Fall in love with TRYING

[BlackBoss_]

In general I agree with OP. I disagree also that trying always is equivalent to "take risk". The 2010 Bitcoiner had not necessarily to take a serious risk. He simply needed curiosity and a little bit of luck, and later, a bit of patience.

There is however a catch. Altcoin projects (and perhaps shady startups in general) try to lure you into your shady businesses with very similar catch phrases.

So my conclusion is: Yes, TRY. But also LISTEN and LEARN. Important: Ignore most social media, in particular everybody who's too one-sided on Bitcoin.

In 2010, Bitcoin price was very cheap and people could take risk by buying bitcoins but it was not like taking too serious risk. With $1 people could buy more than 1300 BTC, so risk was not too high. It was only challenging for people like they were ready to spend $100 and lose it or even take risk with smaller fund like $50 or $20.

The very early Bitcoin exchanges.
https://bitcoin.zorinaq.com/price/
https://charts.bitbo.io/satoshi-per-dollar/

[Money bag]

I would say that the person who tried was smarter than those who didn't, trying itself takes effort, an effort that some people don't understand because they are not smart enough to understand it and that's why those who did can be considered to be smarter than those who didn't, they were busy waiting for dips, busy waiting for confirmation while the smart ones were busy buying as much as they could while they could, them trying made them better man thab those who doubted everything about bitcoin and now while those who didn't buy are regretting, those who bought are reaping the fruits of their labours.

[kingstep]

But losing isn't demotivating to the man who loves trying.

Because he is not in to win and lose. He is in to TRY.

Fall in love with TRYING.

Part of the reason why the very brilliant one's struggle to get things done and end up serving or working for the middle-class dude is that they always try to wait till things gets all perfect before they even start doing what they should be doing. things don't become completely fixed after the first try, you have to be dogged enough to keep trying even when the odds seem against you and that is where those that were able to make a difference in their any sector got it right.

in general, the difference between those that will make a difference in the past and those that will only have stories to tell is the ability of either of them to take the right action.
 

[Satofan44]

Fall in love with TRYING.

Try that business idea.

Try sending that cold email.

Try approaching that woman.

Try getting jacked in the gym.

The world will never be the same once you live it as a tryer.

True if done honestly, terrible if done in a self-deluding way. We have an epidemic of vanity where many people do a lot of things just as participation trophies so that they can tell others that they are doing it. The difference between real hard work or trying with self-deluded hard work is staggering. Many believe that doing the basics in their job in order to have food on the table is "working hard".   I could guarantee you that not even 10% of the people who would write here that they are "trying" or agree with the approach are actually trying.  

Every Bitcoiner you envy is a man who TRIED when trying made no sense.

He didn't have a roadmap.

Bitcoin does not have roadmap but it has succeeded while shitcoins have roadmaps and they failed, died, scammed.

This part talks about the person's roadmap (he), not about projects and their roadmaps so this comment is misplaced.

In 2010, he downloaded a wallet nobody asked him to download. He mined coins on a laptop while his friends played Counter-strike 2.

In 2010 who ever found about Bitcoin was the lucky one because in that year many people were playing online multiplayer games and they weren't even thinking about something like Bitcoin or about crypto market. PayPal was there but as a payment processor not as a market but the Bitcoin created a whole market that we call crypto market today. The smart ones who mined Bitcoin back in 2010 were really the ones who're enjoying the best rewards now. Only a few people who weren't that smart sold their Bitcoin when it touched $100 value.

False. Many people have found Bitcoin in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, all the way until now and they have decided not to participate in it. There are 2 parts to this process. One is discovery, and if you didn't look then the responsibility is entirely yours -- you are to blame, it is not about luck. Very few cases are about luck, you were self-medicating yourself with other internet bullshit such as the example of games that you have given. The second part is understanding and adoption. Many more have seen than have adopted even in the earliest years.

If you want to call someone who found Bitcoin and adopted it early (possibly because he understood it) as someone who was lucky, then GTFO.

[pawanjain]

OP is probably right. Back then I had a chance to mine bitcoin only if I had shown more courage, trust and efforts,
I tried mining using my laptop but people were already using GPUs back then to mine BTC and so I was far behind them.
If I had show more courage and trust on bitcoin and would have put in efforts to buy GPUs and create a mining rig then I could have mined some bitcoin too.
Alas, I didn't and here I am after so many years still struggling to accumulate half of a bitcoin.

[Byebyebtc]

This post is about Bitcoin, but it honestly hits in other parts of life as well.
Almost everyone regretting now, had an opportunity years back, but sadly they didn't have this sort of information as at that time, some are built with the urge of trying while some are not, but an information like this can change the way they think.

Well we can not change the past, and now we have good information we can get from different places and This forum, we could also shear with others too, invite friends and family to the forum probably they will be informed with a lot of things, and we can make life easier for our future.

[Adams0001]

This really makes sense. Trying unlocks our hidden potentials, builds our self-confidence, and breaks stagnation the moment we are exposed to unforeseen career or life's opportunities.

If we never stop trying, chances for failure remains low because we don't let ourselves settled on it, but instead we find ways on how to achieve our wants and goals, and as long as chances and opportunities are still firm, no one should stop from trying the whole time.

It's tiring and hopeless sometimes, but because you're in to hit your goal, so you should never stop trying and trying until you reach your goal of success.

This life we nee to be trying so that we can achieve our goal easily because sometimes when you fail you have learn lesson and you will look for another way to try again and he can favour you and that is why many people that are investing in bitcoin or other investments they always give up when they see is not really working out for them when they just start the journey early.

Anyone that have the believe on what they are doing they will surely try there best and continue pushing till they get what they are looking for, nothing can comes easy for you if you’re chasing money so you need to face some challenges before getting what you need, and trying can make you achieve your goal.

[SamReomo]

False. Many people have found Bitcoin in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, all the way until now and they have decided not to participate in it. There are 2 parts to this process. One is discovery, and if you didn't look then the responsibility is entirely yours -- you are to blame, it is not about luck.

Man, go and read my post once again, in that post I said those who found Bitcoin were lucky ones and I'll repeat that here once again. I wasn't among those people because I found about it in 2016 for first time but I started investing in it in 2023, however my experience has since been quite good with Bitcoin. The ones who found Bitcoin and read its white paper in 2010 were smart ones and to be honest I wasn't that smart and that's the reason I found it late.

I initially invested in Bitcoin in 2016-2017 but I made some good losses when bear market started and Bitcoin dumped badly. However, I must say that it was a good step to begin Bitcoin investing and being part of Bitcoin community because now I'm good when it comes to financial things. Other who found it late and reacted to it late might also have similar experience.