If it makes you feel any better, almost everyone I know who bought it early, sold it way too early as well. Some could've had millions if they kept it all until today, but they just made a decent amount.

Wanted to put in $7k, at $7, so 1,000 coins. But I didn't want to send a copy of my passport to some shady (Magic the Gathering) exchange in Japan. And it would take 3+ weeks before I could get my coins. What an idiot I was.

I could have bought 10000 btc for 50usd. I’m still crying myself to sleep some nights.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=92.0

The reason I didn’t was because back then that was like half iirc of all btc and I was suspicious.

Horrible thing to say, but at least I feel a bit better now! Too bad I didn't hear about Bitcoin in 2010. I hadn't heard about it until like 2012.

I mined and threw away ~400 btc around 2010-2011 :(( ... twice

Having friends that did this you would be surprised how much of it was mined away. My friend bought some early and lost it all do to mining.

What do you mean?

So in the beginning you could mine bitcoin on a computer but as the price went up to continue mining and pay for power you need better hardware. I believe he just set up the machine to autopay the electricity bill as it mined so he essentially lost his bitcoins paying the bills. Basically there was no payout for mining on the same hardware as time went on.