had I invested in Bitcoin before the insane price increase. It's specially annoying as I saw it a lot of times back in 2009, but I don't want to be involved in criminal shit I though... ahh fuck.
You didn't research it very thoroughly if you thought it was criminal. If it's any consolation, thousands of people researched it more than you did and even contributed to the community without buying in. There may be hundreds of reasons, that you didn't have money at the time, that paypal blocked your account and you got burned etc. etc.
The question is how many thought "omfg $100, I really should have bought some earlier, I'll wait until they get less expensive" and are kicking themselves now. The major exchange turned out to be a scam, China decided aganist merchant adoption, and not once did we dip under $400 for very long.
Oh yeah I didn't. I thought "all this people will eventually get screwed". Like they would trace back the coins to the owners and shit. Also I just was scared away by the paedo and drugs stuff, so yeah I just forgot about it and thought it was "some deep web shit".
My husband and I were careful not to invest either because of the relationship with drugs, money laundering back in 2012. We waited until we heard that some money laundering rules were at least being put into place before making our first purchase in 2013 right before the April bubble. Unfortunately we did not go "all in" at that point and just put our feet in the water so to speak.
I feel like fear of the government cost us a few thousand, if not hundred thousand, at this point. At least we are involved now and it is still early!