You know, I knew about bitcoin in the very early days. Not pizza day early, but not long after. I didn't buy any for many years... I just watched the news and wished I had acted for a long time.

I often ask myself why I didn't act. My excuses are thus:

1. I had very little money. I started my 1st 'career' in 2010, and was probably 2 or 3 years into the job when I first heard of bitcoin. Bitcoin was pretty cheap still though, so it's not a perfect excuse.

2. I had zero friends with any knowledge on the. subject. It would have been very nice to have been shown the ropes. Unfortunately, my bitcoin journey has been a very lonely one. 🤷‍♂️ I think this is a more valid excuse; For better or worse, I'm a very socially motivated person.

3. It took a long time, watching cycles to feel comfortable with the ebb and flow of the market. Booms and crashes were little more than exciting headlines at first, but following the news without skin in the game helped me feel better about my eventual first purchase.

4. In 2016 I attempted to create my 1st bitcoin wallet. I remember that I was really confused by the passphrase I needed to store. It seems silly now, but I actually never finished setting up the wallet because thus stage seemed so foreign to me.

5. When I finally bought crypto for the first time it was 2017, and it wasn't bitcoin! Bitcoin started to get really expensive (it was $20k by 2018) and new cheaper coins like TRX and XRP had hit the market. The thinking at the time was: If bitcoin did it, these shitcoins might too! 🤣

6. I made good money buying/selling shitcoins for a while (small time money, but large percentage gains). Unfortunately, his reinforced my shitcoin habit and kept me from purchasing bitcoin. Crypto became synonymous with quick action and hodling was anathema to squeezing a quick buck out of this phenomena.

So... those are my excuses. Looking back on my life, Bitcoin represents the best chance I ever had to be truly wealthy. If I had acted on my gut when I first took interest in it, I would live in a mansion on a tropical island now. C'est la vi.

As has been said before, everyone gets bitcoin at the price they deserve. Carry on.