What if, you had invested $100 in BTC (From 2010 to 2021)

[Ultegra134]

I stumbled upon an article on Yahoo Finance, which really sparkled my interest, it's from February 2021. It is consisted of several scenarios, coming from the early days of 2010 until nowadays, 2021. I think that its performance is quite astonishing, even if you aren't an early adopter, those $100 could still be a great investment in the long run.

Starting from 2010, BTC's average price would be a few cents at most (The article mentions 6 cents per BTC), your $100 investment would now be worth $73.000.000 (BTC value $44.000, with current value of $50.000~ that would now be $82.843.920!)

Even in 2013, that Bitcoin was starting to gain in value (Approximately $600-700 each) your $100 would now be worth $7.800 (valued at $50.000).

What's interesting is that even throughout years 2017-2019 (Which is our very recent past), those $100 which is like a petty amount of investment, would lead to pretty decent profit, from such a petty amount.

Bitcoin was and still is one of the best investments someone could make, I strongly believe that there's still earning/investment potential. Sometimes I am thinking back and wonder what if? What if I had even bought $50 worth of BTC back in 2014, when I registered here, now I'd have a decent amount of money. I wish I had realized the potential back then, but I was too young. It's no time for regrets, we should keep going forward, in an effort to acquire as much knowledge we can, which can lead us to a new earning potential.

Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-price-soars-much-100-163535191.html

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[jossiel]

I also had that what if before but I knew to myself that just like the other nostalgic crypto posts about selling early like the famous Greg Schoen tweet.

I've probably have sold with a few hundreds of profit instead of holding just like those projections and comparison of amount that have rendered IF being put into bitcoin several years ago.

[zasad@]

If I bought ..
If I hadn't sold ..
If I had not lost the wallet.dat and the private key ..
History always repeats itself, statistics say that about 3 million bitcoins are lost forever.
This is a good lesson, so you need to take good care of all cryptoassets, make more copies and invest in interesting projects.

[Fesatmas]

Starting from 2010, BTC's average price would be a few cents at most (The article mentions 6 cents per BTC), your $100 investment would now be worth $73.000.000 (BTC value $44.000, with current value of $50.000~ that would now be $82.843.920!)

This statement makes me regret knowing bitcoin for no longer, but what I can do when something that should happen today is a condition when we still don't know and don't know what bitcoin is. Indeed, if you count regrets, you will not be able to accommodate millions of regrets. However, I am still grateful to be able to get to know bitcoin until this very second, because maybe outside there are still many people who don't know or don't even want to know about bitcoin. Being grateful for today's blessings of knowledge is much better than regretting something that was not necessarily in the year of bitcoin's creation.]

[Ejarwan]

With If we remake the world, It's coincidence events, personally I got to know bitcoin around 2013 but I'm not the type to keep an asset for long and sleep peacefully. I feel the urge to sell even though I believe bitcoin has a bright future ahead of it. (Even though at that time the illegal businesses around bitcoin scared me a little)

[Ultegra134]

If I bought ..
If I hadn't sold ..
If I had not lost the wallet.dat and the private key ..
History always repeats itself, statistics say that about 3 million bitcoins are lost forever.
This is a good lesson, so you need to take good care of all cryptoassets, make more copies and invest in interesting projects.

That's correct, I didn't make this thread to rant about what I could have done differently, but it's nice to see how it all started and have a flashback back to the past.

If you had bought 100$ worth of bitcoins in 2010, you would not have imagined that your bitcoins would have multiplied millions of times by 2021.  But sadly, it is never possible to predict the crypto market in advance.

Probably what would have happened with the majority of its users, we would have probably sold when those $100 reached $200-300.

[lalabotax]

The value may be the same if it is still on BTC. It will be different when you are converting to fiat. Yeah, Bitcoin is about converting that coin into fiat in order to know the value itself, moreover the rate conversion of the coin.
We know that at that time, BTC was still very doubtful and many people didna care about this technology. It is very different with the condition right now, where many people will always involve in Bitcoin and also cryptocurrenices.

[Kamarah]

The value may be the same if it is still on BTC. It will be different when you are converting to fiat. Yeah, Bitcoin is about converting that coin into fiat in order to know the value itself, moreover the rate conversion of the coin.
We know that at that time, BTC was still very doubtful and many people didna care about this technology. It is very different with the condition right now, where many people will always involve in Bitcoin and also cryptocurrenices.

I participated in Bitcoin also nearly 10 years but I don't store long-term Bitcoin. Now I realize that is the mistake of alone. In 2018, after a strong fluctuating Bitcoin slipped everyone said that Bitcoin collapsed I sold out its Bitcoin. Then the market was stable and the price of Bitcoin increased, I no longer Bitcoin to sell. I stopped investing Bitcoin for a while. And now after many events occurred, I decided to continue to invest Bitcoin and have new strategies.

[TravelMug]

Of course, everyone has this kind of feeling, regrets, what if scenarios, specially if you have known bitcoin early, like 2010. We should have been self made millionaires by now, if we just buy and hold btc that time. But we really don't know that future, there are early bagholders who sold and take their profits and they didn't see the price going to around ~$60k and the possibility of reaching 6 digit status in the future.

So we all made our 'mistakes', but we can still jump on the bandwagon and reach our goals of becoming rich by just investing today and look for the long term.

[Beparanf]

The value may be the same if it is still on BTC. It will be different when you are converting to fiat. Yeah, Bitcoin is about converting that coin into fiat in order to know the value itself, moreover the rate conversion of the coin.
We know that at that time, BTC was still very doubtful and many people didna care about this technology. It is very different with the condition right now, where many people will always involve in Bitcoin and also cryptocurrenices.

I participated in Bitcoin also nearly 10 years but I don't store long-term Bitcoin. Now I realize that is the mistake of alone. In 2018, after a strong fluctuating Bitcoin slipped everyone said that Bitcoin collapsed I sold out its Bitcoin. Then the market was stable and the price of Bitcoin increased, I no longer Bitcoin to sell. I stopped investing Bitcoin for a while. And now after many events occurred, I decided to continue to invest Bitcoin and have new strategies.

LOL, Your account post history seems shady and probably hacked/bought account. I don't know what's the catch here by acting that you really own account through posting about 10 years ago. Even your statement is true, Your Bitcoin investment history is a roller coaster ride and very hard to imagine. You should learn to hold Bitcoin since you are involved for long period of time and witness many times how it behave.

[cabron]

I never have enough money during that time but I regularly earn a few hundred a month and when I heard about Bitcoin is wasn't really that big of a deal because it sounded like its just for the computer geeks exchanging cards. When each of them cost more than $1000 that's when I get to be interested, a bit too late because $100 can only buy a fraction of it. Regrets for not really looking into its technology and invest. Life is full of regrets.

I started learning blockchain and mining from then on and since I can't afford devices I end up gambling. Its the first I did after earning a few BTC. Regrets again for losing it all.  

[Alucard1]

I am also thinking that way before, what If I knew bitcoin since 2010, am I going to invest bitcoin or will just ignore it, but for sure if ever I bought some bitcoin on that year, I don't think that I can hold it until now, once the bitcoin pumps a little bit then I will do the same thing as what other do I will also sell my bitcoin right away because no one knows that bitcoin could be like this, no one knows that it can reach $60k, started with a cheap price and now with huge amount of value and now starting to adopt by man companies.

[pooya87]

It's very easy to talk about what could have been after the fact by watching the already changed price. But the reality is that most people who had $100 in bitcoin back in 2010 were like most people who had $100 in bitcoin about a week ago. Both of these groups panic sold when they saw a volatility.

The 2010 people panic sold when price fell from $6.4 to $4.8
The 2021 people panic sold when price fell from $64k to $48k

[gabriela1999]

If I bought Bitcoin at $ 100 in 2014,2015, I would probably sell Bitcoin when its price reached about $ 10000, $ 15000. No one can know what the market in advance will be. And how much bitcoin price will reach the peak. All are just anticipation.

[ILuckyGuyI]

Thinking about it makes one really feel a big regret for not doing it.    I would have become very rich now. But after seeing the price coming to these levels, it's easy to think like that of course. There was no guarantee for Bitcoin to even continue its existence in the end.

[GreatArkansas]

If I bought Bitcoin at $ 100 in 2014,2015, I would probably sell Bitcoin when its price reached about $ 10000, $ 15000. No one can know what the market in advance will be. And how much bitcoin price will reach the peak. All are just anticipation.

This is a very common situation for a lot of people. But if you bought Bitcoin just because of investment, taking profits (selling) of your Bitcoin after some increase of price is not wrong at all, taking profits is never a bad decision, you already made profits on it.
For me, there are few people who manage to hodl their Bitcoin from 2010 to now, there are lot happened along the road 

[Ultegra134]

It's very easy to talk about what could have been after the fact by watching the already changed price. But the reality is that most people who had $100 in bitcoin back in 2010 were like most people who had $100 in bitcoin about a week ago. Both of these groups panic sold when they saw a volatility.

The 2010 people panic sold when price fell from $6.4 to $4.8
The 2021 people panic sold when price fell from $64k to $48k

History repeats itself for sure, it's just interesting to have a quick look back in the past. We can actually notice that the patterns were almost the same as now, as you've already mentioned. Even at the lowest prices, people were in panic selling their coins, even if that was worth a few dollars back then.

[dark1234]

If I bought Bitcoin at $ 100 in 2014,2015, I would probably sell Bitcoin when its price reached about $ 10000, $ 15000. No one can know what the market in advance will be. And how much bitcoin price will reach the peak. All are just anticipation.

This is a very common situation for a lot of people. But if you bought Bitcoin just because of investment, taking profits (selling) of your Bitcoin after some increase of price is not wrong at all, taking profits is never a bad decision, you already made profits on it.
For me, there are few people who manage to hodl their Bitcoin from 2010 to now, there are lot happened along the road  

it is true ..... very few people consider going to the highest climax point of bitcoin prices whether it's from 2010-2021 or even in the coming year for example 2030 because every bitcoin holder is still ejaculating when bitcoin starts jumping on stage and want to take that opportunity to make a second caress

[20kevin20]

There's still a ton of potential in Bitcoin. Best proof is that the more people join it, the more adoption it gets and therefore the higher the price and usage seems to be. Now think how many of your close friends know in depth about it and/or have invested in it. Once at least 25-50% of them are going to be invested in BTC, it's going to be wild. There's just so much potential we're still early adopters even today.

But is a 2017-2020 investment considered a "decent" profit? Only in the last few months BTC grew from $10k to $60k, that's 600% in a matter of months. Whoever had the luck and guts to invest in BTC during the 2020 crash has over 1000% profit in under 12mo. It's not decent, it's insane.

[Lucius]

Bitcoin was and still is one of the best investments someone could make, I strongly believe that there's still earning/investment potential.

You are quite right here, although some things have changed dramatically when it comes to prices, and from my personal experience I can say that many think it is too late to invest in BTC, and accordingly buy various altcoins which they think should achieve the same or approximately what Bitcoin has achieved in that time period. Greed has become even greater after all, as few would be happy to achieve x5 or x10 in the future by investing in BTC.

I wish I had realized the potential back then, but I was too young.

You're not the only one who didn't understand the potential of Bitcoin, most of us were still quite skeptical 5-6 years ago when the main topic on the forum was whether the price would ever reach $1000 again. If some of us would go back and read some of our posts we would see that we were pretty wrong in many things. However, it is much more important that we did not give up in some difficult moments and that we are still here.