2025-12-29 14:27:53

Many people dream: "If I'd dropped $100 into Bitcoin back in 2010, I'd be sitting on $2.8B right now."

Here's the uncomfortable truth—you wouldn't.

Not because the math is wrong. Because you'd never actually survive the ride.

Picture this: You buy $100 of BTC in 2010. Then it climbs. $1k. $100k. $1.7M. Your initial hundred bucks is now worth millions.

Then it crashes. Hard. Back down to $170k. Everything says sell. The news screams panic. Your portfolio is bleeding.

Most people don't make it past this point. They panic-sell, lock in 'losses', and watch from the sidelines as the market recovers. The psychological endurance required to hold through those swings? That's the real barrier. Not the initial investment.

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BlockchainWorker

· 3h ago

Honestly, the biggest enemy is really your mindset.

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PseudoIntellectual

· 11h ago

That's right, mindset is the biggest enemy. I've seen too many people scream and sell at 98,000, only to miss out on the subsequent doubling.

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NFTArchaeologist

· 11h ago

That really hits home... Truly able to hold on are few and far between. It's not that they don't have money, but that they lack mental resilience.

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SleepyArbCat

· 11h ago

I really fell asleep... Wait, psychological preparation? Bro, this is just a gambler's mentality disguised as philosophy. How many people go bankrupt and still say "mental toughness"... The alertness time is limited, but I can see very clearly that 99% of people won't last through the first cut in half.

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DeadTrades_Walking

· 11h ago

That's right, mindset is the biggest enemy. I've seen so many people panic FOMO at the high in 2017, only to cut their losses when prices drop, and they forever miss the next bull market.

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