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Exactly at 12 years ago, on June 05, 2011- someone anonymous posted that even as small as 10 Bitcoins will make someone a very wealthy man. He was pretty much confident about this and pretty much sure about where Bitcoin will reach. Can you believe this? There were barely any people who would accept Bitcoin for anything. But the guy was able to forecast the future. Is there any information on who the guy was behind the post? We don't even know a username¹. Back in the day, it was possible to post in the forum without registration, anyone could post as a guest.
I'm referring to this thread- I am pretty confident we are the new wealthy elite, gentlemen. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=12156.0)

1- There's a quoted post of the OP which I'm quoting below. In that quote, we can see the OP had a username "Atlas". It's possible that the user asked admin to make the post author anonymous. Only admin has the access to do this. Or, maybe the man posted the quoted message has purposedly added the username on the quote.


The original thread is in Bitcoin Discussion so I thought to post it here.

People that understand the law of demand and supply with how bitcoin was in more than 10 years ago would have known this would happen and it happened. This has become the past, but can people that have just started to know about bitcoin still achieve this in the some years to come? I do not think so, I do not think bitcoin can make people rich as it was like before, but I believe that bitcoin can still go 50x or more in the next 10 years which is not small too.

For the sake of the poster's personal safety(because he/she's guaranteed to be a multimillionaire by now assuming he/she didn't sold or get hacked), let's just say that we should be thankful there isn't much information about him.

Yea it doesnt matter who it was but he/she had a long term vision for Bitcoin, I wonder
if they are still in Bitcoin what they thought of the ATH? they had a vision of $10,000!

I didnt go past the first page but its interesting to read those old comments and thoughts
from 12 years ago and the 3rd poster Garrett Burgwardt from that thread was on the forum today!


Absolutely, I suppose if anyone had a good understanding of Bitcoins deflationary
system they would surely have understood the supply v demand concept. I hope
those people are still Bitcoiners.

A good prediction; most people might have believed the prediction back in that time, and anyone who ever took it very seriously will also be considered a big whale right now if they have not sold out their holdings; even if they do, they will be entirely wealthy, just as predicted.
I see it's not even today that people started protecting their privacy over their teaching and comments online; it's actually a safety precaution that everyone should adhere to in order to avoid less attention to themselves and questioning.

For those of us on the forum today, I would qualify and say that many of us are not among the elite. And even many of those who have been on the forum for quite a few years, you only have to look at the lending section to see that they do not belong to any elite if they are asking for loans of hundreds of dollars in bitcoin. Or that still participate in signature campaigns.

Those who bought in the past and holded for a long time, or at least long enough, are indeed probably the new wealthy elite, but I would say that most of them don't show up much on the forum anymore. Either they don't come and enjoy their Lambos or their activity is reduced to a few sections, like the WO thread.

In the future, I don't think those who are just starting out or have been here for a short time will be part of an elite either, if they save in bitcoin in the order of 100 dollars a month. They will have a better future than if they don't, but they will not be part of an elite.

On the first page, in one of his posts, he's claiming to have approximately 100 Bitcoins, which is quite plausible if you take into account that in 2011, one coin cost a few dollars at most, while I'm assuming that he continued buying more and more coins. He was projecting that it would surpass $10,000 and go well beyond that. It's certainly unclear if he stuck around till Bitcoin exploded, but judging by how confident he sounded, he definitely made a huge deal of money.

Personally, I believe he's still on the forum; it's the largest cryptocurrency community after all, but operating on a new account (his thread was created as a guest) and simply hasn't mentioned anything in order to preserve his privacy.

Ahh, look at those lines by the author. Nobody helped me and everyone just discouraged me, damn that hit me very hard. He was so true back in the time and nothing is changed so far. Even on the forum you have to keep it to next level to stay updated with all the info you need about the Bitcoin or basically anything related to it. Though there are many legends who are very motivating and has put lot of efforts to push every fellow members.

I just hope these legends and their posts would become best archives for the future generations to come and will make us feel motivated and proud just the way 12 years ago those guests made it that way. Let us be thankful to them for posting it. To the moon!

Maybe he is someone from the future who came to this forum and wrote that Bitcoin will be very valuable in the future (now). And his guess is right that Bitcoin is now very expensive even though it is still in the bearish season and will be even higher when the bullish season arrives.

When other people don't have confidence in Bitcoin, it's as if that person knows that having 10 Bitcoins will make them rich. And it was true this year, even when Bitcoin finally hit its first $10k that many people couldn't believe it.

And this is what is happening with Bitcoin now. We are the lucky ones who have known Bitcoin for a long time and already have a Bitcoin deposit and are just waiting for the next bullish season to be able to make big profits.

I do not think that we would be wrong to say that it's still true today. I am not saying lets all buy as much as we can and have 10 bitcoins, we can't all afford that, I certainly can't, I do not even have 1 bitcoin let alone 10, even 0.1 would be very tough for me at this point and can't get it, but I may "aim" at 0.1, that would literally be my goal.

On the other hand, I would highly suggest getting more and more bitcoin is still the right decision, if you could retire with 1 bitcoin, that would be enough to wealthy when you retire and that's why it's so important, I think people should be still buying up as many bitcoins as they can, or satoshis, based on how much money they have. It will stay a good idea until we die, it will be a good investment compared to all others.

It's not news that Bitcoin was cheaper back in the day and it's also not news that there were users that trusted it when there was no historical value to go with and acquired a large amount of it to get them their dream life.

Would we see any such ROI in the coming ten or twenty years, most probably no. No asset increases exponentially, it gets to a point when it starts slowing down and stabilizing, we are very close the actual valuation of a single bitcoin.

It's great the poster is anonymous, privacy is very important and we would not want the wave of interview requests and attention that would follow his exposure.

It is really amazing to see where we are now and where we were 12 years ago. Bitcoin has made a long journey, and it's still on its way. Those who had stood by the side of bitcoin at its lowest are the people who are enjoying the success of bitcoin now.
We still believe that Bitcoin has more to show to us. And this is what creates faith in people's mind about Bitcoin. What time can do to one thing, this is the perfect example. Bitcoin has aged like a fine wine. Nowadays, it still feels like we are still early to join bitcoin. Because it has more room to grow and in the future it will show us a lot more, that's for sure. Bitcoin is the no.1 right now and, mark my words, it will remain the no.1 in the future too.

The prediction happened and who would have thought that bitcoin would be so worthless but this anonymous man is a great predictor because he knows the future of bitcoin is more valuable and now with 1 bitcoin is more expensive than what we imagined in the past.

I just found out that in the past the forum could post without registering but now the forum has gone through a lot of changes so it will be very difficult to find them again, but it will still be a good post as it is predicted that bitcoin will make us richer in the future.

I went through the thread, and I just can't but imagine how lucky this guys were, I only hope they are still alive and enjoying their wealth in good health, I could remember vividly that by 2011, I was on the streets of Lagos hustling, I was already an internet user but how I did not come across bitcoin until 2015 is a mystery to me, and something I always feel some regret about anytime it crosses my mind, but things being the same, I don't have to be so hard on myself, knowing fully well that nothing happens by chance, once it is time for anybody to get rich, the universe will by itself position the person in a way he or she will find opportunities like this early enough.

After reading the threads, I found them genuinely fascinating. The individual in question had foreseen the price reaching $10K in 2011, and it's truly remarkable how his prediction eventually came true several years later. I must admit, he was a legendary figure. It's quite impressive that he recognized the potential of Bitcoin when his post about expecting a $10K price seemed like a mere dream. I hope he was able to capitalize on his foresight and make a decent profit. Thank you for sharing this intriguing story with us.

As much as I wanted to think so, this is bull. There is no proven fact that man can time travel.  I can say all that was written about the success of Bitcoin in its early years are speculation.  We are bound to speculate and write positive things about the things we hope will happen.  It is not about getting an idea but rather hoping that the idea will happen.


It is a plea of hope and wishes, lucky it happened.  I hope the person who wrote those lines hodls to see and experience the happening of what he stated.

Impressive foresight, indeed. I have a feeling that individual possesses a remarkable technique for predicting the future based on the fundamentals of Bitcoin. They are at an early stage, back in 2011, when Bitcoin was a highly unfamiliar currency to the public.

Like an animated film such as The Simpsons, but with a more mysterious delivery, it holds a greater allure than straightforward communication. I myself am still curious, whether the person predicting Bitcoin is someone of immense significance like Elon Musk or perhaps even the original Satoshi Nakamoto. Nobody knows for sure, right? But the possibilities exist.

The anonymous poster at the time predicted that 10 bitcoin would make someone extremely wealthy, which is comparable to today's claim that bitcoin will cost $1 million in years to come when considering its current price. Many people wouldn't accept it or be able to believe it.

What transpired at that time is the same way how we respond when someone forecasts that bitcoin would reach $1 million in a short period. The early adopters of bitcoin, in my opinion, wouldn't agree that someone could become wealthy with just 10 bitcoins. Many people won't believe it given the price of Bitcoin at the time.

I liked how the anonymous poster maintained his support for bitcoin despite being discouraged by many. For someone to continue to believe in something he doesn't know about its future takes a lot of conviction.

He simply believed. For sure many people have saw the potential of this technology but not all people had the courage to sit on that belief. There are many early investors who bought huge amount of Bitcoin before. Some have lost their wallets where they store it, and some used huge amount to trade on two boxes of pizza (if you know what I mean). The fact that they have invested means they already saw something from Bitcoin but they are just not patient enough to wait for years to see it for themselves. Same thing I guess with the present. People have the capacity yo invest, have saw how high its ATH but are still not investing.

It seems the user you mentioned above was still active until now, do you think still the same person behind that account, if that is so that's great.
I quickly check his profile it seems got a negative tag.

That's the problem face of those Bitcoin enthusiasts before, while the world remained blind to its possibilities, but for them IMO, they saw the potential for financial sovereignty, borderless transactions, and a decentralized economy.   Even though other people remained doubtful they stayed strong, fully confident in their own ability to see what others couldn't, that's the real Bitcoin enthusiast and impressive foresight.

What is the most impressive about the whole thing is that he was able to see this so long ago, after all bitcoin back then was still on its early stages, now if someone were to say this many people will simply accept it as fact or at least have some reasons to believe it could happen, so he was a visionary, but at the same time as impressive as it was those which understood the technology behind bitcoin were convinced about its potential almost immediately, so it makes sense that anonymous user was convinced as well.

I remember reading it for the first time in 2014. It was one of the threads that can be found on the top thread of Bitcoin Discussion. Lot of commenters on that thread were thankful for being at the right place at the right time, whereas there are some other people that also knew they made the right decision because they understood what bitcoin is for and believed that it will be worth something in the future. Fast forward 12 years, that 100 bitcoins would be worth at least $2.6 million by now, and I do hope that guy kept all of his coins.

Sometimes it made us think of wanting to time machine so we can purchase in the year thread like this created , also admiring those kind of people that even without assurance of this market to grow like now but they trusted investing in bitcoin no matter what.considering that those days the price is just a penny and yes what can they lose holding that?
but the thing is that they believe what bitcoin can attain in this long term.

going back to the original thread ,  it is fascinating to read all the replies and some who support and bought also the same time from what OP stands.



love to congratulate the person involved and hope that he had bought more and more as time goes by till at least 2017.

In fact the user who said that is actually still active today  :o https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3600 Just wonder how many bitcoin he had now



yeah agree with you maybe we are late but still, better late than never. It is just like investing in google or early tesla stock maybe we late but in future bitcoin can easily reach x100 than the current price

That thread for me is filled with men that believed the unbelievable and acted to achieve it. Almost all of them had so much faith and confidence in the ability of Bitcoin to make them financially stable. Making such statements now will make you look like a greedy forum member that is only concerned about the profits from Bitcoin. But we are all here to learn and make profit that can make us comfortable. It was easy then to get Bitcoin like one user in the thread @JamezQ stated that he was paid 50BTC for just two hours job. It is still easy today because we can earn or buy at a cheap price this is because most of us might not afford to buy it in a few years. That thread will serve as a motivation not to stop believing and hodling because one day it will be my turn to appreciate the decision I made today.

Yes. I guess, This is the thing that happened here. He requested the admin to delete his account, and they did it. Not only that quote, but Several people also quote him, and everyone's quote shows his username as Atlas. So, the man who quoted his message did not add the username purposely. I tried a BPIP search  (https://bpip.org/search.aspx?q=atlas), and the first user, Atlas, registered on 9/10/2012. But the thread is older than that. So, this is not the same user.

I can still quote him when he said he was just a teenager and he had 95 BTC at that time. I wish he were able to keep that Bitcoin, as he believed that BTC would hit $10K in the future. We could be one of the early adopters! I always scratch my head and think about what I was doing back then. I was a teenager as well. But, All my interest was in Video games and fighting with my friends.

Look at the topic title. He seemed too confident about it, which has happened after a couple of years. Bitcoin was in its early days, and it was a revolutionary invention. As the first cryptocurrency, it has the potential to grow (still have), and they knew that people would like it and adopt it. I remember when I heard of Bitcoin. I did not know how the market went up and down. But they clearly knew how it worked and how the price would increase with scarcity.

I like to read posts like this, since 2011? That is over 10 years. The reality is now and many are regretting not partaking, only little made the right investment back then. I wonder how wealthy such people will be of bitcoin as of today, bitcoin was around $1 in the year and anyone invested on it will gain much more. The prediction valued for $10,000 and over, but bitcoin nearly moved x6 of the prediction in the ATH, that is great luck for those who went for it.

The person was a true imaginary because he/she predicted in 2011 that one day the price of per Bitcoin would be around $10k and the prediction came to reality in just 6 and half years. I'm not sure that wealthy that person is right now, but such people are truly gifted and they understand innovations at first glance. Back in the day many people could mine hundreds of Bitcoin with pretty decent desktop computer with a decent GPU, and none of them expected that something like Bitcoin would reach $10k or even leave that range in dust after a decade.

The person was truly a genius and we should consider them as Bitcoin masters because their predictions were pretty accurate even in those early days of this new technical innovation. I believe that even today isn't very late for those people who want to invest in Bitcoin because I'm sure that within a decade the price of a Bitcoin would easily be above $1 million, and then very few people will be among the one that we may call wealthy Bit-coiners. I'm pretty sure if someone who is young in teen age right now purchases Bitcoin and hold it for next 2 decades the guy/gal will be very rich that in his/her 40's he/she could retire without any financial worries.

It seems they believe that bitcoin will develop and its popularity will continue to increase because they know and believe that the benefits of bitcoin will be needed by many people and groups. So their minds can read the future, and the future isn't over and we also have to think in the same way that bitcoin 10 years from now will be like their assessment of what happened then and now.
and at that time bitcoin was very cheap and they could get it easily in large quantities, now it's different and we can only love the bitcoins that we hold and continue to collect from every drop that happens or do DCA for the next 10 years. And we must have strong beliefs like them.

We only can look back at our pasts and feel either satisfied with success we got or regret with what we missed or lost.

No one can know what Bitcoin will become in 2023 when they lived in 2009 or 2010, 2011 and even they believed in Bitcoin, they still easily used bitcoin with amount we think are very generous or wasting in 2023.

Like now we can use 0.0005 ETH for transaction fee, what it will be in value in 2033, 10 more years? We don't know now but today it is expensive but feasible to pay. In next 10 years, if ETH has price like $20,000 or $30,000, 0.005 ETH we pay today will become very big. We pay cryptocurrency with a fiat currency price for our deal so I don't think regret is needed.

This all remain true. If the person didn't got hacked, if there was no a couple of pizzas order made and if he is around this planet somewhere. Then I would join the comments for sure. ::)

Excellent remembrance to keep trusting the process, despite, him being a student he was able to stack some btc and strongly believed his instinct. Some would sell at 1k plus and that was a huge profit too. Those that held till the biggest ATH in 2021 should be considered pros and whales today. That was an enormous profit, just curious about their where about, though ten years is a long time, but at least visiting the forum once a while is something I'd try even in future.

I think those who researched Bitcoin about 10 to 12 years ago must have known something about the future. Because what has been said in the past is now being implemented in the present as this post proves. (The previous OP mentioned that many discouraged me but didn't give the right mentor). And after 10 years in the future the price of Bitcoin will increase by (5-10) times more than the current time it is not a big deal. And not a little bit so I'd say the past time is not calculated now but it is certain that the price of Bitcoin will increase in the future.

I always feel worried when I am out of Bitcoin, just because this fella have a vision of 10k per Bitcoin doesn't mean once that dream comes to life he will sell and never look back, I have a 100k Bitcoin dream in 2025 or 2026 and once that comes true I am selling 90% of all my Bitcoin, I am doing this to take profit and all those gains are still going back into Bitcoin, when a massive correction takes place.

My Bitcoin vision is to go full retirement, using Bitcoin at the highest bag in my portfolio,  I salute those that are early with Bitcoin, I doubt I will have the same vision at that time because Bitcoin was still very new and its survival chance will look very low.

You have your vision of $100k - and beyond, just like back in 2011 as per the thread
we talk about even later years there are visionaries who can see into the future and
those who just dont get it and are doubtful to this day, I guess there will always be both,
the trick is to know who to follow!

Your plan for 2025 / 26 is not dissimilar to many others and there have been planty
of people who have been riding the waves of the Bitcoin Halving for the past ones,
probably some from the first ones, they too are visionaries just like our guest friend from 2011!


Good question SS, is it still the same person?

Your idea is very interesting but let me reverse your formulae to - how much BTC you'll be able to BUY at that cloudless future?

Did you mean "have looked very low" - otherwise your comment looks both suspicious and scary in terms of Future Tense.

This is already history and something of a good prediction for Bitcoin that indeed came true. Must have the right vision and a very imaginative mine to make such a prediction at the time when only a very few were actually into Bitcoin and would not be so easy to be holding into something with a value nobody can be sure if will go up or not. Those who made the right decision of getting BTC as much as they could are right now smiling all the way to unexpected riches.

It is good that one should follow his instinct in what he believes, and never let anyone to discourage you,just like the anonymous guest did. I can see that ever since the creation of bitcoin, there have been bitcoin lovers who knows the potential of bitcoin and they have helped the adoption of bitcoin due to their price forecast and they also tell people what they believe by encouraging them to see bitcoin has a future gold. This is the same way that we also have people who go against bitcoin no matter the positive news that they hear about bitcoin. Those adamant ones are the ones regretting now that they have missed their opportunity and they are still procrastinating. Imagine the anonymous guest with 95+btc,how wealthy he would be by now if he still hodli,but he said he will sell some and use the funds to live a flashy lifestyle. This is how those of us that sees bitcoin hitting 100k next ATH will also be happy if we can hodli and keep on accumulating more btc.

It's always discouraging to walk through an unverified track, like those years when bitcoin was birthed. A lot of people took the risk and invested into bitcoin, yet wondered and plundered over it, if it's the right decision. We still experience such things today, and such threads as this, is a prove that bitcoin is a good investment. It'll be bad with such reference, that we neglect bitcoin. Those whales today had no reference they were the pioneers, who pushed money into bitcoin and understood how it works. Hence, it's normal to undergo discouraging moments, people close to us won't think twice to reduce our moves to nothing. Because they'll always run back to do things they believe or have seen to be possible or profitable. Investors today load funds and buy bitcoin because they've seen others who made profits through it. Such threads should be encouraged and come up often times to help us continue the journey.

I see the op of that thread saying he was just a teenager and accumulated 95 BTC. I wonder what happened to that person, and were they patient enough not to sell till BTC at least got to $1k per coin.
It's impressive that someone knew and strongly believed in Bitcoin so early on, and of course we now know how right that person was. The time of such rapid growth of value is behind us, but with a long-term perspective in mind, I think we can expect a lot of great accomplishments from Bitcoin in the future as well.

In my opinion it's a little more complicated than that: just because someone creates something scarce, it doesn't automatically mean people are going to embrace it and buy it. With bitcoin is different, for sure it means being visionary, it means understanding how the current financial system is broke, it means knowing that for years and years you will have everybody against you. Many people knew about bitcoin 10 years ago and yet just a small minority chose to believe in it.

Those who are visionary and open to adapt, are the one who makes the most. Wealth is another result of that in my honest opinion. And I am sure If we say something and believe it in 2023, you would surely see someone quote it and post it on social media 10 years from now, i.e. in 2033. Bitcoin is going to stay here and be part of the world economy in the upcoming years. No one will be able to stay away from it when it reaches above $100k.

99% of the readers back then won't take the prediction serious, it's possible if I was here back then I might have sold all my Bitcoin, there is a difference between joining the race and understanding the Bitcoin itself, many people don't, most are here to make money that's how they fins Bitcoin and only very few new what Bitcoin will turn into in the future, it's also why I believe so hard that most inactive Bitcoin wallets are not completely lost unless the owners lost their lives, some people really believe in the innovation, they knew that something like Bitcoin will one day probably safe the dollar from bigger trouble.

Only a handful of people think that Bitcoin will boom and many have doubts about BTC during that early stage but BTC proves these doubters wrong though.  


I still believe that we are still far away from the actual valuation of a single bitcoin.  One of the reasons is the percentage of Bitcoin adoption and the people who are still hessitant of using it.  Aside from that. we can still see that numerous countries that are still half-hearted and is not somehow convinced about the use of Bitcoin.  Since we believe that Bitcoin will be globally accepted, the current adoption percentage simply tells us that Bitcoin is still far from its supposed to be value.


Whether we wanted it or not I believe being a guest poster removes the possibilities of identifying the person.

Great job, Little Mouse, for bring that topic again to forum's attention!

It was one of the oldest topics I ever read in the past and I was always fascinated about the way the author expressed himself -- "I am pretty confident we are the new wealthy elite, gentlemen." -- he was so right about it!

What makes me sad though is the fact that the respective topic is locked, thus it can't be merited. Probably, if it wasn't locked, it would have attracted hundreds of merits until now... Just look at the number of pages that topic has -- 232 pages. And posts kept flowing from 2011 to 2018. The author was indeed a visionary. Hopefully, he is still with us and - who knows? - maybe he reads these...

The person who predicted Bitcoin 12 years ago may have been convinced that the price of Bitcoin would reach such a level in the future. Most of the people who predicted at the time that they were right probably knew that Bitcoin would one day play a big role in the world and make people rich. Because they knew Bitcoin was serious in a wallet they held Bitcoin as their future asset yet didn't sell it. And if they make such predictions and still hold bitcoins, then there is no doubt that they are big people. Personally I believe that there are many legends in this forum who can make good predictions about Bitcoin and those predictions turn out to be correct.