Sometimes I wonder if I hadn’t been so paranoid, maybe I would have mined Bitcoin early, when it was worthless, and would have become extraordinarily wealthy.
I never expected it would become so popular.
First, you say that you might have become extraordinarily wealthy if you had mined Bitcoin early on when it was worthless, and then you say that you never thought or expected it would become so popular. So my question is, how would you become extraordinarily wealthy by mining Bitcoin if you never expected it to become popular? Because you could only become wealthy if you could hold the coins you had mined back then, and with that belief, you would never hold your coins for long, and would probably sell them for pennies like everyone else at that time. Why do you think a guy bought 2 pizzas with 10,000 back in the day, which would have been worth more than $1.1B in the present? It was because he didn't know Bitcoin was going to reach where it is today.
Your story sounds too illogical to me, and that makes me think it's not real. You also mentioned about developing a payment gateway and claim that it's still being used but you never got any money from it, which is another illogical thing to say because you wouldn't create something and just give it away without getting any monetary benefits from it if you ever wanted to make money from it, and if you didn't have plans to make money from it, there is no need to mention that at all.