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Hacker News, like any news aggregator, pops up new stuff all the time.

The hardest part is keeping an open mind for jumping on early. Hard because 99% turn out to be dud anyway, not to mention our crowd are skeptical bunch.

My biggest "regret" is ignoring Bitcoin/Ether.

Saw Bitcoin posts when it was $5.. nah it's a scam.

Oh it's gone up to $10.. nah it won't go up further.

Went up further.. nah won't buy bcoz already too expensive.

Ether announced.. lolz nobody going to buy another coin since there's already Bitcoin..

Ether goes up.. WTF.

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Yes, crystal balls are in short supply.

That said, unless you were a True Believer, if you bought bitcoin at $5 you probably wouldn't have any left by now. You likely would have sold at $100. Or $1,000.

I know a lot of people that got in early. But only one made millions because he thought it would be the next big thing. Everyone else jumped ship at some point because they weren't True Believers.

I picked up 0.1-and-some-change Bitcoin, largely from "faucets" and a tiny amount of collaborative mining. Basically free, a few hours of screwing-around being my only real "investment". I neglected the wallet, since it wasn't worth anything anyway, and lost the file in a format-and-reinstall at some point. Did something similar with Doge, later. Whoops.

I guess there's 2 ways to approach something that appears to be a scam. One is to avoid it. The other is to get in on it.

So what are you going to do with NFTs? :)