Topic: Why Are People Not Interested To Listen To Success Stories Of Bitcoin Investors? (Read 585 times)

I believe on the saying that if there is a will, there is also a way. Some might be early on us but we might still catch up and surpass them, especially if they will slouch. Some people believe on fortune or destiny but IMO, they are only a product of our actions, so we can always change them if we wanted to. The ones who rush and ignore the important points like researching are not genuine. They are only after the short-term success but they won't likely get it even if that is only their goals.

All the better things will only come to those who have patience. I wonder why many people still haven't figured it out but maybe they do and only lack in action.

You're right sometimes the reason why most people sees bitcoin as scam, is due to the level of knowledge they have towards bitcoin investment, most people always consider investors being a scam. more especially when you tell them about your success story about how you made a huge profit from bitcoin investment, they will think that you're into this  illegal business that has been going on in the internet,
This is why most people don't always like sharing their success stories to people.

People do profit. When Bitcoin's price touched $73k, every single Bitcoin investor was in profit because it was an all-time high and anyone who may have bought Bitcoin before that price was in profit.


I'm not sure about the percentage of people sharing their profit or success stories, but I would say that I often see people praising Bitcoin and sharing that they have profited from their investments in Bitcoin.


They must be feeling ashamed or bad for what they did to you earlier, but they will get in sooner or later.


Maybe not all, but some people tend to believe that it is better if they keep their success to themselves instead of letting people know about it as they believe evil eyes can revert things back for them. I know it's superstitious though.

People are getting profit from Bitcoin investment, obviously. Just that, many of them are not ready to tell the public the amount of money they make out of it, and that is what we call privacy. Some of them don't want people to know that they are into crypto, and that is why you only see people who lose online giving false information about bitcoin. The surprising part is that even if they lose to another coin, they will still talk about bitcoin because they know that if they want to talk about the main coin that makes them lose money, people attack them by saying they made a wrong decision.


To me, it will not make any sense using their fake social media account. Why don't you just use the real account to say that your bitcoin investment made you successful? The reason I said this is that since bitcoin is not something illegal, saying it in public is not a big deal.


This can be because your family members do not know much about bitcoin investment; they may view it as a scam since they don't know anything about it, and sometimes people think there is no legal way of making money online. 

What can a person gain by sharing their success story with bitcoin? That is the first question you need to answer in order to know why things are this way, and while the personality profile of the bitcoin investor is changing, it is fair to say that early on, the ones that invested in bitcoin were highly interested on their privacy.

So they are not going to share their success story no matter what, as in this way they will attract a bunch of unwanted attention to themselves for no gain at all.

When someone tells about their success in a way that is wrong or difficult to understand, this will make other people misunderstand investing in Bitcoin and if we tell people who really don't like Bitcoin, of course they will never care about what they have achieved. by other people through Bitcoin, yes of course for those who like investing in Bitcoin of course they will be interested in hearing the story because they might apply what that person has done so that there is a possibility that they can achieve success like other people.

I think this is just a matter of perspective from Bitcoin alone. I think the environment you have doesn't really like and know bitcoin. In fact, the people who are disappointed with bitcoin are the ones who probably didn't get much out of it and it wasn't what they thought it would be. It could be that they buy too quickly when prices are high, and sell during a bear market. Then they told it. Apart from that, many people think that bitcoin is a bad investment because many of them only saw bitcoin when it was hype, and when the price made a correction, they were disappointed. I think, if you really want to invest, then I think you just need to find this investment community in your place that can encourage you. Also, try to focus on this investment rather than hearing other people's stories. If your family doesn't like you investing, then do it for yourself. As long as it doesn't harm other people, then stay optimistic.

Famous and successful investors of today have never achieved that position in an instant, they started with a lot of losses and frustrations at first before getting the success they are enjoying right now. That’s why they deserved the respect and privacy to that. If they profit, let them enjoy it because they worked hard for it. There’s no reason for other people to plan an attack or harm them just because of their greed or envy, it’s just that they have all the right to gain respect and privacy in all the success they have been experiencing right now. They should serve as an inspiration instead, rather than seeing them as enemy.

To sum up this question, a lot of people are scared to share their success stories in their journey through Bitcoin, and it's not everyone who will come here to tell you that they are running into losses in their Bitcoin investment. The success stories of old Bitcoin investors, according to history, are enough motivation for anyone who wants to invest in Bitcoin. Also, the price of Bitcoin can even serve as motivation for anyone who is losing money on their Bitcoin investment. For example, towards the beginning of this year, the Bitcoin price was not even up to $50k, but we can see how far the price has reached. 

Right on point and this was exactly the point i raised in my earlier post in this topic, you cannot expect people to make just a fair profit and start sharing a success story about that, not to add the security risk in doing that.

Such success stories are popular with altcoins, in cases were people buy a lot of altcoins for a very low buying price and they are lucky that one of them pumps and gives them a huge profit; if you are not a whale or an early investor, you can't really make that kind of profit with BTC. But BTC is safer to invest in and it has use cases, unlike altcoins that people just gamble with.

Either they are just not interested or they got used of hearing such stories. It all has the same pattern; struggle, consistency, and success. In the first place, listening to these kind words won't mean anything if the aaudience won't do anything to make positive changes. With regards to people who are just uninterested with Bitcoin investment, that's just fine actually. There are other field of investments an investor could engage himself with. Some are just not into this industry's risk and that is a valid reason.

Another is misconception with Bitcoin itself as a currency and as a digital asset. Also with the idea of defining success; is it only earning big profit? For sure there's more to it.

Most people outside the Bitcoin community perceive it as a get-rich-quick scheme with no intrinsic value.  If that's their initial impression, imagine their reaction when they find out you've made ten times their annual income in a year.  It's akin to a 9-year-old earning your yearly salary in a month from making YouTube videos.

It's human psychology.  Envy feeding denial. 

Expressing something that has good value and is not wrong, especially as this can be a motivation for many people. Well, many people here are not only those who want to invest, but criminals are also targeting publications and finding out who the person is.

BTC is not worth $20 and it is now worth a lot if they can own it any way. I think maybe this is what makes BTC owners silent, even if it is published once it will threaten many things, including their own safety.

Maybe because it's all the same thing to most people, most of us have already heard of the same stories and most of the time, it doesn't really help most of us when it comes to this kind of thing, I feel like that's the big reason why we don't listen to this success stories anymore, it finally became a trite thing for most of us that we'd just hear of this kind of story and think ourselves that it's pretty neat and good for them and then we move on with our lives. Also, there's not a lot of really successful bitcoin investors today that are making profits in the millions because look at how high the price of the bitcoin is right now, pretty sure that most of us probably don't have a lot of bitcoins to flex, maybe if there's more people that are early investors in bitcoin that they were able to buy bitcoin in huge quantities for a really cheap price, maybe we'd listen to them a little bit but the hype won't be for long.

Some one of the success stories we are been seeing and hearing about are fake and most time they can be a way to make money from their thought. I don't think hearing about success stories is what we really needed. People wants to make money from the crypto space and not to hear about stories that will make them become too desperate about the market which could create unusual zeal that will instigate confidence that could make one to lost money. We just have to keep trying our best to learn more skills and make money from the crypto market.

I still see many success stories it’s just that right now bitcoin has not yet gone to break its previous ath so not many yet have taken profit.
I doubt that it’s a matter of boldness or bravery. They probably just want everyone to know their name and gloat. They are now successful after all.

Let’s wait until after the bull run I am sure many success stories will come out.

I think it is because people do not expect much from the story.  To me, the most fascinating ones are those of the people up until 2012 who invested in Bitcoin.  After that, maybe C Z from Binance.

When you think of some body Rich from Bitcoin, you think of some body who purchased Bitcoin, kept it in their own Wallet and turned Rich.  So implicitly, I expect people to prefer a much more interesting story over something like this.

The thing is, how can a non-Bitcoiner know what bitcoin is if a person will not share their story? I mean the essence of the question is that many people dont listen or believe in bitcoin success story just becauss they are not interested because of the complexity and the risk of bitcoin, and we know that people tend to avoid things that dont know so its normal that many people are hesitant to bitcoin and we cant push them to understand or invest in bitcoin if they dont want to, its also bad that people will invest in bitcoin just because they got envy or jealous of others success thinking that they will also reach that success, which is sometimes resulting to many new investors losing money because they want the profit right away without establishing the necessary preparation such as the knowledge and honing skills, anyway conclusion is not everyone could be pursuade to believe in bitcoin.

I can't imagine what will happen to the investor when he reveals the profits he made when investing in Bitcoin, it will put them in danger, but well, we live in a diverse society, many ordinary people have never interested in bitcoin so when they hear words of success from bitcoin investors, they think it's all bullshit, I don't think we should worry about that, we just let those who don't like bitcoin think like that.

Bitcoin have taught people lesson and most of them can't forget the misery they've pass through because they decided to invest in bitcoin. Who understands the market will simply make smart decisions to gain enormous profits. Everyone is here for just one main target, that's winning. Not everyone believes the cock and bull story about these investors success in crypto. Anyone can easily come up with fabulous story and leaving everyone of us lost in our own world of thoughts.

Most people don't like hearing about successful people because of their Bitcoin investment because the wrong person is telling it, I mean you are in the wrong target of telling it to people who don't understand Bitcoin so they won't be interested in hearing your story, try telling it to people who understand Bitcoin, they will definitely be interested in hearing it, even become an inspiration for them and will be even more active in collecting bitcoins.

Maybe people does not fine to discuss yet their bitcoin success stories since they are not earning big yet since bitcoin is meant to be for long term investment and if you are short term trader then you maybe can earn small results. So maybe this is the reason why there's less people talking about their success since what they are interested is to discuss something about for long term which can help them to build more results.


Maybe they are not confident to do that.


Maybe they see that lose as a failure and they want to discourage you to continue. But if you make them understand that you are happy and gaining something then for sure later on they provably understand what you are doing with bitcoin investment then give their full support.


Because they are not totally happy with their results. But sometimes they try to share their lose because they want to have some venue to release their stress and get some sympathy from people who experience the same scenario.

Maybe because most people are still humans. And the world is not as dark as it seems.

You're exaggerating too much, OP. Need I say that all famous investors should be attacked because we know about them? I think it all depends on the case, and conversations about confidentiality seem more like advice than an obligation. After all, when crossing the road, you look in both directions to be safe; the same thing works here, so as not to cause unnecessary fuss around you, they are not advised to shout about your profits.

People often makes the mistake of attributing every cryptocurrency to be Bitcoin, I believe that some people will ignorantly think that Bitcoin is another name for cryptocurrency, and whenever they hear that a person lost their hard earned money in cryptocurrency, they will think that it is Bitcoin. My wife's friend was lamenting to her about how she was introduced to cryptocurrency, and with the promise of making a lot of money within a short time, she invested and now she can't sale the crypto, I told the young lady that she invested her money in a scam project, then I educated her about how Bitcoin works. If I hadn't enlightened her about Bitcoin, she might not ever believe whatever success stories that she hears about it, and I believe that many people have this misinformation about Bitcoin, because of the many shitcoins in the crypto market. Another reason why people don't hear much about Bitcoin success stories is because most Bitcoin investors don't like to anounce their Bitcoin success stories, they will rather keep it private.

1. They still profit in bitcoin, it's just that it's not a mind blowing or exciting compared to those that have invested in bitcoin in the early days, it's difficult to make a quick million when you invest in bitcoin right now, the stories of these quick millions are already taken by meme coins and altcoins as they've got the lowest prices especially the new ones and at the same time they all have the potential to go up in prices so quickly that if you buy a ton of them, you can expect that you would be getting some really big profits.
2. Because most people in the social media already knows about fake people and they have a share of them in their years of scrolling through their phones and computers so they're probably not going to be that gullible when it comes to people that share success stories that are too good to be true, a lot of them will call these people out.
3. Because they're an abusive family, most of the time, in an abusive family, it comes with the package of manipulation, shaming, and many other negative stuff so that's the reason why it's so difficult to make them listen when they don't care what you have to say.
4. Probably for the reason that that kind of thing should be personal and that it's up to that person whether they want to share something about their recovery from losses and many other things that they've survived and it just so happens that people are really privy when it comes to that and we have to respect that privacy.

What you say is very true, of course the experience that other people have in the crypto world may not necessarily be possible for other people to do and they will be able to get the same results and I think this is exactly the same as other things, because this also applies to other things. others and this really depends on their good fortune.
Listening to other people's success stories and trying it, of course this is not the right choice and it would be better if we could do our own research as you said and also have to do it carefully because this involves financial matters so as not to experience losses in crypto.

1) People are still making money from investing in bitcoin.

2) When you start making the money they are making, you may understand why because your view on many things would change. You would find it unnecessary to go create an account to talk about your success. I think.

3) What interests you might not interest them, just like What works for you might not work for them.

4) I’m not sure. Maybe because recovery is usually you getting back to the starting point and not like you made profits?

People don’t share success stories as much anymore due to fear of safety. Many now are attempting to rob and hack people with crypto. If they know that you so much as hold some crypto they may put you in danger. So people don’t share their success stories anymore but it doesn’t mean that there’s less success now in bitcoin.

If nothing else, it will give inspiration to others that crypto or bitcoin market has positive impact on their life. However, do take note that the experience of one person would not be the same for the other person. It depends on how are you managing your bitcoin assets, your entry and exit. And how long are you waiting before you sell your coins. In other words, each investor has their own path on this market. We can give a good example but it doesn't mean, each one can replicate the success of that person.

Bitcoin investment is definitely increasing in profits but just that the investors do not go around making stories of how they grew their investment. Take a look at the inflow of investors into bitcoin and the Market value you will see that the whole thing is growing. Anybody that invested into bitcoin let’s say since last year is already in profits at the moment but there is no need to just go around talking about


Yes bitcoin gives uses the ability to be anonymous but some investors still go ahead to actually disclose their identity and bitcoin holding information. I have noticed this cases in numerous social media posts and why I deduce is that people that do this are intentional about it and use it as click bait to have more crypto enthusiasts mostly newbies following them. They also use this to set up mentorship programs and mostly charge newbies for them.


The thing is even as a family no one wants to associate with failure so they bash you when you lose and bask with you when you win

People you see announcing their losses here are either looking for a way to help them recover their lost funds or are just trying to play the victim card and probably think they could get some help.

We all have very unique experiences when it comes to cryptocurrency and in investing so it’s true that doing something that someone else did will not guarantee you success. However I think it sheds a positive light on bitcoin and crypto. It shows you that this can indeed change your life however you should be careful and make your own research

Why does anyone really need to share a success story about Bitcoin? For a project of this caliber that have existed for more than a decade, there's been more than enough success stories to go round already and whether people decide to share their success stories or not is none of anybody's business. Tbh, its really not necessary because Bitcoin was not created to be some kind of get rich or financial empowerment scheme where you have to share success stories regarding the asset price rather than the core benefits that the network offers to the global financial system..

@op - Well, if I must be honest with you, I did tell you that success stories mean to nothing in the world that we live in today, most especially in cryptocurrency, basically because one man's success does not guarantee that the next man will succeed as if he should start exactly what the other man is doing.

The above is on the abstract level though, and coming back to the main discussion now, I would say some people don't listen to success stories because they are not interested in what ever is being talked about, like I believe some of us will agree, doing bitocin and cryptocurrencies in general is not something any body should be forced into, or cajoled into, if I am completely not interested in bitcoin, I won't bother listing to the success stories of those are into it, i believe this is the simplest of answers and not too hard to understand.

This one too, privacy and anonymity is important and sharing stories of how much money you have in BTC goes against it, nobody has to know how good your investments are, i know some people feel they have to tell people to boost their ego, but it is just another way to make yourself a victim of a $5 wrench attack. There are so many good things about BTC, and one does not have to share a personal story of theirs when talking to people about it.

What I can feel for now is that when I try to show off, we will definitely be the center of attention and things like this are definitely annoying for those of us who are still in anonymity, which makes it a little complicated if we uphold anonymity, why do we show off extraordinary benefits that will definitely invite many parties to see.
Besides, above the wind there is still wind. When I really want to try to show off my success in bitcoin then surely I have to reflect on those whales who even move without us knowing who they are but the benefits far exceed what we get so in this case I don't want to try to make them laugh.

Why not do it with a fake account or something else, the answer is actually simple. Why do that because indeed when we do it with other pseudonyms and just to make others proud it is also not very useful for myself because indeed things like that in my opinion will actually invite more people who want to know us and there are even some people who have bad intentions who are already monitoring us.
So by looking at this I would prefer to stay as it is with bitcoin and portopolio enjoyed by myself without the need to show off to others.

One of them is the tax office that we can avoid, because if we have assets at a certain level we will be charged a wealth tax, besides that we also avoid friends or surroundings that might make them think that we have a lot of money and they can borrow from us, so because of that some people remain silent and do not indulge in their assets, besides that we can also be the target of bad people because we have a lot of money in bitcoin.

But there are some people who deliberately indulge their wealth and with the aim of many followers on social media then they create classes and people enter their group to listen to their investment lectures.

Sometimes people are lazy to listen to success stories including more deception on social media, especially after the many cases of fraudulent investments, so when they hear the phrase investment, people who don't understand investment will be skeptical.

A fake social media accounts talking about success story in profits after Bitcoin investment looks very suspicious and people may not easily believe the story coming from an account that is not real. If I am the one who reads such a story, what will come to my mind is that the story has been fabricated by a person behind these fake accounts to attract people who are interested in making their Bitcoin investment a success, to their DM's for private conversations that will end up being something that the person later regrets.

There are many individuals who do not understand the difference between the different cryptocurrency that we have, they consider all of them to be the same thing therefore when they're telling their stories, they refer to the coins that they had bought as Bitcoin when it wasn't Bitcoin that they bought. They think that every cryptocurrency is as Bitcoin as they think they'll make same profits that those individuals that invested in Bitcoin are getting but they won't.

They don't listen to success stories because they think that they're fake. They already have the mindset that cryptocurrency are scams that no individual is making money from but only the scammers are the ones making money therefore they don't want to believe anything that says cryptocurrency is good. People don't listen to goodnews but are more interested in sad news because it gives them satisfaction.

Bitcoin promote anonymity and privacy and those who really hit it big avoid public attention for security reasons. Scammers are very loud about their assumed investments just to get the attention of unsuspecting and uninformed individuals.

The greatest success indication is open there at the current price of bitcoin and the gap in the price compared to other low level coins.  Its enough evidence to know bitcoin is successful. I don't buy the idea of telling anybody every success story of mine because it  raises unnecessary attention. I might tell a few to motivate and I'm more afraid of sharing my success stories with family members to avoid over dependence or sense of entitlement on my own hard earned funds.

The halving of course contributed a lot as to why people want to get onboard the Bitcoin family and make investment as much as returns because the market didn't crash, neither did the price of Bitcoin pump so hard or go so dip that one can't profit from by either HODLing or trading as the case may be and also is the case of not giving a damn about someone's story because it is indeed doable and with a forum like this that is open to teach the necessary knowledge and skills, a successful story would do little other than tickle ones fancy for the time being and also be a motivation to act because success is sure in all entirety.

From my understanding, I believe people are not interested in listening to the success stories of Bitcoin investors because the story is mostly framed and always involves the good side of the story. Besides, it is not something that always educates the newbies so they won't venture into previous mistakes made by others but it's always a story that only boosts the confidence of newbies that crypto investment is always about making a profit.
The sad aspect of it is that it makes newbies take the wrong step and have them believe crypto is a scam.

People are making profits everyday and that's because they know and understands the risk involved. If you share your story to people how you made money from Bitcoin investment, it will looks cool and all that but deep down, the more you look into how profits are made, the more you see and if the person you share you story to the encounter the other side of bitcoin, they wouldn't be able to endure it. It's better to remain hidden and enjoy your alone.


I don't think one need to prove to be to that extent, it doesn't make sense. Why should I prove to people that I made money, it's not about privacy but looks more like obsession trying all means to make people to invest, if the don't want to, I wouldn't hide to convince anyone.


From my own experience, it's not easy to hold Bitcoin, the fear of been a first timer and the fear of not making anything is exhausting then all of a sudden I made something, I now need to open my diary and start reading to people about my journey, I will be more concern on how to make more and increase my investment than writing long epistle to covince people.

Maybe in person they would be more interested to hear cause they know they are actually someone who becomes successful or even failed as an investor but over internet it's full of made up stories so people don't really bother at all. And why does anyone has to announce their success or failure to anyone? All they need to do is keep it for themselves and which will be helpful for them in their future apart from that it's their choice to share with others or keep it for themselves.

Viewed from a positive perspective, not a negative one. For people who understand everything about Bitcoin, privacy may be the reason people keep quiet with a number of assets they own. It's not that they don't easily believe in people's success stories with Bitcoin, maybe they don't really care because the goals of the people I mean also have the same goals as the Bitcoin they own.

The question is why don't they dare to use social media accounts to share their success stories even with fake media accounts? For those who care about privacy, this is not an opportunity to be used as a promotional event because it can invite danger to themselves. Let alone them, maybe I wouldn't do it either.

That's the truth. Most times the people who we find on line sharing their success stories are those who probably are wanting to get potential newbies and scam them. Not that there aren't genuine testifies out there to share their stories with others, but who do we believe and how do we know they are telling the truth. These people design Bitcoin in a way to make it sound easy and people can just make quick profits like it's magic money. Imagine telling us how you make 100k from investing in Bitcoin in one day. I dont think that's a success story. It's a means to lure people into scam and total loss of funds. We can share our stories and we can also listen to those of others but we have to be careful of what we listen to, and avoid be told lies.

There are of course people who are in profit from Bitcoin investment. Some "on paper"
as in they have not sold Bitcoin. Others are after HODL'ing Bitcoin for a number of years
and who have sold recently.

The amount of Bitcoin investors is growing because Bitcoin is an obvious must
have top performing asset....which will yield profits in time.


Maintain privacy also ties into the principal of not seeing the need to publicise your
profits. If I want to go to the hassle of shouting about my wealth through a fake account
I could easily falsify it by X50.


Maybe they expect you will make a loss again


Maybe those people dont recover their losses

From then until now, people prefer to pay attention to the failures that happen to people because most people today, especially on social media platforms where a little problem or even a serious problem is immediately posted on social media like Facebook.

It's rare to have an interest in other people's success stories because there are just as many people who interfere in other people's lives instead of their own being interfered with. Because that's the mindset of others, they're happier with that lifestyle, but I don't agree with it at all.

Let me go bit by bit with the best I can go about this.

Bitcoin is a decentralized financial holding and most government commissions aren't in support of it so the restrictions of governments over the adoption of the bitcoin intends to insight distrusts and discouragement to the masses but the masses knowing the true potentials of bitcoin has been ingnoring the criticisms on bitcoin. So Op, you must understand the loudness of criticisms that it may not be so effective but the rumours could travel far.



I don't think if there'd be necessary reason of an investors trying to stay anonymous with their prosperities on bitcoin coming in to social media to disclose about their success in their Bitcoin investment. Infact, using a fake identity to make such disclosure would foster bitcoin a scheme of hyping which may be translated as fraudulence scheme to the audience. Bitcoin doesn't require such an advert because it's a reputable financial technology. Besides if bitcoin had made you rich that's to your Portfolio so no need taking it to the public awareness. Investors vibes is that keep to grow on your income while they can't determine your worth for security purposes



Bitcoin is a kind of investment that only those who're into it understands volatility nature of the coin. Only family members involving in real stock trading may understand a bit by relating the volatilities of bitcoin to inflations and deflations being encountered in the economy system . So don't force yourself just to let people believe your experiences in your investment
So don't let anyone feed with bad energies towards your success ventures.



Every concious Investors always learn from sad experiences and wouldn't keep calm to learn about how they could avoid the losses for further occurance. We're essentially here to learn about bitcoin and have discussions towards what'd be beneficial to us.
Bitcoin investments isn't a game of lucky projects as gambling or the MemeCoins where investors or participants comes to announce their lucky opportunities of them being rewarded where others failed. This is a genuine project and we're more concerned to avoid looses and grow on our portfolio because profits are certain as long we keep holding and understanding the markets nature.

I didn't come across the thread but I think it is totally wrong for someone to flaunt his wealth online I believe there are better ways to talk about your success story  without calling names or figures, the investments you have alone can do the advertisement for you but in the case where I talked about my family members, they deserve to listen to me because they motivated me to get better and better every day due to the way they talk about cryto inveators and sad stories.

Personally, I think for the person to come online again after be robbed, nothing really happened to his funds or he's into something else while people felt he was a crypto investor.

They do attack them and it is the one that goes viral that we will hear or see on social medias and on air. I could remember a forum member wrote a thread that a bitcoin trader that flaunts his wealth on social media was attacked and robbed of his funds, but he foolishly came online again to continue his showoff.

The thing is that people don't need to hear of bitcoin success stories anymore for they are seeing the wave that bitcoin is paving as the government are talking about it based on regulation and the rest, all these is enough for people to know that bitcoin is a good investment to invest in and make profit. I think those that tell fake stories of their success in social media are influencers who is advertising an exchange and making it look as if trading is simple. Long-term investors don't tell you about their success in hodling because they don't want anybody to know how rich they are in bitcoin, but lousy traders are the ones making noise even when they are running at loss.

BTC is not a new cryptocurrency and its growth is organic, so if you are not an early adopter who got a lot of BTC in the early days or someone who can afford to buy a lot of coins, then you cannot really make 'crazy profit' if you understand what i am saying. 'Success stories' is popular amongst shitcoins, a common situation is when someone buys so many shitcoins and one of them pumps so high and the persons makes returns which they withdrew before it dumped. You hear a lot of such stories with people who 'gamble' with altcoins.

I believe with BTC things are much different, however, you don't even need to tell anyone a success story in a discussion about BTC, it has enough use cases you can talk about and there are many reasons to give people on why they should use BTC.

Personally I think people around the world pay more attention to success stories than failed or unsuccessful stories and not the other way round. if you observe carefully you will find only a few sad or failed stories in the internet not because only few had failed attempts but who will want to post to discuss their failures when others are doing it right? I guess only a very minor number of people, because what triggers people's interest is success.

Successful if very visible, so most people don't even tell the testimonies only the changes in them tells the story especially when people knows they are into bitcoin investment.

3. Do you have to tell anyone that you're successful?  for me No! Successful announces itself, when you see successful in any area of life they don't need to come tell you that they are successful, so you too don't need to tell anyone that you're successful, whether your family believes you or not that shouldn't be your problem, what you shoukd be concerned about is yourself and not what they think about you. Hence you don't need validation from your family.

4. Traders have to characteristics but I think I haven't seen any bitcoin trader cry out because he or she lost, most people I see are not trading bitcoin but other assets maybe that is because I'm more focused on saving up my bitcoin than trading them.

Seriously those who are successful in Bitcoin neither wants to showoff nor they want to be bothered about creating fake social media accounts to share their success story and those stories which you see on social media may or may not be true, But if people shares their true story then those who have lost the investment will realise where did they go wrong it would indeed be helpful but successful people don't flaunt about their success stories.

The thing is that for most of the people who doesn't really understand what cryptocurrency is all about they normally channel all their frustration on Bitcoin when they venture into wrong investment without knowing that their is different between Bitcoin and other cryptos and sometimes because of how popular Bitcoin is most people could possibly use it as an avenue to lure people into investing on a wrong platform or crypto thinking that they are actually investing on Bitcoin so perhaps when it fails they blame Bitcoin or saying all sorts of things things about Bitcoin.

However in terms of sharing success stories of Bitcoin by creating a fake social media may not actually be advisable because social media has grown to the extent at which most people believe that almost all investment success stories are fake, so for me I believe sharing a success stories on social media is actually another way of scaring people away, however sharing our success stories with even friends about our Bitcoin investment may not actually be advisable also because we could be putting ourselves in a harms way by showing people our achievement, and secondly one thing we should also understand about Bitcoin investment is that if someone is very successful on there investment doesn't mean every other person could also be successful because each investors has their method or pattern at which they would loved to use because most people prefer trading and their is a higher chance of being success and their is also more higher chance of losing everything, while majority of the successful investors comes from long term investment because with long term investment their is a higher chance for becoming success on Bitcoin investment.

I have to agree with you on the fact that most stories about Bitcoin are fake and transfer aggression from wrong cryptocurrency investors who may have made their investment decision out of the lack of knowledge of what cryptocurrency and Bitcoin is all about and the best way to invest in them, most times, just as you rightly said, Bitcoin is being blamed because Bitcoin is the most popular crypto in the market so regardless of they invested in some shitcoins or ponzi when they get scammed the become aggressive with Bitcoin.


What I advice us as Bitcoin believer is not to try to defend anything those set of forks put up against Bitcoin, but rather try to enlightened them on the wrong approach to Bitcoin investment, and how to avoid anything that promises quick returns such investment normally ends in sad stories.

If you do not have enough evidence to yet prove your success then you do not need to waste your words rather focus more effort so that your evidence will show and then you would not need to talk much to convince those family members who abused you when you first made a loss in your investment.

Most individuals are sorry collectors; they just like to be in a position where people pity them, which is why they do not keep the story of their losses to themselves.

I think it's a very general statement that people aren't interested in such stories. I, for one, enjoy reading stories of how Bitcoin changed someone's life or was used for a positive impact on someone's life. I've also seen such posts often get merits on the forum, so I'm sure I'm not the only one who likes such stories.
As for sad stories, they happen all the time, but I haven't noticed there being more negative experiences now than before, to be honest. And generally, people react stronger to those things that evoke negative emotions and remember negative things better than positive things, which might explain why some can't move on after hearing about losses and recognize one's success.

Why we see that there is an increasing number of bitcoin investors can be attributed to the fact that we are seeing a shift in the attitudes and beliefs of the general public towards bitcoin. There is an increase in bitcoin awareness worldwide more than we have ever seen.

And some of the things that contributed to this is the bitcoin ETF approval/institutional adoption, then the bitcoin halving that happened earlier,  and generally people just have a positive feeling about bitcoin. They have watched from the sidelines and seen how resilient it is. In 2023 it jumped to around $16k up to $67k as at today.
New investors are optimistic.

That's because each person has a portion or benchmark of success that is appropriate to what he does. We have often heard stories of success, but in essence those who listen are sometimes only motivated. Because Bitcoin success stories and any success stories will be accepted by their respective groups. Then the important point is that telling about someone's success in Bitcoin must be age appropriate, because it would be useless telling it to older people over 60-70 years old.

Validation is a natural human trait that wants its existence and social status in the eyes of others to be appreciated, praised and also used as motivation which ultimately has an impact on self-fame. I think those who are successful in Bitcoin are now famous names, they don't need to be named but we are aware of that. Not everyone really wants to hide privacy regarding personal choices and criteria.

There's no need to bother proving it with sweet stories, because that will only make you lose time. Just let it go as time goes by, your behavior towards them will prove everything without needing to tell the bitter and sweet story. Other people don't need that kind of thing but they will judge the final result from what they can see from us.

Want to get empathy, where we feel we need to feel caring from other people and try to share this sadness as if we want to receive attention, advice and special treatment. Even though other people don't actually care about you, they also have their own stories and journeys.

There are a lot of fake stories about Bitcoin on social media which people have actually read and believed to be true even when they don't know the people who wrote them, it's not totally bad to talk good about yourself and how you have gained in your investment but it becomes totally bad and privacy abusing if you begin to explain the total amount you have made in your investment or the amount you have in your portfolio and your location. Now my question is this, why have people not harmed some notable investors whom I believed have granted a lot of live interviews and explained how they started and how well they have profited in their various businesses why are they still breathing?

The things is that people are not really interested in your story, they want to see your practical evidence, if you have successfully achieved or profited in Bitcoin, what are the evidence thag shows that you have truly achieved, lets not forget that there still individuals that doesnt believe in Bitcoin because reason best known to them, many success story  about Bitcoin that we see online today are just cooked up by fradulent individuals in other to get the attention of the harmless populace to defraud them of their hard earner money, I maintain my stands Bitcoin achievement is practical not just virtual statement of individuals online, I know that some person may see it as unwillingness  of people to embrace investment opportunity, personally i don't think thats the case here, many people are aware of bitcoin investment already, so success stories don't trigger them anymore because they understand the system perfectly well.

Simple: it's due to ignorance.

Op you will easily believe any other bitcoiners success story about his investment in bitcoin because you have a good knowledge about bitcoin and how the digital currency can be utilized to make profit overtime.

But to an ignorant person who have chosen to become completely ignorant about bitcoin or perhaps who had a wrong foot with cryptocurrency by investing his money into one of those many shitcoins out there and lost it all to a dump, it's most likely such persons wouldn't have a reason to believe a success story coming from you about your bitcoin investment.

Feel free to do your research, you'll find out that a lot of people that refute bitcoin success stories were either involved in ponzi schemes and shitcoins thereby misconceptualizing it to bitcoin.

The reason most people do not pay attention to success stories of Bitcoin investors is because most people who are truly successful in Bitcoin prefer remaining hidden and will never flaunt their wealth on social media. Majority of people who share their supposed success stories turn out to be scammers looking for who to lure into their schemes. They make it look like when you invest into their project or the projects they are following, you will become rich overnight. People have fallen victims to these kinds of things, hence most people are skeptical about people sharing their success stories, especially online.

I understand that sharing your success stories with close friends and relatives that you want to also invest in Bitcoin will motivate them so much, but I think there should be a limit to the level of information you divulge to people to avoid exposing yourself to risk.

Personally, I don't think I have the right answers to this question otherwise I wouldn't have brought it up here for members of the forum to
have a discussion about it but I hope you don't mind to give your honest thoughts.

Over the years there has been a lot of sad stories regarding the people who lost money as a result of wrong investment plans on cryptocurrency (Bitcoin) we see them channel most of the stories to bitcoin mainly because it is the most popular cryptocurrency they know or the people who told them the stories mentioned bitcoin since they believe people will give them more attention if they talk about the most known cryptocurrency( Bitcoin).

1) My question now is this, does it mean people no longer profit in Bitcoin investment but yet there are informations about the increasing number of Bitcoin investors?
2)  Why are people not bold enough to use fake social media accounts to talk about their success stories after making profits in Bitcoin investments since they want to maintain privacy?
3) Why does it take my family members who abused me when I encountered a loss in my investment to listen to my success story even when they have seen enough evidence?
4) Why do people find it difficult to announce here when they recover from their losses but they come out to cry when they have a little loss?.

I stand to be corrected if this thread is not suitable in this board but I think we need to be Intentional in what ever thing we post here since it will encourage some people and also discourage some people depending on their level of understanding, this post is the result of my experience and I think I can boldly say my investment journey has been 70% profit, 30% loss, the enemies of Bitcoin did a bad work by helping me to know more about Bitcoin.