The incredible story of how I missed the boat on Bitcoin,
still got rich, and how you can do the same...
The year is 2009.
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I am sitting in my office in Asunción, Paraguay.
It was talking about a new kind of digital money called “Bitcoin”. As I read it, I immediately realized what a potential breakthrough this new technology could be.
But of course I was skeptical. Unsure if it would really work in practice.
I decided to buy a few bitcoins just in case it was for real and would go on to become successful.
After all, one bitcoin was worth just a few cents...
So I went online to see where I could buy some.
But there was a problem.
There was no marketplace to buy or sell bitcoin. Bitcoin was too new. Such exchanges simply didn’t exist yet.
I knew there was a process for “mining” bitcoin.
But I didn’t want to spend days setting up an extra computer. And then install the software, figure out how it actually worked and keep watching over my mining computer.
It was too much of a hassle just to get my hands on some bitcoin that were worth almost nothing at the time.
So I decided to keep an eye on Bitcoin and monitor its progress.
I had gotten busy with other projects and suddenly remembered to check on Bitcoin.
I was shocked to see that the price was over $1.
Bitcoin shot up to $20,000.
Bitcoin was all over the mainstream media and millions of people learned about this new form of money for the very first time.
And as you can probably guess, the average person who had just heard about Bitcoin thought they had already missed the boat.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1npnbPzrHmU4yT0z5ekewvg9fuJiHur7Y685BgOIKDSE/edit?usp=sharing