My first successful project I made when i was only 18 years old. It made me decent gains for years and there was a business that wanted to buy it off me for 50k. After i declined the offer my project shortly fell apart.
I then made another project that got popular, after i declined the 100k offer it naturally went to shit also.
I made yet another project, watched it go to shit shortly and i just let the domain name expire. Just recently found out that an international bank had bought that domain name. Still wonder if when i had kept it, would they have offered me anything for it?
It was around the time btc had crashed from 1k all the way to 180 usd. I bought 20 btc at 400, sold them all at 1200. Good investment wise but had i held on a few months longer i would have had 400k easy.
My last retardation was when i was researching blockchain projects to invest in, found link worth pennies back then, decided to go all in and get 1 million link, but one thing led to another and i ended up in a fucking shithole country working in a field of cow shit and niggers.
By the time i was back all i could do was watch link troll everyone at 4 usd while i remembered oh yea... i was going to get 1 million of those.
I am 32 years old now. Nothing to show for myself. All i have done are retarded online projects so i got no real work experience. Can't get hired anywhere. Homeless and broke.
Yeah it does seem like some mega tier curse right? Thing is, it's the truth. I have learned to live with it... but i guess in a way i will never get over these things
James White
I come from the age of e-gold and liberty reserve. I still have an uncashed check from homeland security from the e-gold fraud settlement. I never cashed it because i got scared they would keep an eye on me. I hoped they would delete me when i just never cashed it. I guess i will never know. Damn would love to get my hands on that free 10k now....
Tyler Taylor
I also remember selling cannabis seeds on the original silkroad. Customers sent me their pics with closets full of my stash. Felt good, made me genuinely happy.
Jayden Anderson
That sucks dude. I just think you can’t look back at the should/would/could - it drives you insane.
Look at what you have now and your skills helped you earn before so how can you use them to going forward.
David Kelly
I signed up for faucets back in the early days. Transferred entire bitcoins to 20 random online wallets. They are now defunct or no way of gaining my password. Yep I'm a retard. The oldest one dates back to 2010
James Perez
> Nothing to show for myself. pretty good storied to put on a resume though. can't imagine that this would hurt you if looking for a good job
Lucas Flores
All i have now are experiences. I like to think i have learned from my mistakes. Haven't been able to code so my skills are like 5 years old already at least. Which makes me a dinosaur already.
Tyler Thompson
stories*
Colton Russell
If you decided to write about your life, I'd read it.
Ryan King
Remember instawallet? I lost 5 btc there kek
Nolan Carter
Yes I do.
Nolan Evans
So we have established you dont have bad luck, you're just very good at fucking up every opportunity you create. Ok. So what are you going to do different next time?
Zachary Cooper
>I then made another project that got popular, after i declined the 100k offer it naturally went to shit also. don't take the money, get fucked
>btc had crashed from 1k all the way to 180 usd. I bought 20 btc at 400, sold them all at 1200. take the money, get fucked also
Wyatt Reyes
Honestly i don't know. It must be some kind of a mental retardation. Back in highschool i would make a good friend and then just disappear. And not in a psycho kind of way because it actually hurt me really bad for losing a friend like that. But somehow i enjoyed it. Maybe i am fucked up and just screw shit up on purpose? I have though of this before.
Right after highschool i got a job in a pretty good government related office cause i made a good friend. I quit a year later for no particular reason. It just felt good. I think my brain is broken and i just throw a stick into my "wheel" each time i get something going
Relationships follow the same exact pattern. And i don't know why or how to stop it
Christian Ortiz
Hey thanks. I actually started a book once. Thing is i start cringing too hard about anything i do so i just stop doing it. It was a basedboy sob story. Not something anyone would read. Perhaps now i would actually write something sensible.
Dominic Edwards
But yeah because i felt what it was like to live and have a ton of money (from the golden days of when my project was doing good) i will never be able to just be a wagie. I know this would probably be good for me to just DCA but i honestly can't do it. I still have some money in btc that i am slowly using to just buy food. I withdraw a little each month. Dumbest decision ever am i right? But hell if i go be a wagie. I don't drink or do drugs so i got that going for me at least.
Aaron Roberts
I think i am also getting the midlife crisis right about now because alone at night when i am tucked in my sleeping bag i feel genuine dread when i realize i am going to fucking die one day
Adam Howard
Probably the worst missed opportunity was me buying 10k amd stock in 2016 for about 1.80 a share and then selling when it hit 3$, thing is the gains I made I lost during the next few months buying/selling trash stock
Kevin Roberts
I nearly bought a few hundred K antshares when it was about 6 cents but they didnt have a working linux wallet and the I couldn't recover the seed when testing the online wallet so I fucked it off 'until a wallet was available'.
Shortly after it hit $10, then the 2017 pump came and yeah...
Jackson Moore
Once upon a time i thought i was a badass criminal so i did some carding. Fuck carding was easy back then when vbv was only starting to be implemented. Decided it was time to up my game so i got my drop ready and paid 1 bitcoin for a brand new skimmer. Merchant had good rep, lots of feedback, super helpful. Guess what? Skimmer never came. The drop was made to a stolen id so i considered the drop burned just in case. No idea if i just got scammed or the customs picked it up... meh. I used to be such a dick sometimes.
Connor Bailey
move to legal country and start weed business
Sebastian Foster
Isn't it already too late though? Competition is already too high there are literally more weed than smokers who can smoke it all
Jeremiah Rivera
What projects did you do? Can't you do something similar again?
Connor Morgan
No this niche is dead
Andrew Bennett
sorry to hear man. I think most of us here have similar stories, perhaps with smaller numbers, but still it can cause a lot of regret. hindsight is a bastard. the way I see it is: there are always business opportunities, and sometimes it's ok to cash out winnings, even if it means seeing a higher hypothetical return later. just learn from it, and move on. greed is an asshole, keep it under control.
Samuel Hill
No new ideas? If you have anything related to coding, I could help, since I have some free-time to spend.
Juan Jackson
>greed is an asshole, keep it under control Well said, fuck...
Jordan Barnes
I got ideas, i got coding skills, what i don't have is enthusiasm and a marketing budget/plan. Things have changed so much since i was in this head first the marketing tricks i got used to don't even work any more.