actually me way back in high school. i had heard about bitcoin and went “ooh what an interesting way to make money” set up the miner and opened a wallet and everything, never mined and forgot about it. fast forward to the crypto boom 10 years later and i was sad

Naw, even worse is thinking of something, creating a prototype, using one of the patent help services and not hearing anything back until a few years later when you see a commercial for your idea.

How about “Ooo, that’s a good idea” “oh, someone else thought of that thirty years ago and it went nowhere”

My worst feeling is “I tried that two years ago but couldn’t get enough people interested, so I dropped it…”

More commonly it goes “I thought of that, my friends thought of that, some dude I met at a bus stop thought of that, but none of us had access to 100M in venture capital to do anything about it. But the guy that did is a business genius and we all owe them our respect and admiration.”