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Originally Posted by Vicky.

Bitcoin depresses the **** out of me..I remember people I spoke to online absolutely ages ago telling me it was going to be huge and trying to persuade me to invest..I ignored them and it turns out if I had listened to them I would have literally been a millionaire by now I was also scammed out of 5 BTC a couple of years back, when trying to buy something online...at the time it was 500 quids worth of coin. Now, its like like 15k! Was bad enough being ripped off 500 quid, but when looking back I see it as thousands now

Yeah, my wife has an old school friend who was an early investor / miner and was telling her it would be huge way back in 2009 when they were only worth PENNIES... but we never did it. Even £10 worth would be worth a fortune now.

We console ourselves by pointing out that if we had invested £10, we would DEFINITELY have cashed back out once it was worth a few hundred .

But yeah a lot of people saw the news about the value rocketing and thought they could make a lot of money, but it was too late to make any real money by then. The people who hit the jackpot are the ones who invested a few hundred pounds back when each bitcoin was unknown in the mainstream and worth less than £1.

[edit reason] instead of "friend" I wrote "thing". Wtf is that