“I could have been a billionaire, I was a millionaire”: Inside the minds of former bitcoin holders
Bitcoin broke its valuation record again this week. Those who sold their wallets too early are better off not looking too closely in the rearview mirror.
By Damien Licata CarusoThey believe they have made a good return on their investments but admit to feeling a pang in their hearts when they see the green curves of bitcoin, which this week broke its historic record . We asked several former bitcoin (BTC) holders to tell us their up-and-down story with a benchmark cryptocurrency, whose volatility may have caused a few cold sweats.
In 2013, Bitcoin was unknown in France, capped at around $100, and you had to be cunning to buy it on foreign sites. "A computer scientist friend told me about this digital currency to be produced with computers. I saw it as a money factory and bought a few servers for €1,500 to test it out," David recalls.
Le Parisien
