Early Bitcoin Regrets

Users share personal stories of buying, mining, selling, or losing Bitcoin when it was cheap, often lamenting missed fortunes as its price has risen dramatically.

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Sample Comments

yebyen Nov 7, 2013 View on HN

If you bought $0.25 before it was cool, you probably have over $1000 in bitcoin (like me) by now.

lifeturn Jun 30, 2011 View on HN

I never knew you could buy so much with bitcoin

jlgaddis Feb 28, 2017 View on HN

I bought $11,000 USD worth of BTC at $7. I sure wish I had held on to it.

mml Nov 23, 2013 View on HN

You think you feel bad? I _did_ buy some at $4. 250BTC. Now worth around $120k. Sold at $23.

coffeeblack Sep 15, 2022 View on HN

I sold a couple of Bitcoins years ago at 200$ because I thought it wouldn’t bounce back. Guess I keep what’s left until Bitcoin hits a million.

adtac Jan 11, 2017 View on HN

Quite a while ago (maybe 4-5 years ago). I actually didn't buy them, I mined them. In fact I had totally forgotten about it until I saw a news article stating BTC had shot up to $1000+.>Why are you glad about that?Well, I don't expect it to raise back to USD$1000+ any time soon (it's ~$740 now).

lifeformed Oct 15, 2013 View on HN

I have 1BTC that I got from selling an album of music I made, back when a bitcoin was worth $4.

sli Aug 1, 2020 View on HN

I lost a Bitcoin wallet with ~50BTC back when it was priced at pennies. I was so young then. Oh well.

gesman Nov 19, 2013 View on HN

Someone (actually one of the biggest bitcoin mining equipment developer) donated me 10BTC back when they were about $1000 in total.I tried to sell them but luckily almost got scammed, bank refused transaction and I didn't lose much. So i ended up keeping 8 BTC still :)

IgorPartola Dec 28, 2025 View on HN

Heh I bought at $20 and sold at $1000. It was only 1 BTC. I bought I think 2 or 3 and mined a bit too but back then exchanges got hacked all the time. Honestly I do not feel bad. Every pizza I bought could have been tens of thousands too if I knew how BTC would turn out (or Nvidia or Netflix or the outcome of any major sporting event, etc.). I made a profit and it helped at the time. I am not sore about it because I also do not know how many dumb investments I passed up that would have just lost