<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:04 PM, John Grigg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:possiblepaths2050@gmail.com" target="_blank">possiblepaths2050@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"> > I kick myself over it now, endlessly, because I have had my
financial struggles (to say the least), and this could have transformed
my life!</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Stop kicking yourself, you'll go nuts if you keep thinking "if only". By the way in English it's easy to express things in the subjunctive Mood like "if I had invested in Bitcoin 4 years ago and gotten out a few months ago I'd be rich today", but in some other languages it's more difficult to express that thought. M. Keith Chen proposed that these differences in language explain the different savings rates among nations and even the degree they practice safe sex. <br><br><a href="http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/keith.chen/papers/LanguageWorkingPaper.pdf">http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/keith.chen/papers/LanguageWorkingPaper.pdf</a><br><br></div><div>I would be surprised if it turned out to be true but maybe. <br><br></div><div> John K Clark <br></div><div><br><br><br></div><div><br><br><br></div><div><br></div><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Well, just as governments and military's view intelligence gathering about events in the world around them as keenly important, so do individuals. My own personal intelligence gathering failure has been regarding Bitcoin. I think of myself as a person who knows what is going on in the cutting edge of technological development, in large part due to my membership in this list, but I don't remember reading anything about Bitcoin here, until quite recently. I feel like this has become an "old fogey" list of people who are no longer surfing the edge of real world technological progression, at least in a way that can really benefit them. I suppose I should have also been hanging out with the hacker/coder/Libertarian crowd. But I view the Extropy-list as "home." <div><br></div><div><br></div><div>How many of you not only learned about Bitcoin in time to buy/mine coins at very low cost (and later make a huge profit), but upon learning about it, saw an opportunity, and actually seized it? In my case, a Mormon Transhumanist Association friend posted about it to an email list, in early July of 2010, but he was restrained about it, and so not sensing enthusiasm and an endorsement (I respect his intelligence and viewpoints), I let it pass without grasping the opportunity. I kick myself over it now, endlessly, because I have had my financial struggles (to say the least), and this could have transformed my life!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Bitcoin only reentered my awareness, over the past six months or so, due to news about it finally hitting a critical mass in the media. I finally last week bought myself ten little (they do both scrypt and sha-256) miners, and will be putting them to work. This is probably "too little, too late," but at least I am trying, and I view it more as a hobby, than anything else. Also, a very bright FB friend has started up his own virtual currency, and I will be investing in it, with my fingers crossed, that the value will explode sometime down the road. My basic strategy is to buy/mine currently low value virtual coins, hang onto them for 5-10 years if necessary, and then sell at least some of them, as the prices go (hopefully) steadily up. And I can of course sell the cheap coin brands I mine, to turn around and buy tiny fractions of Bitcoin.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, thank you my friends, for letting me rant. I feel like I will still be regretting this botched opportunity thirty years from now! lol This was most likely, a once in a lifetime event, which I blew. You should see all the people on the net, who wrote about their similar experiences of frustration! It's almost endless... </div><span class=""><font color="#888888"><div> </div><div><br></div><div>John </div></font></span><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>P.S. If anyone here builds or comes across a time machine, please zip over to my location in Mesa, Arizona, and then take me back to the year 2009! But not until we look at dinosaurs and then assassinate Hitler!!! ; ) </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div>
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