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pjmorris • yesterday at 2:18 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Last year, I got an email from a college friend who reminded me that I'd told him to buy MSFT shares in 1986. Neither he nor I did, so I file this in my 'Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda' file, alongside similar stories about Cisco in 1991, Netflix in 2001, and Bitcoin in 2011.


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dummydummy1234 • yesterday at 3:05 PM

I remember looking into Bitcoin in 2012, and thinking:

"This will never work as a currency, because of the max number of bitcoins it will inherently be deflationary, and the value will go up, which means that there will be a disincentive to spend it, because the value will just go up..."

Yep... Did not buy any.

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