So I remembered how back n 2015 I was into Bitcoin but bitcoin was not as big as it is now. It was just beginning to break out and things like Bitcoin debit cards were coming out, coinbase had just started, it was very different compared to now! I love looking at my old instagram posts back before steemit existed!
Here is one post I found where I mentioned how Mike Tyson was opening his own Bitcoin ATM back in 2015
can you believe it? Price of BTC was only $295 And I thought that was expensive back then! People telling you back then 'Wait for it to drop lower" were so wrong! hah people were not even rushing to buy back then! No one knew if it would ever really take off in the very mainstream way it has in 2017! But back then there was no guarantee that it would go back to $1000 like it had in 2011! See that made things very strange, it wasn't a completely up hill trend like we have experienced for the last few years now, it had already peaked at $1000 level n 2011 and dropped down to near $100 in 2013, then peaked above $1000 at the end of 2013 only to go back down to around $220 in 2015 and then slowly started picking backup through 2015 and 2016 with the price really starting to perform in the last year and a half!
See how it was down under $1000 for a few years there? and just recently picked up speed (relatively speaking) because going from $100 to $1000 is the same as going from $1000 to $10,000 in a way...people who invested at 4100 got a 10 fold return once bitcoin hit $1000 ... people who invest now at $6000 would have to see $60,000 BTC to equal that sort of gain, but I actually see $60,000 BTC and $1 trillion dollar marketcap as coming much quicker than most would expect! I see $60,000 by the end of next year!
Now back to my old instagram posts about Bitcoin, Here is another post from 2015 where I showed a twitter post about Coinbase making it on CNBC's 2015 "#Disruptor50" list and having their company brand showcased on the giant nasdaq screen in times square.
This was before Coinbase was seen as a problem realy, and more of just a great solution back before there was many ways to actually access the bitcoin market for beginners. I still recommend coinbase to people for the simple act of purchasing bitcoin but I always tell people to quickly transfer that bitcoin off coinbase to their own wallet recommending a hardware wallet like the nano ledger S or a paper wallet if you're advanced enough to set that up... or just use COinbase if you are a beginner and afraid of loosing your own private keys because in that sense coinbase is like a bank for private keys and if you want to trust coinbase thats fine. But one day if you are caught selling bitcoin for cash they will report you to the IRS and it will be seen as capital gains and youll be better off selling your bitcoin OTC over Localbitcoins.com or mycelium wallet app marketplace or just use wallofcoins or just use a Bitcoin ATM! But back then in 2015 this was a big deal for ALL of the bitcoin community!
Here is another Bitcoin related post that I made which was bout story being featured on websites like Coindesk or on the r/bitcoin subreddit about 32 Trillion dollars in hidden wealth being stored offshore.
This story may need some better evidence but it seems like we cannot deny that there are trillions of dollars of wealth held outside the system so the idea that Bitcoin will hurt the governments ability to collect taxes is credulous! There are trillions in untaxable assets offshore anyways so who cares if another few trillion disappear into the cryptocurrency cloud? Anonymous cryptocurrencies like Monero, Dash Zcash and other anonymous cryptocurrencies would be impossible to tax since they are impossible to track! And the cryptocurrency world is moving towards anonymity as anonymous cryptcurrencies gain more and more value. I just wanted to use this story about estimated 32 trillion in offshore wealth to highlight a point about how immoral it is to expect the public to adhere to rules and laws that the elite themselves don't adhere to. So why should anyone want to follow laws that the most successful members of society don't follow? I just like the question this poses, the idea that the wealthiest members of society ALREADY use systems to avoid paying taxes and yet Jaime Dimon comes on TV and claims that criminals need BITCOIN to commit crimes? Blaming Bitcoin for crime is so pathetic! Crime has been around since way before bitcoin was ever invented and drug dealers dont need crypto currency!
And here is a Marine Core Vet I helped set up a bitcoin wallet for back in 2015 and helped him raise $10 in a few day! Wish he would have just kept it and saved it but he needed it then for food! But this was a great example of the kindness of early bitcoin community!
https://www.instagram.com/p/27gA5joh9q/?taken-by=ackza770
( I will try to email him and see how he is doing and if he can get on Steemit!)
And wow here is a screenshot I took on April 15th 2015 of LocalBitcoin listings for Bitcoin and they wer $220 to $250 per bitcoin!
Back then buying a bitcoin for $100 more than market rate may have seemed expensive but just imagine everyone who was stacking up Bitcoin and waiting! Amazing to see such low bitcoin prices!
And here is a Darknet Market screenshot I recorded to show my Instagram followers what the darknet markets looked like!
Notice the fully automatic Mac 11 with silencer for 42 Bitcoins! forty two! That is over $250,000 someone made off the sale of one firearm that maybe cost $4000 at the time! Wow imagine all the arms but more often Drug dealers who just accidentally became wealthy simply because they were forced to use Bitcoin!
Wow I have more old Instagram bitcoin related posts but I will save them for another day. I want to now focus on a more recent news article I just saw today
London realtor will ONLY accept Bitcoin for 17 Million Pound mansion! It's Happening!
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/17m-london-mansion-up-for-sale-but-only-if-you-can-pay-in-bitcoin-a3657556.html
So here we are, in a new era of crypto currency, we are here on the final cusp of the transition where the elite of the world will start using bitcoin and cryptocurrency wand realize how useful it is. the elite of the world will start using Bitcoin and become hooked! Even for the financial elite it is not easy to transfer billions of dollars around teh world like it is with Bitcoin! We see the new president of France using Bitcoin and showing off his hardware wallet on his Instagram!
https://news.bitcoin.com/frances-newly-elected-president-brandishes-a-hardware-bitcoin-wallet/
And of course we should all watch THIS video again to remind us all of the BIG PICTURE of how Bitcoin is as big as Email or the World Wide Web when it comes to changing how our world works and never downplay the importance of Money in any society...
Look here we have a recent story from today about MIT issuing diplomas on the Blockchain in a way that allows people to VERIFY that someone actually has received a diploma from MIT!
https://news.bitcoin.com/mit-issue-diplomas-using-bitcoin-blockchain/
Or this story about LedgerX clearing its first $1 million in bitcoin trades, which is important because they are the first Federally Regulated Platform which may be a huge milestone in Bitcoin. I don't think anyone could have imagined this could even be possible back in 2015! Government regulation of bitcoin is kind of like the government admitting that is a legitimate system and not some ponzi scheme. if Bitcoin was just a ponzi scheme, why would the federal government be needing to regulate it? The amount of money passing through the bitcoin network is so vast and un avoidable that no one can deny its existence and validity as real and valuable money!
https://news.bitcoin.com/1-million-bitcoin-swaps-options-traded-ledgerx-first-week/
This July, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ( the CFTC) has approved LedgerX as a Swap Execution Facilities ( an SEF) and approved it as a Derivatives Clearing Organization (a DCO)
This sort of Federal oversight relating to Bitcoin is just more of a symbolic milestone than anything to be worried about. Let us rejoice at the world's acceptance of crypto currency as legitimate. When Bitcoin is recognized by the entire world as valid money in the next few years, Steem will also be viewed as legitimate because it is also based on a blockchain but one that is even more advanced than Bitcoin! people must first learn what Bitcoin and blockchains are first and then they can appreciate Steem! This will be a natural process and we can just sit back and let it naturally occur. We can help accelerate the widespread use of steem blockchain using basic social media marketing techniques like the work of @jerrybanfield in promoting steemit on Facebook and youtube. if you don't have a stake in steemit you can earn one by dong work to promote steemit and recording the results in a steemit post! This strategy has been proven to be a great way to earn more of a stake like Jerry has done by making profitable posts about his promotion of steemit and posting results of his ad campaigns either free or paid, and it allows you to earn steem by working to promote steem! THEN you will have an actual stake in the network, you see? for all you beginners who really really want some steempower to hold on to, just make posts about how you are promoting steemit on social media! Ok have I repeated myself enough? :D I really think this is an under looked strategy that has enough room for SO MANY people to use! There is enough steem rewards for everyone who is willing to work hard to promote steemit!
Anyway thank you for reading! I hope you all have learned the lessons about holding your crypto? I hope you have seen the mistakes of myself and every other Bitcoin user who sold all of their bitcoins back when they were only a few hundred dollars or LESS, I hope the screenshots of the $200 Bitcoin prices make you realize how easy it could have been to buy Bitcoins cheap back then, and how we should plan for the LONG term! I don't even want to show you screenshots of people with wallets with thousands of bitcoins in them, or times when bitcoins were under 1 penny each or when you could mine multiple bitcoins in a day! On a CPU! :D Imagine THAT! Well, those days are over BUT there will ALWAYS be more opportunities!
If you have questions about bitcoin steemit crypto or making money mining or marketing, feel free to email me zackza@gmail.com or text 619 500 3748 and....
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@ackza The BEST Post of the day no matter how many more things I read about. STEEMIT can make anyone more Wealthy all they need to do is get familiar with how it works, and share it with EVERYONE. I want to write this right now so that I can come back to it a YEAR from now and see how I have progressed. My Current account Value in my WALLET at 1:15 AM PST on 10/23/2017 is $925.88. One Year from today have @jerrybanfield remind me to look and see how much more I have.
@ackza I keep saying this that it is your understanding that determined your stand. Can you imagine your story about bitcoin in 2015 was superb, if I knew about bitcoin then I would have become a millionaire but it's Okay I have steem and I am getting to know about it day by day
You just inspire me again this morning. Thanks buddy.
One love.... our telegram community for Steemit has reach above 1000participants
WOW ! I want to use telegram but i was not able to get onto my old account without my old phone, but my old phone which stopped working finally popped up into restore mode, maybe i can restore it, wasnt restoring , maybe i can get it, ya shouldn't bore you with my tech problems, but yeah i should just make a new telegram account! I should be happy telegram has such great security!
I HAVE to join your telegram chat now! i will download that app on my new android phone and come talk to everyone! We can become like @fyrtsikken and his steemspeak but we can have our OWN club and focus on marketing and do stuff no one else likes to do but me and @jerrybanfield but together with 1000 steemit users under our management can help create MASSIVE marketing advertising for steemit! jerry banfield has given us the blueprint! we can do EVERYTHING he does! it Accumulates! the more marketing and ads bought to promote steemit the BETTER!
Oh! I'm happy I will love to see you in our group on telegram buddy. Minnows will love to see you.😘😍😘😍
I am focussing al on Steem because I love the idea of being able to print money every day for things I like. Like this post for example. ;)
bro we HAVE to make our secret rick and morty project! I have some advice from @inertia to make it a scene of them watching interdimensional cable and a commercial for steemit comes up, and rick is like "can you believe that theres a dimension where peple get paid to use reddit? Yeah they call it steemit"
Or we can have them using inter dimensional internet and rick is like "yeah morty check this out, inter dimensional internet, yeah look people actually pay others to make social media posts!'
We WILl get the script PERFECt and in the MEAN time i can start getting the rough draft of rick and morty on the couch using a laptop or at ricks desk and rick is using his special computer desk, but maybe its BEST to keep it simple and have them on their couch like this
Yeah, I am happy to play around with this. What stopped me so far is the development of the two puppets. Even though their character styles are very simple I am not an illustrator. Maybe we can find somebody to team up with us who is willing to draw them.
You simply make crypto world so comprehensive...keep sharing more as we will keep reading more...steem on @ackza
I made the same mistake not too long ago selling over 1000 BCC at $12. But instead of kicking myself (or continually kicking myself), I’m happy to know that there will be other opportunities coming. I just have to keep my eyes open.
Besides Steem, OMG, IOTA, NEO are all good long term holds and I’m sure one or more of these tokens will create the next batch of crypto millionaires!
I think the Delegated Proof of Stake coins are going to be the big time winners so EOS and Steem and Golos will all be uneffected by these new attacks on bitcoin and its Proof of Work system where anyone with the hashrate the computing power can choose what happens with the network while Proof of Stake allows on majority stakeholders to control the network and then delegated prof of stake makes it even harder to control a whole network especially if something like only 30% of steem is up for grabs on the market so even if someone bought it all youd be unable to have majority stake... so we have a VERY secure system that is also more efficient and entire steem blockchain could run on 21 rasberry pis with a few solar panel arrays, its extremely efficient and we will see it gain incredible value soon because of the FACTS the actual technology the Fundamentals are Strongest with steem! we also have most transactions and also we have the best syste! Also besides the other DPOS systems like Steem EOS golos we also have Bitshares and its decentralized exchange openledger.io which WILL become important MAERKL MY WORDS Bitshares WILL have a comeback, and its decentralized exchange where you can buya nd sell Steem/SBD and any altcoin for Bitcoins and Tether even is just realy really really nice
Trender is next :) ...@ackza new update post on project https://steemit.com/africa/@trender/trender-faq-and-airdrop-hint . Thanks for supporting trender project.
A lot has changed but we still speculative Bitcoin Prices!
A lot has changed but we still speculative Bitcoin Prices!
you double commented but it's ok because i bet you had problems like i had and I have reports from others of having, like having to submit a Post or comment twice, which means steemit looses our shit which sucks and ive had steemit loose I dunno maybe 4 or 5 posts now, after the first I made sure to fucking copy every single post before i post... hah luckily i only lost a few comments but i post long ass comments too but yeah man its crazy, just gotta wait or next hard fork! it will be fixed, its just a problem with the input of one data its not like the blockchain is messed up its just the blogchain input and that can be fixed and also when we input data we can backl it up with a real quick cntrl A cntrl C before you hit submit! ANYWAY
Seriously, I should have known you earlier....... But I guess everything happens for a reason.
Now, I know you and you are in my radar. I'm breaking the boundary of poverty.
If I had bought even 0.5 btc at that time, due to my somewhat disbelief...... Still would have been a big win
All right you say. You can tell me why my fish turned into a skeleton, although I just registered.
Thank you in advance.
Yes, the past will not return, and judging by your article. I would like to return to 2015. Although I do not regret anything ... Without the past, there would be no real ...
wish that time i invested 1000$ :P i could be Millioner now :D
Steem is under $1 now, you can be a millionaire if you just buy $1000 Steem before steem gets to $1000 each! you KNOW steem is advanced and legit! you KNOW steem is special and has a VERY advanced economy within and under the hood all the transactions and witnesses and the nodes and the steempower and delegation is all a very complex system with so much stuff going on and with SMT we will conquer the entire web so you know steem is valuable.. it IS undervalued! steem is worth like $10 with now! at least! its SO valuable people should NOT just leave money on the table and lets teem tokens just sit there when people need to be buying those tokens up! make the price go up! buy up the 30% liquid tokens on @bittrex @poloniex and @blocktrades and start really getting serious ,. someone needs to do this! someone with teh funds should recognize that they can become a billioanire easily.. and thats no fauiry tale, look at buitoin its 100 billion ethereum in the 30 billion range, and steem is around the 200 Million range and has been as high as 700 million at our peak early this year but we have to realize we will get to the multi billion marketcap we WILl its not a question of if but when! we HAVE the team we HAVE the sytem... WEare the ground floor... steemit in a year is gonna be incredible you wont even recognize it even teh UI will be changed the steemit Apop will be out it wil be insane! SMTs will be the talk of the crypto world and everyone and theri mama will want to use that Steemit app to amke money Blogging! and posting comments! incredible meme wars and reddit users all posting rcazy funy meme and comments taht will get hundreds of dolarts JUSt for ocmments
new professiosn will be born of peopel who just amke a LIVING posting CLEVER comments on popular posts and youtube videos! (yes even youtub comments will be monetzied with SMT so peopel will eb able to make money off any comment space on any website soon with smart media tokens! theres even a Porn one where you can get paid to watch porn with steem blockchain its incredible http://vice.org and @adept showed me that one! yeah also he talked to steemspeak.com chat about some amazing ideas called the Project Xanadu and we already hita ll the 17 rtequirements of this 50 year old software roject mean to be better than the hypertext world wide web protocal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
Up am intention on dependent questions.
Man, I wonder how much money you have given out for charity, I am sure it adds up to a hefty amount! You are a good human, props to you.
I just gave out another $5 to a homeless guy who was really really living a shitty life havin back problems getting addicted to pain pills and i found him like sitting on an electrical box just basically nodding off man and i normally woudla given hi more and taken a photo and show steemit but i didnt wanna and i also gave some more money to another dude who was walking from the hospital to the bus and had the hospital band and i mean the hospitals are right here thats probably why there are sooo many homeless here and the canyon network they can escape into that really is just network of freakin canyons that go int every neighborhood, its really crazy and the canyons actually lead into downtown via the 163 freeway, but yeah theres whole hidden villages in the canyons and honestly i dont see why I cant develop these canyons into some makeshift housing for people already living there just allow them to kind of homestead because these are people who basically dont want to live in society and the rent is too damn high first of all, but the weirdos in the city will make weirdo psychopath excuses about how they cant let some people live in a canyon because of some health code when its like they are already living there and the people who OWN the LAND is Mcdonalds basically, the Joan Kroc center San Diego and I bet I could allow these people to just live in the canyon if they just fuckin clean it up and i dunno install some walking paths or some shit they can clean other parts of the city up for work like and very small amount for work too like a day a week or two days a week in exchange for land usage rights basically legal free rent where u cant get kicked off, is a pretty good deal, i wish we could make some deal like this and honestly allowing homeless in all US cities to simply legally have places to stay out in the cutty areas like out in firsts and stuff like Satoshi Forest was such a good idea in Florida, with Seans Outpost which is also on steemit! they accepted donations for the land they bought using bitcoin donations and the money they raised in bitcoin went to helping homeless in this florida county which helped so much is a model of other cities to just allow people to take a piece of private land and allow homeless to setup a tent and they end up with stuff like this
https://steemit.com/money/@ackza/satoshi-forest-aka-sean-s-outpost-in-escambia-county-crowdfunded-btc-to-buy-private-land-to-allow-homeless-people-to-live-freely
See i did a post about it 7 Months ago and it actually came up when i searched Steemit Seans Outpost maybe thats just my nd but id be honored if my steemit post got to top google result for this AMAZING place where they raised Bitcoin to buy land for the Homeless and the homeless end up with these tent houses makeshift but which are VERY cozy with all service they need, they get to decompress live there for free even learn about Bitcoin which has helped a LOT of them as theyve received donations from forums but NOW steemit is here to make iut even EASIER for them to ,make money online off there is a situation to help Steemit look like great place people will want to invest in even for humanitarian reasons! I have even heard someone from a developing nation in Asia say 'I like Steemit because it has the most potential to help Humanity" And I agree, i believe steemit is helping a LT more people now than Bitcoin is! Bitcoins total uses with 1 bitcoin are about 1 Million! thats it! the marketcap of Bitcoin is huge but with 21 million coins and may bitcoin billionaires and millionaires we have a situation where theres only a few people with most of the bitcoin and most people but yeah, Steemit has MUCH better distribution of wealth with MUCH better chances for ordinary people WITHOUT massive Computing power and electricity to Mine to actually Gain new Tokens! Steemit allows its current stakeholders to decide Who gets to rise up into the ranks and become part of the steemit family .. without needing massive proof of work bitcoin mining like with Bitcoin.... or even in Regular proof of Stake Crypto currency you only have current stakeholders getting new coins from just holding their own coins, sure they can give out new coins but most people wont, however on steemit you get to upvote people with your upvote youre steering the conversation of eh website and its just amazing
Congrats you see them. :) nice post.. you living your life to the fullest. i want to see more of your post. done following
Super informative, especially for someone new to all of this :) thank you!
We would still talk about how bitcoin was cheap at $6k, maybe then 1BTC would be worth a Lamborghini price. Two years ago doesn't seem that far ago. Bitcoin is here to stay and would always go up irrespective of the conspiracy theorists claim of it being worthless. If you could afford to buy bitcoin at whatever it is sold, buy. No time is late with King Bitcoin. I know when bitcoin was $700, I wanted to buy, but I said it was so costly, bitcoin today at that price could cause a mad rush of stampede as buyers rush to buy the cheap bitcoin. Thank you.
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