Bitcoin is an asymmetric bet, so the most you can lose, without leveraging, is 100%, yet at the same time there is upside, and the upside is not merely 10x, or 20x in 20 years.
Do you even understand the potential of bitcoin, and how much adoption do you think that we have, so far? Perhaps 1% of the world's population has bitcoin or bitcoin exposure, yet there surely is a potential with the passage of time, adoption and network effects (as
outlined by Trace Mayer) are going to continue, and bitcoin surely could have another 100x to 10,000x upside from here, even though it could take 50 to 200 years to reach its full potential and its full addressable market.
I agree completely with this. I believe bitcoin will still do another 1000x and above, but it I not going to be as fast as it was to get to a hundred thousand dollars. If another two percent of the world's population adopt bitcoin, the price will definitely skyrocket and they will, but the point is, the won't happen in 10 years, or even 20 years, its going to happen over decades. Bitcoin grows more slower these days and even ties when there is a quick pump, its corrects and grows more slowly again. So, the except the new investor is already rich and can afford a lot of bitcoin, it will be a very long time before he can get rich from bitcoin. That is why I said constantly accumulating so that we have a reasonable amount is the best way, because its easier to become a millionaire when you hold more bitcoin.
Prior to 2020, I used to suggest that people get off of zero and at least they invest $10 per week into bitcoin, and since 2020, I have been suggesting pretty much the same thing, yet suggesting that they try to do $100 per week if they can. I understand that some people are not able to invest $100 per week into bitcoin, so they should do what they can.
Prior to 2020, I used to suggest that getting to the equivalent of $1 million in net worth so that a passive income of $3,333 per month (which would be $40k per year) would be within reason would be a good goal in order to reach entry-level fuck you status, yet since 2020, I have started to suggest that entry level fuck you status needed to start with a passive income at $2 million, which means that the numbers would double to an income of $6,666 per month (which would be $80k per year).
Building up bitcoin so that it will support those passive income levels tends to take a long time, and there can be ways to chip away at building up a bitcoin portfolio holdings to help to get to those numbers, but yeah if a person is only able to generate $10 per week to invest into bitcoin, it is going to take him 10x longer to build the same sized target level of accumulation as the guy investing $100 per week, and surely if you cannot build fast enough the target keeps moving (based on the ongoing debasement of the dollar and all other fiat currencies) and becomes harder and harder to attain the target.
Of course, if we start out with a certain investment level in bitcoin, we do not necessarily need to lock ourselves into that amount, yet we try to be as practical as we are able be based on our own finances and psychology - and surely if we are young, we might be able to figure out ways to increase our income through trainings and promotions otherwise sometimes there can also be ways to cut our expenses so that we have more discretionary income that we are able to put into bitcoin, since if we have identified bitcoin as a great place to build our wealth, then we might consider that there are circumstances that it is better to defer some of our consumption so that we can put the money saved into bitcoin. In other circumstances, it might not be prudent to cut some expenses, since there are some expenses that ultimately end up helping us to increase our present or our future income.