Quote from: Holliday on September 09, 2016, 08:13:33 AM

Quote from: chesthing on September 08, 2016, 11:22:28 PM

Now, if you are still a lucky bastard who paid a buck or less for each btc and keep them in cold storage, go fuck yourself - you don't have the right to criticise someone not in that boat.

Keep pretending that all it took is some "luck" to understand Bitcoin early enough and hold tight that long.

Besides, Mat has known about Bitcoin long enough to have been in that boat... which clearly illustrates that it takes more than luck.

Regarding trading: Speculation is 20% of the traders making money off of the other 80%. If you can't spot the sucker at the table...

You missed my point, which is you have no hope of any "trading" success without keeping both fiat and btc on an exchange. I have no problem with early adopters, but they have no business criticising people who heard about btc after it's $1100 run for trying to improve their positions. I realize they had challenges back then when it was worthless, but it's a totally different game when a bitcoin costs hundreds of dollars.
And you are damn right early adopters were lucky. I never heard of btc before late '13/early '14. If I had heard about it and looked at it I may have seen it's value, but I'll never know. Those who found it and saw it are the only ones who had the chance. Stumbling upon it in the early days is 100% luck.