I remember reading it for the first time in 2014. It was one of the threads that can be found on the top thread of Bitcoin Discussion. Lot of commenters on that thread were thankful for being at the right place at the right time, whereas there are some other people that also knew they made the right decision because they understood what bitcoin is for and believed that it will be worth something in the future. Fast forward 12 years, that 100 bitcoins would be worth at least $2.6 million by now, and I do hope that guy kept all of his coins.

In fact the user who said that is actually still active today  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3600 Just wonder how many bitcoin he had now



yeah agree with you maybe we are late but still, better late than never. It is just like investing in google or early tesla stock maybe we late but in future bitcoin can easily reach x100 than the current price

Yes. I guess, This is the thing that happened here. He requested the admin to delete his account, and they did it. Not only that quote, but Several people also quote him, and everyone's quote shows his username as Atlas. So, the man who quoted his message did not add the username purposely. I tried a BPIP search , and the first user, Atlas, registered on 9/10/2012. But the thread is older than that. So, this is not the same user.

I can still quote him when he said he was just a teenager and he had 95 BTC at that time. I wish he were able to keep that Bitcoin, as he believed that BTC would hit $10K in the future. We could be one of the early adopters! I always scratch my head and think about what I was doing back then. I was a teenager as well. But, All my interest was in Video games and fighting with my friends.

Look at the topic title. He seemed too confident about it, which has happened after a couple of years. Bitcoin was in its early days, and it was a revolutionary invention. As the first cryptocurrency, it has the potential to grow (still have), and they knew that people would like it and adopt it. I remember when I heard of Bitcoin. I did not know how the market went up and down. But they clearly knew how it worked and how the price would increase with scarcity.

It seems they believe that bitcoin will develop and its popularity will continue to increase because they know and believe that the benefits of bitcoin will be needed by many people and groups. So their minds can read the future, and the future isn't over and we also have to think in the same way that bitcoin 10 years from now will be like their assessment of what happened then and now.
and at that time bitcoin was very cheap and they could get it easily in large quantities, now it's different and we can only love the bitcoins that we hold and continue to collect from every drop that happens or do DCA for the next 10 years. And we must have strong beliefs like them.

This all remain true. If the person didn't got hacked, if there was no a couple of pizzas order made and if he is around this planet somewhere. Then I would join the comments for sure.

I think those who researched Bitcoin about 10 to 12 years ago must have known something about the future. Because what has been said in the past is now being implemented in the present as this post proves. (The previous OP mentioned that many discouraged me but didn't give the right mentor). And after 10 years in the future the price of Bitcoin will increase by (5-10) times more than the current time it is not a big deal. And not a little bit so I'd say the past time is not calculated now but it is certain that the price of Bitcoin will increase in the future.

You have your vision of $100k - and beyond, just like back in 2011 as per the thread
we talk about even later years there are visionaries who can see into the future and
those who just dont get it and are doubtful to this day, I guess there will always be both,
the trick is to know who to follow!

Your plan for 2025 26 is not dissimilar to many others and there have been planty
of people who have been riding the waves of the Bitcoin Halving for the past ones,
probably some from the first ones, they too are visionaries just like our guest friend from 2011!


Good question SS, is it still the same person?

This is already history and something of a good prediction for Bitcoin that indeed came true. Must have the right vision and a very imaginative mine to make such a prediction at the time when only a very few were actually into Bitcoin and would not be so easy to be holding into something with a value nobody can be sure if will go up or not. Those who made the right decision of getting BTC as much as they could are right now smiling all the way to unexpected riches.

It's always discouraging to walk through an unverified track, like those years when bitcoin was birthed. A lot of people took the risk and invested into bitcoin, yet wondered and plundered over it, if it's the right decision. We still experience such things today, and such threads as this, is a prove that bitcoin is a good investment. It'll be bad with such reference, that we neglect bitcoin. Those whales today had no reference they were the pioneers, who pushed money into bitcoin and understood how it works. Hence, it's normal to undergo discouraging moments, people close to us won't think twice to reduce our moves to nothing. Because they'll always run back to do things they believe or have seen to be possible or profitable. Investors today load funds and buy bitcoin because they've seen others who made profits through it. Such threads should be encouraged and come up often times to help us continue the journey.

In my opinion it's a little more complicated than that: just because someone creates something scarce, it doesn't automatically mean people are going to embrace it and buy it. With bitcoin is different, for sure it means being visionary, it means understanding how the current financial system is broke, it means knowing that for years and years you will have everybody against you. Many people knew about bitcoin 10 years ago and yet just a small minority chose to believe in it.