what was your attitude when you first got into bitcoin? was it to get rich quick? make some dollars? learn the tech?
and how has it changed the more you've learnt? did you go from a moon kid to a serious scholar of the tech or even more of a moon kid than before?
i started off as interested in the dollars, then got more and more fascinated by the whole world around it, now i think i'm starting to come out the other side a little.
the more i've learnt about this scene the more screwed up it seems and i don't see how it's gonna cure itself. there's money to be made but i might be doing it no longer believing in its immediate future.
cryptocurrencies will never go anywhere but i'm starting to think what's around us now will be looked back on as the experimental and growing pains phase rather than anything that directly survives and is built on into the future. uncool but from the heart.
what about you?
I started in bitcoin mainly with HYIP sites after earning from faucets (ponzi schemes that were quite widespread at that time). Since that point, I have gained more knowledge of the bitcoin technology and the way it functions and also decided to save bitcoins (rather than wasting them on investments/ponzis that are clearly unprofitible).
Also, bitcoin might go somewhere. It is quite likely it will. If not as the currency itself but as the foundations for other currencies and other ways of securities that can be used on the internet.