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Comment by seizethecheese | Hacker News Reader

At least you didn’t buy bitcoin at $200 and sell at $400 thinking you made out like a bandit, like me. (I basically never think about this though, and it shouldn’t hurt your soul.)

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Heh I bought at $20 and sold at $1000. It was only 1 BTC. I bought I think 2 or 3 and mined a bit too but back then exchanges got hacked all the time. Honestly I do not feel bad. Every pizza I bought could have been tens of thousands too if I knew how BTC would turn out (or Nvidia or Netflix or the outcome of any major sporting event, etc.). I made a profit and it helped at the time. I am not sore about it because I also do not know how many dumb investments I passed up that would have just lost money.

You did make out like a bandit. 100% returns is incredible.

Would have been like 43000% returns if he'd held it tho.

Absent the rampant criminal outcomes that many experienced who otherwise had gains.

Hey that sounds familiar. I did buy AMD at $2 and sold it at $4 when first Ryzen came out

You must have a time machine, because when the first ryzen in 2017 came out, AMD price was around 12 - 13 USD.

The last time AMD was at 2-3 USD was in late 2015 :-D

I was working with Bitcoin in my job back in 2013 when it was around 40-50 USD - if I see the charts today, it makes me cry every day - esp. since I was in that role, on the institutional side - and I didnt believe in it.

(though, I have to admit I was a student back then, but just a few weekends less with the colleagues would have made me a wealthy person)

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