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You've heard of people who had early opportunity with the Bitcoin but missed it? Well, I'm probably one of them.

It was early 2011 on a Wednesday morning that someone called me on the phone to inquire if I was in the office, that he'd be heading to my office in few hours to discuss an important business proposal. I wanted to ignore, but decided to allow him come over, since it was a business discussion. So I obliged to the request and asked him to make in the next one hour, that I might be having another meeting in two hours.

47 minutes later, the guy was in my office fully prepared and radiating with confidence. After we exchanged greetings and brief instructions, he presented me with the papers full of charts and models, explaining how Bitcoin was going to rise from  $1 to $100,000.00 in the next 10 years. I didn't know whether to laugh, be angry, dismiss him, or to take him serious. I asked him what he was doing for a living, he said Bitcoin. Nothing else but Bitcoin. That he buy and sell and sometimes, hold for a while before selling. He explained to me how Bitcoin ruse from $0.001 to $1, and how much he made. Showed me some evidence, and how Bitcoin will continue to rise over the next 10years.

I was slightly convinced and somehow developing interest. But the whole idea of investing in an unknown virtual asset on the premise that it will gain 10,000% increase over the 10 years was completely a bad joke for me. I wanted to risk $1,500 but he was looking for $50,000 or nothing. The share formula was 30/70 and the agreement would be that there'll be no selling off, no matter the reason, until 10 years. Even if Bitcoin moved to $100k before the time, or trended backward to zero, that nothing would make us sell until the agreed time. That was what scared me off completely and made me to turn him down.

If I had accepted that offer, the $50,000.00 would have acquired 50,000 units of Bitcoin.

At the current rate, my 70% share would have worth:

BTC50,000 x $62,000
= $3,100,000,000.00.

    3,100,000,000.00 ÷ 100
    = $31,000,000.00

         31,000,000 × 70
         = $2,170,000,000.00.

The 10 year plan ended in February 2020 and Bitcoin was $10k at that time. The prediction was off by wide margin but still good. I never imagined in 2011 that Bitcoin would to that high,and now we're at $62,000 and still going.

I currently have some crypto (BTC, ETH, LTC, etc) but nothing compares to what I'd have got from the Investment plan, or even remotely close. I lost an opportunity to become a Bitcoin billionaire!

That's by the way though, but one thing I learned from the proposal (which is the reason I decided to share it ) is that it's important to always have target and set time for your Crypto Investment. If you continue to Hodl without set time and target, you'll either Hodl forever because there'll be no end to your expectations, or you sell at the wrong time.

Right now, I'm holding till the next 5 years. I'll continue to scrape for a living till then. Hopefully it works in my favor.

I'm new here but not new with Crypto. As time goes on, I'll be sharing some of the ideas and personal experiences I've had over the years as time permits.


What's your current plan?

At that time, 1,500$ is a big money to buy bitcoin. I can guess that the whole minted bitcoin wasn't worth the 50,000$. If 1btc = 10$ then 50k can buy 5000 btc which was not yet minted maybe.
Maybe he was about to scam you.

If you meet someone who doesn't know that you are a successful investor (doesn't know you in person either) and has little/No knowledge about cryptocurrencies, and you told him your story with bitcoin in early days, do you think he will be convinced to set an investment budget of 50,000$ ?

Do you know how many people had early opportunity with the Bitcoin but missed it? Can you imagine that many of them were already investors and Devs?
No one expected the adoption will be that large.

Rather than regret those missed actions in the past, face whatever you will encounter today and have the guts to enter crypto on its current status.

Don't blame yourself that you missed a train before because there's no way we can predict the outcome in the first place. If you will just keep thinking about what you did in the past, you will just forever be struck on that thinking and will have difficulty facing the current trend.

It's not the end. Act now.

@Coupable, As at that time, I knew very little or nothing about Bitcoin. Perhaps his intention was to scam me. I can't say for sure but his presentation was quite convincing.

I think the plan was to buy over times, maybe throughout the first 1,2,3 years but he just needed an Investment capital for it.

While the presentation was interesting, the whole thing seemed vague to me, hence the reason i pulled out. 

Half of what you mentioned and if you had invested you could have made a lot of current profits. When you wanted to invest, nobody thought Bitcoin would succeed, not even you thought Bitcoin would succeed. No one had much knowledge of Bitcoin 10 years ago. Gradually, the more people use bitcoin, the more people gain knowledge about bitcoin. Bitcoin was not used by many people before but Bitcoin is used in most countries today.My guess is that in countries where cryptocurrency is not used now, cryptocurrency will be used in those countries in the future.

Of course and it was. A stranger came and told you than a magic internet currency would rise by 10,000,000%. This sounds nothing, but vague.

Look, your reaction was COMPLETELY justified and I'd do the same if I were you. The problem of this missed opportunity lies on the lack of knowledge. You didn't know what was bitcoin. If someone had come to me and said this, I'd definitely search what the hell that thing is, just out of curiosity. (And so did I)

So, I'd say you lost this opportunity not due to your denial of the investment plan, but because you didn't read what it is. If you had read how both bitcoin and our monetary system work, you may had bought few billion sats.

Lesson (hopefully) learnt; stack sats.

Every day new people are learning about Bitcoin and are benefiting by investing in Bitcoin. It's not that you missed out on the opportunity to buy Bitcoin before, in fact, Opportunity depends on your holding time, there is no doubt that 5 years from today some newcomers will think today was the opportunity to buy Bitcoin.
Long story short, forget about the past and make a new plan from here, still, we are in a growing phase.

Instead of regretting about what was missed out, I believe that we are still having many more opportunities if we plan up for next 10 years. In next 10 years bitcoin definitely will value more than 10 million dollars (this year's speculation is $100k and in ext 4 years it will be 1 million and in 8 years 10 millions dollars). So, planning up from today onward definitely will help anyone.

Even if you are not able to invest any big money right now you can plan up investing on every month so that you can make some decent profit in next 10 years.

I believe most people might have understood the potential of bitcoin right now but the problem with most of the investors is, they are getting excited when they are seeing 2x or 5x profits and then go profit booking or when bitcoin market is falling down for some 25% to 50% then they get panic and then exiting.

You need to trust on the potential of bitcoin for next 10 years so that you can enjoy similar profits.

As at that time, Bitcoin was trading at $1 per BTC and the total mined 2,981,300 BTC. I don't know how many of it were available then. Didn't even know what that meant. Was just listening and reading from the proposal.

Well, I won't say you're 100% right because the guy did believe it will continue to rise and created a model to back his claims. But beside him and probably few others like him, no one else, including me, believed such would ever be possible.

Well we are all have are share stories about bitcoin in money and we all have regrets about not believing in it earlier, i for one back in 2011 was just in high school and i was always looking for a way to make money from the internet, and one day there was a report in the TV news about a guy using 4 computers to mine bitcoin and make profit from it, the idea intrigued me and i wanted to know more about it, but i didn't have neither the knowledge or the patience and it seemed way to complicated for me so i let go of the idea and moved on with life until five years later when a friend mentioned that he is earning money from it and that is when i know that i missed my chance to make a fortune if i had kept with it, but now i am trying to make up for that mistake by earning and holding bitcoin however i can.

Regret will always be there, but I think it would be better if it was used as an experience.
forget what happened in the past and make it a valuable experience.
otherwise it is never too late to get into crypto and now you can give it a try and make a decision whether to do it or not.
because if you can't escape from the past it will only add to your regret when btc rises to a higher direction.
I think you can try now even though it is now quite high and almost reached its ath. you can try it and wait for the next few years, or maybe you can wait for fud or indeed a correction and wait for btc to go down if indeed it will be there again this year :)
make your choice from now on instead of you lamenting the past that can't be changed

When you missed your opportunity, you don't need to regret for the profit you have Miss for 10 years than to improve in your strategies to recover all that you have loss for the pass. Now that the price of bitcoin is about to increase higher, it will be favourable to those investors who are well prepared for this great opportunity that is about to land in the market.
If you missed the first opportunity because of lack of preparation and research failure. This second opportunity is for those that have the knowledge and experience about this season of profits making.

Have you thought what are the odds that he would have taken your 50 grands, never contacted you again and the condition about not selling for 10 years was there to discourage you from filing a complaint. Scammers often use legitimate investments as a legend for their scam, so from my point of view you most likely dodged a bullet. Not only you would have lost those money, you could have easily got discouraged from participating in crypto market in the future.

A lot of people here had an encounter similar to yours regarding Bitcoin but
as @BlackHatCoiner posted it was easy to be skeptical in the early days because
Bitcoin was revolutionary (still is actually!)

@Dripstoil what ever happened to that other oerson who approached you back then?

Probably that guy you met by chance is a scammer who knows about bitcoin that time, but I admire his vision about bitcoin on its early days and his courage to invest in 10 years on that time.
But 50k for initial investment from unknown asset told by a stranger will really scare you off actually, but if you keep updated of bitcoin even after 2-3 years I guess you will be moved and take part somewhere in 2013 - 2014 which will give you lots of profit if you keep holding till now.

Aside from the math you made, there are bitcoin forks where you can get profit as well such as BCH and BSV multiplied to another 50k will be another couple of millions.

Regret always come late and you are one of many others who told us today. If you have time to buy that day, I bet you won't be able to stop yourself from selling bitcoin for $100 or maybe you are very lucky only if you forget your wallet for years after the purchase. After all, there have been enough incident where bitcoin users have been scammed (including exchange hacks) since then and you don't seem to want to talk about it. I will never regret it in my life because in fact you and I and other people could still buy bitcoin when it was under $10K last year and make a spread profit of $60K per coin.

Of course, many other forum users besides you feel the same way simply because they missed an opportunity for various reasons. But I'm sure if you keep remembering it it will never be good for your mental health. I barely slept for onenight just because I sold my investment asset for $150 per token in the past which is currently at $4.4K. Since I realized it wasn't a mistake, I forgot about it from then on.

I don't have any regrets about it. It could have been a scam as many people have pointed out. I was just sharing the encounter, and imagining what would have become if it were to become a reality.

That's another good point. Who on earth would have held Bitcoin from then till now? Maybe the agreement not to sell till 10yrs would be the hedge.

There are greater fools than you.

I am a bigger idiot because I had excellent background to understand bitcoin myself. But bitcoin showed me I am an idiot. It made me humble that way.

I came across bitcoin around 2011-2012 in an emerging financial technology forum that is defunct today. Made a note to myself to read, research and understand the topic. However, never got the time and got carried away with job, family, home, sports, etc. Golden opportunity lost to mine with CPU, GPU and FPGA.

I again got some time from professional life in 2016. This time I finally read Satoshi's paper and understood what it is. Decided to mine. Researched the technical options. Found this forum, coinmarketcap, coinwarz, exchanges. Downloaded the softwares for Bitcoin, Ethereum and other alt coins. But again made a wrong decision. It was the time of S7 and R4. Somehow I decided to go more heavily on GPU rigs. Built several GPU rigs. Then again got busy with the job and did not expand the operation. Did not replenish the GPUs when they died. Since it was challenging for me to handle life and the GPU farm I tried to consolidate by selling smaller gpus to buy larger GPUs to reduce complexity another wrong decision. This way for couple of extended period I was caught on the supply chain hick up of the GPU market when I have sold my existing GPUs and could not replenish the existing rigs because none are available or I was not willing to buy at that price. This Happened for sometime during 2016 holidays to summer of 2017. Since I was not doing this with dedication, there were many extended periods when my rigs were empty. During 2018 crypto winter finally I was able to replenish all my rigs. The people who were consistently after all 2nd hand gpu during this period made a lot of money in 2019 and 2020 and if the GPUs are alive they are making even now. Unfortunately about 50% of my GPUs died by 2020. Few were under warranty but most died just after warranty. So i am watching the best time ever to mine with GPUs passing by while 50% of my rigs are empty. I never upgraded much Asics beyond s9 regularly.

Only one thing positive I was doing is never selling any crypto that I mined. There also I got bombed by some smaller exchanges closing. But at least with whatever hobby level capacity I had I kept mining regardless of price or profitability. The other positive is my son got an excellent understanding of crypto, probability, economics, market, profitability, credit, leverage, negotiation and building computers.          

I am a failure in crypto largely because I failed to recognize the opportunity and focused on my day job, stock trading and kept my mining at the hobby level. If I embraced mining fulltime with all my money and credit then people would be interviewing me by now. Probably should have replenished mining capacity when they died also on a regular basis rather than waiting for the right moment and getting caught on work or supply chain problem.

What an interesting story! Feel sorry that you haven’t believed in BTC at that time. Only imagine, you had a perfect possibility and missed it. Your friend didn’t want to take 1500$ you offered him, but you liked the idea, so in case you’ve invested even those 1500$ in BTC by yourself, you would have already became a multi-millionaire. Just compare, I get known with BTC at the end of 2016 year when it was 800$ and I didn’t believe in it at all. BTC looked for me like something unreal and fantastic that will definitely scam because (I thought) no one digital code can’t cost 800$. I didn’t believe even when it reached 4000$ and continue growing more. I was always waiting when it fall down and die, but that didn’t happen. How stupid I was those days... I also missed my moment and now I get only tiny crumbs.

One thing that caught my attentions was, the person offering him was asking for $50k or nothing, and that's big amount of money. So I have the feeling that person was about to scam you. Why $50k, he knew you were willing to risk $1500 but he was asking a lot. So yes, don't regret your action that day, because it maybe was a blessing in disguise.

@OP, do you know by any chance what happened to this person? Is he still in crypto?

And also, you can always look forward and not backward. You can still invest on this market if you truly believe there is a future in this market.

Putting to that situation, I can't directly make a decision right away. To invest in a thing that we never know nor have deep knowledge about it is risky and of course, we don't want to lose our money but rather to have assurance.

I can't say that you were right to decline the offer but that was your first meeting and that you need to be careful, that should a thing to do. Maybe, if that person comes back to you and brings some proof, that really something it drives to accept the deal. But that is something crazy and in fact, only a few people had thought that Bitcoin will become valuable this time.

It might be regretting because you can see the price of Bitcoin is growing but what if it won't, that you lose your money as well.

You just made the right choice to ignore his offer since you don't know him and you don't understand how Bitcoin works yet and I bet he would just run away your money and didn't bother to contact you even after 10 years. That's what scammers do so you are still lucky you didn't fall for his trap because we all know that you can just buy Bitcoin by yourself without the help of the others if you just do your own research you would be one of the millionaire today.

But not every early adopters managed to hodl their Bitcoin until today since most of them sold it early because they were afraid that their investment might gone for good with an unknown digital asset. Lucky for those guys who have managed to hodl the rest of their Bitcoin until today.

Honestly, his approach was bad, speculating about how Bitcoin will reach from $1 to $100,000 in 10 years, that's just a bad approach, he could've at least tried to explain how Bitcoin is and how big it's going to be because of how technology evolves, making people want to invest online instead of investing in banks. And that really is a missed opportunity, even I would have deep regrets and up until now I do, I could have bought a lot with the profit I'll gain for investing long-term.

I Do Not Complain From Here Onwards.
You think Bitcoin was the only opportunity I had to invest at that time, no! There were several but you just think  about Bitcoin, anyway, maybe the reason not to invest was the right one, it was not mistake to put money to the big "thing" bitcoin, the mistake was not putting "something" that is the real error $ 1000, $ 2000 until only $ 500 it would be a great investment.

See you in 10 years, you will tell us your new experience.

This can be a story for everyone who started early, if i were to hold the coins i had which will be over thousand Bitcoin, i will be setting my life for good, but i sold my profit and had a great time in the mean time traveled the world and had a great time and even though i do hold majority of the coins as savings, i too lost the opportunity to make a much bigger profit like you claim .

In life, there are always regrets, so don't think too much if we miss the opportunity to become a millionaire. Because as long as we are alive,
other opportunities are always open, so we must learn from our experiences in the crypto world. The price of Bitcoin in the next 10 years will definitely
be more expensive, so instead of dwelling on the events that have already happened, we better move on and focus on planning the best for the future.
So as long as we try and don't give up, we can definitely get another chance to become a millionaire, therefore always think positive is important.
I also started to collect some coins that I considered potential right now, I will be holding for the next few years, I believe I can get the opportunity
to make a big profit.

First and foremost, your experience is not an isolated case. The history of Bitcoin is replete with regrets and missed or wasted opportunities. Even Bitcoin OGs who came very early, who's attracted to the technology itself rather than the price, had their fair share of wasted or missed opportunities as well. How much Bitcoin did Hal have in his final years?

Anyway, as for me, I don't have a specific time frame for me to finally let go of my Bitcoin. Time might come I don't even have to convert them to fiat. If I have to, I know it will be a perfect time to do it regardless of the price.

To simply continue to accumulate Bitcoin.

Your story is reminiscent of the person who could have bought a winning lottery ticket but didn't, or changed the combination at the last minute. Fortunately, in the future I won't have stories to tell like yours.


That's what happens with an asset that has given such a return as Bitcoin. There were many people who knew about Bitcoin when it was worth very little, who had the opportunity to buy and didn't, or bought and for some reason or another sold, and now think about how much of a multi-millionaire they would have been if they hadn't done so.

I think that better than regretting the past is to look to the future and not make the same mistake. The best day to buy Bitcoin is today. It still has a lot of profitability left to give.

The amount was too much for something completely new to everyone at that time, $50k for a virtual investment like you said would probably appear insane to anyone who would hear of it back in 2011, I don't think I would have risk such amount for something am hearing for the first time as well,
You followed your instinct and probably avoid falling into a trap, since the offer triggered some curiosity in you perhaps after the offer you would have invested your $1500 directly, that would have still be a lot better as well, it is never too late to buy btc only that the price is way higher now compare to 10 years back.
Between I have my set target to sell any crypto I own, I don't believe holding forever is the best approach (just my opinion)

Wow! You even had deep knowledge about Bitcoin and mining right from the early days. But don't worry, better days is still ahead. That's what I always tell myself.


He did indeed tried to explain everything to me. The technology, how everything works, and the business model. But I wasn't getting it. At that point, the whole thing were sounding like online banking and payment system, especially his use of Digital Currency instead of Cryptocurrency. That was even the reason I had the little interest in it. But wasn't enough to convince me.

1. I had no knowledge about how the whole thing worked. Wanted to learn it but didn't even know where to start from.

2. I didn't want to appear as stealing his business secret. At that time, it was to me as if the Investment plan was his exclusive right.

As far as my plans are concerned, I have my capital divided into to parts: a bigger part is intended for mainstream currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, BNB, Matic, DOT. I don't sell currencies from this part, I only buy more and more every month and I am going to hold at least 5 years for a new bull run in the future. Another part of money I invest in new risky altcoins that can give big profit in the short period of time.

Actually no one knows that future value of bitcoin and hence we hesitate to invest in it. If everyone knew 10 years ago that bitcoin will reach 50K by 2021, everyone would have sold everything and bought bitcoin under 10$ or 100$.

Even now, if we are confident that in some future time bitcoin will reach 500,000$, we could sell everything and buy bitcoin now, but since we have not seen the future, we can't be sure what could be the future valuation of bitcoin at that time.

You still have chance mate so stop regretting,  just keep in mind that bitcoin always experience a bearish season that can lead the price always below the strong support level, not always a bullish especially when there's a massive decline in the market,  so it's a second chance and big opportunity for those who missed the train from the previous bull run..   If I were you make a plan for the next bull season instead of regretting because its useless.. Remember crypto market is like a roller-coaster if you want to ride in order to reach the highest level you must be ready to don't missed the next opportunity to ride in.

That's a pretty interesting story,OP. I find it hard to believe.
I wonder why you are sharing this story with us right now.You could've done it way earlier,like years ago.
The guy must have been a scammer.Asking for an investment and offering you a 70/30 share seems too sketchy.If he was so convinced that Bitcoin is going to rise,then why he didn't invest his own money,or why he didn't ask his own friends and family.Asking strangers for an investment and promising gigantic profits seems suspicious.I assume that he provided some proof,but proof can be faked.
This guy was most likely a scammer,but he predicted the future. ;D

Amazing, you would have been owner of multi millionaire but if you go through some posts above then same question is there, the amount of investment like 500,1000 bucks was big amount few years back. The thing is bitcoin is cheap today also if you accept that the value is incriminating every year due to its nature. The correlation of bitcoin with its supply, demand and also mining speed is deciding great demand of value. I’m pretty sure after few years time we will have same person with same story talking about how they lost the big share of bitcoin and would have been millionaire by this time.

I have still not lost the hope as I have started my own little mining farm, grabbing all the opportunities as I can to earn the satoshi or bits.  I’m confident enough that I will make it a full bitcoin one day whether it’s bit by bit or lum sum.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of similar stories. If many people in 2011 knew about such a scenario, it could have developed quite differently.

Everyone has that type of opportunity that has just passed by but we're too scared because there's a lot of uncertainty during that time. But yours, it's massive and truly going to be a life changing until many generation of your family. As usual, it's not too late for us, we still have the golden and might see the best from bitcoin. My plan, I don't have a certain time but as long as the target price has been met, I'll slowly sell and get things done and buy those important things that I need in my life which will build things for me to have a better life.

Asking for a huge investment sum into something barely known and claiming that it'll bring huge profits does sound shady. I know Bitcoin did turn out very popular, but I think that you made the right decision back then, given the amount of information and the risk you were supposed to take. It's best not to risk such things. I'm also happy to hear that you didn't give up on Bitcoin, even though you missed an early chance of adopting it.
I wasn't around  in 2011, but I remember when I thought $200 per Bitcoin was too expensive, and then that $1k is unbelievably expensive... So it's hard to invest in the right moment, but now I'm trying to keep some BTC untouched when I can, and not think about the pricing.

I think even those who believed in the technology themselves didn't imagine that the price of 1 BTC would reach more than $60,000 someday, or else they wouldn't have sold. They would have accumulated more instead. Even Hal himself who thought that Bitcoin could reach as high as $10 million converted a lot of BTC during his lifetime. Perhaps they considered the possibility of Bitcoin becoming very expensive as remote, so much so that they didn't think twice of selling when Bitcoin was as cheap as a hundred dollars.


I agree. There were lost opportunities in the past but there are still opportunities today. It would be a pity if we let this opportunity pass the second time around.

I totally agree
No one expected such adoption and the best proof is that till now there is a very large number of people arround the world don't know about crypto and a largest number dont use it, 1 million holder for a coin or a token is a huge number in the current time and that show at what point crypto is still undercover

I think no one knows or no one are expecting way back then that bitcoin market value will going to soar high like the current price. Every one has their own kind of story of regret that they did not able to catch up bitcoin at the time that it was affordable by many but in the case of OP I think if I am in his place way back that time I will be having a second thought also even let's say I am a professional trader of stocks and knowledgeable enough about trading, aside from the huge amount of investment which a bit sound shady if we will be in that place while we listen to him, crypto platform was just new that time.

What amazed me about this thread is that the complete and detailed even the Minutes to be specific thinking that this happens 10 years past , your memory is completely remembered all of those and yes i might say you are very smart that missed the chance making this market your Billion dollar chance.

But i must agreed in the first post/reply here that 50,000 does not mean 50,000 bitcoin also , because I'm afraid that 1$=1BTC is the ratio of legit investing , scam might be in place if you dare to try .

There are a lot of story out there about people who missed their chance to become bitcoin billionaire because they ever have a chance to buy bitcoin in 2009.
But i think almost there are no bitcoin billionaires by plan exist. If they really invest on bitcoin when the price is 0.1$ i'm really sure they will sell at 1$ or 10$. because they already made hundred times return and most investors will sell their investment with that return.

My current plan is hold some good fundamental coins like ETH, BNB, ADA, and SOL. Currently on 50-100% profits of each coin, i don't think it will do a 100x-1000x times price growth in the future but i'm fine with 10x times growth if the market keep doing the uptrend every year.

BNB is a coin I need to pay much attention to. From the way it's going, it may probably take over from ETH very soon as the number two coin. Right now, I don't have any BNB but I'm thinking seriously about buying some as soon as money comes into my hands. You've made a great choice with the coins.

The event was so memorable that there's nowhere I could forget some of the details. Probably because I'll never know if I made the right or wrong decision.

Everyone regrets not investing when bitcoin is cheap, I also regret having around 20 btc in 2015 and at that time I sold it cheap at $240, if i hold at least half or 10 btc then i can buy a new sports car that I want

It is unreasonable to feel remorse for something over which you have no control. Even if you want to, you can't go back to the past to re-invest in Bitcoin. On the other hand, the journey of Bitcoin does not end here, don't do anything at present that you have to regret in the future. Now is the perfect time to invest in Bitcoin, hopefully by the end of the year the price of Bitcoin will reach $100k.

It's always unfortunate and a sad story to see those who were informed and had the capacity to get on the fun train while it was still slow and for some reasons fail to jump on it. Though, I encourage that these stories should be told so that, other persons can learn from it. That's the most important thing about failed attempts and stories such as these. It's not just for the individual alone although, the individual owes his or her self the duty of not having same occurances and then to others, not to get stinged by the same bee.
One thing I know for sure is that, there are a lot others that would still come a few years from now and tell stories of how there fears just couldn't let them get a head start. Buy bitcoin when you can and hodl as long as you can. This is no investment advice anyway.

Even if you buy a car now, you will regret for your decision of spending your bitcoins by 2025 or 2029. I mean there will be no end point for such kind of regrets because bitcoin will keep on increasing and everyone who decides not holding it definitely will regret one day or other. So, what we should do to avoid such kind of regrets?

I believe there will be no concrete answer for this because everyone into experimental phase with bitcoin investments hence we could not conclude when to exit.

If only you knew you would have invested the  $1,500 that you had with you by yourself in cryptocurrency. It’s not a must that you needed anybody to invest in cryptocurrency, and I’m sure by now you must have known that, that this is something that you can do for yourself and not rely on anyone at all. This was a mistake that I know a lot of people made; they thought that bitcoin was a company or that they had to invest through someone.

When it comes to cryptocurrency, everyone manages their funds for themselves, and you don’t need anyone at all to do it for you. So, going by the $1,500 you have said that you had then, it would have gotten you 1500 units, and that 1500 units at this current price of $66,000 would be worth 99 million dollars. Even at that $10,000 you said it was around February 2020 you would have $15,000,000 [fifteen million dollars]. You might not have been a billionaire, but you would be a millionaire which is quite good from just investing a $1,500.

Most of us here has a story or two to tell on how we nearly became millionaires :D Everyone seems to be so close to that one trade, which would make them rich but always miss is by a fraction. I still think we are early if you look at the next 10 years and there are still lots of chances to at least earn decent profit for our retirement.

Circa 2013 for me. Was a journalist and told to cover the Silk Road goings on. Did, even made a wallet and got some faucet stash to try it out (research, you know) but neglected to look deeper. My excuse was a painful experience with e-gold about a decade earlier, just saw this as yet another p2p currency that would inevitably get knocked over by the US government.

Would be 8 years into it by now had I dug deeper. But no regrets. 2016 became my entry point and my 5-year plan isn't the worst thing to admire =)

Until now, it still haunts me that I didn’t know BTC several years ago. I only knew BTC sometime in the Q1 of 2014, and I think the price was like somewhere between $500 to $600. I was an unstable low income earner back then averaging only $200 to $300 a month, in which I can’t afford to buy 1 BTC (and had no idea that I could buy fractions of it known as satoshis). I simply created a Bitcointalk forum account, Blockchain and Coins.PH wallet, and that’s it. I fully ignored it until I came back in the mid-2017 and the rest is history.

Man I wish the Time Stone really exists lol.

The price is that high now is because there are a lot of people missed the chance to the things is become rare, if everyones buy bitcoin at that time the price must be higher at that time too.
We were not buying because we don't think bitcoin will be so much valueable in the future, to make another chance means we have to find a coin that looks doubtfull and not valuable just like we saw bitcoin at the past, Buy those coins and wait for best luck in the future

I think we all are wishing that we know 5 years, 10 years ago, or at the moment that Bitcoin become available in the market. But too unfortunate and I think we have to accept that not all the time we're in perfect timing, not all the time that the opportunity is really for us. because if that is only possible, I think we are millionaires, a billionaire, or even more than that.

We miss those days and so the cheap prices but at least, we don't lose everything as we still have the chance to take the opportunity. Might be late, but never been said we are too late.

people who have previously joined the crypto world or first got to know bitcoin must have felt the benefits now. If time could be turned back then I wish I could get to know bitcoin earlier and invest it. but we can't continue to regret it, investing in bitcoin today is no worse, we can invest bitcoin at any time as long as we can manage it well. so from now on it will be better if we invest bitcoin well with the hope that in the future the bitcoin price will be higher and continue to rise.

I personally know, at least, 10 people who became millionaires from scratch through their early investments in Bitcoin. That's more the reason I feel like I really lost a golden opportunity. Two things prevented me from invest the $1,500. 1. I had zero knowledge about Bitcoin back then. 2. I didn't want to go from behind, having just rejected an Investment proposal.

In 2009, I was 7 years old. I was a child. I not had any knowledge about crypto currency.  And I not had any smart phone or internet. That's reason I missed to mine or invest  Bitcoin.

Don't stress yourself too much, quite a few of us have been in a similar position. I don't recall entering the Bitcoin scene in 2011, however, it was probably 2013 at most. I was a teenager back then, hoarding BTC from faucets, I had asked my parents to lend me $500 to buy Bitcoin, I don't remember its value back then, if I am not mistaken, it was approximately $200. They refused, however, while in the meantime, I spent most of the BTC I had acquired back then, buying Minecraft accounts and other digital stuff.

Supposing I had invested those $500, which would set me back with approximately 2 Bitcoins, now I'd have a decent sum of money for myself and my family. Even if I'd held that small amount of BTC I had acquired, it would still be worth a few thousand dollars at least.

Don't be harsh on yourself, be on the lookout for new opportunities in the future, learning from past mistakes.

Actually we do not know how high the Bitcoin prices can go and therefore we miss out on the opportunity. There are some people who do not invest in Bitcoin thinking it's too high in value and there are others who invest in bitcoin but sale too early and miss out on high gains. Both of these type of people will regret in future.

Everybody who heard of bitcoin in the past but had not joined was regret why they did not join bitcoin and bought many bitcoin at that time. It is normal to see that as many times we underestimate something that we do not know with details and tend to abandon it until we hear or see by ourselves how worth that thing is today or in the future. In 2011, I could buy bitcoin if I want but unfortunately, I left it without thinking about having an investment by risking some money to hold and forget it.

But I did not do that and was still busy searching for the other way to make money. That is a life lesson that many people missed in the past but we still have time to try to have more bitcoin in many ways. We should not let the chance leave us again before it is too late for us to take a seat in the bitcoin world.

at that time a lot of people missed out bitcoin including me and other people too because the price of bitcoin was still low and it was unthinkable that the price could soar drastically. people who join earlier in bitcoin at that time must have felt the benefits now. but nothing can change if we just regret it. take advantage of existing and currently owned bitcoins so that you can also benefit from it.

There are countless of people with similar experience like ours. The feeling of regret is hard to let go but we just have to. And that's what I'm trying to do. The guy who lost his hard drive of 7,500 BTC may probably never live normal life again if he refused to let it go, we just have to let it go and focus on the future.

Well OP you did not say if you had 50k to invest then and you didn't. That's the actual point where regret should come into place. At that moment your spare funds was $1500 and what was the reason why your friend would reject an investment of $1500 into bitcoin that was at one dollar then these are question you should reminisce about instead of regretting.

Come to think of it, He concealed an intention which you don't know off. He saw you as a complete newbie and predicted that you have 50k to spare, he would have told you some endless stories about how the funds got lost or something else since he had more knowledge about bitcoin than yourself. The only angle where I would have accepted your regrets is, if he advised you to invest the $1500 and you declined.

On the second hand, he never told you how to invest the $1500 and make some profits for yourself even though when the price increases to $100 and you sold. That would have made you to see how transparent what he is teaching you for the first is, and also how it works in general because practical is the best way to learn.

OP forget about the past like everyone else said. Focus on building a firm that can you more fiats which inturn you will invest into bitcoin with your profits.

Yes, I'd have raise the $50k If I was totally convinced about the investment prospect. I'm not actually regretting though, just sharing the past experience and reminiscing the prospect.

Sound advice. That's what I'm focused on doing going forward. Trying to raise some fists, convert to crypto, and repeat.

Thanks for the comments.

2011 was indeed a very young age for bitcoin. Anybody would have thought that it was a scam to put such a huge amount of money in a digital coin.
So your actions are completely justified. But if you were an investor back then then you should have looked for such opportunities.
If I had a good amount of money back then and if someone would have told me about such an opportunity then I would definitely not put in $50,000 but would have invested at least $100 in it just for the sake of it.
As an investor, we need to have a mindset to reap on opportunities.

If I were him, I'd need a ton of psychotherapy to get over how stupidly I lost such opportunity. On the other hand, despite losing quite a few opportunities myself, I don't (and can't) regret what I could have done differently several years ago, it doesn't change anything and to be honest, there's no point in doing so.

My goal now is to look forward to new opportunities and challenges, in order to accumulate more Bitcoin in the long-term. Looking back won't solve anything at this point.
 

People who used to buy a lot of bitcoins were not necessarily able to hold their bitcoins until now, high fluctuations in bitcoin prices will certainly make the psychology of bitcoin users to be shaky. Of course there are those who sell some or all of them because they think the price is high enough.
Whatever the price, there will be no regrets as long as it is the target that has been achieved. I used to have some bitcoins too and I sold them for around $4000 and they were already very high. There's nothing to be sorry for, bitcoin continues to be developed and many altcoins have a good future.

Why settle in the past when you can't do anything about it?
We have to face the present and learn from our mistakes in the past so that we can do better in the future.
Investment is not just for one time only, you can reinvest again if you have the money since money just come and go.

Most people should have to be like you who won't stay while looking back but instead looking in what you could do in the future. Most people are suffering from losses yet they still get up and continue living even though they have made a lot of mistakes and that should what we do.

Don't blame yourself that you missed a train before because there's no way we can predict the outcome in the first place. If you will just keep thinking about what you did in the past, you will just forever be struck on that thinking and will have difficulty facing the current trend.  ;)

Well, I personally don’t think it is over. You missed the first one, maybe you can still try it this time around, and it would work out for you. Although I do know that you’re going to lack the confidence to give it a try this time around because the price of the coin is very high this time, but I think the price of bitcoin is still very far from what it would be in the future.

Yes, it is quite high now but none of us would have believed that it was going to get to this level right? So if you have the money to invest now, even if it is not up to the price for one full bitcoin, you can still buy half of it, that’s something. You can buy it now and just keep on holding it for some years if you can.

Everything has happened and can only be remembered with regret because we all would not have thought or imagined that bitcoin could reach such a fantastic price.
and now it's very expensive to own one bitcoin and that doesn't mean we have to insist on owning one bitcoin because we can do it according to our ability gradually and hold it in, and if we do it with discipline for 10 years second chances won't be missed.

It may become a very big regret, moreover to know the recent price of Bitcoin. But once more, regret is a past and we need to do what is the best for now. I also have the chance to buy some Butcoin in 2016 before bullish at that time. But I couldn't buy it because I have no money and BTC is still not as very popular.
That is why I try to make it better chance right now.
Everyone has nect chance to be utilized and maximized actually

It was because 10 years ago people are just ignoring crypto and mostly we think it was a scam think. Having the trust in Bitcoin during that time is really hard as we are thinking negatively and doubtful of its capability. Nobody gave much weight in those days, in fact, if we could remember someone is buying pizza for 10,000BTC? If that person keeps and thinks that Bitcoin will reach $60,000, it is for sure he never spends like that but rather to keep it until now.

This is how to remember the past and we all just missed it.

Learn from your mistake and good luck with your journey.

One thing I learned too is holding by a certain period is not effective than holding and selling when a specific target price is hit.
We know how volatile bitcoin is, once a bull period is here, it will likely hit our target and we should be ready to sell our price and not be too greedy to hold.

@OP, that's a lot of money you missed, but it doesn't mean you'll not be able to make that in the future, just continue investing. 

and besides, he didn't know how legit was that offer? would that person respect their agreements throughout those years? so we don't know what will be the turn of events if in case  he accepted such offer. why asked for 50k or nothing? he can always accept lower amount but he did not. so i have the feeling that he would have been screwed if he went all in.
he can always get on board with bitcoin anytime and make his own journey without any third party that may possibly screw him. right now, one can easily manage his crypto portfolio without the intervention of any 3rd party.

To tell you two more stories  :)

If only we have a crystal ball to know the future of Bitcoin 10 years ago, then probably we are all rich by now for holding. But since its impossible, many of us ignored Bitcoin not knowing the price will skyrocket. But its all in the past and we cant turn back time, having regrets now wont help us so we need to move on and think of a strategy to take advantage the situation.

As long as you're happy with the profit then its a good decision to sell because there's always a chance to buy back again. The price is unstable, certainly it will decline and move upward just like the past history.

yeah i'm agree that no one could predict the future, and i'm sure maybe there are just 0.00001% people who holds their bitcoin for 10 years after multiple pump and it's almost imposibble that they still hold except the person who holds is already rich since they bought it.
So everyone has their own profits, as long as it's a profit then it's okay. if we take it too long in a religious way, every people has their own sustenance and it won't be swapped to other people sustenance.

Everyone should get into the habit of doing this. Don't get carried away with greed, because you won't be able to get all of the money in the market. Being content with the profit you made is the best strategy because if you try to hold on to it for longer periods of time, the price may drop and you will be tempted to sell it at a lower price. When a goal is established and the profit is satisfactory, however, there will be no problems. Set a profit target or a profit goal, as well as a loss target so that you can accept a loss if any of these targets are met.

Can't blame myself for not being a fortune-teller, am I right? There's no point dwelling about what happened in the past, we couldn't have known or predicted it would become such a big deal. Unfortunately, I wasn't onboard since its beginning, in 2010-2011, when it costed a few cents, possibly if I knew about it, I would have bought some, since it was dirt cheap.

There are times that I ask myself "What if?" but I quickly brush it off. Not only is it meaningless, but it's also time-consuming, and as an old aphorism said, time is money.

That is Greedy attitude and that is also the main reason why Most of us once become a loser as we keeps seeking for higher profit till time comes that the currency starts falling and we are trapped inside.
I think we are here to learn from our mistakes, nowadays when i bought a coin for short term? i only aim to at least gain 5-15% that is enough for me and then go out.
with this strategy now i keep my funds safer than losing by being greedy.

You can blame yourself for ruing the fact though. No point wishing or regretting or second-guessing as you said, and we all look back on occasion. Hell, I even look back on Dogecoin every now and then but it's only to laugh and shake my head.

There are moments in life I look back even farther. Over 10 years before Bitcoin even. But the more I consider where I am today, the less I give a damn about the past.


Seen your very first posts and it makes sense you'd sell around $4000, shortly after your forum account, but how on earth did you manage to get "a few BTC"? Think I joined just a little before you and even 1 BTC was some kind of target that kept getting farther away in the wake of 2017 rally.

(Just curious)

in my first year into crypto around 2016 it was very easy to get 1 BTC and it was not impossible. I haven't even joined this forum yet. I earn from several Giveaways and several airdrops that I participate in. At that time around 3.5 BTC I can get. The late 2017 rally was certainly a good opportunity for me to start selling BTC and some other altcoins like ETH.

Well done to you. I got my first BTC in the same year, but had mainly been freelancing and most of my early work clients requested if could pay in alts instead, so I had a growing pile of alts I just sold whenever I could on Cryptopia (I know, I know). And then BTC of course I kept as much as possible after selling (since it was income anyway) but by the time I was able to earn real BTC and stack my sats 2017 had happened and even 1 BTC was above $10k.

Had I been perhaps even half a year earlier... and then looking at my localbitcoins trade volume (always selling) of over 50 BTC, makes me feel "rich"!

I never did get into the airdrop game but guess we all have different stories!

I also have a lot of altcoins piling up, some of which have prices and enter markets like cryptopia, Novaexchange and other exchanges. I became a freelancer and any job I do to earn from crypto. Airdrop, Bounty, being a translator is all I do. Looking at the trading volume at that time, 50BTC was certainly a reasonable amount. But if you can hold on until now, of course, it will be a different story. But there's no need to regret it, backward flashbacks can only be used as a valuable experience on how important it is to leave some assets for the long term.
We all have different stories or experiences.

The opportunity is certainly still there, Bitcoin is still new, bitcoin continues to be developed.
You may know about bitcoin earlier, I started to know Bitcoin in 2016 and tried to trade. I used to have quite a lot of bitcoin assets, and of course they were sold when the price was high at that time.
If we are able to hold bitcoin until now, we will be billionaires of course, but psychology will not be that strong, will definitely sell when the price according to us is very high.
Currently the opportunity is still there, investing for the long term can certainly be profitable.

Well I agree --there is no late on investing in bitcoin and it could be bitcoin will reach $100k perhaps after 2 years or more, so if you think you are late in 2016, there is a chance that you can gain profit on investing bitcoin. The problem with people because they cannot wait for a long time, they want a quick profit, and usually, they are afraid when bitcoin has a correction, thinking that they will lose everything. If we are able to hold more than 1 bitcoin in 2016, it could make you rich by now and even reinvesting you still have gained profit.

I don't have any regrets about it. It could have been a scam as many people have pointed out. I was just sharing the encounter, and imagining what would have become if it were to become a reality.

Many people have missed their first chance to enter in the crypto market because they do not calculate the potential of this market. That is perfectly ok as no one had thought few years back, that bitcoin can grow so big in the coming years. But now we know the potential of bitcoin so we should now take entry in the bitcoin so that in 2030, we are not among those who would be saying that they missed the bitcoin under 50K which is now trading at 10 or 20x higher prices.

The lack of faith in bitcoin is simply the main reason why we missed a lot investing in bitcoin way back 10 years ago. Even on the part of newbies today, it will always be the case. They are still hesitant to invest in bitcoin because its still expensive, so they chose those altcoins over bitcoin. And then few years from now, they will start to reflect on why they didn't trust in bitcoin in the first place. We will only then realize once we see bitcoin on top of all other coins and just hoping we have invested too in bitcoin from the start.

I always advise newbies to learn the crypto world properly, before deciding to invest in crypto. So that newbies understand better that investing
in Bitcoin is the most appropriate decision, so in the future will not regret for missing the opportunity to invest in Bitcoin. It's actually easier now
to believe in the future of Bitcoin, compared to when Bitcoin first entered the market. Because now there is a lot of evidence that shows that
Bitcoin is the best coin and Bitcoin has a bright future. So if there are people who still have doubts about investing in Bitcoin, it means they are
not learning Bitcoin properly. Don't because the price of Bitcoin is too high now, then it becomes an excuse not to buy Bitcoin. Even though
buying Bitcoin doesn't have to be 1 BTC, we can buy fractions of Bitcoin according to everyone's financial ability.

  I think the same scenario will probably happen ten years from now. People will still regret that they have missed chances to invest in bitcoin and now they are not making huge profits from it. But IMO, people will not learn from all their wrong decisions unless they see bitcoin in a very high ATH.  So it will be an eye opener for all to never disregard bitcoin as its value will always bound for a higher ATH in every year that comes.

The only problem is that the price of bitcoin is not the same as it was 10 years ago, when it was extremely cheap and anyone could afford it; now it is extremely difficult to purchase one if you do not have enough money; however, it is highly likely that this scenario will repeat itself, so it is best to invest sooner rather than later. Some people will learn from their mistakes, but others will not. If we make a mistake, we should assess it and figure out how to avoid making the same mistake again. This is the key to gaining valuable experience and achieving our goals.

If you keep on thinking that bitcoin is quite hard to afford especially at the current price, then you can never expect for bitcoin to give you huge profits 10 years from now. So taking the risk is a reality. You cannot just wait there and let bitcoin work for you. You have to invest now and hold your bitcoin, and let's see where will your investment take you. It's a matter of faith that you should always hope the best for bitcoin as you will be the one to benefit it the most.

No, it wont happen again anymore. As we see cryptos now are very popular and almost all people now know its history. I knew someone that is new to crypto and he explains to me how cryptos got his interest and he is planning to hold it for a long time.

People nowadays have a better thinking than us people on the past although there might be some regrets for the people that have recently discovered cryptos because they missed a big opportunity although it is not too late yet because there are still lots of people that are not yet into cryptos, imagine if they join here as well, the value of cryptos will improve dramatically.

Well even though the value of BTC is not the same as it was 10 years ago, people who have had BTC can have it again, because they know how they can get it and so they can start from scratch, in Jesse Livermore's books, he became millionaire and then he was bankrupt, but on two occasions he managed to become a millionaire again, it is that money is made thinking, if for some mistake everything is lost in one move, you have to work very hard to get there again, that is law, I think that every human being has that capacity.

today, bitcoin price is 44k.

It is inconceivable if you accept the offer of $50k and get 50,000 btc, of course you will not write the story here, you will enjoy the holidays and can buy many things, all you do is check the price and then sell it to fulfill your pleasure, this story gives the picture that we have to buy bitcoin now then hold it for another 10 years and I believe the price of 1 bitcoin will reach $ 1 million.

Failure is not the reason to give up but its there to motivate you to rise up again. So it does not matter if we missed opportunities and fail in our first attempts, as long as we are able to recover from that and do the right thing now. And now the right thing to do is to start investing as prices will always grow in time. When you look back 10 years from now, at least you can say to yourself that i have done my best and now its time for me to reap the fruit of my hard work.

What I find most remarkable from this story is the guy that talked to Dripstoil.

He put himself at the right place at the right time, and was convinced he could do even better in the next decade. He learned a lot from Bitcoin from the early days, and went boldly forward, ignoring the typical path of society that most people live. He didn't work for a company, he created and kept creating his own source of money, based on Bitcoin.

That guy also had the ability to go out and present his idea to a complete stranger, and not a random person, but someone that could potentially say yes to what he was asking for. That means he did his research on that as well.

That shows that this is an interesting person, and that you can live your life however you want to.

To get remarkable results, you need to do remarkable things. If you keep doing the same that everyone else is doing, then you're going to get average results.

Many regret always happen in this world, many people also regret why not investing in Bitcoin when the price was very low and undervalue?
The answer is:
the trust.
Because at that time, who knows that Bitcoin will be as big as now?
Who knows that Bitcoin will be accepted by many more people?
And who knows that Bitcoin price will rise up as high as right now?
Additionally, $1000 at that time may value bigger than $1000 right now. The time go on. And even at that time, we may invest and in fact, the rice was going down more than at that time, what will happen? We will regret it again, won't we?
That is why there is no need to regret what has been passed in the past. Moreover with many calculation that we should get if we invest at that time, it will multiple the bigger regret.
Just use the past as the expericne and lessons. Now, the rigth chocie is what to do right now Not to calculate what should ahppen to us because of the past, but what we can do for us for our present and future

Looking at the current bitcoin price of course i also regret it, 7 years ago or in 2013 when the bitcoin price was very cheap i made a lot of earnings from faucets, giveaways and so on, at that time i had more than 50 btc then i sold it in september for $ 110 and December skyrocketed to over $1000 so I missed out on a big profit opportunity that year.

Indeed its about trust. Having doubt if it could be a big thing in the future or if the price can really increase, people are only speculating and there's no concrete basis.

I think even some investors hold their Bitcoin for few months or years after buying at early stage, probably after seeing a major pump they already sell their Bitcoin not knowing it can increase further. So now we come to realized the wrong decision we committed for not having trust about Bitcoin.

Not always the case. I personally spoke to one who exited at $10k. That was his target, he felt sure it would go even higher (this was in 2017) but he'd held for as long as he'd planned, and exited according to plan. I don't think he looks back with any regret. It was life-changing at $10k, as I'm sure it was life-changing for others at $68k, as I'm certain it'll be life-changing for others down the line, who've held with the same beliefs.

Right, anyone who doesn’t have plan will keep on doing the wrong thing. You don’t just invest in Bitcoin without having a target that you feel you’re meant to accomplish. Whenever I am investing in cryptocurrency, I always take out time to study the market and decide for how long I am going to HODL, and also how much I would like to before I sell and wait for another time to invest again.

Like you said, anyone who doesn’t know their plans for investing would either keep holding and not be satisfied or they will end up selling at the wrong time. So in everything that we are doing, it is required that we always make good plans to guide us to the right outcome.

Yeah you are right, trust is the thing. But another thing is this: even if you should find a project that you can trust (based on the fact that it is legit) does that mean the project is going to be successful? That you can trust a project doesn’t mean that it is going to be successful in the future. That’s why you would see some good assets today and you feel that they will succeed, but at the end that’s not the case.

And you can’t even predict success and when it may happen. That’s why investment is all about risk, and you have to understand that; knowing that not every investment you make is going to be a success. But always take the risk.

Yeah, I think there should be no regrets who those who have some price in mind before they exit.

Maybe the issue is for those who exited early without any plans, just buy the hype before and then when the price goes down and s*t, they panic and hurriedly push the sell button.

And those are the same people who are now regretting it, even going to social media to rant about their stupidity. But who knows, no one see bitcoin going into 5 digits or even 6 digits in the future.

No doubt, bitcoin got massive pump in the last few years. The age of bitcoin currency is not so old. But, it gain so much popularity in a short period of time. It surprise me how a currency that have only 1$ price then pumps upto All time high record of 68000$ in the few years. If a person have invested only 100$ in bitcoin at price of 1$. Now its investment is in billions, if he have still this investment. 

Millions, not billions :)

68,000 * 100 = $6,800,000

Not just you and us, I think a lot of people will regret looking at the current bitcoin price. After all, BTC in 2012-2017 was really cheap but the risk of bitcoin at that time was very high, and I think there will be few people who venture to invest and hold them for now.
But nowadays is the best time we invest because bitcoin now I think its much safer. Countries, companies, corporations have accepted and invested in bitcoin. To not regret in the future again, buy bitcoin now.

Well everyone here has regrets about their past bitcoin investment decisions. No doubt about that. Everyone laughs at the pizza guy who could have been a multimillionaire if he didnt trade his coins for a pizza but to be honest, I sold my bitcoin back then to buy a nice new camera. Which would be work 400k in todays money. Makes me a bit sad thinking about it but back then I did not really understand Bitcoin and had no idea it would go from 90 bucks to 60k. ::)

You are not the only one, many missed the chance to make a big profit, and not only because they sold bitcoin early, but also, for example, ether. It's inevitable because I think a lot of people in those days were selling a lot of bitcoin at a very low price. I wanted to believe that bitcoin would rise in price over time, but then it was really hard to believe that it would cost 60k. Perhaps in 5 years someone will regret that they sold their bitcoins at 60k, because the price will be much higher.

Yeah, even before bitcoin was worth $600, I was giggling at the thought of someone purchasing a pizza with bitcoin, but at the time, it seemed incredible because no one could ever do something like that, and you couldn't imagine purchasing something with digital currency. I believe this is the reason why bitcoin's price has skyrocketed, as well as the reason for the current price. I believe that the majority of us were here about 5 years ago and have regrets because if we had held on to it until now, I could say that I am a millionaire right now, but we should not make the same mistake again.

  I was definitely one of them. I was always skeptical about bitcoin believing that its price would not go this far. So i have missed a lot of chances to hold my bitcoin, instead i converted them to fiat before but that time i was also badly needing a good amount of money so i guess that also helps. Yes, i may had a small regret but i guess it won't help at all. Now i'm starting to become optimistic to regain my bitcoin so i always see to it that i won't miss any chance again and definitely take advantage every time a new opportunity comes.

If I were you, at that time, I would also think the same probably, wouldn't risk that very much money to invest in something that is digital, not real, moreover sometimes that is very new for me/ This is a high risk of course. If that was about $1500, it might be fine, but it was $50k. Wow, absolutely would think multiple times because this was very big money.
We don't know at that time whether the BTC price will be exactly increasing or not, rght?

But the time goes by, yes, the regret may be there. But, we can still have a choice And your choice to hold BTC for the next five years is a good idea. Actually I also have the similar plan, holding in 5 years period as playing iwth bearish and bullish era.

Bitcoin is still gaining more popularity in the world in the areas of eliminating errors from the world economy and improving employment in the community. Those that invested on bitcoin when the price was $0.08 some years ago in the community are now billionaires because they discovered that bitcoin has a greater future that made them to invested such amount of money on bitcoin some years ago. Investors that invested $100k on bitcoin in the month of October 2013 when the price was $204k are now millionaires in their investment because they believe that bitcoin price will get to $40k.

You're right but the problem now is that the entry level has become too high. It takes massive amount of money to own few Bitcoins that'll be capable of making you a millionaire if and when Bitcoin hits $1million. Unlike then when few hundreds of USD were just enough.

That big faith of them will certainly bring those investors into fortune and will acquire billions of wealth if they can keep bitcoin within 10 years from its investment. But i guess few of those investors can really do that as most of us never believed in the potentials of bitcoin 10 years ago. Some may believe, yes, but they never take the risk to invest so its still a missed opportunity. It takes a strong hands in crypto to become more persistent and does not lose the faith and patience within 10 years due to its high volatility. Otherwise, most of all have failed and have turned to other investments because they are less risky compared to bitcoin.

if you are still working, prioritize still working and put aside to go out and focus on investing in bitcoin, because after all, work is still a mainstay for the future. There is no need to regret the past because there will still be a future with bitcoin all the time.

the investment that will be made in bitcoin is always good and true what you say that the future will continue to grow for bitcoin, why do I say that because the principle of bitcoin is that it will always increase during the halving period, where there will be a reduction in the number of bitcoins which will result in an increase in price .
so there will always be an increase in the future of bitcoin and it cannot be avoided, even though it is currently undergoing a correction and it is certain that there will be renewable ATH in the future.

the principle is don't hesitate to invest in bitcoin, it is certain that in the future it will increase, 5 years, the next 10 years will happen so on, just need patience to wait for it.

Most of the early investors in bitcoin gained very huge profits because they have strong faith in bitcoin and so they hold them for years and never doubted it. But that is already rare to happen these days as most of the early investors are more on greed and profit making. 10 years of hodling bitcoin is very long enough and no one can sustain it just by holding bitcoin. And besides, no one will expect that bitcoin will grow that much so everyone missed the opportunity to invest.  But let's not dwell on missed opportunities so much but lets focus on the present so that the mistake we did before will not happen again. Invest now because 10 years from now, bitcoin will definitely  be a very huge and expensive investment by then.

Bitcoin has always been productive ever since but not all people have been convinced to invest in it because there were still other investments that have more demands than bitcoin. But those other investments have died in the process but bitcoin still stood up until at the present times. Now that we have prove that bitcoin has strong foundation, we should not wait for other time to invest. Start it now and let's see you much you will gain 10 years from now. But always do remember that bitcoin does not guarantee sure profits, but if you can manage your investment well, you will never be in loss with bitcoin.

Do you guys remember the guy that bought a pizza for 10,000 Bitcoin? So for those of you who are saying that early investors had patience, the truth is that most of them never really had this kind of patience that you all think they would have. Most of them even sold their bitcoins with the slightest increase in price. So, it’s still the same thing with the newbies that we have this time around, everyone is always in a hurry and they want to make profit quickly.

Although I believe that there are few of us who were able to have patience for as long as it was going to take for them to make a good profit, and those are the people who really understood that the market was heading somewhere in the future.

my advice:

stop thinking what you would have done in the past, the past is gone, think about the present, bitcoin price will always be high and low, so buy low and sell high. thinking that I had to buy it in the past is a big mistake, what if the price never went up? if bitcoin was a failure? how could anyone imagine that the price would reach $40,000? there's just no way to have a crystal ball to guess this

Thank you for allowing me to enter this forum.
I have just invested in BTC in this last fall that reached 28k.
I made an investment of almost 2 BTC with a view to holding for about 5 to 10 years hoping that BTC can reach or exceed 100K.
Do you think it exceeds 100K or can reach more than 200?

You're right, no one would have known for sure that Bitcoin would get to where it got so far. Likewise no one predicted the current tumble in Crypto market. Of course I'm not lamenting, I'm reminiscing the event that took place when I knew absolutely  nothing about Bitcoin.

Im not a bigger investment but i have experience in all of this world of crypto even in all the web earning money www (https://hentaihub.me/) and i think is good that everyone knows is hard to get results and if you have luck take care of all the thing you do with you money dont put emotions in all of this

I think that's a pretty good advice.

Thinking about the past only helps you to not make the same mistakes again, and can help you to shape your future goals.

But after that's done, then there's no point in continuing thinking about the past, it will just waste your time, and make you lose other opportunities in the present.

Bitcoin is a digital currency that can be used as an investment asset and has high value.
in some countries even already use bitcoin as a legal means of payment such as fiat money and there are also several large companies that accept bitcoin as a medium of exchange.
if you really invest in bitcoin for the long term then save it until your target is achieved either 5 to 10 years or more, because bitcoin has a supply that can not be manipulated, there is also no alarm that is 21 million units which makes bitcoins can experience scarcity so it has value so high in the future.

Long-term investment plans must also be adjusted to the capital to be retained, if the capital used is large enough and can be retained for up to 10 years (without being needed for anything else) then only need to keep it on target. and the application of DCA for every decrease or consistent purchase within a predetermined period of time will add plus value to add long-term assets.

long-term target 10 years is a long time, we must also prepare mentally to overcome any extraordinary declines or increases. the important thing is to stick to the price target, if the price target is reached in less than 10 years, taking some of the profit is better.