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I converted $200 in November ish 2017 at 8k. And sat on it for two years.

Then I sold some and shitcoined for a year. In 2020

Then I really started trying to understand what was going on.

Then went only to Bitcoin in 2021. Aside from my fiat job and things tethering me to that system still.

I began regularly stacking at top and all the way down and to today.

I'm still on this journey. Yes I would have more if I went harder when I started. If I had pushed myself to understand and learn. But I don't regret it.

At some point my weird gamble, play money, became my real money. And took me on an exploratory and investigative trial I've not yet made full sense of. But I do question more, and pay more attention to the systems at play.

I'm not a whale.

But I think despite that, what I have managed to understand, and being able to play around and support people here, as little as I can, has made me feel wealthier for it.

It's been a weird 5/6 years. I do believe I, and all of you here, are still very, very early.
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Crizzo 2y ago

I have almost there same story. Got rekt in shitcoins in 17/18. Gave up. Came back early 21 and became a maxi in less than 6 months. Wish I got it the first time, but I'm definitely not too late.

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poe😱 2y ago

At some point I really realized what was going on and it was like I got hit by a train. I can't remember exactly when but same, within months of really focusing and trying to find good content and voices it was over. The proverbial lightbulb went on.

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Crizzo 2y ago

Yeah I don't think the content was available back in 17/18 anyway or there was too much noise in the way to find it. I kind of knew the technology was a major innovation, but didn't really understand how exactly, so it was easy to get distracted by all the bullshit. Once you zero in on it though there's no getting distracted anymore. The laser eyes are a really apt meme for Bitcoiners 😂

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poe😱 2y ago

Andreas Antonopoulos really helped me sort it originally, but yeah, it was too amorphous to me then. Once I really understood the block size thing it clicked I think. That may have been my real hold up, the scaling.

That is still on my mind, but without a fair underlying distributed robust network it wouldn't matter. So I think that was my last realization. And now here, playing with all the lighting implementations and going back on chain and all that, has been a whole new perspective.