Specifically, I first looked into buying some. I found that all the exchanges required far more of my personal information than I was willing to submit to what looked like and, in retrospect, very well may have been a scam.
Next I tried to mine some, but I didn’t own any computers that could really do it effectively. I only had laptops and if I recall correctly I didn’t have enough spare disk space to hold the blockchain.
I could have persisted along the route of purchasing the bitcoin and exposed myself to really quite significant financial risk. I could have persisted along the mining route and purchased a new expensive computer. While I felt like bitcoin could become A Thing, neither of those options seemed worth the tradeoff.
Specifically, I first looked into buying some. I found that all the exchanges required far more of my personal information than I was willing to submit to what looked like and, in retrospect, very well may have been a scam.
Next I tried to mine some, but I didn’t own any computers that could really do it effectively. I only had laptops and if I recall correctly I didn’t have enough spare disk space to hold the blockchain.
I could have persisted along the route of purchasing the bitcoin and exposed myself to really quite significant financial risk. I could have persisted along the mining route and purchased a new expensive computer. While I felt like bitcoin could become A Thing, neither of those options seemed worth the tradeoff.