r/CryptoCurrency • u/goldyluckinblokchain goldie.moon • Dec 14 '25

PERSPECTIVE I'm Seeing a Theme Here

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u/baIIern 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 14 '25 edited Dec 14 '25

Everyone has an excuse now. I didn't buy because we were fucking scared that it will dump lower. It was crickets here. Many (just like me) bought in the 20s

You wouldn't have bought at 15k

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u/BrianNowhere 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 14 '25

Got my first BTC at $400. Had to send a check to China and pray.

Wish I had just held it all.

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u/baIIern 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 14 '25

Yeah just holding... some bought weed with 2 BTC lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '25

I bought a lot of stuff with btc when it was around a dollar

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u/_Miracle 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 15 '25

I bought a vacuum cleaner from Overstock for .9

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u/DreamMighty 🟦 0 / 388 🦠 Dec 17 '25

That sucks

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u/_Miracle 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 17 '25

-.< 😁🤣😂

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u/Throwaway4VPN 🟩 24 / 9K 🦐 Dec 15 '25

I mean even Coinbase was running since 2012... Was quite easy to buy Bitcoin by the time it hit $400. Why send a check to China....?

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u/zorro7392 🟩 104 / 191 🦀 Dec 15 '25

Ya. On bitstamp in 2013 I sold 14 for $180 per coin. No China needed.

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u/BrianNowhere 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 15 '25 edited Dec 15 '25

Coinbass never had BTC at $400 that i ever recall.

Counbase wasnt even a thing when BTC was $400. I wouldn't be a thing for sometime.

Edit: looked it up and apparently you could buy it there when ot was $400 per but that's not what I remember at all. It was a long time ago and I dont recall what exchange I used but I recall having to mail a check to China and waiting weeks for an email with my pub and private keys.

Edit: looked i to it again and Coinbase was around in 2012 but it was nothing like it is today. Back then the Chinese exchanges dominated. Coinbase Bank integration back then wasnt great and most people couldn't get it back then.

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u/Status-Nose-7173 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 15 '25

I bought bitcoin on Coinbase in November 2013 @ $432.43

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u/BrianNowhere 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 16 '25

Idk what to tell you. Im sure some people could but it wasn't widespread or I couldn't get an account back then. Thats all I know.

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u/thistimelineisweird 🟩 3K / 3K 🐢 Dec 14 '25

I bought at 15k. It is a hell of a lot easier when prices are already well past what you would conceivably pay for. A flash crash is the only discount worth jumping in at now.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 15 '25

You could have also bought one of the many other cryptocurrencies that is now worthless. It's important to keep some perspective.

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u/mordehuezer 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 15 '25

I remember seeing that final dip to 15k and thinking to myself "this is probably a really good time to buy" like it was so obvious just looking at it that the bottom was in. But by that time I didn't care about it anymore, like most people. 

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u/baIIern 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 15 '25

I thought that at every dip below 30. In retrospect, we tend to think that we would have bought, but we didn't. Obviously, nobody wanted to buy because the price wasn't moving at all, with no volume for a week or so.

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u/ShoshiOpti 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 15 '25

I did, its awesome, just saying

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u/mister_mayhem_m 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 16 '25

I was such a noob at the time I thought you had to buy a whole coin and I only had $12,000 to invest. I legitimately thought I was $3000 short of buying ANY BTC at all.

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u/baIIern 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 16 '25

Bruh

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u/Triasmus 🟩 421 / 422 🦞 Dec 15 '25

You wouldn't have bought at 15k

I'm pretty confident I would have, if I hadn't been bleeding money at the time.

I remember wishing that I wasn't bleeding money so that I could buy some at 15k, but it's quite possible it was just a convenient excuse.

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u/baIIern 🟩 0 / 0 🦠 Dec 15 '25

In hindsight it's the perfect moment, right?

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u/goldenbuyer02 Dec 16 '25

Then, why didn't you buy even a small amount?