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qwertydcf

I have a talent and its called buying the top. I tell you no matter what i invest in right now it will drop. Stocks? Bitcoin? Altcoins? Gold? Pokemon cards? CS2? If i gonna invest in everything its Recession time, cant win lol

IntrepidWindow9262

He sold nothings for $77,135 ea. He's going to reinvest the proceeds into CS2 skins. Genius

TrainingQuail543

A master in CS doesn't give you the skills to store it independently. It's not that hard if you stay with a basic setup. Buy a hardware wallet to generate a key. Buy a backup metal plate to engrave the seed. Store it in a save. If you want to go a bit further, store a second plate with your bank and add a keyword to your seed, so the plate alone doesn't give you access. Is it super easy / as easy as going to your bank? No. But after reading a bit into it, it's no big deal. People just freak out about having responsibility. And there are easier and much more complicated versions with just a piece of paper or a multisig setup

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Pretty simple. People realized you need a Msc in CS to use and store crypto independantly. Thus they built some exchange and storing market place to it for them. Which is bassicaly a bank. All crypto marketplaces are basically bank. Nothing is regulated though so this places are hacked and some people leave with the money. So people realized they need serious institutions and state support to store and exchange the crypto. Bank. You need bank. Economy is about trust and garantee, the best way to have trust is to ensured someone (the state) enforce this trust by law and gives garantee, bank are here as a trustee relay of the state. Tech alone cant ensured trust because not everyone is en engineer. Crypto has proven that there is no such things as working decentralized finance that's all.

jimi22

Seconding kirakirazeno's point about sports/gaming being massively underserved — that's where things get interesting. Most of the alpha right now is in niche verticals that Polymarket won't touch. A few worth looking at depending on what you're after: **Manifold** is still the best for weird/experimental stuff, community-created markets on anything. **Azuro** is doing sports at the protocol layer, more infrastructure than product. **Overtime Markets** built on top of it with a cleaner UX. **Limitless** is interesting if you want the AI-counterparty mechanic you mentioned from Prophet but more structured. The one I've been watching lately is **Hotaku** — it's specifically focused on esports (CS2, LoL, VALORANT, Dota 2,AOE2,..), non-custodial on Solana with USDC, no KYC, and instant settlement. Still early but the fact that it's targeting esports specifically rather than trying to be everything means the market quality is actually decent. They have a public API too which is a nice signal that it's built to be composable, not just a frontend. The OP's point about knowing social context being the edge resonates hard in esports — roster moves, patch notes, team meta. That's information most PM traders don't have but esports communities do.

One-Elderberry4046

About 13 years ago, I had a similar experience, where i convinced my 17year old self, I could trade up my hard-earned, but still rusty CS:GO knife for a shiny blue one. couldnt let this thought go until one night I just stood back up, went to the PC, and placed the bet. Well, it didn't go well, but at least I haven't felt any need to touch any kind of gambling ever since. Every time i see someone gamble i think back at the emberassing feeling i had that night.

CanStad

When I was in another province, I had a techie buddie I use to game with on World of Warcraft. After school one day, he spent like an hour trying to set me up for Bitcoin and get me the wallet. I was pissed because I wanted play either Gears or Halo and smoke some weed while mom was at work. He basically showed me a bunch of stuff on it; I thought it was the equivalent to Neopets, but he basically spent like 10 bucks to start me off. I really wasn’t paying attention, but somehow he knew it was going to be something big. I fucking didn’t. My computer graphics card had a burn out glitch where purple lines were all over my games, and my mom offered to help me chip in for a brand new PC if I got a summer job. To shorten this, I ended up tossing the whole PC out. I considered transfer a bunch of stuff, but like my meme folder and mp3 folder was basically all I needed from it as at the time I only used the PC to play World of Warcraft, CS Source, TF2, and Gmod. The new PC could run my games at 60 fps up from 15-26 FPS on my old PC, and I didn’t even look at the old PC as a resale, so I chucked it out. I genuinely had no thought about the Bitcoin until 6 years ago. What a fuck around.

Telefrag_Ent

They're creating an incentive for CS players to switch to their game. This isn't that complicated. Attracting customers who likely already pay for in game cosmetics, since they have them from CS, to their platform.

Telefrag_Ent

It kind of feels like that would be a good example of how users owning the knives outside the game would be beneficial. If CS shut down and, say, Valorant decided that users could bring their knives from CS over to Valorant, some players might find that valuable. Valorant could then attract disgruntled CS players to their game. Seems like a win for everyone, by giving them that choice.

kwijibokwijibo

Not really. Think about it - the benefit of NFTs is so you can own the assets separately from the games But without the games, the value of the assets is zero. There's value because you enjoy the game. There's no mainstream gaming ecosystem that shares assets across games - hence no need for NFTs Example: CS knives only have value if CS is still alive. Without CS, your NFTs would be worthless

pythosynthesis

The funny thing vere is Charles Schwab just came out saying it's time to put Bitcoin in every portfolio, up to 7%. Maybe CS should also be vanned from personal finance.

EstimateIll4262

It seems so easy to just send from CDC. Now that I found the area to do it. But I am NOT resetting the 2fa. I heard some nightmares stories about accounts on lock. and CS being very slow to help. Right now my CDC is fine. I can transfer funds in and out. use my Card. buy and sell crypto. I will be OK. nt sending crypto to another wallet. But hopefully after OKX exchange cleats my $120 BTC purchase. I can send to the renewal address and it will work........I hope

Naive_Bat8216

mstr seems like a no-brainer if we believe bitcoin will come back, it's why I'm tempted to dump CS and just go into mstr, I'm just really concerned that CS gets caught between being a bitcoin stock vs. ai, and is not successful at either.

Treverer

Thank your for your care, I fortunately know haha. I grew up around tech and we used BTC back in 2014 to trade and gamble with CS:GO skins and shit at 15 y.o. Gosh I wish I would’ve cared more about money and less about Minecraft and jerking off

fullCGngon

Terrence Howard?? He is THE definition of a lunatic. I wouldnt take anything he says serious. He is not an expert in CS or any other related area.

FTFOatl

Economics major with a CS minor

OrngeHorizonBTC

Fintech vs finance mostly depends on how technical you want to get. Fintech leans more into systems, payments, and how financial infrastructure is built, while finance is more markets and theory. If you’re serious about Bitcoin long term, I’d bias toward CS + something technical (like your applied math) and treat finance/fintech as a minor. The people who actually build and operate systems tend to have more leverage than those who just analyze them. Double major only makes sense if you can handle the workload without burning out. Depth usually beats spreading too thin early on.

betch123345678910

Math/CS makes the most sense, but you should check out coursera, udemy, or LinkedIn premium for courses that are specific to blockchain. Do your basics in your first 2 years at school to see what you enjoy and then refine it later with more specific classes or blockchain specific certificates

OrngeHorizonBTC

Applied math is a solid choice. Pair it with CS, electrical engineering, or finance depending on whether you want to focus on software, infrastructure, or markets. Bitcoin careers aren’t *just* blockchain developer jobs. Mining/operator work is another real path, giving hands-on exposure to power, hardware, networking, uptime, and the economics behind the system. Pick the path that gets you closest to real skills and real infrastructure.

Kruxelizea

Yes, I had not studied at a university. I have just been learning by myself about CS. I mean self-taught. Also, I've been learning Rust.

DarkResident305

Are you young? There’s no one answer.  I’ve been in the tech industry for 33 years and started as a developer - every year, every industry, and every job is different.  Getting more involved in the bitcoin community is the first step, other than getting a formal background in both CS and finance if you don’t already have that.  

suspicious_Jackfruit

Oh absolutely. The major demand on game developers was people wanting to pump their bags, that paired with the stigma from regular players (who already didn't like crypto due to GPU shortages at the time) made it likely very unappealing to the player base. Piss them off and a game developer has big trouble. In-game assets becoming an economy has already been actualised via CS2 skins. They handle it the same way cryptocurrencies tend to, scarcity and a finite number of skins most of the time. There's also the rarity element. A lot of $0.01 skins not worth itemising

FrustratedPlantMum

Google your "[your state] abandoned property search". You can search by your name and see if they turned it over the state as abandoned property. If so, you can claim it. Abandoned property laws vary by state, usually 3 - 6 years after you last login or interact with the property or company it qualifies as abandoned and it has to be turned over. CS might not be able to see that's what happened, for whatever reason.

Vexaus

Even tho it’s not really crypto I made a ton of $$ off cases/knives in CS. Outperformed 100% of these trash NFT “games”. Could always convert to BTC or whatever, whenever I’d like. Valve really captured lightning in a bottle.

lookingglass91

Maybe just use math then, the calculation goes as follows: Price = MarketCap / Circulating Supply We can deduce that means MC = P x CS With the price of 12,000 and the circulating supply of 61.22B That means the market cap would have to be 734.64 TRILLION For reference, Golds MarketCap is ~35T The **ENTIRE** real estate market worth is 55.1T This is actually in **NO WAY** achievable

West-Persimmon-1816

kid is probably CS unemployed grad, who can't get a job so he vibe codes every single thing that comes to mind.

ziaxr99

Yess i am taking a module On emotional control while trading and yes i am persueing a CS degree alonside so trading isnt my only source , i am willing to invest the time , energy and money but only if it will be fruitful

Fuumers

Nothing wrong with CS degree, computers won't go anywhere and it much more "hard science" than economics, therefore easier to get jobs because you cannot bullshit it.

njakrivos

I tend to believe too that CS is better. But if there was something that combines it would be perfect. And yes, entering the Bitcoin world would be ideal but not prerequisite.

Ourcrypto_news

If you want maximum job optionality, CS wins. You can work in Bitcoin *and* outside it if needed.

InvaderDolan

I’ve got frozen account in one of the local Binance’s (not global one) because I am foreigner in that country. Thanks Gosh it was only around 500$ and I could reactivate my account after 3 months of fighting with CS of Binance. It was a nightmare.

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TheSilverBug

I did, if I have to bet on something, I would, without thinking twice, on Hedera. However, as a cryptocurrency that argument stalls. It's not successful in doing anything meaningful in the real world. It's sad that such excellent tech is outperformed by doge and shib, and probably it will be like that for a long while. So as a CS graduate, I would use it. As someone saving for my family, I wouldn't invest in it. Which is the sad part.

Head-End-5909

MS CS, Systems Architect, retired. Landscape has changed, watching while still DCAing

doogloko

trump is making the us a joke and the usd will become one as well 21 CS undergrad drunk rn

SatoshiShe

You made a painful mistake, but it’s not the end. You still have $40k cash, you’re 22, in CS, with internship experience. Well if you ask me that’s real leverage. I get that you’re down 50% and I’m aware how it hurts but what you need to know for sure is that if you continue chasing losses you will only make it worse. Try to put aside emotional trading, protect tuition & living money and you could decide to accept a slower path if needed I mean like an extra internship or a delayed master’s. This will be an act of survival and recovery. I believe your family’s hope is you being okay and finishing your degree, not perfect investing. Crypto will be here later so make sure you are too.

KitchenMud5443

Good thing they didn't buy CS go skins

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noviwu97

Seed phrase in google docs, bruh. You have CS background, so I bet you're the one setting up the ledger for your dad. 🤣

babypho

Maybe, just maybe, using the cheapest possible option for CS while giving them access to such damaging information isn't so smart?

Prestigious_Long777

The entire comment section is completely unaware of what they’re talking about. Bitcoin wasn’t created with QUANTUM COMPUTING in mind. For fuck sake I wish people without CS knowledge wouldn’t speak out about this topic presuming they’re experts in the field. Dunning-kruger effect is working fucking overtime here. Bitcoin’s private key security entropy was NEVER meant to be broken. Read the god damn white paper you WSB teenagers… freezing wallets which are at risk of having their cryptography broken by at scale quantum computing is one of many valid HOW’s on addressing this problem. The priority should be quantum proofing future wallets so every active holder can switch to PQC key generation wallets. Old wallet funds should not all of a sudden become recoverable because some nation has an operational quantum computer. Are we seriously awarding hacking and theft now? We can solve it in many other ways than freezing. But a solution WILL be needed. Keep your short minded political views out of this discussion please.

Techwield

And yet those aren't NFTs lol Are we also going to point to the success of stuff like CS:GO's RMT market? Because those aren't NFTs either

KayDaGunna

It’s okay man bs in CS graduated in 2024 at 28 and I’m unhirable in my own country have been poorer than ever and don’t care anymore (I have 3 kids and say this not lightly) nor do I blame myself for anything in life anymore since finally getting a degree and it making 0 difference after working 50 hours a week for 5 years at a saw mill that I dumped my whole 401k from into bitcoin bc like I said idc anymore

Possible-Magazine23

Agree. But those 3 have degrees in Mathematics, CS, and Economics, which are BTC's anchoring concepts. I'm just trying to say it's hard to tell people about BTC even for those well educated in these fields.

pwinne

Yah - my best friend spent 5BTC in CS2 skins

riscten

I understand. Considering few of the exchanges are based in Europe I can see why they're half-assing it. Hopefully they get enough CS inquiries that they force whatever third party they use for verification to get their shit together.

AceKittyhawk

Umm hell no! Bitcoin is not that complicated at all. Just because it seems to you as opaque as quantum mechanics doesn’t mean that people with some basic math/CS arent able to understand it within a rather short amount of time (not true for quantum even experts know that shit is weird …)

akialter17

I studied CS so Im bias but yes it's the most interesting "invention" I learned, among others like OS, compilers, CompArch. It combines from the basic of discrete math (cryptography), to the advanced of distributed system

Specialist-Hospital7

Hahah Funny question! i had my first ever Computer back in 2015. i used to play many video games like CS GO. (was the best time of my life btw) Then randomly i heard about this dude that had spent 10,000 Bitcoin on two large Pizzas! at that time, everything changed… My first ever 10 Bucks in Bitcoin. I remember when it hit 600$ in 2016… Yeah and eventually, i stared working a 9 to 6 Job and got so deep into crypto, that even my Profile Bio was „Bitcoin, Fucking Proof of Work“ I invested 50$ every month and looked at the price fly over to 5,000$. 2017! Gosh, I’ll never forget this dramatic year… Right before Christmas i wanted to cash out to get my Family something unforgettable. But all of the sudden, everything went black! My Computer has no sings of life anymore. I absolutely panicked and removed the hardware and rushed to the next electronic store. I explained and told them everything… They said they‘ll take a look. 2-3 Days later i get a call from the shop, my hardware is completely dead… With everything… My whole bag of BTC, my whole life savings. Down the drain Now, this MF stands in my Room as decoration and a bad Story behind it…

Familiar_Television1

Get a job and take a year off school just to work full time. Just save that money, don’t invest it. You need as much cash as possible and risking it is not worth it. Sell some of your crypto. Like sell 50% of HBAR, PEPE, LINK, and SOL. Leave your ETH but sell half of the others. Wait until everything drops 30-60% more and buy back the SAME amount of coins that you sold. For example, you had 100 SOL and sold 50. You buy back your 50 at a cheaper price and have some USDT left. Put those USDT in your savings account. The good news is that you’re not on margin. You won’t get liquidated, the coins are YOURS. The bad news is that everything dropped and you will need the money. The good news is that you need that money in 2 years (take a gap year for work!). The bad news is you will NEED that money. The good news is CS is a very profitable major. You could recover your loss completely after just a few months of work so in 5 years you will forget you ever fucked up with crypto. You won’t even feel it and won’t think of it every day. Try to get good grades, maybe you can earn some awards or a scholarsip. Work as much as possible. And save your money. Don’t spend as much. Cook your own meals if you need. You will make it. Just stay focused on what matters which is your grades, finding a job, and your health/life.

New-Ad-9629

You have your entire life and career ahead of you. Your major is CS -- if you get a good job in data science, AI, or similar, you can make the lost money in a few months of salary. Consider this as a bad judgement -- keep an eye on the market, wait if you can, or just sell it and move on. Your frustration is understandable, but don't even think of hurting yourself -- that'll hurt your family even more. Feel free to send a chat msg if you wanna talk.

Odd-Translator-4181

Melbet’s esports lines for CS2 and Dota 2 are actually impressive. great propbet options and quick payouts after the series ends.

Ordinary-Original520

Same here! CS2 is at the top of my PS store wishlist . Taught me how to budget when I was a kid 😂 Hey, at least you started, most don't.

Medium_Change4574

Diversification is key. My financial advice: - 50% altcoins - 30% low cap tech and pharmaceutical stocks - 20% CS skins

Zealousideal-Fly2178

I know this sounds unbelievable. But once I retire and no longer care about my career I will release it. It is in my google drive. I wasn’t supposed to download it, they gave me access to a Saas product to view the footage to do the work. But I have a CS degree and was able to download the whole thing.

LinoStar69

For everyone interested in CS2, knives got rugpulled by Valve. Suicide hotline on CS subs. We are not alone

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immenselyfucked

I can't get a job with my Comp Sci degree and my cybersecurity certificates AND previous work experience. AI stole my jobs and everyone and their dog has a CS degree now. The only reason I can have a good life right now despite having zero family or friends, and being a depressed NEET for 4 years is because I invested in bitcoin years ago.

EdmLoverReturns

30% tax on gains. CS did not respond to my query yet regarding allowing Indian investors to invest in etf.

EdmLoverReturns

India. Recently they have banned forex outflows into cryptocurrency hence all India based US brokers have stopped trading BTC etfs. I have tried opening account with international brokers the CS but I think they won’t allow Indian citizens to buy BITCOIN etf complying Indian country rules. Got really stuck here

macetheface

To play devil's advocate, this assumes widespread adoption occurs instead of just the speculative asset it is. It needs to be REALLY dumbed down so it makes sense to use for any non-techie (who will not want to deal with wallet numbers, do not care about self custody, worry about being scammed and doing partial transfers just in case with zero recourse if something bad happens). Imagine any credit card company without a fraud department and the chaos that would ensue. Granny: I sent my money to the wrong wallet number/ There was a fraudulent charge on my account - how do I get it back? CS: You don't And the biggest thing to overcome imo is a reason to transition to using crypto when what we already have is sufficient: credit cards. Purchases are instant, used everywhere, if there's fraud you can get it reversed and there's a person to call to do that. Yes crypto excels at things like sending money overseas instantly and a currency developing countries can use but what is the % of people that do that or will do that in the future? I'm big on Bitcoin and crypto in general long term but it needs to solve some pretty basic necessities for 'grandma' to use it. Hard questions that need to be asked and answered...

Charming-Designer944

See my longer response just before this. Or to quote bip39 "The conversion of the mnemonic sentence to a binary seed is completely independent from generating the sentence. This results in a rather simple code; there are no constraints on sentence structure and clients are free to implement their own wordlists or even whole sentence generators, allowing for flexibility in wordlists for typo detection or other purposes." BIP39.consists of two indeoendent parts 1. A method to generate mnemonic phrase based on collected entropy and a wordlist. A mnemonic seed phrase generated by this method embeds a checksum that allows to verify that the mnemonic has been entered. 2. A completely separate method to generate a BIP32 HD wallet seed from the mnemonic seed phrase plus the seed passphrase. The gereration of the BIP32 seed (thevactual seed) does not require or enforce any specific method of generaring the.mnemonic, but does recommend using the method given in the same document..This open-ended design is intentional to.allow for translated wordlists, custom word lists or even completely different methods of generating the mnemonic,.without.requiring.that the wallet must implement them all. You.could use a Klingon word list to generate the.mnemonic seed and a fully BIP39 compliant waller would let you enter, possibly with a warning that it does not recognize the mnemonic and can not verify it's checksum. Regarding the 24th word...the last word is both.entropy and checksum. ENT amount of entropy used when generating the mnemonic CS checksum size MS number of words in the resulting mnemonic CS = ENT / 32 MS = (ENT + CS) / 11 | ENT | CS | ENT+CS | MS | +-------+----+--------+------+ | 128 | 4 | 132 | 12 | | 160 | 5 | 165 | 15 | | 192 | 6 | 198 | 18 | | 224 | 7 | 231 | 21 | | 256 | 8 | 264 | 24 |

ceilinglicker

my cousin started mining btc when it was 25 CENTS on his desktop, any way he ended up paying for his BA in CS with bitcoin, he could have dropped out and been worth half a billion today.....

illementz

I can’t even request an increase. CS says I have to wait til they offer it to me smh

Beansnrice17

Then you have to use Robinhood and even worse, the CS department.

halfman_halfboat

My guy, Valve is the developer of CS…they are selling an in game currency for the game that they made. Literally zero middle man. Any in game cosmetic is always going to be owned by the developer… Im so lost on how you think NFTs would change that in any way

Gatinsh

Cosmetics in games, basically exactly what Steam is doing with CS, but cutting out the middle-man (steam)

FlinchMaster

Apologies, but are you perhaps a CS student or hobbyist? I can guarantee you that the cost of running a database like this is absolutely negligible in any professional environment. A few million rows of storage is basically nothing.

Dazzling_Marzipan474

I've had a pending transaction for almost 2 years. I gave up. Chatted with CS for like 6 hours total. They said they would email me, never did any time. I'm 100% done with this shit company.

ChiChiWana

yeah CS is cooked i’m ngl 💔

No_Astronaut_8971

Congrats. Did you cold apply? Graduating in CS and thinking I might just go into the trades after graduation if I can’t get a job within 2 years lol

Dangerous-Golf6066

Yeah it’s transforming. Even prompt engineer is outdated now. AI is self writing their own codes and it’s going to get bigger while CS majors is getting less desirable 

neoKushan

Because he doesn't need a good laptop to be a good trader. Unless he's planning to trade in CS skins or something.

No-Research8107

So, just play CS2 instead? No anti-cheat = safe

Local-Butterscotch34

26 here, I just watched my recent grad CS friends get tanked by AI. That said, if you choose college, you need to intern or get relevant experience either way. It’s a game run by connections & results. Stack sats while you gain experience. Use a career to fund even more sats. Don’t let your youth pass you!!

RockPuzzleheaded8050

I'd go to LinkedIn and find a CS rep or manager from bianance to help out.

livando1

Consider IBIT ETF as CS will be online in less than a year.

Royal_J

CS cases (& other valve games) may print money but the 30% cut of every other game sale is not insignificant.

EkariKeimei

this predates CS u n00b

LankyRep7

Vocational School I got my CS degree at. and since I had CS degree and just barely any Linux skills . I started mining in 2010.

typtyphus

Now I can finally buy that CS-Go skin

partyboycs

I’m all in Bitcoin (besides my ~30,000 CS2 cases if that counts) 😂

EvilBeanz59

Yeeooo CS 1.6 AND command and conquer? We had it good back then huh?

kwijibokwijibo

The problem is - why do we need decentralised transferable ownership? Games have allowed you to trade ingame items for cash for years. Today, the most popular ones are centralised on their servers. Blockchain allows you to decentralise and prove ownership separately from the game's infra But to what end? You're not going to use a CS knife or a TF2 hat outside of their games. When game servers inevitably shut down one day, no one will want these items anyway because they can't be used So what's the point?

LazyEcho81

I’m with ING - no issue with CB, CS or Kraken.

AlbiBambi

I wish I didn't waste time playing CS back in the day...

FORTEALLOY

I’ve used River for many months, happy with them. Customer service is very responsive to inquiries. DCA weekly automatic purchases via bank transfer. Let it buildup for a couple months, tx to cold wallet. Only time they refused was when I first started out & attempted btc  transfer the same week I’d done the bank transfer to purchase it. CS clearly explained the initial waiting period & everything smooth since then. 

coffeeCup_45

Maybe. It seems like CS would have options for automatic purchases, but I don't invest on a schedule, regularly.

DisabledScientist

Right now on River I buy automatically every day. Would I have that same option on CS? I used them for my rollover IRA, and I'd like to use them for my Roth too. I'd be nice to hold IBIT in my roth for tax free growth.

MaleficentPrune652

Seems like a cool experiment blending CS2 skins with crypto liquidity, not unlike how Blur has experimented with similar ideas. That's my view.

ProfitableCheetah

ETF for CS2 skins? Have we gone too far with innovation?

YouDoNotKnowMeSir

Not really. I’m educated both academically in CS and on the topic of crypto. I just don’t really see the practical vision for crypto, but the tech behind it is cool and I think there is more useful applications of blockchain that can be explored and provide real value.

anonymous104180

But that CS play wouldn’t be the same today as those times, i remember doing my most exciting kill in CS… playing today CS would be a lot different than those time with other friends. I mean you could have spent all your money in btc and than sold it anyway few years later while never experiencing any game and still be miserable anyway today… buying btc early was not sufficient you had to have also the conviction to hold it for more than 10 years which most of the people would have failed at it 🤷‍♂️. Enjoy the CS memories those are priceless xD.

Secret_Operative

Amazon has never accepted bitcoin. Steam did, yes. They stopped around the time on-chain payments became slow and expensive. In the same era, third-party markets for CS skins allowed being paid out in Bitcoin, and that's an obvious money laundering channel that I don't think steam wanted any part of.

SouthernGoal4836

Vanguard is even dirtier than you think. My work 401k uses Vanguard and for the past 8 years has used Charles Schwab as their brokerage option for you to invest freely in your 401k plan. It was amazing because through CS I was able to get exposure to BTC through IBIT. In January I received a notice from vanguard saying they were eliminating a list of 100 related crypto stock from purchase through the brokerage option. I don’t understand how they can tell us what we can buy on another platform but they can. So now all new 401k money can’t be invested in crypto at all. I save way beyond IRA limits so it’s a bit frustrating.

ParkieWanKenobie

Didn’t realise IEX didn’t work anymore… Never used it myself, but thought it was the way to hit the lit exchange. And only once bought direct with CS. I prefer to buy at price I want and DRS through IBKR

klippklar

All my past CS professors who talked about it did, some of whom did research on blockchain.

Desperate-Barnacle-4

Runescape and CS Skins. Ebay. For a brief period ATMs before all the KYC.

SlooperDoop

All the (other) professors in my CS department. We all used bitcoin as an example in cybersecurity, cryptography, distributed computing, etcetera. I could be in the office with five PhD's that could (and did) write research papers about the difficulty adjustment. But they don't trust bitcoin. They see it as gambling. It's the economics and currency issues that they didn't believe, thinking bitcoin is worthless because it's a perfectly secure virtual asset with no actual value beyond hype.