Thread by @coindesk

1/19 THE ROAD TO BITCOIN RICHES ISN’T ALWAYS PAVED

Whether it was lost or stolen funds, feuds that broke-up friendships, innovations that went awry, everyone has a #BitcoinRegret.

Welcome to the next chapter of the #BitcoinAt10 multimedia series - ow.ly/QwfK30nvTsQ

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.

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3/19 The ole' wiped the hard drive story

.@JosephFiscella is one of those – he mined #bitcoin in the early days, forgot about it and then reformatted his hard drive, erasing everything.

Don't worry, he's still holding out hope.

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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).

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5/19 Who ships money off to Eastern Europe?

Well attorney @Jim_Harper did – $1200 worth, in fact – back in 2011 in an effort to buy #bitcoin. Sadly, the exchange got hacked so instead of getting bitcoin, they sent his dollars back.

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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.
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7/19 Diversifying with litecoin?

In 2014, @geoburke put down a $12,000 deposit in #bitcoin for the first ASIC miner for #litecoin.

A miner (that as some of you know) never appeared.

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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.

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9/19 Bills, Bills, Bills

Every 30 days, @helloluis, who's been living on #cryptocurrency for the past few years, regrets having to cash out #bitcoin to pay his real-world bills.

We get it. Opening mail isn't fun when you're an adult.

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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.

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11/19 Before #ICOs, there were #bitcoin #IPOs

And @ChrisPacia lost a bit of #bitcoin purchasing shares of companies like @SatoshiDICE. From up 10 to down 17 – he then pulled the plug on that trading.

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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.

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13/19 1Money, Milli-o-naire… Wait… Shit…

Marshall Long created a "baller" vanity address, 1Money, and had someone send #bitcoin to it. The problem – the address was insecure and so immediately drained.

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14/19 Shudder, Segwit2x

After the long and metaphorically bloody #bitcoin scaling debate, @bitpay's @spair regrets getting sucked into the Segwit2x agreement.

Long live #No2x huh?

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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.

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16/19 Bitcoin or a roof over your head?

If it were up to @GoBloqSteve he would have maybe waited a bit longer than January 2017 to cash out #bitcoin and buy a house. And then he could have bought four houses!

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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.

🤷

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18/19 A lifetime membership…

To the @BTCFoundation cost 25 bitcoin in late 2012 – about $250. Now @shamoons #bitcoin would have been worth more than $80,000.

Whew.

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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.

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*CORRECTION*: Samson Mow is not a Core dev, he's the chief strategy officer at Blockstream.