As you can see, even $50 can grow significantly and even now it is not too late to invest such a modest amount for years to come.
I agree and that's why people shouldn't underestimate little amounts that they'll use to buy bitcoin at these times. Maybe some the same story will be built upon in the future the same as what this woman has experienced.
The donation was done way back in 2013, that's like almost 10 years ago. Well, the video was uploaded in 2021 so that's actually 8 years later. But just the same, didn't she change computers or laptops since then?
Assuming that my broad assumption is right — the fact that she might've just saved her Blockchain.com login credentials on her browser, well, Chrome — the most used browser ever, syncs saved login credentials to your Google account by default. Everything should be backed up assuming she's using the same Google account.
Yeah, if by chance she didn't upgraded the laptop/desktop that she used. It was just saved on the browser together with her gmail accout but that's too long for that usage since she's into art. Well, the most likely is that she probably has just kept the credentials.
I respect these people who are hodling their bitcoin since 2013. The longest I was able to hodl was 2 and half years that too during the COVID situation and now I keep selling now and then whenever I need my money for my daily usage.
Though I have set up ledger now to keep saving some bitcoins. I am also putting sharing of money from the part time job and trying to hodl is as much as I could in the future.
These are the stories I need to keep learning and keep myself motivating so that I can hodl longer than usual. Lolz.
Good for the painter, afterall her artwork and hard work paid her off!
There are plenty of motivation that you can look at your own situation. Think of your dreams and what might happen in the future if bitcoin goes on a bull run and price goes up. Just don't stop saving and holding.
The only thing I would do if I were her, and therefore what I would recommend, is not to sell everything. If she's tempted to trade it for fiat, she can sell half a Bitcoin and wait another 10 years. I'm sure it will be worth it.
She's endured a lot of years not remembering that she's holding a bitcoin. But, whether she sells or not, she's in total profit no matter what the price is now but I'd say the same that it's better to hold and it will be more worth it.
She is lucky to still have access to the wallet and her luck is multiplied by accessing the wallet when the BTC price is quite high although not the highest.
There are many stories out there of how they became surprised that their crypto asset in BTC, had multiplied in value in USD due to the increase in the price of BTC, sometimes not knowing how valuable btc could make a profit.
This is just one of the many and I'm sure that there are even greater stories out there that they've found massive wealth by just forgetting/holding that they own it years ago up to present.
This is another way of showing how early investors or believers received their part of cake from their investments , though this sounds like not really a trust but an opportunity and experimental? yet that said painter is a double digit richer now .
and maybe as she continues to see the future? then keeping the said bitcoin will bring Her more confident as the price will continue to progress if she will look deeper to what is bitcoin all about and how this works for betterment of the system and the market.
What I think with a person like her that don't much worry at all whether the price goes up or down, when they see the price of bitcoin goes down it's likely that she's just going to sell before it goes to zero. Just like the typical mindset of a person that haven't understand bitcoin wholly but I hope she kept it or sold around $40k or higher.
