I’ll admit it does help that it never really caught me by surprise. I would hear about Bitcoin every now and then in the years between my early experiments while at university doing silly things with a stack of OpenMosix enabled Linux live CDs like scripting up a master disk on a CDRW (to modify the script each week) to auto generate a wallet spawn as many processes as there were OpenMosix nodes in the cluster and the spend the weekend wandering around from lab to lab rebooting any spare desktop into another in-memory OpenMosix node, and have the master print a summary of the mined coins to a printer Monday morning then delete everything by rebooting back into the normal operating system early Monday morning before students got in for classes.
I had my fun and learned some cool stuff. It’s been the anchor I hold whenever I notice the price of Bitcoin and do the trivial multiplication between the current cost of Bitcoin and what I remember roughly mining all those years ago. But like I said, regular exposure to the ideal does help. It’s much easier to come to terms with “loosing”/not acquiring a thousand dollars or ten thousand or a hundred thousand before it turns into millions of dollars than it is to come to terms with suddenly discovering that something you discarded and never thought about is worth a hundred million.
I had my fun and learned some cool stuff. It’s been the anchor I hold whenever I notice the price of Bitcoin and do the trivial multiplication between the current cost of Bitcoin and what I remember roughly mining all those years ago. But like I said, regular exposure to the ideal does help. It’s much easier to come to terms with “loosing”/not acquiring a thousand dollars or ten thousand or a hundred thousand before it turns into millions of dollars than it is to come to terms with suddenly discovering that something you discarded and never thought about is worth a hundred million.