Thats right. There werent any hardware wallets around back then I heard.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=388169.0This thread always gives some perspective. Lots of people around here seem to enjoy sneering at anyone who sold at $1 but hindsight is always 20/20. If you'd paid less than 1c and it was still very possible it was going to turn to dust then the temptation to make bank would've been too much for most. If I'd been active in 2011/12 though I don't think I would've folded.
Interesting thread, I am going to read trough it fully tonight. Man I wish that I wasnt so damn sceptical about Bitcoin 4 years ago. I still wonder how you guys are not frustrated or mad that so many coins went to shit. I am still mad that I ruined 2 coins while Bitpop had around 1000 BTC. Someone help that dude, first he lost his BTC and after that he's fully supporting ETC in a 1 man army against ETH on bitcointalk. I also saw somebody on this forum (I think he's stil very active in Africoins thread) who's monero was hijacked (around300 000 XMR. )
I probably went fully apeshit when somebody stole all my BTC lol. But threads like this will help people understand why some people are such die hard hodlers. It would be a horror story when Bitcoin crashes to dust at the end of the line and we all end up with 0 while you worked your stash up in all those years . But I feel that I need to take this risk like I did 1 year ago. From all the people I know in real life I only know 1 more dude that knows something about Bitcoin and has a couple of coins. The rest of the people are still in that ''its a scam'' phase or '' I dont trust it''. Well I dont trust some paper with a number on it that says how much that paper is worth. Bullshit.