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.

[dzonikg28]

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.

Satofan44 is fully on point here and I think the important part of his post is the underlined part.

During those years 2010 and ongoing I had a friend who was a real nerd and he had relatively wealthy parents. They were not super rich, but he was the young boy who had the best hardware all the time, the newest PC, all the technological gadgets that were available back then. He was able to open his PCs, tinker around, destroy it, get a new one from his parents, he was a real nerd.

In the very early days of Bitcoin, he played Counter Strike all day long and we had LAN parties and were hanging around. One day he said he is mining this thing called Bitcoin, "pretty funny" he said, "I just have it open in the background and it's coming into my wallet". None of us knew what he was talking about and didn't understand and not really care at that point. He found out because someone else from his Internet bubble told him. A week or so later I asked him what this mining was about and he said he stopped it because he had no clue what it was good for.

He may have gotten lucky to have found out about it, but he decided not to participate in it and as was usual for him, at some point overwrote the HD and threw that whole thing in the trash and bought a new PC. When I later asked him about the amount of Bitcoin he mined, he was so uninterested in the topic that he couldn't remember.  

To this day he has never been the guy who goes down a rabbit hole, apart from the tinkering around with his PC hardware back at the time. Funny turn of events, he works as an admit for a bank today. He never got back into Bitcoin ever, never even hesitated or noticeable regretted that he was lazy back then or not attentive. He wasn't even sad or changing his mind when I got into Bitcoin and told him that what he found out about years ago is a gigantic revolution in the making.

I myself was not attentive enough because he was the nerd and when he made his judgment like "not wort it, it's just like monopoly money you can play around with", I was stupid enough to trust his words and not look into it because I never was a real nerd and thought that he probably understands what it is. He was the one setting up our PCs for LAN, he did all the fine tunings for our graphics cards, ram memory, whatever had to be done related to PCs. And since this seemed to be relating to PCs, I took his word at face value.

I wasn't unlucky, I decided against looking further into it and if I did, I would have been into Bitcoin since 2010.

[Satofan44]

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.

Satofan44 is fully on point here and I think the important part of his post is the underlined part.

During those years 2010 and ongoing I had a friend who was a real nerd and he had relatively wealthy parents. They were not super rich, but he was the young boy who had the best hardware all the time, the newest PC, all the technological gadgets that were available back then. He was able to open his PCs, tinker around, destroy it, get a new one from his parents, he was a real nerd.

In the very early days of Bitcoin, he played Counter Strike all day long and we had LAN parties and were hanging around. One day he said he is mining this thing called Bitcoin, "pretty funny" he said, "I just have it open in the background and it's coming into my wallet". None of us knew what he was talking about and didn't understand and not really care at that point. He found out because someone else from his Internet bubble told him. A week or so later I asked him what this mining was about and he said he stopped it because he had no clue what it was good for.

He may have gotten lucky to have found out about it, but he decided not to participate in it and as was usual for him, at some point overwrote the HD and threw that whole thing in the trash and bought a new PC. When I later asked him about the amount of Bitcoin he mined, he was so uninterested in the topic that he couldn't remember.  

Thank you for sharing your story, and as rare as it may be here, accurately understanding a topic using the objective truth. Many people here are complete cowards that refuse to admit their own failures, instead they shift away responsibility and blame with meaningless things like "luck". Was it luck that someone was actively seeking ways to earn money, to build something new, investigating cryptography proposals (and whatever else applicable someone might have been doing) while others were watching useless TV shows, playing endless video games and doing all sort of useless shit? Is it luck that someone has a Phd because they decided to go to an university while someone decided to go to useless parties in their 20s?  

Let's face it, the cases of luck are rare and they can be dismissed. Most people did not find Bitcoin because they were busy with other meaningless pursuits of their daily lives. This is the first part of the equation, the second part of the equation is the decision to take part in it or not. While in the first part there can be some aspects of luck for certain individuals and in specific stories, in the second part there is no luck involved at all which invalidates the luck of the first part completely. Many "lucky" individuals decided not to participate. Contrary to them, others were not lucky -- they decided to participate themselves.

To this day he has never been the guy who goes down a rabbit hole, apart from the tinkering around with his PC hardware back at the time. Funny turn of events, he works as an admit for a bank today. He never got back into Bitcoin ever, never even hesitated or noticeable regretted that he was lazy back then or not attentive. He wasn't even sad or changing his mind when I got into Bitcoin and told him that what he found out about years ago is a gigantic revolution in the making.

I myself was not attentive enough because he was the nerd and when he made his judgment like "not wort it, it's just like monopoly money you can play around with", I was stupid enough to trust his words and not look into it because I never was a real nerd and thought that he probably understands what it is. He was the one setting up our PCs for LAN, he did all the fine tunings for our graphics cards, ram memory, whatever had to be done related to PCs. And since this seemed to be relating to PCs, I took his word at face value.

I wasn't unlucky, I decided against looking further into it and if I did, I would have been into Bitcoin since 2010.

My story is similar, my first involvement with Bitcoin was not meant to be -- I saw it somewhere very early, but I decided not to pursue it at the time for whatever reasons that I am not going to share now. However, the second time I saw it I immediately got involved with it and read everything that was mainstream and available at the time. A complete red-pill. Meanwhile, I know today but have also met in passing countless individuals who have seen Bitcoin various times over the years and at each step of the way they have decided NOT TO TRY -- they decided NOT TO GET INVOLVED.

I don't know if you are the original account owner or not, but posts like this deserve a lot of merit. I am sorry that you may not receive enough merit because the forum is swamped with account farmers and merit cycling. I left some.

In some less eloquent words, here is a nice FUCK YOU from me and others to everyone who wants to claim that those that were TRYING and DECIDED to get involved in Bitcoin at any point were LUCKY.  

[Crypto5060]

True. Most people only celebrate the result; they don’t see the years of uncertainty behind it.

Whether it’s Bitcoin, business, investing, fitness, or relationships, the people who eventually succeed are often the ones who acted before they had guarantees.

Trying doesn’t guarantee success, but refusing to try almost guarantees you’ll never find out what’s possible.

The goal isn’t to win every time. The goal is to keep taking intelligent chances, learning from failures, and staying in the game long enough for opportunities to compound.

Fall in love with the process. Results usually follow.

[puloweh555]

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.

Absolutely true. We won't succeed in anything if we just sit back and do nothing especially in BTC. Many people now look at the Bitcoin price and say, "I used to be able to do it, but unfortunately I didn't buy it." It's true that information was limited back then, the community was still small and many still considered internet money a scam. But those who dared to jump in reaped immense profits and those who didn't will regret it.

The lesson to be learned from Bitcoin history to date is that Bitcoin represents an opportunity to create financial futures if we truly fall in love with it. While it may not be visible in the short term, it often becomes apparent in the long term. After studying the Bitcoin price history mentioned by the OP, we have gained valuable information that coupled with action can become a competitive advantage. The biggest regrets usually come from not doing anything even though we already know a little. The past cannot be changed but today habits determine future regrets. So all your future desires are determined now.

[Majestic-milf]

 This piece is very inspiring and insightful but at the end of the day there will be people who would slide past. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a step and in this case, by trying.
So many people are still stuck in that valley of "what ifs" while opportunities pass them by and when the next person excels, it looks like they've done something magical. Like you said, the difference between an achiever and one who hasn't is TRY. It's crazy how people are comfortable to complain than actually do something to change the situation they find themselves in.
 

[Floczy]

Fall in love with TRYING.

Trying is good but things to know before trying is needed

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.

True.
Also in a generation such as this its best you don't try everything you see,
Right now trying is more risky, we hear or scams, frauds, shit coins etc
And victims are those who tried. So it's good to try, but the things you have to look for before trying is another information that is needed as well, very important.
And I could list some here

Before you try out something make sure
- you make proper research about what so ever
- There is transparency
- good reputation
- you know someone who is into it
- it looks like a hard earned result (Avoid too good to be true)
You check More .. https://consumer.ftc.gov/

[dzonikg28]

Thank you for sharing your story, and as rare as it may be here, accurately understanding a topic using the objective truth. Many people here are complete cowards that refuse to admit their own failures, instead they shift away responsibility and blame with meaningless things like "luck". Was it luck that someone was actively seeking ways to earn money, to build something new, investigating cryptography proposals (and whatever else applicable someone might have been doing) while others were watching useless TV shows, playing endless video games and doing all sort of useless shit? Is it luck that someone has a Phd because they decided to go to an university while someone decided to go to useless parties in their 20s?  

Let's face it, the cases of luck are rare and they can be dismissed. Most people did not find Bitcoin because they were busy with other meaningless pursuits of their daily lives. This is the first part of the equation, the second part of the equation is the decision to take part in it or not. While in the first part there can be some aspects of luck for certain individuals and in specific stories, in the second part there is no luck involved at all which invalidates the luck of the first part completely. Many "lucky" individuals decided not to participate. Contrary to them, others were not lucky -- they decided to participate themselves.

My pleasure and thank you for sharing yours in so far as to admit it took you two encounters as well to finally pursue it not just further, but full heartedly. In my own second encounter with Bitcoin, I did all the things I should have done from day one. I read the forum, read the first books, watched all Youtube content I could find, bought graphics cards, mainboards, everything that was needed and then got into mining shit coins and that was the first time I myself got into tinkering around with hardware like that. Of course I had added some RAM and changed a graphics card myself before by that time, but building mining rigs and fine tune them all the time, it was lots of fun and kept me involved while I was trying to improve my understanding about the economic, social, political and what not consequences and benefits of a decentralized currency. I began to get out Hayek and other texts again because they made more sense now. Before that I rather skimmed through those texts, but now it all made more sense and I devoured articles and sci-papers in economics, tried to get a grasp of cryptography and so many other areas that Bitcoin encompasses.

Was it luck that someone was actively seeking ways to earn money, to build something new, investigating cryptography proposals (and whatever else applicable someone might have been doing) while others were watching useless TV shows, playing endless video games and doing all sort of useless shit? Is it luck that someone has a Phd because they decided to go to an university while someone decided to go to useless parties in their 20s?  

I think there is even more than that to your framing of the term "luck" (or not luck) and I am sure you are on the same page. You are talking about explicit decisions like going for a Phd, actively seeking more money... There are some people, and I love when I meet that type of people, who have this restlessness within themselves when it comes to problems in the world, broader problems in general, daily life problems, and they constantly try to describe and understand problems and more or less brainstorm all the time for solutions. It is not this very specific sentence "I need to earn more money and I will do X", but you know from talks that they are onto something on a daily basis anyway. You won't find that type of people throwing their lives away playing computer games 10 hours a day for 15 years. They always tell you about this new research finding, are informed about technology, politics, economics, and they evolve over time and you realize their puzzle grows, they put the pieces more and more together and you just get to know it from daily conversations. And well, this doesn't mean they can't ever play computer games. But you would know that if they coincidentally stumble upon a thing like Bitcoin while playing a computer game, they wouldn't let go ever once and for all while you know the type of people who most probably would (my nerd friend).

This luck thing therefore boils down to how people are wired. They are restless and want to understand what's going on in the world and how they could contribute, improve, change and so on and so forth. I asked myself how many of those who've got the laziness, ignorance, subjective instead of objective truth wires within themselves, can proactively change and become the attentive, curious, researching and building guy? I believe it is quite hard for a lot of people. Lying to yourself is most probably the best (as in "easiest to perform") form of self-protection nature equipped us human beings with. Hope you know what I mean.

My story is similar, my first involvement with Bitcoin was not meant to be -- I saw it somewhere very early, but I decided not to pursue it at the time for whatever reasons that I am not going to share now. However, the second time I saw it I immediately got involved with it and read everything that was mainstream and available at the time. A complete red-pill. Meanwhile, I know today but have also met in passing countless individuals who have seen Bitcoin various times over the years and at each step of the way they have decided NOT TO TRY -- they decided NOT TO GET INVOLVED.

I don't know if you are the original account owner or not, but posts like this deserve a lot of merit. I am sorry that you may not receive enough merit because the forum is swamped with account farmers and merit cycling. I left some.

In some less eloquent words, here is a nice FUCK YOU from me and others to everyone who wants to claim that those that were TRYING and DECIDED to get involved in Bitcoin at any point were LUCKY.  

they have decided NOT TO TRY -- they decided NOT TO GET INVOLVED

The type of people I described above have one more disadvantage that comes on top and it appears to me that this applies to the large majority of those who are lazy, ignorant and led by subjective truth. Once they are essentially forced to acknowledge that someone like you or me were right about Bitcoin, the lack of open-mindedness and the lack of the ability to accept mistakes only accelerates their negative thinking and their tendency to persuade themselves of their own version of the truth. What follows is rejection, unfounded disapproval, and even greater psychological detachment. To sum up, as soon as the objective truth becomes more concrete and easier to grasp, you would think that more people take the opportunity for a U turn, but no, the incentive for some people to further detach themselves in order to protect their subjective truth increases and they are willing to go the extra mile to actually strengthen their subjective truth.

There is a good reason why some people make it to the top. Yes I agree that privilege and luck can be and more often than not are important. But even then the subjective truth victims should be able to admit that luck gravitates more to one kind of people than to the other kind of people. I have a sentence in my mind from a friend and I told him about a lucky incident that I described as a coincidence and he said "that was no coincidence, it was a consequence of who you are, it was a question of time". It was the first time I actually sat down in the evening and thought about this whole topic of luck, coincidence, consequence and determination. That is why I quickly connected with you when I read your post about luck.

Maybe there is one dimension of luck when we talk about Bitcoin. If it is 2010 again and you are in your 20s and decide to try and get involved, you are more lucky than the guy who is in his 80s and decides to go down the rabbit hole because this unique opportunity, which Bitcoin clearly is, came up at the perfect time. The beauty about Bitcoin is that almost everyone had the same chance to detect it, it wasn't local or regional and that erases luck even more out of the equation. It's lucky if you are born next to a goldmine that nobody ever detected and you find it while building a sandbox in the countryside. Bitcoin was basically discoverable for everyone. It is just as you said, depends on what is on your mind on a daily basis and that determines your chances whether you stumble upon unique opportunities or not.

[Somegory]

Someone somewhere needs this, thanks for creating this amazing thread OP.
When nothing makes no sense anymore is when I always take risks.
I've lost a lot of money on trying things out, it's adventurous to me.
I don't want to live this life having regrets when or if I get to 70years old, looking back and blaming myself for not trying.
I always fall in love trying to do this and that, even when they don't make any sense.
The sweetest part of it all is one goal, all you need is one right to wipe out all the hundreds of wrongs.

[Pablo-wood]

Another way of saying it's more offensive not to try at all than to fail while trying. The early stage is always full of discouragement even for those who might want to start now, mockery will arise, self doubt will spring up, struggles of commitment will come up. But at the end determination always pays.

A later starter is far better than someone who never tried at all. While bitcoin price keeps looking intimidating for starts it's best to overlook distractions and focus on the rewards on a long-term as long as consistency is prioritised.

Fall in love with TRYING.

Trying is good but things to know before trying is needed

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.

Fall in love with trying I will add;  it is better to fail while trying that way experience is built and some future mistakes will be averted. Many people get trapped all in the name of acquiring knowledge before trying. It is still a nice approach but experience will still be needed even after the knowledge base is built.

Instead Learning and trying things out will make the learning process faster, more fruitful and more rewarding.

[Smartprofit]

As a child, I read a book about the adventures of Hercules. In it, Hercules told a friend, "A hero is someone who does everything in their power. The vast majority of people don't even do that." 🙋

Nothing in life is guaranteed (except death). So I absolutely agree with you that you should seize every opportunity, even the most hypothetical, that fate presents you with. Even if nothing works out, at least you'll go to bed with a clear conscience. You'll be able to say to yourself, "Well done! You did everything you could today!"

I learned about Bitcoin back in 2014. A friend of mine told me about Bitcoin, the community, the HODL strategy, and colored coins. I remember him drawing me a diagram of the blockchain on a napkin at a cafe table. He told me everything he knew about Bitcoin... However, I didn't buy Bitcoin! I didn't take that step that could have changed my life forever for the better!  And now it's impossible to return to the past, to that distant year of 2014...

However, I believe that even today, new, amazing opportunities await me. And I will try not to miss them.💁

[JiiBs]

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 2013, when it hit $100, he was called a gambling addict.

In 2017, when it crashed from $20k to $3k, he was called an idiot.

In 2021, when it crashed from $69k to $16k, he was called a cultist.

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

He didn't have a roadmap.

He had a 1% chance and he took it.

That's the only difference between him and you.

This is exactly the character that those who are able to build wealth has and it’s lacking in many people today. These people don’t find securities before they go about making their investment, they venture into the uncertainty and turbulence, navigate without any compass, using their third eyes to keep a sense of direction and purpose and now, we tend to envy them for their success.

It’s the part of some investors too though, it’s even more scary in Bitcoin being an uncharted water, though you don’t have it on PlayStation, it’s real life. When we look for certainties, we only thread on a roadmap that the goals are now different.

[Satofan44]

Maybe there is one dimension of luck when we talk about Bitcoin. If it is 2010 again and you are in your 20s and decide to try and get involved, you are more lucky than the guy who is in his 80s and decides to go down the rabbit hole because this unique opportunity, which Bitcoin clearly is, came up at the perfect time. The beauty about Bitcoin is that almost everyone had the same chance to detect it, it wasn't local or regional and that erases luck even more out of the equation. It's lucky if you are born next to a goldmine that nobody ever detected and you find it while building a sandbox in the countryside. Bitcoin was basically discoverable for everyone. It is just as you said, depends on what is on your mind on a daily basis and that determines your chances whether you stumble upon unique opportunities or not.

We agree mostly and as such I have decided only to respond to you on this last part. I hope that you write more posts in other places. There is a small dimension of luck to anything, and it is large with some things. However, any claims that luck is the primary reason for which someone got very wealthy with Bitcoin are dishonest, or even malicious and rude. I am not one of those people, but I would never dismiss their achievement or success with something meaningless as luck. Bitcoin is unique as you say, as the only real requirement to be able to discover Bitcoin at any time of its existence was to have an internet connection. If you lived in a place where there was no internet in the years 2009 and onwards, well there I could say that you were unlucky. I would not say that people who had internet access were lucky because the standard is never "lucky".

As a child, I read a book about the adventures of Hercules. In it, Hercules told a friend, "A hero is someone who does everything in their power. The vast majority of people don't even do that." 🙋

The majority of the people on the planet right now are fat, so that fact alone confirms that the majority does not even do the basics let alone "everything in their power". There is no need to dig deeper to confirm that they are barely doing the minimum. They are mostly just pointlessly existing, passing time until they die. Their whole existence is meaningless. Let me also put it here: If someone is fat (not due to a real medical condition not bullshit self-imposed conditions), then that someone is an idiot who could not be farther away from trying.