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I hate when people call bitcoiners "lucky".

You weren't "lucky". You weren't "early". You felt that something's wrong with the world, and saw the glitch.

You didn't have a "good timing" in bitcoin. You were watching Saifedean Ammous explain money, while the others were talking about the ball game last night. While they were asleep at 3 AM, you were casually reading Austrian economics before finally getting some shut-eye.

When others were scrolling for 4 hours on TikTok, you were sending sats at the speed of light through someone's basement node via lightning.

They told you bitcoin was a scam while you quietly watched them go to the bank to ask permission to move "their" "money".

They told you bitcoin is a ponzi scheme, while their retirement plan is based on promises of people who will be dead long before the bill comes due.

Fiat people will blame everything for every evil we're living apart from fiat. Sometimes the blame goes to the "greedy corporations". Other times, it's the politicians. Some other times, it's the "energy cartels". But never the reality that a handful of unelected lizard people decide how much to rob you from your savings.  

You live amidst this debt-fueled chaotic simulation, and then you find bitcoin:

• 21 million, fixed. No "transitory inflation". No "oops, we printed another $2 trillion for this war". No "21 million unless x". Just 21 million.
• Self-custody. No "yours unless bankruptcy". No "Hey, I'd like to know why I couldn't move my money this morning".
• Globally accessible. No sanctions. No "we've detected a suspicious activity to your account". Settlement in minutes. Not days.

You don't hold bitcoin. Bitcoin holds you.

Holding Bitcoin isn't any luck, especially for early adopters because they went through several emotional pressures to sell off and take profits but they held back believing in a greater reward ahead. They understood properly that Bitcoin is a revolution unfolding, even during several price crashes, they held still not paying attention to the media nonsensical attacks on Bitcoin, yes for every reward they get for their resilience, they worked for it, they deserved it and they're not just lucky, they made a decision to keep holding and that single decision has rewarded them holders massively.

Bitcoin remains the only true asset with a fixed supply, which makes it scarce and it would always be more in demand while supply remains very limited and in turn the value keys appreciating. Those who appreciate this principle and hold on to their Bitcoin for longer stand a chance at a bigger reward. Its not luck but foresight, commitment and resilience

Would love to think I am genius but am too old to fool myself much.

Bitcoin was a literal way out for me. From the undesirable part of the planet trying to earn money freelancing. PayPal didn't like me. Transfer wise, Revolutionary, all those people supposedly helping the unbanked, squeezing me out, freezing me out. Banks making it increasingly hard and expensive to accept payments.

Tried Bitcoin. Yes was curious but .ore importantly, it worked.

Then I got lucky more and more people were willing to pay with it. Lucky that I started in 2016 rather than 2020 or 2025. Luckier anyway.

I agree , I dont think that getting early as we did in bitcoin is about being smart. But we were looking for opportunities.  We just had our eyes open. Like we say in Portuguese "we were phising when there was a fish to catch". most people weren't looking for fishes.

We hit bitcoin, but it wasn't the only opportunity around in our time. There were also amazing opportunities like Nvidia apple Microsoft tesla etc... most people here missed all of them, but we got into bitcoin (which is amazing and one of the best assets there is)

How deep, yet very true.
Though I still wonder why many people struggle to break free from this simulation despite realizing that it is a repeated cycle. Nothing seems to make sense, but at the same time, people are scared of moving on. Claiming that Bitcoin was scam was their own justification for not trying out something new.

People keep trusting that the government or banks will take responsibility when things eventually snap, but we fail to realize that the system has been broken long before now.

Bitcoiners were never lucky...
They saw the glitch in the system and had to move on to something better. Fighting the system was a war no common man could ever win. Quietly searching for an alternative was rather the best decision.

There's nothing lucky about watching a single documentary/video or read a single article about the world's finance system and instantly getting redpilled. Millions of people have been exposed to Bitcoin and this topic many many times and they still don't get it at all.

There were many opportunities in the stock market indeed, completely different to what Bitcoin offers but nevertheless they were there.

Read 1984, Animal Farm and Brave New World. We are living in a world that combines different aspects of each book in different magnitudes. Most people have near zero or zero free will. They are as plugged in into the matrix as they could be without actually being in a hardware hibernation capsule. It is a sad state of affairs but it is better to be aware and accepting of reality than to live in some delusion.

You read that bitcoin maximum supply is 21 million BTC. If you buy now, the price will increase because it will be scarce. If people buy it, you will be lucky and you bought it. I will say that is not luck.

But how about those that go for altcoins that are similar to bitcoin but their money fall more because the coins are falling. In life there is luck but some people will not have luck if they do not have knowledge and understanding about something.

Smart men create their own luck by preparing the environment accordingly and when somebody starts doing it, it cannot even be called luck anymore. It is a business by design.

Early bitcoiners are indeed rich but they hedl their coins while the others were selling. That cannot happen by dumb luck. That kind of dedication requires strong dedication and knowledge. It is like seeing the future. Only a few can wield that kind of power and that’s why there are not many early adopters around.

I've been on this internet since the beginning to know that I don't feel like I belong, everything was like a weapon fashioned against me, until I found Bitcoin or maybe bitcoin found me, I started feeling like I am home, the exact way that I dreamt my life to be, a warm place where freedom speaks louder for itself, a place where no one will kick you around or force you to lick their asses.

Bitcoin felt more like a home and I saw how messed up this world is, I am not lucky, I seek for answers and never gave up on it and then I got blessed, who says prayers aren't answered ? There are many humans like me in the world today and I am sure that bitcoin made them feel like home.

I can move my money around when I want, I am free from control over my own money from banks and the government, I also feel like my future is secured when it comes to investment wise, there is nothing like it.

Hahaha luck is always a factor but you have to position yourself to a strategic point for the luck to hit you  ;D They say luck is when preparation meets opportunity. And like Martin Luther King, Jr said "If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving,"

So if a hodler started on 9th October 2025 and all of a sudden he went short on bitcoin from the top of $122k to $104k making a difference of $18,000 in profit within few hours of the day, is he still lucky?

I think knowledge is key to bitcoin investment.

Same experience. Paypal had warned me that they'd be shutting down my account if I don't connect with a bank account, at a time when it was impossible to do for me. Then, I discovered bitcoin. Once I read the whitepaper, I knew that this is something entirely different. Then I bought $300 worth of bitcoin. Easiest purchase ever. I'll never feel that much liberated by emptying a Paypal account.

Sending and receiving money never felt so liberating, as with bitcoin. Every transaction you send is more than a payment; it is a declaration. A middle-finger statement to all the faceless entities that control the banking system. Every transaction broadcasted is one satoshi closer to the end of the empire that is backed by complete inertia and NPC faith.

We create our own destiny, as cringe as it sounds, is true. Nothing will happen if we don’t take action. Money doesn’t just come knocking on our doors. It doesn’t just fall from the tree. We have done something in order to reach the kind of life we are living now. Though sometimes luck really do play a part. But it doesn’t do everything. People who are just waiting on luck will never progress in life.

Lucky is also partially as people could luckily know about Bitcoin many years ago but what they did after knowing that is not luck-based at all. They must find information about Bitcoin, make their decision, buying it, investing money in it and holding it or not. It's decision making and it's not luck-based.

So lucky or not, it is only one part of many steps that lead to Bitcoiners and success by holding bitcoins a long time like many years. Generally, I don't consider any Bitcoiners from the past are lucky people and who got rich with Bitcoin are lucky. They really deserved with their success by their determinantly investment decision on Bitcoin and confidently hold their bitcoins for years.

Those that are lucky are those that had tried multiple times and found the right track how to proceed exceedingly.

No Bitcoiner started the journey without loosing some part of their fund, without paying some certain price, without sacrificing time and energy on study. These people arent actually been lucky but maintaining the luck till eternity.

Those that get lucky at their first trial do not stand in the test of time, sooner or later they fade away because the root of knowledge is not strong.

A fellow countryman of yours could learn from that, since registering on the forum in 2013 didn't seem to do him much good. Instead of focusing on accumulating bitcoin, he spends all his time expressing his anger towards the wealthy. It's no surprise he hasn't become wealthy; he despises them.


A perfect example of what I'm talking about.


As long as you understand how the financial system works and what Bitcoin is all about.

Some acquaintances/friends used to call me crazy because I was throwing money away by investing in something that would fail in a year or two, then they envied me because I was lucky enough to recognize what they call "the right opportunity", and today they say it was a genius move.

However, for me it was never all about profit, because most of the coins I acquired in one way or another are still safe and only a small part is sold if the situation requires it. Best of all, I'm aware that I understood what Bitcoin is long before all these so-called geniuses who are buying thousands of BTC for $100k+ per coin today, and when it was only worth a few hundred dollars, they said it would fail or that only criminals would use it.

If they knew you did your investment, they had great opportunity to follow you but by critizing against your decision, they wasted good opportunity to find luckiness by themselves.

Chance came but they ignored it so they deserved with missing opportunity of investment in Bitcoin and getting richer with Bitcoin like you actually did and got good profit with your Bitcoin investment. Years later, they felt regret and called you and your successful investment as lucky, it's not right and not fair too.

It is more sensible if you knew about Bitcoin years ago while they did not, but it's not what happened in your story with your friends.

I also hate it when people call bitcoiners lucky. They don't know what they're talking about. And most of them have heard of Bitcoin for a long time but don't want to find out more about what it is. If they knew the value that Bitcoin provides they would be speechless. Moreover if they tried to compare Bitcoin to fiat currency. They would see Bitcoin as a currency that is far more valuable or even more useful than fiat currency. It's only a matter of time before they truly realize this and even change their negative perceptions of Bitcoin. In the end they will regret it. Furthermore Bitcoiners cannot be considered as lucky. They don't know what Bitcoiners have been doing all this time. Even if they realize the concept of luck they should know that luck cannot be achieved without effort. What I mean is that no one who does nothing can get lucky let alone extraordinary luck.

I think majority of people that found bitcoin actually found it after undergoing same payment stress like both of you, I was a victim most precisely, easiest way was PayPal then they ended supported for my country created multiple account and had may funds stuck in them then was introduced to bitcoin, it was one of the smoothest form of transactions in fact was the only way i actually used bitcoin then. No third party just use my high priority fee and get confirmed in the next block, this is one of the reason why I still don’t accept slender of bitcoin transaction fee because I know the hassle of the doing cross boarder transactions.

Then using bitcoin as a form of investment was what I found because of my country’s devaluing currency, buying other precious metals as assets were also an hassle not to talk of where to keep them but bitcoin actually solved that issue easily

As if this is not enough for them to say, you will also discover the worst being that each time the market falls, then they go ahead flooding the Internet with all manners of talks that does not conforms the ethics of Bitcoin in cryptocurrency, I don't know why people are doing this and what they stand to gain from discouraging others from adoption, bitcoin has been the reason why some of us today could boldly hold onto financial freedom amidst all odds.

The bolded words are the summary of this beautiful piece. Bitcoin performs the function of fiat and much more. Most of the lapses of fiat are corrected by Bitcoin. I don't see early adopters as lucky because they believed in a strange currency that was generally seen as worthless. I guess many people will call them lunatics for predicting that Bitcoin would grow to this extent.  They were common people who dared to believe the unbelievable and are now enjoying the fruits of their labour.

PayPal has always been a kind of trusted middleman but its biggest weakness is that it doesn't give you full control over your money. When they limit your account or block services in a country users realize that they don't actually own their money but are dependent on the permission of an institution. This is where many people first encountered Bitcoin.  Currency devaluation economic instability or banking restrictions in many countries have forced people to look for alternatives. Buying gold or other precious metals is as troublesome and risky as storing them. Bitcoin has changed the game in that space.

In my opinion, it's not just an investment but a form of financial self reliance. And as long as people need permission to use their own money Bitcoin will be needed.

They told them bitcoin was ponzi and they bever made attempt to buy bitcoin to try if it is a good ponzi, but they all participated in all of the ponzi's scheme,  which they lost their money badly and I wonder why they never made any attempt to buy bitcoin which they claim to be ponzi. Many of the early investors who had bitcoin, i dont think they bought Bitcoin because they know so much about it, but some people just thought it was maybe one of the ponzi and they bought it and later discovered they made the right decision to buy bitcoin.

It's great how far we have come, especially when using BTC the right way and not storing it in some centralized exchange or giving up custody to a lending platform or similar schemes. Simply accumulating, holding, spending when you can and just the freedom to do whatever you wanna do with your stash. It's amazing.

I don't consider myself lucky too. I have friends who started buying BTC in 2025, but we all found out about BTC around the same time. Sometimes i feel proud that i didn't listen to what the media were saying and what BTC critics were publishing. Best part is the future still holds quite a lot for us.

Do you think it takes credit away from you when someone calls you lucky?

Most rich people i know consider themselves lucky, because they have seen how much they have been in a right place at the right time, knowing right people. even though they have worked their asses off for it.

Thing is, nothing happens in vacuum. You have been benefited by random things you couldn't do anything about. Changes for right education, your genetics and where you were born and how you were raised affected your changes. The fact that you were at the right place at the right time, with a right set of mind, money and were interested about right things. All your history led to you holding bitcoin. And if some of that would have been different, you probably wouldn't have heard about it until lately.

So are you sure that there wasn't luck involved? (which is just a word to describe fortunate, but unlikely set of events).

By all means, give yourself some credit for winning, as your choices make difference as well, but imho if someone doesn't see that they had some lucky cards, and how much they were helped, that just seems self-centric.

Lucky for what? For having the curiosity to read about bitcoin, economics & cryptography non-stop? Lucky for stacking sats as consistently as going to the gym? No, this isn't luck. This is conviction. It didn't happen by an "accident". It happened because I put on the effort. You don't get a nice body by luck. You get it if you do the work.

I was lucky for stumbling across bitcoin, but I wasn't lucky for sticking to it. Many people stumbled across it, but very few paid attention.

Exactly, when demand increases and supply remains constant the price naturally increases. Honestly speaking, those who have held Bitcoin for the long term are not lucky they were farsighted. They understood that unlike fiat money Bitcoin has no print button. New coins are added to each block at a limited rate and eventually that too will stop.

The take is powerful. It captures the feeling of lot of Bitcoiners, this is not luck, rather awareness and conviction in time if many people go for comfort rather than curiosity. Bitcoiners don't just bump into wealth, they rather question a system that is broken and they act before the rest despite realized it was failing.
It is not really about being early but more of seeing clearly. Bitcoin isn't mere investment, it is a protest, a lifeboat, and a statement of personal sovereignty in a world that has forgotten the meaning of real money.

Bitcoin investors aren't lucky actually; we are risk takers. When the world was negative about Bitcoin, we bought and held it. When a lot of people think Bitcoin is a scam and a Ponzi scheme, then we invest in Bitcoin. Still a lot of people spreading FUD about Bitcoin and thinking Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme. But Bitcoin lovers don't care about such FUD and accumulate Bitcoin by taking the challenge. So we deserve the reward, not just luckily rewarded from the Bitcoin investment.

One of my nearest people knows about Bitcoin, and he also knows I am a Bitcoin investor; he tries to convince me Bitcoin is a scam. I didn't hear him and still don't. I move forward by trusting Bitcoin, and as a result Bitcoin gives me better rewards. It's just not the luck; it wasn't a gamble. It was my faith, and I took the risk of investing. Risk means the Bitcoin is volatile; never think of Bitcoin as a Ponzi scheme or scam.

You hit a nerve, man.  I cant stand the whole lucky narrative either.  At the time, when I started getting interested in Bitcoin, my friends just laughed at me, calling it an useless obsession.  Now, they say I was "lucky".  I guess its just an easy way for those people to deal with missing the boat.

I can't help but imagine a world without Satoshi's genius idea to create a system that far surpasses the old one.

​Bitcoin is democracy, freedom, and a new perspective on finance. These benefits are enjoyed by those who share Satoshi's vision. They didn't get lucky, they understood Bitcoin's potential and were brave enough to invest.

I just said that immediately before I came across this post, you can read that from my last post before this, people think someone who has some bitcoin is somewhat lucky and they just got it overnight and even those who participated in faucet back then still worked for their bitcoin by solving captcha and one things is when people where busy fooling themselves people who are genius saw the failure in fiat and decided to go in and did very well by holding till date.

Yes, we aren’t lucky, but we witness how incapable fiat is, that’s why we resort into trusting bitcoin and digging its high potentials. While a lot of people have focused into fiat and claim that it’s the most highly secured and stable currency, but we opt to find a much better secured and transparent currency and a good investment itself, in the name of bitcoin.

We aren’t lucky, but we are smart and wise enough to utilize bitcoin with multiple usage, one thing that fiat fails, because it’s more focused being a depreciating currency while bitcoin’s value itself continue to appreciate.

I hate it silently when someone in person talks about Bitcoin to me and then all of a sudden, they're going to insert in that talk about how lucky I am. I just nod my head and they could be right that I am lucky and earlier than them because I've bought and have it when it was cheaper. They're highlighting that if they were just like me that bought it early and why I didn't told it to them during that times. It's easy to say this on their end but they don't understand how it was back then when most of them even told many bitcoiners as a scammer and all the uncertain nights that we've been through. No doubt that bitcoin was used for scamming but owning bitcoin itself and telling them to buy it isn't a scam. It's hitting them back on how they've reacted before when it's very cheap, now, they're waiting for the dip but no one's how high the low will be.

Ignorant people are the most victims of life, that is the reason they carried out fake news and condemned what is good before them, they will never tried that which is good but always run into that which will fail them all the time.
It's very painful when fake remours are been carried out to damage people effort who have given a trial over what them failed to give trial through name calling such as luck, scam or ponzi as a result of ignorant.

If luck exist in hard work , I think it may not occur by not trying a thing, it must be a result of several trial. How can one who have not try a thing justify it's luck, Bitcoin freedom is wave that position those who are ready to change through given it a trial.

I first heard about bitcoin in 2012 or 2013 or so and it was at some finance news website and they were usually talking about how its a bad investment because its crazy volatile and it lost like 90% at one time. So at first I assumed it was a scam and stayed away.

It wasn't until I learnt in late 2013 about mining bitcoin and litecoin and was interested again. I also thought that it was a scam but i realized it wasnt until I get some litecoins in my wallet and I could actually sell those at a bitcoin ATM and got real money in return. Then I started to read more about it and found the concept interesting.

I knew it would be worth $2000 or $3000 at least and was off by many multiples.

Luck is kind of irrelevant when Bitcoin was  destined to do what its doing purely
because of the design, technology and cryptography behind it. Unfortunately so
many people we have tried to enlighten still cannot see or understand the glaringly
obvious differences between FIAT and Bitcoin and so to them all this can be passed off
as luck.

I have actually been told that I was "Lucky" because I got in "early" and so they cling
on to FIAT while not understanding how it works.

Time hasnt altered the core of what Bitcoin is about.

People think you just got lucky because they don’t understand Bitcoin. They think Bitcoin is the same as “crypto”  just some kind of trading or gambling. What they don’t realize is that Bitcoin is the hardest form of money humanity has ever created. That’s why, over time, it’s naturally absorbing the monetary premium from weaker forms of money  and this process will continue forever. Bitcoin will keep growing because it’s designed to. But to truly understand it, you need to dedicate at least 1000 hours to studying and learning about it,study money  the history of money, what money really is, and the different forms it has taken throughout history.Most people simply aren’t that educated yet.

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Same thought as yours, Bitcoin was actually not the first crypto coin to ever existed from what I have gathered and some people bought it, they must have thought that it is the first of its kind so it should do well, unfortunately it failed.

Later Bitcoin was born, and those who have the balls to believe in it are now millionaires, how is luck not part of it all? Risks is how the rich gets richer right? They knew that it could all go wrong, how is luck not part of any of these?

Investment have some luck in it, working hard is no luck, you get paid for your service, but when it comes to investment it is not as if you will automatically become successful just because you are a investor, many of them investors are also broke right now.

And 16 years later, there are people who still haven't seen the need to use Bitcoin. In 20 years, these same people will tell people who bought Bitcoin today that "they were lucky". Luck works well with preparation. If you aren't prepared, you can't be lucky. Even a person who was lucky enough to hit the jackpot from gambling wouldn't have been lucky if he hadn't staked his money. Luck doesn't just come; you have to work and be ready for it.

Work for it as best you can, prepare for it as best you can, and when you know that you've done all you can, then and only then can you hope for luck. Only a foolish person doesn't do the work but just wants to be lucky.
Instead of seeing early adopters of Bitcoin as lucky, see them as a motivation. They saw what others couldn't and believed in it to an extent of not selling when they could have made 100x of their profit. 

it's always funny to have those kind of observations made by no-coiners. In a matter of seconds they can clearly identify a scam.
Even if you made months of research this is completely worthless.
Also I see the fear of match/technology. A fear that is always among us, something more basic to be scared of "nerds".
Only during these "bear" days that peoplare are not complaining for being lucky by investing in btc ::)
Well, it's during these days that you had to buy and hodl as much as you can!

Bitcoin has proven its worth over the years, those that failed to appreciate bitcoin for what it really stands for to me they are short sighted. There are people who are always complaining of missing to start when the price was very low ,  most of this people didn't fail to realise the freedom that bitcoin offers and the peace of mind it gives by acting as a good store of value and a hedge against inflation. There bare so many opportunities in the market such that those that failed to start buying when the price is low, still has the opportunity to start now or they may end up complaining when the price will skyrocket beyond what it is now.

There were many reasons to feel uncertain about Bitcoin future as you have to spend money to get bitcoins, except people who claimed bitcoins from faucets or worked for bitcoins in signature campaigns or other jobs that have payments in bitcoin. With this capital requirement, if you make bad decisions, you will lose  your money and this risk makes many people staying away from Bitcoin.

It makes sense if they felt unsure, protecting their capital is a best thing they can do. Investment is risky but if you see risk is small, while chance of getting profit is big, you can spend money for investment. I believe in the past, many people did not see Bitcoin as such a good investment opportunity, so they ignored it.

Because they are way too used to being fed what to think instead of thinking on their own.  And with Chat GPT this is now all worsened.  Why do research when you can ask an AI to tell you about it.  And funny enough, most of the times I tried a Chat GPT answer it was heavily inaccurate.  But then you hear about people using it even for health advice, this is crazy.

I will never understand.  A ton of people are listening to what Schiff or Buffett says about Bitcoin because they are rich, but they often forget that people like Buffett would do any thing legal but immoral to gain financial advantage over you.  They are not good people and they definitely do not want competitors.  To them we are nobodys but they know that a large number of nobodys becomes a tool they can use to get richer.

Then I think I do not agree with BlackHatCoiner entirely.  We are early and we were lucky.  We are lucky to be open minded and to be smart enough to see the glitch while others are unfortunate enough to continue dreaming.  You really need a will to experiment with new things to get a glimpse of what Bitcoin really is.  To most of people even today, Bitcoin is bad yet they have never even interacted with it in their life time.  Almost as if they had their brain washed into believing they sound cooler and smarter by believing and repeating the words of those who really only want them to be poor.

They don't want more competitors rather wants the majority if not all to be under them and that's how things is. Controlling others makes them sit at the top. The rich giving advise may cover up somethings in order to keep one in a system in which they are in control/favor of.

I believe it's not luck. If everyone who were early had theirs then we can say they were lucky.
Are you going to say those who bought bitcoin in it past ATH and after then suffered a significant dip especially 2021 but still HELD were lucky?
This was no luck, I don't like to believe such a thing exist else gambling would have been profitable for all but no.
Generally securely keeping your coin isn't any luck either.
There is a word use by the Bible (AMPC translation) speaking about blessed in some certain verse and this is more better description of this:  Blessed (happy, enviably fortunate...).

Those who took this risk, didn't do it out of luck and now they are happy while many envy to be like them.

Why? It's simple, they missed it themselves, and didn't get in early, so that they could also enjoy the benefits others are enjoying, so they aren't able to digest this and thus are always trying to spread negativity about Bitcoin as soon as they find an opportunity for it, and they do this so that others can also get away from Bitcoin and stop getting the benefits so that they can have some peace of mind thinking that they are not the only ones who are deprived of the benefits provided by Bitcoin. :)

There are so many people with such sick mentalities, and they can't be convinced, because they know they have made the mistake, and now they aren't ready to accept it because that would hurt their ego, so they roam around with vengeance in mind, and they want to create a negative image of Bitcoin instead of accepting that it's something great and that they were a fool for not accepting it earlier and are now regretting their decision.

But isn't the point that since the price is now down, they are not missing it and can get in. People who do not think bitcoin is good, BECAUSE they are late, should be happy to see it fall, so that they can buy in and not be late anymore. Anyone who buys from this price, would be buying cheaper than everyone who bought higher, and if they wait then they can make a profit. It makes sense to do this when it is going up, because they envy those of us who made profit but why do it when it's going down?

The point of jealousy is gone, you can buy cheaper than us now and that would make you richer on the long term. Being late and envy the people who made wealth from bitcoin is a stupid reason to bash it when it is cheap for you to buy.

Bitcoin is now 15 years old and we have data that shows how beneficial it is to invest in Bitcoin for long term. If someone is still uncertain about Bitcoin investment, despite seeing the evidence in form of Bitcoin price for last 15 years then he is doing his own loss. It's of no use to regret on not buying Bitcoin when it was 100$ or 1000$, we have opportunity at our disposal and we must take full advantage of that to get bigger piece of the cake. Bitcoin price is 105K today which is quite high but it's searching for more heights in coming days.

Somehow, it sounds ridiculous to take someone struggles, and devotion for a "luck" after many years of devotion, and perseverance. We should be able to differentiate between hard work, and luck.

 Luck comes with miracle, and sometimes, without working hard for it. But hard work is a result of passion, determination that is established on dream towards success.

Therefore, I quote my learned friend who is of the opinion that most success is not as a result of luck, but hard work. Bitcoin is not about being lucky, but working hard zealously, especially when many think it won't work out.

No one’s get lucky with bitcoin especially when you are still a beginner. In fact, it’s in bitcoin where we experienced high emotions, and if we are not patient but weak, bitcoin will really eat us. However, the more we get to risk with bitcoin, the more we become inclined to it and positively manage all its risks, until we come to see its positive side and maximize its potentials, that’s when we become lucky without quitting and leaving bitcoin behind.

Lucky are those who just don’t do anything but end up highly profitable, but with bitcoin you need to take risk, you need to manage your emotions, otherwise you will never achieve your goal to be successful and profitable but only end up in massive losses and regrets.

I think it's a 50% / 50% situation. You were in the right place at the right time, but you also decided to be there, you went for it consciously. There weren't guarantees and assurances back then, so enthusiasts had to believe Bitcoin's potential for its characteristics and principles, much more than for its price (or history, since it was something quite new).

Luck does play a role, as there are mysterious forces in this universe which put us in front of determined situations or elements (like Bitcoin), while repelling us from others. It's out of our control to decide what we are going to find on the next corner of the street, but it's up to us to decide what to do towards what we will meet on that corner.

Many had the opportunity, as Bitcoin was brought to them by the context of life, although they still refused adopting it, while others embraced it. On this aspect, it's indeed worthy to highlight the essential role free will plays in our lives.

People will always complaining about missing the dip and when they are supposed to buy, they will be busy checking the market charts hoping that price will fall more so that they could buy at a very little price so they could make enough profits. When an investor continues to behave like this, it could become greed that will make the person to lose more opportunities in the market because they want to buy at a very small price. Bitcoiners do not wait for the market to continue dipping before they could buy and hold Bitcoin. We don't have to relax and continue waiting when others are buying...every buy is an opportunity this time.

The more classic reason is simply because we seem to want to turn a blind eye to what happened and always want to be stuck in the regrets that exist today.

This indirectly actually proves that there are still many people who are still not ready and do not fully believe in bitcoin even though they are already in bitcoin.
Therefore, excuses or words like what you said are always created which if we always instill such things in ourselves in the end it will only burden us with feelings and fears of the deepan bitcoin period just because we are not confident in what we are doing. Whereas if we are sure then we will not regret anything that has happened because our focus is the future not always scraping old memories in the past which will not be repeated.

Totally agree with you there. No one ever knew what they would expect if they took their chances. I can tell you that, a large number of persons were aware of Bitcoin and actively discussing about it when it came out but 80% of them were late to adopt it. One thing I have learn is awareness isn't adoption.

In 2016 there were other opportunities to dive into. Tech was a big thing there, many learnt development on all sort of languages. I feel the people that went into Bitcoin was looking for a comfortable financial gateway, so they tried using Bitcoin.

For the guy who is tired of the fiat permissibiliry processes before access grant to ones own money, the devalua of the value of the fiat you had today having a slow but steady reduction in value. For such guy he would want to take advantage of any opportunity that provides itself as alternative to what the traditional isn't giving. I think it were those who were tired of the traditional system long from now that got curious with bitcoin, took the necessary risk and today they can say thanks to their guts and curiosity for going after what is our of the normal in centralized finance.

I don't even know what Bitcoin is for the first time. I just say Oh it is a new thing but what is it? Oh, we can get it for free? Hm, it is interesting. I like free stuff like this.

That is what I said in the past when I met Bitcoin and tried to figure out what Bitcoin is. Then, playing for free, collect it along with other coins and hodl it in each wallet. I don't care if that will not turn into something like today. But, boooommmm...
Bitcoin exploded and gave me money ;D

I don't care about those who said Bitcoin is a scam eventually. No, they don't know about that. We are busy collecting Bitcoin while they are busy with what they do. We have our own reasons and so do they.

Great article.
I was lucky to discover Bitcoin early on. It may have been by chance, but it was the result of my diligent online search for an opportunity. I was looking for a job or any other opportunity, and I found it. I found Bitcoin.

While my friends were spending most of their time on Facebook and YouTube, watching silly, funny videos, I was spending time learning about Bitcoin, trading, and following the news and developments related to it. Now, one of them comes up to me and says, "You're lucky. How did you learn about this so early?"

The only way I can understand the modernity I have got is through using Bitcoin, because if I could not use Bitcoin, then even if I came to the modern era, I would not have got the touch of modernity. Bitcoin is capable of changing people's lives, I call him a fool who does not like Bitcoin despite the great reputation of Bitcoin at present. No matter which side you examine Bitcoin from, Bitcoin is the best in all aspects, because it is suitable for the work you will use Bitcoin for because Bitcoin, including transactions, import and export transactions of goods in the country and abroad, are very easy and confidential.
But what I am most attracted to is that I own as much Bitcoin as I can invest in Bitcoin. Satoshi's hard work and valuable time have given people's lives a touch of modernity.

People take us to be lucky, yet they are not ready to take the risk of investing in Bitcoin when asked to.  It's foolish to think about how non-bitcoiners don't want to talk about how lucky we are when the market is on the bearish side, they think us to be hodling assets that have no value. We neglect their negative talks, to focus on our long term goal because that's what matters to us not the opinion of others that lack the knowledge of Bitcoin

This took me to memory lane and make me realize that some of the things we do are mere frivolities because the money tied down to those things would have been better used to invest in bitcoin. Buying bitcoin ought to be a necessity and not some of the redundant things we buy for which we really have no much use for them. Some are even bought just to feel among or be noticed when we have no much use for them. Now that we know better, we ought to seize every opportunity we have to buy bitcoin.

Bitcoin is not luck. I have had people tell me it's a gamble that paid off. But those people never did the research to understand what money is and how bitcoin is the hardest type of money. Put some hours in read a few books, buy a small amount, understand how it works. Then you can decide if I'm lucky

I did not know about Bitcoin early considering my age but the moment I was introduced to Bitcoin, I knew it was a good opportunity to break free from poverty into a life of comfort. I may not be buying with big amount of money but I believe that the cumulative effect of my small buys over some years is enough for me to meet my target. Since inflation is not a big factor in Bitcoin and it is bound to increase in value over time because of the limited supply and increasing population.

Bitcoin can't make you escape poverty; it can make you earn a decent profit from it, maybe give you some figures, but I don't see it taking you from being poor to becoming a wealthy person unless it's those investors who bought when it was below $1000. If you want to escape poverty, you can be investing in it and still be working on other things, which will give you the financial break through you deserve.

I discovered Bitcoin when I was a teenager, I didn't have a way to purchase as an underage person, at least without getting scammed or getting into trouble. It seemed too complicated without the necessary means (card payments, PayPal, other processors etc.). However, I became a strong believer of Bitcoin at an early age and pursued to get my hands on some, taking advantage of the available methods, faucets.

Back then, they gave away major amounts of Satoshi with a single spin, I remember an average payout could range from 1,000 to 2,000 or even more in some cases. I ended up accumulating an amount some of which was held for years, other was lost in wallets, or blown away in various ways. Despite the years passing, I always believed in Bitcoin and despite the difficulties, I always returned . I've been loyal ever since, so it wasn't luck, it was a choice.

I bet no one’s get lucky with investing. There’s always the risk to lose, knowing all investments have no 100% guarantees to make us win or lead us into profits. Everything with bitcoin, we just dare and brave enough to take risk, not realizing that this will lead us to a life-changing outcome, most especially if we dare to maximize our bitcoin investment.

We aren’t lucky, we just happen to invest the highly potential asset so far. It all started with taking some risk, research, faith, and eventually develop strategies on how to increase our bitcoin assets, and maximize our future profits with bitcoin. And these happened despite all the challenges and issues faced by bitcoin alone.

I will say this is probably directed to me.
Back in 2013, as a fresh graduate, I had no financial discussion, just obeying papa's instructions, but deep inside, I had a feeling that I must not be under the sun labouring for some peanuts, working tirelessly with little rewards, but there was no proof for me yet. I was never satisfied, I only had a believe that the generation I have found myself are not going to continue with the already existing system, either there will be a change or there is already a change, just not seeing it yet, until 2016 when I found this forum and heard about the possibilities in Bitcoin. The very first day I made my first transaction on USDT to my native fiat which landed into my bank account, no queries, no country barriers/border challenges, then I knew what I had deep inside has truly arrived.

Most people I knew internationally, and my own family now here in a "rosier" geographical location use Revolut or Wise (ex transferwise) and I get it. Fast, cheap, convenient. But only if you have the right passport or residence =)

Most people will never understand what a 3rd-worlder from the South has to go through just to make things work internationally.

My first exposure to Bitcoin was on forums, and on IRC, slashdot, BBs... even had an account here, but I did not (and somewhat regret) look too deeply. A previous bad experience with digital money didn't help.

Only my urgency led me to look deeper on the second encounter...  but more importantly perhaps (and this is where the luck came in), I had a period of serious illness that proved timely. Being confined to bed for weeks, I had all the time in the world to read. And read I did..!


I actually was ultra skeptical the first time I heard of it in 2012/13... I explained before that I was using "e-gold" about ten years earlier, and it worked for me for a very long time until its unfortunate demise.

I thought Bitcoin was the same, as I didn't understand the concept well enough until 2016 when I was forced to seek an alternative to money (and also had the incidental opportunity as I posted above).

Those who say Bitcoiners are lucky, of course, it is a matter of feeling bad for them, because they also had enough opportunities to be lucky but they failed to use that opportunity. In my opinion, those who invested in Bitcoin in the past also had a lot of opportunities to invest but I failed to use that opportunity due to which I could not be lucky. It is not that Bitcoiners are lucky, but I myself was lucky but could not use that time, if I could have invested, I would have been lucky too. However, we should still keep in mind that the future of Bitcoin can be determined from its high position and how much the price of Bitcoin will increase. In that case, since our opportunities have been wasted in the past and we have failed to use those opportunities, we should invest Bitcoins now for the future. Those who plan well for the future and invest in Bitcoin will definitely be lucky.