RE: How Bitcoin Slipped Through My Fingers

Bitcoin had 0 adoption back then. It's the same reason I didn't buy 100 off my mate a $1 a piece back in Jan 2011...No one, even tech savy computer nerds like me at the time truly understood crypto back then. Very few bothered to spend the time learning about it. Hence why 99% of people who did have that one crazy friend tell them that Bitcoin exists and it = Internet money = The future, most of us sat back and said 'Well it sounds cool, but you would literally need millions of people to adopt it and place perceived value on it. And perceived value only comes once it has a real usecase' and back then usecase was lacking severely and so we didn't buy and Bitcoin became a back of the mind thing for many years.

Better late than never friend. But if you look at the money waiting to come in to BTC now (Banks, Corps, even Countries where the bulk of the money still to come in is), you'll find your still early enough to carve out a nice retirement plan from here.