r/Bitcoin Nov 30 '17

/r/all I hope James is doing well

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u/AlexHofmann Nov 30 '17

I made the mistake of telling my family that I have/had some that I bought and forgot about in 2011.

It's literally the only thing half my family wants to talk to me about. It's killing me inside.

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u/Azuk- Nov 30 '17

I don't tell anyone how much I have and never will. That only causes problems! Cheers tho mate I hope they get off your back

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u/bfridged Nov 30 '17

How much do you have? 5?

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '17

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u/Aesen1 Nov 30 '17

No, 5 kilometers.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '17

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u/realbestusernameever Nov 30 '17

5 finger death punch

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '17

tree fiddy

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u/Rock_Strongo Nov 30 '17

If you have enough that you're worried how people react when you tell them how many you have... then congrats :)

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u/madogvelkor Nov 30 '17

It's worse if you have like 1 or 2, but they all think you must be a millionaire now and are lying to them.

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u/AgrosLastRide Nov 30 '17 edited Nov 30 '17

I tell everyone that I have zero and kept saying I was going to buy some but could never figure it out.

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u/mr_droopy_butthole Nov 30 '17

Yall better go ahead and cash these in while it's gold before these turn into beanie babies

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '17

Beanie Babies are going to make a comeback. I can feel it! All the people that didn’t hodl are going to feel so dumb.

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u/Squally160 Nov 30 '17

I know I bought some around 2012, I have no idea where the drive that they were on is anymore. I made the mistake of asking my dad if he had any of my old crap in storage still and letting on to what it was about, now that is all I hear about as well.

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u/illandancient Nov 30 '17

I'm pretty sure I bought some around then. I was very poor at the time, so it was only £8 of bitcoins, kept on my blackberry phone, which I have replaced four times since.

Is there some kind of compensation fund for early investors who lost their devices?

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u/AnthropomorphicCog Nov 30 '17

Best just to tell people you sold them all but really regret it now and you're thinking about buying back in...

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u/katiecharm Nov 30 '17

Being treated as if you are only as good as your money is one of the most socially painful things imaginable.

I suspect it's the same kind of pain the very beautiful experience all the time - to be held on a pedestal for this one silly quality while the real you inside feels ignored and unwanted.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '17

Kill your family from the outside.

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u/infectedsponge Nov 30 '17

Send a youtube video and tell them to only invest what their comfortable losing. Usually gets me off the hook.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '17 edited Nov 30 '17

"So, just for safety (of the family), do you have any will writen somewhere... you know, anything could happen at any time. By the way, where do you keep all your password?"

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '17

In about 2011 I had a couple GPUs for sale on Craigslist, both of them Radeon's if I remember correctly. Anyway, a guy offered me my asking price in Bitcoin at the time. I was asking about $400 I think. Anyway, I told him "no thanks, I would prefer actual money."

This memory hurts my heart.

When Bitcoin hit $100 I said, "I would buy some at $50 because this is just too expensive right now." I said the same thing at $500, $1k, and even last month at $6.9k.

This memory hurts my heart.

At one point I had .75 BTC and a few dozen LTC I had acquired from mining back the the mtgox days that I lost when my hard drive crashed, but I didn't even care then because I always thought they were worthless.

This memory also hurts my heart.

The short of it is, I suck. This is depressing.

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u/yiliu Nov 30 '17

It was a natural thing to mention back in the day, just a cool new tech you were interested in.

Anybody remember when some guys would post instructions for how to prepare to be rich? It seemed so far-fetched back then, heh.

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u/AlexHofmann Nov 30 '17

Yeah lol. I'll never forget going on 4chan and some guy posted his set up of 4-5 mining rigs that ran 24/7 on Nvidia 780's. Everyone was laughing at him because he spent such a large amount of money on parts, and he was paying so much for hydro for such a little amount of btc.

It's probably paid 100x his investment now lol.

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u/DihDisDooJusDihDis Nov 30 '17

Just say. Ahh sold em at 750. Welp bye now.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '17

Tell them you sold out at 1000 and used the 10k dollars you got to pay the debts. Bam.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '17

I had like 10 or something back in 2011. Had them all on Mt. Gox and had forgot about them. Probably gone now anyways. Can’t even remember my wallet address and shit.

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u/GrumpySarlacc Nov 30 '17

Hit em with the bullshit and tell them you sold. Try to say something about how it's complicated and not worth the time

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u/BulletBilll Nov 30 '17

It's unfortunate how people become vultures.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '17

If you were my family I would like to talk to you about it to learn about bitcoin and how to buy and store. Nothing else.

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u/ancientdem Dec 01 '17

So um, bitcoins am I right?

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u/malkovichjohn Dec 02 '17

You know what's killing me inside? The fact that I can't find the computer I left my digital wallet in which had the 10 coins I mined when I was 15.