I learned about it here, but everyone said it was a scam and not to buy
A superposition of wrong and right if there ever was one.
Easy to kick yourself in retrospect but if we could see the future we'd all be millionaires. AAPL was $0.28 in 2002 (adjusted for splits, something like $12 at the time).
It is still a scam. Its just that critical mass of delusional people bought into it like Gamestop or Tesla stock. Even super obvious scams like Nikola take years to register price wise.
I learned about it from my friend, but couldn't bother with downloading a wallet client and mining etc
Why pain? Bitcoin is still there for you.
You probably would have sold or lost them anyway. Probably a tiny percentage of people from 2011 still held
As someone who has been into crypto since 2012 and isn't rich, yep
... and? What is happening with people's attention span?
You're supposed to be able to fill in the second half of the sentence based on context. They consider it to be obvious from the first half.
They must be an expert in number theory. I have a marvelous continuation of this sentence which