Topic: Newbies take bitcoin as long term Choice to get the best out of bitcoin (Read 661 times)

Just to add to your story, I remember back in 2017 when the halving happened, the price of BTC jumped from $4,000 to around $19,000 at that time and people started discovering BTC due to various news being spread across all social media platforms. Due to the halving, lot of people invested into BTC without even knowing what it is in the first place. Basically, their FOMO made them invest onto something that they barely new.

Long story short, majority of these people who invested lost their money since the price came down to around $15,000 at that time. The unfortunate thing is, these people who lost their money due to FOMO are the very same people who started spreading fake news on social media platforms saying that BTC is a scam, etc.


The moral of the story- learn the basics first and understand on what you are investing in. If you invest into something without fully understanding what you are buying in the first place, you will most likely cash out your investment sooner resulting to a loss on your part.

Learn and enjoy the process of investing into BTC. Again, investment does not guarantee positive results but if you do your part as a diligent person would do, then expect great things to happen in the near future.

Funny enough, many newbies have misconceptions of bitcoin, they think that investing in bitcoin brings financial breakthrough on their side, forgetting to note that bitcoin doesn't provide much for someone who's in a haste to make riches out of their bitcoin investment, not ready to wait for so long and above all be patient to hodl through the bearish market without feeling naive of being at the loss side.

Many, have sold their bitcoin at a loss price because nobody breaks down the basics of bitcoin to them. Thanks to this forum, that got many of us enlightened about the concept of bitcoin. Like what should be done and expected in the journey of hodling bitcoin, other than buying at a discount price and sell at high price. At least many of us are using every market situation(bearish or bull run) to our advantage.

Knowledge is Power for Newbie Investors in understanding the true meaning of investment. Newbies need to improve their mindset when looking for information on this forum after making their first investment, they should look for information first before investing. The thought of wanting to achieve financial freedom through Bitcoin investment in the short term needs to be dispelled because there is no guarantee at all of getting maximum results. They need to set realistic goals with a focus on a long-term mindset, if their interest in investing in Bitcoin is only for short-term financial freedom it will potentially damage their finances more quickly due to not being able to make the right decisions.

The truth is that a lot of us started our Bitcoin investment from the premise of quick profits, the hype and what have you. This comes with great deal of mistakes and learning on the process and those who are able to persevere will usually become smarter and better prepared for any eventuality in the course of the investment. I'm not saying it is the best way to go about Bitcoin because getting the right mindset from the beginning which is understanding that Bitcoin is a long time asset will eliminate some kinds of mistakes that we made as newbies such as selling so soon, FOMO, listening to fud and what have you.

Sometimes newbies need to experience to invest for short term and long term since by this they can determine on how they can handle well their investment. Especially if they face certain issues that need to look forward or learn from. Because if they do short cut and just hold maybe they would installed some wrong information in mind that holding is all about positive and 100% sure that they can 100% earn some profit. Since in reality we need to deal with multiple risk especially the volatility if they didn't experience that for sure this new investors will be in bad situation since for sure that they provably don't know what to do and afraid that there money will melt more in value.

For sure long term investment is really good if we base it on statistics, but they need to be a knowledgeable long term investors so that they can make all their plans succeed and all their efforts will be paid off especially if the price of bitcoin would reach for another new all time high or 6 digits in figures which a lot of investors want this to happen.

One thing about bitcoin if you see volatility of the dip as a threat, as something you don't deserve or shouldn't happen then it impossible for you to invest and hodl bitcoin. As far as bitcoin is concerned the price will always drop and go up, this is why bitcoin is good when it is longterm investment,  so that when the price falls you just need to wait for it to increase again.  Investing in Bitcoin is about good patience and understanding.  The fall of price is an opportunity to buy more bitcoin,  when it happens like this it means one have to wait for the price to come up.

Investors needs to understand this very well and never to be panic when the price of bitcoin falls because this is the nature of bitcoin. You just need some patience and understanding the fall of price bitcoin don't last forever.

It is common knowledge that people want wealth from the investment process carried out in bitcoin, but sometimes they ignore the process. The case of borrowing money and then pursuing investment in bitcoin is bad behavior because it talks about price fluctuations and loans have a series that needs to be carried out in accordance with applicable regulations. In fact, if they try to invest responsibly in small amounts, applied consistently it will also provide assets that increase every time.

If the case involved in bitcoin uses their own money and they have a large level of income then the disappointment will be covered by the knowledge of getting to know bitcoin properly. Bitcoin has strength in the long run and all one has to do is hold on and be patient. Building an investment is not easy because we will be faced with risks, but once again if people are able to control these risks will not cause problems, especially investing in bitcoin.

This is a valid point that no one is talking about, Crypto YouTubers are giving  people false hopes, saying how to become a millionaire in 2024 by investing in crypto, which isn't always so true, this is one of the reasons why many beginners are in haste, and once they failed to get the expected result they lose confidence and sell their bitcoin.

Too much misleading in this space if you ask me, and beginners also have their problems too, they lack patience in everything, they can't do research right, and some of them will want to invest in Bitcoin but they want quick returns, and some of them sees altcoins as the better option, no matter how you try to confuse them that Bitcoin is better they won't listen.

They somehow believe that alts are still cheaper and they can also make more money from altcoins, they aren't completely wrong, but the problem is they will do all mistakes available with altcoins investment because its note easier to lose money in altcoin than anything else. 

Thanks you very much, yes it is an obvious fact considering history of Bitcoin from when it was created till now, it has shown a lots of increase in value such that those that bought for about 5 ago and has a lot of of Bitcoin size  and has held  till now will surely be in good profits, it is very good to build Bitcoin investment for long term and that is when you will know the true value of Bitcoin.

I choose Bitcoin for long-term and short-term, and I sell them without hesitation if ever the price hits my goal. To ask when to sell? There is no perfect answer when it depends on your target price. What is important is that we are certain of our goal and that is to make money, not to lose. If we follow this simple rule "Buy low and Sell high", the market can assure us that we can make money from it. But if we are too impatient, this is impossible, the results will only just hurt if we push through.

That is why a good market understanding is hereby required in the sense that this will guide us in good decision-making and strategies.
As we choose Bitcoin, therefore, we also help ourselves to become responsible and accept the fact that this is not a quick-rich scheme.

Most newbies are interested in investing in Bitcoin because of FOMO and wanting to get rich quickly. The profits obtained by other investors are their motivation to invest in Bitcoin even though they don't have the right knowledge on how to invest. The mistake that newbies often make when investing in Bitcoin is jumping straight into making decisions before having basic knowledge about crypto, this type of newbie is very easily carried away by the hype. Bitcoin investing is all about opportunity, you have to educate yourself to make a rational decision about what to do before jumping in headfirst.

Another thing that will make newbies not to get what they desire from bitcoin investment is when they invest all their money in bitcoin with the hope of getting rich soon and without making provision for an emergency fund. When an emergency arises, there will be no funds to use to solve it; they will have no choice but to depend on their bitcoin investment to solve the emergency. Secondly, when newbies fail to get what they desire from their bitcoin investment and the price of bitcoin dips, they will be forced to sell their bitcoin even though they are at a loss. 

The problem with newbies right now is that they don't have enough patience to wait for years in order for them to get profit.
This is also the reason why whenever I introduce Bitcoin to other people, I always say at first that "If you want to maximize the profits that you can get in investing into Bitcoin, you need at least wait for 2-3 years at least. If you want to earn profits a bit faster, go trade."

Whenever I say the bolded text to newbies around me that are interested into Bitcoin, they just simply back out because they can't wait for years to get the profit. I also say to them that in 2-3 years' time, you can double or triple your money depending on the time when you are buying it which is true, right? You bought in the bear market, 2-3 years from now your initial capital already tripled. Not certain though.

At the end of the day, I don't want to generalize newbies, but most of them doesn't have the patience to wait hence, they don't want to invest into it. They want quick bucks, but they don't know the risks. They want easy money, but they don't want to learn. They want profits as fast as possible, but they aren't willing to spend a little bit of their time researching.

Yeah, no kidding.  The new people in crypto seem to think it is some fast cash grab fueled by those FOMO moments when prices spike up quick.  Then suddenly the bear market hits and all those dreams crash hard, and  dollar cost averaging can definitely help, but trying to perfectly time when prices peak is pretty hopeless.  Bottom line is crypto should not be anyone's only income stream, point blank.  You really gotta learn the landscape before you start betting money you need for real bills.  Professional traders are a different story, but those guys built their knowledge and experience the right way, not with YOLO bets.

Certainly yes. Long term hodling is quite a struggle for those who are here to make quick profits. That’s the reason why majority of newbies end up investing in altcoins because they can make short term profits which is not possible with bitcoin, as long as they come to invest with the potential altcoins.

However, it also depends on how far your knowledge acquisition with bitcoin. Because if you know bitcoin well, you would not mind investing in it for long term because there are also high chances that you will end up reaping massive profits. But for those who invest without knowing, expect that they are more quick profits driven, and with this type of mindset, it will be hard for them to make decent profits in bitcoin.

This is great and nice to hear that from you and your first paragraph was dope I must say, but then just a few confusion in the last paragraph which is the part I quoted above.


The main question is, when is the best price for the newbies to cash out as you mentioned top of the price.


Which price is actually top?

First of all, there is no fixed time to when the price might go up and again their is no assurance to know if the price will go up in the time frame you took the loan so the option of collecting loan is a definitely a NO NO. Bitcoin is the best crypto out there and it has proven this time without number so what anyone needs to do to get some good vibes off their investment is to actually go for a long term investment rather than taking huge risk of collecting loan when you know the price is always volatile.

I mean it's a basic thing that most of the newbies have as a problem having the wrong mindset thinking that cryptocurrency and Bitcoin is just a easy investment, where you could just put your money on it, wait a little bit, and cash it out, most of the newbies get this mindset most of the time when they enter the market in a Bullrun because of FOMO, since at Bullrun most of the cryptocurrency are just having a long rally of increasing its market price, newbie traders thinking that it is just how the market works, and it's going to be easy money for them, then when they experience the bear market everything came down to realization and now they lose a huge amount of money in the end.

My advice here is always go for dollar cost averaging since it's going to minimize the risk of your investment, it was just like you saving money every week but you are just putting it on Bitcoin, as long as you are going to sell it on the top of the market you're always going to make a profit out of it, one thing that I've realize as well the hard way is to not make cryptocurrency investment as a main source of your income, because your just gonna end up losing money, if your going to do that in case of emergency if you doesn't have other income your going to sell your investment at a wrong timing.

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Whether they choose to trade or just hold till the price appreciates, they still need to be patient and committed to see results. What difference will it make if an unserious newbie goes into trading just to make quick money and at the end he runs away because he has no discipline in him. Not everyone will trade, if they are comfortable with just investing alone, then it's totally fine, provided they truly understand what they are really investing in and what it takes to get good returns on their investments.
In whatever way one intends to earn from Bitcoin, it requires time to really see results and there is no specific means of earning that is specifically reserved for newbies.  They can earn anywhere as long as they are prepared for it.

Edit: @DubemIfedigbo001 thanks, I noticed it immediately after dropping the post but due to poor internet connection,  there's delay.

Some of these newbies are supposed to travel in the direction of trading and not investing, immediate gains are only possible when you're good in trading, you can speculate the next trend and cash out big time as well as lose big time. Maybe they should make up their mind and go for what they want in their bitcoin journey instead of lamenting out of limited knowledge on bitcoin investment.

I also think most of them aren't patient enough, nor are they committed to learning in the forum, lest they would have found numerous answers to their quest with the vast information we've here. Before making my investment, I perfectly understood the act of bitcoin investment and never made any investment until I had spare funds and a steady source of income to cover up my living expenses.

I read a story where a newbie was complaining of someone taking his money and leaving the coins, I laughed in my mind because he had the wrong orientation from his investment manager. I think its also partly the duties of those recruiting these newbies into crypto to properly inform them about the nature of bitcoin investments so they are properly prepared for the volatile nature of the investment.

Do people still think like this, I thought people are complaining that Bitcoin isn't giving them outrageous profits anymore which is making them to start shifting their investments towards other coins but end up still regretting when the projects they were chasing after anf thought would had made them successful, fail them. What's  trending is that trending projects can give them quick profit with their pumping and dumping schemes and this is making many of them getting launched constantly because they know we have gullible people interested in investing in them. New investors that want to invest in Bitcoin shouldn't have a short term investment mentality or they won't benefit on a greater scale.


What then happens after that is that they'll sell for them to realize that profits and when they exit the market they lose out on potential future gains because for them to re-enter the market they mostly do that at a higher price but many don't re-enter the market still because they'll be waiting for what they feel is the bottom of the market but as we all know, it's very hard to predict Bitcoin bottom and the speed at which the market recovers at times might make you to miss entering the market. The better choice is to invest and hodl and not to be timing the market for the perfect investing price with purpose of selling with in a short timeframe.

Most of them think they can easily make quick money from bitcoin, most of them doesn’t even know what bitcoin is really all about, and they don’t know what they are suppose to do if they want to make money from bitcoin. They just think if they can buy bitcoin, then they are already Rich, they don’t know that things doesn’t really work like that, you shouldn’t just hear about something, and you will decide to jump into it, you have to make sure you do your own research to accumulate more knowledge.

Just few newbies are the one’s that know they are suppose to hold bitcoin for a long period of time if they really need a maximum profit, the rest think bitcoin is a get rich quick scheme where you can easily make money after buying bitcoin but things doesn’t work like that.

The reason why many of these newbies are getting always getting this mentality of quickly making it from Bitcoin, mostly, is from some people that first introduced them to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general. Instead of this people to just simply introducing Bitcoin properly they will just go ahead and hype Bitcoin. From there almost all these newbies pick up the mentality making it from quickly. And again some sets of people are just very lazy to do their own research but always follow what people say. The truth is that when someone follows some set of people, they will definitely mislead you with wrong information.

So the reason why most newbies borrow or invest what they can't afford to lose is this mentality that they will make it quickly, not knowing that that's not how it works. If most of these newbies are getting the right information, I believe that the aim of making it in Bitcoin in a short period will not be there.


The early investors have proven that holding Bitcoin for a long period of time is the best way of making reasonable profits from Bitcoin investment. But that is what many of these new investors don't understand. What I think about those set of people who are not always able to hold onto their Bitcoin for a long period of time is that they lack trust in Bitcoin.

Any newbie who borrow money and invest, invested at higher risk because the market is very volatile it can change at any time and the fact that they come here to make money, as soon as they come, make things more difficult for them to achieve. Because even business that are physical ones, they don’t have get their money back with profit in a night. So it always surprises me anytime I see newbie think this way because to me this is something that is impossible, there is no way someone will invest in Bitcoin and expect return with profit over a night it won’t work.


This is true. We can all invest but is not all of us are ready to take the risk behind Bitcoin investment. Which is why many people get disappointment at the end if the day, some people want to make money from Bitcoin investment, but are not ready to invest for a long period of time and some people get affected by their emotions once they see the price is dumping they are unable to leave their money, they rather sell at lost, because they think they will lose their money and won’t get it back again.

Yes, new investors think that investing in Bitcoin can make a lot of profits quickly. But actually investing in Bitcoin is difficult to make quick profit. If you want to succeed in investing in Bitcoin, you need to be patient and hold for a long time. But those who invested in Bitcoin at the right time reaped quick profits. For example, those who invested in the beginning of 2023 made huge profits within 1 year. Everyone can invest but cannot hold for a long time. Never be disappointed when the price of Bitcoin drops. Investing in Bitcoin is definitely risky, but if one can hold for a long time, one can definitely profit.

The mistake made by some people is they think that its fine to take some loan and invest it with bitcoin since they can eventually earn some profit from it after all. But they don't realize the big problem they trying to get in and actually they usually at losing side for picking this option since somehow the interest of their loan might became more bigger and they might easily get affected once market shift into bearish. If that situation will happen for sure that a lot of guys will get panic and those people who don't have great experience dealing with such situation might lose their money and be in more bigger troubles.

That's why they should use their spare money to invest in bitcoin since as we all know that bitcoin investment is really for long term that's why those people aiming for short term with bitcoins should never try to borrow some money since the risk to lose is so high on their side.

Beginners and anyone else should know that bitcoin will not make them rich overnight. Its price volatility allows the value of an investment to increase or even decrease in the next minute - but that is normal due to supply and demand. Returns can certainly be expected after some time - but sometimes it takes months to get a few percent increase.

I think they can learn from how other investments whose prices fluctuate like gold and others work. Bitcoin is the same - meaning the price will never stabilize, but over the long term it performs well as an investment asset that can be expected to provide worth it returns with the risk.

Borrowing money to invest in bitcoin is a no go area for any newbies, infact not even good for anyone to borrow to buy such a high risk asset like bitcoin, because doing so can lead to more devastating outcome and also put the investor under pressure to cash out the investment and that can build impatient which is against the original profits approach in bitcoin.


Bitcoin is designed for long term perspective and if anything happens in the short term only those that have knowledge and understanding of the risk involved in taking short term stands may be able to make any profits.

The long ride is what many people are not prepared for, I bet that those newbies who are borrowing money to invest in Bitcoin will avoid it when they get to know that it's a long-term hold thing to make money from Bitcoin.

Generally, too many people like to make money easier and faster, isnt this the reason why many of them are hooked on gambling? Because the result is faster, like if they fail or win it should be this day, and that's why they lose a lot of money too.

If something is too easy I become cautious because something that should work out for you will never be easy, thats why I dont go out looking for the easy ways, I prefer the hard way, the only way to make money as a Bitcoin investor is to be prepared to hold for a long period.

The incorrect Bitcoin mentality, the wrong information and ideas, and their greed make them write these negative comments and sell at a loss. In fact, they did not give themselves enough time to read the necessary information and guidance from reliable sources to build their correct ideas before they invested even a single dollar in Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is not the magic lamp for achieving quick, short-term wealth after days of investment. The investor’s long-term theory, along with increasing his holdings while waiting patiently, is always the winning theory. Also, borrowing, not adhering to a specific plan and risk management strategy, and selling expensive property to invest in Bitcoin are among the wrong things. Any beginner investor should have patience, have sufficient capital beyond his needs and be suitable for investment, bear the ultimate risks and understand them, buy during periods of price downturns, and maintain the safety and security of his wallet. Undoubtedly, Bitcoin is a promising investment and requires a knowledgeable mindset that leads the investor to the right path to achieve financial freedom.

Understand the investment you make is very essential for every investor and having a well structured plan that consists of the duration you intend to invest for and understanding the best duration to be in the market is also essential and not just join an investment because everyone is investing in it. Those who engage in long term bitcoin investment are those that get the best out of bitcoin investment, because it is the safest mode of investment and investor wouldn’t have to be worried about the drop in price every time there is a dip because the price is bound to rise and reach a new ATH after a few years so long term holding will be more beneficial for Newbie investors.

These are bad traits any investor should possess because bitcoin investment is not a get rich quick scheme that newbies would expect quick profit from, most newbies think of bitcoin as a get rich quick scheme because of how they hear people making money from it, what they fail to understand that knowledge is the key. To becoming a successful investor having good insight knowledge of bitcoin is essential alongside other necessary skills.

Understanding that borrowing money to invest or using money set aside for something else to invest in bitcoin is wrong thing to do but newbies won’t know this because they always want to skip learning process which is why they end up in losses and debts.

Impatience is one of the major reason some investors don't go into Bitcoin investment. they are not discipline enough to wait patiently for the price of Bitcoin to increase in a long term. And that is why after buying Bitcoin for a month and they experience small pump in price, they'll just sell off everything. I bet that there are some Investors who sold their Bitcoin when the bull just began , due to the lack of faith or should I say, ignorant about Bitcoin network and it's price movement principles they just assume Bitcoin can't go beyond a particular limit.

This is what many newbies don't know due to their limited knowledge about Bitcoin. Those who understand Bitcoin properly and have gathered experience in the crypto industry understand that to make a reasonable profit from Bitcoin, someone needs to be able to hold their investment over a long period of time before thinking of selling. As you said, most newbies easily see their Bitcoin investment whenever the price begins to drop. They think it may be that they are dying, so they panic and begin to worry and get frustrated.
For the reason that Bitcoin is volatile in nature, that is we are always been advised by those who have gathered enough experience in the bitcoin industry not to invest more than we can afford to lose, and once we do not invested what we can afford to lose, you will find out that someone will be able to hold onto your Bitcoin investment over a long period of time, and you will not always be in frustration stages even when the price of Bitcoin is dropping.

This is perhaps the difference between a new investor and an experienced investor. New investors don't have full experience about their investment so they panic if the price of the coin they invest in goes down and thinks that the price of this coin can go down even more. As a result, they are forced to sell the coin in a hurry and have no interest in investing long-term as the coin's price drops. However, those who are experienced and knowledgeable investors are very positive about their investments. They set a specific goal before investing and then hold their investment until that goal is reached, no matter how long it takes.
One of the reasons we small investors are successful in investing in Bitcoin is to hold Bitcoin investments for the long term. Because most of us investors prefer to make small investments that require them to hold these investments for a long period of time. Both experienced and new investors should invest in Bitcoin and hold it for the long term. And especially those who are new investors should not panic if the price of Bitcoin falls and hold Bitcoin patiently. Because the price of Bitcoin goes up quickly, people make the most profit by investing in Bitcoin.

Newbies who made a mistake or lost their investment and did not get a profit from investing in bitcoin should blame themselves because, as a newbie, you are expected to learn before you start thinking of earning, but most newbies do not want to do that anymore, and I won't call this a mistake either. I think he or she is just after the money and does not want to learn because when it comes to bitcoin investment, there are two things: knowledge and being aware of the risk, and then knowing that you are going to leave your money there for a long period of time.

Who knows, maybe he invested a large amount of money that he could not afford to lose, and then he saw the market getting dumped and decided to sell the investment. If not, I haven't seen anyone who invested in Bitcoin and planned it for a long period of time and failed. All the people I see make a profit from their investments.

It's clear that they don't make sufficient research with bitcoin if they think that they're actually late to enter bitcoin investment. The truth is, bitcoin is everyday a good buy as long as your goal is to hold it as a long term investment. But if your goal is to hold it for short term so you can make quick profits, you are doing the wrong thing. Bitcoin is even more risky if you invest in it for short term, that's why a lot of us here always manage to make bitcoin as a long term investment.

Newbies are actually discouraged from investing in altcoins since the risk of losing is vividly high. It's better if they will stick to bitcoin first and hold it for long term since bitcoin has been proven a lot of times to create decent profits once it's being hold for years and only sell at its perfect time, that is when bull run comes. Just learn to avoid the thought of making quick profits with bitcoin as bitcoin is not capable to make it happen.

This mindset is always in the heart of newbies whenever they are joining cryptocurrency. The people they get information from are most people that make money through crypto investment or crypto trading, that is why they mostly come with the aim of making money quickly and as such, some of them do borrow money to invest with aim of getting quick returns to pay back the money.

The newbies need to know that altcoins are what give quick money and not Bitcoin. Sometimes, Bitcoin can bring such profit when you invest during the bull run or some weeks before bull run starts, but if you want to enjoy crypto investment, you should invest in bitcoin and hold for long period of time.

There is no scheme that can make a man rich overnight but yes after many nights the night will come for one who worked hard and consistently and aimed for some goal and that night is the richy night for that person after so many haha... Bitcoin is best for long-term investment for spot holders and it can return high profits after the long term but this needs to be learned for newbie members. The saddest reality is that newbies rush to see themselves as rich person because they don't want to see any long path and this looks like a hurry action and we know that many make bad losses when they rush toward hurry action.

This Mentality makes them weak and when they come to know that bitcoin is a long-term investment they get demotivated and fetch their invested amount out of bitcoin. Newbies should know that there is no work that can help them to get rich easily in the short term without getting their hands muddy every work requires hard work, and passion of the person and without these, no one can achieve their goals. we have to trust the process and after the process, we will have a good benefit of our patience.

I see no reason why a newbie should consider the use of altcoins for a start when they haven't known about bitcoin and invested, things like this happens and it includes part of the reasons why they will always get scammed on shitcoins, bitcoin should be the only investment we should start with as a newbie and if possible maintain that for life if we really wan to avoid higher risk in other coins, we may not know which ones is shitcoin or not.

They/beginners should think long and hard, investing should not require us to borrow, if they know that Bitcoin's development cycle changes every four years, generally known as halving and ATH, it is long term in nature, not to make millions in a matter of one day and one night.

But if they are thinking about investing in Bitcoin actually, that is a positive thing but it must be done in the long term, and that is not done with borrowed money, it is very good if done with personal money little by little, for example, they did it within three years after the halving occurred, maybe at that time Bitcoin was going down and they could think about the next phenomenon in the future.

Borrowing and investing in Bitcoin, hoping to get rich overnight is wrong, investment needs a process to produce good results, not like turning the palm of the hand.

The wrong method will result in disappointment. They immediately look for places to gain knowledge after making their first investment, such as joining the Bitcointalk forum. In fact, they should change their mindset by finding forums first, then increasing their knowledge of how to invest and finding ways to manage risk before investing. Most of them assume Bitcoin is a get-rich-quick investment, this understanding is very contrary to the law of investment where there are always two possibilities there.

Due to limited knowledge, they dare to use borrowed money to invest, they forget that there are big risks they will face in investing when using borrowed money. They must put knowledge about investment first with all the risks that might occur before making an investment, there is no guarantee of making a profit in the short term because no one knows what will happen to Bitcoin after they make an investment.
Using cold money is much safer than using borrowed money, they can be a little calmer if the value of Bitcoin suddenly is not as expected and then can change investment plans for the long term.

We have passed through tougher times and we must stay strong enough to absorb all the pressure coming in the system. We shouldn't jeopardize any chance given because the space is mainly run for technical and fundamental analysis. I'm not yet fully experienced but still learning, atleast I can easily spot the tremendous profits and also indulge in thorough research for the purpose to grab the available profits. Newbies should follow a profitable mentor because that's one of the numerous chances of staying longer in the system.

In most cases newbies are the major target of scam accusations n the cryptocurrency industry and at that we have to do all it takes to build the forehand knowledge for them to be able to overcome every attempt to rob them of their investment and also since they are not yet granded with the knowledge of risk management they can also make the wrong choice that can affect the long term motivation and ability to continue investing.


Bitcoin is less risky and Bitcoin give them the ability to learn all ng the way without being put under undue pressure or risk that can affect their investment.

Now that I have been in this area for so long, I consider I have been here for long enough to consider myself pretty mature investment wise.

In my opinion.  Looking at Bitcoin for short term profit either comes out of some sort of immaturity or despair.  Either you really need money very quickly and your only hope is luck hitting you hard or you simply think you have the chance to be that 0.1 percent who wins the luck game but do not desperately need it necessarily.

I would be more afraid about Newbies investing in Altcoins than Newbies taking even borrowed money to put into Bitcoin though.  Altcoins will mess your life up.  Bitcoin has at least proved to be an insanely good investment over the years, long as you hold even through tougher times.

Newbies are often believers of crypto influencers, that’s why it’s hard to establish the real knowledge for them since all they know is that bitcoin is the key to get rich. Although it’s true at some point, but for you to be able to get there, one must acquire maximum amount of knowledge and understanding so that you won’t get easily bothered when your bitcoin investment does not work as planned. Bitcoin creates more opportunities when you chose it to hold for long term, that way the risk is lessen while the chance to be in profits has become bigger.

The beginning of your topic is true and I was about to merit your post because it's quite rare to read that here. Except maybe, the words about the forum, since I don't think many people discover this forum right after investing in Bitcoin, forums are not used much anymore nowadays, people prefer social medias instead. But unfortunately the end of the message is wrong. Despite being a common misleading thought, Bitcoin doesn't offer any guarantee of so-called "financial freedom" or fortune in the short, the middle or the long term. Not more than any gambling game could do actually, it hasn't been designed for that, and it's just a personal bet you do at the end.

It's true that a lot of newbies / beginners in bitcoin investment are oriented with a quick profit scheme but perhaps when they join this forum it tends to turn out the other way.

I don't really blame a good number of them for having such impression about bitcoin because when you visit YouTube today and you search the word bitcoin, a lot of videos will appear and most are title how to become a millionaire in 2024! And the next learn is invest in bitcoin and you will become a millionaire in few days hence a good number of people came into the forum through all this kind of advertisements. After buying bitcoin the next expectations is for bitcoin to magically turn then into millionaires over night hence when the expectations are not met then they rush to altcoins believing that it will surge high for the expected profit.

I believe that is why the forum is there to reform the ideology of people about bitcoin, that it's not a get rich quick scheme. If only we the newbies will dedicate more time to increase our holdings for long term and hence in less than two cycles of bitcoin we will achieve the goal.

Financial freedom can be interpreted differently but Bitcoin might not guarantee high profits that will sustain an individual for a lifetime especially if huge capital is not used to invest. Investing like 1000 dollars might not make someone rich in the next four years. People who have gained financial freedom from Bitcoin are those who bought the coin at a very cheap price and held it till date or those who invested heavily.

People are moved by predicted profits and most of them don't even consider the requirements and risk involved. This bull season has attracted many ignorant investors to the crypto industry and most of them will end up losing money because of lack of knowledge. 

Most of them are always having wrong orientation about bitcoin investment, they just hear about bitcoin, and they believe they can make massive profits from bitcoin, after most of them join, and they are not getting the profit which they expected, they will end up being disappointed, and some of them will end up investing in wrong platforms which will promise them massive returns within a short period of time without any risk. Before investing in bitcoin, make sure you have proper knowledge about bitcoin before making any investment, newbies should know that bitcoin is not a get rich quick scheme.

Most people that have that kind of mindset always end up falling into the wrong hands, most of them do end up being scammed because of the quick money which they are always looking for, after they are scammed, they will be complaining that bitcoin is a scam, but they should blame themselves because they made wrong investment.

Everyone is just making prediction about bitcoin, nobody is sure about the price that bitcoin will be going at a particular period of time, just make sure you have knowledge about bitcoin before investing.

They often complain but when opportunities knock on their door, they become hesitant to take advantage on it because of their fears that their investment will end up as a scam. This kind of mindset is common for newbies. It’s just ironic to say that those who have less or no knowledge about bitcoin have definitely a lot to say while those who have been into bitcoin for quite long remain positive on it.

Bitcoin cannot make a person rich overnight, but hey if you work on it without showing signs of quitting but more on positivity, I always think that it will reap you good things in the long run, patience is the key.

Certainly the best idea to anyone engaging in a volatile market, but will they heed? Most certainly No. The narrative that the newbies are mostly shaped with is that this cryptocurrency of a thing makes riches, Yes! No body is denying that fact but it’s not something that you get from investing just some certain amount in a Short period of time. The set of people that usually share This wrong narrative to newbies is the highly profitable traders who have been in the market for a long term and they tell the newbies this just to have them pay for mentorship. Other set are those shilling airdrops this two combines gives the newbie hope that should they invest a larger amount of money it will double in a period of time and newbies go on to borrow funds also just to realize some certain amount of money and this stops them from holding for a very long term because the initial narrative was a wrong one

One of the best advice you can give to a beginner is to never borrow money to invest in crypto. It is a gamble that they shouldn’t take. Cryptocurrency is a highly volatile market. It is better to use money from other sources like your job or side hustles to buy an affordable amount of bitcoin every week/month. It's easier to hodl when you are not under pressure to repay a loan through profits from your bitcoin investment.

Those that have the kind of mindset about getting rich quickly with Bitcoin, they are likely to fall for those scam platforms. But if they want to make money out of it in the short term, they can try to trade. But with that, they're unlikely to make it if they don't even know how to do basic analysis.

Few years back, many have thought about Bitcoin as a rich quick scheme and they only understand it that you have to invest into a platform for you to get into Bitcoin.

But as time matures, many newbies understand more about Bitcoin that it isn't a kind of platform that they'd be rich quickly but it matures as well over time.

Sometimes there have been alot of misconceptions by the newbies a d they need some redirection to be able to position in the right track because alot of them rush into bitcoin without even having the basic understanding of how the market works and what come along with bitcoin investment and how they chose to handle them as we go along with bitcoin and how we invest in it as newbies.


The best approach to bitcoin should be long term base as long as you are not a trader and just a holder this is what should determine your level of knowledge building along the line and how you manage yourself through.

Investing in Bitcoin should eventually be for the long term. Newbies who don't know much about Bitcoin, after investing in Bitcoin, when the market goes down a bit, they panic and they stop holding and take a loss. No one knows where the price of Bitcoin will go next, so you must be sure of a stable and long-term investment in Bitcoin, and hold long time without panicking.

I think that's totally their fault it's not the fault of BTC or either trading. When you want to become a doctor you go through almost 6 years of education. Every profession requires the amount of time and hard work that you need to invest in so that you can acquire a certain amount of skills.

Now the case you have mentioned is a result of this negligence that trading is a bit simple and just go for it. Taking profit from BTC short term while you don't have enough to invest and you're a newbie is such a dream that has no relation with reality. If they had acquired good skills they would've known it.

If we really want to be profitable about bitcoin, then we don't have to be too fast about making money from it, anything that is promising making a quick return over a short time could be untrue or scam, that is why we can not take bitcoin the same way we see ponzi schemes, we have to be patient and lenient enough in seeing what we have invested reach its maturity stage before we can be taking profits from it, while the longer we are holding, the more likely we appear in making profits in it.

Knowledge is very important in anything you want to do in this life because it serves as a guideline to know the wrong side and the right side. If someone wants to do business or invest in anything, if they have good knowledge about what they want to invest in, they will be successful.in cryptocurrency industry if someone want to be successful it really need good knowledge about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general, so that it will know that right decisions to take, like the best coins it need to invest in, the types of wallets best for keeping the Bitcoin.
 
I believe that the newbies that do come to the crypto industry with the aim of becoming millionaires in the short term are a set of people who only follow the information they hear from others without doing any further research on their own. For example, just recently, with Bitcoin pumping, there were many people coming into the crypto industry because they heard that the price of Bitcoin was increasing and some were making profits from it. They also started investing without knowing anything about Bitcoin, but only the profit some people were making. They will never think when those people who are taking profits now start investing in Bitcoin. 

Can't help much because whoever is entering Bitcoin now is not because of its decentralisation like people used to choose Bitcoin back in the days to ensure there is no third parties involved during payment transfer and cross border payment but since Bitcoin has been utilised more for return on investment the crowd which enter Bitcoin will also be only thinking of profit and losses instead of the technology and we will obviously have people complaining about Bitcoin wherein it's their failure of short term mindset.

Just one advice if you are not ready to hodl for 3-4 years then don't go for Bitcoin it's not for you.

That's right, OP. And this is precisely why you are there, those people who understand the risks of investing in Bitcoin, to warn beginners and interested people that they may lose everything instead of the expected profit. I prefer to immediately cool the ardor of my friends who, seeing how Bitcoin is growing and hearing how some people were able to increase their capital, tell them about the pitfalls that they may encounter.
By praising Bitcoin and telling only the positives, we become unwitting instigators of unprepared people for future collapses.
But those beginners who act on their own, without reading or listening to those who warn them to be more attentive to all aspects of storage, deadlines, and knowledge in general, will simply receive life lessons until they grow wiser.

Bitcoin is not for those who take loans and purchase Bitcoin so they may get profits and repay the loans + interests and also keep some extra profits. It's for those people who have their own money that they invest in it and hold it for long term.

The ones who want quick buck with Bitcoin often end up losing both money and hope and that's why they say that there's no profits in Bitcoin or it's scam, blah, blah, blah. If the understand the market of the Bitcoin and get a sense that how it works then they will only invest in it if they want to earn steady long-term profits.

Majority of these newbies enter bitcoin investment thinking that it could be a get rich quick scheme. Probably because of those crypto influencers found in the social media where all they did is flexing their profits while continue to hide their real amount of losses. Not realizing that it will make them endure more losses at first before they will come to maximize their profits.

If this will be the mindset of a newbie, he will definitely end up losing with bitcoin. But if he gets the right information about bitcoin from the start, hence he will be more cautious in his investment and chose long term hodling than short term profiting.

Bitcoin is never an easy investment, but full of flaws and risks and if you are not wise enough, you will only maximize your losses if you continue to invest in bitcoin blindly. However, if you chose to invest in it for long term, there’s always bigger chances to lessen the risk of losing, as long as you never get tempted to sell at a lower price everytime the market crash or there’s a price correction happening in the market. Patience is certainly the key, and the more you become patient with your long term investment, the bigger the amount of profits you will reap in the future once you decide to sell your coins.

Usually I hardly encourage newbies investing in bitcoin when I noticed that their mindset is for short term profits, because anyone with this mentality could hardly make a good investment since their attention is being centered on a short term investment instead of having long term thinking to know what the future could give them. There are some exceptional case where they are lucky enough to invest after bitcoin halving , all of the sudden the market boom to new ATH with this the can make profits as they desired if they aren't that greedy to hold till prices goes to millions dollars per bitcoin, even if they don't think of holding for long term but with that smartness the would cashed out something good from their investment than jumping into market when the price has changed in direction and prices.

One of the things that makes most newbie investors think this way is the kind of orientation that most of them have had since their first time with bitcoin. They have the impression that once you invest in bitcoin, you are sure of getting rich, but they don't know it's not something that is being done in a short time. 
 
Another thing is that most people don't get proper information on how things work with bitcoin. They read a lot of success stories from those who have invested in bitcoin in the early stages and are not rich, flashing their luxury everywhere online, which is one of the reasons why most people choose to invest in bitcoin so that they can also enjoy such luxury, but they fail to study the time frame it took them to arrive there.

They should remove that thinking because reaching to that point will also depend on what kind of effort they do and also the amount of capital they start with. What I am disappointed with most of the newbies is that they always complain about being too late in buying BTC and that's why they choose memecoins and other altcoins instead. That's the disadvantage they always point out but if they're serious with it, they will buy it without any complain and I agree that it should be for the long term. They won't feel the essence of holding Bitcoin in the short term when they have bought it also at the peak. But if they will plan out their purchases and DCA, they'd see the huge difference of it that they'd be happy that it is their choice instead of altcoins.

I know thinking of becoming millionaires quickly after investing in bitcoin is bad but to be frank another who has this idea but also is searching for knowledge and information about Bitcoin and ends here is on the right track because they will be enlighten of their misconception.

While many of us may not be in such category, in thinking bitcoin is not a get rich quickly scheme but to be frank the knowledge of bitcoin we were having before becoming a member of this forum were false and I'm in such category and will continue to thank God of this forum.  No matter the knowledge of Bitcoin you are looking for in regard to economic, investment, technical aspects and others joining this forum has already solved it, what's left for you it to learn to become enlighten of the truth

I have read alot of comments from newbies complaining how they investment into bitcoin is at a lose or does not give them they desired result of achieving the financial freedom that bitcoin offers based on they short term wrong bitcoin mentality.


Some newbies locate this forum as soon as they make they first investment into bitcoin, and searching for knowledge and information on they investment, but the original intention is for bitcoin to make them a millionairs in the next day after investment, this is the reason why some of them borrow money to invest in bitcoin or using money that they need to solve real life problems to invest in bitcoin with the aim to make profits in short term.


If you have the above mindset as a newbie investor then you should know that your are on a long ride of being disappointed, because no one know what the outcome will be for bitcoin in terms of bitcoin value in the next minute, that is the reason one need to hold bitcoin with the knowledge of long term in view, to stabilise and build you and your investment up with time, before achieving the true financial freedom.