Topic: What if, you had invested $100 in BTC (From 2010 to 2021) - page 3. (Read 461 times)

I stumbled upon an article on Yahoo Finance, which really sparkled my interest, it's from February 2021. It is consisted of several scenarios, coming from the early days of 2010 until nowadays, 2021. I think that its performance is quite astonishing, even if you aren't an early adopter, those $100 could still be a great investment in the long run.

Starting from 2010, BTC's average price would be a few cents at most (The article mentions 6 cents per BTC), your $100 investment would now be worth $73.000.000 (BTC value $44.000, with current value of $50.000~ that would now be $82.843.920!)

Even in 2013, that Bitcoin was starting to gain in value (Approximately $600-700 each) your $100 would now be worth $7.800 (valued at $50.000).

What's interesting is that even throughout years 2017-2019 (Which is our very recent past), those $100 which is like a petty amount of investment, would lead to pretty decent profit, from such a petty amount.

Bitcoin was and still is one of the best investments someone could make, I strongly believe that there's still earning/investment potential. Sometimes I am thinking back and wonder what if? What if I had even bought $50 worth of BTC back in 2014, when I registered here, now I'd have a decent amount of money. I wish I had realized the potential back then, but I was too young. It's no time for regrets, we should keep going forward, in an effort to acquire as much knowledge we can, which can lead us to a new earning potential.

Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-price-soars-much-100-163535191.html

You are quite right here, although some things have changed dramatically when it comes to prices, and from my personal experience I can say that many think it is too late to invest in BTC, and accordingly buy various altcoins which they think should achieve the same or approximately what Bitcoin has achieved in that time period. Greed has become even greater after all, as few would be happy to achieve x5 or x10 in the future by investing in BTC.


You're not the only one who didn't understand the potential of Bitcoin, most of us were still quite skeptical 5-6 years ago when the main topic on the forum was whether the price would ever reach $1000 again. If some of us would go back and read some of our posts we would see that we were pretty wrong in many things. However, it is much more important that we did not give up in some difficult moments and that we are still here.

Bitcoin was and still is one of the best investments someone could make, I strongly believe that there's still earning/investment potential.

I wish I had realized the potential back then, but I was too young.

This is a very common situation for a lot of people. But if you bought Bitcoin just because of investment, taking profits (selling) of your Bitcoin after some increase of price is not wrong at all, taking profits is never a bad decision, you already made profits on it.
For me, there are few people who manage to hodl their Bitcoin from 2010 to now, there are lot happened along the road  

It's very easy to talk about what could have been after the fact by watching the already changed price. But the reality is that most people who had $100 in bitcoin back in 2010 were like most people who had $100 in bitcoin about a week ago. Both of these groups panic sold when they saw a volatility.

The 2010 people panic sold when price fell from $6.4 to $4.8
The 2021 people panic sold when price fell from $64k to $48k

If I bought Bitcoin at $ 100 in 2014,2015, I would probably sell Bitcoin when its price reached about $ 10000, $ 15000. No one can know what the market in advance will be. And how much bitcoin price will reach the peak. All are just anticipation.

I participated in Bitcoin also nearly 10 years but I don't store long-term Bitcoin. Now I realize that is the mistake of alone. In 2018, after a strong fluctuating Bitcoin slipped everyone said that Bitcoin collapsed I sold out its Bitcoin. Then the market was stable and the price of Bitcoin increased, I no longer Bitcoin to sell. I stopped investing Bitcoin for a while. And now after many events occurred, I decided to continue to invest Bitcoin and have new strategies.

The value may be the same if it is still on BTC. It will be different when you are converting to fiat. Yeah, Bitcoin is about converting that coin into fiat in order to know the value itself, moreover the rate conversion of the coin.
We know that at that time, BTC was still very doubtful and many people didna care about this technology. It is very different with the condition right now, where many people will always involve in Bitcoin and also cryptocurrenices.

If I bought ..
If I hadn't sold ..
If I had not lost the wallet.dat and the private key ..
History always repeats itself, statistics say that about 3 million bitcoins are lost forever.
This is a good lesson, so you need to take good care of all cryptoassets, make more copies and invest in interesting projects.

If you had bought 100$ worth of bitcoins in 2010, you would not have imagined that your bitcoins would have multiplied millions of times by 2021.  But sadly, it is never possible to predict the crypto market in advance.