213 sats \ 0 replies \ @kurszusz 5 Feb \ on: Writing Contest #1 BooksAndArticles
So...here is my "Bitcoin journey" from the beginnings...
1st chapter:
I heard about BTC first time ever in 2010. On this time I was registered on many PTC sites (Pay to Click) to earn some money on my free time. Once, when I wanted to cash out from one of these sites the amount of $9 (nine US dollar), the site suggested me to create a BTC wallet, and swap my $9 to 500 BTC (five hundred Bitcoin) instantly, and they will send this amount of BTC directly to my wallet.
I thought "what the hell is BTC", I have read 1 article about BTC, and the first page from litepaper...but I thought it is a scam for sure, and remained with my original plan, and cashed out $9.
This was the first BIG MISTAKE!
2nd chapter:
Secondly... I started to read about BTC on 2015. After our wedding with my wife I tried to convience her to buy some BTC from our wedding money. I would have liked it to buy 10 BTC (price was around $250 / BTC), but my wife didn't believed in, and most probably I was not enough convincing.
Important to note, that on this time I thought about BTC strictly as a short / middle investment to make more money.
3rd chapter:
In May 2021 I was on my brother's bachelor party, with a lot of friends, and some unknown peoples for me (these were my brother's classmates). I started to talk with one of these "unknown people" about finances, and he told me about BTC. We talked a lot, and he explained me the real utility of BTC, that is not just a financial device, but much more than that: it is the key to own your freedom, and to not depend on financial institutions.
After this party, I maded a Binance account, and bought a middle pack of BTC, and started to read and learn about. This learning process is still continues even now.
Right now, I consider BTC a long time "investment"...investment in my future, and a possibility to exit fiat, because:
To buy BTC to make more fiat it is very different from to buy BTC to exit fiat. It's not the same...
As one of my friend told me: to buy BTC with fiat, and to sold your fiat for BTC have the same result, but have a very different (the opposite) way of thinking!