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Bitcoin is such an uncertain future currency that no one can say for sure what will happen in the future. Hundreds of predictions are constantly being made around Bitcoin. Predictions were made about this valuable currency in the past as well but some have gone down in history by selling this precious currency at a low price.

Martti Malmi sold 5050 bitcoins for $5 at a rate of just $0.00099 in 2009, setting the record for the lowest bitcoin sale in history.

Laszlo Hanycez made history by being the first person to buy a product at the lowest price in exchange for Bitcoin. He made history on May 22, 2010 by selling 10,000 Bitcoins for just $40-$45.

Our forum admin sir has sold his 160 bitcoins at a rate of only $0.003 on exchange for $0.48.

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Not only here but also in the past hundreds of Bitcoins have been traded which is amazing to see today. Those who traded Bitcoin at that time are now only regretting it and those who bought and held Bitcoin at that time, it is amazing to think how much their fortunes have changed today.

If you could travel back in time today, what would you do?

If the world has had a time traveling machine, many things would have not been like what we have now. Fortunately we don't have such time-traveling machine and the world is organically going as it should be.

With time-traveling ability, nobody loses their bitcoins because of losing their wallet password or seed, private key. No bitcoin amount is lost by those reasons and the total supply of Bitcoin will always be 21M as well as the total circulating supply is always the same as the amount of mined bitcoins.

Many people won't lose their bitcoins because they sold cheap in the past or from forced liquidations.

In general  I believe it will only cause Bitcoin to have lower price than it has now. Not good at all for anyone.

Every now and then someone asks a similar question and each time I ask why don't people just buy bitcoin right now. It is not like we've reached the maximum price possible! Funny thing is that if you check the price at that time against current price you can see what those who didn't buy then, have already missed out.

For example you can see in this topic (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3124769.0) some people say "they would have bought $X worth of bitcoins". Price that month dropped as low as $6k and today it is 5x higher! Do you think any of those guys bought bitcoin then instead of wishing they had a time machine?

Who knows, maybe in a couple of years from now I find this topic and post it as an example for someone else who will have asked this question again ::)

Sirius who many know as Martti Malmi has engraved himself in the history of bitcoin forever, it will never be forgotten so quickly. Many stories has been read relating to him and his bitcoin portion that was wasted at different time for different reasons.

The 5,050 sent to NewLibertyStandard for seeding the exchange, is one of many that and accumulates to over 55,000 bitcoins wastage. No how his remaining life will not be full of regrets, he should be a billionaire since years back.

But traveling machine happens only in the movies, the opportunity missed has been missed forever.

If we had a time machine, I'd make sure I didn't start smoking, and then I wouldn't have to spend tens of BTC on smoking stuff bought on the internet for a few years.  ;D ;D ;D

More seriously, it doesn't make much sense, the idea of the time machine. In any case the price would have changed drastically if someone had come along at that time with a knowledge of what BTC was going to be, right?

In my case, I would have left CPUs running at the time when you could still mine with such low difficulty that it's downright ridiculous now. I imagine that if everyone was doing this with a time machine, the difficulty of BTC would have been directly much higher and the interest would be lost.

I agree 100% with pooya87, there's no point in going through the trouble for nothing. Let's buy when we can and wait, we always have an open door to make nice profits. If you have the investment  capacity and the low $ rate per kw/h, mine and hodl, you will thank yourself later

They may not be regretting it, at that time when they sold their bitcoins, I am sure that they were not really concerned about the price it was sold, they were just happy that they could sell it, and someone bought it. They do not sell all the bitcoins they had, just some. The fact that someone could buy would have encouraged them to get more.

 It is possible that their fortunes did not change. Many of them may have lost it because they did not know how important bitcoins will be today, it is also possible that they have squandered it. Only a few people who bought bitcoins then when it was cheap are doing better.

Well, it's obvious that all of us want to go back during the time that bitcoin is priced in as centavos and, we'd buy for sure a lot of it and will just have to wait until the right time comes to sell and we'd all be millionaires or even billionaires. But, I don't want to dwell in the past anymore and I know that this is just a situation discussion but then we should be moving on and it's hard to get stuck in the past and have all of those regrets get us reminded on where are we during those great times.

This is just a means to pounder on the past and I'm sure nothing good is going to come out of this, the only thing you're going to see is people wishing and saying how they'll would do this and do that but yet still not taking any action whatever to change their present situation.

I don't believe in time travel so I'd be blunt with my reply, if we are to search this forum you'll see that in the past they were several threads where users wished they had the opportunity to go back to when Bitcoin was $25,000 or below but if you're to asked them if they were able to stash some Bitcoin when the price of Bitcoin reduced drastically they'll confirm they didn't.
So why bother to go back in time when they couldn't or won't do anything in the future? It seems we're forgetting that what we do today will be part of what makes up the past in distant time.

We are not Doeramon who have pockets of roaming machines to the past but still it will be history and cannot repeat itself.

There's no use thinking about the early days of bitcoin because at that time most people didn't know about it, maybe now that the price is soaring higher there is a lot of interest from the community so bitcoin is getting stronger.

If the price of bitcoin already has a low price and can reach the highest price why don't we hold it from now on and then save it for a long time, we can't even predict the price of bitcoin can be even higher.

If I could time travel today, I would go back to 2009-2011 and try to collect more bitcoins because, in those years, we could use mining and faucets and buy bitcoins at very cheap prices. Once I have a lot of bitcoins, I will leave them in my wallet and do other things and only come back after I check the market conditions.

Maybe someone regrets selling their bitcoins at a low price and maybe someone doesn't regret it. And now all we can do is keep trying to get more bitcoin before the price increases.

And there is no need to regret what we have done in the past because it has happened. But we still have a future that we can make to improve our future. And it depends on whether we want to make a better future, be like this, or don't want to have a better future.

The ultimate goal is just for the money. Why doesn't anyone think of bigger goals like killing the financiers that make up the Fed or telling Einstein not to create an atomic bomb or throw scientists vaccines to avoid the pandemic? translation in the past.
It will take a lot of analysis and evaluation to make a decision when there is a time machine. Maybe the appearance of the time machine is the biggest flaw and soon brings humanity to an end.

I wouldn't use the machine to buy btc or whatever, there is enough to go around I think. Everybody should still have the fair chance to make smart investment on an open market.

I would use it to make all the greedy and sometimes shady online casinos go broke, haha.

What better use of inside knowledge than using it against companies that enrich themselfes on the back of millions of addicted players.

With the proceeds of this I would use 99% of it to make the world a better and more fair place.

What else should be done obviously is preventing all those terrible attacks and so on that shaped our life in the past 30 years. And stuff way in the past as well obviously. Don't know though if we should should temper with time since "everything happens for a reason" .

Well, it's just some nonsense thinking anyway.

If I have time traveling machine, I could have travelled way back in time when Bitcoin was just a few cent and stock up thousands of Bitcoin for a few dollar and become a Bitcoin OG,  but that won't happen any ways since their is no such thing as time traveling, so what we have left is the present Bitcoin price, and it's still a good time to purchase more Bitcoin because in the next couple of years to come, Bitcoin current price will become a low price to buy compared to what the price will be at that in the future.

All those Bitcoin holders mentioned above, are Bitcoin OGs who have contributed significantly to the Bitcoin network, by testing it with their Bitcoin transactions at that early time when not many people believe in idea of Bitcoin, and there was a need for the network to remain active, just like the Bitcoin pizza story that has become a memorable first Bitcoin transaction, their all contributed one way or the other to making bitcoin value what it is today even though they exchange their bitcoins at a low price back then but the goal was the ability to use bitcoin for the transaction which was success anyways.

Is there a proof that these guys doesn’t buy back few years after they sold and Bitcoin pump? They still have time to buy lower price that time since Bitcoin gain most of its value after couple of years after they sold. I don’t follow them but there’s a high chance that they buy back on much lower price that the current price.


Despite our admin sold in lower price, He has a continuous source of Bitcoin and selling is not that bad if he really needs the money.

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If I can travel back, I will remember the winning number lotto combination for the highest jackpot in history then place bet on it then purchased 30% the supply of Bitcoin to leave some supply to others.

Obviously all of us will answer buy more if we only knew it since 2009 that the price of BTC will moon this high. There are OGs that still kept the old wallets untouched which they really have a ton of BTC. They must have been the true believers of BTC since time.

There are also ETH beleivers who are doing the same. I personally worked with someone who has more than 13K Eth back 2016. That guy must have seen the repeat of history.

If I can travel time, I'd offer Lazlo more than just 2 pizzas  :D

Imagine zipping back in time, McFly-style, DeLorean and all, to score some serious Bitcoin loot. I'd snap up every last smidgen of Bitcoin in its infancy, back when it was just a baby buck.

But wait, it gets wilder. I wouldn't halt there. Nuh-uh. I'd blaze back to the future, peddle my crypto fortune to myself, and spawn an unending whirl of Bitcoin riches that'd make even Elon Musk's noggin twirl.

Sure, we might tear the space-time fabric or trigger a global financial meltdown, but, hey, you can't whip up a wicked soufflé without smashing some shells, right?

So, if a DeLorean-riding oddball offers you future Bitcoin, keep calm, and remember: it's all part of the master plan.  :P :P :P :P

Question is would you be having the capital to invest by that time? Some would say yes and some for sure would say no. Not to break the idea but the only reason why we regret not investing earlier is because we failed to do so and happened to witness how beneficial doing so. But if we would recall by that time most of the people did not invest because of doubts and lack of courage to do so. Rather than wondering what could have happen if you do this, things could still be  done at the present with proper entry and exit points. The market would either go up or down and if you have the will to still invest, it will never be too late. Just do not be too greedy of profit 'coz you cannot have all the profit in this industry.

The absence of a time machine makes the world more exciting to live in. If such resources had been available, many things wouldn't have turned out the way they did. I don't believe that having such in place would have made the world a better place. More boring people than intelligent ones will be produced by our breeding program. No one will want to work again if they know they'll accomplish this in a few years or if, despite years of arduous effort, they will never be able to realize their ultimate goal.

If I had a time machine, I might use it to predict who I will be in ten years. Without considering anything else, I will be thrilled if it goes in my favor and unhappy and upset if it doesn't. Even the prospect of that will makes me want to end myself before my time. Those who sold bitcoin for a very low price are now regretting their decision, but perhaps what they did at the time increased the popularity of bitcoin to be adopted and has helped in making it  becoming a reality today.

I won't decide to go back in time just because I want to own a lot of bitcoins.
I prefer to stay in the present and continue what I started because changing the past means changing the present and it doesn't mean we can get where we want.
Maybe we think that by going back to the past, we can collect lots of bitcoins or buy them at cheap prices, but are we the only ones who will do this? Certainly not.
There must be other people who have the same desire because they already know the present events, which will make the bitcoin journey different from what it is now.
And maybe things will not be as we see now, where we can still try to get bitcoins and have that opportunity.
But that's up to each person because we all have different goals.

If there is a time travelling machine, I believe that we won't learn from our mistakes and become great later in life. Because we can easily turn back the hands of time and correct them without learning or having an experience from the situation. There will be no bull run and bear run in bitcoin life cycle because those factors that contributed to the bearish market will easily be changed.

FTX will not crash and fiat currency will still be strong. So many things will be put back in shape instantly, which will discomfort the benefactor from benefits. Imagine I sold during the bear and you bought my coin,I will take back my coin and give you your funds if there was a time travelling machine.

People back then for sure wouldn't even regret about their decisions with BTC current value before. Of course most common expectation if we got asked what we would do if there's a time machine is to buy a lot of BTC. But back then, I don't even have idea what is crypto I'm just a student who thought by studying well would get me rich. So for sure studying crypto would come first so when I got some funds for investment I could also ride the pump since there's no late comers in this industry.

I don't think I'd try to make money by investing in bitcoin if I had a time machine. I'd probably go back in time to give myself a few tips, make sure I choose the right path in life, something different than what I'm doing now. I'd probably tell myself to buy some bitcoin, but being able to go back in time would allow you to make money from a number of sources.
To invest you first need money. How would you make money out of nothing? Probably by gambling. Knowing what I know, for instance which guys became boxing or mma champions, I could make money out of nothing. I could then put that money into Tesla or Amazon stock and be rich without ever touching bitcoin.

The most common answer to the hypothetical question of time travel is that if someone were to acquire a time machine, they would buy as much Bitcoin as possible in 2009, or when Bitcoin was first released. However, if time machines were available to everyone worldwide, the demand for Bitcoin upon its release would be exceedingly high. In fact, the price of Bitcoin would undoubtedly be at today's levels, not merely valued at one cent. In reality, Bitcoin's future prospects remain uncertain, as human greed may lead to its downfall, but it could also reach new heights if demand remains strong.

If I had a time machine that I could use only once, I would probably travel back to when I quit study and I would not quit, would keep studying, and when 2008 comes, I would definitely be paying attention to economic crysis and educate myself about that, and in the next year, I would probably be aware of what Bitcoin could become in the future and I would onboard since the beginning!

I would take BTC as much as can and sell it at 60k

I guess people will just have the same answer, to buy bitcoin while it’s still very cheap and affordable and hold them for years, and just sell them when bitcoin price reaches its highest peak price and gain maximum profits. But if this thread will still be asked years from now, probably people will still regret why they keep on missing opportunities, wishing they could have been billionaires in the present time.

Well, that is expected but I believed that what happened has its own reasons and those were not really a waste because that was one of the reasons why bitcoin became more known and be the bitcoin that we have these days as those trades and sold(s) were like a stepping-stone so that bitcoin will evolve into a much-needed asset.

The same with what everybody is saying, accumulate as many bitcoins as possible and hold it for decades.

I think, like many people, would buy a bitcoin, and now would not work  8)

If there was a time machine these people you mentioned would have turned back the hand of time and sold in 2021 when there was ATH. Though this only exists in movies and if this was possible I doubt if Bitcoin recognition will be as this and also the value also might even be lesser than what those people sold it for.

If only I had a 20 minute future time trouble machine I could be a billionaire in no time trading futures.  Because here you can get leverage up to 125x for Bitcoin.  It is possible to earn huge amounts if the future is known for a short period of time. I think if anyone got this machine they would all think so.  Because crypto is one thing, if you take the right entry, you can earn huge profits in a short time.  And can make a person rich overnight

If I have a time machine that could travel back in time, I won't be too greedy going back to early years of Bitcoin.  I am fine going back to the year 2016 when the signature campaign pays more than 0.04 BTC per week.  I wouldn't aim for the BTC that I have not accumulated but the one that I earned instead.  My plan is just to save the BTC I acquired, hodl it and wait for the price to trend according to the history.  Then sell half of it on the BTC market peak of 2021. 

Everyone will answer corny - I would buy bitcoin cheaper.
For example, one hundred dollars when it cost so much in the last months of 2013. (In fact, I then bought a tenth of bitcoin, but a month later I spent it - I needed money).
Or everyone will start arguing that they would have bought it for at least $ 1,000. But the fact is that time machines that move you back in time will never be invented, because then we would have met travelers from the future for a long time. But there are none.

Nevertheless, experience and strategy can easily make a profit, and there is no need to move in time. It's enough just to make the right predictions.

It is impossible to purchase Bitcoin even if one were to travel through a time machine. While time travel may allow for the observation of past events, it is unlikely that any alterations can be made since one is traveling alone rather than affecting the entire world. However, this scenario is merely a dream and is unlikely to ever occur. Personally, if given the opportunity to change something from the past, I would choose not to have been born, rendering the acquisition of Bitcoin or any actions in this world unnecessary. Money plays a significant role in our lives, and it is often our primary focus. Life can seem meaningless without it.

Not so many who where there at the beginning of bitcoin who bought Bitcoin at a cheap rate are. Retired right now, we still have some Bitcoin OG who is still very much active with the present economic situation and still work from 8-5 pm every day.

So most time retiring early doesn't have to do with individuals' financial state because some are lucky to have gained financial freedom at an early stage of their lives through taking calculated risks.


We have several such Bitcoin old OG here in the forum and they are still very much active here and it makes, .. so old investors have the chance to make any change in their life whether to be active to keep themselves busy, but saying they won't work at all for the rest of the life on bitcoin investment.

So if you have the strength even after making all the money you desired to leave a life of activities vs retirements.

The fact that we are still having these "what if time machine" posts shows how childish and amateurish Bitcoin community is. You don't see these kind of posts on forums of stock traders, real estate investors, etc. How do you expect Bitcoin to become a real financial force if to most users Bitcoin is just a dream of getting rich quick while doing nothing?

While many of us would like to go back in time where the price of bitcoin was like a cents or a couple of dollars and will buy by that time and hold it until in the future.

Your idea was actually a good one.

I have never thought of it but it's likely a good strategy really. One can make that pump quickly with his own money upon leveraging when you know what's gonna happen within the next 20 minutes.

If I have a time machine I will go back to 2010 and be at my greediest I will even sell our house and work to death just to accumulate as many Bitcoin as possible and try to stay alive and healthy until the price skyrocketed, I would have to stop imagining myself that I will be the wealthiest guy on Earth while waiting  :D or people might think I'm going nuts.
There's still a lot of risk in going back to the past and implementing my plan because it's possible that I cannot enjoy the things I'm enjoying now like posting in this forum because I will be busy spending my fortune.

So I prefer to have an insight than having a time machine.

Never have taught about it but if there's a possibility for that i'll just want to get back way back in ATH in 2017 where i started here and earned much more BTC back then but just hodl it until, it decreased and still hoping it will bounce back, until it didn't happened. Lol

If I had a time travelling machine, I would definitely want to go back when the first time I had known Bitcoin. I heard about bitcoin since 2014, If I only knew that time that it has a very good future in investing i would definitely invested. During that time i was hesitant because i do not have knowledge in investing in crypto currencies. I do not know either how to use the crypto wallet, i was so confused and afraid that i invested my investment will get hacked. Well that is already in the past and now that i had more knowledge i am eager to do investment in crypto currency.

I wonder, why do so many of us always think that those who made history will regret selling their bitcoins? We are not them and do not know what they think or need, so it is wrong to say they have been and are regretting. I believe they have no regrets and did everything right because the future is unpredictable.

Thinking about time machines is useless because it's only in sci-fi movies. Instead, it's not too late to invest in bitcoin now. I think we should focus on working and earning money to buy bitcoin as much as possible, and if we hold it for 10 years and 15 years, our profits are not small.

It's not just that we can't know the future of Bitcoin, we can't tell the future of anything. Whose life is going to happen in the future is beyond our imagination. The future of all things is determined by the Creator. No matter how hard we try, we can never change our future. Today you are healthy but you don't know what is going to happen in your life tomorrow.  Humans have no control over the future.

It is natural to regret the market from where it is now. But if you consider the practical aspects, how much is it logical to regret? Because in the context of the market at that time, people sold those coins for their own needs, and still such incidents are happening. 
The price of Bitcoin can go much higher than the current price of Bitcoin but we are selling our Bitcoins for our needs. Such events will continue to happen because people will need to make a living and those who are engaged in this profession will fulfill their needs through Bitcoin.

Forget about time machines, that's impossible and now try to be realistic about the future and what you can do now with bitcoin which historically has given its investors worth returns.

I can't remember how many assets I sold at rock bottom in 2016, 2017 and after, but I can't regret it because I know there was no point other than just taking the time now to grow a portfolio for the future. Remember, bitcoin are still very low compared to previous ATH, so take advantage of this opportunity to get bitcoin and hold with it as long term as you have a budget for your long term investment.

You need to realize that if it wasn’t for those selling Bitcoin at such a low price then Bitcoin might of not had the same success as it did.

Looking back the Pizza was a bad deal however it wasn’t the point. It basically proved that Bitcoin has a purpose and can be used to pay for transactions. And after that it become more and more popular. And shortly after it was used to trade goods and services.

That serve as the purpose of bitcoin just imagine what will be the price if those people who sold their bitcoin will hold it until now , for sure the price wouldn't be the same as now or bitcoin will die at early age because there were no transactions on it. There has purpose on everything and for sure who sold it that time is still thankful as they have big  contributions to bitcoin and its price

No one cares about the present time but it is very surprising to think why people don't buy Bitcoin. We all know about some Bitcoin buying and selling in the past like a gentleman buying a pizza with 10 thousand bitcoins is a surprising event in history. But in the future, when the price of Bitcoin triples from the current price, everyone will regret the present.
So now we have to leave past history and invest in Bitcoin again and if any investor invests in Bitcoin now he will get three times more benefit than Bitcoin Halving in 2024. So without wasting time we need to focus on present time and invest in this opportunity of low price of Bitcoin.

With Bitcoin's prior worth, people back then would undoubtedly not even look back on their choices with regret. Naturally, the most typical response if someone asked us what we would do if a time machine existed is to buy a lot of Bitcoin. But back then, I had no idea what cryptocurrency was; I was just a student who believed that doing well in school would make me wealthy. Since there are no latecomers in this industry, I would undoubtedly start by studying cryptocurrency so that when I had some money for investment, I could also profit from the upswing.

Exactly! I mean nobody even knew that it would come at this point of time where Bitcoin would be around thousands per coin anyway. I am also sure that Martti didn't really regret that Bitcoin sold, unless someone can link me an interview of his thoughts about 14 years from that time. People are seemingly forgetting that inflation was still quite a bit tame that time if I recall correctly, so that price ain't really that bad. I wouldn't regret it also if it happened to me as well.

I wonder as well on how many OGs are still here holding thousands of Bitcoin without getting locked up in their wallets or even forgetting that they were holding a lot. I couldn't imagine though.

Well I can imagine some people that would be looking to buy a fraction of a Bitcoin so desperately these days if that was the case. Considering that even fraction here in my country is quite pricey already.

Earlier I saw Bitcoin price was very low few years ago. I thought to invest then but I didn't think to invest that much. I now realize if I could have invested back then the market condition is very bad now.  I could have made a lot of profit. But hopefully I can get good amount of profit from my previous investment. I have to wait for a few years. I have made a lot of money by investing in Bitcoin. I hope if the Bitcoin market is good in a few days, I will be very happy.  I can earn money.

I think the thought you made is only seen in movies. In reality it's impossible if someone knew how much the price of Bitcoin would rise in the next month or if it was going to dump, he would sell his financial assets and buy and hold Bitcoin.  In this way, he could have become the richest man in the world. But it is impossible, I think it is not possible in this way. We can use the time when the price of bitcoin is dumping, we can make some investments. When the price of bitcoin increases, then sell the bitcoins.  We can get the money.

Owning a time machine may sound interesting, but it's just fiction and can't possibly happen in the real world. Therefore, it is better to focus on actions you can take in the future to maximize your investment opportunities.

Focusing on actions that can be performed in the future is more realistic than dreaming about owning a time machine. What's more, investing in assets that have proven to provide decent returns like bitcoin can be a smart choice for a long-term investment. It is true that many people did not realize the potential of Bitcoin at first and the price of Bitcoin has experienced a tremendous increase in the last few years. However, we can learn from the stories of people in the past, now is the time to save Bitcoin. You hope the price will continue to rise because I think now is the right time to buy bitcoin and hope that next year you can reach a new ATH, so take this opportunity so that later you won't regret it anymore and want to repeat time again.

If we have a time machine its changes the present timeline but if there's the case then, if course ill make fulfil all of my regrets in not investing with bitcoin at that time, imagine tons of people are using the bitcoin as their mode of payment with a pizza or any single item seems like huge regret in my part, ill grab the opportunity to accumulate as soon as possible but of course it depends when you change the past there's a chance you become more successful or not due to too much spending of money.

even though malmi and laszlo look very stupid for selling the thousands of bitcoins they have at very cheap prices but look at the bright side, their names are recorded in history and we will always celebrate bitcoin pizza day because it was inspired by laszlo.

I also have a little regret, back when the bounty was still paying huge amounts, I didn't convert it all to bitcoin, I even splurged and spent it to buy a car, that was really a big mistake for me. even though I want to go back to that time but I think letting go of that moment is much better than regretting it, it's all a valuable lesson.

I think there are lot of possibilities if we talk about time travel and most will dream of getting what's valuable at this time like investing in btc when it was too cheap or say Laszlo would have offered USD only instead of 10,000 BTC but it's not possible so we should not make such discussion.The people will still say the same 10 years later that if they have invested at $30k it would be golden period for them.So best is to take chances in present rather then regretting for past and making future bad also.

Well if I can imagine something like that happening to me, I will fix the decision that I made in the past and the result is not good like not investing more in Bitcoin is one of many regrets in my life, Studying hard in my school days, and many more that I will fix it. But that's really a miracle when someone really able to go back with a traveling machine and instead thinks regretting what I did in the past I move on with a new mindset today. 

Of course, people would try to buy as many bitcoins as possible if they could return in time. But those who have missed the opportunity to buy bitcoin at a low price need not regret it because it is past and they cannot return to the past. We should keep trying to own bitcoin, even though the price is already high because we still have the opportunity to buy at the current price. We can still make a better future by investing in bitcoin so we better do it from now on before it's really too late.

Many people will likely regret selling their Bitcoin back then because they are considering the current price, but that should only apply to those who did so for no apparent reason. If, however, they had valid reasons to sell their Bitcoin back when it was still cheaper, I don't see them regretting their decision.

I usually maintain that if I have a legitimate cause to sell my bitcoin investment, even during the bear market that I am in lost, I will do so, and I will never regret it even I see my close people making huge profits from it later. I have no idea why someone would have an issue, and have the money to address it, yet be unable to do so due to the profit they hoped to make in the future.I believe a person with peace of mind is better than someone that have the money but not peace of mind.

I am not sure if I would buy Bitcoin if I could travel back to the past. Even if I did invest, I wouldn't be certain that I could hold onto it until its peak value of $69K last year, given that it would require holding onto Bitcoin for 13 years between 2009 and 2022

The question is, if you were from the future and had a time machine to travel back to 2023, what would you do?  I suspect I would think it is probably a good idea to buy ownership in as many companies as possible (invest in the S&P 500), and earn as much crypto as possible.  I imagine you would set up miners and make Bitcoin purchases as often as you can.  Maybe that would even be a curse, as you would probably miss out on your life trying to capture as much future wealth as possible.  If you managed to have kids, I bet they'd live a pretty cushy and spoiled life though.  Hopefully that would be your goal if you go that route.

Every investors that wants to make good profits through bitcoin should just forget about the past price of the market because bitcoin is still at his early stages because even at this stage the price is still low compare to it previous ATH. If anyone want to invest in bitcoin now is just the perfect time as you can buy low because the price is still low and even if the funds are not available to buy all at once the DCA strategy is there which can help you accumulate huge capital over time if you are consistent enough to buy every week or month.

First thing I will do is buy a bunch of Bitcoin which is obvious that this post is on bitcoin discussion. But there are so many possibilities that one can achieve if they get their hands on a time machine. But that is a fairy tale. If we think too much about the past, we will forget to enjoy the present. As we have seen, multiple times, that bitcoin has the ability to jump back to the top after facing some downs. So all we need to do is buy and hodl.

Time that has passed will never come back, we will only see it as a memory, but you are right, being realistic will be a good thing for our future instead of having to look back, even now bitcoin still provides benefits to everyone who have it.

We never count the total of selling bitcoin prices when they are still low, that is normal and common because selling first is of course still profitable even though it is not as high as the current price.
Develop a much better portfolio to continue to accumulate bitcoins as much as we can and it is clear that this is still at its lowest point and now is the time to buy more bitcoins as our investment in the future.

This is an interesting thought experiment but at the same time it is a useless one, because this is something that we are never going to experiment and it is even likely that this is not even possible at all, so like always we need to learn to live with the decisions that we took while at the same time we learn from our mistakes so we do not repeat them again, this is the only realistic solution that we have at hand, and even then there are many people that never apply these principles into their lives at all and keep making the same mistakes.

Mistakes are good as long as you are learning from them. If you keep on making the same mistakes over and over without learning from them and improving yourself, then those mistakes are harmful. Past is past, and we can't turn the time back. So our focus should be on our future. What we can do now is to improve ourselves, rather than thinking what we could have done. If you think that you were able to do certain things in the past, you are able to do it now too. Taking the first step is always difficult, but when you do so, everything becomes easy as you go forward.

Another way to improve is to make mistakes and learn from them. Traders and investors make critical mistakes on a daily basis, and while some learn their lessons, others continue to make the same mistakes until their accounts are depleted. It's critical that we understand the negative and positive consequences of our market decisions; I can't afford to lose any money right now. Every day, I work on improving and studying the market; a day does not go by without me opening a crypto-related PDF to read; as the expression goes, "practice makes perfect."

Yeah, guys that are saying that they will travel back to time and buy bitcoin for cheap doesn't realize that if they starts buying all the bitcoin, most likely the price of bitcoin won't be what it is right now. Maybe no one would want to use bitcoin becase most of the supplies will be controlled by some specific group of people (the time travelers) and they would be manipulating the market. Maybe after few years there won't be any bitcoin, and bitcoin would be considered as a "failed" currency and people would instead be using some other currency. Those that travelled time to buy bitcoin would lose all their investment.

Well, if I could travel back in time I will obviously buy a lot of Bitcoin, hold on to it, then sell when it peaked in the present, profit, etc.. But that did not happen, so now what? So many what-ifs, and so many uncertainties as you have said yourself but what happened already happened. We can speculate about the past as much as we want but we cannot live in the past, just learn from the regrets and lessons it holds. Besides, even if one can go back to the past, will they remember the future they come from? Will they retain the knowledge they have now? What if one single action causes a domino of a different future, like a butterfly effect? So many possibilities, but no assurances.

In the far future, this question will be asked again and the many answers will be the same, many repeating sentiments of "what-ifs" and "if only's" but the past will remain unchanged and you can only go forward.

It is only a hypothetical matter. We can only imagine it but it cannot happen in reality. The future is controlled only by the Creator. Even if for some reason we could know the future, it would never be good for us. 
A person is getting to know about his future and he gets to know at some point that there is a big danger ahead of him then there will be an uneasiness about what he will do at that time or that person will get to know through his special power he will die after a few days then that person How will he feel at the time? That is, knowing about the future can never bring anything beneficial to people. Maybe you just asked to imagine. 
Instead of trying to know the future, we should try to know the market. We will be successful only if we know the market well.

if I had a time traveling machine I would have travelled back in past to the time when bitcoin was first launched and it was free to claim with Bitcoin faucet and that faucet was giving thousands of bitcoin per claim. I would've claimed that  faucet again and again and earned more than a million Bitcoins. and then travel back to present time and enjoy my billionair life. hahaha.
the thing is there is a lot of things we can imagine and wish but it is good that we don't have time mechine. because the world would not be same if we had time mechine and probably bitcoin would not be where it is today..
but that's good to dream about. lol

Unfortunately, we all probably have similar deals to the pizza one. I had purchased a Minecraft account for the equivalent of $1,500 by today's standards. I don't blame myself for spending that money back then; I couldn't have known, while the most I had acquired in Bitcoin was 0.40 BTC and was spent immoderately.

Supposing I had the opportunity to go back in time, I would go back to 2018's market crash, keep myself composed, and not give up on Bitcoin. There were an abundance of things that I could have done differently, that would have changed the course of my lifetime. That was my biggest mistake—not that I hadn't bought from 2014; I didn't have the means to do so, had no card, and was under 18.

I want to think... but I can't think of any because at first, time travelling isn't possible (at least for now).

Those people who sold their Bitcoins at a lower price is the reason why we are here now. They showed that a new currency like Bitcoin is there, can be transferred without any third party involved, and it can be an alternative mode of payment to fiat currency. Now with the Pizza Guy, I guess he already said that he doesn't have any regrets on his decision because at first place, he doesn't know the future, and he don't know the future of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin way back in 2009 is like any other shitcoins currently. We don't know the future that's, and these people who sold their Bitcoin in the past proved to us that it can be used for whatever reason it is. Many here have said that they might've bought it, but did you know what the future of Bitcoin is way back in 2009? If you missed the opportunity to buy Bitcoin, buy those shitcoins out there. Buy those new projects out there, and see if you can do it.

Sorry, but I'm just being realistic OP so... don't mind my words I guess. :)

Nice plan but you don't have to go too far back through the time trouble machine to earn huge amounts of money from cryptocurrency.  As every exchange has an option called futures trade.  And offering 125x leverage for Bitcoin there.  So it is possible to become a billionaire overnight from here just by knowing the bitcoin future of one hour. But in this universe it is not possible to create any time travel machine.  So this is just our false assurance.  It is possible only in our imagination

If we had a time machine to go back to 2009, but it would also make us forget all about the present. I bet you that no one will dare to buy 1 bitcoin, let alone buy 1 million bitcoin, as many people are saying. Because at that time, bitcoin was given out for free, and no one cared, let alone spent some money to buy it. Right now, the future of bitcoin is as clear as ever, many people remain skeptical and dare not invest. Then don't say we would dare to buy it when it has no value and no clear future.

If i can travel back time maybe i can make a new timeline and i will fix myself and also i would go when the bitcoin is super low then travel to present just to sell and travel back again and again like infinite money haha. In reality, I will travel back when my mom is still alive, I will cherish my mom day after day until the time has come so I have no regrets because in present I didn't focus on my mom health so I'm regretting that time and I'm blaming my self why my mom died. Sorry for the sad story, good day to all !

That's right but that's not the point of the original topic, it talks about the could've been things for many of us, it indulges our fantasies even just for awhile and I think that what OP is trying to point out here is that even if we have the machine, there's still uncertainty and we won't be able to predict accurately what could possibly happen.

Precisely. It’s the time when bitcoin was still very cheap and everyone can afford to buy. If I have known and believed in bitcoin earlier, probably I could have made the maximum purchase of bitcoin store in my portfolio and might have gained massive profits way back 2017 when it’s price had surged to its highest peak. But in reality, there’s no time machine wherein you can correct your mistakes. What’s more crucial is now, and take advantage of every opportunity that comes in the market so we won’t keep reminiscing and regretting about the past.

Another method is to learn from the mistakes of others, I have never invested in a meme coin and when I saw the results the majority of them have gotten with their investments in those coins I decided long ago to never invest in them, a decision that probably saved myself a great deal of money, because as we know those coins can experiment periods of extreme volatility and during those periods investors can lose a great deal of their capital in just a few weeks.

If I could travel back in time there are so many things I’d do & if I’m honest, buying bitcoin earlier probably isn’t one of them. I have done well in bitcoin, sure I could have bought earlier. If I could travel back in time though I would probably spend more time with relatives who are no longer here (sorry to be boring).

Lol, good one mate you caught me there. When reading your reply I thought you would say something similar to buying as much as you can as the price has suddenly risen ten times since it early years. But if am I to go back I would definitely sell my whole stuff which is not useful and my little land I inherited from my dad and put it all in an investment in bitcoin but that if I knew the price is going to rise this much.

It is a good practice to learn from other's mistake. But the impact to the lesson will not be as heavy as what you have learned from your own experience. As long as you don't suffer from your own mistakes and learn from them, then it will have less impact to your learning and experience. Because it is just another knowledge to you. But when you are the one to face it, you will gain experience. And experience is always ahead of knowledge. People hit the iron to make it strong. This has the same concept. But you need to track your improvements too.

Yes, unless you experience the same thing you will not fully understand or feel what the other person is feeling. But yes we can also learned from other people experience, and we can have an advance thinking that we should avoid this thing etc. But if I could turn back time, I will save some of the money I earned here in bitcointalk and I will reinvest it in btc. That's one of my biggest regret.

You're right on the latter that even somebody or all of us goes back, true to that that we'll still be uncertain with Bitcoin since we knew the early days of it weren't really good at all and it's full of backlashing and only a few trusts it.

That's what we're all saying but, the reality is even it's infront of us and too cheap, I don't think that the majority of us will buy it. So, these are all just discussions but putting ourselves into such situation will just make us think that we won't be feeling regret or at least we feel it but also accepting the reality of what actions we'll do from there.

Big mistake when holding meme coins for long term, ever invested on meme coins and holding although earned profit more than 10x keep hold until price drop and removed liquidity on exchange dapp. I learned from this mistake never invest again in meme coin or hold it more than one week. We made many mistake and should learned all what have to do next time when investing in cryptocurrency and bad experienced not never gonna repeated again. Right now more careful and selective when investing in meme coin or decision for short term or long term holding some coin because not in accordance with the expected expectations.

Other people's experiences will be an early warning that we need to evaluate so that we don't make the same mistakes.

To turn back time and go back to the time when Bitcoin was not yet in great demand, it would be everyone's desire and then buy a lot.
Yes, but that will only be a fantasy, will never happen.

What needs to be fixed without the need for a time machine is how we understand trading well, understand cryptocurrency so that any current opportunity can take advantage of it to benefit. All will have the same opportunity, depending on how we will start.

I do think that if I could turn back time, the obvious answer would be to HODL BTCs as much as possible and save it for the next 10-15 years where it would make me an instant millionaire or billionaire in this current day and age.

I do agree with your statement- the past is what defines the present and the future. The price history of BTC is what defined and pivoted its trajectory towards the success it is facing. Bearing that in mind, everyone may dream of achieving such scenario.

Though this may be the case, I do think that the current price of BTC now may be much higher 10-15 years from now. I always remind myself to HODL my BTCs and save it. Who knows that maybe in the future, its price may even skyrocket further.

Sometimes the past should stay in the past. Maybe this is the best. I don't want to go back and say things like I would buy x bitcoins. I don't want to fantasize about the past and get stuck. I try to live our day the way we deserve. I am striving for my future. Thinking too much about impossible things is stealing time from our future.

What we need to do now is to think and invest in the next 5-10 years. For the previous years, we wish we had bought bitcoin. Why not buy now?

You have done so well in Bitcoin, as you have said, but you are not wrong about what you have said. I am the kind of person who loves to kill two birds with one stone(funny). But since I have not gotten into Bitcoin early, I would basically get more Bitcoin since it doesn't take much stress or time to do so. After doing so, I will still spend more time with some relatives that I never got to spend a lot of time with before they died. Also, if possible, I would educate and advise a lot of my relatives to invest in Bitcoin as well.



Cheers 🥂

In learning things and acquiring experience through others, it is not necessary to have the same feeling as the person.  It is a matter of the cost and effect things and not the dramatic feeling the subject is going through.  Honestly, we can tell them (feelings) since we have a grasp of how emotion is formed.

Time will never come back so this discussion is a bit in vain but one thing we can do is just learn from the past experience and use it to leverage our advantage in the present and future tense of our Bitcoin journey.

Going back through a time machine doesn't seem to the right way of technology. It'll disturb the perfect functioning of any technology. It is good to get going along with the realtime and get adopted to it. People say that they will get back to the past and buy a lot of bitcoins. It is ok but sure the limitations and the goodness will surely  disturbed as it'll create miscalculations.

Whether it is bitcoin or any form of investment is normal people wish getting back to the past and having investment at the right time. We should think of the reality and act accordingly, which means even the ongoing market is an possibility which needs to be used.

That is mostly true and I see it the same way, but the huge difference between back then and now is the significantly increased downside risk and the decreased upside potential. Nobody could have ever truly known how far Bitcoin will go, but when you consider its total supply and you would have decided to buy 10,000 Bitcoin for $45, you would have owned a significant share that either goes to 0 one day and you would be $45 poorer or you would hold a relatively significant share in something you think is interesting and somewhat different from other potential assets in a very tempting way.

This does not mean that Bitcoin can't outperform other assets anymore. It would probably will for quite some time, but if I am not mistaken, nothing has ever performed like Bitcoin I believe. The psychological effect on getting in when you know you have missed the train for over a decade is rooted in the accounting you do in your head. You think about the 10000x that it has done already and then you have doubts whether it can do it again and whether there is something else that could do this. Ultimately, you do know that it had never been easier to get rich and this has certainly become true for some of the earliest buyers.

It is said that seed investors take the biggest risk because they finance a start-up or product that is still in its infancy. In the case of Bitcoin there wasn't really any risk if you only look at the numbers. Throw 50 bucks at it and let it go. Couldn't have invested 50 bucks in Facebook or Amazon and also became as rich.

Some people still thinking not like you, they will try to back in the past and buy all of Bitcoin. But, something like this, usually doesn't work because it will be different situation and become unexpected in the future. I agree, One way to back in the past is to buy Bitcoin today, but not many are aware of it, because they is still lulled and imagined if all that is too late and there's nothing they can't do today.

I won't back to the past, If had a time traveling machine, i will change that machine so there is no option to go back in past, the option is only one, future.

The present is still a very good opportunity to buy bitcoin but many people do not dare to buy and dream about the past, which is really ridiculous. I also think that even if they go back to the past and do not know the future, they will never dare to buy bitcoin. Because right now, we all know that bitcoin will hit $100k, but still not too many people dare to buy.

The present will be the past of the future, if those who regret not buying bitcoin in the past, now is still the time for them to correct their mistakes. But you are right, not many people realize this, and people prefer to live virtually than accept reality and find ways to correct mistakes.
I know this is just a funny question because it never happens, but we shouldn't waste our time thinking about the impossible. Instead, evaluate the present and find a way not to repeat the same mistake in the future. We regret not buying bitcoin 14 years ago, so don't let this regret repeat in 14 years.

This is what I want to say, why don't we buy bitcoin now and hold until 15 years later? We don't have to reminisce about the past and get stuck with it, it doesn't make us any better either. It is never too late to invest in bitcoin, and I think now is the perfect time to invest in bitcoin. If I had to choose, I would rather buy bitcoin now than in the past because the future of bitcoin is more certain than ever. The risk of buying bitcoin in the early days is much higher than buying bitcoin from now on.

the price of bitcoin now can be said to be expensive when compared to before and there are lots of people who want to have bitcoin in large quantities because the price is expensive. but if you look at the past btc prices are of course very cheap
and of course, if you had a time machine, everyone would go back in time to buy as many bitcoins as possible, including me, i would also buy as many bitcoins as . and will sell btc at current price.

but I don't think it's worth thinking that far ahead because it won't work.

and keep in mind the present will be the past.

I have held alts until they turned to dust. I don't ask much from time-machine, I'd just convert these alts at their highs to Bitcoin and put it into a cold wallet. Compared to responses here talking of thousands, even with time-machine I'd only have two digits of btc at max, yet it'd be enough somehow.

1 The topic is not realistic but attracts quite a lot of people interested. It shows that more people are still living in fantasy than reality. Instead of expecting things that will never happen, we should focus on the present. If you believe in the future of bitcoin, accumulate now and hold for the next 10 years. If you continue to regret the past and don't buy bitcoin now, 10 years from now, you will still regret it.

We'll see that in the next upcoming years. We want to see that happen that price of Bitcoin is higher than in those years but inflation would also be high by that time. We don't know what's with the future and how it's going to look like but we've seen this in the past that nobody believed Bitcoin but only a few folks that the society thought they're geek and weird people but look where they are right now. Those that have held and believed on it are wealthier than those that have mocked them.

It can indeed help towards our own growth and improvement but we shouldn't be that perfectionist either because it is still okay to make mistakes as experience is the best teacher in life, there's no need to get embarrassed about it as even the most known investors are still losing in some of their investments but they aren't giving up. Just be yourself and as long as you know that you're doing everything the best you can, it's a win-win situation for you because if you lose, there's an experience but if you win, there's a profit.

And if I were given the chance to travel back in time, I surely wanted to buy and accumulate as much coins as possible and put it in a time-lock afterwards in the most-trusted bank in our country so that I won't be in the risk of selling some of those said accumulated coins whenever the market is achieving another ATH especially way back in 2017.

Wow! Learned something new today. Tough luck for those guys. Honestly at that point you just have to realize that you were never destined to be a stinking crazy rich person. Maybe gonna have to lower that bar homie and just settle for becoming a modest millionaire after spending one's whole life working your ass off and amassing it all by the time you're too old and can't enjoy it anymore, just like the rest of us hahahahah jk 😉

if they did not act like that, I don't think we will cross this Level of bitcoin today so thanks to all of them who shows faith and sacrifice
so all of us now will benefits, and yes their action might be frustrating now but at least , their name will be remembered forever.


this only shows one thing , that we must have the same faith and actions for the betterment of crypto specially bitcoin in the long future.
I will tell Satoshi to be more generous and allocate at least single bitcoin for the first million of users that will make transactions with Minimum spend/trade lol.

Of course I will change my decision of selling my Bitcoin at a low value, now that I know the price will skyrocket. But we can't turn back time, it's all in the past that we should not dwell. Back then, who would have thought that Bitcoin is a gem? I admire the early investors who managed to hold their Bitcoin for years and able to witness the bullrun.

Anyway, it happened already so instead of looking back on the mistakes you committed, much better to look forward on what the future holds. Because it's not late to hold some Bitcoin if you don't want to have regrets once again.

we can't predict what will happen in the future and before we invest we should probably look for some research first if it's worth in or not we have to study it well and have enough knowledge since bitcoin was not that popular that time unlike now which for those who believes that time bitcoin has a future and probably they already gain enough profit by holding it for long.

I think most people who already know about bitcoin, will definitely return to the year when bitcoin still has a very cheap price, and will definitely use all means to be able to buy bitcoin at that time. I think that's a very common thought for a lot of people who now know about bitcoin, if only there was such a thing as a time machine.
But most likely if there is a time machine, there will definitely be history that will change, especially regarding bitcoin. Because if there is such a thing as a time machine, people who know about bitcoin's potential will probably be back in 2009-2010. There will definitely be a lot of people buying bitcoin that year, and the result will be that the price of bitcoin will immediately experience a drastic increase. And those who are late to return to the past, will definitely be left behind to buy bitcoin at a cheap price, because bitcoin has increased quite high, so its position will remain as it is now.

And I personally will definitely go back in time and buy bitcoin at a cheap price. But something like this is unlikely to happen, because this world is not a movie or a fairy tale. The most important thing at this time is that we have to put more effort into investing in bitcoin, because the point is to be sure, that the struggle will not betray the results.

I never regret what have I done all those years here , from my Bitcoin and altcoin investments , from my earning to failure because I must admit that all are part of the system , for me to gain is some others need to lose and vice versa .
but what I love to know is what happened to the creator and this is what I will secure if given a chance to travel back time.
maybe there are clearer views now if He/She/them is/are still around .
don't worry mate, we are talking about bitcoin here and nothing else so yes we need no big thing to understand but how long we wanted to handle our coins .

Bitcoin is a currency whose future no one can imagine. Various predictions are made about this Bitcoin as to how much it has changed from the past price to the present and how much change may be seen in the future. And so we are most interested in investing in Bitcoin with the thought that the future of Bitcoin will be very good.

On 22 May 2010, a person who bought goods with bitcoins bought only two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins. and this was the biggest record and history of cryptocurrency world. And Laszlo Hanyecz bought the world's first commodity with Bitcoin, which was the first purchase of goods with Bitcoin in crypto. At that time no one was very interested in selling goods with bitcoins, so a $25/$30 pizza was bought with 10,000 bitcoins, which was worth $41 at the time.

If I had a time travel machine I would reach a place in the past that no one can imagine. If I had a time travel machine I would buy all the bitcoins that have been sold in the past at low prices. and if I had a time travel machine, I'd be friends with Satoshi Nakamoto ;D. and later he would give me a lot of bitcoins and I would come back to the present and become the richest person in cryptocurrency. But it's never possible lol. ;D

Well, If you imagine buying Bitcoin for just a few cents or even a fraction of a cent? It will be like hitting the jackpot. As they say, hindsight is 20/20, but with a time machine, you can look forward too. Of course, I had to be careful not to disrupt the timeline or do anything that would create a paradox. However, the thought of getting to the ground floor of such a revolutionary technology is mind-blowing.

Who knows what the future holds, but if you can come back and make a smart investment, why not?

Unfortunately we can't go back in time and hope to buy bitcoins at such low prices, there's no point in talking about time travel for now, we don't miss opportunities to collect them and even though the current prices are very different, what we need to do to stay consistent with purchases we can make. Your topic will also hold onto people in the future, where every decade there will be someone who regrets not buying bitcoins when they could.

I never want to talk about the past and will continue to try to be more consistently involved in investing. In fact, currently many people have experienced great returns from the investments they made, even though the purchase prices were much different. Someone will always be looking at the past and someone else will be looking at the future and that's where the difference is whenever someone asks.

Even if you don't think about the past, you should learn from the past. The time he mentioned was the best time to buy bitcoin but there are many of us who were not involved in crypto currency and even if we were involved we had no idea about investing but we can now learn from past mistakes and move forward if we want.can. Although the price of bitcoin has increased a lot compared to the past and there is more growth potential in the future so if we can invest now from that potential then maybe our future can be beautiful.  And if we hold for a long time we may get some good returns. So we should utilize this opportunity in the current context.

If I could travel back or front in time, that will be the best privilege any human being could ever dream up, because for me, what I would have done is travel back to May 2010 when the price of bitcoin was still 0.0046 per BTC and bought a handful of the least $100 worth of BTC resulting to over 20,000+ BTC, of which by now I bet you 20,000 BTC by today's current price should be over $540 million,
While,
If I could travel front in time, what I would have done is check the correct scores of just played full-time premier league matches and then go back in time to go play the same correct scores which I saw in the future of over 100,000 odds with just $100, what would have resulted in me winning over $$10 million also huge enough to live the life of your dream any part of the world.

But it's quite sad such time-traveling machines don't exist

There is no such thing as a time travel machine, it's just a concept.  Many people think that many things can be done with a time travel machine but in reality it never exists.  I don't believe in time travel.We can learn from the past since the price of Bitcoin was very low in the past.  At that time many people may have bought and kept Bitcoins while others sold them.Can't expect to buy bitcoin at such a low price these days. There's nothing to be confused about what happened in the past.  Bitcoin price is always unpredictable.  So we have nothing to be disappointed, because everything works according to a system.

Indeed. In addition to that, we must accept the reality, deal with it and adopt ourselves in every new condition. It is certain that Bitcoin is extremely high comparing to old prices back to 2009, 2010..etc but we should create solutions and opportunities to gain money instead of complaining and blaming ourselves for the decisions we have not taken. Unfortunately, there is a plenty of new crypto users are looking for an easy way to earn large profit without knowledge and making any efforts, that’s impossible to happen, we should be realistic sometimes and working hard to achieve success.

during the times when the value of Bitcoin was still low, I think those who sold it had no remorse for what they were doing in these times. Because of course in these days they know that they have income and that is a big thing at least for sure.

      Then who would have thought that the value of Bitcoin would be like this, and based on the movies I've seen that show when people can go back in the past, history is also changed in the future, so that means if the time traveling machine is real for sure whatever bitcoin's value is today it won't be like that and its name won't explode in my opinion.

Well there's nothing we can do but to accept and move on, with those foolish steps that we had done in the past which it might be able to changed up our lives forever if we do able to held it on upto this moment.

This does really proves out that Bitcoin stories arent really just that into those who became wealthy but also into those people who had just missed out a huge gain just because they have sold it early
or too cheap. No one could be able to predict on what would be the future looks like and this is why its not really that shocking that we do miss out the train. Well if we do have that time machine
and people would be able to get back into those early days or years then for sure we would be accumulating bitcoins as much as we could and so as with the current top altcoins
that we do have in the market today.

Who doesnt really love on getting rich btw?  :D

I have talked about this before, and I will say it again. I would not change a single second of my life ever. I am happy where I am today, and I feel like that is the key point to being happy as well, knowing where you are and how you got there. I know that many people living a life that is not worthy of happiness and that is understandably upsetting, which means they can't think the way I think because I live a pretty good life. Obviously in no way I am rich, I have huge debts, I have a lot of health issues and I lost close family and had cancer survivor and all that, which all entails a pretty rough period here and there, but there are people who are starving right now in my nation, literally starving, so I am pretty good when you look at the average and I am above that average, even if I "look" bad, that's still better than the average so I am happy with that. If I change even a single second of my life, then it means I may ruin that, and I do not want to ruin it, maybe it could be better, or maybe it would be worse, I do not want to risk it.

I'm sure a lot of people will regret not buying bitcoins when they were cheap, but now the price of btc has gone up, and I don't think there is a time travel machine yet, but I think we have to accept and see reality now and collect as much btc as possible, so you don't regret it . at a later time. but to be honest I also had a fantasy that if I could visit the past and I would buy as much btc as possible, but yes we have to accept reality now.

It's a good and understandable fantasy. A relatable what-if from you. Because same, I would love to go back in the past and buy as much btc as I can. However, it is what it is, we are here now and we grew organically. All we can do now is be smart with what we have and how we are going to let what we have to grow for our future. Sadly, as much as we want to have control of our past all we can have a hand on controlling is our future by being smart in the present.

I agree with you, anything related to the past is an experience that will never be repeated and discussion of time machines is just fantasy and illusion only exists in movies, the only thing that can be taken from the past is only experience to improve market analysis in the future.

We are not too late to start everything about bitcoin from now even without a time machine because we have studied the market cycles leading up to the halving every year from the past, so make the best decision to increase the bitcoin assets in the portfolio and we will be ready for the next bullish season.

The present will be the past of the future, so we don't need a time machine to go back to the past, while now we can still correct the mistakes of the past. If we missed buying bitcoin when it was at $10 or $1,000, why don't we correct it by buying bitcoin right now and aim to sell bitcoin when it hits $1 million? But I bet many people won't do that, and they'll continue to regret the past and dream about time machines. They regret that they already knew the outcome, but when it comes to the future, they will again become fearful as they have done in the past. They refuse to buy bitcoin now and will continue to show remorse in the future.

I don't think there's any point in going back in time with a time machine.  But if it is possible to know the future, then a bright future can be created by applying it from now. We know that the future of bitcoin is very good and bitcoin may release 1 million dollars one day but we are afraid of the future because we are not guaranteed it. And because of this, we do not have confidence, but if it is possible to know the future through time machine, then our confidence will increase.  But it is impossible to know the future somehow and it is foolish to think that the future can be known somehow

The point is not that it makes sense to return to the past in a time machine, but that it is impossible, in principle. Our time machine only works in one direction: forward, not backward.

We don't know the future, no one knows this, and nothing is known what the future of the bitcoin will be. But the most amazing thing is that by our actions we can influence this very future, including the future of BTC. Instead of sitting and waiting for 1 BTC to be paid for $1.000.000, maybe it's better to do at least small actions that will bring this moment closer? For example, start small: buy and sell goods and services for a bitcoin, in general, as it was originally conceived. Or from a big point of view: integrate bitcoin payments into your business, be it small or big.

We can predict the future, anticipate upcoming events, influence future changes with our current actions - this is what we need to use, and not fantasize about time machines. All the same, this is a technical forum and we should not break away from reality.

Sometimes we just have to stop thinking and just continue living,  because there is no time in life that is constant and change is inevitable so we have to celebrate only the moment and plan for the future but then also the past is past and I won't need a time travelling machine to draw my memory or experience backwards at any moment.

More also due to the many bad experiences of my past,  I rather continue in the present and anticipate a better future.

The topic is quite interesting but I think we should stop fantasizing and live for the present, live for what is happening.  the past is the past and can never be returned, the present and the future are what we need to aim for.

As for bitcoin investment, we don't need to regret what we missed because we still have a chance if we know how to seize it now.  In my opinion, the value of bitcoin is still very low compared to its real value. so if we really don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past, what we need to do is buy bitcoin right now.

I agree with the fact that this topic will not take us anywhere in terms of knowledge and information since the topic is all about fantasy and just for fun,  so at that we can't take any information here as research material or advice in any form,  but as you know, human-like to fantasy and at that we should give them the room to speak up what their fantasies are and how best to see through those imaginations.

But there can never be a connecting point between that fantasy and reality since time and circumstances change things.

If the time travel machine does exists, I would love going back in time to correct my mistakes in life apart from missing in Bitcoin.

When BTC was introduced in 2009, I was still a college student with no personal computer, laptop and internet. I was a guy who doesn't really think much about the future but just playing PC games and doing online freelancing work.

However, it is what it is right now. That's life and we just have to keep moving forward. I am still grateful that even with this price of Bitcoin, crypto is giving us plenty of opportunities to explore (even jobs).

You were writing it correctly but then you made a mistake: Laszlo didn't SELL his 10,000 bitcoins, he bought a product, so it's totally different. When you go to the restaurant and you pay, you are not selling to the restaurant your dollars or euros, you are paying for what you bought. That is what Laszlo did, and no one else before him did such thing.

With all due respect, this is something that personally I don't understand: why would you even waste the time needed to sell something in exchange of 50 cents? If you spent money to buy some bitcoins than for sure it was money you didn't need, so having those 50 cents is not going to change your life... Well, actually it may have changed his life but not in a positive way.

    -    If the time traveling machine is real, I'm sure that what the price of Bitcoin is now is not what it will be, maybe its value is low. Of course just think about all the people today in our time now they know there is a time travel machine, all the Bitcoin community will want to go back to 2009 to buy a lot of Bitcoin and they will hold it, think only a few will sell for sure most will just hold .

If that happens, Bitcoin will not reach this value with what we have now. Even history can be changed, meaning that Bitcoin might be harmed.

Time machine is only possible in movies and fantasy.It is impossible to have such a thing in reality but it is possible to predict Bitcoin price. Bitcoin's ATH was above 68k and after that it came down again to 15k and then it came back to around 30k and it will make a new ATH again.  But maybe it takes a long time so no time machine is needed in this case.  It is really foolish to think or discuss about which is not actually possible in the real world.

But if the time machine really existed I would look 10 years into the future of Bitcoin and then decide how much I should invest in Bitcoin. and I would have been able to know about my future financial status in advance.

Op some people will like to go back again and to accumulate enough bitcoin because at that time when bitcoin price was very low, the awareness and adoption was very low. It was only few people that knew bitcoin and used it. An now that people have known bitcoin like this, and they want to buy but the price rate is restricting them from buying so if bitcoin go back to it early price again. I will accumulate enough.

When a person have got access to move back through time travel he/she will surely accumulate as much possible. This is the expectation and most of the users have mentioned it. To me, when we travel behind years we should have the same mentality same as the past days. If a person who hadn't known about it, he/she should be known about it. This needs to be the change in them. In such situation very few will invest.

If time travel machines were real then everyone would definitely want him to go back to 2009. But if history can be changed then Bitcoin will suffer a bit but it is not possible. If there was a time travel machine, it would certainly be interested in going back to when Bitcoin was at its lowest value and then expressing an interest in buying entire Bitcoins. Because if you knew what was going to happen in the future of bitcoin you would have bought all the bitcoins so that you could become the richest man in the world. But it is possible with time travel machine which is not present in the present world so we should not dream this it will always remain a dream never come true.

And as I said, most people are afraid of the future, you don't want to go back to the past, but you want to know the future to be sure of your decisions. So you are no different from those who want to go back to the past, all the same. Moreover, if there is a time machine that helps you to know the future, which means other people can do it and we all know the future, is there any chance for us? To me, opportunity is hidden in risk and it is only worthy of those who dare to accept the challenge. I don't want to share that opportunity with other people because I have to take the risk to get it, while they don't have to trade or do anything, it's not fair.

Let the future always be a mystery, and those who dare to accept new challenges deserve the rewards they deserve.

Every single person in the early days of Bitcoin, including the pioneers, had no idea how revolutionary it would become. You were in college, playing games and hustling through freelancing? Good for you! Those experiences shaped you and provided you skills which, I bet, are valuable now.

Constantly harping on missed chances, especially regarding investments, is futile and counterproductive. Bitcoin's rise was unprecedented and unpredictable. Are you going to crucify yourself for every unpredictable event you didnt foresee? Thats not how progress or personal growth works!

Instead of fantasizing about nonexistent time machines, use that energy to seize today's opportunities. The cryptocurrency space is VAST. Bitcoin was just the beginning. And remember: Many of those who got in early also sold early, missing the biggest gains. The game's not over; its just a different inning

That's the common thing to do if people would have the chance to go back in time which is buy more Bitcoin or even bet a lotto. Since I always watch things like go back in time movies where if something that meant to happened got interfere, then most likely the canon event would be chance so is Bitcoin would still reach it's current price if people just would go back in time just to hodl them? Or it could reach more here than the current value of Bitcoin? But in my case. I would not just only focus on Bitcoin because for sure back then I don't have the money to invest huge at Bitcoin so I would do some part time job then would invest with some other alternative investment as well like some good business that are trending recently. So when I have a passive income, it would be easier to invest at Bitcoin with spare money.

Actually, Bitcoin in only one of the many opportunities of making profit you could find when going back in time through a time machine. Just like in the movie "Back to the Future", you could take with you an almanac containing all the results of sports' games of the previous years, so you could bet on them in the past knowing the correct result beforehand and growing your fortune.

The debate about changing the timeline and its consequences has been always present on this matter, but I guess most people wouldn't care about the side effects of changing the past in their favour, if they had the chance of doing so. Theoretically, the less you interfere in the past, the less side effects it would cause.

So it seems to buy more or less BTCs wouldn't be a big issue. But to warn society about important events, such as tragedies, pandemics and sudden death of personalities could make total difference on timeline.