I see bitcoin as continuous lesson and lecture, because many people have experienced lost in cryptocurrency and but the people with the passion to invest in Bitcoin are the one who do continue to take the risk of investing in Bitcoin. If everyone should start explaining their lost in Bitcoin investment you will know that some people lost for the investment for the industry is bigger than yours, people who invest for Bitcoin are people who have the mind and decide that two things is involved for the investment, either they lose or they gain. I think that's the major plans of people who is ready to invest for Bitcoin is to make it through. But when they experience lost some of them will condemn bitcoin because of the lost.
You are explaining the possibilities in bitcoin in such a narrow way dataispower. Sure, you can either win or lose, but there is a lot more than that going on because each bitcoiner gets into bitcoin at a different point in time, and they also vary in the way that they get into their BTC investment, including that some folks may well consider getting into bitcoin to be good as long as the price goes up from their entry price point. So surely some of these people can get out when their Bitcoin makes a dollar profits, or they can get scared into preserving the dollar value of their investment into BTC when they see the BTC price going down, rather than their presumption that it was going to go up.
So there can be a lot of differences in perspectives and even differences in regards to how to employ their perspectives to their BTC investing approach.
Also, there are quite a few people who have hardly no fucking clue what they are investing into, and they hardly know the difference between bitcoin and some other kind of crypto currency - whether referring to ethereum or some other shitcoin or even the various other products such as NFTs and defi products - and sometimes they have few clues in regards to potential dangers in third party custody and they get lured into products with a belief that they "need to" earn yield on their bitcoin.
The levels of personal investment portfolio can vary quite a bit, and even the experience level of the investor (including considering if they might own other assets and/or property) may well affect their approach to BTC investing too, so I am not even going to presume to know the so many ways that people make all of their assessments of value in regards to whether they believe that investing into BTC is helping them in light of their personal financial and psychological circumstances - even though we should be able to continue to appreciate that the overall level of bitcoin adoption continues to be quite low (maybe 1% or less of the world-wide population with some areas of the world having higher levels of adoption and some segments of society engaged in relatively high levels of BTC accumulation in anticipation of others coming into bitcoin in the coming years), and there are likely going to be more and more people coming into the bitcoin space and even those who already entered into bitcoin will be ongoingly assessing and reassessing the level of their BTC allocations, too.
We should presume that some of us are going to be net BTC accumulators and others will be lessening the quantity of their BTC over time, whether purposefully or by accident, so for sure, we see that psychologically, some folks have difficulties getting back into bitcoin when they have lost money in the past, even though it seems to be quite likely that the better practice is for everyone to attempt to maintain some ongoing level of BTC allocation and the percentage of their wealth that is held in bitcoin is likely going to vary with some people being more prepared than others for what seems to be the largest wealth transfer in history that is happening through bitcoin and is likely to take many more years to play out.. 20 years to 200 years, and likely quite a few battles along the way, and some folks are not going to recognize and realize that they should have some kind of stake into bitcoin until at some later date in which they are not going to receive as many satoshis for the amount of value that they put into it (whether through buying it, mining it, selling goods or services for it or other means of getting it).
More active bitcoiner members in this forum are not too likely to be underallocating their value in bitcoin to the extent that they are able to allocate value into bitcoin, yet there are surely quite educated people in the "crypto" space who don't even really seem to understand how bitcoin is distinguishable from various other crypto assets/currencies, and surely sooner or later, it will likely become more common that even the various shitcoin speculators will realize that they should be retaining at least some of their value in bitcoin, even if they are fucking around with various pump and dump snake oil smoke and mirror baloney "crypto" assets.
So, I do not really disagree with you dataispower, even though I believe that it is better to recognize that there are quite a few more ways of considering these kinds of investment into bitcoin matters in terms that go beyond assessing whether persons getting into bitcoin are perceiving themselves to have had won or lost in their bitcoin investment, including that we have an ongoing moving target in regards to even coming to any kind of an assessment of winning or losing in such BTC investments, and for sure, even with OP, there could be all kinds of ways in which he could understand and appreciate that he had gotten value from his pre-2015 years in bitcoin - but instead, OP seems to have had wanted to assess himself as a loser and to lock himself in a position in which he believes that he lost and his involvement in bitcoin is like water under the bridge from a bygone age, which just shows that even with his many years of knowing about bitcoin, he does not seem to have learned much of anything in regards to reestablishing a position in bitcoin, even if he did sell too many BTC too soon. So, yeah it may well take guys like him another bitcoin cycle or two before they realize that it may well be better to buy some bitcoin rather than to just whine about their having had sold their BTC holdings, so it could be that OP does not wisen up, and he ends up buying bitcoin in 4-8 years when the price drops down to $250k after it had gone up to $1.5 million.
It's not easy to know at what point OP is going to wisen up, if ever... he might die an ongoing disgruntled no coiner (not wishing death upon anyone).. whether OP has only a few more years to live or if his timeline might be quite a bit longer in terms of how long he may well stay a no coiner.. he may well have 30 to 50 more years of remaining life and remaining a disgruntled no coiner (living in the past regarding having had 15 BTC at one time) for the whole time.. but by then BTC prices may well be in the $10s of millions.. not easy to project out that far, for sure... and of course, there are no guarantees that the BTC price is even going to go up from this point on.