Are you thinking the same for 2026

[Maslate]

We cannot do anything about it, as there will always be people who cannot be pleased with bitcoin no matter how successful now those early investors with bitcoin. That's also their stance on bitcoin, its like they're blinded by their own negativity about bitcoin.

I've known some people who have really disliked the idea of bitcoin ever since, so I stopped telling them about bitcoin. And now that bitcoin is already popular and in high demand, still they don't seem to like bitcoin. I don't know, maybe they're just ashamed of theirselves throwing bad words into bitcoin before and never think that time will come that bitcoin will hit different.

Maybe they're already into bitcoin secretly, they're just shy to admit it.

[EarnOnVictor]

Anyone who is still believing that Bitcoin is a crap is the real crap. Bitcoin has disappointed those who didn't believe in it in the past, and it will do that again. This is not perculiar to a friend, family, or a relative, but to everyone in all walks of life. Fine, many saw the opportunity and took it, while many didn't believe in it, and many also wanted to invest, but procrastinated. In all, there are two categories: those who benefited from the blessings of Bitcoin and those who benefited nothing.

Going forward, we should still avoid similar mistakes. Bitcoin could be expensive, yet we can still be gaining from it bit by bit through smart investing, rather than missing out entirely.

[Anthony Bill]

I have many guys who don't still believe you can store money in Bitcoin, and nothing on earth that can change their minds or convince them to invest in Bitcoin. This is 2026 I tried to show them some evidence that Bitcoin is safe for long term holding but they said they will not be comfortable for their money to be in Bitcoin so long and you can't force such people in this year because they will not accept that Bitcoin is real for people to store their money.

[Man of peace]

Yea some many people are still sleeping till now that they didn't believe that Bitcoin really exist and I have done everything i could just to prove to them and convince them but all my efforts proves abortive,so what i really understand about life is that not everyone can become a Bitcoin investors or can participate in Bitcoin, there is other ways in which some many people believe they can make their way in into success and it doesn't really matter where one find his or her way out of poverty, what really matter is that everyone navigating and becomes successful person in life..

[Furious 7]

Even today there are still people in my neighborhood who think I am part of a fraudster just because I am in bitcoin even though its development for now is very pronounced where more and more people are starting to be in bitcoin and it is considered for my efforts in developing fraud.

But on the one hand I don't really care about this because after all all all are free to express and will not all like bitcoin like I do so why be bothered by it.
We just need to continue our lives and investments without caring about other people's insinuations even if it's our own neighbors or closest people because this is the choice we have made from the start.
As long as we are not too bothered, why respond to things that don't really matter.

[PrivacyG]

Anyone who is still believing that Bitcoin is a crap is the real crap. Bitcoin has disappointed those who didn't believe in it in the past, and it will do that again. This is not perculiar to a friend, family, or a relative, but to everyone in all walks of life. Fine, many saw the opportunity and took it, while many didn't believe in it, and many also wanted to invest, but procrastinated. In all, there are two categories: those who benefited from the blessings of Bitcoin and those who benefited nothing.

They are rather disappointed in them selves, Bitcoin did not disappoint, it only proved them wrong over and over again.  I agree, I believe they will not end up liking Bitcoin in the future if they did not like it in the past either.  Too few people like it even today.  We all used to believe it will be many times more important than what it is currently considered, but it does not look like the majority of people are in acceptance that it is a worthy Asset.  They are still hoping to be right and to see Bitcoin dying as a Scam or what ever their fried brain can imagine.

But what ever.  It is what it is, I came to the conclusion that these people are not really worth arguing with or trying to convince.

[Ultegra134]

Anyone who is still believing that Bitcoin is a crap is the real crap. Bitcoin has disappointed those who didn't believe in it in the past, and it will do that again. This is not perculiar to a friend, family, or a relative, but to everyone in all walks of life. Fine, many saw the opportunity and took it, while many didn't believe in it, and many also wanted to invest, but procrastinated. In all, there are two categories: those who benefited from the blessings of Bitcoin and those who benefited nothing.

Going forward, we should still avoid similar mistakes. Bitcoin could be expensive, yet we can still be gaining from it bit by bit through smart investing, rather than missing out entirely.

That's true, a large number of people who were either shitting on Bitcoin calling it a ponzi scheme, a scam, etc. and/or simply not believing in it or were unable to take the risk are now disappointed to be wrong. Most of them are still petty about it and will still talk trash about it even though they've been proven wrong, claiming (and hoping so they can say "I told you so!") that its fall will eventually happen. You couldn't have said it any better, ultimately, there are only two categories of people, those who took advantage of Bitcoin, and those who didn't, doesn't matter how and why.

[Issa56]

Hello, bitcoiners! It's 2026, and we almost welcomed it in a better way. The year 2025 was so good for Bitcoin, giving an ATH of $126k. And guess what? People still think Bitcoin is worthless, as if they are in such a deep sleep that they can't see how institutions, big companies, and states are pouring billions into Bitcoin.

Do you even think people saying bitcoin is worthless now really means that? Maybe they don’t have the financial capacity to invest in bitcoin that’s why they keep on saying negative things about bitcoin. By 2026 I don’t really think anyone saying negative things about bitcoin really means that. They know the truth, but they not saying it because they have a motive behind it. We all can see how bitcoin has been growing since 2009, we see how companies are accepting bitcoin, countries are adopting bitcoin, and people will still say bitcoin is worthless.

Do you guys have any stories about friends, relatives, or family members who did not believe in Bitcoin in 2011 or afterward, claiming it was a scam, and now regret their decision not to buy it at that time?

Most people that didn’t invest in bitcoin during the early stage never had confidence in bitcoin, some bought bitcoin but didn’t hold for long time because they didn’t have much confidence in bitcoin, but right now they are regretting that they didn’t invest early.

I didn’t know about bitcoin during the early stage, but right now am still regretting that I didn’t know about bitcoin during the early stage.

[Powerjumboo]

I don't want to analyze the past because I was not related to the past. I first learned about Bitcoin around 2022 and 2023. When I started learning, maybe they didn't give it as much importance as they do now. Those who were there from 2011 to 2015 didn't give it much importance and even if they gave it much importance, they might not have bought Bitcoin and held it for a long time because they might have sold their investment as soon as they saw success by investing in Bitcoin. There are very few people here who have held Bitcoin since its inception. Anyway, now we have started to know that Bitcoin is valuable, so from now on we can no longer lag behind in Bitcoin and invest out of fear. We will hold our investment fearlessly and we will definitely hold it for the long term because we have already created an idea about the future of Bitcoin.

[Botnake]

Do you guys have any stories about friends, relatives, or family members who did not believe in Bitcoin in 2011 or afterward, claiming it was a scam, and now regret their decision not to buy it at that time?

I remember my boss before, the owner of the company where I went to an internship, he did not believing to Bitcoin way back around 2018. Although he is also into finance, but tradional, he is an accountant. Maybe I think he really doesn't believe in Bitcoin, like he also mentioned, Bitcoin is a bubble. Well, I respect his decision. There are also a lot of big personalities or known personalities that don't believe in Bitcoin, but some of them later on changed their minds or opinion. I'm curious if he already changed his mind.

If big personalities were able to shift their perspective with bitcoin, there's also high chances that your boss now has already realized that bitcoin could be the main key for future financial freedom and stability, so maybe he's now risking some decent amount of his hard-earned money and invest into bitcoin.

But on the contrary, there are actually some people that they really stand on what they believed for, no matter how others have already changed their mindset with bitcoin. Those are the people with great principles, but those principles will not make them gain money and accumulate wealth. I hope they also realized that.

[Samlucky O]

Hello, bitcoiners! It's 2026, and we almost welcomed it in a better way. The year 2025 was so good for Bitcoin, giving an ATH of $126k. And guess what? People still think Bitcoin is worthless, as if they are in such a deep sleep that they can't see how institutions, big companies, and states are pouring billions into Bitcoin.

Definitely there must surely be people who will kick against anything that comes up, without undermining the potential of that thing in the future. and bitcoin happens to be one of the things people criticized much, of course i would not blame them because everyone has the right to make their decision including not believing in bitcoin.

Do you guys have any stories about friends, relatives, or family members who did not believe in Bitcoin in 2011 or afterward, claiming it was a scam, and now regret their decision not to buy it at that time?

i dont have anyone around me with such story, but i only see that on social media. i myself was not even aware of bitcoin during this period of 2011 who knows maybe i would have also doubted bitcoin capability.

[JeffBrad12]

I have many guys who don't still believe you can store money in Bitcoin, and nothing on earth that can change their minds or convince them to invest in Bitcoin. This is 2026 I tried to show them some evidence that Bitcoin is safe for long term holding but they said they will not be comfortable for their money to be in Bitcoin so long and you can't force such people in this year because they will not accept that Bitcoin is real for people to store their money.

Some people just too stuck up with centralized custodian and I don't blame them. Some people act by feeling and if they're feeling uncomfortable using bitcoin because they're not very familiar, big chance they will feel uneasy if they force it.
This is why ETF exist and cater to these people. If they're afraid of being their own bank, they should settle with ETF if they want to invest in bitcoin. If they prefer custody by bank, they'd prefer their bitcoin in custody as well.

[Hanadawa]

I think there are many stories about people who discovered Bitcoin early, and I think almost all of them regret it when they see the current price. Some of my friends didn't really believe in Bitcoin when it was just a few dollars, some only saw Bitcoin as a means of payment in games, some collected it just for fun, and some even owned a few Bitcoins but sold them before they even hit $1,000. So I think it's very rare for anyone to hold Bitcoin for very long. Unless they forgot they ever owned it, or they're rich enough not to check the BTC price every day. It's now 2026. I'm sure similar stories will continue to repeat themselves until BTC hits $1 million per coin.

[Ndagi54]

Of course not, because we all have different mindset.
Many of us believe Bitcoin is worth nothing simply because they don't understand it. Real understanding takes interest and without that,disbelief doesn't really matter.

Criticism is welcome when it's usually based on informed and up to date arguments. But repeating outdated claims such as Bitcoin is a Ponzi. In this 2026 you should ignore years of adoption,resilience and realworld use.

Bitcoin doesn't requires blind belief but only Informed judgment. Those who dismiss it without without learning it aren't Arguing against  Bitcoin but just trying to avoid the efforts to understand it

[Adams0001]

There are so many stories about people who regret their decision not to buy Bitcoin. All of these stories often begin with their distrust of Bitcoin. And then they can only watch as the Bitcoin chart soars sky-high. That's when they regret their decision and even realize their misunderstanding of Bitcoin. I personally think that they may have been influenced by the media at the time, where it often linked Bitcoin to scams or even something like a Ponzi scheme. In fact they actually misunderstand Bitcoin.

Many people really regret on not buying bitcoin when they have the opportunity, they think is just a normal investment they didn't believe with what they hear about bitcoin they just follow other that says negative about bitcoin. We should know that the more bitcoin increases in price that is how people that have chance to invest and failed to invest will always feel regret because they will lose the benefits, we should always follow our mind if you have learn about bitcoin you won't start thinking of losing money because you will get the believe that the price will surly increase when every he drop since is volatile. Anything that people don't understand always make people talk about it well and be saying negative about it since they don't understand and they won't go and make research before complaining.

[kawetsriyanto]

People still think Bitcoin is worthless, as if they are in such a deep sleep that they can't see how institutions, big companies, and states are pouring billions into Bitcoin.

Only people who don't hold Bitcoin who think Bitcoin is worthless. Bitcoin holders must know that Bitcoin has great value. It is increasing well, it even reached $126k in 2025. The decline at the end of 2025, it doesn't mean Bitcoin is worthless. It is just a normal correction after it reached the new ATH. Well, you are right. Big companies and even big countries are investing in Bitcoin nowadays. It is just strange that people assume Bitcoin is worthless.  

Do you guys have any stories about friends, relatives, or family members who did not believe in Bitcoin in 2011 or afterward, claiming it was a scam, and now regret their decision not to buy it at that time?

I've some friends that still doubt with Bitcoin. They don't say Bitcoin scam, they admit Bitcoin value is growing significantly, but they still doubt to invest in Bitcoin due to its volatility. They are also not really sure about Bitcoin future due to many bad issues. I'm not trying to force them to change their mindset. People's must their own intention to invest in Bitcoin.

[hyudien]

I've some friends that still doubt with Bitcoin. They don't say Bitcoin scam, they admit Bitcoin value is growing significantly, but they still doubt to invest in Bitcoin due to its volatility. They are also not really sure about Bitcoin future due to many bad issues. I'm not trying to force them to change their mindset. People's must their own intention to invest in Bitcoin.

I also do the same thing, I don't want to force my friends when they still have doubts about Bitcoin, and sometimes it's not just the uncertainty of the future that is still a doubt for them, but also the price where they think Bitcoin is too high. Even though I have explained that there is a DCA strategy that is very useful. But yes, what else can we do if there is no strong intention and determination, forcing them is also not the right step and can actually backfire on us, let the value and time answer their doubts about bitcoin.

[Warkop]

There are so many stories about people who regret their decision not to buy Bitcoin. All of these stories often begin with their distrust of Bitcoin. And then they can only watch as the Bitcoin chart soars sky-high. That's when they regret their decision and even realize their misunderstanding of Bitcoin. I personally think that they may have been influenced by the media at the time, where it often linked Bitcoin to scams or even something like a Ponzi scheme. In fact they actually misunderstand Bitcoin.

Many people really regret on not buying bitcoin when they have the opportunity, they think is just a normal investment they didn't believe with what they hear about bitcoin they just follow other that says negative about bitcoin. We should know that the more bitcoin increases in price that is how people that have chance to invest and failed to invest will always feel regret because they will lose the benefits, we should always follow our mind if you have learn about bitcoin you won't start thinking of losing money because you will get the believe that the price will surly increase when every he drop since is volatile. Anything that people don't understand always make people talk about it well and be saying negative about it since they don't understand and they won't go and make research before complaining.

Those are the characteristics of people who just want everything instant without having to follow the process, everything has its risks if they don't dive in directly and find out what system Bitcoin has been running all this time, they are even blind to what Bitcoin has achieved up to this point, Bitcoin will not lose but instead those who criticize it will lose with an increase that is unexpected by all of us, early Bitcoin holders actually don't want to bother with people out there to believe in Bitcoin, because it is their right to believe in it.

[imthegreat]

Hello, bitcoiners! It's 2026, and we almost welcomed it in a better way. The year 2025 was so good for Bitcoin, giving an ATH of $126k. And guess what? People still think Bitcoin is worthless, as if they are in such a deep sleep that they can't see how institutions, big companies, and states are pouring billions into Bitcoin.

Do you guys have any stories about friends, relatives, or family members who did not believe in Bitcoin in 2011 or afterward, claiming it was a scam, and now regret their decision not to buy it at that time?

Of course, I know a lot of people who didn't believe in Bitcoin at all and laughed at me and my friends when we told them how great the technology was. Later, when Bitcoin first broke through all resistance levels and hit $60,000, these guys met us at graduation, and they weren't laughing anymore; they were asking how to buy Bitcoin. We quietly laughed now, because it was weird to buy at the ATH, but they still bought it when Bitcoin was dumped, and it was funny that they, like hamsters, tried to climb at the highest point. It was a very stupid and greedy decision. Bitcoin then reached $17,000 a few months later.