2025 Reflection that helped me become an investor.

[SPIDERMAN008]

2025 ended and 2026 has begun. I knew about Bitcoin long ago, but I joined the bitcointalk forum in August 2025. Since then, I have learned more about Bitcoin than ever before. I have two reasons for writing this topic. First, to share what I have learned for those who are completely new.Secondly, there are many who are very experienced and want to know their experience in 2025.

1. When I first learned about Bitcoin, I saw it as a way to get rich quickly. Later, after coming to this forum, I learned a lot about investment, which helped me buy Bitcoin regularly. Actually, Bitcoin is not a way to profit quickly. Here, you have to have patience, emotional control, and strong cash flow to survive for a long time.

2. Many people wait without thinking about the perfect price and perfect time and invest. The perfect entry into Bitcoin depends on the person's income condition. If you decide to do DCA for a long time, you can stay away from this kind of thinking.

3. The biggest problem in investing is not being able to control your emotions. You should always keep yourself calm. Now I don't have a panic selling mentality. I don't try to invest too much if the price is rising. I always try to understand the status of my discretionary income and invest.

4. When I first came to this forum, I used to see these two sentences a lot. “Not your keys, not your coins”. Since then, I have been very careful about security issues. I want to tell everyone new that it is important to follow the things that can be kept as safe as possible in your wallet.

The first decision I made in this year 2026 is that my discretionary income has increased a bit. And I will start investing more of that additional discretionary income from now.

Share your mistakes or new learning experiences in 2025.
Happy New Year .

[Frankolala]

Setting up an emergency funds to safeguard your bitcoin investment from premature sales is very important as a long-term investor. A lot of people panic and sell when they price is down because some real life emergency played out in their lives that they most solve to avoid more losses or damages because they didn't get fully ready to keep their bitcoin investment safe and didn't have any emergency funds available.

[Spaceman1000$]

Investing with discretionary income keeps you on balance as it allows you gradually experiencing different market situation especially using the DCA strategy, A lot of newbie investors normally make the mistake of front loading their investment on the beginning stages, creating a great room for panic hence there are little market shake up's, this is because their mindset (psychological) are not built to absorb some of this incumbrances that the market might bring some times. So for me, i believe regardless of your income as a beginner you should start gradually, you should not be making a Pro move when you are still on the beginning stage.

[Lembo69]

Your steps to start investing were very nice and realistic. I also joined this forum in 2025. And I am still learning about Bitcoin. Along with this, I am also trying to invest by buying small amounts of Bitcoin. At first, I thought investing in Bitcoin was very difficult. But after joining the forum, I have learned and understood what I have heard from experienced members. Investing in Bitcoin is not difficult at all. We just need to start, and have a long-term plan. Only then will the investment be sustainable, and to maintain investment discipline, we need to invest with money that I will not need for the next 4-10 years.

In fact, our education is endless. After joining this forum, I have gained practical and unbiased knowledge. In 2025, I have seen the market crash and skyrocketing market value. I have learned so much that even if the market seems bad, there is nothing to be afraid of, because the recession is not permanent.

[batang_bitcoin]

2. Many people wait without thinking about the perfect price and perfect time and invest. The perfect entry into Bitcoin depends on the person's income condition. If you decide to do DCA for a long time, you can stay away from this kind of thinking.

This is so true. Those who have been telling themselves that they'll wait for the dip, they've never seen the dip. Because even if the market shows them that the dip has come, they won't do anything about it and won't believe that it has come. They'll wait for another moment that they believe it's the dip and yet when it has come, they'll increase their expectation of a lower price for Bitcoin which shall come soon. In the end, they have never bought themselves anything because of waiting too much. DCA is the best option, you don't count for the prices but you count on your consistency.

[Muba20]

Investing in Bitcoin need to change in mindset, especially for new comers. Those who see Bitcoin as a get-rich scheme or a quick profit in investment should first change their mindset. For those who want to start investing in 2026, the same advice as before is to invest with your own discretionary income and follow the DCA. Bitcoin does not guarantee that it will make you rich, but when investors are patient and invest regularly, the chances of profiting from investment increase.

There are some investors who try to buy Bitcoin at a lower price even in bear markets. They wait for the market to go down according to their wishes without investing. Such waiting will only waste time, which will not bring any return but will lost opportunity.

Bitcoin does not only mean financial freedom but also financial security. And to protect it, it is also your responsibility to properly store your security keys. If it is not properly preserved or maintained, then everything is in vain. Therefore, along with investment, one must also acquire knowledge to maintain it.

[xbetz.io]

Good reflection.

I think many people come into Bitcoin with the idea of getting rich quickly and only later realize that patience and emotional control matter far more than timing entries. Learning to DCA consistently removes a lot of stress and prevents impulsive decisions. Having an emergency fund is also underrated. When you know your real-life expenses are covered, it’s much easier to hold through volatility instead of panic selling at the worst moments.

In the long run, discipline, cash flow and risk management outperform any short-term strategy or price prediction.

[Cookdata]

Good reflection.

I think many people come into Bitcoin with the idea of getting rich quickly and only later realize that patience and emotional control matter far more than timing entries. Learning to DCA consistently removes a lot of stress and prevents impulsive decisions. Having an emergency fund is also underrated. When you know your real-life expenses are covered, it’s much easier to hold through volatility instead of panic selling at the worst moments.

In the long run, discipline, cash flow and risk management outperform any short-term strategy or price prediction.

I don't see anything bad in been optimistic, definitely an investor will expect some profits from where they put there money but then, people expectations are not real, to far from reality. Those days it was easy to flip Bitcoin price by 2 in the space of months but now as price keeps going up, the more it becomes even hard to flip, no way we are going to flip $100k by 2, that's $200k but sadly this is the expectations of many investsors that put momeh on Bitcoin, they want quick money and that's in the past already.

Some people have discipline left but it's majorly gone from many investors and which is why you see people running to invest into other investment. All of a sudden, I saw a notification on my phone from Robert Kiyosaki is making bullish comment about silver that it's going $400 this year and I laugh. This man has said alot of good things about Bitcoin now that the momentum is down, they have jumped onto another train to mass print the profit until there is nothing left to entertain investors anymore, perhaps that's going to be best time to move from there to Bitcoin again for another run.

[famososMuertos]

We should talk about decisions, and about mistakes when they are truly mistakes. They may seem like simple things, but distinguishing them helps to better channel concepts and opinions. In that sense, decisions (or decision-making) entail responsibilities and, consequently, liabilities.

It was my decision not to enter Bitcoin in its early stages. I always joke that I have a Twitter account from 2009, when I should have had an account here on the forum instead. The former didn’t change my life, but surely an account here on the forum would have. That’s not a mistake; it’s circumstantial.

Anyway, the point is that many complain they didn’t get into bitcoin in time, while others want to become “investors” overnight. They come up with ideas about dollar-cost averaging, taking “x” percentage of their income and putting it into bitcoin, etc. But the reality is that the goal is to understand Bitcoin, support it, and above all, trust it.
Bitcoin didn’t reach its current price because everyone thinks like you (OP); it’s because people believed in something (that something was the Bitcoin)

So, OP, have you read the Bitcoin white paper? Do you understand its premises? That’s more important than simply being an investor. If everyone only becomes an investor (and yes, investors are needed), Bitcoin could go to hell. Investors usually have confidence only in the short term.
Understand me: if you choose to be an investor, that’s your decision, but not thinking about being a HODLer could be a mistake.

That’s all for now; a short thought.
^{Speaking of decisions, I decided to start 2026 with my first post on one of the most distinguished boards of this forum, the same place where I began writing my first posts in English.}

[catnine1]

2025 ended and 2026 has begun. I knew about Bitcoin long ago, but I joined the bitcointalk forum in August 2025. Since then, I have learned more about Bitcoin than ever before. I have two reasons for writing this topic. First, to share what I have learned for those who are completely new.Secondly, there are many who are very experienced and want to know their experience in 2025.

1. When I first learned about Bitcoin, I saw it as a way to get rich quickly. Later, after coming to this forum, I learned a lot about investment, which helped me buy Bitcoin regularly. Actually, Bitcoin is not a way to profit quickly. Here, you have to have patience, emotional control, and strong cash flow to survive for a long time.

2. Many people wait without thinking about the perfect price and perfect time and invest. The perfect entry into Bitcoin depends on the person's income condition. If you decide to do DCA for a long time, you can stay away from this kind of thinking.

3. The biggest problem in investing is not being able to control your emotions. You should always keep yourself calm. Now I don't have a panic selling mentality. I don't try to invest too much if the price is rising. I always try to understand the status of my discretionary income and invest.

4. When I first came to this forum, I used to see these two sentences a lot. “Not your keys, not your coins”. Since then, I have been very careful about security issues. I want to tell everyone new that it is important to follow the things that can be kept as safe as possible in your wallet.

The first decision I made in this year 2026 is that my discretionary income has increased a bit. And I will start investing more of that additional discretionary income from now.

Share your mistakes or new learning experiences in 2025.
Happy New Year .

damn, that's a solid post. exactly the mindset shift everyone needs.
went from "get rich quick" to "patiently stack sats and control emotions" that's the real win. the dca and self-custody lessons are the foundations that'll actually let u keep ur wealth long-term, not just gamble it away.
biggest lesson i relearned in '25 was to stop lookin at the charts every day set the dca, put the keys in cold storage and go live life the noise is a distraction glad ur here man, welcome to the real game