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		1970-01-01 on Oct 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret? Instead of investing $2000+ in BTC in 2012, I decided to pre-order a miner. It arrived a year late, and it sat in the box for another year. When I finally got around to setting it up, it mined for about 6 days and overheated.

1970-01-01 on Oct 7, 2022 [–]

I just did the math. Simply buying the coin and holding would have given me a 132,141% ROI today

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