What's your scariest moment in Bitcoin?
I'll start with 2:
1) March 2013 - I started downloading the blockchain on my mac because I thought I'd check out this newfangled bitcoin thing after reading an article. I spent all day (now it takes like a week!) waiting for it to sync with the network and it finally did. I open the client and here is what I read at the top:
URGENT: chain fork, stop mining on version 0.8
Holy crap! For a non-programmer with almost 0 knowledge of Bitcoin that was pretty terrifying thing to read. I found a few sites talking about it and it seemed like the world was ending at the time! And what the hell is a chain fork?! (I know now, of course).
I deleted the client right away since I wasn't sure what it would do to my computer and missed about 4 months of mining/learning before I revisited Bitcoin again.
2) After getting over my fear of a chain fork, I mined some bitcoin on my graphics card and sent it from one address to another using Multibit. It didn't display a pending transaction into the second address, and I was losing it over my $.01 that had just been lost in the interweb. It showed up about 6 minutes later and all was well but it was still very scary! I always triple-check addresses unless I'm using only QR codes.
