9 years ago today, an epic battle played out on bitcoin exchanges.

[Faisal2202]

That man luckily bought bitcoins with his savings when the price of one coin was 8 dollars. I predict he wasn't rich and either way he didn't want to become poor and after all the fud and negative campaigns run by Roger Ver, he decided to take 9 million dollars and leave the game.
There is a big difference between the guy who holded 30K bitcoins in 2015 and there is a huge difference between guy who holds 30K bitcoin today. The one that ownes 30K bitcoin today is no ordinary guy.

How can you say, he bought those BTC when the price was around $8 per coin, I mean is this information is officially made by that whale or what? Well, if he bought those 30k BTC at the price of $8 (Which might not be real news) the amount becomes around $240,000 which in my opinion doesn't make a man poor. (As you said he wasn't rich).

Well, I did some research from my side and did not find any news saying, that Whale bought 30k BTC at the rate of $8 per coin. But if you have something then please share.

And the amount he made is equal to 9 Million and that is huge, well, I even found out that, that whale might not sold his BTC due to the negative campaigns of the Ver instead he might be interested in booking all the profit or there might be any possibility. I mean is there any official confirmation by the whale that could prove that he made that choice of selling 30k BTC just because of the FUD created by Ver. And to be honest, I don't think that it was a FUD.

Because the things he pointed out were legit and that points led to the creation of BCH (2017).

[kryptqnick]

Selling that much BTC at $300 per coin means getting 9 million dollars out of that deal. While it's a low price per coin, it's still a huge ton of money, a lot more than the vast majority will ever get their hands on. And I'm happy for those who purchased BTC from that deal, of course.
There's always this or that uncertainty, but what's one person's panic selling is another person's great opportunity. As for not falling victims to FUD, I think it's important to be patient and to make financial decisions in a calm state of mind, not based on emotions.

[Wind_FURY]

Selling that much BTC at $300 per coin means getting 9 million dollars out of that deal. While it's a low price per coin, it's still a huge ton of money, a lot more than the vast majority will ever get their hands on. And I'm happy for those who purchased BTC from that deal, of course.

That may be lot of money, but relatively speaking, it's just a mere fraction of its TRUE value at the current fair market price, AND it's going to be higher during the next bull cycle.

There's always this or that uncertainty, but what's one person's panic selling is another person's great opportunity. As for not falling victims to FUD, I think it's important to be patient and to make financial decisions in a calm state of mind, not based on emotions.

If the FUDsters were playing 4D Chess, then they would probably have bought what he sold and front-ran him when the the next bullish cycle came. That's also probably the same with and why the "Bitcoin is dead" phases are the best time to purchase Bitcoin.

[DapanasFruit]

Well, this goes to prove that anybody with a big amount of BTC can be a whale and that a whale is human too...subject to emotions and wrong choices based on factors a person can considered to be facts - sadly many of them can turn out to be false. Like so many sad stories of people who held Bitcoin, it never ceased to amaze me how they let go of something that is now so valuable. There are many big lessons that we can learn here, indeed.

[Kakmakr]

I think he tried to manipulate the Bitcoin price and it failed..... he dumped a lot of coins on a single exchange and he wanted the price to drop, so that he can buy it back at a lower price... but something happened and the price did not drop significantly.

Yes, there was a lot of FUD back then and people were hashing it out on social media platforms, but he is just using that as an excuse now. I reckon he lost a lot of money, but he got back in and shrugged off those losses. 

[davis196]

*The block size limit of 1MB was a threat to bitcoin’s future
*“Satoshi’s vision” was unlimited block sizes
*Gavin was ousted by a cabal of self-interested engineers, a.k.a. “Blockstream”
*Blockstream took control of bitcoin’s source code repository
*Theymos colluded with Blockstream to censor block size increase discussions
*The subreddit r/bitcoin heavily censored block size increase discussions
*Blockstream wanted the block size low to promote its proprietary Lightning Network
*Gregory Maxwell was a bad actor and Luke-Jr was a religious nut
*The market agreed with the above, leading to the then-decline in price towards $300

9 years ago means 2014. I've joined the Bitcoin world in the summer of 2015, so I don't remember anything about this FUD drama.
I do remember that the Bitcoin price was a little bit above 300 USD in the summer of 2015 and it increased to 425 USD by the end of 2015.
I wasn't paying close attention to all the drama around the Bitcoin/crypto community, because I was a total noob and I didn't knew anything about blocksize and all the conflicts around it.
This BearWhale guy is one of the many people, who sold BTC at the wrong time. Who knew back then that the BTC price will hit 20K USD after two years and 59K USD after six years?

[WhiteEag]

Between 2011 to 2013 i have join a website that giving Bitcoins for referring there I collect more than 12 btc but now i can't remember website name can anyone tell me which websites giving Bitcoins for referring between 2011 to 2013 year

[jrrsparkles]

I won't call them as a whale, the person who panicked and sold but whales are actually in the other side who manipulate and make the retail investors shake off so this person still made around 9 million for $300 perBTC now he simply regrets what will be the value now.

We can find hundreds of similar stories where people sold their BTC in that period simply because still they made a lot of returns and tried the exit way there is nothing to regret by comparing it with the current value.

[m2017]

"A whale put 30,000 BTC up for sale at $300 each and the market eventually bought them all. Years later, BearWhale explained what happened (they fell victim to FUD)".

30,000 BTC x $300 =$9.000.000.

I believe this Bearwhale is seriously regretting his action after seeing the performance of btc price long after he sold.

Almost f@cking 10 million dollars. Why should he be sorry? I wouldn't mind regretting having $10 mln. available either.

Well, those 30 BTC are almost equal to 839,509,089.43 dollars. hohoho. I don't have words to explain the feelings of a person who would have 839 Mil in dollars right now but he lost them just due to the FUD.

You probably meant to say 30.000 BTC and not 30 BTC, right?

And in 10 years will discuss this story and gossip that:

Well, those 30 BTC are almost equal to 839,509,089.43 300,000,000,000,000 dollars. hohoho.

Is it like this? So we can speculate endlessly using infinite numbers.

The correct amount is $9.000.000. BearWhale received $9 mln., and didn't lose $839,509,089.43, $300,000,000,000,000 dollars or whatever.

[yazher]

We never saw the price go down that low ever since then because no one but those stile people ever believed any FUD about bitcoins again because it already established a concrete trust to the people due to its past history of success till now. nevertheless, the price of bitcoins is staying high due to the fact that no matter how bad the situation in the crypto market in the past few months, investors never allowed themselves to believe that bitcoin price will be worthless in the future like how that whale felt 9 years ago. whenever the bitcoin price gets low, all you need to do is wait and it will recover again for sure like how it recovered in the past.

[batang_bitcoin]

That's sad on his end looking at what happened next. That's why those that even with the little amounts shouldn't let themselves feel affected by FUD that's being scattered through articles and social medias. I almost fell for that but didn't do the same thing.
Today, that's a lot of money and even not going to that quantity and just a couple of it would make it valuable. I do understand how it feels when someone was able to hit by a FUD and reacted with exaggeration. I just hope that he's fine and was able to move on.

[Cryptomultiplier]

The bearwhale seriously had no idea how the market would turn out to be. I don't blame him, because as at the time, it seemed like the best decision, rather than to loose all.
Tales like this stresses on the need to be able to identify any FUD that may arise when there's a signal speculating suchlike, hence how the popularity of the DCA strategy gained one more believer in the long term strategy against all odds.

[BenCodie]

This thread nearly summarizes the lack of clarity for believers and the manipulation of information designed to degrade diamond hands back in that era. I suppose that this comes with the opportunity to become rich. Some think it was as easy as holding and that is all, but in reality you are facing a mental battle that is fed by all of the information flooding in rapidly. Only someone with true peace, zen and external financial security could have had the chance to comfortably hold. At least, it is all good precedent for holders of today to easily hold Bitcoin with confidence, and understand that media/fud is everywhere.

Do you all remember the days where almost everyone would believe anything that came from a "news sources' or from the radio/TV? It is still the case with some categories of people now but I am sure it's not as common as it once was, thankfully.

[Hypnosis00]

9 years ago when Bitcoin was not yet known globally, people never thought about if the price would increase and that person is a big example. It was not a mistake IMO because if we are also having Bitcoin at that time, we probably sell them cheaply. Just because of the current of Bitcoin, we could really say that was a big mistake and regrettable event that happened to his life and for sure, he couldn't imagine what he did as well. But it was 9 years ago and all of us have no idea what will happen next, and even now.

[Smartvirus]

Regardless, I believe that whale sold at a profit.  During those times, only a few foresee that Bitcoin price will reach this height.  That is not the only event that happen when whales sold out their stash and was nibbled by the Bitcoin community.

Selling at a profit that's gor sure but, you can rash have a rulings on the fact that, this wasn't there intent with the investment idea for the BearWhales but, banked on the idea of a possible dump based on the FUD that happened to have taken hold of the times and it seemed very reasonable at that, with the limited block size of 1MB.
Let's  have it that maybe by some means, they bought themselves back when they got the assurance that Bitcoin was going to be around for a longer time.

FUD has always been a part of the industry and would continue to be as by some means to eliminate weak hands and better set the phase/price of the currency. Its left for users to learn from history and do there best to recognise opportunities.

[o48o]

Today you can find lot's of well documented articles that lead to this, just by googling Blocksize Wars. Bearwhale wasn't the only one who falled for FUD back then.

Back then people were too triggered about this and at least if you were newbie and listened to wrong crowd, I see that i would have been easily fooled just by the technical jargon i wouldn't get.
Luckily i trusted the right people about bitcoin so this wasn't an issue for me. It was annoying and concerning to explain my friends that they shouldn't read wrong sites and fall for wrong "bitcoin".

The whole attitude was pretty chaotic. And not just because of the blocksize wars, but because we were on the bottom of the bear market, so lots of people had lost lots of money and all there was left was crazies and true believers. Connection to the "real world people" seemed quite severed for a while as they were just happy "i told you so" because rest of the world thought that bitcoin died. So i don't wonder people thought it was dead. I was kinda certain about it at some point too.

[AmoreJaz]

9 years ago when Bitcoin was not yet known globally, people never thought about if the price would increase and that person is a big example. It was not a mistake IMO because if we are also having Bitcoin at that time, we probably sell them cheaply. Just because of the current of Bitcoin, we could really say that was a big mistake and regrettable event that happened to his life and for sure, he couldn't imagine what he did as well. But it was 9 years ago and all of us have no idea what will happen next, and even now.

no one can predict the future, so whatever you did in the past, was pretty much acceptable. so long you feel satisfied and happy at the time of transaction, you are already winning.
what if the opposite situation happened, btc was just part of the history and no one is talking about this anymore? i bet you are very happy that you discard your coins before it goes to nothing.

[Faisal2202]

Well, those 30 BTC are almost equal to 839,509,089.43 dollars. hohoho. I don't have words to explain the feelings of a person who would have 839 Mil in dollars right now but he lost them just due to the FUD.

You probably meant to say 30.000 BTC and not 30 BTC, right?

And in 10 years will discuss this story and gossip that:dollars or whatever.

yeah, I mistakenly wrote 30 BTC only while I wanted to write 30k BTC. Thanks for pointing out the mistake, We will gossip on this topic if we both will be alive after 10 years. I hope we will.

Well, those 30 BTC are almost equal to 839,509,089.43 300,000,000,000,000 dollars. hohoho.

Is it like this? So we can speculate endlessly using infinite numbers.

The correct amount is $9.000.000. BearWhale received $9 mln., and didn't lose $839,509,089.43, $300,000,000,000,000 dollars or whatever.

I did not mean to say, that he lost 9 Mil because at whatever rates that whale must have bought those 30k BTC, he must be in profit while booking $9 Mil. And at the time of writing my last reply, I was aware of this information, I was just trying to multiply the 30K BTC with the current market price, which IDK (I don't know) what it was at the time of my last reply. But when I multiplied it by that amount, it becomes --> 839,509,089.43 dollars, which means, at that time, (October 06, 2023, 03:44:50 PM) that whale would have 839 Million dollars if he would not fall prey to that FUD and sold his BTC. And to be honest, there is not solid proof that states that, That whale sold his BTC due to the FUD, I did read the points that were in the air at that time, and nothing from them is really so encouraging that would revoke the feeling in a Whale to sell 30k BTC.

IDK but I still doubt it.

[michellee]

9 years ago when Bitcoin was not yet known globally, people never thought about if the price would increase and that person is a big example. It was not a mistake IMO because if we are also having Bitcoin at that time, we probably sell them cheaply. Just because of the current of Bitcoin, we could really say that was a big mistake and regrettable event that happened to his life and for sure, he couldn't imagine what he did as well. But it was 9 years ago and all of us have no idea what will happen next, and even now.

no one can predict the future, so whatever you did in the past, was pretty much acceptable. so long you feel satisfied and happy at the time of transaction, you are already winning.
what if the opposite situation happened, btc was just part of the history and no one is talking about this anymore? i bet you are very happy that you discard your coins before it goes to nothing.

No one would have predicted that if the price of Bitcoin reached $20k in the past, they could trade their Bitcoin in large quantities. But if they see what is happening to Bitcoin now, they will regret it but it has all happened. There is no point in regretting it but he can still collect more Bitcoins.

Maybe at that time, those who succeeded in selling large amounts of Bitcoin would be happy because their profits had doubled from when they bought Bitcoin first. And that's also how we felt when we sold Bitcoin at $60k some time ago. And when we see the price of Bitcoin reach 4-5 digits in the future, we might also regret it.

It is true that if Bitcoin cannot develop as it is now and instead disappears, those who have sold their Bitcoin too early will be happy because they have succeeded in making a profit by selling their Bitcoin. Well, that's life. No one will know what the future will be like.