No need to reply here. Just vote and reply voted so the thread does not fall down. Your vote is secret!

So the authorities finally breached Bitcointalk huh? Freakin IRS and their taxes mate. Leave me alone smh. /s

Seriously though — though I know BTC's price was cheaper back then, I'm pretty surprised the past results was 50-50. (assuming everyone was honest)

The thing about conducting a survey, and looking at that data is it rarely is carried out correctly. It needs to be a fair test, which a lot ignore. For example, a survey being conducted for a number of years or even months on a volatile currency means you're going to get distorted results. It would be much better to run a monthly poll which is open for 30 days, the problem with that is you're unlikely to get enough people to vote to have any conclusive results, at least any that are worthwhile. I like the rule of at least 1000 people taking part, which mitigates natural variance, and you do get to see some sort of reliable trend. However, that does depend on the total pool available, for example if Bitcoin has 4 billion people using it, collecting information from a larger dataset than 1000, will always be beneficial. As you increase the dataset, as long as it's relatively randomly selected people participating, you should start to see more reliable data.

You'll always have people submitting fake data, and that's the point of larger datasets to try, and also prevent that along with other things. However, running a survey over a few years on a volatile currency like Bitcoin, doesn't make much sense.

You mean to say i would have.

Casted my vote.

Although the votes aren't that much on this edition.

I'd say that everyone should really start to accumulate their own bitcoins while they can still see it at a quite low price from the ATH that it had before.

I know that in some regions, it's not that cheap but we can grind until we're able to own one. Best of luck to everyone of us 'til the future comes to bitcoin holders.

The polling results are masked. No body knows who owns more or less than one.

In some places 1 bitcoin can buy what you don't expect, and that was when bitcoin was 50k but now that the price is not stable and fluctuating it seems that bitcoin the values now is regardless compare to the last year price and if it continues like this Bitcoin value will not value much.

Yes. you are right, and especially for those once who joined or started with bounty and good paying campaign, i believe that i any body who is here consistently starting from 2012 and 2013 may make more than 1btc and is not some thing you will think otherwise.

Voted.

There must have been a lot of changes since that old poll was made. 1BTC was a lot easier to own back then. It was easier to HODL as well. I guess many of those who owned a BTC or two must have already converted to cash during the time when the price shot up to more than $60,000.

Whether they started a business or built a house or bought a car or invested in something else or whatever, we cannot know. But that price must have been grabbed by a lot of BTC owners as an opportunity to somehow change their life.

How I wish I’ll be one of those who have owned 1 BTC, especially that I was hacked almost a month ago in which I am planning to invest some of those into Bitcoin. Right now, I’m just putting a little bit of my funds every month to BTC for building long-term wealth through dollar-cost averaging (DCA).