I turned down a $1,500 payment in Bitcoin in 2015. Today, it would be worth over $..... Never mind

Back in 2015, I was a new immigrant in a new country, hustling to make ends meet by flipping used computers.

I had this one regular customer who was buying a lot of hardware from me. For one sale, which came to $1,500, he asked if he could pay me in something called "Bitcoin." I'd never heard of it and it sounded sketchy, so I turned him down and asked for cash. He offered to pay in Bitcoin for several other sales after that, and I refused every single time. Looking back, given the amount of gear he was buying, he was almost certainly using the laptops for BTC mining. At the time, that $1,500 payment would have been about 5 BTC.

Today, those 5 BTC would be worth over.... Never mind

It’s a tough lesson in how fear of the unknown can make you miss a huge opportunity.

The truth is that I don't think about it anymore...