He ended up losing it within an hour and even though was worth 150 at the time we both laughed as I was so flush with the stuff. My friend Carlos busted out and was bummed and I had like 7.5k of this BTC which still felt like funny money and I gave him 1 coin as a gift. I remember some 500 dollar pots with 100 BTC that would be just under 5 million in todays prices.Īfter I was using BTC for a few years and when was at around 150 I had a big win and was feeling very generous. The amount of trading, giving and taking was pretty immense back in that day. I was also on this poker forum that had a poker room hooked up to it and had like 50 poker buddies we would all talk in chat daily. I played poker a lot on a BTC site called Seals with Clubs.

Unless you had solid relationships you had to meet someone in the real world at a cafe or something and do a transfer, there was a website to find traders all over the world. When it hit 1k in 2013, I was a little shocked but I had a little and just held it because it was so fricking hard to get cash back in the early days. I forgot about it as I was living abroad making great cash and having the time of my life after giving a second chance in my late 30s. I ran through a lot of BTC for about a year, gambling, trading and even giving away. I wish I could say I had some foresight, but in the end it was to fund my poker account. Ten years around this time I first got into Bitcoin when it was really low, below $5. I wasn't sure where to put this so decided to place into the relationship forum because it all revolves around friendship.

Whoever woke me up meme