21 sats \ 2 replies \ @q 30 Jun \ on: What Made You Become Bitcoin Maximalist? bitcoin_beginners
In the past, I've taken my maximalism in stages. Back in 2016, I was a dedicated Ethereum enthusiast, but by 2018, my opinion changed after a revealing experience - I worked as a freelance on project for a ICO as utility token that turned out to be a scam, much like 99.999% of other ICOs. I kept the payment in ETH from that job until around 2019, when my maximalism kicked in. At that time, I decided to exchange all my shit coins and airdrops and Bitcoin forks like Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV for bitcoin . The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent money printing by governments around the world strengthened my conviction, so I swapped all my fiat money in bitcoin using dollar-cost averaging.
To provide some context, I received my first Bitcoin in late 2010 and became deeply involved in the whitepaper, trying to understand its concepts. In 2011, I started buying Bitcoin. I later switched to Ethereum, in 2017 and sold almost all my holdings for fiat. I didn't return to Bitcoin until 2019 again.
What wallet did you use in 2010?
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What is called Bitcoin core today it's former name was Bitcoin-Qt. Managed to forgot my password for my first encrypted wallet, I spent one weekend trying to test all combinations around 2011, The issue was my frequency on typing the password was so high that two letter could swap and if I concentrated to write it correct it would become in the correct order but could some times fail when my mussle memory just made the dance on the keyboard.
Don't remember exactly year but started using the Bitcoin wallet on android by Schildbach which I used in Berlin to buy beer and burgers at Room 77. And also went with Myceliym which was early with Hierarchical Deterministic addresses.
Was doing some reckless stuff with blockchain.info wallets where your wallet was the id in the URL, but it was convenient.
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