Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion

Holy shit, I decided to purge out some old threads in my watch list and I deleted one from the alt section and just because I haven't looked at that board in years now I decided to see what was being posted and I ran into the funniest post I have seen in years!

I think you guys will get a chuckle out of this one! Cheesy

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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5314741.0

I did chuckle. Poor fella, but I guess you have to learn it the hard way. I didn't know a ticket to the moon was a mere $150 though.

until May 21st 2012, when btc price was around $4-5, $150 would have bought you approx. 30 btc. as late as january 2013 you could have gotten 15 btc. i dont think fees were an issue back then.

it is by the way quite ironic, that one of vitalik´s arguments to create ETH was the "high fees" in btc. there are videos recorded where he is critizising bitcoin hard for its fees. cant find any link, saw it on twitter.

ETH is the best financed, most effective global marketing steam roller ever created.

in a few decades ETH will be completely forgotten, some obscure technical dead-end street. but vitalik buterin will be remembered forever for his wonderful contribution to the bitcoin community.

as he coined the term bitcoin maximalism

which started as an injurious attempt and became a batch of honor, a duty and a way of life.

Yes, it's mind blowing to think of how much bitcoin has appreciated in value over the years. But it's even more mind blowing when you realize its full potential and where we will be in, say a decade from now.

I thought it was funny how the guy said that he had found "a gem" and decided to purchase his "precious new found ticket to the moon" for $150, when in reality it was probably just another obscure erc-20 token.

I feel sorry for the guys thinking they are too late to to the party and instead they are trying to find the next new thing, just to be badly burnt by the endless pump-and-dump schemes out there.

As a maximalist myself, it's going to be interesting to to see how this unfolds from the sideline.