As a miner in a pool that shares transaction fees, is anyone else missing the days (not that long ago) of the 14+ BTC block rewards? Although as a user of BTC the low fees are great and probably better for the currency in the long run.
Those were the good old days where it really didn't matter where you mined (as long as the pool paid out the transaction fees). Those 18-24 BTC blocks were great!
imagine the first couple years where it was 50BTC mining with CPU / GPU cards. I'll bet those miners wish they would have made a few changes to their investment strategy! And many likely did amazingly well too.
Some of us don't have to imagine those days. Yes, I would make a change to my investment strategy over then...I would not have kept my earnings from those 50BTC blocks in Mt. Gox's wallet.

Mine on.
I was learning linux on slackware back then. Built and installed bitcoin. Found a block on my cpu after a few days. Thought well, that was cute, and promptly erased it (and the wallet) and installed something else. It wasnt until it hit 9K that i realized what I had done and wished that I still had it.