Don't waste your time feeling sorry and thinking "what if" and instead focus on acquiring bitcoin. You probably won't get filthy rich, but for sure its not too late to buy now, especially since current price is far from all time high.

I did similar mistake back in early 2014, thinking (wrongly of course) that I was too late and instead buying 0.1 bitcoin I spent few hundreds of dollars on shitcoins instead. Fortunately, later on i realized my mistake but I never look back thinking about it (unless I see posts like yours) and instead I feel fortunate that I am buying bitcoin on the regular basis in the last 6 years which proved to be a very good move.

OP this thread belong to the board (Mining) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=14.0 by the way, we really thank Satoshi Nakamoto for using his extraordinary knowledge to create the new technology in the world for the benefit for all. The 14 years of mining of some individuals and companies have benefited enough. We have the privilege to have Satoshi in this generation.

Today, the genesis block, also known as the first bitcoin, was mined by Satoshi Nakamoto 14 years ago. Millions of blocks have been mined into the blockchain by bitcoin miners since the currency's creation. It was created as a substitute for centralized fiat money, which bitcoin is decentralized.

History indicates that the first block was mined almost instantly because it had a difficulty of 1. Unlike the vast majority of Bitcoin blocks today, the genesis block was almost certainly mined by a computer using its central processing unit (CPU).

As of June 2022, there were roughly 19.07 million Bitcoins in use. Accordingly, only 1.92 million Bitcoins are available for mining, and more than 90% of all Bitcoins are already in circulation. According to experts, the last bitcoins will be mined by 2140.

We still have a long way to go before we can completely mine the entire bitcoin blockchain. Despite the controversy, bitcoin is still prevailing and gaining global awareness, with the hope of being accepted globally in the coming years.

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https://www.blockchain-council.org/cryptocurrency/how-many-bitcoins-are-left/

https://learn.bybit.com/crypto/21-million-bitcoin-limit-mined/

As opposed to this your reply, I just came across it now and feel the need to comment about it and make a correction. Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency in existence before others came into existence. See;

Have you heard about eCash? eCash was invested in by David Chaum in 1982; it was a digital currency just like Bitcoin, and according to history, its purpose was a micropayment system. Also from history, David Chaum was the first to introduce the blockchain-like protocol, but Satoshi Nakamoto engineered the decentralised blockchain technology and invested in Bitcoin in 2009. Bitcoin became very successful because Satashi had a better idea and solution to a common problem that humans faced in the monetary aspect.
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Bitcoin remains the first cryptocurrency to be recognised, as well as the first cryptocurrency to become successful among the thousands of cryptocurrencies that exist today.

Welcome to the Bitcoin Forum and to Satoshi's Bitcoin Project !

You can introduce yourself and ask questions here if you want to.

Please remember that there will only ever be 21,000,000 bitcoins created !

If you decide that the Bitcoin P2P Cryptocurrency is not for you and you have generated bitcoins. Please try to send donate them to another Bitcoin user before you abandon the project and uninstall the software application.

You can send these donations to NewLibertyStandard or BitcoinFX (myself) or to any other bitcoin address or bitcoin IP which is shown on this forum. Also, try to confirm that the address is still valid and in use.

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Satoshi may have coined "cryptocurrency", and "crypto currency" has been in use for decades.

Announcing version 0.3 of Bitcoin, the P2P cryptocurrency!  Bitcoin is a digital currency using cryptography and a distributed network to replace the need for a trusted central server.  Escape the arbitrary inflation risk of centrally managed currencies!  Bitcoin's total circulation is limited to 21 million coins.  The coins are gradually released to the network's nodes based on the CPU power they contribute, so you can get a share of them by contributing your idle CPU time.
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