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Could have made 120k
I keep thinking about the Bitcoin opportunity I completely missed, and honestly it hurts
This has been eating at me lately and I’m wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience.
When I was around 20, I received an inheritance of about $10k. This was in 2020.
At the time, I had no idea what I wanted to study, I hated the idea of working a normal job, and I desperately wanted to leave my hometown and figure my life out. So I did what I thought I was supposed to do: I spent the money on living expenses, moved around, worked shitty jobs, paid rent, tried to figure out college/career stuff, etc.
And then I look at Bitcoin’s price history and realize that, purely in hindsight, I had this completely ridiculous alternative sitting right in front of me.
I could have put that $10k into Bitcoin, gone back to my childhood bedroom, done absolutely nothing, and potentially ended up with six figures.
Instead, I spent the last five-ish years working, paying rent, trying different things, and struggling to get ahead financially. And I still haven’t really “broken through.”
That’s the part that messes with me.
I’m also neurodivergent (autistic + ADHD), and traditional employment has been particularly difficult for me. Maintaining a conventional career isn’t something I’ve found easy or sustainable. So when I look back, there’s this horrible feeling of:
I spent years trying to force myself into a system that doesn’t really work for me, when there was apparently a path where I could have invested some capital and bought myself years of freedom.
Obviously, I know this is hindsight. I didn’t know Bitcoin would do what it did. I probably wouldn’t have held through every crash anyway. And I understand that the “I would have just held until $100k+” calculation is fantasy to some extent.
But emotionally, it’s still brutal.
I keep thinking about the alternate version of my life where 20-year-old me just bought Bitcoin and stayed in that bedroom instead of spending the next five years struggling to make rent.
I’m curious if anyone here has a similar story — not necessarily Bitcoin specifically, but missing an opportunity that, in hindsight, could have completely changed your life.
How did you make peace with it and stop obsessing over the alternate timeline?
Because right now I’m mostly trying to remind myself that missing one opportunity doesn’t mean I’ve missed every opportunity that will ever exist.
#cryptocurrency
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I keep thinking about the Bitcoin opportunity I completely missed, and honestly it hurts
This has been eating at me lately and I’m wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience.
When I was around 20, I received an inheritance of about $10k. This was in 2020.
At the time, I had no idea what I wanted to study, I hated the idea of working a normal job, and I desperately wanted to leave my hometown and figure my life out. So I did what I thought I was supposed to do: I spent the money on living expenses, moved around, worked shitty jobs, paid rent, tried to figure out college/career stuff, etc.
And then I look at Bitcoin’s price history and realize that, purely in hindsight, I had this completely ridiculous alternative sitting right in front of me.
I could have put that $10k into Bitcoin, gone back to my childhood bedroom, done absolutely nothing, and potentially ended up with six figures.
Instead, I spent the last five-ish years working, paying rent, trying different things, and struggling to get ahead financially. And I still haven’t really “broken through.”
That’s the part that messes with me.
I’m also neurodivergent (autistic + ADHD), and traditional employment has been particularly difficult for me. Maintaining a conventional career isn’t something I’ve found easy or sustainable. So when I look back, there’s this horrible feeling of:
I spent years trying to force myself into a system that doesn’t really work for me, when there was apparently a path where I could have invested some capital and bought myself years of freedom.
Obviously, I know this is hindsight. I didn’t know Bitcoin would do what it did. I probably wouldn’t have held through every crash anyway. And I understand that the “I would have just held until $100k+” calculation is fantasy to some extent.
But emotionally, it’s still brutal.
I keep thinking about the alternate version of my life where 20-year-old me just bought Bitcoin and stayed in that bedroom instead of spending the next five years struggling to make rent.
I’m curious if anyone here has a similar story — not necessarily Bitcoin specifically, but missing an opportunity that, in hindsight, could have completely changed your life.
How did you make peace with it and stop obsessing over the alternate timeline?
Because right now I’m mostly trying to remind myself that missing one opportunity doesn’t mean I’ve missed every opportunity that will ever exist.
#cryptocurrency
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