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Quote from: Husires on March 07, 2021, 08:28:11 AM

I read this beautiful article about Am I too late to Bitcoin? it is a bit long, I will try to quote parts of it from time to time and we can discuss ideas with it below.

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According to data analyst Willy Wu, there are an estimated 135 million Bitcoin users worldwide. This is less than 2% of the global population. To put that into perspective, PayPal has 361 million user accounts, Facebook has 2.8 billion monthly active users, and the internet in total has an estimated 4.7 billion users.

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Thirty years ago almost no one was on the internet. Twenty years ago only 6% of the world used the internet. Ten years ago a third of the world was online, and today that number has nearly doubled to just under two thirds.

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“Its too slow, no one is using it, its too confusing.” – Internet critics, 1997
“Its too slow, no one is using it, its too confusing.” – Bitcoin critics, 2021

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With central banks suppressing interest rates and pumping out more currency than ever before, holding cash has become a losing strategy. This is why many people since the 70’s have been saving their wealth in gold, and why today many companies (MSTR, SQ, TSLA) are deciding to adopt Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset. When you hold a fiat currency like USD or EUR, you put your faith in central banks and government not to debase the currency. Oh, by the way debasing the currency is literally part of the stated mandates of the Fed and European Central Bank

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How many dollars are in circulation? How many euros? Nobody knows exactly. But what we do know is that the total supply is increasing faster than ever before. Bitcoin, on the other hand, has a fixed total supply. Only 21 million coins will ever exist, meaning bitcoin has a 0% terminal inflation rate

Bitcoin has a long way to go. Those who thinks that they are late to the parade then they are wrong. It is just ~10 years that Bitcoin is created. Bitcoin will gain power as the people believe in it because we create value in our minds. If we think Bitcoin is a valid payment method then it is valid, if we think it is a great option to store a value then it is the store of value. It may be consuming for many but there are many sources that they can learn and trust in bitcoin. People learned the internet by using it, it is the same for Bitcoin too. People should understand bitcoin while using it. There is no other way to understand Bitcoin.

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Although bitcoin is a very safe currency to invest in there is little risk in investing as its value is much higher if the price goes down too much now you will fall into risk that's why there are so many altcoins that have a lot of potential to increase in value. That's why you can hold on by investing in altcoin like ethereum.

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Quote from: vaultman on March 09, 2021, 07:11:42 PM

I think it's worth taking a closer look at altcoins and not getting hung up on bitcoin alone, especially if the amount of money to invest is less than the cost of one bitcoin. Bitcoin will grow gradually, that is, for months you will have to wait for its price to double, while alternative cryptocurrencies can grow in price dozens of times per week, especially since there are now a large number of promising projects.

indeed, if we look at bitcoin today, of course there is a sense of regret, but indeed by investing in a potential altcoin, we can still get a big chance of profit, but we have to be more careful to identify it, because bitcoin is indeed the safest coin to invest in.

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Quote from: aioc on March 09, 2021, 10:28:24 PM

don't be deceived by the current price when you first stumble at Bitcoin, this is a newbie reaction especially if you found out that Bitcoin started in a few cents, it's not when people started it's how they are now, I have seen a lot of people who stumble Bitcoin way back 2013 but they are what you might call knowledgeable on the market and they have a lot of hesitancy investing and they easily sell their portfolio.

Dont get me wrong but someone seeing an asset priced as high as 50k USD - would that person coming from a middle class family earning as backing be willing to buy that? Provided that asset does not have any use in their country and the government there is giving notices that they are going to prohibit people from dealing in it?

Unless government's stance of many countries dont change I dont see this "I am late for bitcoin" statement going away.

Many freedom of speech groups have voiced on such topics but few have actually been able to make any change. People will not buy an asset that could mean a loss of their money - would they? In that sense they will always be late for that asset when it goes up and beyond their reach.

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don't be deceived by the current price when you first stumble at Bitcoin, this is a newbie reaction especially if you found out that Bitcoin started in a few cents, it's not when people started it's how they are now, I have seen a lot of people who stumble Bitcoin way back 2013 but they are what you might call knowledgeable on the market and they have a lot of hesitancy investing and they easily sell their portfolio.

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I think it's worth taking a closer look at altcoins and not getting hung up on bitcoin alone, especially if the amount of money to invest is less than the cost of one bitcoin. Bitcoin will grow gradually, that is, for months you will have to wait for its price to double, while alternative cryptocurrencies can grow in price dozens of times per week, especially since there are now a large number of promising projects.

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Quote from: Amejoaquim on March 09, 2021, 05:56:42 PM

I don't think so because i've been thinking like you since 2017-2018 period.

When the Bitcoin price hit $20k for the first time i think i already too late to join the party.

But lucky ME, i've bought bitcoin when the price drop in 2018 (Under $10k) and still holding my BTC untill right now.

Investing on crypto is somewhat do mixed up with some part of luck because we don't know on how far it would possibly go in terms of potential price
For those people who did even just enter the market last March 2020 and able to buy on that particular time did really make out some serious profits if they do still end up on holding up their coins up to now.
This do indicates that being late on this market isn't really that right at all to have that in mind.Opportunities on earning profit or money is still there if you do really know on how to deal with it.
Don't consider yourself to be late with bitcoin investment because we aren't still on full adoption scale yet.

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I don't think so because i've been thinking like you since 2017-2018 period.

When the Bitcoin price hit $20k for the first time i think i already too late to join the party.

But lucky ME, i've bought bitcoin when the price drop in 2018 (Under $10k) and still holding my BTC untill right now.

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Quote from: bryant.coleman on March 08, 2021, 06:04:41 AM

There may be a lot of people who own $10 or $20 worth of Bitcoin. But we can't really call them as Bitcoin investors. I would put the limit at $1,000. Anyone who owns more than $1,000 worth of Bitcoin can be considered as a Bitcoin investor. And I believe that the numbers may be really low. At the most, it can be 0.2% of the world's population (15 million), but a conservative estimate would be much lower.

do not really agree with you, in theory, investors are those who buy in small or large quantities...
Bitcoin investors are divided into Sections from big whales to crabs. those who have a small nominal amount of Bitcoin are still classified as Bitcoin investors.

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Quote from: iamsheikhadil on March 07, 2021, 08:49:05 AM

I guess history always repeats itself and we will see it for bitcoin and crypto just like we did for the internet and just like there were critics and people who opposed it and now they are seeing the shocking results, people after a decade or two will see similar fate for crypto. People will regret not getting into it now, and we already seeing it, like people regret not getting into it in 2016 or 2015. Then people who bought in 2017 thinking the ATH will never break and they will be in losses forever, they have profited very much if they have been holding

I still remember the days when critics of the Internet said that it was just a fad and soon enough people will forget about it, the result? Now it is impossible to imagine our lives without the Internet and being connected to it all the time.

And I think something similar could happen to bitcoin, it was not long ago when many people made fun of the people that were into bitcoin and now I am receiving all kind of questions about people that want to become part of it, so it is never too late, but people need to get in bitcoin now as each day that passes it is getting more expensive to form part of this market.

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Quote from: Husires on March 07, 2021, 08:28:11 AM

I read this beautiful article about Am I too late to Bitcoin? it is a bit long, I will try to quote parts of it from time to time and we can discuss ideas with it below.

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“Its too slow, no one is using it, its too confusing.” – Internet critics, 1997
“Its too slow, no one is using it, its too confusing.” – Bitcoin critics, 2021

As a student at the time I have learned about Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, it was a bit overwhelming for me and seeing some of my friends earn from it even though its just in small values. I realized that it is still money and if they can learn it in their own way, I can also do that in my own pace and it was really confusing for me but I took the risk to learn it by experiencing it first hand by joining multiple bounty campaigns. It was slow at that time and it was really confusing on how to use the exchange websites until I found one Exchange website that was truly user-friendly. It taught me how to do simple trading and from that point I did not even realize that I am knowledgeable within the Cryptocurrency Industry so I believe that there is no right time and late time to learn about Cryptocurrencies.

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You know which part is the most important part? The cash reserve parts, central banks are destroying the value of cash because they need to print more to keep the companies profiting, there is no world where one company keep profiting forever without anyone printing more cash, by logic if we stop printing cash and there is a finite amount of cash, that means one company can't keep growing forever, eventually they will own every single cash in the world and that makes no sense, and even if that happened, since there is no more cash printed, they can't have more than what's already available.

This shows the proof that companies need cash injections into the economy constantly to grow bigger and eventually they grew so much that now we do trillions just to keep them profiting and shareholders happy. All people in the world like microsoft, tesla and many others realized that this can't be sustainable so moved to Bitcoin, many others will follow and eventually bitcoin will become the cash reserve of the world.

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I don't think that there is a late stage for bitcoin, because bit oin price is not stable. We cannot guarantee that the price will be fixed the value. So if you invest you are taking the risk whether it will go up or down.

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Quote from: Husires on March 07, 2021, 08:28:11 AM

I read this beautiful article about Am I too late to Bitcoin? it is a bit long, I will try to quote parts of it from time to time and we can discuss ideas with it below.

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According to data analyst Willy Wu, there are an estimated 135 million Bitcoin users worldwide. This is less than 2% of the global population. To put that into perspective, PayPal has 361 million user accounts, Facebook has 2.8 billion monthly active users, and the internet in total has an estimated 4.7 billion users.

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Thirty years ago almost no one was on the internet. Twenty years ago only 6% of the world used the internet. Ten years ago a third of the world was online, and today that number has nearly doubled to just under two thirds.

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“Its too slow, no one is using it, its too confusing.” – Internet critics, 1997
“Its too slow, no one is using it, its too confusing.” – Bitcoin critics, 2021

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With central banks suppressing interest rates and pumping out more currency than ever before, holding cash has become a losing strategy. This is why many people since the 70’s have been saving their wealth in gold, and why today many companies (MSTR, SQ, TSLA) are deciding to adopt Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset. When you hold a fiat currency like USD or EUR, you put your faith in central banks and government not to debase the currency. Oh, by the way debasing the currency is literally part of the stated mandates of the Fed and European Central Bank

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How many dollars are in circulation? How many euros? Nobody knows exactly. But what we do know is that the total supply is increasing faster than ever before. Bitcoin, on the other hand, has a fixed total supply. Only 21 million coins will ever exist, meaning bitcoin has a 0% terminal inflation rate

There are a lot of good pieces. I would think less than 2% of the population is using it that might be over exaggerated. Is now a good time to get in, yeah I think anytime is. First time in a long time a new financial asset class has been made and its growing exponentially. Everyday more and more people are using it, learning about it, etc. Blockchain technology is permanently here to stay and the backbone of that (bitcoin) will do very well in terms of appreciation as the masses drove in.

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Quote from: bryant.coleman on March 08, 2021, 06:04:41 AM

There may be a lot of people who own $10 or $20 worth of Bitcoin. But we can't really call them as Bitcoin investors. I would put the limit at $1,000. Anyone who owns more than $1,000 worth of Bitcoin can be considered as a Bitcoin investor. And I believe that the numbers may be really low. At the most, it can be 0.2% of the world's population (15 million), but a conservative estimate would be much lower.

With such a value it can be said that it is not an investor, but if they can process it in trading, it can be increased if they have skills in trading other coins.
At least we can see that with a value of $ 1000 this is the lowest point for investment but it is no longer an obstacle for everyone to have such a value and I am sure what he has in this case understand how much to be prepared to be conservative.

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Quote from: Husires on March 07, 2021, 08:28:11 AM

I read this beautiful article about Am I too late to Bitcoin? it is a bit long, I will try to quote parts of it from time to time and we can discuss ideas with it below.

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According to data analyst Willy Wu, there are an estimated 135 million Bitcoin users worldwide. This is less than 2% of the global population. To put that into perspective, PayPal has 361 million user accounts, Facebook has 2.8 billion monthly active users, and the internet in total has an estimated 4.7 billion users.

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Thirty years ago almost no one was on the internet. Twenty years ago only 6% of the world used the internet. Ten years ago a third of the world was online, and today that number has nearly doubled to just under two thirds.

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“Its too slow, no one is using it, its too confusing.” – Internet critics, 1997
“Its too slow, no one is using it, its too confusing.” – Bitcoin critics, 2021

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With central banks suppressing interest rates and pumping out more currency than ever before, holding cash has become a losing strategy. This is why many people since the 70’s have been saving their wealth in gold, and why today many companies (MSTR, SQ, TSLA) are deciding to adopt Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset. When you hold a fiat currency like USD or EUR, you put your faith in central banks and government not to debase the currency. Oh, by the way debasing the currency is literally part of the stated mandates of the Fed and European Central Bank

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How many dollars are in circulation? How many euros? Nobody knows exactly. But what we do know is that the total supply is increasing faster than ever before. Bitcoin, on the other hand, has a fixed total supply. Only 21 million coins will ever exist, meaning bitcoin has a 0% terminal inflation rate

At $50,000 price of Bitcoin, it is still not that late to invest in Bitcoin because future prices will double of what we have today. We only need a piece of Bitcoin for a secured future. I know that one day billionaires like Elon Musk will acquire more and more Bitcoins to counter maybe escape from the inflation of the paper money.

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There may be a lot of people who own $10 or $20 worth of Bitcoin. But we can't really call them as Bitcoin investors. I would put the limit at $1,000. Anyone who owns more than $1,000 worth of Bitcoin can be considered as a Bitcoin investor. And I believe that the numbers may be really low. At the most, it can be 0.2% of the world's population (15 million), but a conservative estimate would be much lower.

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Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on March 07, 2021, 10:57:48 AM

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If there is any truth that we now have as much as 2% of the total world population

That seems a little high but I wouldn't scoff at that number outright. As time has gone on, I've started to meet more and more people who've gotten into crypto. We're still a long way away from it being completely mainstream, however.

That number is certainly smaller, but it is impossible to determine exactly how many people actually own even the smallest part of BTC. There are always people who will never admit it in public, not even to their friends, which is of course very smart from a security point of view. Given that the price has gone up dramatically, I have no doubt that more and more owners will prefer to say they no longer own BTC.

And even if we have a real 2%, that is again a very small number if we take into account that almost 5 billion people have access to the Internet today - which means that we are very far from saying that a mass adaptation has taken place. In less than 10 years, 99% of BTC will be mined, but even before that period it will become increasingly difficult to buy BTC, because we need to know that large investors buy through OTC, and when they exhaust that market there is no doubt that they will have to buy where everyone else.

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Quote from: Koro-Sensei on March 08, 2021, 12:48:37 AM

Now that bitcoin is in it's all time highs, I think its quite a gamble to enter bitcoin world now. However, as what Mark Cuban advice, the 10% rule is quite a good start up knowing that in the future this revolutionary technology would be accepted worldwide.

Well, any investment in potential tech/sector could be considered a gamble in a broader sense. IMO new users should not focus too much on financial gains, while that is indeed attractive, not knowing where the value of crypto and blockchain would limit their patience and knowledge. You need to believe in something if you want to invest without being plagued by anxiety, but from the looks of it, new folks are so impatient and asking for 10x gains daily.

In the end, OP, if you think Bitcoin is valuable, then just DCA. Buy it regularly within your risk appetite and wait for a few years. You might end up with massive gain or massive loss, that's why only invest what you can afford to lose.

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Quote from: bL4nkcode on March 07, 2021, 11:22:46 AM

Bitcoin is still at the early stage, until bitcoin supply still not fully mined it's still not too late to jump in bitcoin train.

Yes, unless all the coins are mined or every country has adopted Bitcoins legally, that is the only saturation point I can think of for BTC. It is always a thought how much Bitcoin will reach before it becomes stable. I remember people thought they are late in Bitcoins when the price was 10k and now at 50k we are thinking the same, the actual value of BTC is much higher than both these prices though.

Quote from: wxxyrqa on March 07, 2021, 12:26:15 PM

According to the forecasts of many analysts, bitcoin over time will be able to reach even one million dollars without any problems, but this will take about 10 years. Based on this, we can say with confidence that if a person uses investments for the long term, then even today it is quite profitable.

Maybe because big investors are coming and the growth has rocketed quite fast, so maybe instead of 10 years it might be in the next 3-5 years. But for sure the real value of BTC is way higher than we might be expecting, big investors like MicroStrategy are investing more and more and that shows the price might be humongous in coming years.

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Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on March 07, 2021, 10:57:48 AM

If I remember correctly, people were asking this very same question back when bitcoin was $10k, $20k, and probably at valuations much lower than that before I got into the scene. So if what's being asked is whether bitcoin is too expensive to buy it now, I'd have to say "NO".

Exactly this. I've keep hearing about this question basically from the moment when I heard about bitcoin for the first u, somewhere in the late 2013/2014 and up until now.

Just a few months ago I was arguing on one Croatian forum where bunch of people claimed that bitcoin is too expensive now (price was $12-$13k at that point) and that people who are thinking about buying bitcoin for the first time should wait for the dip that was "about to happen", while I argued that best time to buy bitcoin for the first time is now, no matter the price, and no matter the amount. Since bitcoin price is at the moment >$50,000 it didn't end up well for the those who thought the same.

Then again, asking yourself that question "am I too late to all this" is perfectly normal. I asked myself the same thing when I came back to the crypto in 2017 but I decided to give it a shot and started buying bitcoin.

What I think the "problem" is that people keep hearing the stories like "if you bought $100 worth of bitcoin now you would have xyz millions of dollars" so unless they can make a fortune with a few hundreds of dollars like those early adopters, they think it's pointless.

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Now that bitcoin is in it's all time highs, I think its quite a gamble to enter bitcoin world now. However, as what Mark Cuban advice, the 10% rule is quite a good start up knowing that in the future this revolutionary technology would be accepted worldwide.

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Quote from: wxxyrqa on March 07, 2021, 12:26:15 PM

In any case, it's never too late to invest in Bitcoin, even given the current price level. According to the forecasts of many analysts, bitcoin over time will be able to reach even one million dollars without any problems, but this will take about 10 years. Based on this, we can say with confidence that if a person uses investments for the long term, then even today it is quite profitable.

At the same time, those who are joining bitcoin now have already missed a lot. We do not know if the price of bitcoin will drop to $ 4,000, which he had in March last year, or even to $ 10,000, which he had for a long time after that. The current bitcoin price of about $ 50,000 already really scares many. In the future, people will no longer buy bitcoins or even parts of it, but a certain amount of satosh.

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Quote from: sujon5 on March 07, 2021, 11:20:42 PM

It isn't to late to buy Bitcoin until the last block is mined.

Why does the last block gain so much importance from your perspective? Of course it might end up being an event in the community but it is far off and by the time that happens the price could have already gone up beyond the common man's reach to be anything significant. That leads us to the one problem, the rising cost of buying bitcoins even fractions is too much for some people.

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Maybe Bitcoin isn't able to make you a billionaire in 11 years from now but it's still a good investment.

One should not dream of becoming a millionaire but dream of becoming successful in life, money will follow success. Hence my advice is to buy small amounts of bitcoin on every drop, focus on what you are doing in real life as well. Who knows one fine day you might have bitcoins worth a lot of money and still having a stable day job to rely on.

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It isn't to late to buy Bitcoin until the last block is mined. Maybe Bitcoin isn't able to make you a billionaire in 11 years from now but it's still a good investment.

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Quote from: bL4nkcode on March 07, 2021, 11:22:46 AM

Bitcoin is still at the early stage, until bitcoin supply still not fully mined it's still not too late to jump in bitcoin train.

Do we still consider this stage in bitcoin as early stage? What I mean is that its been 12+ years since bitcoin inception and I think that it is a lot of time so I think that I consider bitcoin stage as of this moment as middle stage because I believe that we are on the verge of greatness if we were to solve the fundamental problems that bitcoin has been facing for a long time and if not then bitcoin will become stagnant. Even if the last block is mined, it is still not too late but the prices from there and so on will be astronomically higher than what it is currently.

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Quote from: bL4nkcode on March 07, 2021, 11:22:46 AM

Bitcoin is still at the early stage, until bitcoin supply still not fully mined it's still not too late to jump in bitcoin train.

Exactly, since many are speculating that Bitcoin can reach $100k in no time, there’s still a chance to get more bitcoin as much as possible and hold until it reaches your target profit. If you think Bitcoin is too pricey for you, then look for more good altcoins that is still cheap today, it can be a good option for you.

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Quote from: LoyceV on March 07, 2021, 01:24:32 PM

Remember: "not your keys not your coins"! So if you don't have keys, you can't be own Bitcoin, and if you don't own Bitcoin, you can't be a user.

Disagree. Although you don't own it always, a user still spends/saves/uses it.

Many people rely on wallets like coinbase because for them its much easier to just have a wallet that stores their crypto rather going through the "complicated" process of having an actual wallet of your own. But the point is, they still use it. We are talking about bitcoin users, and not owners. It is a dumb debate and argument to exist, but it exists so Lips sealed

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According to data analyst Willy Wu, there are an estimated 135 million Bitcoin users worldwide. This is less than 2% of the global population. To put that into perspective, PayPal has 361 million user accounts, Facebook has 2.8 billion monthly active users, and the internet in total has an estimated 4.7 billion users.

Interesting, but are we really comparing a cryptocurrency to a broken online payment processor and to an ethic-less social media platform? Come on, bitcoin is better than that. We are better than that. And the stats mean nothing of the real world. So its a broken record.

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“Its too slow, no one is using it, its too confusing.” – Internet critics, 1997
“Its too slow, no one is using it, its too confusing.” – Bitcoin critics, 2021

I liked this particularly, I can't wait for the next generation to be fed up of people who think using bitcoin is a sin and as such. Grin

You know, I am excited to see how the next couple years progresses. It is definitely going to be wild. People are opening up to accepting crypto as a legitimate way of diversifying one's assets, and soon its going to be so cool to see people talking about crypto in public once this motherfuckin pandemic ends for good.

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What about if you're not interested to speculate on it but need to purchase something or send money to a friend? Do you know what I mean? The reason why Bitcoin was created? P2P transfer, decentralization, and all the stuff.
Instead, people are creating a speculative market instead to create what it was supposed to become.

As long you need Bitcoin to avoid some bank's restrictions, laws, or whatever, it will never be too late to buy some and you don't really care about the price it costs.
I too remember when the price was $200 people had the same questions and the same arguments to not buy. "It costs too much!" they said. Well, years later they bought at @$10,000 lol.

In fact, Bitcoin's price doesn't matter. Either you need it or you don't. In this case, you come just to gamble some money.
That's why when the price failed to $3,000 a lot of people left. The true's face of people's motivation
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Quote from: Husires on March 07, 2021, 08:28:11 AM

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According to data analyst Willy Wu, there are an estimated 135 million Bitcoin users worldwide.

What's "a Bitcoin user" in his definition? On Twitter the same guy says there are "137m users".
To put this into perspective: there are 36 million funded addresses and it's pretty safe to assume many Bitcoin users have more than one funded address. That means he counts at least 100 million "Bitcoin users" who don't own anything on-chain. Maybe he includes custodial wallets, so people speculating on Bitcoin price increases on exchanges or even Paypal nowadays, but I wouldn't call them Bitcoin users.

Remember: "not your keys not your coins"! So if you don't have keys, you can't have your own Bitcoin, and if you don't own Bitcoin, you can't be a user.

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Bitcoin is deflation so if it's currently high price or expensive for the new comers, they will eventually see another higher price and more expensive price in the future because of many factors.

The halving effect and the scarcity because of its limited supply. If they have come to understand those few factors, they'll realize that it's never too late to invest.

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In any case, it's never too late to invest in Bitcoin, even given the current price level. According to the forecasts of many analysts, bitcoin over time will be able to reach even one million dollars without any problems, but this will take about 10 years. Based on this, we can say with confidence that if a person uses investments for the long term, then even today it is quite profitable.

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people seem to be very afraid of big numbers which could be part of the reason why they keep asking "am i too late" and more so whenever bitcoin price goes up. they see the 4 zeros in front of 5 and run away. not to mention that some people think they have to buy 1 whole bitcoin.

this is why i have said before that we should slowly start moving towards using smaller units. for example if instead of telling people that bitcoin is worth $50000 we should tell them that 1 satoshi is worth $0.0005 then it won't be that scary and they won't think they have missed out.

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Bitcoin is still at the early stage, until bitcoin supply still not fully mined it's still not too late to jump in bitcoin train.

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If I remember correctly, people were asking this very same question back when bitcoin was $10k, $20k, and probably at valuations much lower than that before I got into the scene. So if what's being asked is whether bitcoin is too expensive to buy it now, I'd have to say "NO".

I'm pretty much of the mind that it's never too late to get into bitcoin--hell, it's only about 11 years old right now, so it's still a relatively new thing. And with all of these big companies buying up large amounts of it, I'd say the price is likely to go much higher than $50k (which is where it's sitting as I write this).

Quote from: Lucius on March 07, 2021, 09:23:04 AM

If there is any truth that we now have as much as 2% of the total world population

That seems a little high but I wouldn't scoff at that number outright. As time has gone on, I've started to meet more and more people who've gotten into crypto. We're still a long way away from it being completely mainstream, however.

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Every technology, every single innovation is not easily accepted by everyone. People tend to always favour the old things , the old ways and at the end they might miss out on a big chunk. Right now many Governmental bodies are not so happy with Bitcoins whereas some are actively involving themselves, now after few years the Governmental bodies involving themselves with Bitcoins will have a step ahead of the traditional Nations. Bitcoins is not only providing an alternative for people but also how to run a part of economy , you can never have enough options , that's for sure and herein you have to understand that bitcoins is something of the future and it took years for people to get aquatinted to internet. Some of them only did it because of quarantine ( the older generation) so it's still been only 10 years and therefore we should not fret much since ofcourse it will take way more than 10 years but as we can see it is already immensely popular and therefore I believe we can soon see more adoption in the near future.

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If there is any truth that we now have as much as 2% of the total world population, then it is an increase of as much as 100%, because as far back as I can remember a few years ago this figure ranged between 0.5% to a maximum of 1% of the world's population. If we add to that 2017 survey which showed that there are 2.9 to 5.8 million unique users, then we are really making progress in that regard.

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Research produced by the University of Cambridge estimated that in 2017, there were 2.9 to 5.8 million unique users using a cryptocurrency wallet, most of them using bitcoin.

A comparison with internet users generally only shows how fast technology is spreading, but you will surely agree that using the internet and using BTC is not the same thing. I think that the adaptation with BTC will be a bit slower, although it all depends on how much simpler and generally more accessible things will become. When people see big companies interested in BTC, then the public perception changes significantly - from money for internet criminals to something that Tesla or PayPal invest in.

It's never too late to invest in Bitcoin, it's just a question of whether someone believes in what they are investing, or it's all just a matter of short-term profit.

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I guess history always repeats itself and we will see it for bitcoin and crypto just like we did for the internet and just like there were critics and people who opposed it and now they are seeing the shocking results, people after a decade or two will see similar fate for crypto. People will regret not getting into it now, and we already seeing it, like people regret not getting into it in 2016 or 2015. Then people who bought in 2017 thinking the ATH will never break and they will be in losses forever, they have profited very much if they have been holding

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If the price of gold can be $11 trillion, and with the population of people in the world, we will know that bitcoin is still at its early stage, it is never late to get started and invest. Bitcoin will have critics but that will not hinder anything, as bitcoin was called scam and ponzi in its early ages, those that trusted the open source decentralized coin and invested have now seen how important bitcoin is to any other asset. And to the question, it is yet never too late to invest in bitcoin.

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I read this beautiful article about Am I too late to Bitcoin? it is a bit long, I will try to quote parts of it from time to time and we can discuss ideas with it below.

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According to data analyst Willy Wu, there are an estimated 135 million Bitcoin users worldwide. This is less than 2% of the global population. To put that into perspective, PayPal has 361 million user accounts, Facebook has 2.8 billion monthly active users, and the internet in total has an estimated 4.7 billion users.

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Thirty years ago almost no one was on the internet. Twenty years ago only 6% of the world used the internet. Ten years ago a third of the world was online, and today that number has nearly doubled to just under two thirds.

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“Its too slow, no one is using it, its too confusing.” – Internet critics, 1997
“Its too slow, no one is using it, its too confusing.” – Bitcoin critics, 2021

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With central banks suppressing interest rates and pumping out more currency than ever before, holding cash has become a losing strategy. This is why many people since the 70’s have been saving their wealth in gold, and why today many companies (MSTR, SQ, TSLA) are deciding to adopt Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset. When you hold a fiat currency like USD or EUR, you put your faith in central banks and government not to debase the currency. Oh, by the way debasing the currency is literally part of the stated mandates of the Fed and European Central Bank

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How many dollars are in circulation? How many euros? Nobody knows exactly. But what we do know is that the total supply is increasing faster than ever before. Bitcoin, on the other hand, has a fixed total supply. Only 21 million coins will ever exist, meaning bitcoin has a 0% terminal inflation rate

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