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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @alt 17 Dec \ on: How long have you been a Bitcoin investor, and how did you start this journey? bitcoin

Got in around the end of 2020. I was studying, and some friends and I had starting investing (stocks and so on).

I got curious about crypto, just because it was a different asset class. I shitcoined for a while, because who doesn't? I didn't know anything about why bitcoin was made, didn't care about freedom or sovereignty. Like you, I thought I'd missed the boat with Bitcoin and chased faster gains (god what I'd give to buy Bitcoin at those prices today!)

Unlike a lot of people though, I never got burned on shitcoins. I read The Bitcoin Standard toward the end of '21, and never looked back. I got out of shitcoins with a small profit and have been a maxi ever since.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @rikbona OP 17 Dec

I think I can define myself as a maxi too! Recently, I've started reading the bitcoin standard again and it's incredible how different is it this 2nd time I'm reading it...

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @alt 17 Dec

I've read it twice before, and am reading it a third time now. Somehow it never gets old.

I actually gave away my first copy, and recently gifted a copy to a colleague. It's the only book I've purchased more than once at full price.