Quote from: kwukduck on September 14, 2016, 09:45:36 AM

Quote from: Jcastle on September 11, 2016, 03:59:13 AM

Ok....whatever u say boss..
U sound like one of those guys who said bitcoin would never go to $1000 when it was trading @$12 .....hehe

It never really did... just because everyone was using one exchange that got messed up by a bot doesn't mean it was actually valued that high by people... Even people qho claim to have sold at the top (funny how many claimed that in the first place) were never able to get their fiat out. *POOF* aaaand it's gone. The real value people trading those ranges got was exactly or near $0.

I beg to differ Kwuk. I was here in 2011 (under another name), personally mined some at home with Radeon 5850 cards (noisy ! Wink

), also bought and traded quite a lot in those heady days for various real world goods, helping to encourage adoption, *and I sold a *small percentage of them at just over $1000/coin, *and had *no trouble getting my $ out from the exchange I used (not Gox). Sadly I cant tell you how much I made without giving away too much information, but suffice to say I'm quite happily smiling, and I still have most of my coins.

And Im not even that interested in just trying to make more fiat $ by playing bitcoin day-trading games (as many try to). Im financially comfortable with my regular income.. I sold some mainly to prove to myself and a few skeptical others that I *could push some buttons and turn these digital token into cash if I wanted to. They were convinced

I am *more interested in the potential of Bitcoin to introduce some "new blood" and new ideas to try into the worlds financial systems, and hopefully force some evolution into the merry-go-round of Fiat Currencies with their proven-to-fail-over-and-over-again history of doing the same thing and expecting a different result. I see them as "shares" in a Global company that is doing things I like to see done for a better future, not just trading cards to try and squeeze out a quick fiat profit.

Just because you're a loser with no future vision who got sweaty palms and dumped his load (@$10 I heard ?) and have been spouting sour grapes while trying to make $ by shorting Bitcoin ever since, doesn't mean everyone is.