Bitcoin hit 10$ once? WOW. I did not know that, must be weird for people who really bought a lot of it. And the ones who gave up that time, are probably crying the f out now. What was bitcoin's $ price when it initially came out?
A big, fat zero. In 2010 someone on here tried to sell 10,000 coins. He couldn't get $50 for them.
I'm sure lots of people blew it with BTC. It would've been easy to believe it was going to die or go nowhere in the early days. Hindsight makes everyone a hero. It's not so simple when you're up to your ears in it.
It's very frustrating when you hear stories like these, or the 10.000 BTC pizza one. Nowadays the average joe is struggling to make a single BTC. Hopefully in the next 1 or 2 decades we'll be rewarded with millions of purchasing power as well.