'offered' them?
I suspect most of us were in a position to buy or mine at some point. With a bit of effort anyone around could have mined 100's. I thought it was just a fad so never got involved.
There you go.
Mining for small timers was always more expensive than buying the coins from the market. I still remember the case in 2012 and early 2013, when the coins were available for less than $10 from the exchanges. At the same time, the cost of mining rigs (BFL, Bitmain.etc) was insanely expensive, and they had a positive ROI only after 5-6 years.
Yes i agree on that, bitcoin mining needs a lot of capital for hardware and software but the return of the investment is long time so much better to earn bitcoin through participating bounty campaigns and do strategic trading. I think that sounds good for the bitcoin beginners, it is really true that bitcoin makes us millionare but it is not as easy to get as what we think for all the competency now a days we can only get smaller part of it but depends of how dedicated and skillful you are in terms of online earnings for bitcoin.
Yes there is no doubt that you can be billionaire from bitcoin and I can tell you about some of my friends when they were not a part of bitcoin so their financial status was very bad and since they join bitcoin so they have now too much money and now they have a properties and a very big balance but for these achievements they really did a very hard work.