Today, 10 years ago...

[Josefjix]

Whenever I see posts like this, I can’t help but think, why didn’t I invest in these coins back then? I was already active in crypto during that time. Why didn’t I even consider holding just one of them? I really regret not investing or holding any of them.
If I had, I wouldn’t be struggling now just to post something here to meet the signature campaign quota. lol, just kidding.

No one knows tomorrow, don't blame yourself for regretting of not grabbing good quantity earlier, many daily circumstances consumes Bitcoin expenses than even saving it, you may find it hard to even trying to safe them if you have a habit of someone that can't keep money, it's always better to have a separate wallet for savings while you keep the secret key off your custody for efficiency.

[GreatArkansas]

I'm curious, since you are in the trading discussion section.

From what OP shared, about the crypto price snapshot, as a trader, how will you make money from this? Because for sure, if you are a trader, most probably you will not hold your coins you trade this very long.

[michellee]

I'm curious, since you are in the trading discussion section.

From what OP shared, about the crypto price snapshot, as a trader, how will you make money from this? Because for sure, if you are a trader, most probably you will not hold your coins you trade this very long.

Maybe he bought Bitcoin in a large amounts and traded it for some amounts and let the rest to be his long term investment. Some traders did both and they are makes more profit from trading.

Being a trader and also an investor can be done although that is not easy because they must be focus on each. If they can focus and making money from both, that is double profits.

But no need to feels sad and blaming yourself if you think you are late. You can start whenever you are ready.

[yhiaali3]

Bitcoin experienced tremendous growth in its first five years, but things become more difficult after that because, with each price increase, we need enormous liquidity to reach new highs, unlike altcoins.

In my opinion, security is as important as or even more important than price. Bitcoin's advantage lies not only in its high price but also in the superior security it offers, unlike altcoins, which can be hacked or even die out over time. This cannot happen with Bitcoin.

[Mpamaegbu]

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Factom is almost nonexistent in today's reality. This is the major reason a lot of investors stick to Bitcoin. It's safer. There's no migration or moving to any new chain. I've had the misfortune of investing in some altcoins but didn't know when they migrated later, and so I lost those investments. Once you've Bitcoin, you've it. Even when it tanks, it comes up back. It's a phoenix, a cat with nine lives.

Even if you include new altcoins, as long as it's a long-term, Bitcoin will perform better than them because most of these coins just pump in a short period and then dip back again and struggle to come back up because they don't have strong community support.

Let me ask a simple question and will like an honest response to it. Don't overthink it. Here's my question – just assume that you're clairvoyant enough to know that Bitcoin would do X50 in the next 10 years and there's an altcoin that would also do that X50 within three months, which will you go for?

[SOKO-DEKE]

Instead of you doing a 10 year comparison, you should have done a comparison based on when Bitcoin was created and when the altcoin you mentioned was created, and then compare their prices from creation to now. You would then see whether it is Bitcoin that has risen less in price than all the altcoins.

You can clearly see that Bitcoin beats them and is worth investing in. The main point is: how sure are you that some of the altcoins you used for comparison will continue to rise? There are some altcoins that were doing better a few years back, but where are they now? They are nowhere to be found.So what assurance is there that these ones will continue to exist for a very long time? Their prices may even drop to nothing. As for me, Bitcoin is the best, and it will continue to reign as the best.

[Mame89]

Whenever I see posts like this, I can’t help but think, why didn’t I invest in these coins back then? I was already active in crypto during that time. Why didn’t I even consider holding just one of them? I really regret not investing or holding any of them.
If I had, I wouldn’t be struggling now just to post something here to meet the signature campaign quota. lol, just kidding.

No one knows tomorrow, don't blame yourself for regretting of not grabbing good quantity earlier, many daily circumstances consumes Bitcoin expenses than even saving it, you may find it hard to even trying to safe them if you have a habit of someone that can't keep money, it's always better to have a separate wallet for savings while you keep the secret key off your custody for efficiency.

That's right. Every time we look back on the past 10 years we always regret not buying and holding Bitcoin. The past can't be repeated but believe that opportunity will arise again if you start now. Take advantage of the opportunity you have now to buy as much Bitcoin as you can afford, so you won't have to regret it again in the future.

Consider the past 10 years a lesson don't delay when opportunities arise and don't be afraid to take risks to improve your future. You should also be confident that with Bitcoin's significant growth, and with many adopting it even countries using it as their national reserve currency it's possible that the price of Bitcoin could rise sixfold in the next 10 years.

[JaanusRaim]

I'm curious, since you are in the trading discussion section.

From what OP shared, about the crypto price snapshot, as a trader, how will you make money from this? Because for sure, if you are a trader, most probably you will not hold your coins you trade this very long.

Very good question! It deserved a good answer.

I value past opportunities so high that I am ready to give one nowadays opportunity if I will get two past opportunities in return
History rhymes... it is reflected in my (trader) name as well: Jaanus (two faces looking in opposite direction: past and future) and Raim (Estonia version from the English word "rhyme").
History do not exactly repeat itself - every event (and opportunity) in the future is in some aspect different from the past. Therefore it is not enough to have ears and eyes, some mind is needed as well. You can not extrapolate past into the future, but you can use many aspects of historical opportunities to use and find opportunities today.

For example, lets assume that you discovered in 20 January, 2016 that the crypto market is heavily undervalued and its equilibrium market cap would be ca 100x higher (not 7 billion USD but 700 billion USD just as the biggest market cap company of this time). What was your biggest obstacles? 1) You found that some months earlier the cryptos were even more undervalued therefore you already had missed this opportunity in some extent. 2)You do not know may-be the undervaluation will increases temporarily even more during next months or even years: as Keynes had said "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent". 3)You do not know the exact size of this undervaluation, therefore you do not know when exactly is the best time to sell.
These three obstacles are timeless, you meet them again and again and again. The basic challenge is that though it is relatively easy to measure the extent of the undervaluation or overvaluation approximately (in the orders of magnitude), it is not possible to measure it in exact numbers (in exact percentages) - the number of important variables is too great for that! Therefore the number of opportunities you are able to detect is relatively small and the few ones you had detected need very careful handling.
Going back to 20 January 2016, you had to start buying instantly but only step by step to reduce risk that undervaluation goes even wider. No loans, no leverage. Doing so, you was able to invest some percentage (lets say 30%) of your funds before the price started to increase rapidly. Then your life was easy until about the May 2017 when the undervaluation was decreased by almost one order of magnitude (cryptos market cap was then 70 billion USD) and ONLY one order of magnitude was left in accordance with your calculations. That meant that the perfect time for selling is not far... but how far? Again, it was impossible to say. The only way was to start to sell step by step, starting with 1% of your cryptos value and going slowly higher as the undervaluation vanished even more. For the end of 2017 you had sold the quite large percentage of your cryptos (lets say 80%) because this price increases was great and met your target (700 billion USD) at the end of this bull run. 20% remained in the crypto for many years until the next threat of overvaluation in 2021.

Does it seem useful in 2026?
Which are the strongly, extremely strongly undervalued/overvalued assets now and which will probably be tomorrow? If you are like 99%, you answer that there are no strongly mispriced assets today, all great opportunities were in the past. They have always answered so  

[lizarder]

Conclusions:
The price of Bitcoin has risen less than the price of altcoins.
The market timing is important: there is not enough money in the whole world to produce the cryptocurrencies price increases similar to 2016-2021 for the period 2026-2031.

That's not particularly important in my opinion because what we want to achieve is how the asset has grown from our initial involvement to the present, so that in the long term, we can calculate the overall accuracy of our investment opportunities. Bitcoin's performance has been increasingly strong throughout its journey, making it a fundamental asset despite its high volatility. Adoption has occurred so rapidly worldwide and we never even predicted this would happen so quickly.

I prefer to look at adjustments over the past five years rather than comparisons over the previous 10 years because sometimes, at this point such things are no longer relevant. Bitcoin still outperforms other coins, regardless of the performance and we can examine why it is the best, even though its trajectory is still quite speculative with the resulting risks.

[pawanjain]

This shows me only one thing. Bitcoin will always give you profits no matter what but altcoins cannot be trusted.
Since there are so many altcoins to invest in, it all depends on luck whether you get a massive return or not.
If you are lucky you might get average to pretty good returns but if you invest in some altcoin which turns out to fade away then you are doomed.
In case of bitcoin, you might not get as good returns as altcoins but one thing that is guaranteed is profits.
It will still give you decent returns in the long term but won't fade away and that is what I think should be our obvious choice of investment.

[bitgolden]

Conclusions:
The price of Bitcoin has risen less than the price of altcoins.
The market timing is important: there is not enough money in the whole world to produce the cryptocurrencies price increases similar to 2016-2021 for the period 2026-2031.

That's not particularly important in my opinion because what we want to achieve is how the asset has grown from our initial involvement to the present, so that in the long term, we can calculate the overall accuracy of our investment opportunities. Bitcoin's performance has been increasingly strong throughout its journey, making it a fundamental asset despite its high volatility. Adoption has occurred so rapidly worldwide and we never even predicted this would happen so quickly.

Yeah, you can look at yearly, five years, ten years, bitcoin is always near the top and outperforms others, and even if something else outperforms bitcoin for a year or two, it ends up being much lower eventually, so bitcoin is always a good investment. Some people may prefer altcoins because they want quicker returns, and it's true that if you find the best one of that year you will be making good money, but you could be wrong and lose too, or wait long enough and start losing too, it's a big risk.

[AVE5]

Whenever I see posts like this, I can’t help but think, why didn’t I invest in these coins back then? I was already active in crypto during that time. Why didn’t I even consider holding just one of them? I really regret not investing or holding any of them.
If I had, I wouldn’t be struggling now just to post something here to meet the signature campaign quota. lol, just kidding.

You might really be kidding but speaking the mind of others.
I've also been in such circumstance of regretting why I never took position of buying a particular coin when it was newly launched after much in time that it has gained much values.
But anyways, sometimes i think it's better to stick on buying that very coin you are sure of your reliability.

AltCoins aren't really advice able to jump into and buy without proper research. So being aware of its risks over the markets unrealistic hypes, I find reasons to comfort not to keep feeling the regrets because I may not had been lucky enough to pick potential one since the crypto market had become an avenue for strategic scammers.
In the same vein, even stacking a lot of bitcoins won't stop me from participating in signature and campaigns here because I'd need more source of income to expand my investment goal. Unless I'm considering retirement and ease stress of chasing more money.