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What am I doing wrong?
your problem is that you think the only way to make profit from bitcoin is to buy it when it was $1 or so and sell it when it is $3000+
and because of that mindset you have missed a lot of rise so far.
take a look at the charts for the past couple of months or past year. the price is always on the rise and it will continue to be on the rise.
on the start of 2017 price was barely $1000 and now it is more than 3x higher! that means if you, instead of sulking, invested in it then you could have made 3x profit.
and it is not late now either! next year you will look at $3300 and say i wish i bought back then, i can't afford paying $7860 to buy 1 whole bitcoin now.