I just missed a chance to become a millionaire and I feel really bad about it

@louievill (28851)
Philippines
May 23, 2017 8:58am CST
Well so much had been said about bitcoins and how the price of crypto currency had been going up lately, years ago I already knew about bitcoins but never really took it seriously, my God they were just almost giving it away as tipping coin and I thoight it would just go the way of e-gold, tough luck for me. Well at least I was able to get some satoshis a year ago and other altcoins, it wont make me a millionaire but at least it would still be modest money, next time I would keep my mind open but opportunities like this are hard to come
Bitcoin hit a fresh record high above $2,100 on Monday with the cryptocurrency continuing its strong rally.
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@youless (112481)
• Guangzhou, China
23 May 17
Some people are meant to be the millionaire, but some are not. As to you, you are meant to be a billionaire
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
23 May 17
yes I am destined to be a billionaire I am a millionaire already in assets but not in dollars, only in pesos
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• India
23 May 17
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
23 May 17
@anamika161088 @youless is destined to be the next Jack Ma of China
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
14 Jun 17
Share with me some of your millions when you become one ha friend? I don't even understand what a bitcoin is although a member have already talked about it here because she's in a site that give out bitcoins and converted to dollar and paid through paypal.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
15 Jun 17
@louievill Ha? So, they didn't ask for your paypal address when you registered. That's suspicious.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
15 Jun 17
@SIMPLYD btc is semi anonymous, it's not site where you sign up, its digital money in itself. What I meant was if I become millionaire, you will recieve a PM from me asking for your paypal address so I can send your 100k " balato"
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
14 Jun 17
When you recieve a PM asking for your paypal address that's it
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@Nawsheen (28643)
• Mauritius
23 May 17
I read about a norwegian who spent $27 on bitcoibs which he forgot about and to discover that they were worth $886000 years later
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@Nawsheen (28643)
• Mauritius
23 May 17
@louievill if only i knew about it. I would have purchased bitcoins and maybe today i would have been super rich
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@Nawsheen (28643)
• Mauritius
23 May 17
@louievill yes that's true. Those are success stories. Unfortunately there are many many who are risk averse
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
23 May 17
Yes and an Indian man who threw bitcoins for game life and now he only has memories of how he could had been a millionaire., yeah he still plays games till now
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• United States
28 May 17
Yes I remember this and did nothing. I should have but I should have is not going to make me rich now. If so, I would have been there with you to straighten out the light pole. I remember a Lotter do not recall the name telling us to buy bitcoins.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
28 May 17
At least I got some since I got into it more than a year ago, I've got satoshis and a pool of other altcoins not just bitcoins that are still on the high side, just been to the site where I buy using paypal but their inventory is out of stock due to a lot of new customersit's now going down but I would take the risk and hold on to my coins and purchase somemore, that's how crazy I could get. Oh yeah, the pole, you won't straighten it up, we just need to create awareness, that's why your costume for the electric pole dance is ready, If I hit that, the one way ticket to the Philippines would have been ready by now
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
28 May 17
@TiarasOceanView we need American intervention just to get an electric pole straightened up, that's how screwed our country is and you are just the right person to help me
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• United States
28 May 17
@louievill LOL Louie..you make me die laughing mate hahaha I know it right?
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
11 Jun 17
Wow, that's an incredible increase in 7 years!
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
12 Jun 17
Yes for something intangible like bitcoin, its now almost 3k usd, double the price of physical gold.
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@JustBhem (70555)
• Davao, Philippines
23 May 17
Seriously? I mean I also have bitcoins before and I never take it seriously.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
23 May 17
Can you remember where you placed it? or what wallet you created to put it? People now are treasure hunting old pc hard drives that has a not so sure but I think "wallet.dat" file something and try to brute force open it. One bitcoin now is 2,200 dollars, if you can find it you are rich!
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
23 May 17
@JustBhem your old cpu you used to get the bitcoin, for sure you have a wallet there with a password
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@JustBhem (70555)
• Davao, Philippines
23 May 17
@louievill Haha. Yay. Where am I going to start looking for it?
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@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
6 Jun 17
Personally, I cannot see it, and from what I heard, people are having a hard time being able to cash anything out from this. I still expect it to eventually Crash and people be left behind.
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@jobelbojel (35461)
• Philippines
14 Jun 17
If I had known about it years ago I would have grabbed the opportunity to buy and mine Bitcoin
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
14 Jun 17
There is always that " if" lol! anyway it's not late, if you buy now then who knows it mught go up to 10k, 100k dollars but the only thing it would already be too expensive, around 130,000 pesos, the risk now is just too high. Don't be discouraged, there are hundreds of other alt coins out there and one could become another BTC. some are selling less than a dollar so I bought and kept some, who knows.
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@jobelbojel (35461)
• Philippines
20 Jun 17
@louievill I don't buy or won't buy for now. I will just mine manually those free satoshis and exchange to btc.
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@jobelbojel (35461)
• Philippines
7 Jul 17
@louievill how is bitcoin doing so far?
@Tampa_girl7 (50186)
• United States
5 Jun 17
My son was into bitcoins a few years back. Too bad he didn't keep it up.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
5 Jun 17
He did not keep it up? Even if he did not keep it up, he must have set aside even a few ones in some old PC or wallet file, bitcoins do not disappear cause it's part of a blockchain, if it's lying there somewhere and if he could open it, 1 btc as of this writing is now 2,600 dollars
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
6 Jun 17
@Tampa_girl7 oh I see, your son mined coins, yes 6 to 7 years ago it was possible to mine BTC even with just a computet cpu but it gets difficult every year, if he clung on to that he would be a multi millionaire by now. I also have litecoins, I agree it is easier to mine and price had also increased 10 fold. Say good luck to your son for me
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@Tampa_girl7 (50186)
• United States
5 Jun 17
@louievill he had a machine that he built that made the bitcoins. Then technology changed and his machine wasn't producing them fast enough. He did make a little money while he was doing it. I think he only has lite coins now. I think that's what they're called. I'll ask him about the bitcoins. He mined the bitcoins about 6 or 7 years ago.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
7 Jun 17
I guess I have some stashed somewhere.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
7 Jun 17
Go find it, it's big money, people have now gone treasure hunting, looking for bitcoins in old computers.
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@shshiju (10342)
• Cochin, India
23 May 17
There are chances still now. But we are not aware about it. Only it reveals in future like a lottery.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
23 May 17
I buy lottery tickets everyday but the odds of winning is unthinkable, I buy simply because the agency that sells them here helped a lot of people, some I know personally, as to winning I doubt unlike bitcoins I had the knowledge and skill to do it, guess I wasted my time on other things online.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
25 May 17
@shshiju same here my friend
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@shshiju (10342)
• Cochin, India
25 May 17
@louievill Our state government find funds for charity through the lottery.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
24 May 17
my son was given a bitcoin, and i asked him how much is it worth. he did not answer me, so i presumed it could be a hundred pesos worth?
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
24 May 17
One bitcoin right now is around 2,300 dollars as of typing, I checked last night the peso price in another local site, it was around P108,000
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
25 May 17
@ridingbet it cannot be gone, it is there forever, he has to remember what device he placed it, bad if it's in a cpu that he used was junked
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
25 May 17
@louievill sadly, the bitcoin of my son disappeared, or is gone now. the reason? he does not know.
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@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
23 May 17
Its so happen in those time its hard to choose a trusted site to buy bitcoins.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
23 May 17
7 to 8 years ago they were almost giving it away for free, I got serious only with bitcoins about a year ago when one bit was already 420 dollars, now its already 2,200 yes i also have to thank @AkoPinay for teaching me a site called coinsph to exchange to Philippine pesos
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@AkoPinay (11542)
• Philippines
23 May 17
??????????? now it's easy but I only buy cents cents worth (what I can afford to lose)
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@AkoPinay (11542)
• Philippines
23 May 17
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@ShifaLk (17817)
• India
29 May 17
Ohh I hope you get a chance to be a trillionaire Hehe
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
29 May 17
Trillionaire it would be!, don't worry I won't forget you and my Mylot friends, you will all be surprised when you open your PayPal
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@ShifaLk (17817)
• India
30 May 17
@louievill OMG hahaha thank you thank you
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@sjvg1976 (41281)
• Delhi, India
23 May 17
Like you I also missed it. One of my colleague urged me to buy bitcoin but I refused and since then it's been rising high. I am cursing myself why didn't I buy it
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
23 May 17
On the contrary its not good to buy any kind of commodity when the price is already going up since the tendency is to go down, those who made it big speculated when it was an unknown.
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@OreoBrownie (3755)
• Commerce, Georgia
27 May 17
I've never heard of britcoins. I always thought in gets and stuff cost more to buy than to get your money out of them.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
27 May 17
Bitcoin and altcoins is new tech, its digital money, money that would later on replace money and concept that we know today. Just a friendly advice, spend some time on research and reading if you have the time to learn more. It's very interesting and revolutionary similar to how the internet revolutionized everything.
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• Philippines
1 Jun 17
Theres no way I could have known. I mean back then bitcoin was not even recognized as a currency. Back then we just focus on online earning and blogging which was way more popular. But if i could ever go back, it's not bitcoin that am going to focus, it's lottery
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
1 Jun 17
We do not have much control in lottery lol, well Im saving more bitcoins even if I already made a profit, they are predicting it to go up up to 10k dollars in the coming years so I do not want to miss my second shot
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
8 Jun 17
@Letranknight2015 you don't have to buy bitcoins right away, you can buy fractions or satoshis, in pesos. Of course you can get it free thru faucets but it would take longer. I need to work now in my shop will PM you later and show you a secret if you dont mindit would be advangeous to learn it now.
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• Philippines
7 Jun 17
@louievill That's just insane! were do you hell I could buy these darn bitcoins!
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@LadyDuck (471272)
• Switzerland
23 May 17
Sure, if you were not been scammed in the meantime. I know nobody who got rich with bitcoins.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
23 May 17
Not knowing anybody does not mean there is no one, the article says it all, think those who trusted and clung on to their coins made a sizeable amount and most likely they would keep silent.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
24 May 17
@LadyDuck buying shares and buying bitcoins is almost the same, it's speculation, price could go up or it could go down, you could make money or lose money. I think there is a move now to list bitcoin with Nasdaq. If stocks have Warren Buffets, altcoins have them too although btc was built somewhat around anonymity.
One 30-year-old purchased his first batch of 5,000 coins for just 20 cents each. They've increased in value by more than 35,000 percent since
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@LadyDuck (471272)
• Switzerland
23 May 17
@louievill If you know how many times I have heard of people who became millionaire with buying and selling shares. The reality is very different.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
14 Jun 17
I don't know a soul who owns a bitcoin.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
15 Jun 17
@louievill I didn't realize that. Wow!
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• India
23 May 17
Are bitcoin so old? How the hell it was unknown for so many years and now such a big hype all around the world. Well, better luck next time.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
23 May 17
It would help I guess if you do your own research, not just on bitcoins but on other digital currencies. It's not just a hype since Governments have now accepted it as a mode of payment, Japan being the latest. There Is always a next time and the price rise has not stopped.
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@AkoPinay (11542)
• Philippines
23 May 17
It's 8 years old
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• India
23 May 17
@AkoPinay OMG! So updated you are.
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