While growing up in the cryptocurrency industry I have had my own fair share of losses while engaging in ponzy scheme believing that they were legit, not knowing that they were all fraud.
So since then, I believed that anything virtual currency online are fraudulent.
In 2021 a friend of mine introduced bitcoin to me, but base on my fear for online business, I wasn't even interested even when he broke every details down too me on how it works, but I refuse to even give it a try.
In 2022 I decided to do my own research about it, which i discovered so many positive things about it, and what gives me more confidence about it is that I found out that most establishment and government are into it, an it's been blend into their financial system.
When I started my bitcoin journey is when I knew how ignorant and misinformed I have been all this while.
Your mistake in the past was because you were too quick to believe in a ponzi scheme and you considered it a cryptocurrency, even though a ponzi scheme is not worthy of being called a cryptocurrency because in the end it is deceiving many people.
And one more thing that makes you make a mistake is when a friend of yours who has tried to explain in detail about Bitcoin, you immediately judge it badly and consider it the same as a ponzi scheme. Even though at that time you yourself did not do enough research for Bitcoin, and now I guess you don't have to regret that anymore because you have found a better way now.