#BitcoinRegret of #BitcoinAt10 multimedia series by @coindesk
2/19 When… Prius?
While the #bitcoin industry is infatuated with Lambos, @Rassah couldn't care less about suicide doors and instead purchased a planet-saving Prius.
There's one catch – he did it when bitcoin was at $22. https://t.co/z4lfuPGbpp #BitcoinRegret pic.twitter.com/QJmUUIZLcu
— CoinDesk (@CoinDesk) January 30, 2019
4/19 Fee-Less? Yeah right…
Back in the day, bitcoin was hard to get your hands on.
So enthusiasts, including @SirBitt, has to go through a number of expensive hoops to purchase the cryptocurrency (in his case, from @SecondLife). https://t.co/194JpzTIbx #BitcoinRegret
— CoinDesk (@CoinDesk) January 30, 2019
6/19 Bitcoin is hard.
And @brianchoffman and others @OpenBazaar nearly had a heart attack when they sent $100 worth of #bitcoin that looked like $10,000 worth.
"I was just an idiot," Hoffman tells CoinDesk in this #BitcoinRegret video. https://t.co/JqWnLxIFgK pic.twitter.com/CuwtAPXuJP
— CoinDesk (@CoinDesk) January 30, 2019
8/19 Every 👏 Single 👏 MIT 👏 Undergrad
In 2014, Bitcoin Core dev @JeremyRubin & friends raised half a million dollars to give everyone at the university $100 of #bitcoin.
In hindsight, that's a pretty good amount of bitcoin now. https://t.co/wRRtgDNuZ3 #BitcoinRegret pic.twitter.com/VvmylaX0ER
— CoinDesk (@CoinDesk) January 30, 2019
10/19 I should've been just an investor…
Sure, launching a startup in the space has its benefits. But @coinsetter's @borntobank said buying #bitcoin would have been more lucrative than the exchange.
And definitely less work too. https://t.co/JfqCUODavy #BitcoinRegret pic.twitter.com/D8xzJlxig4
— CoinDesk (@CoinDesk) January 30, 2019
12/19 Our friend, the Haitian President, was overthrown…
Which put a stop to @Kumail_Akbari and @nickspanos Haiticoin project, geared towards bringing some financial stability to impoverished people.https://t.co/6t6mEZN9Pd #BitcoinRegret pic.twitter.com/BEocQy2YDq
— CoinDesk (@CoinDesk) January 30, 2019
15/19 More from the #Bitcoin Civil War
Bitcoin Core developer @Excellion regrets encouraging @brian_armstrong by telling him Bitcoin Classic didn't succeed because he didn't want it badly enough.
Whoa. https://t.co/j4ZTrfzxqc #BitcoinRegret pic.twitter.com/FAqeRKIPTv
— CoinDesk (@CoinDesk) January 30, 2019
17/19 Just a little dip…
Gianni Versace's famous pool got #bitcoin entrepreneurs Jason King of @SeansOutpost and Moe Levin of @keynote_ae thrown out into the street and banned from the mansion…
At least for a couple years.
🤷https://t.co/sLe8KYKMgS #BitcoinRegret pic.twitter.com/zke25TF7LD
— CoinDesk (@CoinDesk) January 30, 2019
19/19 I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed…
So says @DataTranslator, the co-founder of now-defunct Avalon, which produced the world's first #bitcoin ASICs. To him, mining is about securing the network, not making a profit. https://t.co/27DM1KVMIu #BitcoinRegret pic.twitter.com/hc4wWccE3H
— CoinDesk (@CoinDesk) January 30, 2019
