First time I saw Bitcoins they were worth $0.005/coin. So you could get two bitcoins for a penny. That was around the same time the guy bought a pizza for 10,000 Bitcoins. Now bitcoins are worth around $675/coin. So yes people like him, and like me that didn't buy the coins then are kicking ourselves. $5 would have bought 2000 coins back then.
This article only mentions Steem and Bitcoin in passing and doesn't mention Ethereum at all. When I found out they were worth $5, I was sure they were not going to go up again from there. I hold bitcoin so I don't feel like a complete idiot if they double. People see it as an asset class instead of a currency, where I live. There are protectionist policies in place, and there is little adoption in the country. There is no transactional value to it where I live.
I was just starting to learn Ethereum when I stumbled upon steem.... I saw STEEM at 120% and climbing sometime last week ob bittrex.com and said "What is that?" That is how I ended up here.