Topic: If only they knew (Read 969 times)

They never knew that Bitcoin will be well recognized by so many,
They never knew that Bitcoin is real,not a scam,
They never knew that Bitcoin price will be this high in price today,
They never new that Bitcoin will be an  asset that everyone will want to have.
They will wish they had taken the first information about Bitcoin that got to them serious,and follow up rather than not believing or seeing it as false   or scam,a lot of names where given to Bitcoin and discouragement to those that were interested, because but today,he who laugh last laughs best, we are now on top.

yeah if they know they cannnnn 

You didn’t lose eventually, you gained values in another form. Family is no joke, having a wife, kid and acquired some property to make life come with some ease for you and the family, it’s why we invest for sure and your at least attaining these life goals.
Yeah, you might have spent some Bitcoin(s) of fragments of it that could have had more values if you did hodl but, when I look at the reasons for which it was spent, it actually agrees with the saying;

Money isn’t everything as, you have indeed transformed it to what money can’t actually buy and that is family.

Still, you should buy when you can if you can, it would still be a plus for the family.

That's right. What's important is family, memories, impact you have on other people's lives.
If you can turn your investment into that you've won.

I also happened to miss some opportunities. I sold some bitcoin during the 2017 and 2021 bull runs and if I held I'd be able to buy so much more with that, but I had a chance to do many other things thanks to that money. Got married, had children, bought cars, saw places I wouldn't be able to go to without a car, and I could go on and on here. The point is, if the guy who sold at $2 turned that into another business, or used that money to have fun, he did good.

That was happen to other people when they were introduced Bitcoin to them. They will not interesting with Bitcoin and abandon while after they see the news about the increasing of Bitcoin price, they still not want to open their minds. That still happen today where people see many good news about Bitcoin and they thinks that someday Bitcoin will scam those people if they are trying to use Bitcoin. We can only let them see what will happen in the future because we are the lucky people who already knew Bitcoin from a long time ago and have a chance to accumulate more Bitcoin. We don't have to thinks about them and enjoy our ride in Bitcoin and make a profit from Bitcoin.

You know its funny for me at first when someone told me about bitcoin and I heard about it it sounded like a great opportunity. The second time I read about it and to me it looked like a scam. The 3rd time people were talking about it on the news and I was extremely intrigued. I am now wondering how the medium of learning affects perception because me hearing someone talk about it initially I was all for it. Reading about it from some dude on facebook in messenger linking an article in a group chat setting where he was ridiculed by others about it almost instantly also made me skeptical. But the last time in 2017 when I was hearing it on the news is when it finally stuck with me. Pretty much every since then I have been a student of Bitcoin.

People who have a lot of money never care about expenses because they really have enough money to use. But for people who are not so stable income, they will care enough to save money because if it is not done, their lives will not go well to meet the needs of life.

If we care about the future, it is necessary to think of ways to protect the value of money we have and Bitcoin is one way that can be used by most people to protect values. Bitcoin has progressed rapidly even though initially most people doubt but the journey until now Bitcoin has provided certainty. When we care about money, Bitcoin is one of the best investments that can be utilized because Bitcoin can provide maximum benefits in accordance with our ability to undergo investment.

For some people who already have huge amounts of money, they doesn't give it much importance but for someone who barely survives even after living a frugal lifestyle, then for such person money is everything.

Seems like you're someone who bought Bitcoin in its early days and that might be the reason why you're saying something like that. It's money, and that's the reason why majority are into Bitcoin.

OP: I don't know why these kinds of ideas or memories about certain specific cases bring so much ink, bitcoin is where it is not because of those who distrusted it but because of those who trusted it, so the value is there... thinking about those who refused to understand bitcoin, simply is relative to the reason they had, let's toast to those of us who are here, no matter what time we arrived, the important thing is to be here... the year and the amount is only circumstantial.

I don't think many people would agree with what you say. The funny thing is that most of them advise people to be open and accepting of new things so as not to miss out on the opportunity like those who missed out on bitcoin in the past. But when it comes to altcoins they ignore them and say they are just trash, not worth investing in and bitcoin is the only investment. Many people say they are open to new things but they ignore alts and stick to bitcoin only, which makes me quite confused with their concept of openness.

But I agree with you because I also invest in altcoin and I believe it will give better returns than bitcoin although the risk will be greater. We should realize that we are here to make money and take care of life, we are not here to worship or follow any sect. So be open and don't miss any money making opportunities if we have the chance to grab it.

If only we can turn back the hands of time, I'm sure that most of us will change many decisions that we've made in the past, but there's nothing we can do about spilled milk. Frankly I was also skeptical about Bitcoin then, I never imagined that it'll be what it is today, if I had known I would've used my whole savings to buy it. But the good news for us that are knowledgeable about it today is that in the next 14 years, hopefully some skeptics today will likewise wish that they bought 1 BTC at $80k. Bitcoin has proven to be a store of value and no matter how low it's price dips, it has the potentials to rally and always hit ATH.

It's not just limited to Bitcoin, it's the same with most cryptos in the market right now. Some of them have the capacity to make us wealthy forever. The question is, can we have the patience of long-suffering, to wait it out from now till they get better ROI? Whenever I see BNB, I remember how I missed out on its great run seeing what it's doing now as against when I sold mine in 2018 or so. My mistake was never buying back even when I waited till it got to $30 in 2021. I'm cocksure some of the alts we hodl now with low caps will do a lot of multiples in price in future. Sadly, we may not know them and we're likely to sell cheap now at a little rise.

I think it's wrong to blame people for their wrong opinions in 2011. No one really knew that Bitcoin would be a revolutionary and everyone was sceptical. If you remember, people were also skeptical about computers but today computer does every necessary job and life without it is impossible to imagine. I remember in 2016 when people were predicting 10K and 20K USD prices for Bitcoin, how many of us were calling them crazy.

I can't blame them because when I had Bitcoins in 2016, I sold them immediately at $1000 because I thought that it was a pinnacle of it. Now I'm here sitting with 10x less Bitcoins than I could. Today I blame myself for spending Bitcoins like it was nothing.
Btw we can't change the past, we made mistakes and we should learn from these mistakes. I learnt from my mistakes in 2017 and since 2018-19, I try to hold as much Bitcoins as possible.

I also believe that if it were us, we would have done the same thing, sold our bitcoins because investing in bitcoin at that time was not the same as it is now. Everything is vague, unclear and uncertain, so we cannot help but doubt or fear.


The future is unpredictable, even satoshi at that time did not dare to confirm anything, so no matter how much we researched bitcoin, we were always skeptical at that time. It is human nature to be skeptical about new things.


Yes, we should take it as a lesson for ourselves instead of laughing at them because as you said, if we were them, we would do the same. Stories about selling bitcoin early or using 10kBTC to buy 2 pizzas are lessons for us, not stories to laugh at and ridicule.

In the past, there were indeed many skeptics about bitcoin, maybe if we were in the same era we might think the same thing. Moreover, at that time bitcoin was not like it is now and those who doubted its future, so it is natural for some people to say things like that. However, it would be better before making such statements, it would be better to first research why bitcoin was created and how unique bitcoin is that it has the potential to become a future asset, finally realizing that bitcoin will become a rare asset in the future.

If we talk about regret, maybe almost all past investors have felt that regret, why didn't we invest in bitcoin a long time ago. However, with that regret or from the regrets of others, we can learn not to underestimate something new that we don't understand properly and know that investing in bitcoin is never too late, so start investing in bitcoin.

Money is not everything, thats what you learnt if you started stacking in the early days.

They will definitely regret their past actions and would wish they didn’t criticize it back then. Bitcoin waits for no one so as you keep wasting time doubting it you are equally wasting your own time and an opportunity to invest early when the price is still very much affordable than it will be later. Keep criticizing bitcoin and it will keep proving you wrong again and again it will be your loss as lots of people are adopting bitcoin everyday and without anyone bitcoin will still keep rising.

I think the target price everyone is looking to see is to cross the $100k mark which is not far away again. Price correction might happen to try to balance everything but I don’t think it will go below $85k (just a speculation). I believe soon Alts will follow up too and we will soon see a massive pump in altcoins.

Bygone days means the past. And the past always remains in the memory. Which may be beautiful or regrettable. We haven't been around since the beginning of Bitcoin, but now is our time. There is no fixed time to invest in Bitcoin. So we should start investing Bitcoin as soon as possible.

I've personally learnt not to blame people like this when ever I come across such tweets or post where ever, and I also have learnt not to laugh at them because we never can know, they might be doing really well for themselves right now while most of us are still here grinding, alot of them may have turned back to later buy into bitcoin when they discovered that its not really a mess as they had assumed, and today, they are living very large and not making noise about it online.

As a matter of fact, humans make mistakes, we all make mistakes, and for those who knew about bitcoin back in 2009, 2010, 2011 up to 2015 and never believed in it, that could be one of the mistakes in life, there is no need throwing shades at them because mistakes is something we all are guilty of.
And also try to put yourself in their shoe and consider how timid bitcoin was back then, it's possible you also might not have believed in bitcoin back then when it had very little chances of succeeding.

I don't want to regret what happened before or what I left in the past. Maybe we didn't know about bitcoin when bitcoin was created when the price of bitcoin was very low, if we knew about bitcoin and didn't invest because of our mistake we would have regretted. Because we missed that time, we don't want to miss it again. Will try to invest from the moment we arrive in Bitcoin and wait for something better in the future. The future of Bitcoin does not end here. Bitcoin's future will gradually improve. We will build a lot during that time.

What surprises you? It is natural for people to make mistakes. In my country, even a high-ranking official constantly makes stupid mistakes and often makes mistakes. So there is nothing surprising about this. I have already passed the age when I want to mock people. This is simply unworthy and looks childish. Let these people bite their elbows. They did not even want to consider such options at that time. This is their biggest mistake. As for me, I try to learn as much as possible about the investment instrument that is offered to me.

The bullish momentum are there and makes Bitcoin price increase. We see the new ATH for temporary but that will still increase soon although right now the correction still there. And if those people who said bad things about Bitcoin and decide not to invest in Bitcoin see what happened to Bitcoin will regret and disappointed that what they say are wrong. They think now too late to start investing in Bitcoin as the price was increase so high but even though, they can still invest in Bitcoin. They needs to realize that Bitcoin can still increase and make another ATH in the future so they should change their minds and learn more about Bitcoin so they will know the truth.

Even if it was you; you could still say same thing as at then. Just like some altcoins now that are within that range of $2, do you know they might likely survive the market and skyrocket to a very high price in a decade from now?
As at then, bitcoin was new and looked as if it won't have any future, few people just had faith and possibly invested with an amount they could afford to lose and then HODL. Those people that bought bitcoin as at then and HODL, do you think they didn't have so much money to invest with? they did, but because they didn't know that bitcoin will get to where it is now made them not to invest so much in bitcoin.

Okay, you are pained that you didn't invest in bitcoin earlier maybe because you know about bitcoin but you didn't also trust the process as well for you to invest in it, so i see no difference between you and the person who couldn't buy bitcoin when it was as low as $2.70

But, those who bought are still much better than those who didn't. They need to think about it, so that they can only feel lesser regrets. Besides, they already have an experience, so this gives them another advantage to start again quickly and they may not want to repeat the same mistakes again of selling early.

Not all people are the same, so I won't say yet that if we were on their shoes, we will also ended up on the same situation because what if not? It is not that BTC is not trustworthy but it is only the minds of the people are the problem but BTC being not popular yet can also contribute on it because there is also lack of sites before that provides info about it.

This is inevitable because there are indeed hundreds of people's views regarding bitcoin in different assessments so that what happens is the opposite where bitcoin can provide much better expectations than expected. For haters will try to say bitcoin is a bad choice but that can be refuted according to history. There is no need to even bother explaining to people about bitcoin because they can review bitcoin's journey so far.

Forget about what people say like that because bitcoin does not need justification because what happens is that it can provide an opportunity for anyone to achieve a better stage of financial freedom. Being in the Bitcoin community actually gives great hope for anyone to change their life to be better than before.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/bitcoin-price-up-1-6-million-percent-since-infamous-allen-tweet
That is the full story, Nigga is still pained and full of regrets for his earlier mistakes of underestimating the potentials of bitcoin in the early days, maybe he learned and later invested, maybe he kept doubting until 2021, but same thing would be the plight of many more who still looks down on bitcoin today, sooner they would drink from the cup of regrets.

Another reason why dont get caught up too much with the opinions of other people like we often seen in social media because those are their speculations and of course possible against with the rise of the market imagine you believe on this guy and you didn't make an investment now you are one of the people who regrets with the bitcoin price right now, well we cant blame other people because on that time bitcoin doesn't give a really good name at that time people are still skeptical on it, but imagine if you just trust your guts and make an investment.

Well, they got it wrong...Bitcoin’s now hitting $91k and is on track to reach $100k soon. It’s only been a few days since Trump won, and this rally kicked off, showing just how much people trust the new administration to bring some bullish momentum to Bitcoin. Whether it’s hype or not doesn’t matter; what’s important is that another milestone’s been reached -- ATH after ATH. With prices at this level, bullish investors are definitely counting on a longer bull run ahead.

Even people will not thought Bitcoin can be at the price now and hit $93k as the new ATH for temporary. But their dream keeps telling them to still accumulating more Bitcoin until now. And now, they are very happy seeing Bitcoin price increase so high, out of their expectations. People trust really helps them to make a big profit now from Bitcoin and they will not want to stop their investment in Bitcoin. And they left other people who doesn't want to join them to investing in Bitcoin because they will not care with those people. All they want to do is collecting more Bitcoin because now, Bitcoin is too worth for them.

Of course no one knew that Bitcoin will be big in the next 10 years or so. And we have heard a lot of early investors as well regretting in their decision to sell early. But that is the beauty of investing, not just in crypto, it's the unknown, it's the fear that it could be successful (and so you stay with it), or it will be a failure (you sell early and get out).

So you can't blame those who exited and didn't think that Bitcoin will grow this big and maybe those early days, they think that this is just a experience, a fad that will simply go away. But we have proved our point already, and maybe around that time, those who might have sold could have comeback in 2013-2015 so still a win-win for them. And the thing is that we are still here and will obviously stay in the next 10 years or so.

In my opinion, when ETFs come into the market and there is a possibility that the government will also enter the market, everything will change completely. That is why I put forward the scenario that the bitcoin cycle will change.



For me the biggest whales in the market right now are the ETFs, they have enough money to buy any amount of bitcoin the long term whales want to sell. Whales over 10 years old have made millions of percent returns on their bitcoin investments, but compared to the capital that ETFs are managing, that amount is just a drop in the ocean.


In just 5 days, they poured more than 4.2 billion dollars into the market, can any old whale do this?


Honestly, we have mined over 19 million bitcoins and there are not many bitcoins left to mine. Not to mention if you look at the outflows from ETFs, they are buying many times more bitcoin than the miners are mining every week. So I'm not bullish on the halving anymore and I think the bigger catalyst in this bull run is ETFs, governments and economic impacts rather than the halving.

As you can see week: 44 ETF bought over 20kBTC while bitcoin only mined 3kBTC.


source: @HODL15Capital

Yep - it's foolish to think that people at that time thought about BTC the way we think about it today.
Today BTC is spoken about far and wide and everybody puts it to a higher regard and thinks about it - the power lies in the acknowledgement and knowledge.

@OP it was a picture and a statement way back 2011.  So no one will know that Bitcoin will rally on the current price during those time.  I think, those who are enthusiast in those years don't even think that Bitcoin will rich this high today. Many probably have sold their stash during those years but eventually reaccumulated as Bitcoin's popularity increased.  I think the trust and believe of people towards Bitcoin developed overtime as Bitcoin overcame hurdles and trials along its way.

I think there were a lot of people who didn't believe in Bitcoin at that time. I was one of them, in the first row. Likewise, I couldn't understand the whole idea; I probably didn't even try. There was a great opportunity to get the money I earned on the Internet in Bitcoin, but I preferred digital money. Of course, there are many regrets among those who didn't believe in time and among those who sold without waiting for time. Perhaps many would have had a different life, but surely everyone is given their destiny to be rich or not. Everyone has chances; the important thing is not to miss them. Learning from your mistakes is a good thing, and if someone regrets not doing something earlier, you should not give up and not miss the opportunity now.

Totally agree!
It's easier said than done because while some may claim they would hold for the years to come, I think the lust to get their bags in even such a plus would take hold of them at some point.
So now, that we know the situation - why not be better and just move forward?

As I said above, if we were in their shoes at that time, we would have acted the same way. I am not blaming or laughing at anyone who did not buy or sell bitcoin early, I am not saying that, don't get me wrong.

Indeed, investing in bitcoin these days is much easier than before as things have become much clearer. I bet OP or whoever was laughing at people who sold bitcoin at that time. If they had the chance to go back in time but didn't know what was happening in the present, they wouldn't even care about Bitcoin, let alone believe in it and buy it.



Some people like to criticize or ridicule others for missing out on some opportunities in the past, but if we were in their shoes, there is no guarantee that we would do better than them.

It's no time to laugh at people like these - it's time not to become like them and get more BTC, that's what I say and believe in 

If a person goes for BTC knowing well what it stands for and how it behaves during its cycles, that person will never have weak hands put onto BTC.
It's like an axiom that BTC will prevail, and it's a question of time when more people will understand it and become interested more and more in it.

People do really love on laughing into those people or old timers do able to sell off their coins into those early years on which without even trying out to think or trying out to put up their shoes into those people
then there's no way that you cant be able to think that Bitcoin would really be able to last up this long or something that do talks about higher price. This is why its really that something laughable when you do
saw them having thousands of Bitcoin but able to sell into thousands bucks on just having that a dollar price or value of it. Even into those times or moment that you are on their foot then you will really be thinking on selling up your coins too on which we do secure our profits on which it will really be our main priority. This is why its not really that shocking that they will really be having those actions because they do really tend to secure on what needed up to be secure so that they wont regret on missing out those profits. Instead on being happy on where they do end up but come to think that these early adopters are ones of the reason on why this market did make out such recognition and adoption. Although not all factors will really be just that focusing into this one but at least we do really know that their existence are really that significant.

You know I some point I wonder how some people come in to Bitcoin with short sighted and failing to see the true potentials that Bitcoin holds hence the reason to panic on seeing a decline  and sell too soon when they meant to be accumulating, anyone coming in to Bitcoin should look beyond present headlines perhaps Bitcoin has proven beyond every reasonable doubt that even when it declines it has the the potential recover and even go more higher than it's previous highs but yeah it all amount to how much we tend to believe and convinced enough personally and our risk tolerance level which differs different.

You could be right on this. It’s likely possible that the said user in Tweet did manage to get into Bitcoin. Haven’t to have discovered it at so early in time and followed up on the price or market movements simply means, the user had enough time to be skeptical on the idea and check his interest. His sure to have seen price pump after that dump to realize that, he could have had a much better entry when it dumped.

One thing is for sure here, Bitcoin was only beginning to develop a market structure and people were just getting to know and study it yet. Now, a lot of users have learnt from the mistakes of others while, getting to learn from personal experiences as well.

The thing is there a person's who are not patient enough when it comes to long term investment plan so as of then many people took Bitcoin as a joke and looked at it as one of those big talk that many companies will usually say and convince people to come and invest in their companies so only people who where futuristic enough to see the future and the potential that Bitcoin holds where able to invest in a long term project like Bitcoin so you see that man who posted this picture will be regretting big time by now and he will continue to complain as the price of Bitcoin is expected to surpass $100,000 by next year with the current upward movement of Bitcoin

I don’t blame people in this category during the early times, it’s more better you gain full knowledge about bitcoin then decide what’s next either invest or ignore. I’m not against other altcoins rather I only look forward to potential coins, looking down on bitcoin is not a new thing even in modern days so the person is free to say whatever they think. I will consider ignorance as the major hinderance because late adopters would have gotten much if they had the opportunity to buy bitcoin during the start. I love how bitcoin growth has come so far to an extend haters still don’t believe including business/investment influencers against bitcoin just imagine the fans reaction towards the market.

They should regret it because when they criticized BTC in the past, they knew very well that the future of Bitcoin was definitely going to be good. They can then play Bitcoin after understanding everything nicely. I think it's their failure. I think it's natural to regret seeing the skyrocketing price of BTC now that they couldn't invest because of their failure.

But imagine those who invested in 2022 and 2023 when the price of Bitcoin fall, and now it's a good time to realize how far their investments have come from holding a Bitcoin trust. I think there is no point in criticizing critics seeing that those who are investing in Bitcoin and continue to invest will definitely get something out of it. Those who haven't invested in Bitcoin will have more regrets ahead than wait sees.

That's how we regret what happened in the past... mistakes become valuable lessons for the future where we consider prices expensive at the time and see prices now that are too cheap...

We see that the price of $30K is already expensive sometimes even buying bitcoin is still with doubts, after a high surge in more than 1 year it was realized that bitcoin became a valuable asset than anything else... so now realize that digital currency is an important asset for us.

You are right if consider another scenario where the cycle won't repeat then not buying now can be a big mistake but to be honest do you think this scenario will take place? I don't think even if this time BTC made ATH before the halving and meme coin hype came before the ETH and ALT coin hype and things are not really following the pattern as they used to follow in the last 4 halvings. But that's a big if in my sight.

We can't just rely on these ETFs but there are whales too, some whales are more than 10 year old and now they are moving their BTC just to sell them this surely won't make a big dump like in past it used to but something big will happen that will dump the market.

For the long term like if you are making an investment for next halving then buying at CMP is not a bad idea as profit will be made at last.

The fact still remain that many people are still doubting bitcoin even as it may have reached 89k plus. We should understand that no matter how hard you try to convince most people to invest in bitcoin, they will still not take it seriously because they don't have thesame dream as you. No time is to late to invest in bitcoin. Even if you Start today, you don't have anything to regret because bitcoin will still touch more hight.

You can only Cheer when you have enough stash in your portfolio. If you don't Invest in bitcoin you are almost thesame with those that are sceptical without investment.

These are not the people alone to be regretting not investing on bitcoin as at then, that is even if they were able to remember that they once said something like this, but if they actually do, it will be serious pain on them because they would have realized a lot of things they have already missed out, though coming in by now is never too late, but it will only take them the required time of doing so, now they are all seeing that bitcoin is more than their imaginations.

When I was watching the HBO documentary on bitcoin the other day, or whatever you want to call it, they were showing some times in the past where bitcoin has dropped and everyone was panicking or saying "see I told you so" and other things like that, just brought such a smile to my face as we currently sit here hovering around all time highs that are far more than any of them ever expected, or at least expected this early.

It was difficult to hold in the past, the majority were in a more emotional approach with Bitcoin because it is unknown where it was heading. I cannot blame those early adopters and then sold later because the majority of us in here could have done the same thing. How about laszlo? he has sold 10k Bitcoins for a pizza. But you see the contribution that he's done there, if it's not for him, then who could have done the same thing with courage to do that transaction?

I remember when I first got to know Bitcoin, I never made a negative comment but just pushed it aside, then a few years later I started to dig in.
Maybe the guy in the picture changed his mind later and got into it because the date is very old, it is very likely that he decided to buy Bitcoin after a few halvings.

The fact is that many of the early investors didn't hold onto the assets that they bought in the early days. So even though people who didn't buy Bitcoin and called it names would regret it, those who did repurchase Bitcoin then must have sold it way earlier than where we are today because we as humans can't have that much patience unless we are away from something. Then we remember later that we had it and we manage to recover it.

I can guarantee you that the people who got Bitcoin until today that they bought back in the day are those who either lost access to their wallets and recovered it later or those who bought some and abandoned it, never stayed active in the market and kept looking at the price, because if you keep looking at the price, it tends to tempt you to sell when you are getting good returns.

Someone spending $100 on Bitcoin and then realizes they are getting $2,000 for it would gladly take it without thinking about its future possibilities.

Since it'll take time for bitcoin price to increase, you are right. Such people won't hold for that long, they'll probably not stand the multiple bearish seasons that it took Bitcoin to get here.

Added to the fact that he doesn't believe bitcoin's growth potentials to an extent of calling it a mess. His only disadvantage to the ecosystem would be the people who abided by his shady talks on the technology.

I won't blame most of those who rejected buying bitcoin at that earliest stage for one reason or the other. As in if am ain't mistaking, this is the first time we are having something of this phenomenon proving itself to this height above all  discredited slams.  Sincerely, am not sure what decision I would have taken as at that time for what the future wasn't all that sure.

I think others that would also be having a messed up feeling right now are those who managed to buy bitcoin back then and could help to be patient enough to hold it till this day but decided to sell it all at the early period it started to gain value. Truthfully, bitcoin long term hodling isn't for the weak..

Shaky hands, that's how he could have been called 
On the contrary, everybody who studied and learned about BTC does have diamond hands put on it.

Yep.
Most would drop their bags much earlier than we are now.
Human nature 

Don't you worry about guys like that, because chances are that he bought much earlier than majority of us.

Another thing to consider is that just because someone bought at the very cheap price many years ago, doesn't mean that he is millionaire now, or that he is havibg a lot of bitcoins and its not easy at all to hold if for example you bought bitcoin when price was $50 and bitcoin reached $1k for the first time.

I think that guy will definitely regret it now. Because currently bitcoin is no longer at $80K, but the price of bitcoin has now almost touched $90K. So you can be sure that if that person sees the development of Bitcoin now, you can be sure that he will daydream for a very long time. Because in my opinion, someone who has known about bitcoin since it was 2 or 3 dollars is an incredible gift. So if someone found out about bitcoin when it was still cheap and didn't buy it, I think that person must have very deep regrets right now. But what can you do, when the price of bitcoin was cheap of course many people at that time doubted bitcoin and only a few people believed in bitcoin. So it is not surprising that when the price of bitcoin is cheap, many negative assumptions and opinions about bitcoin emerge. Because how could it not be, bitcoin is a relatively new investment asset when compared to other assets. So it's natural that in the past many people underestimated Bitcoin. But now bitcoin has indeed broken the negative assumptions of people in the past. Therefore, this should be a lesson for us, that we must be more focused and active in collecting our money to invest in bitcoin (DCA). Because don't let our fate be the same as the person who made the post on X.

Almost everyone had this fear of investing bitcoin back then because we never had the understanding of where bitcoin was heading to, but I don't really blame people who had this fear then because it wasn't their fault, we all where just watching bitcoin to prove it self with time and we can see bitcoin have already prove its potentials and reliability. Congratulations to those who went ahead to invest bitcoin,  not being skeptical of it.

I'm not bothered those who didn't believe in bitcoin in the early time but I get shocked and disappointed when I see people in this era still being skeptical about Bitcoin, all this years should have have made them to have better understanding about bitcoin and not to be skeptical in investing in it.

Nah I don't think that it would even change a thing, even if he does invest in Bitcoin at that time, I don't think that he could endure it or hold it till now, a price drop already proves that he couldn't hold it for long term.

Totally agree.
What is lost - is lost.
We need to think in the current times. And the opportunities which are opened now.
 

Is there any need crying over a missed opportunity, if one found out about BTC in the early days but didn't buy it then, that time is past and they should be looking at buying it right now.

We cannot really blame those who bought very early and also sold along the way, i cannot promise that i would not have sold some of my coins if i had bought very early. Right now we have seen BTC's trajectory and we understand it a bit more, so holding it is easier than in the early days.

Certainly, anyone who knew about bitcoin but didn't invest early, or those who invested but sold a few years ago will feel very regretful. But not only them, if it were us, we would have ended up like them because at that time bitcoin was not as trustworthy as it is now. Likewise, I believe many members on the forum have had that experience, many were also skeptical about bitcoin when they first heard about it.




Human nature is skeptical and reluctant to accept new things, we all have that nature. Like what's going on, we are bitcoin investors and we are strong believers in bitcoin and only believe in it. If someone introduces us to something new right now, we will immediately ignore it.

Must of people who criticized BTC in the past had already regretted their actions, and some of them buy Bitcoin when the price start to move because they will not stay to miss out better opportunities in the future because they criticized it and it keeps proving them wrong by moving further above their expectations.

BTC price keeps surging, what is the target price that it will balance?
When will most altcoins follow suit because most alt pins did t pump that much as Bicoin deed this week.

BTC was called a bubble, so many people saw it as something that will fail quickly, but good a thing that they can find out how wrong they were. Even institutional investors are getting into BTC now and buying it. BTC isn't even only about its price, BTC is freedom, it is a decentralized and censorship resistant currency, it has real life utilities and so there is no way it is or could have been a bubble.

We all have to mature along bitcoin. I remember when I first heard of it and thought to myself it could be a good way to make some money. All I saw was volatility that I could use as a trader and maybe investor in mining equipment. I did not think past another year forward and never thought it could be worth more than $10k.

When it first went to $12k I sold some and thought I made a deal of my life. You have to go through one or 2 full cycles to understand what you're holding.

Bitcoin is more than a way to make money. It's really a beautiful invention.

The price of Bitcoin continues to surprise any doubts, the more we keep doubting Bitcoin, the more the price proves us wrong. I think the person who said he was happy he didn't purchase Bitcoin on the mess a few years ago would feel bad about it if he didn't invest in Bitcoin once more. He might even go insane because the Bitcoin that people purchased with a little amount of money back then has generated millions of dollars in profits. For those who want to invest in Bitcoin, now is a perfect moment. Don't worry about the price increase; as long as you have the funds, you should do it since delaying is risky. People who were scared to buy it when it was around $60k are still regretting it. So let's try it out now and become one of the Bitcoin holders.


To be honest, not everybody is going to trust Bitcoin from the very first moment they heard about it. Since there were many scammers on the internet back then, people would assume that Bitcoin was just a different strategy used to scam them. As a result, only those who had the courage to take risks would invest in Bitcoin very early. But I think Bitcoin has shown us that it pays well as soon as we are willing to take the risk and have the patience to hold even when the price dips.

I would not blame this kind of thinking for either now or then because in the end he said it according to his year where at that time bitcoin was still not as booming as it is now and when there were still many previous people who used bitcoin as an exchange for game consoles or pizza and like the case of the picture given by the OP by thinking this is a bad condition and will not buy bitcoin actually it belongs to their own choice and we have no right to judge or intervene in the choices that have been made.

Regardless of regret or not it returns to the person and I think with many examples actually for now it is not the time to assume other people who do not buy bitcoin or are not in bitcoin are stupid but for now we only need to focus on ourselves so that what happened to others in the past by wasting bitcoin happened to us because indeed at this time we only need to convince ourselves that bitcoin is an innovation that indeed allows changing our standard of living.

who is here that has not benefited from cryptocurrency or bitcoin? I think we have all benefited most especially in cash and knowledge,  Bitcoin breaks $84,500 and $85,000 was not what most of us ever dream but today we have achieved that. Thank to all bitcoin enthusiasts and developers that did not give up from the beginning in the face of stiff rejections.

Today every governments want to identifying with it and we are happy for this technological breakthrough. And this is just the beginning of bitcoin achieving more significant milestone, because in the coming weeks and months, aot of positive bitcoin mainstream activities will push the market to gain higher value.

Incidents like this often happen and there are even many stories if we want to look for them in the stories of people who at that time did not believe or were against Bitcoin.

Just like me, at that time some of my friends had been involved in the world of Bitcoin in 2011 and in 2012 they had told me and I didn't believe it and it didn't make sense. However, over time the price of Bitcoin began to increase even though at that time the price was still very cheap and I still didn't believe it, and in the end I started trying to find out about Bitcoin plus some of my friends gave me basic knowledge, benefits and also the potential future of Bitcoin which finally at the end of the year in early 2016 I started getting involved with Bitcoin and in early 2017 I entered this forum and everything became fun and also made me more confident and motivated by the beauty of Bitcoin and I was very happy because Bitcoin gave me many benefits and changed my situation and also my finances which I might regret if I ignored it.

And I think people who ignored Bitcoin at that time might eventually get involved with Bitcoin because we don't know about it. And if they still ignore it until now, I think they will scream... Stupid me, and I regret it so much.

That guy should feel regret now if he see what happen to Bitcoin now and he still not invest in Bitcoin. I can imagine how his face shock to see Bitcoin price now and the journey of Bitcoin.

Many people tend difficult t accept a new thing and don't believe if that thing can be better in the future. We can only feels sad and regret why we don't take a chance in the beginning. But everything is happens and we can not just feels sad but we can take another chance so we can benefits from that thing, in this matter is Bitcoin.

Many of us also have a doubt of Bitcoin but we try to know it by learn and research. And here we are still trying to accumulate more and more Bitcoin. If people out there still don't believe in Bitcoin, so be it because we can not force them to follow what we do.

Facts.
Normal for sure to be in doubt of something we know nothing much about because that is where learning takes place once curiousity and interest are fed. Many people still at this point are in doubt of Bitcoin and this technology in general inspite of seeing how far it is now. Let them be in doubt and wait for them to ask you why you are here in this industry. It would be hard explaining or atleast forcing a knowledge to someone who's not open in the first place to new idea. FUDs just that strong which causes fear to other investors. Perhaps right now that new ATH is already made, why are people afraid to make a purchase if we often say its market price which reach higher heights? Guess it's the same with those who knew Bitcoin on the early stage. Lesson? Would you just wait and be afraid or have the courage and know why many people are looking forward for its further growth in the future.Definitely. There's no such thing as 'too late' if an asset has the potential to grow over the years. Bitcoin and this industry could still be young given that recognition still is in progress from many countries.

That was quite a long time ago, and if he is updated on the current situation with Bitcoin, you won’t feel like that anymore. He bought it once it reached maybe $10 or more. Knowing Bitcoin's existence early would probably change his mind once it broke an all-time high unless he is too stubborn.

Many people have probably stayed the same until they realized that we are currently at an all-time high, and people like to brag and say, “I told you so.”

I hope that he changes his mind.

ETFs are still buying bitcoin every day, they don't seem to care about the price and they are buying billions of dollars of bitcoin.  Is it good advice to say that this is not the time to buy and to wait for the bear season to come? Does this cycle always repeat itself? What can we rely on to be sure of this? Instead, why not use the DCA strategy if we intend to invest in bitcoin for the long term?

Of course, anyone who sold bitcoin cheaply in the past would regret it and if we were in their shoes, we would regret it as much as they do now. I even believe you would have called bitcoin a scam if someone introduced bitcoin to you 10 years ago. Because you believe that the price of bitcoin can increase to hundreds of thousands of dollars in the future but you also dare not buy bitcoin at $80k, you certainly would never buy bitcoin if it was priced at $1 many years ago.

You are crying over spilled milk like many others - because I first heard about BTC in 2011, but I didn't invest in it until 2014 and I don't consider it something to regret. In those first years, only a few understood what it was really about, but all those who were still suspicious even after BTC existed for 10 years are the ones who should regret the missed opportunity.

However, who says that those who invest today will not achieve at least x10 profit in 10 years? Of course, it's not all about profit, Bitcoin is still much more for those who want more

To tell the truth the speed at which bitcoin has been moving over the years is incredibly fast, I had faith in bitcoin but I honestly thought it will take it a very long amount of time to reach six figures, and yet it is entirely possible this may happen during this bull run, which is great, but this tells me that most likely the world economy in a worse shape than I thought, since it would have been impossible to reach these results if the economy was as solid as politicians want to makes us believe.

Haha you are right but I think we should not rub salt into someone’s wounds I don't know that if he is still alive or not, but if he is, then he must not be from inside, as the pizza dude Laszlo pretends to be hard from outside, but I think he regrets his selling of 10k BTC for 2 pizzas, and I read somewhere that he spent more than 10k.

If you have joined BTC now I won't suggest you to buy it now as for short term it won't be a problem for you but for long term I think you should wait for the bearish cycle when you can get BTC at lower rates.

If you would have said back then that bitcoin would reach $80k then people would be calling you a fool.
On the other hand, bitcoin has reached $80k and still there are people buying at this price.
That person commenting about bitcoin at 2$ might not have bought bitcoin then but could have bought bitcoin at $10.
What would you do if you really get to see his face now ? He would be the one laughing at you in that case.
So instead of speculating the past and future, we should be wise and try to accumulate whenever we can at the best price we can get it at.

Better days are here for Bitcoin and the crypto currency world due partially to Donald Trump's win and also due to the acceptance by some major business countries in the world today.

A country like Costa Rica now uses Bitcoin ATM machines to purchase BTC and one can easily make payments using Bitcoin without the need for much Fiat.

After the halving till now, the price of BTC has steadily climbed and am sure those of us who invested earlier are enjoying the benefits of having some BTC, so I do not mind those who think of it less or have negative opinions as regards the use of cryptocurrency or Bitcoin in particular.

What hurts more -- not buying Bitcoin when it was dirt cheap, or selling it while the price was still low?

Just a thought -- since we can’t go back in time, holding onto that regret won’t let us move forward, and we’ll miss Bitcoin’s potential to keep rising. To put it in perspective, if it was $3 back then and it’s around $80k now, that’s a 27,000x increase... That kind of jump might not happen again, which makes it even more of a missed opportnity. 

Do you really think he would be mess now? Maybe he realised bitcoin wasn't really a mess and later invested. 2011 was quite too early for anyone to really have faith in Bitcoin. Most of us here now would have said same about bitcoin considering the value of bitcoin as at that time. I do not blame those early guys for being ignorant, I'm sure some of them realised earlier and are here now. Those I would really be laughing at are those who are currently seeing the massive progress bitcoin is getting and still doubting the authencity of bitcoin. Sometimes I am forced to ask, what do these guys really want?

Bitcoin has really gone through many ups and downs, what matters most right now is that we are all here partaking in bitcoin's growth.  There's a lot to gain, those still having doubts are really missing out.

That was sarcastic of him as I can see the date of that post on X which was November 2011 and if we have to refer adopt spreads of Bitcoin by then, it was not so large enough to kick a value higher than $2-$3 which it was able to attain then.

So much interestingly as the widespread of the Bitcoin adoption expands on a wider range, so also the value increases. That is just how Bitcoin price was able to reach $80K + as at today.

Never can tell that he must have become one of the adoptors of Bitcoin todays since he has wanted the value of Bitcoin to stably appreciate before he could buy.

This isn’t new anymore, every bull run brings stories like this. It’s a reminder not to sell too early, since Bitcoin will eventually rise in the long run. If that person knew how to HODL, they wouldn’t be getting laughed at now. Right now, someone might even post about selling at $80k, doubting it’ll reach $500k. But we know that, over time, it’ll happen - the market always bounces back and turns bullish. That’s been proven time and time again.

If it weren't for this human quality, there would be no rich people (like early investors).

When choosing a "behavior model" (in any business, not just finance), the opinion of the majority should be ignored. The same like "act against the crowd."

And your mention of this makes him burst into tears..

No, not at all. You'll have to see that face when bitcoin costs $100-150k.

And yet, even having invested late, you were far ahead of those @NickAllen, who, having a big head start (discount) for buying, did not buy anything (bitcoin).

With each new ATH, the number of skeptics decreases. I hope it doesn't sound like they're going to commit suicide decreases because of lost profits.

If that happened in 2011, it is likely that in 2013 onwards, he suddenly decided to save bitcoin, so if he started saving bitcoin in 2014, he somehow got a profit in Bitcoin. This is if he starts buying bitcoin. But if he didn't buy, he would probably feel guilty and ask himself why he didn't buy bitcoin when he criticized it.

So it was difficult to criticize bitcoin at that time because now for sure they are putting Bitcoin to shame because their prediction and belief that bitcoin is wrong
is now being swallowed because of shame.

I guess this is not new for bitcoin. A lot have criticized bitcoin and conclude that it will never be a profitable investment. But look at it now, bitcoin is now the most talked and the most profitable investment so far.

However, I don’t think this person is still seeing bitcoin as a mess until now, because just like anyone else, everyone is craving to invest in bitcoin, knowledge and sufficient funds are the keys. Otherwise, if you keep missing bitcoin investment, then you will never experience what it takes to be a successful bitcoin investor and enjoy all its benefits and advantages.

At first, I thought it was just a photoshop to draw traffic and attention on media until I verified the post and confirm it is real. I don't blame the poster for doubting bitcoin at that time and majority will do the same because of non popularity then. Moreover, not everyone update their real life activities on media, it might just be a deceit post or probably change of opinion occurred after making that post.

From the history, that poster was an old influencer and they can post anything for attention. Don't be surprised if he owns thousands of dollars in bitcoin now. On the contrary, he will be regretting now if he failed to hope in then thinking it was a mess as he assumed. It's regrettable knowing about bitcoin for that long without having a reasonable amount of it.

Opinions can often change, but not everyone's opinions can change. Maybe this person is one of those whose opinion changed; maybe not. If he is a person of influence who some people see as a mentor, his opinion must have influenced some of them into remaining skeptics until this day. Those are the people I pity the most: the ones who adopted these wrong opinions of their mentors on bitcoins and never bothered to research and get the correct info.

Mentors can be wrong as well; this is why DYOR is necessary.

From the year the tweet was published, i'm sure that the person does not fully understand bitcoin, he probably only thinks of bitcoin as a ponzi scheme business. I tried to find out what he's doing now, and it's not crypto related. I'm sure he's involved in crypto at the moment, he just doesn't publicize it. Now that bitcoin prices are going up, do you think we will see $200,000 when the next halving happens?

If they knew Bitcoin price can be at $81k, they will not say like that but will buy as many Bitcoin as they can and hold it until now. But no one will know what will happen with the future especially to Bitcoin. That is happened to some people who knew about Bitcoin in that year or before that year. But they didn't trying to buy Bitcoin and say that Bitcoin will scam you. Well, that is okay if they say like that but they will regret if they see what happen to Bitcoin. Maybe we are regret not to invest in the beginning but that will not be a problem because we can still invest in Bitcoin now even if the price is at $81k. That is because considering of Bitcoin price can increase more than $81k so we can buy Bitcoin by allocating some money.

The fact is many persons who did HODL bitcoin back then didn't know for sure that it would eventually pump and turn out to be like this. Many of them mined and had them sitting in some wallets. Some bought very early when it had not much value from those that were either scared of Hodling or probably felt it was a waste of time. Either way only a few persons held because they believed for sure that bitcoin will be this big someday.

The truth is that even for some persons that saw potential in bitcoin, many didn't imagine it to be this big today that's because if they did most of them would have bought more obviously. I bet that guy would have probably deleted the post if  he remembers he made it very long ago.

You need to know that the future is unpredictable and even Satoshi did not dare to make any assertions about the future of bitcoin at that time. So don't laugh or look down on those who have underestimated bitcoin in the past because I bet if you were in his position, you would not invest in bitcoin either or even despise it because at that time it really had no value.

We are in bull season right now and making profits is quite easy so there are many newbies making very bold claims like you. But I wouldn't be surprised if you don't make a profit in this bull cycle and exit bitcoin when the bear season hits.

He is still using the same account and is still active there.

Two years after that post, he posted again about bitcoin expressing shock about how bitcoin is already at $100. I could not find anything else that may imply that he has bought bitcoin but in 2021 he replied to the exact picture OP posted with a sad face. So, we can assume that he did learn his lesson and now regrets not buying bitcoin at that time.
I do understand the skepticism though. Back then they did not have the historical data to prove or at least allow them to estimate future prices the way we do now. Crypto was very new back then and not everyone would have imagined for it to reach this high back then. But now with the rise of tech and crypto industry, no need to skeptical anymore and just buy bitcoin the moment the best possible entry to the market opens up for you.

When I was introduced to Bitcoin, I didn't believe in it either. I thought it was already suspiciously expensive (when the price was in the range of hundreds of dollars), and I didn't believe something purely digital could be considered real money and have real value. And that was years later than the guy in the tweet. It's understandable that it was a different time when it wasn't easy to believe in something so different from the rest of money and the rest of the asset market as well. What's important is to learn from mistakes. Both our own and those of others.

There were so many doubters back in the "early years". I myself in around 2014?
when introduced to Bitcoin didnt give it too much thought.

I would also say that there are a very small minority who carried Bitcoin through
the years are are still active - otherwise we wouldnt be talking about it.

And very few people back then if you said Bitcoin would grow to be valued at
$80,000 one day would have believed you.

Its easy to look back, its harder for many to look forward.

I think that if we're on that day, we'd also probably think the same thing. Uncertain is very high on those years when the majority don't trust internet assets that were new to everybody. So, those that have held for so long and are enjoying the profits now, they deserve it. They've taken the bashing of many about Bitcoin being a fraud, a scam, and any other negative characteristics that they've thrown to the early adopters. There are too many stories like that in the image and I can remember one who's Greg Schoen who have also bought bitcoin on the cheapest few bucks price but sold them eventually at little profit to losses.

Yeah, it's crazy how things change, isn't it? I bet that person is kicking themselves now! It's a good reminder to keep an open mind and not dismiss new ideas too quickly.

It's wild to look back and see how far Bitcoin has come. I remember those early days too. It's inspiring to think about the potential for the future. Here's to hoping for continued growth and adoption!

That guy should be the one in a mess now, because he didn't buy bitcoin then. In the beginning most people failed to take the risk on investing in bitcoin because they feel it wouldn't survive but bitcoin proved many of them wrong due to the problem it is solving in the world, which made people see its potentials and started adopting it making the price to increase in value.

The fact is that, if you cannot beat them, you join them. Thi is why you see that even the people that have criticized bitcoin before has no option than to join the moving train because they don't want to be left out. Banks started failing and fiat depreciating, investors started diversifying their wealth into bitcoin to safe the value of their wealth and bitcoin didn't disappoint them. If you don't have any bitcoin investment yet, learn from that guy in the OP.

This is just a picture and there is a high chance that this guy got into Bitcoin soon enough, maybe not during this tweet but even a year after this is tweet he got into Bitcoin and maintained consistency he would be good.

One thing I have come to discover and I want you to understand is that the next best time is now. Being skeptical about Bitcoin from the time you heard it isn't a bad thing, infact I encourage everyone not to go head first into something because many people are backing it especially in finance.

We all have our entry point in bitcoin after we must have done our research, and still more people would join in the cycle never ends. THE NEXT BEST TIME IS NOW

One of the things I love about bitcoin is how it proved most people around the world wrong
I came across this picture of someone who called Bitcoin a mess back in 2011, and it made me laugh
I really want to see his face now when he finds out that 1 of the mess is worth 80 thousand dollars
I'm really pained that I didn't invest in Bitcoin sooner, but I'm glad that I'm here now

Cheers to better days ahead for Bitcoin
And to prove more skeptic wrong