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I’ve always been a big reader and I’d heard about bitcoin in 2010. I called a broker for Merril Lynch and he literally laughed at me on the phone and said “are you fucking stupid”. Ended up just buying Google and not learning much more about Bitcoin. I didn’t have much computer experience. When I got to the point where I had to download some exchange and send money on a CC I gave up. I didn’t know enough about it and that sounded too risky for me so I did what most people did. Nothing. The first time I bought it was off an ATM because for whatever reason it trusted the ATM. They way overcharged but I was ok with that because I got a wallet off the App Store and stuck a few $100 in the ATM and my bitcoin showed up immediately. I still didn’t understand it but I was pretty comfortable with the idea that I did have some. Felt more real than the Google stock.
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