Even you, Findingnemo, are getting into OG status with nearly two cycles under your belt, and it seems to me that the first cycle is the most difficult, yet it still frequently will take a couple of cycles for guys to really start to get to a point of having enough or more than enough bitcoin, unless they were able to front load their bitcoin investment at some point in their first cycle.
I might be able to relate to you, since I came to bitcoin (got started in bitcoin) about 1 cycle before you, and I also came to bitcoin at or near the top of the cycle... Mine entry into bitcoin was November 2013 - even though my forum registration was February 2014.
I did the terrible mistake that one can make, I was supposed to enter the market in 2014 itself around the same time period you entered but I wasn't so sure about bitcoin because I had no idea what it is and people who told me about bitcoin isn't that much clear about what it is, they just created an image like bitcoin is investment which is one of the reason I had my doubts and went huge on other path that end up terrible again my huge capital went down not just to zero but to negative that is where I lost a cycle or else I would have been sitting with a bigger stash.
But, hey... Better late than never...
So my first cycle isn't very shaky, I knew what I missed and I swore that I am not gonna make the same mistake.
And finally, JJG claiming me to be OG and becoming legendary on the same day should be some kind of sign for all in...before the UPtober.
ff in
I had a buddy (Qazz...ie Don Guse worked for UNISYS and NASA) who was all over this stuff for crypto and algo and such early days) Anyway he passed away in 2005...I also
out in the sticks of Minnesota...so heard about it had no one to talk to and no skillz to do so....100% sure I'd have gotten into it ..even with him on the east coast and Unisys)
So in January 2019 I took the 4 towers of CPU's down for the lost gonzo bbs and litterally was looking at them thinking it was a shame I could not use them for anything.
Time goes on. I get into Bitcoin with a KNC Jupiter 550gh Miner (bought July 1st 2013 at $69 BTC) and plugged it in (was full of water and in pieces...got it dried out and and I put
the fans and all that back together) turned it on, the day I got it, 0ctober 18th, 2013) with BTC at $150 sometime that day. A more depressed individual you did not see. I had to
post on the KNC site (got a rapid reply that day no idea why) on WHERE THE HELL IS THE SWITCH) I paid $5,131.80 with shipping and it had no frigging switch. The told me to get
a computer PSU and short out (i think it was pins 19 and 21) with a paper clip cut in 1/2 with black tape to hold it) My Goddaughter was there and saw me pick it up in soaked and
rattle to the box and to this day says it was the most depressed she ever saw me.....so I'm sitting in water in the basement ...shorting out the motherboard pins to get this
running. It started right up. Made I think 1 BTC as day. But sooooo depressed. I missed the boat..this piece of sh*t won't last....I should have just kept btc for that amount and
price july 1st at $69 (remember I got into this as a hobby ..bored...to save the $50 a month in electric to put the game server back up...pay for mu utils on the house for a year
and help micro-lending in India..which was a deal at the time) .....back my other point my buddy Qazz. I stumbled into at one time what as called WhaleTalk Chat...somehow
I was invited and all the big boys of today were on there...made their billions on bitcoin with laptops...I was trying to bow out but some knew me from bitcoinalk and wanted
to ask me about ASIC mining...eventually the chat went away from just newbs piling on..but hey...anyway on one time and 2 guys from NASA got on..had a .jpg for at the time
looked as complex as the circulation of the human body in detail..it was done over a high res map of the world...they bought super computer (at the time) to render it. What is this
we say....their names was nasa123 and nasa124 or some such with numbers behind....anyway (if i can find it i have copy of this chat saved someplace) anyway..they were
tracking a big time btc hack...for over 1 year or a 1.5 years or something like that. Are you having luck...NOPE they said but the MATH WAS GREAT....so I asked them if they
knew Don Guse above who died in 2025...oh he was their boss....he was a great guy...I started to hit my head on the counter top...all these friends of my buddy....who all worked
under him are easily bitcoin billionaires now..but I was so far out in the boonies I never got a call or had any contacts
so anyway...long story short (again I type as fast as I think) .............I get your pain......sometimes that is how life works I think. But back when it was hard to HODL I'd thnk
what would Qazz do...and it got me though the usual newb rough patches when i could have sold. Anyway I have to dig out the text capture somehow from backups from 2014
I think it was. But yeah, sometimes life is weird how stuff shakes out.
brad