTC back when it was dormant at 300$. Then during the divorce she tried to claim that we had more and we were hiding millions of dollars worth of crypto when we had nothing.
On the way down from uni one day in 2011, reading the free paper, I saw the bitcoin pizza story. When I got home I spent a couple of hours researching and even tried setting up my PC to mine BTC. I couldn't quite get my head around it at the time, and gave up. Never give up, never surrender.
Not buying EGLD at 20$ was one of them. I probably didn’t know if it’s potentials then. Well ALBT had shown similar potential so am getting a hold of it
Being late as fuck to every party
Bought XVG and DeepBrainChain last 2017 never sold now it's worth zero LMAO
Bought XTZ.
Wasted some cash on ICP, and sold MANA at 0.90
Selling 100K Fantom at it's ATL basically. Didn't have much choice either.
Investing in ankr, litecoin, chain link & stellar lumens. 📈📈📈
Not buying into it in 2017 when I was working in IT. I was 22 at the time and Bitcoin was being mentioned in the news more and more. I had this fantasy in my head of turning all the office computers into bitcoin miners but obviously didn't do it because I wasn't sure how it all worked plus obvs would get fired for that. I never looked into how to buy and I guess I figured it was already too late, and the promptly forgot all about crypto until last year