It's scary how obvious it is to buy Bitcoin

[Aymoons]

In 5 years time, I think people are going to look back and realise how big of an opportunity this was.

For the first time in human history, we have something that is truly scarce, digital, borderless, easily transferable, and cannot be controlled or manipulated by any single entity.

Short term price movements do not change what Bitcoin actually represents. Opportunities like this don't come around often.

[Nwada001]

Look back and regret, just like those who had the opportunity in the past and did not make good use of the opportunity, but then again, not everyone likes the idea behind Bitcoin, so no matter how high Bitcoin reaches, they might never regret their choices as long as they have where they have planted their capital and wealth is growing from there.

[BlackHatCoiner]

It will always amaze me how Bitcoin history always loves to rhyme, but somehow so many people get collective amnesia between the verses. It's super obvious to everyone who's been into Bitcoin for more than four years that this is a temporary phase and will get back to All-Time-Highs.

I'm unapologetically buying from people with amnesia, I guess.

[ZAINmalik75]

In 5 years time, I think people are going to look back and realise how big of an opportunity this was.

For the first time in human history, we have something that is truly scarce, digital, borderless, easily transferable, and cannot be controlled or manipulated by any single entity.

Short term price movements do not change what Bitcoin actually represents. Opportunities like this don't come around often.

There's no doubt about that, and do you what's the funniest part? There will always be some people with this regret after every five years or so, and this has been happening from the beginning. Those who didn't buy Bitcoin or showed any interest in it around 2010 regretted it badly in 2015, but even in 2015, there were doubtful people who didn't take Bitcoin seriously and didn't start buying but they mocked it, called it names, said it's a bubble and it is going to burst very soon.

By the time we reached 2020, those people were already ashamed of themselves for not taking Bitcoin seriously in 2015 and losing a golden opportunity, but guess what? There were still people in 2020 who didn't take it seriously and thought it is not something they should focus on or make investments in, so they ignored it even after knowing about it, and then comes 2025, and regrets hit that group as well. Now, we are in 2026, but believe me, there are still people with that mindset, and as you said, they are only going to regret it when we reach 2030.

[Marykeller]

Preach from now till the next day about the Bitcoin price increasing more than it has in the next five years. There will be people who won't listen, even if they, they will feel adamant about investing in Bitcoin.

This has been the case of people I have learned of, for a long time. And I have noticed that it is in people's attitude to procrastinate on whatever is said to them even if it is real or fake. It is some years later, you will hear them say things like, they were told to invest in that, and they didn't(reason best known to them), and they feel they have learned their lesson and regret missing a golden opportunity to invest in Bitcoin when it was at a low price.

[Hamza2424]

There's no doubt about that, and do you what's the funniest part? There will always be some people with this regret after every five years or so, and this has been happening from the beginning. Those who didn't buy Bitcoin or showed any interest in it around 2010 regretted it badly in 2015, but even in 2015, there were doubtful people who didn't take Bitcoin seriously and didn't start buying but they mocked it, called it names, said it's a bubble and it is going to burst very soon.

By the time we reached 2020, those people were already ashamed of themselves for not taking Bitcoin seriously in 2015 and losing a golden opportunity, but guess what? There were still people in 2020 who didn't take it seriously and thought it is not something they should focus on or make investments in, so they ignored it even after knowing about it, and then comes 2025, and regrets hit that group as well. Now, we are in 2026, but believe me, there are still people with that mindset, and as you said, they are only going to regret it when we reach 2030.

Haha the regret cycle is repeating because human psychology does not change. It remains the same, and those who change their psychology take the necessary steps, but this also proves one thing, that every fifth year a new group of people discover bitcoin because after the halving and bull run, when the early adopters make a lot of profit, they set it as an example for the rest of the world and people see it and become greedy.

They think they have lost the opportunity and then spend the next five years doing nothing and the cycle repeats again, and they realize the pattern is still repeating until it starts to delay to test where these people break.

Although being cautious even after the continuous repetition of the cycle is necessary for anyone to be on the safer side.

[uchegod-21]

In 5 years time, I think people are going to look back and realise how big of an opportunity this was.

For the first time in human history, we have something that is truly scarce, digital, borderless, easily transferable, and cannot be controlled or manipulated by any single entity.

Short term price movements do not change what Bitcoin actually represents. Opportunities like this don't come around often.

I hope that when you look back in five years' time, you will be smiling with satisfaction and not living with regrets because you didn't buy now. Kindly do yourself the favor of buying Bitcoin now for the future. Don't be surprised if, in five years' time, you still see people wishing they had bought Bitcoin years earlier. The reason for such regrets is doubt and procrastination.

[Perfectbaby]

Many people are already gotten tempted about the price of bitcoin because they could hold and whenever the price changes they automatically pushes off what they are holding in their possession. Anyone who understands what the futures hold about bitcoin then you would learn to hold for long term and not for short term, thus there are people who are not there to hold for decade where as whatever they had in mind has gotten to expected period of time they wouldn’t mind taking off their profits from their investments so easily without any delay.

[sunsilk]

They all say that they're going to wait and buy for the dip and now that it has come, they're changing their minds that they should wait further.

It's true that this opportunity don't come often and when it does, they should take it because it won't come again the next years to come.

We'll have a different set of pricing by the next bear market and it's gonna be higher than of today's. That's why if they don't buy today, we'd hear them say that they've seen the low price yet they regret not buying.

[topbitcoin]

Sometimes some of us will only feel sorry not to buy from the beginning but on the one hand they still do not move to make a purchase that will eventually make that regret happen again and again.

There is always something like this and even I have a friend who always says the same thing every time we meet where he regrets why he didn't buy bitcoin at $16K in the previous halving, regrets not buying bitcoin before the USA presidential election and many more regrets that happened.
But whenever there is an opportunity to buy he always says that bitcoin is still too expensive to buy and will wait according to the criteria he expects.

This is always a problem for those who like to wait because in the end waiting for things that are speculative will be very difficult but it will be a different story for those of us who buy no matter the price because we are preparing for the long term.

[Alphakilo]

Look back and regret, just like those who had the opportunity in the past and did not make good use of the opportunity, but then again, not everyone likes the idea behind Bitcoin, so no matter how high Bitcoin reaches, they might never regret their choices as long as they have where they have planted their capital and wealth is growing from there.

The fact that most people would prefer quicker means to make profit like ponzi schemes or crowd funding is one why they never accept the opportunity of  Bitcoin investment despite the highest price it gets to because it requires more patience overtime and discipline and commitment and more emotional control to reap a good return on investment and that doesn't come very fast.
What OP made up is nothing more than the core thesis of scarcity on which Bitcoin stands and why many sceptics will remain left out until they might regret not investing now.

[Churchillvv]

You’re just coming, having realized what you have probably missed lead to this thread lol  because of course it’s been around for a long time now and regrets has been swept under the rug and people have found way to buy or invest regardless of the price today, yesterday and in hope for the tomorrow price. So chill bitcoin did arrive today we have the regret part past long ago so whoever is not joining the train now is will probably not join because it has been around but still will always have the opportunity to join.

[aoluain]

4 year cycle and Bear market aside its kind of  intriguing how when the market offers a 50%
discount on an ATH price that the offer lasts so long. Imagine your local fuel station cutting
the price of petrol and diesel in half, the tanks would empty in a matter of hours!

...and this opportunity happens ~ every 4 years and every time the offer lasts ~ 10 to 12 months.

...and its amazing that there arent greater numbers of people flooding into this space with the
realisation of what Bitcoin offers as per the OP with the welcome bonus of a 50% discount.

[X-ray]

There are many lurking wolves who are waiting for the bottom and buy tons of Bitcoin. They don't tell anyone nor announce their buys but instead doing it silently.

I'm actually curious about the OTC desks chart but it's paywalled behind a subscription in glassnode, I'm sure there is some increase which shows institutional interests.

The unfortunate thing is there will be people who gets all scared again and decide not to buy Bitcoin out of irrational fear.

[Gost ms]

I never think about the past and I never regret the past. I am trying to use the opportunities that I have lost in the past as much as possible in the present. Although I will not get anything back from the past, but using what I have now is the wisest decision. I am afraid of those who are not willing to buy or are not willing to build trust in the current Bitcoin. Because if we consider the future and consider the current demand for Bitcoin, then we can make an assumption that the price of Bitcoin is in the initial stage compared to the future. As soon as the price of Bitcoin reaches $ 175,000 or above, the price of Bitcoin may start to rise from the initial high. So those who miss these opportunities now will regret it more than us in the future.

[davis196]

In 5 years time, I think people are going to look back and realise how big of an opportunity this was.

For the first time in human history, we have something that is truly scarce, digital, borderless, easily transferable, and cannot be controlled or manipulated by any single entity.

Short term price movements do not change what Bitcoin actually represents. Opportunities like this don't come around often.

Perhaps you are right about Bitcoin being the first digital asset, that possesses such features, but BTC is definitely not the last asset, that can possess such qualities. The BTC blockchain and protocol cannot be controlled or manipulated by any single entity, but the BTC price definitely can be manipulated, just look at what Donald Trump did to the BTC price in the last 2 years. I believe that Bitcoin would've never reached levels above 100K USD, if Trump wasn't pro-crypto back then.
Yes, Bitcoin was a huge opportunity 10 years ago, but now the chances of the BTC price growing 5x or 10x are pretty much gone. I still believe that the BTC price could grow 2x or 3x in the next 4 years, which isn't that bad.

[Outhue]

In 5 years time, I think people are going to look back and realise how big of an opportunity this was.

For the first time in human history, we have something that is truly scarce, digital, borderless, easily transferable, and cannot be controlled or manipulated by any single entity.

Short term price movements do not change what Bitcoin actually represents. Opportunities like this don't come around often.

Some people, not people in general, because so many people will be fine without having anything to do with Bitcoin and the Blockchain, as big as my family is, we are polygamy in numbers, only four of us are into crypto, it's like 0.5% out of 100% of us lol, and they are doing very good for themselves, so Bitcoin isn't the only way to make a lot of money and have a good life.

To be frank, the 4 years cycle is still playing out, and many bulls have confused themselves that we are already at the bottom, where is the side ways? Where is the accumulation phase? The problem is many people don't know how to read chart carefully, the most important of them all is confirmation, even if we can start going up from here confirmation is all that will determine that, we are close to the bottom and that shouldn't stop you from buying using DCA but to me the bottom isn't in yet.

[Awaklara]

Short term price movements do not change what Bitcoin actually represents. Opportunities like this don't come around often.

The chance to buy in the future will always be there. But don’t expect to get a moment at prices like now. Because when Bitcoin goes up and hits a new ATH in the future, we might see it back in a bearish cycle, but it probably won’t go back to the current price. So whoever doesn’t believe, let them sell their Bitcoin. And those who do believe will gather more.

[RockBell]

Look back and regret, just like those who had the opportunity in the past and did not make good use of the opportunity, but then again, not everyone likes the idea behind Bitcoin, so no matter how high Bitcoin reaches, they might never regret their choices as long as they have where they have planted their capital and wealth is growing from there.

Now that the opportunity is here it won't be bad to make use of it and I don't know why people are still scared of investing in Bitcoin but when it comes to ponzi they are ever ready to invest and a lot have been going on lately because people will prefer to make quick money than to invest in Bitcoin and it is not suppose to be so just that people are looking for ways to make quick money but instead of them to focus on how they can invest in something that have a future they will rather invest in ponzi but if that is what they want to be doing then there is going to even be a bigger problem.

People need to grow and stop all the hunt for quick money because that is what they know how to do best, and let's assume you don't want to invest in Bitcoin there other coins that have prospects that it won't be that bad when you invest in them rather than for you to want quick money and be investing in ponzi scheme.

[Lida93]

Preach from now till the next day about the Bitcoin price increasing more than it has in the next five years. There will be people who won't listen, even if they, they will feel adamant about investing in Bitcoin.

It exciting to see the rewarding profit after 5 years on investment in bitcoin but some people are just still scared in the present only to start regretting of not taken the risk. Even as that, there are those with other assets they already invested into and wouldn't mind not investing in bitcoin not because they don't think it can give them profit but they're just satisfied with the few assets they've spread their portfolio across.

Most of not all of those who regrets are people who concentrate attention more on the FUD noise that always follow with every bitcoin bear season about bitcoin eventually crashing this time but which later never crash but keep gaining heights in price.