I remember back in the day when it was common for most posters in the forum to have 500, 1,000 or even 5,000 BTC and more at their disposal. Reading some of the posts now it appears that many people do not even have 2 x 0.1BTC to rub together. Even taking into account the exchange rate going up the average wealth of posters seems to have dropped considerably. Why is this so?
maybe it is because back then apart from price being super low that you could actually buy 1
BTC with a couple of bucks another reason could be the ease of mining.
you could decide you wanted to make bitcoin, then all you had to do was download the wallet and a miner and start earning bitcoin by solo mining with reward of 50
BTC per block.