There's no point in regretting things that we could have done, predicted whatsoever. I knew about Bitcoin since I was 13-14, if I am not mistaken, back when it was worth $200-300. Didn't know much about it, I just used faucets and wandered around the web at that time. I cannot say I regret not buying back then or not keeping any BTC I had earned, (Faucets paid a lot in Satoshi's back then), because I didn't know, even if I did, how could someone predict something like that?

We can't keep living with our regrets, because if I do, I'll have quite a few Bitcoin related ones. Not buying at $200, not buying at $3.000 and bla bla bla. Infinite loop. Just look ahead on what you can do now, not what you COULD have done several years ago.

Since Bitcoin's supply is limited to 21 million, and judging by the current all-time high at approximately $41.500, I would say it's highly possible. I don't want to exaggerate and say that it will certainly happen, but it probably will. I'd say it will happen in the next few months, Bitcoin will set quite a few, new all-time high records before reaching $50k.

I'd be f**ed if it goes down that much, I don't believe (Or hope at least) that it does. I bought 0.02 BTC a few hours ago, at approximately $31.500. After observing the price, I came to the conclusion that it has stabilized somewhere at that point. Let's shall wait and see, whether my investment bears fruits or not.

Didn't read the whole article to be honest, however, nether can I see how a photo of the address actually proves it's actually yours. It might not affect me at the moment, but I wouldn't be surprised if it passes to other EU countries in the distant future. I was actually looking for an excuse to switch exchanges but couldn't bother doing it.

Bitstamp has way higher fees anyway (0.05%), compared to other exchanges, I don't even want to bother totalizing the money I've spent in fees.

I don't know what you say, but I'm observing the price for the past 2 days, looking for an opportunity to buy some, taking advantage of the current price correction/crash. It's similar to the most recent one that happened the previous one or two weeks. I don't think it's something to worry about, as long as you are careful with the trades you make.

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I don't think it will outperform Bitcoin as a coin entity. However, I do believe that it is a decent opportunity to invest in. During the last week, its price rose to a significant degree, and I also believe that it will increase further more in the near future.
I wouldn't advise you to place your funds solely on one coin, you can always invest in both.

I'd disagree. Wanted to move a small amount of BTC (Around 0.03 BTC) from my BitGo wallet to Bitstamp. The high priority (2 Blocks) fee, would cost me around $15. I find that an extravagant amount, just to send a few hundred bucks. Had to choose medium priority, (10~ blocks if I am not mistaken). The first time it took 2-3 hours to confirm, the second time it took more than 8 hours.

Couldn't agree more, despite the investment potential, Bitcoin is also a fast, anonymous way of sending and receiving money. Back when Bitcoin was worth $200~, I had used it to buy some Minecraft accounts and some other online related stuff.

No one could actually predict that it would reach such price levels, 5 or 10 years ago.

It definitely wasn't a dip like the ones that have occurred in the past. However, billions of dollars were "lost" in market cap and its value dumped by at least 12%. You cannot say that's an insignificant crash.

I only bought a small amount of Bitcoin, to be honest, I was afraid that it wouldn't recover so quickly.

Definitely sucks for the guy, if I was in his shoes, I would have literally drive myself crazy over regret. I mean, you invested into buying a physical wallet, due to safety concerns I guess, why wouldn't you make a backup of the private keys or something. We're talking about 7.000 BTC, now worth millions of dollars.

Don't really know what and how something like this is caused, although, I believe it was expected after such a bull run. Not only did it hit a new all time high, but also managed to stabilise its price, near the ath.

I found it a great opportunity to buy some BTC, I hope I don't regret it.

Definitely not the first time it's happening. Similar crashes have occurred the past several weeks, no bigie. Just consider it an opportunity to buy and then sell at a higher price later on, in the future. In a couple of days, it will probably recover.

I think we've all been in the same position with OP. I have myself been in his shoes. There's no point in looking back, I had abandoned my wallets after the crash in from $20k back in 2017, hadn't logged in on my wallet since then. When I did, My balance was tripled ($24.000 then) and I still didn't bother to keep track of how the market was going.

After a day or two it crashed down to $17.000 and my account on Bitstamp was inactive and was locked out.
In result, I didn't manage to buy at the right price. It has happened to all of us.

Couldn't agree more. I recently found 3 Blockchain wallets and 2 Ethereum ones. One of them had almost  $100 worth of Bitcoin, back when it was deposited, its value was just a few dollars, something like $2. It's not a huge deal but it was nice to unexpectedly find a few bucks.

The other two Ethereum wallets had some tokens in them, unfortunately, they were worthless.

Yup, I also found two of those. One Ethereum wallet was empty, the other one had a few thousand of worthless tokens. Can't even remember where I got them from. It was Nolly and Kakushin tokens. Have no idea how or when I acquired them, searched them up but they are worthless and in no exchanges whatsoever.

I've only got a small amount of Bitcoin, less than 0.10BTC, I decided to buy some when I noticed a price dump. Unfortunately, I didn't buy fast enough and the price had already started rising significantly. I bought at 25.000€ (When I could have bought at 24.300€) and sold them yesterday at 27.700€. Today, I woke up and to my surprise, it had surpassed 28.500€. Well, that's trading. You can never be to sure. At least, I made a decent profit, it could have been better, but I was too sceptical before going to bed, was afraid that it could dump when I was asleep.

Planning to buy again, on the next price dump.

Great research work, you've combined years of data into one constructive and coherent post, with information useful for future investments.

Agreed, Bitcoin has been compared several times throughout its existence, from gold, to stocks or other altcoins (at least those a similar philosophy and characteristics with Bitcoin).

However, I don't think there's such a thing as a safe investment. Looking at Bitcoin, you'll notice a wide volatility, I'm sure quite a lot of investors have lost money after the 2017's price crash. The positive thing about it though, is that it can be both a long term and short term investment, whatever floats your boat.

Since circulating Bitcoins are limited, the demand will continue to rise, as time goes by and so will its price.

Cointelegraph and Coindesk and mostly news websites, good for theoretical knowledge, not empirical tools (Include charts, statistics and so on). Thus, why OP hasn't included any of them.

However, great find and great post. Found deadcoins.com quite useful, due to being interested in buying some altcoins, while Coingecko looks for user friendly to me, I'll stick to that from now on.

You can't really predict accurately what will happen and when. I also sold a decent amount of Bitcoin back in 2017. I don't even want to consider what I've sold or spent back in 2015-2016.

On top of that, I sold at $25.000 and $29.500 respectively, I do regret it but there's nothing I can do to reverse it.