My story about bitcoin and my old friend.

[bitzizzix]

Last night I met an old friend who I haven't seen in a long time because he worked overseas for 5 years and dived there we never communicated, and before he went overseas we used to hang out together and I still remember him hating bitcoins . mainly because it's not real and that's how he talked me out of getting involved with bitcoin for fear of being scammed, and also he always booed bitcoin when we met.
and at that time i just kept quiet and also nothing changed for me as long as i was involved with bitcoin, and i said look at me a few years later but he has gone overseas. And after a long time we didn't see each other last night he came to my house and I was surprised, and he was also surprised but not because he saw me, but saw my house that had been renovated and also saw several motorbikes and one of them was a big motorbike and I see he hasn't changed.

and he straight up asked me what job or business made my circumstances change so drastically, and all i can say is have you forgotten that you used to make fun of me for being involved with bitcoin and trying to keep it away. And I'm just saying this is proof of the results I got with bitcoin and I still have a lot to tell you about the benefits I got from investing in bitcoin and I was able to make it happen and change my life, including the cost of my marriage and the birth of my child. And in the end he apologized to me and he also heard a lot about bitcoin out there but he still wasn't interested.
and after we talked at length he finally started to get interested after I told my story when investing in bitcoin, and even though I have a salary from my job, but 90% of everything I have including home renovations results from bitcoin profits and he becomes increasingly interested. But I didn't want to teach it until he asked for it many times, and he came back from abroad for 5 years only bringing money which maybe if I want to compare it with the present profit is much bigger.

and he admitted his mistake at that time, but that was also my motivation and I had to prove it and he also felt sorry, because he was not involved with bitcoin at that time and instead mocked him.

Do you have the same story, I mean a close person, relative or friend who used to dislike bitcoin, and they became regretful after seeing a significant change after meeting again.

[kryptqnick]

I'm happy for you, op, that you've managed to profit enough from Bitcoin to change your financial circumstances significantly. That not only requires believing in Bitcoin, but also patience not to engage in panic selling.
It's also not common to hear people admit that they were wrong and apologize for making fun of one's decisions.
I think that in my life people who were against Bitcoin are still against it, but some shifted from being against it to being neutral because they can see that I'm doing okay overall (and they expected me to lose a lot because they thought Bitcoin was a scam). But I haven't done anything impressive yet, anything that would make people change their mind. And also, I don't really care about proving anyone wrong. I'm more focused on my life and my beliefs.

[Lorence.xD]

At least at the very end your friend said sorry for mocking you, never judge someone's hustle especially if you don't have any idea on that industry. It's actually good to work abroad if you think you will have a good salary, but working is not enough if you don't have any investment. For sure, you wouldn't last long working whole your life so you need to have investment as much as possible for you to have a secured future.

In my case, is to my friend, this part is about NFT since I've also tried investing or minting for a quick flip. I told them the basic knowledge on how you could profit by finding a good project but he kept disagreeing that is not good investment. Which is in my case I'm just having a quick flip here of course I am still hodling. I show him how my $100 turns into $500-$1000 by just clicking. Yeah he was hooked that time but when he's gonna try it, NFT is not a thing already.

[Assiduous]

The story is not similar to mine. But it is similar to my college teacher. My college teacher invested in Bitcoin around March 2020. My teacher's elder brother did not agree with the investment.  At that time, the exchange rate of Bitcoin was 5 thousand 304.15 decimal dollars.  Then, in November 2021, its price rose to a maximum of $69,000.
 As a result my teacher earns a lot of money from Bitcoin.  Seeing my teacher's success, his elder brother became interested in investing in Bitcoin.
 Even I started investing in Bitcoin with the support of my teacher. And will keep investing for a long time.

 A few days ago, Standard Chartered Bank's foreign currency analyst, Jeff Kendrick, said that the price of Bitcoin may increase by 20 percent to 120,000 dollars.

[_act_]

My advice for you is to teach him very well that bitcoin is profitable, but can be risky and if not done wisely, it can less to losses. Tell him that he should not see price decline as something that should cause panic, that he should continue to hold. DCA at a time like this is good. Investing at a time like this is also good. With what is going on, bulls will wake up by 2024/2025. One of the perfect time to invest is now.

[Crypt0Gore]

There is always someone in everyone's story that tried to talk them out of Bitcoin, some set of people were so sure that Bitcoin would fail and you could see the confidence in them, but if you believe them and act on it, that's your problem.

I do have someone like this too, well educated and I am not, that's the difference,  and that's where he had the nerve to try and stop me from investing in Bitcoin, later I heard he said I won't make it because I don't further my education, all I knew was Bitcoin and as time goes on, things changed, the country gets harder and he was not getting paid enough, I get so successful that It got so hard to pretend that I am not.

This was how my friend turned enemy, because he is not just trying to safe me from getting scammed with Bitcoin, but he never believe that I can become anything because I am not well educated.

Now I am better off with no friend, it's very hard for me to trust anyone, my blood brother is now my best friend.

[m2017]

~snip

Every day, another story appears on this forum about bitcoin, old friends, relatives and of course, about the successful and timely investment in btc, which led to untold wealth, while friends, relatives and others missed their amazing opportunity to enrich themselves by btc.

Your friend was a bitcoin hater, but now, having seen the living embodiment of the opportunities you realized, in the form of a house, motorcycles and a stable financial state, he changed his vision. There is nothing surprising in this, because all doubts are dispelled when we see the results of successful investments from our friends and relatives. This is what opens your eyes and comes the realization that btc is really a unique thing that allows you to change your life. This is what works to convince the people around you, and not when the poor man screams that he will make you rich, but at the same time, he himself has nothing and can't show. In terms of material wealth. Words are not convincing, but facts and visual demonstration are a powerful tool to change views about bitcoin.

[bitzizzix]

~snip

Every day, another story appears on this forum about bitcoin, old friends, relatives and of course, about the successful and timely investment in btc, which led to untold wealth, while friends, relatives and others missed their amazing opportunity to enrich themselves by btc.

Your friend was a bitcoin hater, but now, having seen the living embodiment of the opportunities you realized, in the form of a house, motorcycles and a stable financial state, he changed his vision. There is nothing surprising in this, because all doubts are dispelled when we see the results of successful investments from our friends and relatives. This is what opens your eyes and comes the realization that btc is really a unique thing that allows you to change your life. This is what works to convince the people around you, and not when the poor man screams that he will make you rich, but at the same time, he himself has nothing and can't show. In terms of material wealth. Words are not convincing, but facts and visual demonstration are a powerful tool to change views about bitcoin.

Yes, I am also very hesitant to tell this problem. But this is a different and contradictory story because I don't want to teach it, and one that impresses me because this just happened last night.
and also the way I can prove it for real with what he saw with his own eyes and that's proof that doesn't need to say much, and I'm also the type of person who doesn't want to say much because real evidence can amaze people and I just want to prove to him, that bitcoin is not what he said it was then.

[kotajikikox]

Do you have the same story, I mean a close person, relative or friend who used to dislike bitcoin, and they became regretful after seeing a significant change after meeting again.

it is a common thing nowadays that we encountered people that having their regret and sadness from what they missed in crypto investing like what some of my friends and family also .
even my Youngest brother has this feeling back in 2021 but now he starts putting his willing to risk money for the time he misses the opportunity .

Now I am better off with no friend, it's very hard for me to trust anyone, my blood brother is now my best friend.

no not that mate but better to be choosy , better to have few than plenty instead .

it is good to have a blood brother but there are also a good non blood people but we need to dig them deeper .

[Jawhead999]

Well this is one of a wrong way to introduce someone about Bitcoin, when your friend is really surprised you've change your life with Bitcoin, he will think Bitcoin will change his life too. But not everyone is a diamond hand, maybe he will invest with all of his money when Bitcoin price is $30K. Let's imagine if Bitcoin price slowly declining to $25K, he will ask why Bitcoin price is declining. When Bitcoin price is keep declining to $20K and he have hold for 6 months, he might say you've scammed him.

You need to be ready, your friend would be active to communicate with you in terms about Bitcoin price.

[DanWalker]

Do you have the same story, I mean a close person, relative or friend who used to dislike bitcoin, and they became regretful after seeing a significant change after meeting again.

Yes, I'm going through what you went through. It's even my real brother, not my friends or any outsiders. He was always booing and criticizing me in 2017-2018 when I invested in bitcoin and lost most of my fortune. He always tells me to stay away from scams like bitcoin if I don't want to lose everything. But after the bull season of 2021, I recovered all my losses from 2018, and not stopping there, I made a significant profit.
Now I am teaching him little by little everything about the market.

But after all, I have learned that it is useless to give advice to others if you do not have any proof. As long as you have proof, you don't need to explain or talk too much to them, what others need is results, not just clichés.

[cryptoaddictchie]

Do you have the same story, I mean a close person, relative or friend who used to dislike bitcoin, and they became regretful after seeing a significant change after meeting again.

I kinda have a stories before. There is a friend of mine that regret not believing me when I am keep annoying him about investing or learning about crypto especially bitcoin. Then fruits of my learning have gained then he said I should have believed in you before few years back. But now he is always asking me if I have some good prospect for money. Well thats life, sometimes they wanted proof first before really see what you are up to.

[hyudien]

Do you have the same story, I mean a close person, relative or friend who used to dislike bitcoin, and they became regretful after seeing a significant change after meeting again.

Believe it or not, all he sees from your current condition is the result, not the process that you have been living for a long time. Then his eyes fall on the change or quantitative value you show. So, let's go back to when you still found Bitcoin quite cheap a few years ago. Right now, your friends are getting interested and trying to invest, but will the results be the same? certainly not. Because the current opportunity is different from the moment when you used to start from scratch.

Not a few people I used to meet are now also interested because they see what I have achieved, but that way I can emphasize to them that the type of investment may be the same but the momentum will not come twice. We are in an increased adoption phase.

[isaac_clarke22]

Do you have the same story, I mean a close person, relative or friend who used to dislike bitcoin, and they became regretful after seeing a significant change after meeting again.

Kind of, but I am still waiting to the point that they would be somehow "open-minded' about what they said about Bitcoin since they were really hating on it as something of a scam, while in fact it is not. They think that Bitcoin is purely a "scheme" like a "project" like those ICOs you can see around crypto space.

Kinda disappointed that there are still close-minded people these days, smh.

Yes, I am also very hesitant to tell this problem. But this is a different and contradictory story because I don't want to teach it, and one that impresses me because this just happened last night.
and also the way I can prove it for real with what he saw with his own eyes and that's proof that doesn't need to say much, and I'm also the type of person who doesn't want to say much because real evidence can amaze people and I just want to prove to him, that bitcoin is not what he said it was then.

Just be careful in teaching too much as people tend to blame it all on the teacher that they failed to teach them how to manage losses.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

and he straight up asked me what job or business made my circumstances change so drastically

Count yourself lucky to have been exposed earlier to the needed aspect of cryptocurrency and for choosing bitcoin first and for having the knowledge required to make an investment with a digital currency like bitcoin, many have done same thing you did but end up miserable with it.

and all i can say is have you forgotten that you used to make fun of me for being involved with bitcoin and trying to keep it away.

I believe there are still many others like that whose biting off their fingers will be their end result because they are mocking those investing and taking the risk today, but the end justifies the means, people like that will always sit and attack while those they are attacking were making investment.

and he admitted his mistake at that time, but that was also my motivation and I had to prove it and he also felt sorry, because he was not involved with bitcoin at that time and instead mocked him.

There are many today who mocks bitcoin investors but tomorrow will turn out to have their decision changed and adopt bitcoin, invested beyond we could thought and so on, bitcoin investment is never too late, people can still invest today because there's more future to discover with bitcoin from now henceforth.

[xSkylarx]

That would be a hard slap on him, for sure, but again, we learn valuable lessons from it. On my end, I don't have those kinds of people around me. I mean, they are really interested in Bitcoin, and like before, I've told them that I've earned this kind of amount, which they also see as a good investment. Though most of my friends have doubts about it, like, if they invest, is it sure that they'll get it back or earn profit?, like that, they really know what Bitcoin really is. For sure, your friend has somewhat heard about bitcoin in the news, as we know that they are saying that Bitcoin was used in the black market, which is why he thinks so.

[Natalim]

I'd see that many people are in regret not believing in Bitcoin before and thinking it was a scam. But now, they're into becoming huge crypto investors and fully adapted to it - see, many people had changed their mind and views when seeing other people shows significant changes after investing in Bitcoin. It is sad to say but this kind of approach really exists and is mostly embraced. That is why if we heard our friends encourage us not to invest in crypto, we just find it out these days that they are posting on social about their great achievements because of investing in Bitcoin.

[TravelMug]

Do you have the same story, I mean a close person, relative or friend who used to dislike bitcoin, and they became regretful after seeing a significant change after meeting again.

First, good fo you for sticking to bitcoin, just like the rest of us.

Second, I don't have any stories like yours, but I guess everyone can relate to it. Maybe there could be some members here who has the same stories or at least people around him didn't believed in bitcoin and so they make fun of us.

But in the long run, it's all worth it. I mean since 2017 since I join this community, at least as I was to give my family a good life, food everyday in the day because of bitcoin and other crypto investments.

[dzungmobile]

From your story, first of all I congratulete for all achievements which make your life better from your investment in Bitcoin.

About your friend, he belongs a type of stubborn people who hardly change their minds. You tried many times and failed to convince him. You gave up one time 5 years ago and should do it again now.

I personally don't want anyone know that I get better financiall by Bitcoin. They will look at me, feel jealous, set up traps for robbery and any kind of accident to steal my bitcoin. I read some stories like that and I don't want I will contribute one more such stories.

[kizlod]

Not yet. To be honest, I'm not talking about that with anyone. My friends and close family know that I have it, but they don't know how much I own and invest. If someone will ask me how to buy it I will be glad to answer, and I hope someday this day will come.