Perhaps it's because none of your friends are involved in Bitcoin, so even though you've known about it for a long time and even mined, when not many people talk about Bitcoin in your environment, you slowly get carried away and then forget about it. Sometimes, our environment has a big influence on how we think and make decisions. When those around us don't see the same potential or even underestimate it, we often start to underestimate ourselves. Only after time passes and Bitcoin value increases rapidly does regret set in, not only for the missed financial opportunity, but also for not trusting our instincts and beliefs from the start.

It's the same thoughts for those who have known bitcoin early and yet, they have missed the earlier opportunity when it was so cheap. Now, congratulations to you that you have graduated and started a job. It's never too late to start accumulating with the salary you have. We only have one thing to do is that's to move on and you'd be fine with the next plan you have and that's accumulating. Learn from the past mistake that you have been through and never do the same one for this day and until the next years to come, you have that moment now to correct it.

Blaming you for not being a prophet who could see the future is pointless, alot of people have made mistakes and there is no way you could have known bitcoin would be this successful, that past of yours wasn't entirely your fault, your future will be though, instead of bothering yourself about what you've lost you should be more concentrated on what you still stand to gain, you still have a ways ahead of you so there is absolutely nothing wrong with you deciding to start putting your money into bitcoin now, if you don't then another 9 years from now you are probably still going to start another thrend  about how you missed you opportunity to buy bitcoin in 2025 AGAIN!
So just start investing now so your thrend in 9 years will be about how much bitcoin you've accumulated and how much profit you've made from it.

I think bitcoin was not worth much as at that time and one who is not well grounded on it's strong foundational structure can be easily distracted and loose focus in it, but nigga you lost track for so long, I see you were not interested in buying and  holding earlier but only mining, else you would've got some quantities and hold for a while and may have enjoyed some good profits from your investment.

You still have the opportunity now to continue from where you left off in 2016 as an investor and employ DCA strategy to try gathering some good stashes of bitcoin for yourself and hopefully in the near future you may still have a chance at getting profitable with your investment into bitcoin.

I think this won’t be the last time in life when a great opportunity to make a good profit turns out to be underestimated and passes by. It happens, especially to those who are actively looking for opportunities. Don’t get upset; that’s just how life is. You still have time to analyze your experience and find your own way to become successful and wealthy.Don’t stop, when you do nothing, you definitely get nothing.

Forget about things you could have done in the past and you did not.  I do not believe there is any of us who did not have similar moments in their life.  Some people did not purchase Apple or Nvidia or Intel Stocks decades ago although they had the instinct to do it.  That is a missed chance but it is still better than others who were Rich, purchased Stocks at the wrong time and became broke in months or even days.

Bitcoin is STILL showing significant positive price changes.  I understand you did lose an opportunity to turn your nothing into a lot of Money but realistically you would have most likely sold WAY before 100,000 Dollars per piece.  And then you would have cried about not holding on to it until today.

What makes you believe Bitcoin is not going to double or triple in the next few years?  It has a proven history of doing such things.  Why would you be late?  Would you like to earn nothing and keep whining or do you actually still believe in Bitcoin and want to catch the 'last train'.  It is your choice after all.  But understand one thing.  No thing is guaranteed.  Particularly if you are emotionally weak and will quit immediately when you see Bitcoin going down by a few percentages.

This is the same story of many people today, they had Bitcoin but couldn't hold and are now regretting it. I don't think it helps anyone to dwell in the past, instead, think of the opportunity you have now to still buy Bitcoin and hold for years to come and see that you have not missed Bitcoin already. If you give yourself 20 years from now and you consistently buy as much as your finances can allow, you will magically forget the mistakes of the past.

Because you are busy on your career and probably you didn’t consider Bitcoin as a good investment or else you will just keep accumulating it during 2016 even without mining equipment since there’s faucet, captcha and other paying services for minimal job that can generate Bitcoin aside from mining.

I don’t understand how come a 0.5$ worth of Bitcoin stuck on coinbase and where do you get that dust amount. You have a lot of time back then but you just earn 0.5$.

I do faucet on that year too and I earn much higher rewards. Clearly, you don’t have any motivation to accumulate Bitcoin back then.

Almost everyone here has that kind of story here, we know about Bitcoin in it early years or at least when the price is just around < $1000. But we would never know that it will grow this big, and there are people who sold it early because they think it's a fad.

But moving forward, we have our regret story. Yes, you and many of us here could have been millionaires. However, we can't really go back in time and save Bitcoin so that by now we are rich. But we still have time though to invest, maybe we will not be as rich as what we wanted, but still a profit is a profit.