How early did you get in on crypto?

[2122Jumpstreet]

We all have that friend who says they got in on crypto back in 2008 (sure thing bud). But really how early did some of you ge tin on crypto?

Me? It was around late 2015 or early 2016. Back when it really started getting mainstream attention.

 

[vicky71083]

I was afraid in start first ever transaction which I did was in Covid lockdown .

I got a client after covid lockdown who wants to pay only with crypto and then I started using localbitcoin.com . He paid me almost 5 BTC in total for his work which I settled almost instantly and now I regret that decision I should have saved atleast 1 BTC .

 

[roydan]

Late 2020 I worked with an OTC crypto broker (did some marketing work) and this got me into it.
Many years before, my mom tried to convince me to buy a bitcoin for $1K and I didn't want anything to do with that. Felt stupid and pointless.
Guess I was the stupid one.

 

[t2van]

I had a friend in uni in the early 2000s who was massively into digital networking and what not and I remember at the time he used to talk about crypto chains I think or something like that. He kept saying it would change the world.

Anyhow years later we all met up at a reunion and when BTC was a thing in the media about buying a pizza with it I think that has to be 2009-11 (time flies looking back) he gave a bunch of us 5btc on a USB stick and said to keep it would be worth something.

He kept going on about block chain and by that point I had a somewhat interest based on a conversation we had when he talked about ledgers etc. I honestly thought it would replace barcode systems as I thought the whole ecosystem of a ledger would be perfect for the food industry imagine say you could trace the chicken in a supermarket all the way back to the farm source and all the places it been between then.

Or you could confirm where ingredients came from, I thought it would be good for product recalls, fault finding, like cars if you had a fault they could trace exactly the component that went into what car and the person(s) who now own that car, or like the whole baby cot bed fault thing here that lead to many deaths years ago.

BUT I don't think that ever took off in the direction I was hoping and I did find some companies claiming to do things like that but there was never any momentum in any of that.

So I went down a rabbit hole and that's when I started to discover various white papers I think they stilled called around late or mid 2013/14 when I grabbed a fair amount of XRP and LTC I think was my fist purchase based on the information I read and I agreed with the project.

Later on then I grabbed things like ETH and then I had hopes for TRX and Siacoin (althoughI think thats dead now - I dont have it anymore anyway)

 

[TheVigilante]

2013 somewhere

Bitcoins Sold all 4 in 2014

 

[LegacyBuilder248]

saw it from the beginning but was very skeptic knowing what governments did to previous attempt to install an alternative currency.
Joined crypto community arround 2 years later in 2010.
Exposed the biggest scams at the time like quark which had CMC #3.
Helped also on some projects but lost interest as in 2012 i got confirmation BTC is an elites product which will go in the end to ZERO.
However i got back in in 2014 seeing it can't be stopped anymore because of humans stupidity and greed and focused on pushing real decentralized solutions.
I was from 2015-2019 one of or maybe even the main leader of bitshares.
A real decentralised project created by Dan Larimer (later EOS).
Its tech was way advanced compared to all other projects.
It was real decentralized but because of that it also had many points to being attacked by establishment even we reached at one point CMC #4.
However the never ending attacks expacially on our stablecoins to depegg them and diffrent kind of groups (expacially the chinese one) who where less interrested in the real decentralization itself but more into making quick money using their DPOS voting power to push their agendas.

In the end corrupt dev's who have been exploited the financial situation over years had way less work or needed to agree on lower income. (they charged $175 per hour fulltime) .
So in 2019 they attacked with a corrupt chinese dev who is living in germany
via a hidden code inside a node update which killed all current voting power and basicly gave whole power to a single corrupt dev with very questionable ethics.

Dev's supported this attack as stupid communist they were not thinking further in hope to get back their lucrative work.
In the end both the chinese and international community left bitshares and its dex making bitshares tank from #35 to #4000+ .

From there i don't focus on tech anymore since real decentralized projects do not exist.Its a myth and focus only where to make money which i will exit before they implemented everywhere the freezable asset doctrin.