Bitcoin Forum

Bitcoin was invented by the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 and released as open-source software in early 2009. It was gradually recognized by many until it reached a peak of $19,783 per bitcoin in late-2017.

From the beginning of bitcoin history I know that many people become rich instantly when they hold their bitcoins and sold at the highest price last 2017.  After the price of bitcoin fluctuated and dropped where many investors got scared and started to panic to sell their bitcoin even if they went bankrupt. But we cannot hide that bitcoin has changed many lives.

On the other hand, after bitcoin dump many are still investing, especially as the price of bitcoin gradually rises again. And due to the continuous development of bitcoin it has become more and more popular and attractive to investors especially to the rich and big companies.

Now bitcoin is preparing to reach another ATH. Are you still there and holding your bitcoins? What happened to your life after 10 years in bitcoin? Is there any changes?

Actually, I knew Bitcoin since 2017 and this is not yet around 10 years old. But at least, I faced that pump and dump of the Bitcoin price that makes many people scared, happy, and also complicted. And what happen to me so far? I really feel very rgeat to know about Bitco. this changes may lfie, at elast my finance. Although it is still small things that i reached, but at least it gives me chance to have better life. Additionaly, the rpesenc eof Bitc9in also change sthe worl,d change the point of view of how this thing and technology apoption run.

I have been aware of bitcoin from past 6 years and I would say it has been a passive income as well as a boon for me at the time of need even though I missed out early investments but I had bitcoin's earned through signature campaigns which I couldn't exchange at that point if time due to inferior value which laster turned out to be a very profitable during 2017 bull run. I wish I would have invested into Bitcoin when it was new, but nevertheless it has improved my standard of living and now I don't need to pay huge fees for money exchangers if I have to make cross border payments.

This is just my experience which might vary from those who invested at peak and did panic selling as they Amy either consider it as a lesson or curse.

AFAIK, we've just reached another ATH on Monday and that's $19800. Breaking a few bucks from the last ATH. Well, CMC shows it's $19773 so that's kind of short to the last ATH. Nevertheless, I'm still holding and I don't know what will happen to me after 10 years.
As much as possible, it's part of my plan to hold at least some up to that year. And with my experience from the time that I've started to invest in bitcoin, it has changed my life in so many ways. The common things just like others are sharing.

I buy bitcoin with some remaining money after meeting my regular needs. I have been doing this for the last six months, now I have a good value of Bitcoin deposited in my volt. I want to accumulate something like this until the price of Bitcoin reaches $30,000. I think this is a good and profitable idea for everyone.

I haven't used bitcoin for such a large number of years. Maybe after using ten years I'll get good benefits of the same. Just after three years of bitcoin I got good fortune out of it. But, I wasn't able to make it benefit me. Once again I've started to accumulate my earnings targeting the next halving days. Hope to see a big change by then.

I just take bitcoin seriously in the last 10 years, was here during the last all time high, but I would say that I didn't hold that much though. But from 2018 up to know, I really understand and really learn what I holder and that I should save or stack bitcoin and then look for the next bubble, next all time high. So we will see how it will change my life and others.

You're right, the way I see it, BTC is on another ATH roll.

Like many others since the big rise in BTC back in 2017, I must say that I remained a faithful investor with BTC assets still at hand.

How have the past 10 years changed for me?
For starters, I learnt a lot more about the industry and gained a much better knowledge of how to levy my skills in trading to increase my capital. so for sure there have been a few bumps here and there, but overall BTC and the entire boom of the crypto industry has impacted me positively. And I'm sure it will continue to do so ;)

I have known Bitcoin for a few years but I haven't bought much Bitcoin. Now, I really started to regret it. Bitcoin hasn't changed my life much in terms of money but I started to learn about digital currencies thanks to Bitcoin.

I bought Bitcoin in its lows in 2016 and held through the 2018 all time high. I don't feel rich and have no regrets now that it's again in a new high.

It's still very early for Bitcoin and I know that 50 thousand dollars is not some very distant dream. It can happen within weeks when more institutions come in and put 1% of their money into it.

My life has changed for the better because thanks to Bitcoin I felt safe financially. I did not sell but it gave me the confidence to invest and take on new daring fiat projects because I knew that if anything goes wrong I'll still have my bitcoin savings.

I don't think many of us here have been in bitcoin for the first 10 years of its life. Probably a few, but we don't see them much often in the community to tell us their story.

But I remember one early bitcoin adopter here, his name is Elwar (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=554), and this is his story, The First Seastead is in the water (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5095773.0). But it did face a lot of challenges, Thailand files complaint against Bitcoin Seasteader (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5132685.0).

I know and use bitcoin in mid 2017 and have experienced an increase in bitcoin at the end of 2017 which can change my life for the better, especially in the financial sector and this makes me fall in love and believe that bitcoin is the best investment and can be a source of income that promises.
and the profits I have received from bitcoin so far are countless and most importantly bitcoin has changed my life for the better, and besides that there are also many valuable lessons that I have learned in the crypto world, especially the experience in this forum which has taught me many things in the crypto world, especially bitcoin.

I've known bitcoin for about 6 years, i first heard about it like SCAM, but then by chance i started trading it and indeed it changed my life a lot. I feel very grateful to this market, because the market has not only brought me money, but also gave me knowledge and i think the first to reach this market are the lucky ones.

There are not too many people have 10 years or more in the bitcoin market. Most of very early bitcoiners and forum members are rich enough to enjoy their lives. Many of them abandoned the forum and find joy somewhere else.

I don't have many years in crypto, less than 4 years but the bitcoin market is not a market for greedy and emotional people. All orders for trade or investment must be done with investigation and risk management. Without such skills and works, capital will be lost gradually and at the ends people will hate the market.

It's roughly 5-6 years only since when I am actually into bitcoin.

I already heard about the bitcoin from series "Big Bang Theory", a comedian show that used to get aired on Netflix back in time. Literally heard it only twice or thrice and never looked back it until the news started floating around my country. We had many black money holders and suddenly it came to notice bitcoin is being used as escape route.

So the thing is, I have entered bitcoin at the time when it was already at it's peak and most of the people were rich by then.

But surely, up until now the role of bitcoin in my life has been tremendously supportive considering the financial needs of me or family.

I never greed for richness, but just small chunks now and then so as to give extra backbone to finances and I think it's going pretty well with bitcoin.

Maybe what you are saying is true, it is too rare that anyone can survive more than 10 years in the bitcoin market. but there are those that still survive and it must be admitted, we can be sure that they have devoted themselves to finding a life in bitcoin. because if there is no definite goal it can be said that they will stop themselves from boredom.

especially when from mid-2018 to the last few months bitcoin was in a sluggish state. so that many are no longer active because their income does not match their work.
is currently experiencing an increase and the possibility of many returning to join again. because this is the time the opportunity can be done. but until when? no one can predict with certainty.

Being too long in the market does not a security mark for any profits from investment or tradings. There are losers and winners and the capital flow on the market are moved between losers and winners. They can survive after few years and they can get big wins or big losses sometimes but not all of them can end with a profit. Bitcoin market is risky and your greed and bad leverage orders can wash out all you achieved after years.

The 2018 is a first bearish year of bitcoin after it hit all time high in late 2017. It is a boring year and I remembered the month when it fell down from strong support around $6,000 to below $4,000. It is a terrible month and worse than the crash in 2020 as a pandemic consequence.

The possibility for we to have bitcoin till them is in doubt, it's very obvious that people that purchased bitcoin in a larger form when the price was low as far back 2010 and 2012 are very rich now, having bitcoin transactions as a source of revenue through out when it was created till now, automatically the person has turned to a billionaire if happened to get at a Larger quantity, so  been into bitcoin till 10 years definitely it will transform the life of the user if properly managed.

I know not many time I success when trading of investing on cryptocurrency will give much profit and many time I loss, but I always get benefit after know with bitcoin and altcoin because I think have give me more when I try to get income with bitcoin and altcoin. I think more than five years I know with bitcoin I have get more and still have any disappointed when not selling coin after have chance with higher price, but I think will give me experience for the future how to be serious and always sell coin when get big chance on higher price. I think if some one wanna try get lucky with cryptocurrency now is the best time before late with bitcoin and altcoin have raise to higher price.

10 years to come, is absolutely another 10 years full of excitement and market volatility. If we compared it today, probably a much more different situation but of manageable emotions. Having such a long time of being a part of the crypto community I believe we have enough knowledge and comforts than we have today. But there is one thing that we can't ever change, the market remains full of surprises and unpredictable. Can see and hear also people crying in vain for they lose due to hacking and scamming.

Yes, I am still in the bitcoin world and still trying to earn as much bitcoin as possible. I know that it is not easy to make more bitcoin, but I am willing to do that because bitcoin will reach another ATH. I am sure that people involved in the bitcoin world still do the same as me, and they are trying to make more and more bitcoin in many ways. Nothing can stop them from trying to make more bitcoin, and they will still trying until they can make many bitcoin.

My life has already changed after 10 years after I was involved in the bitcoin world because I can try to profit in bitcoin and convert it to fiat. I am grateful for knowing bitcoin to make money because I can make money now, and I want to make more and more bitcoin.

Actually it is $20,000 and not 19.783 because Bitcoin had already Break the $19,800 price last week meaning we had already Hit the new ATH?
We called them "Early Adopter" in which the First set of people that trust and invest in Bitcoin when nobody knows about this,
There are companies that now starting to adopt Bitcoin maybe they Realize and understand what Is Bitcoin and why this is created.
Bitcoin already Reached ATH  couple days ago,its just Happen that the Value of Dollar is cheaper compared to what it is back in 2017.

 
 Perhaps, I will still hold if that new ATH for btc gonna reach. I converted some already and I am contented with my profits when it reached $19k.
 
 
 I've known bitcoin way back 2018 and things have already been changed in my life for the past 2 years. What more if 10 years from now? I won't deny the fact that bitcoin helps me in my financial way of living with of course good investment management plan.
 One thing is for sure after 10 years, that I keep on holding some of my btc and will still be a part of this growing and advance technology.

You have felt the earlier changes that you have experienced since 2017 until now, even though your profile was registered in 2018, but in 2017 you have reaped the rewards of Bitcoin.

The point: everyone who knows this forum, of course they know Bitcoin, including you, in fact people's lives since Bitcoin were published and marketed, people's lives have changed, that is certain, depending on how they use and obtain.

If you still want to continue enjoying Bitcoin and your life, don't slip into breaking the rules.
Conclusion: everyone changes completely in his life, especially from an economic perspective, if they already know Bitcoin, depending on where he uses it, good and bad.

The only change in my life after 10 years is actually Bitcoin.This is both good and bad...
I was aware about Bitcoin back in 2013,but I joined Bitcointalk at the end of 2015.
My life changed back in 2016 and afterwards,when I became an active member of the crypto community.
Bitcoin is keeping me above the surface.Without Bitcoin,I might have been flat broke,starving and homeless.
I'm not rich,but earning Bitcoins helps me pay the bills and provide for my family.
I missed a lot of opportunities to sell my BTC at a high price and make more money,but that's my fault.

I have known bitcoin for 5 years, and there have been many changes in my life, I get quite a lot of profit in bitcoin, and it can meet my daily needs.  I used to work in a factory and since getting to know bitcoin I immediately decided to stop working and start focusing on bitcoin.

I still holding few bitcoin only but I'm am more bullish to other altcoins. But still want to accumulate bitcoin too, so I'm gearing up to buy it at a dump price if there is a retrace that will happened. Its not good to fomo with its current price as you can see that its already at 19k level and any minute can break its ATH and also can do a run with more than what it's worth now.

There are regrets on my part selling it at a lower price but that's okay. I know I could somehow filled my bags with this precious btc.

but bitcoin already hit a new all-time high. and yes, I am still holding but I already withdraw a portion of it a week ago.

I've only been known bitcoin for five years. I wouldn't say that it completely changed my life. but I could say it help me a lot. it brought new opportunities to earn to help me out on my financial needs and learn more about the digital world that I didn't know existed before I knew about bitcoin.

For me personally, I have known Bitcoin from 2015 ago, and my friend said Bitcoin will be valuable in the next few years from there I thought to learn what Bitcoin is and how Bitcoin works, after I understood everything then my friend told me how to get free Bitcoin and I had to learn it until finally I got Bitcoin from the instructions he directed to me then I kept the Bitcoin until the end of 2017 the price of Bitcoin was getting higher after that I withdrew some of the Bitcoin I had, because there were several needs that I had to buy, and some of the Bitcoin that I own is kept for my long-term investment to date. Maybe this is a very valuable lesson, because with this I can know a lot about cryptocurrency and I can buy what I want.

Well the so call "Bubble" of 2017 makes Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market Become Popular in many ways.
This even generate income to many Ponzi ,Scam and hacker all over the crypto space.
They are not Instantly become richer because they had Hold their coins for long time,estimated 7-0 years so this is not instant .
Big companies that Once denied this Currency but now starting to Bond and make business towards this market.
I will Hold until Bitcoin reach a certain amount that will be my selling point.

it is not that i don't trust Bitcoin but i know in every Hype there will be Dump so i will sell at first and buy again the next dump.

There will be always some changes in our lives when we invest on Bitcoin after 10 years and it doesn't matter how big that changes is as long as it is in a positive aspect.

I know that there are people who are rooting for big changes and we can't deny that because the reason why we invest on bitcoin is to become rich or to become a financially stable individual. Just focus on your aim and you will achieve your goals, maybe 5 to 10 years from now.

Keep in mind that learning and improving is really necessary and you need to understand that results are not that instant when we invest on something.

How could I elaborate it when my friend first told me about bitcoin I laughed at him and said this could turn out to be a new technique of scam, when I slowly started to research on it I was literally attracted then me and my friend started to buy in our savings and we started to earn money from it. Now I started to focus my full time job in this and earned a lot thanks to the founder of this technology.

I knew that bitcoin will change my life since i am high school im starting using bitcoin to support my financial needs until i graduated college it's all came from bitcoin profit and i am really glad that i am still using bitcoin and now finally i have already 1 business which i sell some good and the good thing here is im accepting bitcoin as a payment method, i see my self if bitcoin still alive and still many users use it because we knew that bitcoin is peer to peer i am hoping to open some store that will accept bitcoin, and i see my self that i am on the top among my friends nowadays.

i thought you are asking if what will happen on our life on the next 10 years in btc but your only asking if what is the state of our lives now ,
now that already 10 years has passed in btc but you didnt think that most people involved in btc are late getters ? i was involved in btc in the year 2017 and its now 2020  .
 if you ask me if what happen to my life now after 3 years of involvement in btc , i will say that my life now has improved a little yes only a little because not all the time i was in profit and not all times btc are pumping but i was thankful in btc .

Depends on your activities within that interval. If you are into mining, for sure you'll earn huge profit. If you are into Bitcoin investment, it will depend on you analytical skills in order to come up with profit. I'm only more than 4years in this industry and profit is indeed big but not that much since I did not offer my hundred percent in this industry due to real life duties as an individual. Changes are not that much, but there is. I guess others have more to share especially those who invested most of their time on the previous years.

For me it's not 10 years yet. I started to know bitcoin just a few years ago at 2015, during this time my life changed a lot. I saw the last ATH at 2017 and I always knew the bitcoin can reach the next ATH before the ending of this year. Now after reaching the next ATH maybe price will take a rest and do a correction or stable for a while to get ready for the next ATH, maybe to 30K or even more. between all there years, 2020 is my favorite bitcoin year because regardless of the covid-19 issues we saw bitcoin at 3.8K and now it's trading for 19K this could be a chance to become a millionaire.

Frankly speaking, the after 10 year life with Bitcoin has been amazing and full with entertainment and fun. Though there where series of unhappy mood from Bitcoin market volatility which we have over the years undergo studies in ensuring we safeguard our investment with Bitcoin. Trading as we'll know to be a thing of skills brought me joy and sadness too, but, with learning and continuous learning we're rest be assure that another 10 years in Bitcoin will be sweeter than honey.

I have known about Bitcoin from the very beginning, but to my great regret, I only realized it a few years ago. Since for many years my work has been connected with working in the network, I received the earned money in various electronic money. But, damn it, I was previously offered payment in bitcoins, but I did not believe it then. Now I regret that time, and of course, over time we become both smarter and wiser. Today, for me, bitcoin is the first coin I believe in and try to invest in.
I reassure myself that it did happen, and I discovered bitcoin for myself.

The number of years is longtime for early hodlers. They should be singing better songs now if they have been hodling but many have been selling off. For me, I'm not a 10 years hodler  but the little years I have known bitcoin, the changes are better.

Its my 5th year in cryptocurrency but I was casual at my entrance into the space. I didnt know enough about the investment and didnt listen to some warning signs during my first 2 years which had the parabolic market. Some were selfish with the information because of their experience in the bear, they want everyone to have their share. I dont care how much time I spend reading from others that have spent years here, study charts and research old and new projects.

I will just say that there are very few active members of the forum who have been here since the beginning, so there are not many who can say what happened to them in their lives in those 10 years. On the other hand, there are a lot of people like me who first came to the forum 5-6 years ago and can certainly witness a time when Bitcoin was still quite undervalued, not only by ordinary small investors, but also by those who today invest hundreds of millions of dollars in the same.

Of course, a lot has changed in that period, and many will admit that they are sorry that they did not keep their BTC that they had then. It was only during 2017 and after the massive bull run that most realized the potential of Bitcoin, because it exceeded all expectations in terms of price. I have no doubt that some people's lives have changed for the better because of the profits they have made - but they are only rewarded for recognizing the right opportunity in time, and for enduring all the difficult moments that followed during the early years of Bitcoin.

Maybe a little too late for me to know Bitcoin. But I have felt the benefits for me. Several times I took money for family needs from BTC. I tried to keep increasing the BTC, but it was a little difficult for me because I was relatively new. I take advantage of the volatility of the BTC price which impacts the Altcoin pair. Buy and sell at the right time. But it's so hard I still need a lot to learn.

Not just bitcoin but even others have live through their profits in 2017 doing some bounty campaigns. And I remember there where threads around saying that some of them have quit their job and focus on being a bounty hunter and doing some trading because it gives them so much money. But that was 2018, so most probably majority of them suffered worst financially as we enter the bearish trend.

As for me, yeah many has change since I go full crypto, lots of ups and downs along the way, but I would say that it is still good though, made profits and help me understand what bitcoin and investment is all about specially that majority here was in the 2017 bull run and I'm sure they have experience a lot but learn a precious lessons in bitcoin investment.

I see a good but not the best life 10 years for now with the help of Bitcoin.

This might sound quite optimistic but I believe that Bitcoin will help me to be financially free. It will help me from escaping the world of rat race (if you are working for 8 hours in a company or you've read Rich Dad Poor Dad then you know what rat race is).

It might sound too be good to be true or you are very optimistic but I'm also ready for the worst case scenario that might happen anytime. I know that all of us believe that Bitcoin will not go to zero anymore but for me there is still a chance that it might happen. Probably the same chance as winning in a lottery.

10 years ago bitcoin created by Satoshi Nakamoto and the people who bought bitcoin in the first year for sure they got a hundred thousands dollars upto millions and they are rich because of the bitcoin.

But those people who did not care about bitcoin and they did not buy they did not earn money and they have news the others lost the key of their wallet because they did not care about bitcoin before and they lost millions of dollars.

For the next 10 years I hope more people will earn a lot of money and change their life as good not bad.

I am sure people involved in bitcoin for more than 5 years will have a different life, but that is only for people who are always seeking a way to make more bitcoin or make money. But if that person is only focused on joining in the investment without knowing if that investment is real or not, he will not change his life, and even he will not have a chance to make money.

Perhaps, OP should've stated the question from the time of the most famous Bitcoin awareness —2017. That was the time Bitcoin had an unprecedented publicity. Sadly, that was when I joined this forum with little or no idea of what Bitcoin was. The bull run happened before my eyes like an Eldorado. It was like Bitcoin would never crash even though a lot of veterans made predictions it was going down to below $5,000. That range seemed impossible at the time. Well, we all know that story now. My story from that point hasn't been extraordinary. It's the same story of waiting for altcoins to push up because of Bitcoin run.

However, look at what I found about Bitcoin All Time Low. I believe the data isn't correct. Wasn't there a time Bitcoin sold for that less?
https://i.imgur.com/mHZVpjk.jpg

The data is correct for the period for which it is stated - because the same is also stated on the CMC from which the coingecko probably took the data. As the CMC is often taken as a relevant source of information when it comes to past data, and it was launched in 2013 - for many that year serves as a starting point.

https://i.imgur.com/EVu44Zx.jpg
https://coinmarketcap.com/about/

If you want to see prices from the very beginning visit this page -> https://bitcoin.zorinaq.com/price/

Of course, when the price went downhill, it's not the end of it rather it's a new beginning for the new investors who have some courage to wait for the price to rise again and it's really happening right now after less than 3 years. Maybe if those who hold it up until now will sell their BTC or not. if not, the price will stay still and there might be some changes before the end of this year to raise even more than its current price.

My life in crypto hasn't been that long but it already changed so much.
It gave me financial freedom and also made me earn much more than I could think of.
It gave me more opportunities to earn specially this time that most of us are force to leave our work.

Indeed, we bet those people that already knew bitcoin 10 years ago have a good and easy life right now. Like they are the ones that have a big investment, already know the flow of the market, and even good at trading making their own money grow with their own knowledge. We also want that to happen that is why as the cryptocurrency innovates we should also adopt what is changing and what is happening in the market so that we are not wasting our time here. We avoid losing money so we should keep learning and do what we do good. Keep on investing, if you fail, just keep trying.

Interesting question, I regret selling it so cheaply in 2017, because maybe at that time my appreciation of Bitcoin was still a bit skeptical. Not like it is now. After the Bitcoin bull run, I focused on working for a bank and didn't care much about it. I have seen Bitcoin rise again for a few months now, so my life comes back to Bitcoin and I want to take advantage of improving my capture and investment so that I can change my life. :(

Well, I still regret that time that I thought Bitcoin would be just a bubble that would disappear through time but Bitcoin did the impossible and now is reaching another All time high. Right now, I have decided that I will continue to pursue a career within the Blockchain Industry since it would really be a great investment for the future.

It's better than doing nothing, no need to regret about it but instead tried to learn more and add a little bit of patience, working with your investment

inside this venue shouldn't be thought as quick venue to earn but instead a  long term involvement, keep enhancing your knowledge and you also get

a high chance of success. Best of luck!

I don't know I will alive more ten years from now. But if I stay in this earth, I will be more matured in that time compared with now. So maybe I will work for my family yo fullfil our needs and I will be available in a job with good sallery. In that time, Bitcoin price will be more may be double or more than that of now. Maybe I will be a part of this forum and will be more involved in cryptocurrency. I can't imagine more than that now.

It’s being couple of years now and thanks to friend and then researched helped me to reach to this forum and started liking and understanding it in a better way. Must say it has been just like a roller coaster ride as was not that risk taker and during initial days due to its volatility had some hard times. But as time passed understood the risk and volatile and then with some money started investing in it and really only thing is that should have known much earlier so would have being a early adopter and bought at much lower price and also would have helped to impart more information about bitcoin at early stage itself to relatives and other known ones.

I known Bitcoin since 2014, it's been six year and yet 10 years but I can say, being involved in cryptocurrency gives a huge change in my life.  At some point when BTC was skyrocketing way back 2017, it gives me momentary financial freedom, it enables me to accumulate realty assets and somehow established myself somehow.  Though, I am not holding any BTC right now, being involved in BTC industry for the past years had somehow fulfilled some of my wishes.

Congratulations to you. What you've done is cost averaging, no one has stopped you from doing that, and not even single news for the past 6 months. But IIRC, by that period many are already doubting if it's a good time to buy because it's moving up. And here you are, make yourself well by simply doing it silently. It is a good strategy but doesn't think that everyone will follow your steps. We have our own strategies and some might create their own plan on when they shall accumulate.

I know about Bitcoin 3 years ago but have felt the enormous benefits to date...
currently, my kitchen needs are fulfilled because of Bitcoin, I did not make much of Bitcoin for a month but it really means in times of crisis like today. Bitcoin is my fortune.

People’s perspective on bitcoin has changed a lot nowadays. That can see many people who have already adopted bitcoin, including big companies and rich people like Op said. That’s because we all look at the history of bitcoin and if we look at it today, we will repeat all that history even many people believe, bitcoin will be more valuable and have a new ATH. This positive thinking, of course, is because many people already benefit from adopting bitcoin. including me, I also want to make a profit on the new ATH later, although the bitcoin that I hold today is not as much as the rich people there.

I have known bitcoin last 4 years ago and I'm grateful for the opportunity knowing this early. I haven't used large amount of it because of I'm saving and holding it for years. A lot of happening from the past that I was loss in trading but I was able to survive. Bitcoin has helping my life that I was able to earned and good to accumulate some in my potfolio. So for sure after 10 years in bitcoin this will bring more luck and achievement to me.

You don't need ten years to see the difference when you have bitcoin, just take a look the pariode of 2016-2017 ago. You start collecting bitcoin at the end of 2016 ago and hold it for just one year, at that time bitcoin price just $900 hold it for one year and sell them at the end 2017, how many profit that you get.

Also, you are i rush to buy bitcoin in 2017 and your intention is to hold it for long term intention. But the bad happen came and make bitcoin price fell to $3500, how crazy you are when your investment is decreasing a lot? Also you can imagine hif you buy bitcoin at the all time low and still hold it until now, you'll be very happy.

So, you don't need ten years to see how bitcoin give you many things. As for a decision, it is depend on you, you can sell and buy again depend your analyst. But myself I always do and planned the target price that I should buy and sell and I never regretted it because I have many time to recover my loss if I got loss and also I'll have many time to get a lot of profit rather than I got at the current time.

I start joining and know Bitcoin in 2017 end and it has changed my life. This becomes part of my life, my way to fulfil the necessity daily. Well, it may have been passing difficult moment But for sure, bitcoin really change our life from our financial system, our point of few about investment, and also technology. We also think that it is difficult to be in the investment world, we need big funds to invest. But with BTC, we can start investing and trading with a small amount.

Hopefully same thing will happen to me, the goal is to continue learning and investing. Treating this venue as long term investment that may

change my life after 10 years, saving from my day job salary and keep buying small portion of bitcoin when there's an opportunities for me

to do so.

I would like to hold my bitcoin for longer but I only have some amount left. Due to the pandemic, the problems that we had in the nation were exacerbated by what most of us said "we are surviving."
Particularly thanks to Bitcoin we have been able to cope with the current crisis.
I would recommend anyone to buy Bitcoin and hold it for as long as possible

Bitcoin is a life changing for some people. It could be good, but sometimes it changes people badly. We cant deny it. I have 2 friends, who is an early adopter, and the other one who bought bitcoin at ATH in 2017. I dont need to explain more about this, but I believe you already get it  ;D

Personally, I read about bitcoin for the first time in 2012-2013 I think. Where people collects bitcoin for free from faucets or something if I am not mistaken. I didnt really interested in bitcoin at that time because I invested in a ponzi schemed HYIP which made me had much money at that time lol.

My first bitcoin wallet was created in 2015-2016. 3-4 years after I read about bitcoin. At that point, you already know that I felt disappointed because I underestimated it before.

Bitcoin changes me in personal, mostly in financial planning.
Yeah I got the profits too, but I really thanks bitcoin for changing my mind how to manage my money.

One word for that, Thanks for Bitcoin, my life has become better because of you. I can help my extended family, orphans, friends, and builders of places of worship. Maybe the people around me will wonder where my money came from, it's hard to explain because there are still many people who don't understand and don't want to understand. This is because many people around me think that work is about leaving home, completing tasks, earning money and going home. From bitcoin I can work at home while drinking coffee.  :D

My journey wasn't entirely when bitcoin was created.  I started getting to know bitcoin in early 2016 and it changed my way of trading and saw what future technologies needed to be developed.  I didn't hold bitcoin from 2016 until now, but I followed the technology.  Prices continue to rise and reach new ATH in 2020.  of the many bitcoin journeys I have experienced to date, I bought several bitcoins and managed to sell them on the highest ATH.  Several years of knowing bitcoin until now, especially this forum, made my life change, starting from the mindset and the welfare of my family.  I am gaining a lot of knowledge and making a few dollars every month from this forum and bitcoin.  Bitcoin changes everything.

I was quite confused about OP since the focus of the topic is life after 10 years in Bitcoin but it seems like he's more concerned about the ATH. Anyway, I just figure out bitcoin way back in 2017 meaning, I'm not already-in into bitcoin from the last 10 years, I just watched it from movies, and various news about Bitcoin as a digital currency from different secret markets. I understood Bitcoin here on our forum and saw the opportunity it has in terms of providing the freedom to its users to choose how they want the funds to be used. I'm already in to bitcoin when it reached its ATH in 2017, but I don't have any hold at that time. I learned a lesson that Bitcoin's way is only progressive in the long run. That is why I manage to hold quite a few Bitcoin and up to now, I still hodl. Perhaps, I will sell it when we reached another ATH again.

Thank you Bitcoin, you change my life, my friends who use bitcoin, and other people who also use bitcoin. Because of bitcoin, we can now have a better life than before, and we still want to have a better life from bitcoin. If people out there can also know about bitcoin, they will regret why they don't try to use bitcoin for a long time ago. After all, bitcoin already become popular since 2017-2018, but then many people disappointed because they getting lose by buying bitcoin at a high price. However, the number of people who still use bitcoin increase, and they are grateful for knowing bitcoin and make money from bitcoin. Bitcoin can be a solution for them to have money while we are still in this pandemic. Hopefully, we can reach our dream with bitcoin.

I'm still holding onto my bitcoin up until now. I've been onto bitcoin since 2016 so it been only 4 years since I first got hold of bitcoin but many things already changed in my life, bitcoin provided everything that I have right now. My life literally turn bright when I got into bitcoin, bitcoin opened tons of opportunity for me and brought me things I didn't expect to get at my age. I couldn't imagine what would happen to me if I didn't came across with bitcoin back in 2016.

Congratulations to your good run brother.

I engaged in bitcoin 4 years ago and it is a good thing for me to become familiarized and invest on bitcoin.

At first, I'm scared and doubtful as I've learned that it is volatile in the market and there are risks. But I studied bitcoin well about how it works and its advantages in our lives. Maybe, this bitcoin will really give me a positive progress and will change my life forever. Bitcoin helped a lot of people but it requires a lot of skills and knowledge in order for you to manipulate your assets properly in the market so that you can benefit all of its potential and profit.

Came to know about it just around 4 years ago. The first thing that got my attention in crypto was the crazy Ethereum website. Back then it was quite novel and had all these exciting ideas about a world computer, DAPP etc. That took me to some freelancing project which was distributing its tokens. This brought me to the forum.

I would say i am a slow learner and I never really accumulated bitcoin as i put most of the initial capital into buying a a set of PCs and assembling a GPU rig (so i cud have my own source of bitcoin). This turned out to be a bad idea but i am okay with it. I just cost average now and have been in my first long running Sig campaign. So i managed to scrape some fractions and keep them close.

I'll continue to buy bitcoin as long as my pocket permits. The whole space is exciting to be in and pushes you to read and gain knowledge all the time.

That is why we need to trying, no matter if that is hard. We need to have a plan or strategy that we should use to reach what we want. Losing money will not be a problem because we will have a chance to recover. But if you miss learning what it needs, you will lose so many things. If we want to invest, we need to search for what is necessary to know what it needs to do related to the investment.


Good for you. You can hold it until the bitcoin price rise so high and only sell when the price is more than $20k. You will have your profit later, especially if you can sell it at the peak. Many people's lives have changed because of bitcoin help, and they still want to search for more bitcoin. They will not stop before they can reach their goals in bitcoin. That is what we need to do if we want to change our lives better than before.

Here since 2013.

2017 was great UNTIL i got caught in some really bad scam coins.

Back to Earth ran by the scammer know nas "Clay Space" cost me a lot of BTC.

Then there was a another scam names EQUIBITS   lost even more BTC


and a few more along the way..

Now the BTC "Dust" i have left, from sitting behind this bleeping computer, staring at this bleeping screen for 14hrs+ a day... all for almost NOTHING.


So, Bitcoin has been bitter sweet, ive seen highs but mostly lows, now i am at the very bottom of the lowest low.... cant really take much more, this is what Crypto has done for me, going to put me in a box, thanks to the scams mentioned above.

I've been trading bitcoing for 3 years and have some saved profit to live comfortably in 10 years on some tropical island (hopefuly the price will reach McAfee predictions:)  but will probably continue trading as I just love it.

where did you save your profit . was in the bank in a fiat form ? that can be better because if you will only say that your in profit now but you havent convert your btc yet , things can change in the future . i dont mean to scare you but im only saying the possibilities that can happen here in bitcoin .

thats more important . we should love what we are doing because this makes us continue doing it and even if you say that you are already secured because your in good profit , you shouldnt be confident and stop because money can be easily wasted . stop only when your tired physically and mentally , i mean when your old .

Registered at 2016, so you were only a guest for 3 years on this forum?


Anyone can fall into the trap, but no matter what, you went from one scam to another scam completely ignoring what happened to you before. If the information in the profile is correct, you are not an inexperienced kid to whom such things were to happen, but also someone who should think at that age that everything has come to an end. I started maybe a year after you, I had some trips to altcoins - but when I saw first hand that it was all falling apart after a while - it was a sign to me that I only believed in Bitcoin which turned out to be the only right thing to do.

Well, nothing major has happened to me. I'm not one of those people who knew bitcoin early and became millionaires. I just entered the year 2017, month of May, so basically, I'm just here for more than 3 years.

But within those years, even though there are no major happenings, there surely are minor ones and I consider those helpful as well. I was able to pay my bills on my own, and I am able to assist my family and my partner financially. At the moment, after 10 years of existence of bitcoin, I am still holding and earning BTCs so that when it reaches the ATH, then I might be able to earn some profits.

maybe 10 years from now there will be very many changes, for example is the use of bitcoin which will be very common in my opinion
That is just my prediction because at this time when this pandemic everyone was led to make all transactions using digital currency and this is the entry for bitcoin to be recognized as one of the free international currencies
and one more that many millionaires will be born from this moment

Bitcoin did some changes to my life, because I invested and also worked to earn some bitcoin.
Most of the times that the market has been bullish I have been able to make some profit from it on long term basis.

I wouldn’t say right now that I am like so rich, but I got to the average level where I am able to take care of my family and also get most of the necessary things I need and my life keeps changing everyday, and with time and hard work I will get to the level I dream of. For us to get to the level we wish for, we have to think smart, work hard, have patience, and believe it will happen.

The future is full of uncertainty. So no one can say what will happen next. But we have to plan and manage our lives through the plan. In BTC there is nothing sure but the graph says that it will go far away. I think life after 10 years in BTC will be shining and wealthy. Because BTC is the most progressive and successful yet. So we can hope that BTC will gain its desire till the last.

As a bitcoin lover and I firmly believe that bitcoin will achieve a high price in the future, so for the time being I keep my bitcoins.
Bitcoin has helped me pay off part of my bills, part of my savings is invested in bitcoin.

I first got to know bitcoin in 2017 and at that time it was busy discussing bitcoin because at that time a lot of people got rich suddenly, so I was interested in learning about bitcoin, what I felt after knowing bitcoin I was very happy because I was able to get it.  Additional income outside of my salary is by way of trading, and there have been changes in my life, especially in the economy, that's what I have felt after getting to know bitcoin.

In my 3 years of experience i seen something magical in this technology. Sometimes it surprise me or sometime it also shocked me. Then i just thougt how it can be happen? How is it possible.  Then i understand that this all thing is in users hand. When i was joined i can't remember correctly but i think the price was around $3k or $3k+ and that time i don't think lots of people or lots of countries knows about this project. In this 3 year i saw lots of users from around the world comes into this technology they know about this Technology they loved to be a part of this project. That is why from $3k i seen it now around $19.8k so if i guess in upcoming more 7 years more people from all countries around the world will be know about this project and when they will comes into this project their has a must chance people can turn their $1k into $1M easily. So i think its a simple logic more people more chance to be a best future.

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If I noticed bitcoin in 2010, I would be a millionaire right now but in 5 years bitcoin has brought a better life for me. Since the first time after learning about bitcoin, I know it is a good idea for the decentralized digital currency which has a lot of potential in the future, well it has been proven right so far. So, our purpose should be to accumulate bitcoin as much as we can for the next 10 years.

I have known bitcoin since 2012 but I regret that at that time I did not hold the bitcoins I got from the faucet, I never thought bitcoin would become big like this, I don't know in 10 years if it will get bigger again, we know bitcoin is decentralized, and me too hope bitcoin will always be big and other crypto altcoins follow in its footsteps

2017's ATH has taught me a lesson of being patient and deciding with perfect timing. I was so reckless and greedy the last ATH because of the thought that the price would stay high for a long time. I missed the opportunity to sell and gain a good profit. From then on, I have decided to hold some of it and sell it at the nicest time. I will never repeat the same mistake because I've already learned how to take advantage of every market situation.

You are so full of sh*t haha. Sorry I seldom call people out but man, this just made me crack up.

A guy who buys BTC in 2011 at $1 gets terrified a tad. How much did you spend? What crazy news was it that made you so afraid as an early adopter, rebelling against the masses?

A lot of us have learned from 2017 experience, my mistake that time is I was not able to maximize my profit, I trusted altcoins a lot and converted my bitcoin to altcoins, and it was really a mistake, now, I'm hoping bitcoin will drop a bit so I can still continue to accumulate at a cheaper rate.

I know bitcoin will not just rise easily, it will still be the same old bitcoin which pump and dump, so even if we are already at $19k now, I'm confident that it will still drop again to give us another opportunity to ride.

maybe 1 btc is already enough 10 years from now, $100k per bitcoin is quite possible.

A decade ago it it was.
alot of sweet and bitter memory ~

it all started out as academic curiosity of running different client server software
The client used to overheat my Pentium III laptop and those coin | generate days were long gone.
Without it we would be carrying student debt.
Today we are not debt slave anymore.

all I can say is this:
1) Not Your Keys, Not Your Bitcoin (http://notyourkeys.org/)
2) Stop the Creeps - stay away from centralized exchanges, and trade in person
3) Do not stash your cash in once place.   Use dead drops (land and sea based passive RF silos) to stay safu

Only few people believed and anticipated that its market value will be expensive in the future so it is not really surprising to know more people did not trust this technology at first. The reason I think is lack of support from the masses. Since the idea is quite revolutionary for a currency to be decentralized, having no support to majority of the governments before, many people were in doubt. But at this moment, as development occurs, more countries are now recognising its advantages and adoption can now be seen. In the future, changes will be more observed and we should be excited about it as users of this technology.

It can be understood that bitcoin has already increase to a serious amount from cents in the beginning, but it would not stop here, this is a revolutionary currency, you are right with that, but adoption helps to increase the price and it's happening, intuitional adoption is happening as well and they are the reason why soon enough we will see a new ATH as people would buy to hold due to their positive expectation in the future.

The first time I invested in Bitcoin was also in 2016. I don't remember the exact date, but it was either in November or December. It was a life changer, to put in simple words. Earlier I was struggling to pay my utility bills and I had almost zero savings (despite working for almost 70 hours per week). The Bitcoin rally of 2017 changed everything. I was able to build my savings, and now I am even able to help my family members and friends. Passive income from Bitcoin now amounts to around $200 per month. And while this may be very insignificant for those who are residing in the developed nations, here in my village it is like three months salary.

I have been investing in bitcoin for only 4 years and did not find it at a price below $ 1000, I still keep bitcoins in my wallet and I think that in 2021 its price will be more than $ 30,000.

My life after 10 years in Bitcoin?
I hope that it would be successful it has only been nearly 4 years since I got into crypto but it already made a huge difference in me.
I already manage to experience what it feels like to have a good life without financial problem and almost buy a house for myself.

I think a great deal of us are going through roughly the same, for example there are many people that became aware of bitcoin way sooner than that but they did not took it seriously until 2016 or 2017 when it became clear that bitcoin was not just the dream of some hidden genius and this idea could actually achieve its goal, but then 2018 came and it was brutal and many people left the market for good, and then only a few dedicated people decided to still remain in the market despite that and finally it seems we are going to see our dedication paying dividends.

As of now from the past 10 years, I didn't get really involved into bitcoin until StratisPlatform in 2016.  At the time I was working full time doing odd jobs and at the hospital five days a week 11pm to 7am.  When the peak occurred in 2017, I was able to pay off my MBA and eventually resigned from working at the hospital after 10 years of service.  Each day has been interesting due to the value of bitcoin and people that I used to work with at the hospital made it clear that my decision to work from home would lead to failure.  Update:  Some of the coworkers have been laid off or still work there but are telling me how it is difficult with the rise of covid-19 filling many of the beds and infection risks.  Nursing Manager's that thought they were safe from working bedside are now back as floor or float pool nursing staff.  My timing to leave the healthcare field seemed to be perfect timing rather.

Of course, I did try to resign back in 2014 with the attempt to become involved with bitcoin but I messed up by listening to other's opinions leading to me to go back to the same hospital with a major pay-cut.  I think my wife would have left me with my my newborn son if I had attempted the decision around that time.  2017 was a different story since I had a plan in mind and since then had been using my education to apply risk management to the diversity of investments and bitcoin.  2018 my wife was able to finish her master's in psychology which I was glad to say to have paid it off from using some of the bitcoin converted to fiat for the payments.  Around the same time, my in-laws was having issues with losing their home and was glad to find a solution with the resources available.  Recently, I have been involved in helping teachers with their project requests as a donor which is a good feeling and tax deductible for the charity.  My home is almost being paid off which I could have done it this year but I instead invested in solar energy with a backup since during the winter the power from the grid tend to go out around my area during the colder season.

I have to say, there are other life changing events since being involved with bitcoin but the main detail was that I learned from the failures just to keep it short.  There has been family trying to suggest investment ideas or selling me opportunities that have once told me my decision was a joke.  It is nice to be open-minded but very cautious.  Friends and family have always been wondering what I do nowadays.  I simply just tell them that I work from home "playtesting" video games...well I try to sign up to a variety of closed betas to keep me looking busy whenever they ask. lol.

I have barely a year with Bitcoin. It has changed my life and I think it is the best path I have ever taken. According to the most recent events, I think that Bitcoin will have more visibility around the world and will manage to give some changes in the economy. I hope it is a transformation towards the versatility that digital technology offers.
Bitcoin is allowing the finance that we know to evolve because time was already asking for a change and it is the reason why I think it could be the beginning of a new economy.

I recollected when I purchased the bitcoin in 2011. The cost was just $1.00 around then, and I hold for a very long time. Later I begin hearing some terrible news against bitcoin, which terrified me a tad. I was understudy around then, and each penny was so significant for me. I sell all the bitcoin with little benefit. Following 10 Years, I lament that what I did. Anyways bitcoin is still alive we can even make a considerable profit.

I think if you approach this issue responsibly, you can make a considerable fortune in 10 years by constantly investing in cryptocurrency, not only in bitcoins. Many people regret that they learned about cryptocurrencies too late, and started investing even later. You can also hear from many that earlier they paid much more for bounty campaigns and there was less scam among bounty projects, which could also be used as a way to earn cryptocurrencies.

I also experience this kind of bitcoon experience in my life. Not that for the last 10 years but for only the last 3 years. Bitcoin is just progressing on what it is just now yet I wondered 3 years ago what will happen to my stocks of bitcoin because the price or value isn't that higer but good. Yet I am in the edge of my life that I needed some money for personal emergency. I have no choice but to sell my bitcoins, all of it. And I didn't stop to earn after I resolve my problem, I continue to work hard to eaen bitcoin because I have some nerves that it will take a boom in the market. After a year of saving I able to buy things I want and last 3 years Dec when bitcoin almost achieve what it is now. Today, I can think that after 10years in bitcoin my life will be great and I will be more richer.

My life with Bitcoin even if I have just started way back 2016 which is just 4 years ago have been so tough yet have been so good as well. Even if I have not been here for ten years, still I can share that I do really have encountered lots of circumstances along the way but still manages to resist the temptation of selling my Bitcoin holdings at a lower price just to save my funds from continous decrease. My belief and trust with Bitcoin have been tested for quite sometime but it still came so good that I am still holding and purchasing Bitcoin at times of dump and just sold some when the price increases.

05-07-2013 ATL Bitcoin Price 1 Bitcoin = $65.53😂
27-12-2020 ATH Bitcoin Price 1 BTC = $28,288🤑
After 7 Years To Bitcoin Go 432x Up
After 10 Years Up to 617x 🤑🤑
$28,288 x 617 = $17,453,696🤑🤑
After 10 Years My Life 1 Bitcoin = $17,453,696🤑🤑

In the last 10 years ago there is a lot of happen in the bitcoin many people change their lives because of this for the little investment to big investment we see the changes happening in the bitcoin past few years ago.

In the next 10 years more changes will happen but about the price we are not sure about it because possible price is down and that means many people lose money but if price is up or very high people will get more profit and they life become better.

I was first came to know about bitcoin in 2016 but i Couldn't figure that out what the hell is this. Is this a country currency or etc.
But in 2019 I have known a lot of things about bitcoin. But at that time i have not enough fund to invest.
But from that time it has been a very good time with bitcoin.
Now I'm thinking if i had invested 1 btc worth of money it would give me a bunch of money in my bank account.
But hopefully it will make a great difference in my life. Actually It is making.

One thing I can say, knowing bitcoin, it greatly helped me in this time of crisis. I am glad that I knew bitcoin before this pandemic happened. It didn't occur to me before that crypto would help me financially during one of these challenging times in humanity. And right now, it gives us several options to earn additional income like if you venture in trading.

kkkkkk...I'm entirely a green hand in bitcoin world ;) I have about 0.0014 in hand and I'll not sell it until its value quadruples...anyway I'd like to play coins with a tranquil mindset in that that's the key to grab the profit in its maximum

Still the same. Mined my first block about a decade ago and lost that wallet's access due to an HDD crash.
After that purchased BTC in 2017 in the bull market but sold it at a loss in 2019. Now sitting idle handed seeing the BTC touching sky.. I don't regret my decision of not staying invested, I know for a fact BTC will crash again and then touch heights never imaginable previously.

Your last few things are become complicated .I am with bitcoin since 2015 i have found it on low of 900$ as i remind but i am so unlucky to say that i didn't buy then if i did buy i could be rich now .However it was a mistake but it still has a lots of chance to buy .I think after 10 years i will be rich cause i am now buying it .

Okay, so in other words, you're here to stay. That's my interpretation of what you have said. And same goes with me. I've just been here for more than three years but 10 years from now, I see myself still engaging on activities that is crypto-related. I'm sure I'd still be here in this forum and partaking in discussions.

Bitcoin has been a part of my system already. And I think it will stay that way even after 10 or 20 or 30 years. I have already seen and experienced what it can do to someone's life. So I'm not letting this go anymore. If bitcoin is here to stay, then so am I.

And this is what i have earned here in bitcoin, it was really a big help to me especially the time when i don't have a work due to community quarantine and sudden closure of our company and i really thankful that before this pandemic come out in picture i already met bitcoin. These pandemic was a challenging time to human kind but these is was also the time where the used of bitcoin were known by many people especially investors and traders which leads to bitcoins ATH.

I haven’t been into Bitcoin for up to ten years, it’s just around five years, but I’d say I’ve experienced a lot of changes. Things really worked out for me when I started investing in Bitcoin and I was able to raise money through it by investing at the right and making profit. That has helped me to get enough money to invest in other businesses that I am into.

It’s not just about Bitcoin alone, the community is filled with opportunities, if you take your time and look around you will definitely find something that would work out for you, because the community has been able to provide so many means for people to earn from what they love.

Bitcoin has a future who so ever that have bitcoin because the next future of bitcoin, we all understand what bitcoin is, not just a currency but and future creator,Now look at what is happening in bitcoin now, the increase is massive, We don’t know what next will happen let do what we need to do concerning bitcoin, I believe in the future of bitcoin.

Future are very bright with bitcoin new all over world's try to open a bitcoin bank recently in india opened a store bitcoin i think bitcoin after 10 Years 🤔 200000$ + What's Your prediction

I can't think about this because of long time but maybe I will be a job holder of a renowned company in my country or outside my country or I can be a owner of any business. By the way, if there has no difficulties in my country, maybe I will be with Bitcoin and I may have enough funds for doing trade in cryptocurrency which is not in my side right now. I can't think more right now.

After four years I know with bitcoin I think my life looks better without know with bitcoin although ever loss any time when trading or investing on coin or ICO project, I am glad after know with bitcoin or altcoin because looks most potential and easy how to earn profit every time, just keep learning with many moment when trading on some coin project because always late for selling or buying coins, I will keep working hard how to earn much profit and my destination next year could earn above 10 btc in my wallet.

Even though it's already 8 years since I've encountered with bitcoin. I failed to utilize the potential it held in my financial life. Back than I was dependent on my parents and had no real job and was too afraid to spend the least I had on a new and unproven tech. I didn't even had a proper guidance that bitcoin would even reach such an spectacular price. Nevertheless, I learnt many things about the technology and bitcoin and now is actively trading as a novice trader.

Well if we can hold bitcoin in 10 years maybe there is a big chanhe in our life. I believe that bitcoin is rising, if we are going to look at the past of the bitcoin we can see that in year 2009 bitcoin has a very small value and if we take a look around its price today we can be amazed by its amazing value. The only problem is the time that we will spend on waiting because 10 years of waiting for our investment is not an easy thing, so i believe that the only person who can wait for 10 years can gain a big profit.

Wow, it's already 10 years gone  :o I wouldn't say my life completely changed in these years because of Bitcoin invention but I pretty convenient Bitcoin and Blockchain will take a great effect on us in the next 10 years. I can't even imagine what's gonna be in 2030::) I have faith in crypto and I hope BTC will become the main part of our everyday life in the nearest future.

This is a really great future plan and I think the previous ones who have adopted this plan have achieved success today and I think those who have adopted this plan in the future will achieve success. The price of Bitcoin has been steadily rising and it is expected that the price will rise further in the future. 10 years is a long time and in the course of this time, Bitcoin will emerge as a popular exchange and a means of investment that will benefit its holder. So I think buying Bitcoin from a favorable stage in the Bitcoin market fluctuations can be considered as part of a better future plan to hold on for a long time.

Three years into Bitcoin I know what it is to hold not to talk of ten years. I see a lot of achievement flowing my way and the profit margin exceedingly great . I believe Bitcoin future is bright likewise mine

My life looks better after I know with bitcoin how ever loss is my business when trading or investing with bitcoin or altcoin, but look more profitable than loss so far and I earn much money after investing and looking new project with bitcoin or altcoin. I think if do not know with bitcoin I can't buy anything because working real business is not profitable like bitcoin where by trading exactly with future just few hour we can earn much money but some time loss all.

I accept not numerous time I victory when exchanging of contributing on cryptocurrency will deliver much benefit and numerous time I misfortune, but continuously get advantage after know with bitcoin and altcoin since I think have grant me more when I attempt to urge wage with bitcoin and altcoin.
I believe more than five a long time I know with bitcoin I have get more and still have any disillusioned when not offering coin after have chance with higher cost, but I think will give me encounter for long term how to be genuine and continuously offer coin when get big chance on higher cost.

I know bitcoin and joined the bitcoin bounty not until 10 years, only 4 years until now, at that time 2017 I just signed up for bitcoin and started actively working on bounty like a signature in 2018, when getting bounty rewards that I worked on greatly changed my motivation to focus on finding a bounty that is in the bitcoin forum. because I've achieved results that are so satisfied with what I'm doing. And hope bitcoin will always be there for the next time.

Yes, I'll continue to hodl bitcoins. According to forecasts, its price should reach 100k by the summer. So I bought bitcoin while its price was 20k and bought it when its price dropped to 31k. I have high hopes for bitcoin and I really hope that it won't let me down!  :)

Bitcoin will stay but bounty might not, that's the reality dude.

If you compare the bounty jobs in 2017 to the present, you'll see the big difference and bounty is not anymore as profitable as before.
However, if you earn a little and you are satisfied with it, well, you can use that you buy bitcoin to hold in the next 10 years, just don't focus on bounty hunting as your main job as there's no stability and security inn your career.

Bitcoin now given many opportunities to earn some money.This time bitcoin price also grow up.i'm not use bitcoin long 10 years.so, now in my life  no changes found.

Your partially right but after ten (10) years in using bitcoin may be the life of such user might remain constant like initial, bitcoin is money, and money is bitcoin because you can equally buy bitcoin with money to the length you needs and investing it in different platforms in order to make gain, the possibility to gain and also to lose all at a time is there, referring us to the previous rate of bitcoin since it's existence people that have it then will portray positively about it which is obvious that they are rich now, and its very clear that majority has lost their btc through scamming and wrong investments which our mindsets for them is to be rich as we expected and it might not be accurate.

10 years and game rules was changed.
I am newbee  in this theme - my exp only 2 year.

Until now, after the price go up high yesterday, I have sold half of the bitcoins I have, it has made me very profitable, the other half Im just waiting, maybe the price has go up than yesterday, because Im not good to reading the market, so I better hold on for a while until the price rises even higher. Not yet 10 years, I have known bitcoin, maybe 2-3 years ago, that has been make profitable and has brought many changes to my life, from being able to find my own pocket money ,investing and studying other digital currencies. yes of course, if I know bitcoin in 10 years, I will be more advanced, by making bitcoin a livelihood, for example short-term trading.

I need to say, there are other life changing occasions since being included with bitcoin but the most detail was that I learned from the disappointments fair to keep it brief. There has been family attempting to recommend speculation thoughts or offering me openings that have once told me my choice was a joke. It is decent to be open-minded but exceptionally cautious. Companions and family have continuously been pondering what I do these days. I basically fair tell them that I work from domestic  like trading, and learning more about cryptocurrency.Any how I attempt to sign up to a assortment of closed betas to keep me looking active at whatever point they inquire.

If only I have extra money, I am rich or wealthy I will surely be hoarding Bitcoins and hodling it but unfortunately I am a less fortunate guy who prioritizes basic needs rather than investing. After ten years in Bitcoin I am not just hoping to make a good fortune but also try my best to achieve that because I want changes.

I will have a good fortune, and it may not have any value (which I do not want to see and understand), and I will also tell our children

I believe that Bitcoins price will continue to go up higher as time goes on. And if someone did have a lot of holdings and sell it now, it was definitely a huge money that would be enough for several years if you will spend it wisely and invest on the other physical investment outside crypto and depending as well on which country you are living. And to address your question if I would still be here 10 years from now, well, I will be glad to stay but no one could ever predict the future, especially that we are living now in a world full of uncertainties and devastating crisis that we don't actually know the ending of this pandemic that we are dealing. So, I guess we just need to sell our Bitcoin holdings on its another ATH and might as well enjoy the profits while we are still alive because tomorrow is not a promise.

Maybe bitcoin will be 360000$ after 10 years & i will be grandpa. I wasn't on bitcoin first 8 years. I heard about bitcoin when price was 800$, i made a mistake to ignore it. It is waste of time to regret now. My previous lesson learning will help me to engage with bitcoin value. And this year i m looking to buy 5k worth btc. And another making a buy long on Binance futures with 3x levarage stop profit at $150k.

I would rather say it’s not a function of when you know about bitcoin but a function of learning from people who invested in bitcoin way back in the early days of bitcoin, people who faced the huddled and came out strong even in the presence unfavorable bitcoin rate. I so much acknowledge those set of people. The price of bitcoin continue to rise at some point and fall at some point but they still invest in bitcoin being optimistic about the price of bitcoin in future irrespective of the current price.

Many of the people closest to me when the price of Bitcoin returned to $ 20,000 suggested selling my Bitcoin. But I decided to stay HODL, it proved
my decision was right. Finally Bitcoin made it to the new ATH at $ 41,900. I still didn't sell my Bitcoin until it hit the price of $ 50,000. Even though
it turns out that the price of Bitcoin is now corrected to a price of $ 36,000. I am still optimistic that the price of Bitcoin can reach the price of
$ 50,000. There were so many changes that I felt when I started getting to know Bitcoin, the most noticeable change in my finances is getting better
since investing in Bitcoin.

many of those who still hold bitcoin their life has changed for the better I am one of them since I got to know bitcoin the economic changes in my family are getting better.

Bitcoin had already made too many ATH up to now , From breaking the ATH again and again for a couple of weeks.

what am i after 10 years ? if this market movement continues to rise and fall ?

I would be retiring with 10-20 Bitcoin after 10 years, aside from my Altcoin investments and my funds in fiat.
But the  question is after 10 years , Care nothing about others because the question is given directly to you.

Good for you. :)

As for me, I cannot say that my life has totally changed because of bitcoin. But what I can say is that, it improved a great deal compared to the time that I am not a part of this community. Now, I am able to buy things on my own without asking my parents for money. And 10 years from now, I'm sure that I'll still try to earn and hold bitcoin to make my life even better.

I know bitcoin recently for about 5 years where bitcoin was in a state of decline, but after how many years at the end of 2020 I was able to get the results of a long wait, not big but more than enough from the initial capital that I set aside from my bounty,

Sometimes it's really good to take risk, I doubt BTC before but still push on buying and investing some and hold it since many says that time it's the future currency and I just follow my instincts and bought as much as I can. Those who know how the budget surely still enjoy the benefit bitcoin gives. It will still depend on how we will use it wisely for the better.

I appreciate your decision if you are a short term holder then don't be greedy too this may lead you to disappointment because you can't expect pump every time, you need to be very realistic depending on the market situation.

And yes that's how BTC will reward you if you have invested in it, every penny will be counted into 10x in future. This is definitely a worth Investment which had came in our life to change our future.

I haven't been on bitcoin for 10 years but it's been a while since I started my journey here. I made too many mistakes nevertheless, I made sure every wrong steps wouldn't be repeated and a lesson would be learned after that experience. So far, I feel bad for not holding for long because I thought bitcoin would keep on going down but all of a sudden, it once again made a bull run that none of us ever imagined. We expected that it would atleast reach $20k but it managed to go farther than that milestone. Lesson learned, I need to make my faith for bitcoin get bigger and bigger as time passes by, I won't end up disappointed in the end for sure.

Budget in investing as you cannot just invest and be certain that you'll be profitable. Though bitcoin's potential is good, but investing always comes with the risk, and as an investor, all you need to learn is to manage that risks.

I read some comments somewhere that he is investing in bitcoin by consistently buying in a regular basis, and that does not have to affect his finances since he only spend a certain percentage of his income from job or businesses, for me, that's a very responsible way of investing.

I'm following bitcoin from years ago, although i don't think I'm fully able to understand it.actually i was thinking to bulid future carriar & so was looking something in online world and then got information about Crypto world.i bought lower amount of bitcoin as well as others crypto.even In year 2017, i was one of them who is the witness of btc ath.those things helped to make profit & change my life.but due to crash, i sold my btc then because as a newbie, i was afraid but now i don't fear to hold bitcoin

Experienced will build your confidence, if you able to survive previous downfall and then the pumped that take place previously will

provide you a huge profits, there are many  people who suffer as newbie but once they've focus and continue to chase for much better

understanding, the chance is growing and they've found the right strategy to grow more.

Mistakes are common specially when we are just starting up into something where we dont actually know on what are the things that do happen on this market.

with due experience you would really able to handle yourself as years pass by and you will gain knowledge that would really be significant and would be applied
into your further journey into the market.Just continue to learn and do accept and welcome changes which will make you a better investor or trader.

In the topic on my life after 10 years of bitcoin, it isnt really 10 years but only in half or 4 years as i remember but it did really give out some changes
when it comes to financial aspect.

I have not used Bitcoin, but I know that it has brought a lot of income to many people.

             In my experience alone i could also say that crypto is one of the main reasons why it changed my life greatly. Although i only followed bitcoin since 2016 and to be honest it was then that i really started nothing but time and effort alone to gain money and invest. Mistakes are also part of growing and learning, and many would have experience those kinds of failure but only few of a handful people keep their lessons and that's a fact.

Ten years have passed after the first bitcoin into the world, and I haven't crossed ten years of bitcoin usage. For this I need to reach the year 2026. Within few years time itself almost every cryptocurrency user got an opportunity, majority of them missed it. Myself to missed, because I don't have much of understanding about the market. Now I've learnt something, but it has gone out of my hands in terms of investing capability.

I don’t have Bitcoin yet, I also want to know what changes have been made in your lives with Bitcoin

I used Bitcoin in the recent years just to earn something extra's. I never bought any crypto but cashed out around the €7500 in the last years.

It's very easy to earn with surveys/faucets/affiliate programs/signature campaigns. Just use those ways to earn some and then just start trading or gambling a little.  ;D

Using Bitcoin has indeed given me a certain amount of income, and I now want to find suitable opportunities to buy some more to wait for the appreciation.

I’m very optimistic about my future in the next 10 years as a bitcoin enthusiasts and great investor. Bitcoin is digital currency and isn’t controlled my any centralized Authority so I can have as many wallet as possible to keep my funds. I’m ignorant of the rise and fall of bitcoin price but even the fiat also rise and fall. I’m going to be investing in lots of bitcoin investment platform.

I knew bitcoin in late December 2015, had my first purchase of bitcoin in 2016 when MMM was trending. Lost all I had bought then to the greedy project. I've actually been consistent in promoting cryptocurrencies throughout the last 4 years so, I'm glad it pays some of my pressing bills. I haven't  really been here close to 10 years yet so I wouldn't be able to talk about the experiences of  those who have been here before. My experiences so far has bee great.

Ready to make contrast in numerous simple things, we do not require tremendous sum of money to form this thing conceivable. Actually, I love to assist individuals who are close to me by teaching them approximately cryptocurrency extraordinarily with bitcoin, by this you may provide them opportunity to form cash. In case we have so much cash to donate, if you don't mind do not disregard to do so, continuously offer assistance individuals even you going through yout own problems.

I do appreciate with that kind of motive on oneself on teaching out things first before yourself because we know better than them when it comes to opportunity here on crypto market.On the side note,
you should really be careful on grave digging threads which are not active for several months before bumping it up but it isnt really a violation all the time as long it would really be still relevant.
Earning here on crypto is really common and some do even changed up their lives on engaging with it but we shouldnt forget to tell the real essence of its existence because if they wont
be knowing about even the basics then its really hard to grasp out everything.

I had BTC before the 2017 bull market and held through it all. I had coins worth 1k USD, then 20k USD and again 3k USD after about 2 years of holding and I did not feel too bad about "missing it" like many people at the time. Life goes on, money is only money, although I don't regret joining this community and buying bitcoin. It was one of the best things I did with my money... scratch that! It was the best thing I did with my money.


He forgot he was on his alt account ;D

Very interesting topic, I knew the world of crypto about 8 years ago, I was immediately passionate about mining and what was behind it, it was very nice because it seemed to me a very innovative thing with huge potential in the future. Over time, however, I have accumulated many regrets for wrong choices and unfortunately also scams from two old exchanges no longer exist. Im always hoping for some satisfaction though, cryptos are unpredictable  :)

It is true that crypto is very difficult to predict what will happen, it seems that not only have you known the crypto world for a long time, maybe there are also many others, I myself am still relatively new to crypto, started active in 2018 so it's not like you who have known it for a long time.

When it comes to potential, I don't think anyone can fool themselves, that crypto is very advanced and fun. but if you say about mining I myself am not active in things like you. so maybe you might be disappointed with what happened, especially fraud committed by exchanges anywhere because of an unexpected error. but hopefully you are not discouraged to continue pursuing the target because crypto is now excited.

We all does while other specially those greedy people losses more than what wedid.

Financial freedom is what we gain more in this market, we learn how to have funds without traces .

and also now we are looking in future with light and power.

my life after 10 years of bitcoin has taught me more than i ever wanted to know about fiat, the fed, central banks what sound money is (and is not).

of course im glad i learned it; what an eye opener.

peeps, start (keep) learning and stack those sats. its changed my life. it might change yours too

I believe there is something good for Bitcoin in the future. MIght People are using it, establishments accept it, I want to witness how Bitcoin become the currency that the majority had used it.

10 years from now, I was old already (pretty old) and I'm not sure if I'm still healthy during that time. I may not hold a lot of Bitcoin but I have to keep some. This is just to keep me remembering Bitcoin how it changed my life and treasure all those days I've been here.

Sadly that I just heard bitcoin in 2018 from my school mate but I'm afraid to hold because I thought that it was a scam then 2019 when I started since I don't have enough knowledge about trading, I lose. For now there still no changes but I can say that I learn and still learning. I wish that I already know btc since 2009 and witness the ATH in 2017.

life must have changed when I started getting to know bitcoin, and at the same time I started participating in this forum,,everyone starts from scratch, by looking for a large project on the forums and starting to save a little bit of the results.!!
and now that change is starting to fade because all the assets I have I have released when bitcoin is not this high..

Blockchain technology has improved me in several ways; financially, mental, educational and risk wise. I do take risk before but blockchain technology (cryptocurrency) has increased my risk taking and on some investment fundamentals. Money wise, cryptocurrency has been my major source of income for the past 4 years.
I am happy that I joined this moving train

To be honest, I was only about 5 years in the crypto world, but there have been a lot of changes in my life since I got to know Bitcoin. Maybe if
I tell it in detail it can become a novel, which is certain that since I got to know Bitcoin my economy has gotten better. Of course my journey was
not smooth, there are so many obstacles that I face, but the point is Bitcoin changed my life for the better and I thank Satoshi Nakamoto for
creating Bitcoin. Regarding the current price of Bitcoin at $ 57k, I opted for HODL. Because I am optimistic that the Bitcoin price can still go up
even higher, so there is no need to rush to sell it.

I saw the difference too between those three you mentioned.
Back then I was about to think of giving myself a credit card, so that I'll be able to buy something in online world but it feels way more overwhelming because of lots of requirements that I need to show just to get myself one way to do what I was supposed to accomplish.
Bitcoin helped me do it without those requirements. Just get myself a wallet and do a personal transfer.

Bitcoin for me will be the most valuable asset that I have ever invested. It has helped me shape my finances and was able to help me survive the test of the economy and with the pandemic still happening, has helped me survive more. I could imagine that another 10 years, I would be able to accumulate more of the said coin and other important coins and I would be able to make the profits higher. Hopefully in 10 years Bitcoins price would soar.

for myself 5 years in bitcoin have felt a good change and this could be one of the best options for me to always be in bitcoin. so I think now is what we do with bitcoin can be a positive side for us as long as we can manage it well.

I am making additional income for myself and my family, which is great. Hopefully Bitcoin will last another 10 years.

My life has changed a lot within few years of my Bitcoin living. For some reason I wasn't able to keep the earning long term. If I've kept hold of all my bitcoin earnings now I could've reached next level in my living status as well as I could've met all my personal needs. Hope to see such old days once again.

indeed sometimes life is unpredictable, even though we have done everything as well as possible and in accordance with what we want and will do. but because of something, everything has changed and that's not what we want.

Likewise with what we have about bitcoin, you are correct in saying that if you can maintain bitcoin in the long term until now, then you can be sure that everything will be something that can determine a better life in the future. then all the needs we want can be achieved and fulfilled.

but all that has happened, it is a good thing to start all over again as there is still a long way to go. that the increase in bitcoin will be until the end of the year, so the possibility to repeat will be possible if you want to try and be motivated again.

I can say that I actually made a nice profit from my investments in time. But I made also wrong decisions that caused me to miss the chance of increasing my earnings much more than now.  ;D  And I wish I knew Bitcoin much earlier and bought a really good amount and I know that too many people wish that now.  :D

That is really nice to hear but because you have made those wrong decisions, it made you a better decision maker because it adds an alert to your experience and gut feeling when the time for decisions are coming. I too hoped that I made a larger amount of investment but as an student, I never had the opportunity to invest it all in Cryptocurrencies but learning about Cryptocurrencies was great enough for me to monetize my time. I just hope that after 10 years, I can achieve financial stability with the help of Cryptocurrencies.

Initially, bitcoin was used as a medium for transactions by internet users. Over time, this online account was traded by its users.
So it is only natural that the price of bitcoin is getting more expensive here, in the last 10 years I have taken many ups and downs in price according to market supply and demand. But in that way I got interesting lessons for life. I also think that the current price has not yet reached its highest value, there are still other high prices. For that, always use the long-term method by putting some of the assets you have

If i buy bitcoin today and forget it for 10 years i hope i rich  Millionaire. If we go back 10 years we saw bitcoin price is 3 dollar but today her price is 60k usd.

I think there are many people just like you wishing they had been introduced to BTC earlier and bought more of it. Now it is the time to reflect on those early mistakes, I suppose, and try to make better financial decisions from here on. This week BTC has touched on another ANT >60K, yet another 'impossible' wall (considered by many) taken down. This is the time to be thinking which investments to be making.

Of course, bitcoin has changed a lot financially in my life, although not even 10 years I know bitcoin. I don't have many bitcoins and I have altcoins as well.
All this time I've been trading, and it's been amazing to earning, which  until recently  was the  primary job  that I've  built up  to now. Investing in  bitcoin
makes someone precious, that's how I feel.

to hold bitcoin now I don't have anymore, then I have a little bit of bitcoin and I sold it at a price of 48k $, no regrets maybe my fortune is just that,

what happened when I got to know bitcoin was extraordinary, I could get +/- 10 $ profit in one day by betting between alts to Bitcoin, so that my economy could be helped

I never imagine what is my situation after many years in bitcoin because bitcoin isn't my primary source of income to survive in this life, I've been here since 2017 but until now bitcoin is just one of my source of income not my primary job to survive however I realized now if we made a plan using crypto currency or bitcoin we can easily change our life, because we can make good profit here if we know how it works.

I'm planning to set my goal and mission from now to build my future through the use of crypto currency. Im just inspired to someone here who got their goals in life of being part of crypto currency, like having house and lot, expensive cars, and alike.

If we plan to succeed and we work our plan imposible things will be possible.

My journey with BTC started when bitcoin was around 1000$ and I said its now late to buy bitcoin as price is very high and later that year we saw bitcoin reaching 19k ATH till 2017. Since then I am buying and selling bitcoin and I am happy to say I am overall in profit with bitcoin.

I am still new to the crypto world and I am so thankful because I already learned good things about the community. Those people who bought bitcoin at that time are so lucky especially if they did not sell it right away after seeing a small movement of the price of bitcoin. My first day in the crypto world is such a good thing because one of my friend who introduced me to this forum but unfortunately just like other beginners I also got scammed on a certain investment website, well I know I am not the only one who got scammed for this thing, most of the beginners have experienced the same too.

That is actually just fine because creating mistakes within the Cryptocurrency Industry adds in our experience that would help us create better decisions in the future. Its actually not just you that wished to learn about Bitcoin and knowing that we should just be grateful about how we are within this Industry and think about the times it actually helped us. I am grateful to see people win because it feels like a part of me is part of an industry that would gain winners.

Actually not only in crypto but in our whole Life mate , experiences teaches us everything that we need to learn and this is actually the best teacher we ever had.
This is the riskiest industry i ever had but this is also the most profitable one .
We are here to support each other and why maintain the losses when we can learn how to win , maybe not that soon but eventually as we learn the next is to Earn.

My lifestyle and my income have changed.

true if anyone knows the price of bitcoin will go up like now many people who have become millionaires in 2018 bitcoin prices are very cheap but I did not dare to buy bitcoin at that time now I regret it.

I guess know bitcoin or cryptocurrency really change the way how I handle money and my investment, I only know bitcoin when the price was around 400$ but I didn't invest because I don't have the money to start investing and I don't really know, and believed in bitcoin at that time or let just say I'm just a beginner and don't have enough experience.

But at this moment, I think I become more responsible in handling my investment, probably way back when I earn something from a campaign I would immediately spend it, and not knowing the potential profit when I invest completely in cryptocurrency. I learn a lot and now I don't even buy something that I don't need actually and most of my money are end up in my investment. I don't know but I guess investing in cryptocurrency is just addicting because I just don't want to spend anymore knowing the potential profit in the future.

I was happy to be mature enough to understand the revolution when the price was below thousand dollars and i knew the market would catch up even though i did not expect the price to reach over $50k in a short period of time but i was happy because i was able to book my biggest profit in my life and i am still holding the coins and looking to see how long the rally continues.

If you are still holding, that's only a profit in the book, you'll only feel the profit once you sold your holding.

For me, it's advisable to separate your holding, one for short term and one for long term, that way you can guarantee a profit and all your long term holding could only be just your profit, so whatever happens, you don't loss any investment as you already take your capital from your short term profit.

Bitcoin is changed my life. I can't imagine my present good day without bitcoin. Bitcoin is number one cryptocurrency, bitcoin was number one cryptocurrency, Bitcoin will number one cryptocurrency, in my eyes.

Bitcoin may be 12 years old.. but my association with Bitcoin dates back to 2017 (which is relatively recent). But in my case, Bitcoin changed my life in less than one year. When I purchased my first coins, the BTC exchange rate was $900 per coin. 12 months later, it stood at $20,000 per coin. Earnings from Bitcoin has enabled me to progress from lower middle class to upper middle class in society. I have helped some of my relatives as well, and many of them were in really bad financial state before that. In short, Bitcoin has not only changed my life, but also the life of many of my friends and relatives.

I was totally came from scratch the first time i landed in the world of cryptocurrency. Literally, i am so only curious what this cryptocurrency is and bitcoin name attract me when my friend introduces it to me. I started it with the guide of my friend but all i can say wayback at year 2017 the price of bitcoin was only just $6,000 a little higher than it but mostly always went lower than it. But to be honest, generating a profit wayback then was difficult already as it was today but the mere fact that i can generate a profit our of my digital currency is such a blessing already. Today, i am using bitcoin as an asset, during this pandemic period i used my earnings in signature campaign to sustain our needs and i couldn't imagine what my life could be without it, without bitcoin.

very few people survive 10 years most people only one year and they leave the market because they are impatient and greedy and in the end they lose.

The journey of Bitcoin so far is  full of ups and down. Some are crying while some are rejoicing. Those that hold theirs to now are dancing while that bought at peak and sold at a lesser price are crying. We always sell in business based on how we bought. 

That only happens when you have bought at higher levels, or just heard about it and based on somebody's advice you invest in it and then cannot hold it for long. Investors in long term have made money and lucky ones in short term too can make money but timing has to be perfect for that case. But overall, those who had stayed invested for 3 years would have gained a good profit even if bough at high of 2017.

Well.. I should kill myself.. but after 10 years.. I’m here crying or learning something in my life. But I was a believer and I support this shit hard. Happy for also learned that lesson to somepeople near me, some who believe me at part others that called me crazy until some months ago.. now I know they respect me and know that I had reason. I’m sad for being a 0 but happy for knew about everything soon. Hope everyone good and have a nice life!
WE ALWAYS KNEW IT 🤗 (

and about cryptsy and btc-e... now with my 10% of it I was millionaire..) hope they could enjoy for all of us!

Good retrospective look at our lives in bitcoin a decade later.
For me I value currency as a whole more carefully than I do before bitcoin has entered my life.
It makes an individual view the world financial system differently than when it was not available to the public.
There is more than one option available now since bitcoin is here then there was when your countries own local currency was the only thing you really could use, so to go about your purchasing of services and goods on a daily basis.

I don't know whether it will last or not for the next 10 years, what I know is that the bullrun will end soon, after the bullrun ends I don't know what steps I should take, when the market goes back to normal, I know bitcoin has been around for 4 years.  I know bitcoin from the internet and I was curious about what bitcoin was when I found out at that time the price was at $ 2000 I was very interested at that time but I didn't dare to buy it with my lack of knowledge of bitcoin, now I am better after selling bitcoindan several times  take little advantage of it.

I have a little bitcoin and I'm gonna HODL. I'll do no bitcoin trade within the following decade coz I strongly believe that Bitcoin belongs to future, it'll bring me much money, even beyond my imagination.
ten years later, I turn 32 and married. Bitcoin remains my most promising investment and people around me will envy my holding it. maybe the government will impose tax on my cryptocurrencies...it's worth it! nobody can trick me into selling my bitcoin ;)

In the early stages of Bitcoin, we heard a lot of things that changed our destiny and our family's destiny through Bitcoin. They thanked Bitcoin from the bottom of their hearts. It was Bitcoin that allowed them to get rid of the predicament of life and move towards a completely different life. Without Bitcoin, my life would become a mess and I would be full of pressure. But Bitcoin changed my life, here I am now a financially stable person. Although I am not a millionaire, I am no longer poor.

Of course after 10 years I would still hodl some of my Bitcoins and just leave it and see how it profits after. But that does not mean I will withdraw them though, I just check on them from time to time. It just a matter of self discipline if you can hodl them after 10 years or even 5 years for starters. And you’re life will change with amount you profited on those years.

Well I'm not sure to have that Long years in bitcoin because i will make sure that before that years come i have reached my goal and if it happens that Bitcoin has become adopted worldwide and become a currency of the world then i will be the very first person to be proud .

But for now my Main goal is to become richer and made my whole family be with my success in this market and currencies.

I have tried to be attentive to buy Bitcoin from an as low level as possible so far. And I mostly HODLed my BTC in this period. Sometimes, I used some amount of it to buy something with BTC but didn't spend too many. I care about HODLing too much because you will be in a very good profit sooner or later.

My life is changing when i know about cryptocurrency.

First time i know about crypto is 2017, my friend introduce me about this and because of him i can pay my college with my own money.

Maybe if i didn't know about bitcoin i just gonna be worker in BANK with cheap salarry.

I think the reality is bitcoin value has no limits because there are only 21 million bitcoins to be ever created yet the bitcoin scarcity is mounting. The value of a commodity is determined based on demand and supply. Now, imagine only 21 million bitcoins for 8 billion people? the scarcity is going to be huge in the future no doubt. For me, I first came across bitcoin in 2014, when the bitcoin was selling at $430 - only 7 years ago and recently the bitcoin was selling at almost $62,000 ... wonderful!

I quit my day job May 2017 and after that all my life had focused on Bitcoin and crypto. I personally witnessed the greatness of Bitcoin when I’ve seen it pumped during that year. Getting involved in Bitcoin did improved my life also with the help of the knowledge I acquired from this forum not only financially but it helps me motivate to save for my family’s future as I’ve realised what benefits would it bring if I buy and hold.

The life of those who invested in Bitcoin a decade ago is quite luxurious. They simply threw a few dollars without expecting much. Now, they are filthy rich personalities running some of the top businesses in this world. If we talk about the future and by looking at the pace at which Bitcoin is growing, one could expect to be a trillionaire. On the other side, if Bitcoin fails, the notable investors will remain in the position that they have nowadays. Cryptos have reached countries like India, and you can easily buy cryptocurrency in India. At the rate cryptos are expanding, they have a bright future.

Sources>>  https://www.cryptoknowmics.com/news/easiest-way-to-buy-cryptocurrency/

So lucky for those persons who discovered bitcoin and bought some amount on its early days and they are so lucky as well if they did not sell it once the bitcoin goes up a little bit but I don't think that there are so many people who bought bitcoin those years and decided to hodl it until now. On my part, I know that there are still a lot of things that I need to know about cryptocurrency and I am so inspired to learn more knowledge about it, hoping that it is not too late to invest because I will keep my bitcoin for so many years and hoping that bitcoin would not make me disappointed for godling for years.

i am pretty sure those member who has  sold out their bitcoin 2017 now regreting as that time bitcoin price was almost 19000$ but now the price almost 60000$ usd .. even we are regret now to do not hold good amount btc as we had chance to buy at cheap price too much last year and end of last year .

This is only my first year in the bitcoin community and its already give me a lot of benefits regarding trading and investments which is good at an early age I know mostly needed and what to do and makes risk management. So far most of my investments give a good side that helps me survive in this society and due to this pandemic I can make trading and earn through this. Hoping most of my investment will go through the moon and the bitcoin will give another hype by the end of the year which is 100k USD looking forward to beat the 60k USD resistance again.

We buy cheap and sell high that's the law of supply and demand. Bitcoin gained global recognition because it obeyed the supply and demand curves. In 2008 no body believed Bitcoin would top the market and approximately 40% of bitcoin investors didn't have a share in Bitcoin 10years back. The spiteful gain in bitcoin price trooped in lots of investors from around the globe even making more major investors like Elon Musk  (http://Elon Musk) the CEO of Tesla to adopt it as a means of major payment for this inventions thereby creating more room for other companies to adopt same. Bitcoin is approaching $100k soon and I think it's best time for more investors to take advantage of the moving train

That is true. But what about those who were unaware of Bitcoin in 2017? Back then Bitcoin was not as popular as it was today. When I invested for the first time in 2014, none of my friends of relatives had heard about Bitcoin. I tried to convince some of my friends to invest in cryptocurrency, but they labelled it as a scam. And then towards the end of 2017, there was some media coverage about cryptocurrency. But once again, hardly anyone in my friend circle showed any interest in BTC. But now (2020-21) the situation is changing. A lot of my friends who were earlier hostile to the idea of cryptocurrency are now asking me how to make investment in it.

90% of us here have missed a boat in 2017. But luck can come to anyone, sometimes people who are new to bitcoin can get-rich-quick because they are smarter to see good opportunities in the market.
Bitcoin price jump high at the end of 2020 is completely beyond predictions. With the current jump in price, making Bitcoin the most profitable investment commodity when compared to other investments such as deposits, gold, stocks, and property.
Demand for Bitcoin continues to increase all over the world while the supply is very limited, so the price of Bitcoin has the potential to continue to rise in the future, Even some world banks predict the price of Bitcoin will break more than $70.000/bitcoin.

Better late than never achieving success, we still have time to get the golden opportunities we have missed in the past, because success depends on our desires and hard work.

Don't be so sure about that. What if those who sold Bitcoin at $20,000 per coin in 2017 had purchased it back in 2018 (when the prices were around $3,000 per coin)? I know at least one user who have done that (although not at the exact levels mentioned above). But all of that depends on luck. I am someone who is unlucky. Back in 2015, I sold around 50% of my coins for near-bottom prices (~$250 per coin). But then, there is no point in crying about it. That's how things work and we need to move on.

I started investing in bitcoin in January 2017, it's still running for 4 years. but in the 4 years that I was still trading cryptocurrency, my life was much better than before I knew bitcoin.

Well, they should not regret their past decisions because that is the nature of Bitcoin, they do not know when will we get the jackpot. Maybe in 2 years, maybe in 5 years, and for the lucky ones, in 11 years. So if the ones who sold in 2017 has a lot of coins left at that time then they should be ok. The ones who bought while bitcoin was 20k should have sold their wares when Bitcoin was 60k, but of course that is their discretion as it is only a small profit.

Of course, ten years is enough to get to the top and be popular, but those years should not be wasted and should be spent fully learning bitcoin. It is not a good idea to waste years; you should always improve your skills and ideas about cryptocurrencies, and I believe now is the time to learn from the successes and failures of the bull run in 2021. There are plenty of ideas and knowledge you can learn here in bitcointalk forum, what more on the other sites in the internet world? You can learn on Youtube, Reddit and other platforms and I hope that we're all successful after 10 years.

I don't think so. Those selling in 2017 when the $ 19k bitcoin price was the right thing to do. Because after that the market experienced a dump and became a bearish season. However, the winner is when those who buy bitcoin at a time when the market becomes bearish. The bear market was the worst hit when March 2020. Someone who bought at that time and kept it up to now is a winner.

I felt the effects of not HODLing my coins back when I first started the forum last 2017. The signature campaign proceeds went to one of my failed investments; and others went to my personal purchases.

Last week, I saw my blockchain record and observe that the total amount of bitcoins I have received amounted to around $18,000~. If I did not spend them, I would have saved some money for further investments. That is why, if you really need to spend cash or if you are in a dire position, then that would ONLY be the time to convert your bitcoins to cash.

For me personally, I know a lot of involvement pertaining to Bitcoin would have happened and my take is to keep holding and investing more unless unforeseen contingencies occur for me to cash out some amount.

Unfortunately, in my case, I spent my btc for my personal expenses during this pandemic period. So a lot of my earnings didn't see the light of the 50k level of btc. :D I am not complaining as it helped me during this crisis. I couldn't give a price tag when it did help me during those challenging times. So no regrets of spending those satoshis much earlier. And after so many years here, still the same. Trying to earn as much as I can. And holding it as much as possible.

Same situation where i do actively spend out my coins when im really in need and able to save up a little and even those savings been used for that sole reason which i dont really have any
regrets at all.Yes, you might have missed the bigger profits but to think that it is helping you to survive this challenging times then that what matter most and dont mind about
those missed opportunities since you can still deal with the market and still not late on making things to happen because we know on whats the potential of bitcoin or entirely this crypto
market when it comes to future.At least i am seeing myself that had some progress compared into those life situation before ive known crypto.

I've been in this field since 2017 and so far so damn good. Maybe in 2027 my life is gonna so f**king wealthy and i hope at that time i could reach financial freedom, best of luck for all of us  :)

I participated in Bitcoin for a long time. Bitcoin changed a lot of my life. Bitcoin's golden age gave me a big profit. I have capital to do business and live very comfortably. In recent years, Bitcoin down severe slope made me lose some capital. But I'm still passionate and waiting for the opportunity to invest Bitcoin. I believe in 2021 will be the best year of Bitcoin. I started by participating in bonus campaigns. So what do you think?

I have many years behind me in the crypto world and I would say that in reality my life has not changed significantly. I hold a dozen types of coins in order to accumulate assets and profit when their value increases and when I sell them, but so far nothing has changed since I have not sold any of my coins. I just wait and hold.

I already had 4 years here in Crypto Specifically Bitcoin , i invested Enough and gain enough also.
But i must agree that i also Lose more , So Asking about another 6 years from now? maybe i will fulfill my plan of having an early retirement and bring my family to some place that they dreamed off.
you Damned because you are a Damn , that's what it is, imagine already spent 4 years here and until now crying ?

Here's my story!

First heard about Bitcoin at a cyber-crime conference in Prague from a guy from the US. It was mid 2010. Bitcoin had basically no price. I didn't know that at the time, but around that period Lazslo bought his two pizzas for 10,000 btc on this forum. Did I buy back then? No :( I had to understand first. I had no clue about mining, how bitcoins were created, how you could exchange them for fiat, inputs, outputs, cryptography... nothing. And so I went through the rabbit hole, which took months. Many months. In the meantime I started teaching about it. I was giving and still give classes on financial crimes all around the world, and I incorporated a module on Bitcoin & ML since early 2011. A few months ago I made a rough estimate: I have personally talked about Bitcoin for at least 2 hours to almost 3,000 people. I always wonder if any of those guys ever bought bitcoins, especially in the early days. Thanks to the courses I was conducting and the legitimate questions I was asked, I was forced to study-study-study. At the time I was literally reading each and every piece of news there was around, and every source available, including this forum. This forum was and is the best source of info. It was a wonderful place and all the devs were here and you could talk to them and ask questions. I didn't register immediately, as I was only a passive reader, absorbing all the knowledge available (I only did it in 2013). I still have some of the slides I used to teach during this period, and I see screenshots of the different exchanges. Price? from 2 to 15 USD. Aaaaaaarrrrgh! Time flies, the price goes up, I keep on teaching, and I finally buy my first satoshis.. probably at around 100 USD. I remember starting talking to friends about it, but none would follow my advice at the time (they did it much much later). I securely print some paper wallet from bit address.org (offline website on air gapped computer using a linux distro and a dumb printer) and i put my treasure there.
After a few months I have the worst idea ever! "I am so smart that I can easily day trade bitcoin and gain more and more"! I still have that MtGox account that I used to purchase my first coins. So yeah, let's go, let me send a quarter of my satoshis there! It was mid 2013. "what can go wrong? They are so reliable, they even send me a yubikey to secure my account! Wow, smart guys. And this Mark seems a great person!". I start smelling something was wrong. I made a tiny withdrawal, just to test, everything is fine... it seems. A few weeks later, when I try to withdraw everything, the collapse. Bye bye bitcoins!!! I am still waiting for the end of the bankruptcy (first) and liquidation (after) process to be over.
Now I am living my first big Bitcoin rally! Bitcoin reaches 1,100 USD before capitulating. I didn't know at the time, but I was seeing the first of the 4-year cycles. But what a great time! I fly to Amsterdam to join Bitcoin2014, a big gathering organised by the foundation (rip). Patrick Byrne from Overstock gives a keynote, I meet Gavin, I meet Roger, Eric, Tuur, the foundation's people, everyone is friendly and they all spend a few minutes talking to you. I keep holding and teaching while 2015 brings a new low at around 200, people are giving up, bitcoin is declared dead. But I HODL. But now I am holding with an hardware wallet.
Fast forward, another cycle... this time all the way up to 20,000. it's 2017.Everyone tells me to sell! Please sell! And I say "no way"! When the price crashes they are all ready to put that sarcastic smile on their faces, the "told you so" smile. And I give back the "he who laughs last, laughs loudest" smile. It's crypto-winter again... all the people that were begging to learn more about how to buy bitcoin at 15-20,000 have now disappeared. The price goes down all the way to 3,000 and I try to explain that this is the moment to stack sats, buy the deep! But no, it's a bubble, we told you so. That's what they said. And now we are back again in 2021 with another rally. 60k and counting. I keep on giving classes, now online due to covid, and keep on HODLING. That's my story! See you at the beginning of the next cycle in 2024!

I remember back 2017 when I bought my first bitcoin for $5,000 after I earned in a crypto project and then later sell it at a price of $13,000, and so yeah I made some profit there. Got involve in a lot of crypto projects, earned a lot, and I didn't invested again in bitcoin. I got afraid when bitcoin price starts crashing so I pulled out my investment and tried to invest on other things outside bitcoin and cryptos. And that was a big mistake on my part.

But now I already bought again some bitcoin and trying to hold till price reaches $100k. I don't know when will it happen or if it's gonna happen, all I know is that I learned from my mistake and that is not going to happened again. I can't say my life 10 years from now, I have no idea, but I know it's going to be amazing.

2017 was the year when I got my first BTC. But I purchased the coins in January, when the prices were quite low ($900 per coin). And back then I got BTC2.40 in my wallet after spending around $2300 (including markup in Localbitcoins). And at that point, the investment represented close to 10% of my net worth. A lot of people were angry at me, for investing so much money in a high-risk asset. But the same people now want me to give advice to them regarding cryptocurrency investment.

I don't participate in Bitcoin on the very first days. I Knew Bitcoin in 2017, now my life has changed a little, I know how to save my money to buy Bitcoin and I accept to lose if I buy a high price because I understand that Bitcoin will still reach a higher value. Bitcoin used to upset my life because of its fluctuations. I sold off all my crypto at the end of 2018 and thought I would never go back to a market like this. I have returned to the market after a few months because of its growth in 2019. Up to now, I have lost some money with Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies but I believe I will soon get my lost money back as I did. they ask a lot after each market crash.

Of course not everyone is as lucky as you, friend, especially by taking out everything you have is certainly something that is very risky, because we know crypto is very unstable. but the determination that you do of course with a solid calculation and full of conviction. so that what you do is confirmed because of that strong belief.

something worthwhile that you have done finally gives something very extraordinary because an increase of almost more than 10x the value you spend, of course things that will open the eyes of others that crypto can provide extraordinary benefits. congratulations once again and you are a very lucky person, hopefully at the end of this year you will also get the same thing in 2017.

10 years is really a long time, believe me not everyone who got bitcoin at a cheap rate back  then hodl thier bitcoin till date, most people must have sold at a high price thinking prices will dump, while some panic sellers who held might sell at lose when there's is a great crash in the market, so it's just about patience and time, I never bought and held bitcoin till this recent market pump, I sold bitcoin I had when bitcoin was still at $10k, I was even happy because I bought when price was still at $3k and I was happy selling at $10k because I already made much profit and I never invested back again and now prices is 6x the amount I sold.

You have to do more things in my opinion if your life hasn't change that much, the attitude will stay the same but you bave to have more experience in other things to change something in your life.

I just recently discover BTC and my investment is not that big so nothing really changes at all but the fact that my money is growing is really a good thing. For now,  I will still hold and hope that BTC will make a new of ATH though it's been already proven before. No one knows if it will bring me wealth from years of holding.

If this title had been opened ten years ago, I would have said a lot. But maybe in 2030 bitcoin will be a million dollars, who knows. Kirpto coins are spreading rapidly around the world. Bitcoin can be very valuable.

Are you still maintaining that 2.4BTC in your wallet now? or had sold the Bitcoin when the bullrun happens Later that 2017?
Because the price comes to almost 20,000$ in December meaning you have more than 40,000$ that day.

i havent hodl bitcoin for 10 years yet. i believe if you hold 10 years in btc you will become very rich anyways. I believe it is good to hold some alt coins.. even if bitcoin or ethereum is rising. just stay true to the alt coin and you will be rewarded. one time i had bittorrent since the air drop. only 10$ at the time and now its worth 180$. I didnt even care about it. now thats some money right there. so I think if you hold some alt coins you will be lucky but hide the asset so you dont see the bear market n decide to sell.
During the 10 years learning to trade alt coins is really exciting and fun. and selling can be nerve racking. The entire space is growing in different spaces. I felt that i like ethereum more so i have a big bag. and i am waiting for a pay out..

How we feel? Everyone Alive? 8)

   I haven't known bitcoin for 10 years  . , but until now I still have my bitcoin, and I plan to sell it when the bitcoin price is very high. to be honest, sometimes I always panic when I see the price of bitcoin because someone reports that the price of bitcoin will fall even deeper. but today I see the price of bitcoin has increased quite a good and of course this makes me excited again to hold bitcoin.

Unfortunately I didn't know about bitcoin until a few ago, I wish I knew about it 10 years ago... Anyway since I bought when the price was already kind of high, yes, I'm still holding, it wouldn't make any sense selling now in these market conditions. I really hope we're close to the bottom.

In the past ten years, I don't think I am a loyal user. Up to now, I have uninstalled the APP of the exchange and sealed my mnemonic. Looking forward to the bull market and restarting my wallet.

When I knew about Bitcoin, it was nearly 70,000 dollars at that time, and now it is 20,000 dollars. This is a normal thing in the bull market and bear market. I have learned to hold the coins in my hands patiently. I think virtual currency will make My life is more fulfilling.

For me, my current view on Bitcoin is to continue to hold, I will pay attention to the important news in the circle, I will pay attention to everything that happens, and I don't want to miss out on bigger profits.

then your decision is perfect mate specially in this time now that the volatility really shows in effect and we are willing to keep the track and investment then do it with caution .
there are lots of happening in bitcoin circle but while you are paying attention then best to buy and buy more while the cheaper price is in the system.
don't be like others that denies that fact but suddenly when the market spikes? they will blame the market for not telling them what will comes next.

It might be better to have a long-term Bitcoin investment plan if your intention is to hodl. With this kind of plan, you don't need to listen to every news about Bitcoin. All you need to do is to keep your Bitcoin investment safe and wait patiently following your stated plans. Bitcoin traders are the people that need to be aware of the happenings concerning Bitcoin so that they would know when to sell or buy. The price is deep now which is the best time to buy and hodl more.

Interesting how long it would take to reach ATH

One fact we should get used to is the fact that bitcoin has changed its price many times and the previous all-time of 79k+ and this is after the price movement of 2017 which brought Bitcoin and other altcoins to the limelight 2017 are not only remarkable for bitcoin alone but that year was the year altcoin boom happens.

So even though the majority of those who become rich are from Bitcoin OGs and early investors,  quite a large number of others made so many profits from the altcoin craze that happen where many coins were pumped before the dump again.

The significant thing to note is that any investors at what ever point should take note of the entry price, if the price is extremely high, it is better to wait.

Avoid investing in altcoin, and the only way to become financially stable through Bitcoin investment is by investing fo in the long term.

I HAVEN'T known long bitcoin, so I haven't experienced 10 years in the world of bitcoin,
and now i still hold my bitcoin,
hopefully I'm not too late with my investment.

I have been trying to figure out how to edge into my perspective too, and my own awareness and getting involved in bitcoin is ONLY going to touch upon 10 years at the end of this calendar year.

I know that several times prior to November 2013, I had heard the word bitcoin, and around October 2013, I had an open tab on my browser for a bitcoin thread that I was supposed to "look into" what was bitcoin.. .. .so really my first real knowledge and attempt at exposure to information about bitcoin came in November 2013 - because I cannot recall if I had any kind of specific impression about what bitcoin was, except for having had seen  the word a few times in passing.

When I look through this thread, I see a lot of seemingly lame posts that hardly say anything meaningful regarding what members consider bitcoin to be or how they might have learned from bitcoin beyond some various superficial and vague conclusory descriptions that might say something like:  I learned a lot from bitcoin because the price went up and I sold all my bitcoin so I am feeling so good about bitcoin blah blah blah..

Surely, I can accept that the shorter the experience in bitcoin then the fewer experiences that a member would have had in connection to bitcoin, and perhaps even if the time exposed to bitcoin had been short then there might have been fewer abilities to reflect upon how there may have been learnings from those exposures to bitcoin.

When I came to bitcoin, I had some ideas about investing, and I had a bit of a budget, some free time and some desire to learn about bitcoin, because just from my first few weeks that I had read about bitcoin, I had considered that it might be able to serve some aspect of my investment preferences, and that was to hedge some of my dollar investments - but to hedge them in such a way that seemed like it could be better than a gold hedge... So when I first came into bitcoin, I had been exposed to ideas that presented bitcoin as more sound money than gold, and the discussion around that framing of bitcoin seemed pretty convincing to me.

Therefore my initial ideas in order to get price exposure to bitcoin was to establish a 6-month budget for myself, and to use that money to invest into bitcoin (in a front-loading dollar cost averaging kind of a way), and then to reassess that situation when it came close to the end of the 6 months to figure out if I had learned anything about bitcoin that would cause me to make adjustments in my approach.

Pretty much after the first 6 months investing into bitcoin and researching into bitcoin triggered me to largely end up extending my budget authorization to allocate a similar level of budget to myself and to invest another 6 months until the end of 2014 and then to reassess again.

Largely by the end of 2014 - I was in, and maybe there is a bit of a sunk cost fallacy on my end that was going through my practices, but largely from the first year into bitcoin I figured that I had largely reached a goal of having a 10% allocation into bitcoin as compared with other investments that I had at the time, which was similar to the same investments that I had at the end of 2013, so the main change was to just add bitcoin into my investments.. with around 10% allocated to bitcoin.

I am thinking that in late 2013, my decision to get into bitcoin was meant to have at least a 1-2 year investment thesis, and I was thinking in terms of the potential for capital gains to be long-term rather than short-term, but then also I was thinking about the possibility that I could end up staying invested in bitcoin for more than 2 years, but even at the time that I got in, I felt too uncertain about any kind of ability to make any kind of real and meaningful commitment towards how long I would be investing into bitcoin because any ongoing investment into bitcoin would surely have had been based upon my having to learn more about bitcoin and not to get scared away from whatever ongoing investment thesis that bitcoin might have.. especially given some of the seeming uncertainties of bitcoin and some of the ways that I was learning that it was different from other asset classes.

So really the longer that I have been in bitcoin and the more that I have attempted to study various aspects and angles, and there have been various informational battles over the years, I have not really been dissuaded from the strength of bitcoins investment thesis and I have continued to attempt to engage in various kinds of self-learning techniques in order to attempt to better be able to adapt my own financial and psychological circumstances so that I would be comfortable in regards to various methods that I have had to go through various stages of bitcoin accumulation and bitcoin portfolio maintenance and at the same time attempting to use this form as a way for me to both share my learning and to attempt to either learn from the ideas of other or to learn from my attempts to better present my ideas in this forum. 

I have not deleted any of my forum posts or even edited them (except maybe only a few in minor details.. and usually within an hour or so of posting to fix up the presentation or the grammar), so largely anyone who might be curious about my historical posts on topics can find them.. and every once in a while I can also explore to see if some of my views might have changed or some of the ways of my presenting the information might have changed.

So at the time that this thread started, I had ONLY been about 7 years into my bitcoin journey, so by the end of this calendar year I will be at my 10 year anniversary of being into bitcoin.

Surely the thread starter (Op) was a bit of a troll in starting this thread in which s/he hardly even followed through with the thread, but was largely just asking other members about their bitcoin journeys, wanting to target longer term bitcoiners, and seeming to have presumptions in regards to anyone who had been in bitcoin for 10 years would be rich blah blah blah.  Likely we can see from posts in this thread that a lot of members who are posting have hardly any fucking clue about the value in bitcoin coming from figuring out some kind of plan in which they should be attempting to accumulate bitcoin and not be selling very much of their bitcoin.  Of course, every member is going to have a different journey in regards to managing his/her various investments and cashflow in order to figure out some kind of balance of bitcoin that s/he can accumulate and have something meaningful to show after any 10 year journey in bitcoin no matter at what point that journey starts, it seems to me that part of the focus should be to attempt to accumulate BTC, even if the amount of BTC that can be accumulated might ONLY be a small amount and might ONLY build slowly over years and years and years, and perhaps by the time 10 years comes, there will be some bitcoin  that are still being held and there will be some value in those bitcoin

- even though of course, there is no guarantee that the bitcoins that have been accumulated will be profitable, even though it does seem quite likely that bitcoin was a great asymmetric bet to the upside 10 years ago, bitcoin has continued to be a great asymmetric bet to the upside for all times since 10 years ago, so long as you are holding your bitcoin for longer periods of time, and it is likely that bitcoin is going to continue to be a great asymmetric bet to the upside, especially for anyone who is following an investment plan in which they continue to accumulate bitcoin over 10 years or more.. and perhaps attempting to either build the number of their BTC stash but at least figure out some plans in which they are not selling too many of their bitcoin merely because the price went up... and of course, those are personal choices regarding if any of us are selling much if any of our bitcoin along the way or failing/refusing to adequately accumulate bitcoin, even if we might be able to project out a 10 year time horizon it seems that we should be thinking in terms of bitcoin accumulation rather than dumbass trading ideas or ways to sell too much of our bitcoin too soon.

Just a year more and I'll be in the decade-old club, although I've known bitcoin as early as October or November 2013. Fast forward 9 years, I'm still here, and have made quite the progress although of course, not a millionaire in any way. I think my journey has been pretty modest: I acquired more knowledge in economics and finance more than I acquire profits, and up until now it helps me in my decisions financially.

I'd still be buying and holding for more years to come, although I am certain that I will never be rich because of bitcoin. It is a good investment but I guess I'm not really lucky enough to be a part of the millionaire club even after 9+ years.

Well, you don't necessarily need to have had become a millionaire in order to still have had profited stupendously from investing in bitcoin over the past 9 years or so.

Even if you had been fairly whimpy in your assessment of bitcoin's future potential, and perhaps you might have had a tight budget and limits in your abilities to invest into bitcoin, you could have put $10 per week into bitcoin starting from around the time that you had heard about it, and then you would have invested around $5k into bitcoin over the last 9-ish years and you would have been able to accumulate right around 5 BTC. (https://dcabtc.com?sd=2013-10-15&sda=custom&f=weekly&d=9_years&ac=1000&c=true)^**  Of course, earlier years buying bitcoin would have been better than later years, and surely we could hypothesize in regards to whether you might have had been able to afford some higher level of investment.

**for sure, I wished the dcabtc.com website would be able to go back further than 9 years in order that more accurate numbers would be shown.  It does have some calculation inaccuracies, but still provides some pretty decent ballpark ideas in regards to buying BTC in small amounts over several years..

For sure a lot of the evidence seems to suggest that the longer that any of us has been into bitcoin, then the more likely that we would be in profits so long as we consistently did not sell our BTC and mostly concentrated on accumulating BTC (and holding through tough times).   Of course, you could have lump sum bought into bitcoin in earlier years, and likely even have had been way better off, relatively speaking, but it seems to me that overall people tend to be to whimpy and continue to be to whimpy to get started and to employ some kind of a regular buying of BTC in order that they are able to show progress over the years, and so surely you may well have had not become a millionaire in terms of today's spot price, but we can see from the numbers that I just outlined that millionaire status would actually have had come from the level of aggressiveness that you might have had been in terms of your DCA approach, so if $10 per week for the last 10 years would have had gotten you around 5BTC, then we could 10x those amounts to $100 per week for the last 9 years would have gotten you in the ball park of 50 BTC, which surely would currently be millionaire status and perhaps without any large struggle to be able to set aside $100 per week for the last 9-ish years.

By the way, prior to March 2020, I used to recommend that anyone with a western (or even somewhere close to a western lifestyle) get the fuck off zero by investing at least $10 per week into bitcoin, and I have also suggested to be as aggressive as you might feel comfortable in order to have the possibility of showing potentially better results (in the event that bitcoin were to have upside performance outcomes), so over the years, they could have had shown the kinds of results that I just described by getting active in terms of exercising some kind of a modest, persistent and ongoing investment plan into BTC, and I have never changed my recommendation, except after March 2020, I started to suggest that anyone close to a western style income should be investing $100 per week into bitcoin or more if they are able to be a bit more aggressive.. and surely no guarantees that past performance will be similar even though bitcoin's investment thesis does not seem to be getting weaker and it in fact seems to be getting stronger with the passage of time.

I haven't taken Bitcoin serious not until i joined the forum. But yet those who were privileged to own Bitcoin 10 years back not all became rich. So many lost access to their wallets, some spent their Bitcoin in buying Pizza and some common commodities it could afford then only a few became rich. But with the sensitisation i think the goal now is to join the next wave to mark the next ATH. 10 years from now is not a guarantee Bitcoin will make new rich investors but definitely as many that will invest will stay in profit. 10 years is indeed a very long time to speculate and high possibility for price to stay far above it's present support zone.

O.k.  fair enough.  That is a fairly decent statement regarding your current understanding, and the fact that you are ONLY starting to have bitcoin on your radar, so I looked at your forum registration date and I see it to be October 2020, and so in that regard, what are you doing and what are you planning to do for the next several years, even if we say 10 years from your forum registration date would put us at October 2030.. and surely you do not need to commit to any plan that is locked in for that amount of time, but you could create a plan that takes you 1-2 years into the future that might be based on what you have already been doing for the past couple of years, and therefore when we get 2.5 years into the future, by October 2025 (that would be 5 years of you being on the forum, and half way to 10 years), do you have any ballpark idea where you would like to be and what kinds of plans, preparations and actions that you are taking to help yourself to get somewhere in the ballpark area of your plans. 

Another thing is that any plan for the future, whether short term or longer term should have better case scenarios and worse case scenarios contained therein and include attempts to project from practicalities that might be based on your current situation that involves resources that you have available and/or resources that you reasonably and realistically expect might come available (or disappear) during the time period in which you are projecting.. and surely there should be a lot more ease to project out in shorter periods of time,  so that the longer that any of us attempts to project out what might be happening with us in to the future will be filled with quite a bit more speculation and uncertainties and perhaps broader parameters regarding how such future happenings could end up playing out.

March 16th this month, I'm only 5 years old in this forum, actually I was familiar with bitcoin before I came here, and before I came here I still lacked a lot of knowledge about bitcoin, especially in investing. And in the time I've been here, I've learned a lot and have a very developed knowledge of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a whole that I probably never would have had before. And that makes me healthy financially and can also be used as a guarantee for my future or my old age, and also the future of my children.
I don't really care about my life after 10 years in bitcoin, because that's not my limit to get rich. And what's on my mind is, I'm going to keep doing it for as long as I can and until bitcoin gets really expensive and acceptable in a lot of countries, because with my goals I can still use it if I really need it, and it's real because we're going to use it unexpectedly.

And the OP was outlived by bitcoin, Lol, he is no longer active in this community but the thread he started though is crazy. I think majority of us here, their lives has change since they began investing on bitcoin and there could be more millionaires now, again thanks to the invention of Satoshi.

But I still think some of us are still in the journey, trying to live the lives that we all dream of and this could be accomplished through bitcoin. So it's not late to invest and think 10 years in the future.

Sure there can be variations in which benefits start to show for people early in the Bitcoin journey, but I doubt that a bitcoin journey is going to be automatically positive, unless there is a way to make sure that studying is done, planning happens, and there is execution that may well end up getting tweaked at various points in order to be able to learn along the way of the bitcoin journey.

Another thing is that anyone getting into bitcoin in the last 2-3 years, may well be feeling some pains and struggles, and similar things could be true for some folks who got into bitcoin as far back as 3-5 years ago, if they had been playing their cards badly, including some folks may have been engaging in leveraging and gambling practices that can be quite dangerous in terms of forcing the removal of coinz... It seems to me that a certain amount of prudence and patience tends to be part of many journeys that will then have better chances of improving various aspects of life conditions... attacks on bitcoin are not likely to stop, and battles in regards to bitcoin are not likely to stop, so in that regard, there are likely needs to prepare financially and psychologically for how those kinds of likely inevitable battles and bitcoin price volatility are going to play out.

starting to stretch it and everyone started to get to know bitcoin in the 2017 range and above, where when bitcoin started to experience an increase and started to be valuable, especially in that era the increase in bitcoin was very significant and had become a topic of conversation and many had even looked to make it a very promising investment.
many have experienced a change by starting to work with bitcoin and many have benefited by continuing to know it, because bitcoin has become a promising investment the same as the investment that has existed so far.

the development of bitcoin will continue to increase and more and more can benefit from joining bitcoin, but also not a few who have not been able to fully enjoy the existence of bitcoin. because it's not the same for every individual to be able to respond to the existence of bitcoin, it's possible that you don't have capital that can be used because the funds that are available can only be used for the benefit of everyday life, how can that be if you want to invest without available funds.

surely many are lucky and can enjoy after 10 years associated with bitcoin. especially those who are always investing in bitcoin because it is certain that at any time they will continue to get an abundance of prices that continue to increase significantly, but it has no effect on those who do not have the funds to buy, even though they clearly understand and know the role of bitcoin when holding it.
with the value of bitcoin which continues to increase and will be repeated every 4 years, it is clear that only those who have more funds can enjoy the role of bitcoin, otherwise not for those who do not have funds. bitcoin is already a very expensive investment and only certain people can afford to do that.

many friends who have an improved economic life as a result of bitcoin. but completely they do not depend on bitcoin for life. after having enough profits, they have the capital to open businesses in other fields, and keep on making profits in the cryptocurrency world. until finally the business grows and can invest in bitcoin when the price drops, until finally they get profit again from bitcoin. with a new business that is run every day now can make ends meet, and will have a lot of savings from bitcoin results

Well bitcoin is a good source of income if we know how to use it, it depends on the strategy many people know about bitcoin but they are not lucky in using it, that is why they end up losing and forget the bitcoin and they back to the normal life without bitcoin, many people still use it and they also have another source of income and they are fine with thier financial aspects so for me it is not sure that ten years of using btc can make us rich or financially free it always depend on how we used it and also it depend in our luck.

I have never felt complete in my life before until I found Bitcoin 7 years ago and thanks to my deceased father I was able to keep my focus alive on crypto and learn more about Bitcoin, I started investing in Bitcoin in 2017 and so far it has been a thrilling journey, there were losses and there were big gains as well.

I was able to bring many friends along and a few of my family too, that's after they grew confident,  now I am even accepting Bitcoin as means of payment. A few of my friends have started accepting Bitcoin payments at their stores too.

Bitcoin is the best thing that has ever happened in my life.

This year it will be just 10 years since I know cryptocurrency.What results can be summed up.During this period, it’s even hard to say how much I earned, but I’m sure that the amount is not bad.With the help of bitcoin,I was able to pay for both my studies and travel to many countries.I also see only advantages in this matter and have never thought to finish. ;)

I guess that prudence and patience are among the biggest learnings and principles that those could gather who have been around for a long time. I can tell that my decisions became better over time the longer I exposed myself to the market and the more I dealt with the topic decentralization/cryptography both just for fun but also in depth scientifically as an academic.

But I can say one thing for sure: I have not really been into stocks before I got into crypto. Just a bit, but never to the extent like when crypto got me excited and I became research addicted. In the beginning, the first bull runs actually spoiled my idea of markets and investing in general. When something goes up 10x (traded alt coins as well back at the time) and you have never had any really significant exposures to markets before, you start thinking for that moment that there is some normality to such a market movement. Even worse you start thinking that markets are great to make a lot of money in a short period of time. And that is damn wrong! You can of course, but the shorter the time horizon, the more of a gamble the whole thing becomes, especially when you work with leverage, as you pointed out. Those are all important aspects that I learnt along the journey and I can say that it significantly helped me get through the bear markets. I didn't care when it dumped, I slept well. I understood that crypto is a different beast, a little child that is still prone to attacks from all angles and the price will reflect that one way or another.

But if I joined crypto just recently and I would have suffered from the price drop of roughly 70%, I would feel like trash. I know because very early on I put money on the line that I could not afford to lose. That is roughly a decade ago. The day I chose to do that was among the most volatile days I've witnessed so far and I couldn't sleep for a second and was just staring at the charts with sweat on my forehead. In retrospect it was a great and fun valuable lesson and luckily, I got through it well more or less! :D

Probably those who have been dealing with bitcoin for about 5 years will be more calm in this situation, because they understand the cyclicality, how a bear market and a bull market replace each other. And for those who are relatively new here, it can be very difficult for them, especially if they bought bitcoin near ATH.

In 2023, we saw good local growth, for many it became encouraging, by the way, I was expecting a local growth, but at the same time I expected that it would be temporary and, as we see, a local correction is taking place now. I did not wait for this time, but continued to buy bitcoin, because although I expected a subsequent correction, I was still afraid of making a mistake, because there was a possibility of further growth. Even now, I assume that the growth may continue to 29-30k and then further decline will follow, perhaps we will be in anticipation of the beginning of the bull market all of 2023.

Sometimes I have a desire to try my hand at trading, to allocate some small part for this, but I don’t have much time for this, and yet I am an investor and not a trader, but I have a desire to multiply my bitcoins.

Some of those people who have been into bitcoin investment for the past 10 years have made a good fortune. I consider myself new to Bitcoin because I just got interested in it in 2019 (4 years now) and I couldn't hold anything more or less than $10 worth of it, even in 2020. But in 2021, I got a little hold of it and made some profit when the price pumped in 2021. I believe I will definitely make a fortune too if anything bad doesn't happen to the crypto market in the next six years, because already Bitcoin is facing lots of attacks by people just trying to destroy this technology.

I want to say that if I have had at least 5000 dollars than I have high hopes that I might convert them to 200k dollars and still thing is that I have not 5000 dollars. Ànd I am trying hard to save these 5000 dollars and that could be my fortune.

More and more people are joining the Bitcoin community because of the obvious reason for getting a good return. The profit or ROI depends on what strategy you are adopting. There are people who bought bitcoin at 1$ and sell on 10$, while there are investors that bought bitcoin at 4k in Dec 2018 and sell at much higher prices. The best and tested strategy for Bitcoin investment is DCA. But again what strategy suits other may or may not suit you.

It won't be too late if you invest bitcoin from now on for up to 10 years, there is no definite time limit as long as you can hold more bitcoins and continue to accumulate well then you will become a strong person holding them.

I know 2021 is a good year where prices are rising and bitcoin is high, but you have to remember that bitcoin will be much higher if you hold it for 10 years but what is clear is that you have to be ready to buy bitcoin from now on in any way.

Let people make the bitcoin situation worse with lots of FUD news spread we have to take advantage of that opportunity when the price has started to decrease due to many attacks here we buy slowly.

Bitcoin has faced several challenges in recent years, including scalability issues, high transaction fees, regulatory scrutiny, and environmental concerns due to its energy-intensive mining process. These challenges have led to increased volatility in its price and adoption.

Despite these challenges, Bitcoin remains the most widely adopted and valuable cryptocurrency in the world. It has shown resilience in the face of market downturns and regulatory challenges, and its decentralized nature makes it attractive to users who value privacy and financial sovereignty.

As technology continues to evolve and the cryptocurrency market matures, it's possible that Bitcoin will continue to face challenges and competition from newer cryptocurrencies. However, its status as the first and most well-known cryptocurrency, as well as its strong network effects and widespread adoption, suggest that it will remain a significant player in the cryptocurrency space for the foreseeable future.

I doubt that your version of events is even close to accurate.  Sure, each cycle more and more people are hearing about bitcoin, learning about bitcoin, and bitcoin is continuing to grow on an ongoing basis.. and likely more and more each cycle, but it hardly makes any sense to start your assessment at 2017 and to suggest that 2017 was some kind of a momentous starting point for bitcoin, when the level of adoption of bitcoin still remains pretty damned low, and even if more and more people have heard the word "bitcoin" few really understand what the fuck bitcoin is, even if a lot of people have heard the word.

Even people who own bitcoin, might not have spent very much time figuring out what bitcoin is, beyond possibly that they might consider it to be "number go up" (NGU) technology, and sure that's a start towards getting someone interested in bitcoin and to get their attention into looking into bitcoin further.



Sure.  I cannot argue with you about this.  Bitcoin is a world changing technology, and remains a world changing technology that is continuing to have its effects for years to come.


Everyone likely benefits from bitcoin whether you have funds or not because bitcoin introduces a more responsible kind of financing and money that incentivizes various financial and governmental actors to behave more responsibly - even though it could take 100 to 200 years to really flesh out the various impacts of the incentive systems that are built into bitcoin, but the overall society benefits from it.

Of course, if you want to benefit on a more personal level, then the more that you are able to garner resources and to buy bitcoin, then you can benefit in more direct ways too... such as in the NGU technology.  The more disposable and even discretionary income that you have and are able to put into bitcoin, then it becomes more likely that you will personally and directly benefit - yet since bitcoin remains an asymmetric bet to the upside, it remains quite likely that you do not have to invest a lot into bitcoin bitcoin in order to still be able to personally and directly benefit from investing in bitcoin.

Sure, I understand that some people do not have much if any disposable and/or discretionary income that they are able to invest into bitcoin, so in that regard, they just invest what they can.. whether that is $100 per week or $10 per week or maybe even less than that if they have troubles affording $10 per week, they figure out how much they are able to invest without messing up their own living situation in terms of needing to pay for expenses within the cashflow that they have or are able to generate.


Well, in order of considering your own personal circumstances, you cannot turn back the clock, and you can ONLY consider what to do, on a personal level, based on your own personal circumstances, so the sooner that you figure out what you want to do and are able to do, and the sooner that you start to execute some kind of a plan, then the more likely that you will have chances to directly benefit from bitcoin.. .. otherwise, if you merely whine about the situation and complain that you do not have any money to buy bitcoin, then surely it will be nearly impossible to benefit directly from bitcoin, even though it still seems to be quite possible that you still may well be able to benefit more indirectly by the existence of bitcoin and the fact that bitcoin is a more honest money/asset system than what we have historically had in various societies.

You do seem to have one advantage in that you know about bitcoin, and you seem to recognize its value (including possibly understanding that it continues to have a future value that involves ongoing number go up); however, you might be disadvantaged if you cannot recognize and/or appreciate that you are likely to be better off to work on investing into it, even if you cannot invest very much rather than merely complaining about the situation regarding your purportedly not having much if anything to invest (if that's what you are doing?).


Too bad that you feel that you are too late, but hey, it is your choice in regards to whether to invest or just to complain about bitcoin being too expensive.

One of the advantages of bitcoin is that you are able to buy very small amounts of it, so long as you are able to find someone who is willing to sell it to you, and so it is way easier to get into bitcoin for yourself and for anyone else as compared to other investments that had historically been available.... So yeah, if you get distracted into believing that bitcoin costs too much, they you may remain either a no coiner or a low coiner.. and perhaps continuing to be bitter about the situation rather than figuring out ways to take a stake in bitcoin, even if you might not be able to afford to buy as much bitcoin as others are able to buy.

Another advantage of your knowing about bitcoin(even if you are proclaiming yourself to be poor), there are going to be some folks (and likely a considerable number of folks) who are still figuring bitcoin out 5-10 year or more into the future, and if you started to invest into bitcoin now, based on your having had learned that it is a potentially good investment, then you likely will be able to get ahead of some of those folks who ONLY start to learn about bitcoin or invest in bitcoin later down the road.. such as those who might start way down the road.. and there are a lot of people who either do not know what bitcoin is or they fail/refuse to understand that bitcoin has a currently strong investment thesis based on its likely ongoing and continued upwards prices...even if not guaranteed, but seemingly asymmetrical to the upside in nature.


I am a little bothered by your emphasis on trading and crypto (aka shitcoins), but I appreciate that you share aspects of your story in terms of what seems to be that you learned some things about the dangers of short term thinking and also what seems to be likely risks of leverage.  In the end, hopefully you are going to be able to continue in bitcoin in terms of longer term thinking and learn to shirk off some the temptations to be involved in crypto/shitcoin trading unless it perhaps might serve as ONLY a smaller aspect of your overall approach.. but hey each fo us learns in our own way, and by the way some folks who get caught up in shitcoins, and trading in ways that seem to be gambling and leverage do not really seem to learn how to manage their gambling tendencies. .and then they end up getting fucked down the road, because sometimes when you gamble and trade with too much passion/leverage, you may well end up having a large number of "wins" (even 20 or more) and then one loss can wipe out a vast majority of your previous gains.. especially if you do not figure out ways to employ relatively prudent risk management strategies, and some of the traders/gamblers believe that they can "get it all back" if they lose it, which truly is a fools way of thinking.. so for sure there needs to be care when employing gambling, leverage and/or getting involved in shitcoins (including using the term "crypto" without specifying or actually showing that you actually know the difference between bitcoin and shitcoins).


I do believe that it is good to just continue to buy BTC on a regular basis especially if you consider yourself to be personally in an accumulation stage, and buying regularly is one of the best ways to just ongoingly continue to make progress in terms of building the number of BTC (satoshis) that you have.

At the same time, for sure you can keep a bit of fiat on the side for buying on dips and even allocate some of that money that you are holding to the side to buy at certain price points (if those price points are ever reached) while at the same time, recognizing that it is possible that your money in reserve that is held for buying on dips might not get spent because they BTC price might not go down to the price points that you have assigned for those various allocated amounts... and you can continue to reassess along the way regarding how much money that you want to hold in reserves for such possible buying. and sometimes there can be some frustration if the BTC price is going up and you have not employed those reserves yet the longer that you are in bitcoin, then it is likely that the less bothered that you become about continuing to hold some money in reserves that does not ever seem to get spent.


Of course, it is very tempting to want to engage in trading, and personally, I do not consider it to be a good idea to sell bitcoin with the thought of buying back lower, even though sometimes you can sell a little bit on the way up, especially if the BTC price is seeming to go up outrageously a lot and then just hold that money on the side in case the BTC price goes back down.. yet part of the problem comes when you might get frustrated if you are selling too much BTC too soon.. so sometimes it can be tough to find a system that is comfortable for you without causing you to get frustrated.. and then also comfortable in such a way that you are not increasingly tempted into playing BIGGER and BIGGER and BIGGER in terms of the quantity that you might be selling on the way up.. and then you end up without hardly any bitcoin if the BTC price keeps going up..... Many times, people find ways to just avoid selling bitcoin on the way up.. but there can be ways that if you accumulate way more BTC than you expected on the dip, then you can sell some of that bitcoin at various points on the way up.. and yeah, sometimes it can be a time suck to be trying to figure out where to place your orders. and then frustrations that might be involved when you are trying to figure out what the BTC price is going to do.. which is difficult even for folks who spend most of their time watching BTC charts (and looking at other matters that they believe might affect the BTC price in one direction or another).

But at least they already know about the history of the bitcoin cycle alternating bearish and bullish it still has its period but I believe those who understand this cycle they won't mind even if it buys bitcoin close to ATH, they will definitely think for 5 next year the price will change from the current ATH price.
Nothing is difficult if they believe enough that bitcoin is long term eg 1 decade hold.

The growth of bitcoin was quite early in January so that now it can still stay above $ 20K and has experienced a correction due to the silvergate news that went bankrupt, indeed this is the right moment to buy bitcoin in any way because if you keep thinking about growth of $ 30,000 then it is still very far, bitcoin is currently still on hold and hasn't been able to make a good recovery but now just take the time and put some money aside and buy bitcoins.

I attempted to buy yesterday at $22,300

For me trading is quite complicated because I have to monitor chart movements while an investor can only do it quite simply by buying bitcoins and this is not as difficult as short-term trading.

I've not spent up to 10 years in bitcoin, I discovered bitcoin in  late 2015, I watched it all through 2016, i bought my first bitcoin in late 2016, so if I should calculate from that, i would say that, this year, 2023 will make me seven(7) years in bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general.

And yes, my life have become better, much more better than I have ever imagined, Bitcoin have indeed given me a reason to always be hopeful for some thing good, through bitcoin and cryptocurrency investments, I achieved a lot of things I never thought I could by this time.
Bitcoin have improved and changed a lot of lives, I am one of those lives, and I am really thankful.

Most of us here where affected as we discovered bitcoin and become a daily part of our lives just like our local currency. We won't be in this forum today if bitcoin affects us negatively, Personally I learned so many life lessons as well as financial lessons that somehow make me realize to trust the technology and industry we are into. I believe I'm a very different person if bitcoin or cryptocurrency didn't exist given that I will learned and devote my life to other things which may change my career or persistency in doing good in my financial situations. I'm just speculating but there a high chance that bitcoin and cryptocurrency being involved at our life affects us in a positive way because we won't really last this long if this sucks our daily energy and turned out to be a negative thing to us.

Oh no, first of all the story I told you happened with Bitcoin actually. As I said, I traded alt coins as well back at the time. It was the time when Cryptsy was still around and coins like Darkcoin (DASH today) and ridiculous shit coins like Sexcoin and god knows what else came up. I can't even exactly tell when it was, perhaps like Summer 2013 onwards? Can't remember exactly. But back at the time it was also fun to play around a bit with whatever came up. I would say it was like a digital casino, but as at the time the number of people getting into crypto literally exploded, even the shittiest of the shit coins went up.

It was also the time when I learned "not your keys not your crypto" when Big Vern from Cryptsy (https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/cryptsy-paul-vernon-stole-millions-cryptocurrency-13799886) decided to steal millions of dollars in digital funds and allegedly escaped to China (https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/big-vern-breaks-radio-silence-defend-cryptsy-hiding-place/). Frankly speaking, I did have coins on there, but not that I intended to leave them there, I had them on the exchange for a short while because I was going to trade them as I already went through the Mt. Gox drama. Out of a sudden withdrawals were blocked, everyone became nervous, the support kept saying that it is all good, and then... game over. Service not available anymore.

I very rarely trade alt coins these days and if I do, it is 99% on decentralized exchanges. I don't deem a coin like Monero a shit coin. But that's up to everyone's opinion.

Did you ever trade alt coins? I mean there is no Bitcoiner that I know who truly never touched an alt coin. Even if it is just playing around with something like Monero, but never ever? Hard to believe if that is the case. ;)

But to sum this up, my understanding and stance on cryptocurrencies and how to manage them has fundamentally changed compared to about a decade ago. My point was that I was lucky to have made that experience so early on because that was a time when you didn't even get punished necessarily for buying a shit coin. Today you do and that is why I recommend fiercely to stay away from them, but I can understand when someone completely new to the space feels tempted. It was no different for me in the early days. That is what I wanted to convey. ;)

while getting to know bitcoin from 2017, indeed what I feel is changing my life which is to be wiser in using the money we have. in a concrete example, I can buy things that I need, not what I want, but indeed there is some money to fulfill our desires, because for me that is a way to reward myself. so that I feel I can buy a house, which was previously unthinkable for that, because property prices are expensive. it is not easy to change our minds, especially for those who are not married, of course the pleasures of life are the priority, and that is natural. until finally I got married and already had my own place to live. all of this is unconsciously influenced by our habits in trading, which must be able to control emotions and good money management, on the other hand, asset diversification I feel is very necessary, and in the end it is carried over to our daily lifestyle, and I'm sure it will be even greater for the next 10 years

since getting to know bitcoin my life has changed a bit because since I first knew bitcoin I was immediately interested and wanted to learn more details how bitcoin performs and until now I have invested in bitcoin even though the profit I get is not so great but many things I have fulfilled using the results of bitcoin, so in the future I will continue to try to get greater profits because bitcoin has always been  can surprise users.

Bitcoin has changed my life a lot. I'm still sticking with Bitcoin. I bought and invested in Bitcoin when the price was down. Bitcoin price will increase in future. But I have some failure stories. I have been given many opportunities in life but I have failed to utilize most of them. But if 2024 bitcoin halving I will leave all my investment and if the market is dumping again then I will invest again. But I learned a lot from sticking to Bitcoin.

Since 2022, I don't think I have been relentless in accumulating Bitcoin because that's what I want for myself. Even in my furniture company, I have established the acceptance of Bitcoin payments, and since I started accepting Bitcoin payments last year, I have not exchanged the profit I make from my goods, just holding it in Bitcoin. I'm already positive that the next 10 years are going to be joyous years for me by the time I reflect back on how stress-free it is to invest in Bitcoin, how I accumulated gradually, and finally tell my success story like many have done.

I have been investing in this market for quite some time, but in recent years I have made a profit, and my economy has greatly improved. Despite the ups and downs in investing, bitcoin has really made it possible for me to own things that I would never have thought of working for a company. House, car, phone, and delicious meals… are really luxuries for an employee. Whenever I think back, if I hadn't invested in bitcoin, my wife and I would have been working 30 years from now, and we'd never be where we are today. We are really grateful bitcoin.

Day by day the value and demand of bitcoin rising so fast . after 10 years we can hope that our position can be rich.

Despite the failures we've already faced in life, there will be always opportunities to do the right thing ahead, and regards bitcoin, I hope this time is near, so everyone who missed the chance of profiting with 2017 and 2021's ATH will finally be able to make a nice sum of money, which can be a life changing for many investors. It can be the opportunity to earn enough money to purchase a house, pay for your education, buy a car and give financial confort to your family.

Yes mate and I think that is somehow expected as before we can call ourselves as successful investors, we did go through a lot of failures in order to succeed like what we have now. I may not got a lot of coins in my portfolio but I'm already proud of what I've become to this day as crypto gave me a lot of lessons and opportunities to become a better version of myself that is more sensitive about finances.

I'm still on my 6th year of my crypto journey but I'm not having any plans in the future to sell what I have now as I believe it could be a lot more worth in the couple of years to come than the upcoming 2024 halving.

I see everyone has faced big problems in life to get to today. But if bitcoin can be held now then after 10 long years there will be a lot of money from here. But until then I see no option but to wait. But I say.  I don't know what will be the price of Bitcoin after 10 years. But hopefully after 10 years the price of Bitcoin will increase by several times. Then it will be seen that there are many things that can be done with the Bitcoins that are held now after 10 years.  Hope can be fulfilled.

Yes, it is, when for a long time fiat accumulates, then you start to think that these savings should work, but they are simply stored idle. You also think about whether the fall will continue and how significant it can be, whether we will reach a new botton. But in any case, I continue to buy, to some extent I listen to your advice and continue the aggressive policy of investing in bitcoin. No one knows how long we will still be at these values, perhaps we will be near the bottom for the whole of 2023, and perhaps growth will begin earlier, no one knows.

Yes, it seems too risky, selling bitcoins for speculative purposes is perhaps too big a risk. I am now thinking about how good an idea it is to try trading with the set aside money, or rather, some part of it, insignificant compared to the total amount. I don’t know yet, just thoughts, I talked with many people and most of them say that long-term investing always brings better results than trading, so maybe I should just listen to experienced people and just buy bitcoin for long-term investments, as I already do quite a long time.

Though I haven't used up to 10 years in the system, I can say a few about the greatest innovation of our time. Since I knew bitcoin, my whole life has been extremely amazing and for that reason, never will I give up on investing more in it. Bitcoin keeps developing and getting adopted by big organizations and countries. That's to tell that Bitcoin is here to stay.

Of course, this is a bit of a dilemma that a lot of bitcoin HODLers have, and I really cannot blame anyone to want to learn about the matter - however, sometimes you might be telling yourself that you want to learn, but your real goal is that you are wanting to make more money.. and sure there is nothing wrong with wanting to make more money, but part of the problem with when you fuck around with bitcoin, is that you may well start to fail/refuse to recognize the bullish case for bitcoin, which largely should inform you that the best bet is on UP.. even if we may well experience extended periods of downward correction.

If you really have discipline, then you should be able to control yourself and limit your trading (learning) budget to maybe 5% or less of your whole BTC holdings.  So if you were to have $10k of value in your BTC investment portfolio, then you would be limited to a $500 total trading/learning budget... and there is not a whole hell of a lot that you can do with that amount of value.. but you still can attempt to learn with it..

By the way, I do recommend using small amounts of value to learn rather than fucking around with those learning platforms in which there is no value, and you are just using play money.. fuck that nonsense.. From my point of view it is better to use actual value.. but just use really small amounts.

I have told this story before, but let me just reiterate it.. For my first 18 months in bitcoin, I did not sell any bitcoin, and if I did give some away or use some bitcoin to buy something, then I would replace anything that I sold (and almost always more than I sold) within a few days of the sale/gift.

So by the time that mid-to-late 2015 came, I established a system in which I authorized myself to sell small portions of BTC on the way up, and so I developed a formula.. and when I first started to practice with my formula, the BTC prices were around $250.. and so the BTC price had to move $5 or more, and maybe I would sell a few dollars and then back and forth I would look and see that after fees I would make $0.25 or some small amount, so over time, you can imagine that my sales were way more than my buys because the BTC price went up from $250-ish in 2015 to mostly over $1k in early 2017.. and so I did not care whether I sold more BTC on the way up than I bought, because my formula already accounted for how much that I authorized myself to sell on the way up, and I continued to have to move the max of the formula up and up and up, and I believe that by the time the BTC price got to nearly $20k in late 2017, I had sold around 10% of my BTC holdings.. and maybe even a bit more than that.. but it was already calculated, and still part of my point in regards to why I even mention this is because in the earliest days, the amounts that I was selling and buying back were so small that I was getting laughed at because I was "not making very much money," and I did not care. .. because the earliest days was just to practice and to get used to how much I authorized myself to sell and if the BTC price were to go shooting up, my formulas (and systems) already showed me that I had placed limits on the maximum amounts that I was authorizing myself to sell.. so there was no real downfall to the system.. and largely the ONLY downfall was if the BTC price went down and went to zero then I would continue to buy BTC even though it would continue to go to zero, so my formula already calculated for UP.. and had a built in assumption that the odds for BTC to go down was not good and at some point if the BTC price continued to go down, I would have to stop buying at a certain point so that I still would have money, even if BTC price were to go to zero...

So.. part of the point, is that some places allow you to trade as low as $5 per trade, and if you calculate fees, you can make your spreads in ways in which you are just practicing with very small amounts, and by the way, I never used leverage and I never wanted to learn how to use leverage because on a personal basis I did not want to go there... because I did not consider leverage to be necessary, especially on bitcoin when my bet is mostly that bitcoin will go up and go up forever, so there is no need for leverage if BTC does end up going up, then it does not take a lot of value in order to potentially profit stupendously so long as you are mostly stacking your value in order that you are prepared for UP by not selling too much on the way up but mostly accumulating BTC on dips and holding.. and selling only small amounts (if any?) on the way up.. that's my overall framework that has been quite successful, so far.

Bitcoin has definitely changed the lives of many people who have invested in it. Some have become wealthy, while others have suffered losses. The continuous development of Bitcoin has made it more attractive to investors, and the recent rise in price has once again renewed interest in the cryptocurrency. It will be interesting to see where Bitcoin goes from here and how it continues to impact the financial world in the years to come.

Yes, it will be a small budget to achieve any significant results (at least in my case), but it may be enough budget to try what I can do, whether I can increase it, or it will decrease.

Yes, I understand this well, trading in small volumes will simply be meaningless, since the feeses will eat up most of the profits. And by the way, I have not even thought about leverage yet, it seems too risky to me.

You are right, if you look at the entire history of bitcoin, it is hard not to notice that it is constantly growing, this is a wonderful property that I really like. So far, my number one task is not to lose a single satoshi, if I manage to multiply it, it will be good, but the priority task is to save everything I have.

Those who waited to invest in Bitcoin made a lot of money today. And those who sold after investing in Bitcoin may have lost a lot. But I think Bitcoin will increase in value in a few years. Those who invest in Bitcoin now.  They will get profit if they can keep it. And if someone invests and sells them before the profit is made, then there is a chance of losing money.

The goal to start with is to continue to collect as many bitcoins as possible when the price is dropping this is the time to buy again and again consistently, of course with expenses and income that are or are made by ourselves.

That's the advantage of having your own business because you don't rely on income from bitcoin alone but from other businesses, while your profit from selling furniture is still stored in bitcoin, that's a good plan and you have to be able to hold it for 10 years because that will be a different story, of course sharing your interesting story while holding this old bitcoin.

Think better than the basics indeed when trading with small volumes the profits will be small but the losses will be more due to unexpected drops that occur in an instant, it's better to think in a good way even by not trading it's not a problem because you are still holding in your portfolio.
Leaving leverage is clearly a big risk and not all traders can increase their leverage.

Focusing on the possible by continuing to accumulate bitcoins in any way possible, but right now I'd rather hold on to bitcoins and not try to trade even though it may result in short gains but I'm thinking how a losing trade is hard to recover from.

I assume if you can continue to multiply bitcoins by holding or buying, of course that will be much better for us for the next 10 years.

I don't think no matter with how long have know with Bitcoin but most important thing first time investing in Bitcoin, many people know with Bitcoin around still lower price but they are afraid for investing in bitcoin when getting good moment. Some people know with bitcoin about last three or two years ago but have been success nowadays because brave how all in their saving money for investing in Bitcoin.

Based on my experience know with bitcoin when popular MMM Global investment and Bitcoin become payment currency for deposit, but I am not interested yet investing or holding bitcoin for longer time when price still lower and could be change with my financial condition if keep hold bitcoin.

The first time i know about bitcoin was about seven or eight years ago, at the end of 2015 or beggining of 2016, it is hard to remember exactly. It was very profitable moment that the price was fluctuated, touched high price then went down  some time. I took the chance by trade bitcoin on exchange. Got much enough profit by trading it. So it not yet my 10 years in crypto but i believe that it will enhance my ecomony more and more.

You  seem to have had inadequately and insufficiently explored the topic regarding how trading works.  Sure, you need to cover the fees that would be incurred from any kind of trading that you might do, yet the fees can generally be covered by the spread, and the amount that you trade does not matter because the fees are generally a percentage.. so for example, if you execute a trade to sell $10 worth of bitcoin at, $24k and if the fees are 0.5% to sell and then 0.5% to buy back, then you would have to make sure that your buy back price is at least $240 below $24k (which would be $23,760 or lower just to cover your fees), and the lower that you buy back then the greater is your profits (the first 1% is fees and after that profits).  The major issue is just making sure that you are able to trade and some exchanges have a minimum order amount and that might be $5 or maybe it is denominated in bitcoin.. like 0.0002 BTC or some other minimum trade order amount.  The minimums vary from exchange to exchange, and the fees vary based on how you set your orders (whether limited order or a market order.. usually limited orders are cheaper than market orders), and also if you trade over a certain volume per month, the exchange might offer a discount.. and other exchanges will try to attract you with low or no fees.. and Binance has been running a no fee promotional since about July of last year... whether that means that they are a ponzi or not might be another story.. or at least another possible layer of risk to have some of your value on exchanges instead of holding it yourself).


You are not really saying much of anything rojan.

Do you have any actual personal experiences with bitcoin rather than merely spouting out theoretical nonsense in regards to selling if the BTC price is high and buying when the BTC price is low?  How about it?   You have anything from a personal experience perspective?


Well, if you had gotten involved in bitcoin starting in about September 2015, and you invested $10 per week until now, you would have invested right around $4k, and you would have around 2.1BTC.  (https://dcabtc.com?sd=2015-09-01&sda=custom&f=weekly&d=8_years&ac=1000&c=true) Of course, if you had invested $100 per week for that whole time instead of $10 per week, then you would have had invested $40k and you would own right around 21 BTC, so it seems to me that there is pretty good chances that you could have done quite well with bitcoin if your main focus had been to accumulate BTC - and I doubt that there are very many trading strategies that would have done better than a mostly consistent practice of buying and accumulating BTC rather than fucking around with trading baloney...

How has your fucking around with BTC trading done in the past 7-8 years?  Do you have better returns than some kind of buying and holding strategy like I outlined above?  

It seems to me that persistent, consistent and perhaps even bordering on assertive and aggressive (without over doing it) buying and holding of bitcoin is a decently good strategy and the longer the better...  Sure there are not any guarantees that history is going to repeat itself, but there is no real evidence that bitcoin's investment thesis is any weaker today than what it was 7-8 years ago.. so in other words,  fuck trading.. it is not worth it.. and you are not very likely at all to be able to beat a buying and holding strategy... why treat the best asset like that?  Bitcoin is not a shitcoin it is something that you should be working on buying and accumulating and not fucking around with trading... but hey, you do what you like if you want to have fun staying poor.

A lot of things already happened to me and I didn't know that it has laready been that long.
To be honest I experienced a lot of things because of crypto, my first investment, first time losing my money on investment, and also first time earning from my investments.
Cryptocurrency had changed my life it also open ups and let me learn a lot of things through those experiences.

try not to expect that much mate instead try to believe that we need to support bitcoin more than gaining, this is the future of the currency in which all we need is to bring this more to people around us , there are still high percentage of people that knows nothing about bitcoin or many are still not believing in this.
bitcoin needs more support , try to less involve in altcoin or better not to , instead buy more and more bitcoin and keep it in safe, we may not benefits for now but surely our love ones and our family in the future will , try to invest not for you now but for the totality of of what we planted now is what we will gain tomorrow.

I have been associated with this forum for as long as I have and have gained some knowledge about Bitcoin. I looked at Bitcoin's past and noted how much it has changed in the present. The way Bitcoin's price has steadily increased over time suggests that it will continue to rise even more in the future. A lot of people invested in Bitcoin long when the market went up in 2017 and then dumped again. But when Bitcoin ATH peaked again in 2021, people profited a lot from their Bitcoin holdings. And I think The price of Bitcoin will rise again and again and it will exceed the price chart of the past. I believe it is best to hold for a long time to invest in bitcoins and make future life fully successful.

Change is going to happen, that's for sure. History says it all. And as we know, history repeats itself. If that's the truth, then all we have to do is HODL our Bitcoin. It is a long term investment plan asset. So in the long run we will get the return in profits that we have been waiting for. 10 years? yeah sure. Bitcoin is here to stay, and it will stay with us. And as said before, in the long run we will be profitable. If we can get the desired profits from this, then this could change anyone's life dramatically. Now many has this dream to own 1 Bitcoin, but in the future many will dream to own just 0.1 Bitcoin. So we can see where it's going.

as long as you've learn from your mistakes you can prevent it in the future , I mean all of us went thru a lot for sure some of us got scammed before by those ponzi as we used to invest on it as well as wrong decision making on investing but all of it is that we learn from it , we got an experience from it that we bring in the future and now we see that holding bitcoin is good so we do always accumulate it or save more money so that we can invest more and we can hold more

Well I'm just officially 1 year in bitcoin  and I've already got more than enough testimonies about bitcoin 😅
I don't know what will happen  in 10 years but one thing is certain that I'm already growing wiser in the bitcoin  industry  and I hope I don't ever get trapped within negative  news about bitcoin.
People love whatever that seems like free money and at some point, bitcoin  seems to give out free money on investment  for hodling for long with minimal efforts.

Whatever  the case might be, the journey in bitcoin  is a very amazing and interesting  one and I'm sure that 85% of the people who have been in the industry  and forum for over 10 years and  are still active should be reaping the fruits of their labor and whatever the case might be the,  the 85% majority should be living a comfortable life.

You might be correct in your estimation of the percentage of success, but I have my doubts that the level of success of about 85% to be as high as you project it to be.  A lot of people make mistakes and fairly BIG mistakes in regards to getting shaken out of their BTC and failing to reinvest or investing into BTC too whimpily.. and of course, even whimpily investors into BTC have been rewarded over the years as long as they have mostly been accumulators and HODLers rather than fucking around with trying to time the market and sometimes failing/refusing to buy.

Sure, on the other end of the spectrum are those who had gotten overly aggressive.. which contributes to its own level of reckening (financial and psychological) that might contribute towards failing/refusing to either get back in or to convert into a more conservative, prudent and/or realistic BTC investment style.

So your estimate of an 85%-ish success rate seems a wee bit optimistic.. coming from a guy who barely/almost is getting up to 10 years in my BTC investment journey.... in that November will be my 10-year anniversary.

By the way, I will grant you that there are ways in which the longer term bitcoiners can screw up their investment in a lot of different ways, and still end up having the BTC portion of their investment portfolio to out-perform the various other assets that they might have therein....to the extent that they have anything else in their investment portfolio (presuming a 10-year or longer investment timeline - and 10 years in bitcoin).  So for you, if you ONLY have 1 year (or a few years) in bitcoin, you have a long journey ahead of you in terms of putting your own resolution to the test.. your resolution in terms of how you are going to accumulate BTC and how you are going to maintain your BTC holdings as compared/contrasted to other places you could place your value.... including your finances, time and energies.

The story of Bitcoin is clear understanding at the people that get the information early stage and buy Bitcoin at a low price early 2009, which has changed life during the first Bull Run, that took place 10 years later and Bitcoin making someone Rich is sure, but is a business of patience and giving it time, not to get rich quick business, because is not advisable to involved ponzi scheme money doubler using Bitcoin, it may clash and your funds we gone for ever. So buy Bitcoin and hold for period of time and sell with a profits.

Sure enough, I still remember the time when I had no other choice but to sell my bitcoin holdings for something urgently needed. My long term investment plans are ruined even though I can still build the portfolio again at another time, but it's true that long term bitcoin investors also can always ruin their plans unexpectedly.

At the same time, I didn't have a lot of money to go without selling bitcoin, but then I started to think that the saving budget portion should be at least 2x bigger than the investment budget. If only I had thought about it in advance and prepared for it, then I don't think I need to spoil that long-term investment plan. But never mind, it was a lesson that later taught me about how to manage finances between savings, investment, and meeting needs.

Yeah I have a very long way to go and that's why most times I feel bad when I can't buy at every Instance I get a nice point to buy and I guess this was also one of the reasons most people didn't grab most of the opportunities bitcoin  had to offer.
I basically  don't have any hodlings now which made me realize that even people who missed out when bitcoin price was very low didn't do so intentionally, and some of them wished they could  buy but maybe didn't have the money to buy.

I had a plan already to use some of my campaign  rewards to invest for a longer time and I'm hoping to smile at the end.
Thanks for the advice sir.

I wouldn't underestimate ability to recover, because there are various points in which any of us could end up selling some of our bitcoin, and not being able to get back up to that quantity of bitcoin (ever again)... part of our ability to recuperate the size of our BTC stash will depend upon some variables like how much we sell, when we sell and our own personal abilities to generate cashflow.

I believe at one point earlier I had given an example of someone who might have acquired a decent quantity of BTC in 2015 when the BTC prices were in the mid $200s.. and even if we might say that s/he accumulated 40 bitcoin for around $12k (averaging $300 per BTC), it would take a whole hell of a lot of cashflow to make up for losing or selling that same quantity of BTC at the wrong time... right now it would cost right around $1million to stack up 40-ish BTC... even though it ONLY cost around $12k for the vast majority of 2015... a mere 8 years ago.


Yes.. for sure.. we can get ourselves into a bit of a cash-crunch pickle, and many times those cash crunch situations may well end up showing themselves at exactly the time that we should not be selling BTC.. and at the time that we should be buying BTC... that is part of the negative aspects of BTC price dynamics that tend to be quite difficult to avoid, even for  BTC investors (HODLers) who have a lot of practice and experiences in managing their cashflows and expenses.


You should feel yourself to be lucky if you were able to learn from your experiences, because sometimes it still can be difficult to learn from our experiences, and sometimes we still might end up making similar kinds of mistakes, even if we made those same kinds of mistakes in the past.  I surely have made similar kinds of mistakes, and I feel real proud of myself when I can recognize that the degree of my mistake in the future ends up playing less severe than it had played out in the past... .. so not easy to completely avoid mistakes, and if we are trying to be somewhat aggressive in our investment approach, we may well end up making even more mistakes than if we had chosen a more conservative path, but sometimes the conservative paths will end up showing themselves as mistakes too.. Part of living seems to be making mistakes and trying to figure out the right level of balance so that any mistakes that we do make are not so severe as to take us out of the game completely and they are recoverable kinds of mistakes rather than getting reckt kinds of mistakes, even though some people don't mind getting reckt.. .. and maybe it works out for them to get reckt over and over and some of them may end up on the street after a certain amount of times in which they might not be able to recover.. or they end up having to live in a much more restricted financial situation later in their lives.. so taking risks can sometimes pay off.. but not necessarily knowing the consequences until later in life.


For sure, each of us has to attempt to measure how aggressive that we are ready, willing and able to be based on our current finances (and psychology), and if we end up overdoing it or underdoing it, then we can have regrets down the road, but if we realize that we are striking a decent balance, then we should learn not to kick ourselves later down the road when we tell ourselves that "we should have bought more" blah blah blah.. because we should need to figure out those kinds of balances as we go.. and attempt to anticipate the better ways of balancing our finances, time, energies and psychology.

For example, if you ONLY have $200 of extra money that has to last you the whole month, and if you put more than half of it into bitcoin, then, you might be regretting what you did for a variety of reasons (like an emergency comes up or the BTC price dips).. so sometimes you have to figure out various strategies to make sure that the amount that you are investing is not causing you too many stresses from the ramifications of what you had chosen to do.


It can be good to have some money in reserves to buy when the BTC price dips, and we are not always going to know when it is going to dip or how much it is going to dip, so many times we may well end up running out of money, so sometimes we can end up learning how to keep some money in reserves from our previously having had run out of money too soon.

One thing that many of us should attempt to recognize and realize is that we should not be rushing to get into BTC too much merely because we feel that we are late, so in that regard, we need to figure out some ways to be sufficiently aggressive (assertive) with our investment amount, but still not causing ourselves to over do it, merely because we believe that we are late (as compared to others who got into bitcoin 10 years ago, 5 years ago, or even 2 years ago).  We can ONLY work with what we have, and sometimes, we ONLY have so much that we can do, including if we might consider if there might be ways that we might reasonably be able to increase our income without causing too many negative impacts to ourselves (such as health)..

So sometimes we can improve our income by finding more work, and other times, we might need to spend some time in non-paid work (such as learning and networking) in order to improve the level (quality and pay) of the work that we end up doing.. easier said than done, sometimes... but there sometimes can be routes to work that is both more fulfilling and better paid, but sometimes it might take a bit of time to get into those kinds of positions that might thereafter allow for larger abilities to stack sats.


Yes.. I know that some members will be able to use their campaign rewards to buy bitcoin because they are able to support themselves with whatever might be their regular work.. or they might find various ways to generate cash that allows them to make sure that their expenses are covered, and then they feel more comfortable with their abilities to use extra income to buy bitcoin with that extra money that came in.

Me in crypto world is not up to 10 years just three years only, but for the three years that I'm spending in cryptocurrency, I'm very happy and comfortable, because of things I learned from investment. The first time I was trying to give up because of fear panicking and lost, but I didn't, but now I'm taking step by step to receive what I want to achieve in Bitcoin investments, before I will reach ten years in Bitcoin investments I will be more dipper in it, and will a successful investor. Even this three years I'm very interesting in Bitcoin investments plus the seven that in front I will be a  good or a great Bitcoin investor.

Me im just 8 years here on crypto space specially i have started up here on this forum in 2015 on which there are  lots of things that i had witnessed and encounter. Sadly i wasnt able to accumulate into those early
years considering that my earning is actively been withdrawn due to some needs and other priorities in life which i do really need up to convert my coins into fiat which i dont really have no choice.,
This is why on the time that Bitcoin did make out some pump on 20k then thats the time i did make out some regret on what are the things did happen. How much more on the time it did reach out on 69k?
Well, there's no point on making yourself do always keep on minding about those missed opportunity and this is why after those years where i did make out some changes and did really accumulate
as much as i could. I didnt tend to look back on what are those past things that did happen because it would really be just hindering you on doing on what you should gonna supposed to do.
Move on and proceed on what are your plans and there's no way on getting back in time on correcting those mistakes that had been done. Just be grateful that you've known
 crypto and able to make out at least some progress and upgrade towards your finances.

You mention $69k as if it were an "opportunity" in bitcoin, and the truth of the matter seems to be that right now (and in about the past year), "we" have been experiencing "opportunities" in bitcoin.

In other words, if you have been in bitcoin for 8 years, and all you seem to be able to recognize and/or appreciate is that "I could have sold bitcoin for higher prices than I bought it for", then you likely have not figured out the value in stacking bitcoin and stacking bitcoin in such a long time frame that you do not give too many shits about any kind of an ability to sell it in the short term.

Don't get me wrong.. part of the value of attempting to address matters inside of a thread that is mentioning "10 years" as its timeframe, is to point out part of the value that has the potential of coming from being able to consider bitcoin in terms of long time horizons and long term investing.......

Anyone have abilities to defer gratification for a few years?  how about attempting to defer gratification for something in the ballpark of 10 years or longer?  Are you able to do it?  Are you able to contemplate such a way of thinking?  

It is quite likely that you have to be able to think in longer time frames before you are even able to be able to create a plan that you want to try to be able to adhere to in those kinds of longer time frames.

Are we currently in "opportunity territory" or not?  What do you low coiners, no coiners or precoiners think?  Anyone who is somewhat new to bitcoin or anyone who failed/refused to stack bitcoin (sats) over the past 10, 8, 5 or 3 years can be envious of those bitcoin HODLers who had been stacking and/or holding BTC in the past 10 years (or similar time frame) as seems to be part of what sparked (inspired) OP to set forth his first post in this thread.  Yet, it seems that any of us who have been in bitcoin and have errored on the side of accumulating and HODLing bitcoin likely recognize that there are ongoing needs to get started in the stacking of sats journey in order to attempt to lessen chances of being overly envious of others who had been stacking sats for decently long periods of time, including someone who had stacked $10 worth of sats per week - for every week - for the past 10 years would have likely been able to stack around 7 bitcoin... and around $5.2k invested (that's $520-ish per year). (https://dcabtc.com?sd=2013-05-18&sda=custom&f=weekly&d=9_years&ac=1000&c=true)

This is not asking a question, we need to get prepared and plan ahead for the anticipated bull market that is coming very soon.
Some persons are likely to be holding large amount of Bitcoin in there wallet and they will not be surprised to see the price of Bitcoin skyrocketing because they already understand the market and had bought enough quantities of Bitcoin and other altcoins waiting for the cryptocurrency market to begins the movement so that they can earn big from the market without any stress regretting of not buying when the price was very low and affordable.

Five years in and I'm about 100%+ which is quite nice..
To be honest I lost a lot of money a few years before during the hype. About 7000$ which was a big chunk of money for me back then. trading like a maniac and buying and selling everyday is just not not way.
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It's not just about someone who has gotten rich on Bitcoin over the last ten years or since Bitcoin has become tradable on the market. But there are already a lot of people who have been successful and rich with Bitcoin after being patient for the last ten years by holding Bitcoin and selling it when the price is high.

I'm not going to respond about ponzi schemes that are so unworthy to be discussed and followed by everyone in this world, but those who had known Bitcoin earlier and then believed in Bitcoin as a good asset to have, maybe in the past two years they also have get a very appropriate reward, namely to become rich and successful through their patience in saving Bitcoin which they consider to be the best investment in their life.

This is a good and challenging question for those who adopted Bitcoin early and those who just adopted it, including me. Although I've been spending Bitcoin since about 6 years ago I just started taking the investment in the coin seriously last year. This indicates that I still have over 9 years to assess myself regarding your question, yet, what I envisage is really positive.

I have been prosperous with my engagement with Bitcoin in less than a year and almost all my money that was to be wasted in my bank account was converted to Bitcoin last year for both trading and investment and the results have been "so far, so good."

In light of this, I see myself as a millionaire in $ in the next 9+ years remaining if my present success assessment and future opportunities in the coin as envisaged in relation to your question.

I am optimistic about the future. I always wonder what the days ahead hold for me. If I think about the next 10 years from now I will try to hold some amount of BTC and I believe if I can hold some amount of BTC for the next 10 years then maybe 10 years later that investment can change my life.  Because I believe the value of Bitcoin will increase a lot in these ten years. And I've been trying to hold a little bit of BTC for long term planning since I hope I can hold my investment for a long time.

Actually is not up to 10yrs I know Bitcoin but then I have known Bitcoin since 2018 and that was after it's ATH in 2017. Since then  I have seen Bitcoin price fluctuate but still I won't say it is a bad experience and I also believe that before my 10yrs experience in Bitcoin I will make a huge profit  and I believe it 😀😀

What do you mean by making a profit really? Do you plan to hold to a certain point and sell it all when the price reaches the target? Do you have any strategy for investing in crypto, i.e. doing DCA, selling at what looks like a top and buying back cheaper, or selling some percentage of your holdings each time the price doubles?
I think most of people here don't really have a plan, which is not wrong on its own, but it exposes them to making mistakes and spontaneous trading based on emotions, which rarely ends well.

You have a bit of a strange way to describe your situation EarnOnVictor - but hey, you can do whatever you like... even though in essence, you are saying that you fucked around with bitcoin and did not realize its "long term" investment potential for the first 6 years that you were in it, even though in the past year, you have come to realize the long term potential of it.

O.k.. so be it.   Therefore, you want to start your measurement of your 10 years in bitcoin from 1 year ago..

alright.


Another thing that you say, is that you expect to be able to build up to millionaire status (seemingly in regards to your bitcoin stash) within the next 9 years (so let's say mid-2032-ish), yet you did not say how many bitcoins you are expecting to be required in order to reach such a "millionaire status."  I am not really trying to quibble with you on your predictive prowess point, even though surely many of us likely realize that a lot can happen in 9 years, and surely we may need to be careful in terms of trying to be too demanding in regards to our expectations in that kind of a time-frame - even though surely you may well end up being correct in terms of the soundness of your own predictive prowess.

Just to mention my own attempts to answer some future BTC price matters, about a month ago, I had revised my BTC price bottom prices from December 28, 2021 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5376945.msg58719591#msg58719591) - and so my most recent attempt to project BTC bottom prices shows that in 2032, you would need around 11 BTC to be at "millionaire" status (referring to the value of today's dollars), even though on December 28, 2021, I had projected millionaire status for mid 2032 to have had been around 0.28 BTC, so there is a pretty BIG difference between those two projections.. (around a 39x difference.. hahahahaha).


Yes... Patrol69... a lot of forum members, including the OP of this thread seem to be looking at others and "hoping" what they might do and not even describing what they did in the last 10 years, and even if some of us might be younger than others, there may well still be ways in which we might consider our lives in building ways, rather than merely hoping ways.. I cannot really say for sure.. because if someone might be in their early 20s, then they might NOT have had enough time living on their own in order to attempt to build, save and invest in various kinds of ways in order to have some time element to what they have done in order to attempt to show that they are not merely speaking about what they plan to do, but instead attempting to execute what they are able to do, and even if it might take them longer than 10 years to build a decently strong investment portfolio, many times it can be effective to figure out what you have done and to build upon that... and there is going to continue to be a lot of uncertainties in regards to how effective your planning and executing upon your plans is going to end up  paying off in a 10 year or longer timeline.

For example, for myself, I have had ONLY 10 years in bitcoin, yet before I got into bitcoin I had more than 20 years of investing and/or financial planning and executing and also a lot of mistakes along the way... and sometimes planning can pay off, but any kinds of planning seems to need to be coupled with action and building too... which is likely more realistic attempt focus on what you have done, and what you are currently doing, rather than merely what you expect to happen 10 years down the road.


Yeah but what have you done in the last 5 years?  You are half way to 10 years in terms of your knowing about bitcoin, did you act in those past 5 years?

I will say that in my first year of bitcoin (which was mostly 2014), I was building my BTC position, but it still likely took me a couple of years to start to quite a bit more comfortable, such as in early 2017, so some kinds of comfort can be quite a bit connected to both ongoingly being in bitcoin, but also getting into some level of profitability, and surely none of the profitability is even guaranteed until after it already had happened, and sometimes even being in profits could have some temptations for people to screw up by selling too much too soon and/or failing refusing to hang onto enough bitcoin in order to be prepared for further bitcoin UPpity once a decent amount of Up has already taken place.


I don't really like the idea of "making it BIG" by engaging in plans that seem to emphasize "trading" or selling BIG on the way up in order to accumulate more BTC, even though otherwise you make a lot of decent points in regards to preferences to have some kinds of plans (even if they might not be that great) rather than merely "talking a big game," which seems to mostly be what Crptomagma had done in that particular post.

I have been involved in this bitcoin forum since long time. Many opportunities have come in my life but I have not been able to utilize any opportunity properly till now. If I could have taken advantage of the few opportunities that have come my way, I would have had a lot of money today. But right now I have some bitcoins that I have invested long ago. Currently I have a lot of losses in my investment. But I will hold on to my investment until I can recover my losses. But I hope after 10 years I can take a lot of good things from here.

Well, yeah. 

You have been registered in this forum for nearly a year longer than me (so you have just passed your 10 year anniversary, 3 days ago)... so if you have failed/refused to so far build a stack of BTC, then maybe you might want to consider some kind of a dollar cost averaging plan into BTC.. and get yourself acting rather than merely thinking about it or merely talking about such a thing.

Surely, starting a DCA plan 10 years ago with merely $10 per week would have gotten you right around 7 BTC for an investment of right around $5,200 (https://dcabtc.com?sd=2013-05-18&sda=custom&f=weekly&d=9_years&ac=1000&c=true).. and so maybe today, it would be prudent to DCA with a larger amount.. such as $100 per week, if you are able, and surely if you consider some kind of an aggressive DCA'ing plan, then you may well end up feeling pretty good about whatever you had done 10 years from now, even though surely there are no guarantees that such an aggressive DCAing into BTC plan will end up working out in a decently good way.. so there are always uncertainties, even though it seems that BTC's investment thesis is not any weaker now than it was 10 years ago.

Bitcoin is getting familiarize due to its higher price and I think those who hold their bitcoin up to 10 years ago have seen more ups and downs so there experience increases and now they will not be worried about the market Fluctuations.

At start there is always a trouble of losing money because people don't have seen any real action in crypto market but just heard about it so when they come across their actual experience they will get every single point about the success and failure. Experience of one year or two year does not make you successful but success requires prolong time so whenever the market makes you disappointed then hold your bitcoin and don't do any action in will be really helpful for you.

Holder of bitcoin for 10 years will be able to maintain the activities of their lives easily and with comfort because it will give them huge profit.

Most of the time, normal people cannot just come into an asset and then invest in a lump sum and just sit on their investment for 10 years.

Accordingly, frequently it is much better to stay active with your investment and even buying from time to time, whether that might be DCA or lump sum investing or a combination of that.

Of course, individual situations are going to vary in terms of how much of your investment portfolio that you have already established and if you might feel comfortable to merely allocate a lump sum into bitcoin - which seems to be the exception rather than the real world way that even already established investors tend to want to get into some kind of an investment (such as bitcoin) that they are just learning about and adding into their investment portfolio.


Some people might be able to mostly get into bitcoin over several months, some might take a year, some might take several years and some might even take 10 years before they get to some kind of a place in which they have gotten to a place that they are comfortable.. for example  if they might start out thinking that they will start with a 1% allocation into bitcoin, and then later they adjust their allocation to 10% or maybe even later, they might decide that they want a 25% allocation into bitcoin, and of course, establishing an allocation is not the same idea in regards to deciding whether or not to reallocate in the event that bitcoin might end up outperforming other assets that are held in the investment portfolio, so that person might be left with a bit of a dilemma regarding whether they should reallocate some or all of their bitcoin due to its superior performance (if that ends up happening to them) or to let their profits ride (in the event that bitcoin had outperformed some or all of their other investments). 

Personally, I have come to the idea that I would personally prefer to allow the performance (and outperformance) of the bitcoin portion of my investment portfolio to ride rather than to meaningful reallocate, yet I am not denying that any kind of dilemma had not existed in my own thinking about the topic, and since individual investment portfolios are likely going to vary (and their thoughts about their investment portfolios are going to vary too), then they are likely going to still be faced with some dilemmas regarding how to deal with BTC's outperformance of other asset classes, if that ends up continuing to be the case in the future as it had happened in the past (and of course, no guarantees with a dilemma in which BTC outperforms other assets, either).

One thing I am sure about people who hold their Bitcoin since a decade ago is that they are filthy rich right now.  Yes, they have observed the cycle of the market and surely understood it.  Reason why they don't sell and hold BTC after 10 long years.


In an early industry, the beginning is always a rough road.  No Industry ever had a smooth sail from its foundation.  There are always challenges and reluctance involved but once it is fully established, those who had participated in the beginning will surely rake in a huge profit.

Currently, market conditions are not friendly, still dominated by corrections and there are many obstacles for BTC to go up for now, but in my opinion, moments like this are when we still have the opportunity to collect potential coins like BTC or others. For special preparation, at least half of the assets are left in the wallet when another ATH arrives. In the next ten years no one will be able to read it, only predictions and prepare umbrellas before it rains.

This is actually something that I can't tell because I have not spent up to 3 years in Bitcoin already, and I think this question could be best answered by those who were with Bitcoin 10 years ago. If it's about where I see my life in 10 years with Bitcoin, I will say it will all be an assumption; bagging enough bitcoin that could give me profit in every price pump is an achievable possibility for me.


That sounds good, and judging from the price of Bitcoin in 2019 till now, anyone who bought and still holds Bitcoin till now or even its ATH will probably be on the huge profit side, but that also depends on the amount of Bitcoin purchased and held for this long period of time, because 100% of $1 and 100% of someone who invests $100-$1000 are not actually the same.


If I may ask, what's your possible calculation on how you plan to be making your huge profit? There is no certainty that 10 years from now Bitcoin will make a new break to another ATH; there is a possibility that it will hit a new ATH, but you can never tell when and how. If you are certain that you will make a huge profit in 10 years from now, I hope you have a mapped-out strategy that doesn't just involve holding and waiting for a new ATH alone.

In the past 10 years, Bitcoin has seen significant growth and adoption, and its future trajectory remains uncertain. However, I can provide you with a speculative scenario of what your life might be like if you had invested in Bitcoin and held onto it for 10 years. Please note that this scenario is purely fictional and should not be taken as financial advice.

Ten years after investing in Bitcoin, you might find yourself in a potentially favorable financial position. Bitcoin has experienced periods of volatility and price fluctuations, so the outcome could vary greatly. However, let's imagine a positive scenario where Bitcoin's value has continued to rise.

Financial Independence
Early Retirement
Diversified Investment Portfolio
Philanthropy and Giving Back
Continued Involvement in the Crypto Space
Lifestyle Upgrades

Remember that this scenario is purely speculative, and the actual outcome of a Bitcoin investment over 10 years could vary significantly. Cryptocurrency investments are highly volatile and come with risks. It's always essential to conduct thorough research, seek professional financial advice, and make informed decisions based on your individual circumstances and risk tolerance.

Even as you text is 90% AI generated, doesn't mean that those AI word's are 100% correct.
According to the OP it's question is where you are to see your self 10yrs from now if you have invested in Bitcoin or where you already are as a Bitcoin investor for the past 10yrs.  To some point I actually disagree with few of your AI's suggestions.




To some certain extent those who hold Bitcoin over the past year's especially the early investor's can actually say they are now financially stable this is not just done because the are holding Bitcoin but this is as a result of them being consistent and also having other paid job which they earn and foot their bills from rather than just hoping to survive from the profit that Bitcoin will give them , one thing that I know and believe gives one mind to hold for long is having other sources of income.


This all depends on the kind of job the investors is doing, for someone my self who derive joy on what I do, earning huge profit from Bitcoin will just be a added financial advantage to my life but that doesn't necessarily means I that I will retire from my Job, it might end up being a boring  life to me.


It's true that those who have earned more from an investment actually split all their profit to other means of earning to reduce their risk of loss and increases their chances of getting more in future. But that's not just done with Bitcoin investors.

🤔 I actually believe that earning is not among the things that makes a man give out to the community, to be a giver is actually something I see as self made, their are already lots of rice people in my neighborhood who I see giving as something that's not their thing.


Anyone who have benefited positively from investing in Bitcoin will actually want to try out other coins (altcoins) buy why trying to do so, he should be careful on the kind of coins he invest his money on, for their are lots of Altcoins who are just out their to gain and make profit from their investors why looking as if they are promising.

I still feel that even in conditions like this, even though what you said could be true, under conditions where we talk about the market every day, it is clear that we are not just going to stay and wait, let alone for a long time.
Even though the best thing is to hold on until our goals are achieved and the target we want is successful in the investment we make, we still need more action for that, such as maximizing conditions when a crash comes by utilizing the momentum of buying from below for the development of our portfolio.


In fact, 10 years is not a short amount of time and we cannot even guarantee with our condition whether it will be possible or not during those 10 years.
I might be more realistic, as long as you are still capable then continue, but when there are things that you don't want, for example, to happen to your life, you don't have to force them either. because indeed our concept will not wait again and again but of course we have a target regarding the investment we make as long as your target is fulfilled then why are you still pushing for it.
But indeed everyone's views are different on this matter and I also won't insist on what is said is it right or wrong but what I want to emphasize is that even though we are indeed in bitcoin and it still has good hopes then it is still feasible but when we already have a plan and targets to be achieved and when those targets are met it is not wrong to stop and enjoy the results.

I believe with better condition our life after ten years in bitcoin but can't guarantee we all in the right or better has financial freedom, many of us invested almost ten years in Bitcoin but some urgent need made them have to sell investment assets early and loss opportunity with huge profit earn. I have experienced with Bitcoin since price under $1,000 and ever invested above 50 coins in Ethereum, but some urgency has to pay make difficult choose with my position and have to sell Ethereum under $400 and few months later price going up above before success creating new all time high price.

Actually have been financial freedom after six years invested in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, hope has chance at the future earn profit with bitcoin or altcoin investment for getting new all time high price again for coins invested.

Some urgent needs cannot be predicted and this is a need that must be fulfilled immediately. selling some assets for urgent needs will save us even if selling at prices that are too cheap or don't have much profit. I experienced that several times while investing in bitcoin or altcoins. It was indeed unavoidable.
Starting to invest when the Bitcoin price is still cheap enough and holding it for a long period of time, gives many advantages. Until the time I got a lot of capital to meet all the needs that have been hindering my investment.
Financial freedom will be achieved if the investment can be maintained and run well so as to generate lots of profits. I have achieved many price targets. for now just waiting for the new ATH to be reached.

Urgent needs should not be a reason to justify our inability to hold for long. We all run into urgent needs in one way or another, and these needs are to some point unavoidable, but we should also note that before we make any form of investment, those investments should not just be our only means of survival; that is to say, we should always have other means of earning. If we are to experience some kind of urgent need that requires us to sell off our holdings, that's fine, but what then stops us from buying those holdings back when we earn from our normal pay jobs? If one is actually determined to buy and hold Bitcoin, selling it off doesn't stop you from buying it back again when you get your hands on cash later.


One thing about investing in crypto currency—"Bitcoin," to be precise— As long as you have a strong holding decision, one day you will actually hit your target. Everyone has their own ATH. Bitcoin in general has hit its ATH, which it could also break anytime soon or later in the future. I never can tell, but one thing is certain: as long as you continue hodling and don't panic sell, you will actually experience your own ATH with your eyes and take profit.


To me, financial freedom is easily achievable when one has a diversified investment portfolio. That's not just putting all your assets into one thing; we should have different sources of income to reduce the level of loss that could be incurred at a time and also reduce the amount of pressure you put on each of them.

When any of us might be running into situations in which we are selling bitcoin (or any other thing that we might invest into.. and fuck shitcoins.. such as ethereum and all the other shitcoins that likely are distracting you, even though you chose to invest into those, which is likely more like gambling rather than investing), then we need to be careful in regards to making sure that we are not overdoing it and that we are making sure that we have a cashflow to continue to cover our expenses in order that we do not have to sell much if any bitcoin at any time other than a time that is completely of our own choosing.

So if we are finding ourselves to be either having to frequently sell our investments at a time that is not of our own choosing, or that we are even getting close to the point in which we are thinking that we might have to sell some of our bitcoin at various inconvenient times, then we likely need to look at the likelihood that we are overinvesting into bitcoin and likely causing our investment to become a form of gambling rather than a form of investing, and since bitcoin is likely amongst the best of asset classes that is currently available, we should be careful in regards to if we are fucking around with trading with it (or gambling with it) rather than figuring out ways to ongoingly prudently accumulate it for the longer term in order that we are the one(s) who are deciding when and under what conditions to sell it.. including that it is likely better to be shaving off sales amounts of BTC along the way, rather than selling large amounts of our BTC that may well end up resulting in our never being able to re-accumulate the BTC that we had ended up selling.


I would be careful Nwada001 in terms of the belief that you are going to be able to buy back the bitcoin that you had sold based on some urgent and/or emergency need..

Many of us need to be careful in terms of our getting trapped into some kind of a belief that we are going to be able to buy back any BTC that we sell along the way, and it seems to me that one of the more healthy ways to think about your BTC stash is that you may well not be able to buy them back if you do end up selling some of them along the way, and if you are able to buy some back, then that is a good thing, but if you are in a kind of BTC accumulation stage, then one of the best ways to accumulate BTC (if not the best) is by buying it.. not by selling it.  Bitcoin accumulation 101 (label that as a "protip" if you must).    :D :D :D :D :D


Mostly, I agree with this point.. while at the same time, recognizing/appreciating that nothing is guaranteed.. while at the same time, bitcoin is likely amongst the best (if not the best) asymmetrical bet that any of us is able to make.. as long as we recognize and appreciate the matter and at the same time, do not overly leverage (or gamble) in order to become overly greedy by the fact that we have such information that the overwhelming population seems to not realize.


For me, financial freedom is having an ability to live within our means and have a decently large cashflow cushion that we do not necessarily need to become worried about short term changes in the world that are inevitable... and sometimes violent and disproportionate in the various ways that they impact a lot of normies, including everyone even if we might try to distance ourselves from such worldly unfairnesses, we likely know people who are unfairly and ongoingly impacted by such ongoing injustices.

I am using bitcoin for transactions and thus I do not hold a lot. I get payments in crypto and use it to pay for services which buy. Most of the services like hosting which I used to buy with paypal earlier now I do with crypto.

Life is rather full of surprises and its nice to actually hear someone actually saying some truth about holding your coins. Like I said life is full of surprises and you never know what might hit you next that might require you to actually sell off some of coins which is not a bad thing I presume but this notion of selling your coins is actually seen by many members here as some kind of abomination but the truth is no matter the level of investment or savings one is into there is actually a time that can possibly require you to temper with those coins or savings as that is the whole sequence of life @constantchanges. Well for buying back after sold, I think that does count anymore because the moment sold that portion of coins is gone thats just the hard truth there and if eventually you bought back, you are actually adding to your portfolio as you did not plan ever to stop buying bitcoin so I guess that just gonna count as a new investment added. The funny part of this whole holding issue is pretty simple if we all just understand that bitcoin is actually money and money is meant to be spent and also save if we have bigger plans with it.

I have a friend who actually says he use to borrow from his own investment and that he is going to pay back but the funny thing is that he actually buys bitcoin on a monthly basis and his means of payback would actually be his monthly adding of coins to his portfolio. For me I just feel any coins touch from your investment is not a mistake as its your money and you actually have the right to use it so I don't know why people feel somehow when they use their money

I think I've also experienced how the need becomes urgent when assets only in bitcoin are the hope but it doesn't meet a decent need and is only enough for the urgent need, with this I have changed the pattern where reserve funds must exist and choose several assets to diversify so that this will not interfere with bitcoin investment when there is a pressing need again, so it is indeed important to have a reserve fund and this must be managed as best as possible.

That's bitcoin investing when prices are low anything can benefit you if you hold long term, and we know that even now it's important to hold bitcoins for the next 10 years again while prices are cheap right now, when other investments have worked out and all needs have been met, so it's better to return to planting bitcoin from now on for better profits.

Financial freedom is that we use bitcoin without being regulated by anyone to send anywhere, but with bitcoin investment it is clear that it must be maintained at any time, waiting for ATH time is a good idea where you might be waiting for bigger profits to be achieved.

There is always a time in our life where we experience urgent need of funds, while being short of fund to fill the needs, we are forced to sell anything sellable just to fill the shortage of money.  Even if you diversify if the fund of those other investments is not enough, you will still be forced to sell your Bitcoin holdings.


If we are sure that Bitcoin is the most profitable venture, why divert our money away from it? Isn't it nice to maximize the profit? 


Financial freedom in a standard context is the state where we don't have to worry about funds in our future endeavors while financial freedom in a Bitcoin context is the freedom to do transactions or transfers without the need of intermediaries.  In here I think we are talking about financial freedom in the standard context.

I am unable to predict how my life will be in ten years under the bitcoin system. But during the time I've known bitcoin, I can say that my life has been wonderful and that I can be grateful for my dealings with it because it has never disappointed or let me down in terms of my hope that it would one day bring about the financial breakthrough that the world needs at this point in the current economic crisis.

Your post is not really saying much of anything calonpa.

Again we are talking about bitcoin in this thread, not crypto.. whatever the fuck you might mean by "crypto."

Currently, bitcoin is not necessarily the best way to transact or to do payments, even though there are a variety of ways in which bitcoin might be superior as a payment method, it may not be a great way to transact for a lot of the various ways that people might want to transact, including questions regarding towards how many people are ready, willing and able to receive it.. while at the same time, lightning network is coming along but still likely is needing a lot more people using it in order to really become practical in terms of various ways that we might make payments or perform transactions.. whether in person or even over the net..  and there may well be some kinds of cases in which it might be good to transact in bitcoin... especially, if we might be considering various "unstoppable" ways that people might want to transact or even wanting to get out of the habit of transacting with various traceable payment methods.. which surely a lot of the tools are still being developed or have a long way to come in various bitcoin circles.. including perhaps a pretty large number of people who are not even getting into bitcoin, so then they may well give you a blank stare (if not a hostile response) if you ask them if they will accept a bitcoin payment or if they would pay you in bitcoin.


You can do whatever you like in terms of selling your coins, but if you are being forced to sell your coins at a time that is not of your choosing, and if you are selling below your purchase price, it is likely a sign of poor financial management and poor foresight..

You can rationalize all that you like regarding various emergencies that might happen.. or to blame others for judging you because you lost money when you sold a lot of your bitcoin because you failed to properly plan or to engage an appropriate and meaningful buying strategy... and perhaps buying too many.. that you could not afford.


yes.. you could count it as a new investment.. so maybe you had a loss on one angle and a new investment on another angle.  Some of the "creative" ways of accounting are fair, and some of them may well be a kind of rationalizing mistakes that were made.

I am not even suggesting that mistakes should not be made, and it is quite likely that a lot of us will make a lot of mistakes in our bitcoin journey, if we have not already made a lot of mistakes, and so it is mostly up to us regarding how we might consider framing our own BTC portfolio management or our accumulation strategy or even whether we calculate in terms of dollars or bitcoin or some other way of measuring that might allow us to manage our BTC holdings and/or other investments in ways that are fitting to our own particulars (psychology and finances).


The last time I checked bitcoin is more than just money.

But, hey you can frame it however you like and if it works for you, then so be it, but if you are trying to criticize holders, then it sounds like you are generalizing way too much... and maybe you need to particularize your supposed criticism (to the extent that any really exists) a wee bit moar better.


You do understand that there are a variety of ways in which people might engage in accounting, and some guys/gals might be measuring different things than you?

Using bitcoin as a means of payment is one aspect of bitcoin, but it may not be necessary or correct for certain people depending on where they are at in their bitcoin journey including various geographical (jurisdictional) considerations that bitcoin hodlers might have.  Another thing that tends to be worthy of consideration is that even though some people may not really understand Gresham's law, they still might be attempting to figure out the extent to which they might choose to spend one money (asset) versus another based on Gresham's law considerations.

For sure, there is some validity to what seems to be one of your criticisms of bitcoin in terms of some of the reluctancy to use aspects of bitcoin, and surely there can seem to be a bit of a chicken and egg problem in regards to the extent to which payment methods and routes will be developed when hardly anyone seems to be spending their bitcoin, yet I doubt that bitcoin's investment case is completely weakened by a lot of the reluctant to spend aspects that comes from bitcoin HODLers, and bitcoin continues to grow and its networks continue to grow, and bitcoin seems to be one of the best of places to keep a decent amount of your value, even if 99% of stores are still ongoingly reluctant to take it because it may well continue to seem that bitcoiners are not spending their cornz.


Yes.. of course, there may be times in which any of us could be forced to sell some or all of our bitcoin, but it seems to be that there are a lot of ways to minimize or even to avoid such circumstances by sufficiently/adequately preparing, including preparing for extremes.

If you fail/refuse to adequately prepare for extremes, and then you are having emergencies every year or every couple of years, that likely reflects more upon your poor financial (and perhaps psychological) management skills rather than the fact that emergencies do end up happening for the vast majority of people from time to time... but if they are happening all the time.. some reflection and adjustments may well be needed (and perhaps urgently and drastically needed.. like a slap in the face   :D :D :D :D :D).


It's nice not to over do it.

It's nice to not be greedy.

It's nice to know that since bitcoin remains such an asymmetric bet to the upside (if not the best that any of us will ever see) that we do not need to invest a lot or even to overly invest in order to potentially profit stupendously, or even to get rich as fuck from merely employing reasonable, prudent and perhaps aggressive approaches that do not devolve into overly aggressiveness that causes us to reck our lil selfies along the way.  That is part of the definition of an asymmetric bet.. you don't necessarily need to invest a lot in order to have the potential of profiting a lot but it is not going to do you a whole hell of a lot of good if you end up recking yourself in the process because you got overly greedy when you could have been rich as fuck, you got greedy and stayed poor (or at least way less rich than you could have had been if you had taken a more prudent, patient and humble path to your BTC accumulation path and your BTC portfolio maintenance path that should attempt to ongoingly preserve a decent amount of the principle)


Why not both?  Why not define financial freedom however you want?  why not tailor your own ways of attempting to achieve financial freedom within your own meaning of the concept, and hope that you do not screw it up too much along the way... and that you are actually able to achieve goals that you set for yourself based on your own particulars?


That's about as vague and meaningless of a statement as anyone can make... yeah whatever, you feel better about bitcoin and you believe that bitcoin is great.. so what?  Are you really saying anything about any particulars of your own journey in terms of where you came from in connection with bitcoin and/or what your current practices might be in order to prepare yourself for the future in terms of bitcoin, such as the next 10 years?  Doesn't seem like it.  But, hey.. you do you.

What shall it profit us to regret about not investing in bitcoin due to one reason or the other. In life there is what could be regarded as missed opportunity and that means it is a lesson for readiness incase another opportunity will present itself. Many people have criticized themselves for not being early adopters of bitcoin, they believe that those who bought in then are the only ones that have made profit in bitcoin but they simply didn't understand the bitcoin technology, bear/bull and the investment potential of bitcoin.

@Obari, you have said you are planning to invest your campaign rewards for a long time and that is a good plan, that is another opportunity presented to you because in a year or two from now if you can you will check the btc value you are selling out this year (2023) and you compare the value in 2025 or 2027, it will not be the same in value. You will realize in your wallet record that the value then would be higher but then you had already used it. So if you keep some today, it will serve as asset invested in the future. Like  -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr said,
“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run walk, if you can't walk crawl, but by all means keep moving.”

Even though it is possible for such things to happen, of course we must remember that when we are and want to sell, it is clearly still very permissible. It's just that we must know that the conditions for selling must clearly be more than what we bought before. I will still emphasize like that because indeed our goal to invest is certainly about profit and why sell when we are still losing and just throwing away what you have.
On the other hand, this is the importance of financial management isn't it? because of course we realize that Investment is only a small portion of the money we have or we set aside and that's what we should still emphasize because regardless of anything we still have to save unexpected funds as one of the conditions to minimize events that are not really expected. and when it happens even though we don't expect it, but we still have money that can be allocated to patch or minimize it so that we don't interfere with the investment we do, especially if it hasn't met the desired target.

So in order words you are saying that one should actually save money for the unexpected events that might occur in our life's so as to free us from tempering with our bitcoin investment or any other investment? Well I think thats not a bad idea but I don't think anyone actually save for the unexpected or Atleast my savings is actually for such purpose because money spent to tackle my problem is actually welcome for me as a money well spent because the problems are bound to come but it will be worse if there is actually no funds to handle it or lead to you borrowing from others.

I suppose hodling is the best option if you have BTC. About 6 years ago I withdrew some money, I consider it as a mistake, since later it rose significantly. And now there is one more reason to hodl: the chance to save money in case of dollar (or other fiat) inflation. I don't know if BTC is going to be stable during inflation, but there is such possibility.

Of course, such things must be in the plan because regardless of anything we will not know what the future holds for us so in this case of course there must be some that we need to think about further.
Money management is not only about how we live with our finances well and save or invest because life is not that simple. Unexpected events can still happen regardless of anything.
We will not know how our health conditions are, we will not know what will happen to the infrastructure we have such as a car or house that could have to be repaired or maybe on the other hand our family has a sudden desire to go traveling, of course things like this are included in the condition of unexpected needs.
So in this case, as people who really want good financial management, we obviously have to prepare it from the beginning so that when it is not used at the end of the month, for example, we can set aside again what we do from other plans such as for savings or maybe investment.

When something like this is not done from the start and only prioritizes investment, indirectly, although I do not prohibit this, in my opinion it is wrong because when unexpected needs arise, we will be confused about where the money comes from to handle it, which makes the initial plan clearly disrupted.

Hodling to what end though? You need to figure out what actually are your long term aims and what are you trying to achieve from investing in crypto. Without setting clear goals, you're more likely to make rushed, emotional decisions. For some the goal could be a new car, for others - buying a house for cash, and others will aim into retiring early or just passing their stash to their children. The more realistic the goal is, the more likely it is to be achieved, but holding without any purpose bears the risk of either dying before seeing any benefits or panic-selling when things temporarily go bad.

You cashed in some BTC and now consider that a mistake only because now you know that the price went up. But you didn't know it then, so if selling BTC helped you achieve some life goal, there's nothing to regret.

It’s not worth regretting, it won’t change anything, but we need to remember past mistakes, because that’s how we get those important lessons that will help us do something better in the future, what we did badly in the past. Consistency is also a very important character trait, there are those who are trying to achieve great results in a short period of time, it is often very difficult to do this and it seems impossible, but if you are consistent in achieving your goal, then over time you will definitely achieve it.

Based on all experienced sharing here many people talk about their good news and less want to share bad side after know bitcoin, actually my life better after know with bitcoin but could be quit well if not invested with bitcoin on all time high price. I want to share with my bad experience after earn much profit from investing in Bitcoin, I tried reinvesting when bitcoin still on higher price, right now have bad moment for cut loss have loss more than 50% of my assets because invested on higher price. But keep trust with Bitcoin will back to higher price and one day later have chance for sharing good experienced after investing in bitcoin.

We dont actually know on what the future holds but doing something which it would really be that something good or does have that potential is something better rather than on making yourself doing nothing.

We are the ones who do make our own fate on which whether we do just simply sit still and wait on whats coming or would really be doing something and preparing for the upcoming and made out some investment
on which you do know that it could potentially give out that kind of opportunity on earning more.? Then it would really be something that a sensible thing to be done by someone.
Speaking about 10 years from now on Bitcoin or crypto space doesnt really make out an assurance that you would succeed. It would all very on what are the things that you had done in the past.
If you havent done any investment then you would really be still remaining on what you are on that time but if you do have done the opposite then for sure you had seen some progress.

Hmm, I have not spent 10 years in the market yet even not half of it but close to half. I think life is gonna be awesome in the coming time with Bitcoin because already the progress I am making, I am happy with it Alhamdullilah. I am focusing on the acclimation process to fill the bags to build up a good portfolio after that if we fast forward the time 10 years I think there will be a lot of success stories and lessons to tell everyone. I am excited to see how it goes if I live that long InshAllah I will surely try to quote this post and post it. Saving the link  :D. I think the only words I will say when 10 are going to be passed will be Alhamdulillah. Let's hope for the best.

it should be like this, saving to cover unexpected things in the future, so that there are no debts when they need funds, but in this case people are often negligent because they oversimplify financial problems hoping that a loan will come when they need it

I think most scams come from altcoins, not Bitcoin. So, you cannot judge Bitcoin community to be worse because of many scams lately. You must check again where the scams come from and why it appears. And you must understand that scams already appeared many years ago, they don't just appear recently.

For me, Bitcoin community should be better today since we already have more people involved. We also must realize that we already have varied Bitcoin communities after more people trust Bitcoin. Anyway, you must view the positive side of Bitcoin improvement, too. Bitcoin isn't always related to scams, Bitcoin is used for many purposes. People even use Bitcoin for donations now, it helps a lot the social or humanitarian issues.

You are saying most scams come from altcoins; you actually need to be specific on which kind of scam you are referring to. If you are talking about scams in which crypto currencies are used as means of payment for all sorts of illegal activities, then it's not just altcoins; in fact, Bitcoin is one of the most widely accepted and recognized digital currencies. In this kind of scam, they claim to blame Bitcoin for it, but it's not actually Bitcoin; it's the people who are using Bitcoin to make payments that should be held responsible for those scams. With or without Bitcoin, they can and will always perform their illegal transaction with other means of payment.

Altcoins are also mostly used for scam payment, but where I see Altcoin in a major scam is the fact that they produce bunches of Altcoins all the time with a fake promise to deliver, which never happens. All they want is to attract victims, sell their tokens to them, and pull off the scam with the funds. But using any crypto to make payment is something we should also consider; such payment can also be made with physical cash, gift cards, and every other means of payment that can be carried out to execute a transaction.

Many people may have different opinions about the price of Bitcoin because the price of Bitcoin fluctuates.  I earned a lot of bitcoins from 2017 to 2023.From my experience I can say that if one holds Bitcoin for long period of time he will surely become rich one day.  We know what the price of Bitcoin was in 2008 and how it is now until 2023.In 2008 and 2012 when the price of Bitcoin was low, those who held Bitcoin made large profits and became very rich.  So it is easy to understand that holding Bitcoin for 10 years surely can change anyone's life.  I have more confidence in bitcoin than other coins.

Bad people just used bitcoin as their payment method, or others will say that they trade bitcoin and they are earning bitcoin, but again, this is like any fiat money as it is also involved with illegal activities. It is not the currency or bitcoin that is bad; it is the intention of the people on how they can amass money on other people, and they just used it to pretend that it is legit. People these days are really doing anything just to scam people. Also in altcoins, it is used by other developers to scam people because they can easily hype it as well as develop a coin that those who are new to the industry get baited into.

Of course, if you have already gotten through half of a 10 year measuring period, then you have some pretty good ideas regarding how aggressive and assertive that you had been in terms of your BTC accumulation and/or your ability to manage your BTC holdings and the extent to which you might not have gotten reckt, so far.

You can look at various aspects of your own personal details, and you can plot out various specifics regarding your cashflow management, and generally what you might have been buying with that - and perhaps specifically focusing on bitcoin as compared with any other investments that you had, and also you might be able to see how much spare cash that you had along the way and if you might have had various cash crunches along the way, and attempt to figure out how you dealt with them and how that might inform how you might tweak your going forward strategy.

You can also look at a kind of standard budget, such as a regular and ongoing DCA strategy and then compare your own performance towards that strategy... did you do better, worse or about the same?

If you had been investing $100 per week into bitcoin for about the past 5 years, you would have invested right around $26,100 and you would have about 2.313 bitcoin, so you would be well over double the value of the amount that you had invested (https://dcabtc.com?sd=2018-05-26&sda=5_years&f=weekly&d=5_years&ac=10000&c=true), and you don't necessarily need to take those exact numbers, but you can still see how much you invested versus how many bitcoin that you currently have in order to see if you would have had better performance to stick with a more strict DCA approach.

Surely one of the things that might be off about looking at a flat amount invested may well be that you could have had done various lump sum investments along the way and you also could have had various changes in your DCA amount based on your cashflow and your expenses, but still you can see what a flat rate of BTC accumulation would have had accomplished in that 5-year period of time... which is decently above doubling the value of the amount that you might have had put in under a strict and steady DCA approach.


As you likely realize prior to 2012/2013, it was not really very easy to get bitcoin, so it might not even be fair to consider that it would have been very likely for many people to have had gotten into bitcoin prior to that time.. and probably more realistic to use 2012 or 2013 or even a later time as a potential starting date (in terms of getting into bitcoin).

Sure there were some techies who were able to get into bitcoin prior to 2012 and still be able to figure out how to hold onto the BTC that they had gotten (or accumulated).. but still seems a bit unrealistic to be using those kinds of dates.. and surely, even this thread was begun in late 2020.. and surely it is not even very realistic for any of us to be comparing ourselves to someone who might have had figured out how to get into bitcoin in late 2010 in order to actually have had 10 years in bitcoin by the time of this thread started.

Your assessment is very wrong in my opinion, because those who have been against crypto ten years ago does not mean they don't like crypto. But some of those who oppose it are those who still don't understand what crypto is, so they immediately make the decision to oppose it, even after they learn more about it. I'm sure some people who have been against crypto in the past are using crypto now and it really is regardless of what they use it for, because I don't think those who have been against crypto in the past would be using crypto to fool more people in the future This.

That's a pretty sadistic assessment in my opinion because not everyone nowadays uses crypto to deceive more people and if you've ever been scammed by someone else through crypto, I think you're just wrong in trusting people. It's not that the crypto isn't good and you also can't say the Bitcoin community is much worse for now, because Bitcoin is always growing better until now.

Here's the point. We cannot just sit idly by and surrender to the conditions in life which are actually quite scary to go through, so this requires careful preparation to be able to survive there and with conditions like these, action to change oneself in a better direction is clearly very necessary and one of the the way to make this happen is to plan from the start what we want in the future because even though we don't know what the future will be like, at least with good planning we can determine what our own future

Agree with this because moving and doing things in a more positive direction, of course it would be better than just being silent and doing nothing because this is tantamount to surrendering to existing circumstances. whatever there.
Even though there really isn't a guarantee that can really be confirmed in bitcoin, by looking at the progress of the current bitcoin potential, of course it's much more interesting than just doing nothing. I prefer to try things like this because it is my belief that this will lead to something good for me in the future. there is no definite guarantee that it is a risk that must be taken because regardless of any form of action there will definitely be a risk and we must go through that risk if we really have confidence in bitcoin.

Bitcoin was launched in 2009, and even at that time, there was no value attached to bitcoin, those who owned it were mostly sending it to one another for fun mostly, bitcoin began to have a value after the 10,000 bitcoin for 2 pizza transaction happened..

So I am wondering where or how you got the information that there was a price tag on bitcoin in 2008 when it was actually launched in 2009..

Anyways, don't compare old times to now, those who are buying bitcoin right now can only become richer, cus they are already rich, think about it, it takes a rich man to afford 1 whole bitcoin at the moment, and owning 1 whole bitcoin or even more bitcoins is how the rich can become richer, for those who are poor and wanna make millions of dollars holding 0.01 bitcoin, sorry, but might have to wait a very very long time, if at all its possible to make a million dollar through holding 0.01 bitcoin.

Regardless of everyone's opinion I don't think we live off of it. Even though listening to people's opinions can also be quite important for us, of course we also have to focus on what goals we want to achieve.
I personally don't want to drag on with other people's opinions about bitcoin whether it's said to be good or bad, actually I don't really care about that. because i only have one fact that i feel, when i decided to be in bitcoin and feel the benefits of them in the previous few years that i can feel until now then that was enough for me to explain to myself that this is the right path for me skip.
I'm only focused on taking advantage of the momentum for now with the condition of buying below and sometimes doing DCA because I see this as reinvesting for me so I can produce again in the future. indeed this is risky but when I know what their progress is like it's not a big problem for me apart from other people's opinions I don't really care about that.

Yes, apart from that I agree with what you are doing, I mean implementing the DCA strategy in the investment pattern in bitcoin. Because we know that bitcoin will go up and up in the coming years and we will achieve many big dreams in the future, therefore I really agree to buy and hold in the long term.

Therefore there are many wild opinions that are very useful in growing confidence to achieve everything we dream of in achieving success in investing in bitcoin and I admit that 10 years ago was a very beautiful thing to remember and those who became millionaires from the moment it will be a big motivation for us to achieve it.

Holy shit!  Why use the word crypto so much?  Are you talking about bitcoin or not?

I think that the word crypto should be avoided, unless you specify what you mean by it.. and surely there were not very many coins around 10 years ago, so most likely when we are talking about "people being against crypto 10 years ago," then it seems that we would be talking about bitcoin...

I know that there were some other coins 10 years ago, but let's try to make it clear what we are talking about.. bitcoin or something else or something related to bitcoin..   This thread happens to be about bitcoin, and it is in the bitcoin discussion section too.. so if there is reference to "crypto", but really the intent to talk about bitcoin, then why not just use the word bitcoin..  If you are referring to something other than bitcoin, then specify what you mean, because vague references to "crypto" can cause a lot of confusion regarding what you are talking about.


I agree with most of what you had said in the post linked above, except some of your phraseology in this above cited section has some strange and/or discordant implications.

Maybe I am mostly bothered by your suggestion that there is a need to already be rich in order to become rich from bitcoin, and even though surely there are no guarantees in bitcoin, it seems to be far from true that any of us need to already be rich (or even new coiners or no coiners need to already be rich) in order to become rich from bitcoin. 

Bitcoin seems to be amongst the best (if not the best) of investments (and asymmetric bets to the upside) that is available to almost anyone who is willing to put some efforts into acquiring some of it and securing it.

Whether we seek to go from non-millionaire status and into millionaire status may well be an additional question that is a matter of degree, but still should not necessarily motivate normies to feel as if they have to think in terms of having to become a millionaire when the fact of the matter is likely that bitcoin has decently good chances of improving the financial/psychological well-being of a lot of normies, no matter their investment level, so long as they figure out ways to tailor their BTC investment (accumulation/maintenance) in such a way that is suitable to their own circumstances while hopefully continuing to attempt to learn along the journey of accumulating BTC and maintaining a BTC stash.

Well, you are very correct sir, and I appreciate your time in making a detailed oriented comment.

Maybe I wasn't lenient, or should I rather use the word "patient" enough to explain in detail, where my comment you quoted is driving to..
It is never a way of discouraging normies not to invest in bitcoin, though I understand the comment could be easily understood as such due to lack of details..

What I actually meant was that, though bitcoin is available for everyone to buy, either as an investment for the future, or for trading for short term profit, what ever the purpose be, bitcoin no longer possess the ability to make normies super rich over night like it did to those who bought it in its early days.
Majority of normies today, coming into crypto with a mindset like "investing in crypto currencies is an automatic ticket to over night riches", and this is mostly why we see most normies, buying bitcoin after learning about it, hold it for few months, and the loose patience and dump it and then go for some random shit coins.

My comment was a way to tell them that, anybody buying bitcoin at this moment should not be expecting to becoming rich over night, except you are already rich and can afford to buy up to 1 bitcoin or more at the spot - which means the individual is already rich, but only looking to become richer.
. For the normies who are investing in bitcoin for the sole purpose of changing their financial status from poor to rich, achieving that with Bitcoin now takes strategies..

 - Accumulation - which means you don't have to buy 1 whole bitcoin at the spot, but can accumulate it over time - is one of those strategies.
 - Patience - which means to endure several challenges, temptations, what seems to you like reason you might want to dump bitcoin for some random shit coin - is another important strategy..

Even though bitcoin can no longer make people change their financial status from "being poor" to "becoming rich" over night, or in a matter of months, it is still the best and most profitable asset anyone or body, can invest in, I am not rich, but I have an investment portfolio which bitcoin takes more than 70 percent of my entire portfolio.

Many people have not realized it yet; they have not even seen any opportunity in Bitcoin for the next 10 years. But I think those who have been into Bitcoin for over 10 years now would illuminate the plebs better on what is likely to happen in another 10 years to come. It might not really be as we speculate it to be because nobody can accurately predict the future, but as the year passes by, that's how new technology keeps evolving; even current technology keeps getting better, and that's how Bitcoin has also been waxing strong for about 14 years now, and it's just 14, although 14 years is not common, but I know we're still going to celebrate Bitcoin's 50th birthday. So, if one buys now, there is still more hope beyond the 10 years we are even talking about. Perhaps some Bitcoiners wallet balances have not changed for about 5 to 10 years now, and I am not even certain when they wish to sell. Lastly, I have to say that there are still more upcoming millionaires in the Bitcoin space, just if they see the opportunity that Bitcoin is offering.

There is no reference to really believe that there will be an increase for bitcoin but indeed in this case we only hope by looking at the probabilities that it is possible for that to happen but of course in this case nothing is certain whether it will actually happen or no, it's just that by looking at the progress that has actually occurred, such a belief still exists.

I personally like I said before, I don't really care about the wild opinions out there about bitcoin especially for some negative opinions because I don't really care about it because I still only believe in myself and the experiences I have here in the previous few years it was enough to convince myself as for the wild opinions that are out there whether they support it or not I don't really care although indeed I still see some opinions there just to see if there is anything less than my belief but it's only getting worse strengthen myself with the belief that I do.

I have a long term plan with Bitcoin in the coming days. As part of a long-term plan I want to hold some amount of Bitcoin for a long time. Because I understand so much about the market that if I can buy some bitcoins at this time and invest for a long time then I believe I can get good profit from my investment. 

A person who bought only two pizzas with 10000 bitcoins, if he had a minimum understanding of the market, I believe he would never have made such a mistake. Hearing his story makes me think that maybe we are making a mistake by not investing in Bitcoin now that we will realize in a few years.  That's why I plan on investing in Bitcoin for the long term.

Laszlo Hanycez bought 2 pizzas with 10000 bitcoins. He was the first to use Bitcoin in business. This is why Bitcoin is used in business all over the world today. Laszlo Hanycez bought his 2 pizzas Every year on May 22 Bitcoin Pizza Day is celebrated.

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I have invested some amount of bitcoins. I will try to hold my investment for a long time. I think we will see a bull market very soon.

Bitcoin is created as a digital assets, which as you said, Bitcoin holders, in early stage there life has been transform if them did not sell, base on the price movements of Bitcoin it has made first and second Big all time high, while many crypto investors are waiting something huge than before. Base on that many people predict Bitcoin to reach $100k per BTC, which is possible but no body can give exactly time it may happen.

With maximum respect to Bitcoin, 10 or even 50 years is a long time and Bitcoin could become the world reserve currency or next AOL that made a lot of people wealthy until it was unseated by better technology. Whenever a person predict cryptocurrencies it is very hard to imagine a future without those set of person.
When CNBN asked expert from a variety of field to describe their vision for the currencies 50yrs from now, their answers has been condensed and edited for clarity. HERE.  (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/03/what-cryptocurrencies-will-look-like-in-50-years.html)

I agree with you on this. Many people who jump into crypto currency today sees it as a get rich quick sceem. Lack of proper information is the cause of that. And when I see such people I always try to advice them on how to invest and hold. If probably they were not among the earlier people who became rich by Bitcoin as at 2017. They can still plan for stage two of it.


 - I personally was a victim of that. I always hear about bitcoin, how bitcoin made people rich I always continue asking questions, what is Bitcoin? What is the function of bitcoin? Where can I get Bitcoin? How is Bitcoin been transacted? Nobody could tell me anything about it. Some haven't even heard of that name. Because I heard Bitcoin made people rich. I was so inquisitive to know. lattely 2021 I got the information and I studied alot and knew what is was, how it works, the value and how it wast transacted. I started regretting why didn't I get this information earlier. I bought my first Bitcoin and waited for some months but did not pop up. I swap if to another coin and waited for months No way. I bought many shitcoins hoping it will have same future as Bitcoin up till now. All turn to rugpull and disappear gradually till I see non. Here I come into conclusion that not all coin are coin. Now I have come into conclusion that Bitcoin is the best investment and I hope to accumulate more. Experience is the best teacher. I found myself here because I was willing and ready to know more about Bitcoin and I believe some day I will be among those that will be used as a topic.

After 10 years bitcoin will change everyone's life its value will increase several times compared to current price and long term investors will become more profitable. The price of bitcoin is very volatile its price changes every hour when it comes to investing in crypto bitcoin is the safest because it is less volatile than other cryptos. The next few years could see a huge growth in bitcoin if you want to start investing in crypto, you can do it with bitcoin but before investing, be sure about its risks but patience and an analytical approach will yield good returns. The crypto market has now become a raging wild west with unexpected elements coming into the market.

Wow, those are plans for the future. Do you really dream of celebrating 50 years of Bitcoin? If so, then I congratulate you. I probably won't make it to this point, but I'll try. ))
Naturally, crypto is constantly evolving just like technology. I have confidence that after some time something else will come to replace it. All these innovations in terms of technology development have been too dynamic in recent years. I wouldn't bet on cryptocurrencies alone.

Discussing the price, it seems there is no doubt that Bitcoin will provide profits to its holders who have the patience to hold for a long period, but what about other developments because this is of course also an important one in Bitcoin, and we know what makes Bitcoin survive and be in demand Many people, even though it is only an investment tool, are developing it and the Bitcoin community continues to work together in this development. Becoming a more massive means of payment is highly expected to happen in the future and I think when that can be realized slowly on the exchange prices will no longer be volatile because more people use it for transactions rather than trading on the exchange, so nothing unexpected will happen anymore.

You are absolutely correct but lemme draw your attention on something very important, have you also forgotten that there are lots of options for brokers that have added bitcoin to their platform for trading?
I think bitcoin is widely used for trading and funding as well, for bitcoin to remain less volatile is something unimaginable because that is the reason for its growth and people making profits from it.

Yes we can expect more development from it but, there may not be less volatility because of it widely usage and thus would still draw more volatility and more riskeir for investment. Have you think of the circulation as well? All these also attributes to the rate at which the volatility level can't be controlled or reduced.

You seem to be on the edge of making some decent points negotiation, but it is a bit unclear what you are talking about with the ways that you are throwing around the term crypto and crypto markets, which causes me to conclude that you are either a bit confused regarding what you are talking about or perhaps you know what you are talking about but you are allowing the term crypto to foggy your presentation of that information. 

Of course, many folks should appreciate that bitcoin is first and bitcoin is the best way to get started and/or to prioritize trying to figure out the state of where to invest time, money and resources.. that might even include how to research, so if you might end up believing that to be the case, then why do you frame that in terms of trying to analyze what might be happening in "crypto."  Do you believe that you understand bitcoin better when you study more about what is going on in bitcoin adjacent spaces?  How about really focusing directly on bitcoin first, and maybe spending 100 hours or better yet 1,000 hours focusing on various aspects of bitcoin before even trying to understand various shitcoins or bitcoin adjacent space.

By the way, I would agree with any assertion (or defense of your position) that might proclaim that it sometimes can be quite difficult to know how far to delve beyond bitcoin during those first 100 to 1,000 hours of studying the space, and so I don't have any kind of road map for that because almost no matter what when we study into bitcoin, we are going to have some touching upon some shitcoin information - but there are places that proclaim to be bitcoin ONLY that are good starting points so that they would contextualize any shitcoin context in terms of bitcoin. 

Maybe at least starting with some things like

swanbitcoin (https://www.swanbitcoin.com/signal/) - they have a lot of great articles

and/or

Michael Saylor's information is going to give you some good starting points..

There is a 12 hour course that is called bitcoin for everyone (https://learn.saylor.org/course/view.php?id=468), but he also has several free courses within the Saylor academy that touch upon bitcoin as a topic (https://learn.saylor.org/search/index.php?page=0&q=bitcoin&title&timestart=0&timeend=0&mycoursesonly=0&cat=core-course-content) and/or links that he has on Hope.com (https://www.hope.com/) to various bitcoin-related discussions that he has been - but also other bitcoin educational material there.

and you could spend way more than 100 to 1,000 hours just studying various parts of those materials.

Now, if you tell me that you already know those kinds of bitcoin related topics, then maybe its just a matter of fixing your language so that you are not making gobble-dee-gook suggestions related to crypto, whatever that might mean to you, it is not making a lot of sense to use that kind of language.

Your point on price had also been expressed strangely too.  We can look at the past 10 years of price performance and see great results, and if we know about bitcoin, then probably we can have some level of expectation that bitcoin is going to continue to be a good performer in the next 10 years, even for someone starting into bitcoin right now, yet at the same time, we likely need to be able to appreciate that bitcoin's past performance does not guarantee future results.


You seem lost, fruktik.  Perhaps you should also look at studying into bitcoin a bit better and look at my above-linked places as possibly good places to spend some time learning about bitcoin before spouting off vague comments about potential bitcoin replacers, and even if true, bitcoin remains a good investment right now... just choose your starting position size, perhaps in the range of 1% to 25% and then study bitcoin for a while in order to refine where you are at in terms of what level you would like to make your initial investment.. and perhaps keeping on studying might be helpful too... bitcoin is not necessarily that easy of a thing to study, even for folks (including but not limited to yours truly) who have been paying attention to the bitcoin space for many years.

I doubt that Dr.Bitcoin_Strange is putting all of his investment into bitcoin (or as you lamely refer to it as "cryptocurrencies"), so you seem to be creating a strawman argument with that kind of an assertion.

There are some people who falls to understand the classification between bitcoin and cryptocurrency, some people classified bitcoin to be cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency to me is a general name to all altcoin. But however, we shouldn't be that naive to classified bitcoin or belittle bitcoin to as ordinary altcoin.
Yes.. you are correct because when people became very vast in knowledge it would help to understand the whole concept of bitcoin before thoroughly wanting to venture into bitcoin but, however they had focused into the profit aspect while they had failed to gain knowledge involved which at their later end may not get the exact results which they needed. This could results in developing hatred for bitcoin because they aren't getting what they expected due to the lack of misinformation ( the tendency to be self educated and development), but nevertheless, if the knowledge are well acquired it would enable the investor to be well prepared about the risk associated with their investments.

We should understand something very important that, is very easy to invest in any currency but very hard to understand they whole concept and principles governing the investment, that's why lose is inevitable to experience along the line except such people had the mindset to hold for a longer period without considering how long it could cost him or her to make profits from their investment.

I am not saying that anyone should fully learn about bitcoin before investing into it, but I do think that they should spend 100-1,000 hours before they start to proclaim that they know about bitcoin, and before they employ the term crypto currency while presuming that they are talking about bitcoin.


I never said anything like that.  Almost always I tell people to get the fuck off zero and get started in bitcoin ASAP.  Of course, they have to figure out their position size and their budget, yet most people should have some kind of a ballpark idea if they can afford to spend $100 per week or $10 per week, and then to figure out the details as they go.

I am also not suggesting to act rashly, but there are so many people who do not know shit about bitcoin, even though they think that they know about bitcoin because they heard the name, but they still do not have hardly any clues, and so even if they don't know much about it, I would suggest getting started learning about bitcoin and investing into bitcoin and figure out the details later. .. including personal financial detail and continuing to study bitcoin.  In the end, each person is responsible for his/her own finances even if I am telling them to get the fuck off zero and get started right away.


I think that you are taking the opposite from what I said, but yeah, people need to learn about bitcoin.. and to start right away, even if many times (likely even a vast majority of times) they think that they know about bitcoin, they likely do not know.


I probably don't completely disagree with you here.  I would just reiterate that people need to be learning as they invest, and it can take a while to get your shit together in terms of your finances, but the fact that you have to get your shit together does not take away from the need to continue to learn... start out with basic personal financial management.. and work on improving incrementally and ongoingly... spend less than you make and try to figure out ways to increase your income and only use what is extra for investments, such as bitcoin.

Yes, you are absolutely correct @SmartGold01. If any person (investor) doesn't know about Bitcoin but sees altcoins as Bitcoin because they are all called crypto. That, that person isn't ready for crypto as a whole, the person might end up investing in the AiDogi coin thinking it is the best. This is the reason why it is good to do good research and know the leading coins to invest in.

Yes, like you said that it is very easy to invest in any crypto currency, but hard to understand it all. I agree with you very well, but I believe @superman184 doesn't understand Bitcoin at all. Well, it is good that he or she is on bitcointalk.org so that he can learn more about Bitcoin and crypto currencies as a whole.

If new investors are joining the Bitcoin game just because of profits, I think they should learn first before risking their money, because in investments anything can happen in some seconds.]

I've only been in Bitcoin space since 7 years ago and my life has never been the same, Bitcoin was a bigger part why I am here today and few other altcoins helped me too, for example Vulcan Forged, I don't think there is other better places I could have been than crypto right now, if you know what you are doing crypto can get you there sooner than any other investments in the world today.

To be honest I am not putting all my money into Bitcoin, I have other assets that I believe could bring me more money than Bitcoin, but it's safer to have Bitcoin because Bitcoin always starts the pump before every other altcoins, if you know what dominance is all about you should get this right.

You have a very big solid point, most times some people don't mind how much they spent irrespective of what is coming to their account at the end of the month or week as the case maybe but they always find themselves involving or being indebted to people around them at the cause of not reducing their outgoing cash. However, spending less also depends on individuals as I know or do I say believe to understand that some people regularly lived above their income (luxurious life) involving in forms of lifestyles.

Learning is one thing for sure that brings out the potentials in a woman be it a man, and should be able to get prepared for whatever that may be the results at their cost of investment. That is why taking advantage of investing on a valuable asset like bitcoin is a wise choice, maybe after investment if such person(s) are willing to learn along the line it would be a better of not even taking a bold step to venture into investment. But however, to relief stress and pressure from their investment increasing their source of income as you said is always the best option otherwise they may not hold for long, since they had no additional source of income.

Thought history says few managed to hodl for such a long time ,and  if they did they needed to have access to their wallets if their private keys werent forgotten and buried , but for the few that bought a decent amount of coins and had their pvt keys these were declared instant crypto millionaire's a title many of us want to bare.

Bitcoin has always been this unpredictable asset that many want but are afraid to have, and back in the day volatility was a big deal that couldn't be ignored,  but today prices are more stable such that those traits of panic selling or buying arent as common as back in the day, today btc is used more of a currency than a store of value.

Tbh am not holding btc wholeheartedly as I use it as a currency especially that everything I do usually has a gateway for me to use my crypto for payments.

As of the 10 years reflection, well let's just say I have see the ugly side of a flourishing market crash and I have seen an asset that everyone said could not succeed and made it as the front page headline world over and still going strong to this day...and in the 10 years been able to make some good $$$ here and there but you know what they say, money is never enough and we need more so waiting on the ATH.

Yes, and learning will always be a useful and beneficial thing wherever and for whatever field you want to excel in. Especially in this investment, there may be some other learning that some people think is easy to reach but I would not say that applies to investing in bitcoin. Honestly, in my personal experience learning something in investment is a very difficult and complicated thing, besides you have to learn some basic things there is not enough, you also have to continue to improve your understanding and knowledge. As we know bitcoin is very volatile and with that means we have to keep learning to follow the development of bitcoin itself. I see many of those who come only for profit but absolutely do not think about the many risks that are here, okay I understand a lot of other people and maybe the professionals get big profits here, and maybe you come also want to have the same fate as them. But that won't always be the case, big profits will always coexist with big risks too.

So honestly I agree with you, keep learning and we can start with basic money management, saving money is not a bad thing but everyone will say agree with that statement, don't buy something that you don't need because there is something more important for the future. So start saving from now on, it's better to save that money to invest in bitcoin than you use it for something that is not important. If you can consistently do it in the next ten years then you will get something significant from bitcoin, I say it's a bright future.

I am brand new in Bitcoin I have started my journey for quite some time I will expand my plan in coming days because people who are working with Bitcoin are living much better in next 10 years.Later, I hope that my life system will improve, and I will have a big house, a car, money, wealth, and I will be able to do a lot of big things. This is my hope for the country and the society.Till now, I can't buy bitcoin because I can't afford it now but when I can afford it I will definitely buy it and I want to succeed and achieve my goals who have been working for the last 10 years.They are living a better life, many of them have almost fulfilled all their dreams, maybe they will do more. I also want to fulfill my dreams like them.I want to own one billion dollars within the next 10 years, that's my dream and I can dream I don't want to own so many properties in the coming days by choosing a wrong path, it's my dream if I can achieve it by working competently and if not Bitcoin will give me the beautiful way.I will make the way and take it
Finally those who have achieved in the last 10 years know best how they are of course good my plan is to try my best to fulfill all the dreams I see in my life and Stock it up and with my faith I will move forward to achieve success.Many people talk a lot about bitcoin is it a scam, so I don't have time to listen to them, I will paint my work with my faith and a dream I will do in the next ten years.

Balancing is important, wild opinions from other points of view will be very useful if we are able to assess them wisely. However, some people will be selfish with their decisions in order to maintain their principles, and sometimes people like that are difficult to advise because they always feel they are right. At Bitcoin we can't deny wild opinions, negative news, and things that make the market red. Isn't this good for investment? If we only focus on one point and don't consider other points, it means there is no alternative path that can be taken if we experience confusion in the middle of the road. As a simple example, when you buy Bitcoin the option is to use P2P or a centralized exchange (2 options) in life there will always be 2 options. Well, the wild assumptions and negative assumptions that exist in the market make Bitcoin unique, so we can get to the point where Bitcoin is this high because of the creation of 2 assumptions out there (negative and positive or pros and cons). Balance was created to provide choices, not to keep us on one track.

In the future, there is no harm in imagining Bitcoin as a world reserve currency. But some people don't want to see it at that level based on its volatility and some others factors. But I think there is no problem if bitcoin is not accepted as world reserve currency. We know that Bitcoin is now a banned currency in most of the countries but still its usage is increasing day by day. The current position of bitcoin today will not be same after 10 years later. Those who focus on the present and wait for the next 10 years will be the most profitable at that time. We generally know that those who can persevere will achieve success in the future.

The fact that Bitcoin is always changing shows how dynamic it is. Its not just a financial tool; it change the financial world. People often miss the bigger picture when their head is clouded by money. I've seen many F0, F1 investors lose money because they didnt know what was going on. You are right that investing is easy.

Successful investors dont just throw money into Bitcoin (or any coin) without DOYR. They watch, study, and understand how the market moves and changes. So, future investor, pay attention to what you say. Learn how to handle your money well, save regularly, and spend wisely. Bitcoin is not just a fad; its the future. If you know what you're doing, you'll not only make it through this world, you'll do well in it.

For people who really invest into bitcoin, dominance is not likely to be a helpful metric for saying much about what is really happening in bitcoin, even though shitcoiners like to attempt to trade off of such a thing, and the practice of using the dominance might not lead them into profitable trades, even if a lot of shitcoin influencers like to talk about dominance, but hey shitcoin influencers talk about a lot of dumb shit. when it comes to attempting to compare their coin to bitcoin, and yeah if you want to waste your time trying to figure out whether and/or how to trade on that kind of nonsense, then you are likely employing quite a bit of luck into the way that you are holding your "crypto" wealth. rather than focusing a bit more on bitcoin. and maybe limiting your shitcoin exposure to less than 10% then you are likely NOT going to be as damaged by trying to separate the wheat from the chaff.. if such a thing is even possible in shitcoinlandia.

Bitcoin is not banned in most of the countries. I believe only a handful of countries actually decided to outright ban crypto.
The best that BTC can aim for is to steal the gold's spot as a store of value, or maybe becoming some strategical investment for countries to hold "just in case". But yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it to become a global reserve currency.

Yep.. you sound like a dreamer.

If you want $1billion in 10 years, you better have somewhere in the ballpark of $10 million to $100 million right now, otherwise you are likely being unrealistic, and even getting $10 million up to $1 billion in 10 years would be quite a bit of a stretch... since that is 100x.   

I think that bitcoin is the best investment that I ever had and I been in it for nearly 10 years, and I am around 26x up on the amount that I had put into bitcoin, and so you still need a lot in order to get a lot, but even if I had put $10k into bitcoin, then I would have $260k, and I would have had to put in $100k in order to have $2.6 million... and I would have had to have invested around $38.5 million in order to have gotten my bitcoin up to $1 billion.

Oh?  You expect even greater returns than that?  but you don't have very much capital, right? 


Who cares about baseless dreams?

It seems better to figure out some kind of realistic plan and try to be realistic about it, even if you might be ambitious, but ambition within some concrete starting points.  What do you got?  Anything?  Anything?


Bitcoin is likely around 1,000x better than gold, yet it is ONLY about 1/20th of the market cap of gold.

There is no need to try to figure out how long it might take for bitcoin to come to fair value relative to gold in order to realize that bitcoin is likely going to be eating gold's lunch in the coming 10-30 years - while at the same time, it could take 100 to 200 years for bitcoin and gold to get closer to their fair market values relative to one another... while at the same time, you never know, it might happen faster, and it would suck to be overly bearish about bitcoin and to miss the opportunities to having at least enough bitcoin in order for that possible transition to work in your favor... and maybe you don't even need very much in order to benefit stupendously... even 1% allocation to bitcoin might work.. if you have a $100k investment portfolio, and you have only $1k of bitcoin, but if bitcoin ends up eating the lunch of a lot of the others, then that 1% may well end up outvaluing all of the others.

I doubt that you need to bet on bitcoin becoming a world reserve currency in order to profit stupendously from investing in it, while at the same time, there is nothing really saying that any other system even holds any kind of candle to it right now the way it stands as the soundest of monies including likely 1,000x greater than gold while being 1/20th gold's market cap, and while at the same time, it seems likely that gold is the second best in terms of sound monies that we might be able to assess as a possible next competitor to bitcoin.

See there are some important events in the history of Bitcoin that teach us to deeply understand the importance of Bitcoin. On May 22, 2010, one Laszlo Hanyecz bought two or more pizzas for the 10,000 bitcoins he saved. The so-called 10,000 bitcoins were worth maybe $41 at the time. However this gentleman is worth 10,000 bitcoins Buying just two pizzas in exchange made history after his name was taken seriously by people. But in an interview, when asked about the reason for buying this Bitcoin, he said that he took such an important step to convince people about the importance of Bitcoin.

Re: Your Life After 10 years in Bitcoin...

Buying and selling bitcoins is completely illegal in my country and if the police arrests someone on suspicion of doing this they are physically imprisoned with monetary fines. In this situation, as Bangladeshi citizens, we indirectly hide our identity and get involved in buying and selling bitcoin online. Although it becomes very difficult for us, we have no choice but to buy and sell bitcoins like this.

In the 14 years since the discovery of Bitcoin, our country's government has not issued any bill in Parliament to accept Bitcoin. However, due to the current political and economic problems of our country, as no positive plan has been made on Bitcoin in 14 years, it is not possible to accept Bitcoin in the distant future.

Although Bitcoin is not legalized in our country, 4 million Bitcoin users are indirectly involved in Bitcoin transactions under the cover of the law. But it is expected that in the distant future if Bitcoin is legalized in Bangladesh, then the number of Bitcoin users in our country will exceed 70 million.

I don't know what the situation or condition of my life will be 10 years from now because we don't know if we will still be alive or if the world will have collapsed because no one has reached the future. As long as I'm doing the best I can, I'm preparing the future for our loved ones, along with others in this industry.

Maybe after 10 years I will be able to invest in real estate because of my cryptocurrency earnings, or maybe not. But I save other cryptos and hold them until the bull run comes, believing it will give me a breakthrough in my life.

What I am doing is that I am not the only one doing this in this community in the crypto space. There are a lot of people doing it right now, especially since we are about to enter the bull run season where Bitcoin is preparing for its ATH in the upcoming halving next year, which many expect will be a good result.

I frequently find it quite distracting when people make these kinds of assertions regarding outrageous scenarios that might happen, and of course, we are going to be best served if we are putting most of our efforts into preparing for various base-case scenarios rather than failing/refusing to prepare because "anything could happen," so those kinds of dumbass statements are sometimes used in order to justify not preparing at all.   


That's right.. that's more reasonable. You should be attempting to prepare for various base case scenarios that are more likely to play out.


It sounds like you are gambling.  Fuck shitcoins.  Think about your bitcoin strategy.


You should not invest into bitcoin or anything else based on what you believe everyone else is doing... and yeah, maybe various UPpity bitcoin scenarios have good chances for playing out in the coming 1-2 years... such as going to ATHs and going beyond, such as up into the $200ks and maybe higher than $500k, but surely none of these UPpity scenarios are guaranteed, but they are within the realm of possibilities for bitcoin... which means that they may happen and they might not happen.

This happened so fast and there were many people who made profits and there were also many people who made losses in the previous year, depending on the level of preparedness and knowledge about bitcoin. Over time bitcoin has gained the ability to maintain value, so there are many people competing to come to the crypto industry and especially their involvement in Bitcoin.

In the year before bitcoin became what it is today there were many people who doubted its ability and maybe including us, especially regarding the level of price fluctuations and talking about risks that we have not been able to assess the extent of resistance. Interest in bitcoin is now not only among entrepreneurs and there are already many ordinary people who are involved in it, this shows that bitcoin adoption is quite widespread throughout the country.

I am one of the long term holders especially for bitcoin and will continue to collect whenever I have money. My philosophy on bitcoin investing is ATH and that's why I prefer to hold on long term. A big change occurs when we get involved in bitcoin because it has brought freedom and reached a stage of much increased income compared to involvement in previous investments and although so far it has not provided great wealth.

There is a level of comfort in investing in bitcoin because we have the opportunity to buy with any amount of capital available and we don't find this in other investments. Especially when people are able to see the potential by using the DCA method and on the other hand maybe at the level of value defense it relates to the money we put in, so that when the process is carried out correctly it will always generate profits.

You just forgot to write about how many people also lost to investing in bitcoin years earlier. Didn't take it into account? And very in vain. An incredible number of investors have said goodbye to their money by investing in this asset. Someone even committed suicide, as he put everything on the line. How do you like this arrangement? Therefore, it is better for people not to impose their point of view on people. A very dangerous process. Stay guilty after.
I've already been through this. I was even considered a scammer. Now I do not give any recommendations on where to invest money.

Do you know those people whom you think that lost investment never read to know the whole concept of bitcoin? Yes they never understood how it's being operated and, they thought is a quick get rich scheme (Ponzi) which they thought after putting their live savings they could became rich overnight without knowing the volatility level of bitcoin.

Misinformation can cause a huge lost, and I am not sure they knew that aspect of bitcoin before jumping into investment, that is why from my previous post I do mentioned something very important that " it's very common to invest in an asset without knowing the principle of operation", I guess I said something like this before or similar but I am making the same sense.

You can't quickly rush to invest in something you never knew the principle of operation and formation ( the secrets  behinds it) whenever an investors knows about the project they are to invest and have more reliable information and configuration it's assumed they are ready for risk but for those who lost their lives savings never know anything about bitcoin and they fails to invest only on what they can afford to lose along the line, between they thought Bitcoin gonna hit 100k or 200k within those period and never know it's highly speculative., Some Media news was fly around the internet for bitcoin to reach 100k causing too much panic around and within the people forcefully invest in bitcoin since they are seeing it's price soaring uncontrollably.

However they did invest at ATH they never waited for the price to drop before investment, this alone lot of people who knows how the concept and operation of bitcoin would never fall victim or lose their funds, even as that if they still hold for long time there will still be profit in time to come or after next year halving this is basically for those who are investing for profits maximization, so if you look closely they didn't lost investment it's as a result of impatient and short term investment plan so they panicked and sold all cheaply without considering the lost that has already associated with them.

That is why I do say knowledge is "Power"  and of course anyone who is ready to invest today should also be ready to keep learning and also be open for information that relates to the field of their investment or course of study.

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In 2014, I first encountered Bitcoin with a sense of skepticism and disbelief, coinciding with the news of the Mt. Gox collapse.

Then, in 2017, I began delving back into the world of Bitcoin with a bit more effort than before. I even purchased Bitcoin using altcoins. While it didn't start with traditional FIAT currency, holding BTC as opposed to ALTCOINs truly felt like a different experience.

Bitcoin is more robust and holds immense potential as a long-term investment model. Despite the significant price fluctuations it undergoes, on an annual basis, the BTC chart exhibits remarkable resilience, remaining in existence and becoming scarcer over time.

I've used BTC several times to purchase hosting services, shop in online marketplaces, and it truly operates without the need for intermediaries like banks.

Bitcoin has yet to replace FIAT currency in my country, but it does offer a more intriguing alternative to complement FIAT. The presence of cryptocurrencies has greatly assisted my financial situation, and I view it as an opportunity to save and watch my assets grow.