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What is your "I could have been rich" story? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I bought Bitcoin in highschool. Not much, though, because it was just a neat concept. There was no reason it would actually skyrocket in value (still isn't).

I had a teacher ask me for help investing in it, too. There was another guy in Canada at around the same time that turned that exact situation into a nice ponzi scheme.