I read about Bitcoins somewhere on the Internet back when 1 BTC was $1.50. I started mining it, mostly out of pure technical curiosity, I just wanted to see it in action. After getting involved and having my wallet filled up a bit I started to think whether this could be an asset for the future and I should buy some, as mining with my CPU already wasn't really worthwhile anymore at that time. Talked it through with my girl, but our financial situation wasn't very good at that time and the maximum 1500$ we could have spent on it didn't seem to be much compared to what I knew about traditional investments. So we decided not to.

I stopped mining too and even completely forgot about BTC when I reinstalled my computer...without making a backup of my wallet.

Bitcoin got my attention again when the bubble started to grow this year and it was at $200. I remembered by decision about not buying the ~1000 BTC which would have been worth $200,000 (and still $140,000 today).

So what's your story for the Regret Thread? Maybe you have told it elsewhere already but please put it here, where it really belongs to