There are lots of investors of bitcoin coming in everyday. Most of them are drawn to the hype that bitcoin has shown but most of these newcomers are emotional investors that are so scared to lose their investments.
This simple graph that I'll be showing you since from the start of bitcoin until 2017 will help us analyze the growth of bitcoin depending on its popularity and acceptance by the majority of the people. I know that bitcoin is very volatile when it comes to value and no one can predict its fluctuations even experts but bitcoin has already proven its performance to the market. The main purpose of posting this to newbie section is to share to everyone that is new to investments when it comes to bitcoin that, there's no need for us to go about panic selling in times of bloodbath and huge dips because in the long run, we can still profit from our initial investments. For me bitcoin is the most trustworthy store of value in the crypto space. Whatever it is that we experienced right now is purely natural due to some FUD and hacking incidents to some exchanges but I know bitcoin can surpass those adversities and will always recover from this bad incident. Here is the chart below from 2008 to 2017 that proves bitcoins' profits every year.
Maybe you wonder why there's no 2014 in the chart. It's because during this year, bitcoin prices experienced a huge dip that made a 62% loss to investors. That happened mostly because of the MtGox hack in 2014. After that, the price dropped from $751 to $285.
https://coinsutra.com/bitcoin-facts/The value of bitcoin today is $6,681.65.
So for newbies like me out there who are emotional investors, please don't panic when the market experienced bloodbath. The more you go panic selling, the lower the value of btc will drop. The weaker hands always lose when it comes to this kind of scenario. Only the whales will benefit by the time its pumped back up. Bitcoin has already proven its performance and worth so believing in the technology of bitcoin is not that hard to do. The community behind supporting bitcoin is undeniably invincible to FUD and other major incidents that could affect its value.