Quote from: ljudotina on June 12, 2014, 10:26:00 AM

Quote from: Cryptogirl82 on June 12, 2014, 10:14:17 AM

Quote from: Minecache on June 11, 2014, 12:44:29 PM

Anyone else feel like one of the bitcoin losers? We hear a lot about all the winners, now including some 15 year old child, but very little on the currency's losers. I got swept up in the mania last November and dared to invest my life saving into purchasing 1 bitcoin, just as it was near peak. That turned out to be a terrible purchase for me as the value dropped since, so bitcoin has only ever lost me money. Anyone else in my boots? I'd still like more bitcoins but going on my past 6 months my confidence and trust in this new currency has been shattered. Cry

Your lifesaving was 1000$??? how is this possible`?

In some countries, 1000$ is ALOT of money! Dont be THAT guy....

And be glad you aren't in my situation. I'm making US$20 an hour at my day job, but I'm behind on ALL my bills such that late fees on bills and overdraft charges at the bank mean I waste $200 a month just trying not to "drown" financially. Life savings = 0, and has been for at least 7 years now.

All this after several things that I had no control over happened to me and my family. First was the Kansas state "social services" agency getting it stuck in their head the wife and I were neglecting our kids. We weren't but they later made it true because we kept having to spend money we could not afford to spare on lawyers and other issues related to them dragging us into court several times for a few years just before 2007. Then the child support they forced us to pay (both of us, and my wife has not had a job in years and can't get one) pretty much ruined any chance of keeping the home we had bought trying to fix the issues they kept throwing at us. Then what life savings I had (about $25000) we had to cash out in order to pay the back child support just to keep us out of jail. Then in 2008, a board of directors change pushed out the President of the company I worked at, and the new guy did a 20% employee cut. Of course I was one of those.

Ever since then I have not been able to get steady year-round employment in this city, because there just wasn't that many openings during the recession. Then the seasonal jobs I was getting dried up in 2012 and I was unemployed for a year living off some money a relative had until I could get a job. When I did get this job, it was just after that money ran out and I got behind on a couple bills. Due to their policies on utility disconnection, the only option I had was to sacrifice payment of all other bills so we could keep the gas and electric on. Because of that I have not paid a bill or rent on time since 12 months ago. Every week when I get my paycheck, I have to go to the ATM machine to get all of it out as cash, overdrafting the account in the process to limit it to just one overdraft fee per week, just to pay what bills we can and try to put food on the table for another week.

I would LOVE to start buying and selling Bitcoins, but the money just isn't there to do it with. Really kicking myself for not getting in to it back in 2010 when I first heard of it. Sad

I did start getting in to it in early 2013 and had been mining with my video cards, but that wasn't much for about 1.5 months worth of computer time and electricity. At most I had about 1.2 BTC from mining, but had to cash it out due to a lack of cash again. No more mining after that as the difficulty started going up a lot faster then due to ASICs for mining. Now I have about 0.03 BTC left, sitting at CampBX, waiting for me to get some time to write my trading bot (since no one seems to really support CampBX anyway).

Anyway, there are likely a lot of people here who are very interested in Bitcoin and what it means for personal freedom and society in general who can't do much but read about it and hope they can get started on improving their personal situation.

Though I do have a possibility to start participating soon, I hope. I'm getting closer to being able to get out from under these late fees, and the current job is still going, even through it's contract. I've got a good chance that it will become full-time year-round and non-contract. Once that happens I'll be getting higher pay than now, so I know I'll be able to start doing more with Bitcoin.