RE: My First Crypto Buy...Tell Me About Yours!
Good post, it's kinda funny oftentimes we remember our first time doing something. I honestly don't remember my first time making a buy, though I do have memories of very early on getting into crypto. I remember it was around Thanksgiving or Christmas of 2012, I remember sitting at my moms house on the couch with my laptop looking at my Bitcoin portfolio but don't actually remember the moment I pulled the trigger.
I remember my first altcoins I bought on Cryptorush.In which actually did an exit scam. I think my first coin was lightening coin or something like that. This is way back when it was pretty difficult to buy Bitcoin let along altcoins.
That kind of scared me away from altcoins for several years, I think I didn't buy another altcoin until Coinbase listed Ethereum
I cant believe that you were buying bitcoin in 2012, that feels like a million years in crypto-world. I imagine those exchanges being super shady. I always say "oh I wish I would have started buying crypto 5 years ago" but in reality I know that I probably wouldnt have done it, and if i did there is no way I would have held. Have fun in Mexico! Post from Surfin Burrito when youre there :)
While it's awesome to have gotten in that early, sometimes I think my timing of when I got in was really bad in the sense that it kinda scared me away. Back then Bitcoin and crypto wasn't taken nearly as serious as it as today, think few people ever thought it would see the adoption and growth we've seen to date.
I got in before the big rise to $1200 and the crash back down. It was also before there were really legit exchanges so I got burned by cryptorush.in and that experience kind of scared me away from exchanges and altcoins for a period of several years until Coinbase started rolling out Ethereum and Litecoin.
While I got in early I think after seeing the big crash and being taken by an exit scam if I remember correctly I wound up pulling out most of my money thinking this could all go to nothing.
Even today looking back it makes me sick seeing my old Coinbase transaction logs and seeing how cheap I was selling BTC, ETH, and LTC for, if I had even a tenth of those coins today it would be huge money.
Not really anything to lose sleep over as it was a different time but just kind of interesting. I remember back then I was running the full blockchain wallet on a netbook lol so goes to show how much thigns have grown since then.