The new Bitcoin technology was keeping its promise. Unless it got hacked or someone would find a fatal vulnerability in its software code it would probably continue to do well.
So I took the plunge and bought a small amount of bitcoin at around $2-3.
Bitcoin kept rising higher and by March 2013 I decided to take some first profits and sold 180 bitcoin at $37.
It seemed like a prudent move at the time.
After all, the price of bitcoin was up over 1,000% from where I bought it and had risen a crazy amount from its early days in 2009/2010.
I was also still worried that the Bitcoin network might get hacked.
So I pocketed a few thousand dollars only to watch Bitcoin shoot up to $181.
Meanwhile, the average person hearing about Bitcoin thought they had missed the boat too!
They looked at Bitcoin and saw a strange new form of money that went from mere pennies to well over a hundred dollars.
Clearly the big money had already been made. It’s too late to get in now... or so they thought.
That same year Bitcoin continued its relentless rise breaking $1,000.
In those early days I always thought of a thousand dollars per bitcoin as a magic round number and probably a good time to take some more profits of the table.
That’s why I sold another 148 bitcoin from my stash for close to one thousand dollars each.