I was there 3000 years ago during the initial kickstarter and got taken in by the grift for the $5 starter ship.
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Ha ha, imagine being wrong about something in the past. Couldn't be me.
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They're burning the planet down and their only transactional use is to buy child slaves and the like, but some days I can't help wonder what it'd have been like to buy into the bazinga bonanza then cash out those bitcoins at a perfect time. Being too rich to have to work anymore would be nice. :edgeworth-shrug:
That's part of the scam I suppose, makes it a lot easier to con someone into dropping money into this shit if there were folks who made money with it some time in the past.
Bitcoin wasn't a scam, it was created by an actual ideologically driven AnCap and for years the main bitcoin peddlers were people who genuinely believed in it as the currency of the future. It wasn't until Ethereum that the floodgates opened and it became scams all the way down.
Bitcoin is still inefficient and will never replace centralized currency, but I think it was created by someone who genuinely thought it would be a good thing for the world. It wasn't, of course, because AnCap beliefs are simply wrong, but I do think it was supposed to be a sincere effort.
Even investing in a Ponzi scheme can be profitable if you exit at the right time
Chances are if you were in early enough to get rich from it, you would have been one of the people taken by the early hacks like Mt Gox or have them on a hard drive you forgot about
I wonder how many coins have been taken out of circulation by hardware loss/failure? It's gotta be a significant number.
Even without all the problems with exchanges, lots of people just plain misplace/lose their private keys. I spent some time doing customer service for a wallet app (don't ask) and I'll just say....many such cases.
lol I had a hundred of them in college when they were worth pennies or a few dollars. at the end of the school year, we scrapped that computer for parts and I'm pretty sure the hard drive went to a landfill. the coins were a novelty and I was pretty sure they wouldn't replace money so I didn't sweat it. I did sweat when the coins went north of 20k, though. slightly more hoarder tendencies and I'd have had "never work again" money.
it sort of does in that the public key associated with the wallet is used to derive what's inside it. that key is extremely lost and I didn't keep backups. if I had it, I'd be able to restore the wallet.
I'm still sitting on a fifth of a bitcoin that I got for free. It was worth $12k at one point, no idea why I didn't sell it then. Not rich enough to not need to work, but still a good bonus.
I actually had a fourth but I cashed some of it in 2018 to buy a Switch and some games.
tbf there’s at least $5 worth of gameplay out there already. You didn’t fall for the scam like some people. I’m assuming you got you two candy bars plus tax worths of SC
I've never touched it. By the time they released anything I'd long since drifted from the friends that I would have played it with.
It was 5 dollars? I thought the long boasted about minimum buy in for the worst ship was $40, or $50. Maybe it was cheaper back in the day? :edgeworth-shrug:
Was it? I honesty don't even remember, maybe I just bought a skin or maybe I am just trying to forget getting milked for $50.
You weren't milked for hundreds or even thousands so at least there's that.
Some of the most expensive nerd chariots are still not in the game after being sold for 8+ years. :brrrrrrrrrrrr:
At least I knew bitcoin was a scam from the start but then I'd be fuckoff rich if I'd mined a couple coins when I learned about it extremely early on :agony-minion:
That's how a lot of grifts work: most of them are total losses for anyone that gets involved, but a few have early adopter profits (Ponzi schemes work this way after all).
We really couldn't have known. I underestimated how greedy and ignorant bazingas would be for a "universal adoption any moment now" uselessly janky and slow to use quasi-currency that'd be even jankier and slower if too many people used it.
The decentralized nature of the ponzi scheme's upstream probably went under the radar of a lot of people's ponzi detectors.
Then you have a lot of morons going on endlessly saying thinly veiled versions of "how is it a ponzi scheme if I benefited financially from getting in early?"
I grew up with a guy who started buying it when it was $20. He went full crypto fash and started ranting on FB about how he couldn't find a trad wife who agreed with him that feminism was a disease.
To this day, ".eth" as an online name suffix is relationship repellent and it deserves to be.
.eth is awesome because it self-identifies you as annoying, gullible, having enough money to scam, and deserving of getting scammed.
Know another guy who put an .eth on the end of his Steam handle and had some NFTs that were going for like 80k at their peak and was talked into hodling.
I'm fond of saying he's one of the most gullible people I've ever met. Can convince him of just about anything if you sound authoritative. He might still be worried about chem trails.
I have always maintained that chem trails are real and they're exactly as bad as all the conspiracy theorists say and they're called jet fuel exhaust.
and was talked into hodling.
At least there's a happy ending to that story. :stalin-feels-good:
It was very funny when I asked our mutual friend if he still had his shitty alligator drawings.
I didn't buy any Star Citizen jpegs.
If you didn't buy any Star Citizen jpegs either, you're already a bit like me.
Making mistakes and getting burned is how we become better people. Boomer PMCs were shielded from their failures for decades, and look how stupid they act when forced into reality.
It's ok comrade, I was a different person 5 years ago so I can't judge you
So long as you've learned and grown since then, you're good
I only heard of it last year so IDK how to judge you other than "NFTs bad" and I'm not that familiar with it.
NFTs didn't exist back then, it was just a kickstarter for a videogame in the beginning.
It was the most succesful KS of all time. Raised hundreds of millions and still does not have a release window.
Well it was always a scam, because they never intended to deliver basically anything they promised. But it wasn't that obvious back then
Intention is a tough thing to judge. If someone involved in SC in the early years told me that they genuinely thought it was going to be a two or three year initial development cycle, then release and dlc/updates, I would believe them because that's what they were saying it was going to be - but then the feature creep kicked in, Roberts learned that he could sell non-existent ships for big money, and the whole economy of the game evolved as a result such that actually releasing it no longer makes sense for the company, so it was at some point after the kickstarter that it consciously became a scam.
I think i spent like $50 back in 2015. Any day now I'm sure I'll be able to play Squadron 42.
I carried the fucking citizen card in my wallet and I kept bragging about being one of the people with a 3-digit ID
Is the starter ship in the alpha? have you walked around your digital hangar bay and admired it, or flown it around by the river?
I paid money for ship skins in Elite Dangerous, a game I am not interested in playing without a HOTAS setup, and I don't have the money for a decent one
The $70 set I had before was shit too, but I liked pretending to pilot my space helicopter
