One of my biggest regrets is not buying a bunch of bitcoin when they were less than a dime a piece. I am active on a few forums where people were discussing them shortly after the launch and buying in, and I just didn't pay attention to it, or look into the block chain tech at the time.
I'd be retired right now if I threw a grand down back then. But I don't think too many people anticipated they would grow to the value they did, and the ones who saw that growth potential are wealthy beyond most people's dreams.
People weren't even really looking at them as an investment back then, for the most part. They weren't something to buy and hold - people were buying and spending them on the dark web and places like Silk Road for bags of reefer and molly, or using them for poker debts online...
like that was their major use then.
Imagine how annoyed you must be, if you had a ton of them, and spent them to get high with, knowing what people know now and the current value.
An ounce of pot probably was 300 to 500 bitcoin back in 2011 on Silk Road, I'm guessing, as I've never been on the dark web. The value of a coin then was around a buck a pop...those same 300 to 500 coins today would be worth $3,235,920 to $5,393,200 respectively.
That's an expensive
ing bag of pot. Better have been some lights out
.