re: Whatever happened to WikiTiger and the Bitcoin disciples?

There are posters from the O-T (and Money Board) who are literally millionaires today because WikiTiger.

Insane.

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I got out of bitcoin at around $600. Sold them for magic cards

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OH MY GOD

Went back and looked, the exercise equipment I bought in 2016, the guy got me to pay in btc, I added up everything I sent him across the 4 deals we made. Ended up being worth 100k now lol.


I'm still pissed I sold my first lot. $100 dollars worth @0.13 @ piece

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I understand coinbase. I’m talking about liquidating $220MM of bitcoin.

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My best friend cashed out a decent amount during the spike in 2017, and he did it p2p. The guy flew down, they met at the bank, and they made the exchange on laptops in the bank.

He discounted it a little under 15% to sell that much.

On an exchange, you would need to offload a little at a time, but it wouldn't take long in a bull market.

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What was it when Wiki was most active?

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Like $1

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bviously hindsight is always 20/20 on something like this. But holy hell man.

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Well I always believed in the tech and always thought it and still do think it will replace fiat in many cases, but I was always nervous Long term as an investment. I was stupid as frick, I know that. When it got to $700, it freaked me out because that's a lot of money when you are talking buying and sharing and the volatility was just freaking me out.

I have continued to pkay around some but took a break at the end 2018 from everything and am just getting back in.

Hasn't been all bad, I have made tens of thousands. And I have to look at it that away instead of knowing I could have had over 100 million. It will frick you up mentally if you don't look at it that away.


Good news is, I would a wallet last week from 2014 that had what at the times was just a few dollars left over, yea was a nice almost 7 grand surprise

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I still think people are going to get wrecked. Besides a few coins that will be used as a currency or to store cash, the rest of the bullshite will disappear.

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Some coins sure, but btc is not going anywhere and will replace gold as a storage of wealth Long term. Pretty obvious based on what the big firms are doing. When you have jp Morgan saying pretty much the most conservative estimate they can come up with for btc price by the end of the decade is 4x what it is now.....yea there is a reason the big dogs are selling gold when it's an all time high in hundred million plus blocks and buying btc. It isn't going anywhere.

The coins that provide super fast transactions and other things will stick. This is no different than buying stock. Some companies will be a success and your stock(cryptocoin) will go to the moon. Others will fail and you might lose your arse.

If it was easy everyone would be doing it.

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I love the concept of smart contracts, but there is no need for the tradable token, with 9 plus figure valuations, aspect of crypto regarding anything else but currency.

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You still don't get it. Is gold a currency? What is currency? It's just a piece of paper that the government says is worth something, but they also control and manipulate.

Btc solves that. And yea it has fluctuations, like anything, but over the past decade has went from under a $1 to what it is now. I would say that's pretty damn good growth and stability.

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Make your money short term in things like link, ethereum, or dfinity, but focus long-term on those straight currency big dogs.

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Link as a short term play? Sure it's up 80% on the year but it's a long term play, not short term.

Eth isn't going anywhere.

And yea go ahead and go straight currency so after inflation your value is shite. frick all that.

You still don't get it by the way and the thought of a non government controlled currency is still over your head.

The sooner you realize all fiat currency isn't worth shite unless someone values it and wants it and that carries over to anything, better off you will be long term.

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I was reading this thread thinking what are these guys talking about. Then I realized it was 2015

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I was about to comment telling them they need to check the price of Bitcoin again..

Then I saw the date.

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That doesn't sound awful... I have a few 800k MDMA purchases from silk road Thankfully it was 80k a gram good

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Oh I don't even go look at the purchases I made in 2011 and 12. I don't even want to know lol.

If fricking Evo gold wouldn't have burned my arse back in 2007 I wouldn't have been so nervous. But when you randomly lose on the first cryptocurrency, though it was a different kind of crypto, then you get nervous.

The Mt gox collapsed, that shook my core believes on btc. I still believed but I just thought it would lead to the us government stepping in.

Speaking of Mt gox, did anyone see they agreed to a settlement(still must be approved) uptp 90% to creditors. Also will reimburse customers as much as possible for their btc on the exchange. Even if it's the .23 btc per one you had stored there, it's still could be a windfall for many early adopters.

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WE WERE RIGHT

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by Broke

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Name checks out