You would have sold at $100 ;)

If only I would have had the foresight to buy a lottery ticket with the correct winning numbers.

Yes, there was Bitcoin, however there are always millions of investment opportunities that may or may not pan out. Most don't.

There's always something called as an Index fund. Which more or less tracks the top companies of a country. Unless you expect your country itself to go down, its generally a good lottery ticket to buy.

I'd say just throw in some pocket change in places where you can afford to lose. You never know as the downside is nearly 0, the upside is in millions.

Worse, he would have probably bought them on MtGox, since it was the most popular during those prices.

This is my personal coping mechanism. If I made $10k in BC I would have sold it all and felt very lucky.

I did find a fractional BC on a thumbnail drive in an EOL software wallet for which I had long ago forgotten the password. So that could have happened too.

Gotta be this. Spent hours and hours on Folding when Bitcoin was just getting started, if I’d spent a single day mining I’d be retired now. Doubt I’ll see an opportunity like that again in my lifetime.

I feel like investment regret is a trap as there are so many winning investments we overlook as they are far exceeded in quantity by possible bad investments. Hindsight creates the illusion of perfect information. At least this is what I tell myself to sleep better at night.

There are investments you can make right now that will have the same return - why aren't you making those?

If that is your biggest regret, don't you reckon that you have a very good life so far? (I'm assuming that you live a comfortable lifestyle right now.)

I mined a few bitcoins on a GPU back in the beginning, but threw them away as useless.

In hindsight...

If it's any consolation, while they may not be worthless, they're still useless.

I have "a friend" that buys drugs online to great success and BTC makes it much easier than it's ever been

I ordered an ASIC miner back when they were first coming up. My shipment got held up by customs and they asked me to pay a hefty import fee. I didn’t have the extra cash at that time so I just let it go and forgot about it a few months later.

If I had plugged that machine in, I would have probably retired by now. A few months of mining back then was enough to have life changing amount of BTC today.

Mine is that I said the whole idea was stupid in 2010. When any desktop computer could crank them out at a decent clip, but they were worthless.

I console myself in the knowledge that I'd never have kept the coins long enough for the dream to play out.