Honestly, their is more confidence in the present investors than those of the early investors. Initially, when Bitcoin was in it's young age, only few persons invested in bitcoin, and among the few that invested in bitcoin, not all of those few investors believed in Bitcoin which some of them to sell their bitcoin asset very early.
Imagine Laszlo buying just two pizzas for $10000BTC , and this amount of bitcoin is worth millions of dollars today, and some others who sold their bitcoin at early stage just to pay bills. All these things happened because they never expected bitcoin would stand the text of time.
Today, we are so confident about bitcoin, and we have seen how far bitcoin has gone couple with the increase in price, we now know that Bitcoin is a store of value, and we can create wealth with it, this conviction is the reason why investors today have placed so much trust on Bitcoin which many early investors never had making them to sell good number of their Bitcoin asset for small money, and bill payment.
Another reason why early investors never had so much confidence in Bitcoin is because, in the early days of bitcoin, it experiences very huge crash, and was mostly used for transactions instead of seeing Bitcoin as an asset for investment, but today the mentality has really changed, and many Bitcoin investors are now willing to buy, and hodl for long term purpose, and investment.
At the early stage of Bitcoin, individuals and Investors didn't have confidence in Bitcoin because, of their knowledge and trust for Bitcoin at that particular time.
Bitcoin has been in existence for a decade now, and if we are to look back or notice the technology advancements, accessibility or exposure at that time compared to now, investors with knowledge and technical ability and accessibility to invest Mobily were very limited.
In the early time of Bitcoin , so many investors or individual believe that investing in Bitcoin is like loosing your investment and fortune as soon as you invested just because they were not aware, have knowledge of Bitcoin, how it works and we're not even interested in learning or knowning about it just because of their disbelieve for Bitcoin or any mobile investment.
Also, at the early times of Bitcoin, many investors then believes more in physical investment like investing in real estate and housing where their investment can be physically seen at any moment in time.
Additionally in the early times of Bitcoin, many investors then believes more on investment that have been proven to be profitable, and the value and investors of Bitcoin as of then was very limited, hence caused the lack of trust and believe for Bitcoin.
Butt in recent times, there are so many business Tycoon and Mogul that have made wealth through Bitcoin investment, and that made many investors interested on knowing more about Bitcoin.
Nigerians strictly and easily believes in what is more seen than hyped, and with so many People and investors becoming wealthy through Bitcoin earns Bitcoin their trust.
In recent times also, technology advancements has taken all over the world and majority of people whether influential or not have access to mobile phones or other technological tools, hence makes it easy for many to have knowledge on anything they wished.
Bitcoin has now ahead of physical investment like housing and real.estate and others, becomes the most invested investment in the entire worldwide, making multiple investors wealthy and building a great portfolio for itself.
There are no interested investment that has earned the trust of individuals and Investors as Bitcoin in the world right now, and that has made so many more interested in learning and investing in Bitcoin.