We cannot compare the efforts used in the early days by those who adopted bitcoin during such period to this our own present era where things have been made more simplified, despite there's high and increasing cyber theft as of that time, they still find more means to trust the network system of a decentralized digital currency and chose to accept bitcoin, things were at the early stage then when there were no easy communication access to learning about bitcoin,  BIPs and some other implementations aren't fully understood on how to come in, there's no much awareness on the bitcoin protocols, security and privacy but yet some still survived althrough till date, what I don't really know is how they ensure this steady speculation even when there might not have been enough indications discovered enough to use then, but they still have better opportunities to invest early, hodl and risk their investment without a proper speculation maybe.

I think the people around him would think he was crazy with his 2 million worth of bitcoin purchases. Especially in 2013, at that time bitcoin was not as popular as it is now. He really is a big man. I honestly don't know if his investment is due to his deep understanding of bitcoin or speculation. But whatever the reason behind the purchase, he was successful with his investment

Maybe if I was in that year and holding that much money, I wouldn't have had the courage to make the decision to buy that much bitcoin. But if for example he is a rich person, maybe he deliberately divides his asset instruments into various sectors, one of the digital financial sectors he chooses is bitcoin. If bitcoin failed, maybe his name was lost in history, but bitcoin succeeded, he made a huge profit and his name went down in history. But whatever it was, he was a great guy, made big decisions and he succeeded in his own way

Dan was really good man. He had it straight and wanted everyone to be involved because he saw great opportunities in the Bitcoin already. I can see already how he might have been in his cabin, looking at the bitcoin prices and seeing it’s price is too high (at that time) but yet he went into it anyhow. That’s the courage he had which we don’t see in any investors these days.

If there is any opportunity today then it’s just anytime now. The more we wait the more we are going to miss it all the time. Whether it is Dan’s $65 per bitcoin back in time or whether it is $30k in today’s date it’s anyway matches the economic growth.

Just keep buying guys and HODL.

Usually, ordinary people like you and me do not have that capacity or the tools at our hand to be making a big, strong and unchangeable decision on matters of cryptocurrency specially Bitcoin. This is the reason why, early people who got into Bitcoin never imagined that one day BTC will be reaching the prices that it got into now. I myself sold my BTC at $3000 but this was to personal needs...but I also lost some due to scam-type Ponzi schemes which adopted BTC as one of their payment schemes. People who received BTC via faucets when Bitcoin was just starting were very lucky but then again many of them sold what they got when the price started to rise up. Well, this is human nature, anyway.

This is really a big leap of faith. It's like you're the only one walking in the darkness without knowing when you'll see the light. I think we're also like him but we're not as big as him of course. Buying bitcoin certain is a risk and that decision can be influenced by the people that surrounds you. Just like him, there were for sure people that have discouraged him that it's a crazy decision. And like us, we're probably in the same situation where even our family don't believe us with what we've discovered and that's bitcoin. That's it, this is another encouragement for those that are thinking back forward whether they should buy or not. But the key thing here is still all about research and knowing what you're about to buy.

Investing in value when something has no value is a high-risk investment and is considered a risk if you do not have a convincing reason to invest and you diversify your investments so that the loss of that investment does not affect your investment portfolio, but capital is cowardly and nothing will take such a bold risk.

To simplify it for you, the price of Monero is 151.52EUR, so if you have 50,000 Euros, will you invest in Monero, After all the bad news about that CEXs have removed it and that the countries do not want it? This is exactly what was happening to Bitcoin in 2013, everyone thought it was a currency of the dark web and you had to do something illegal to buy it.

What astonished me in his message was  how careless he was when mentioning  his willingness to  acquire   30 000 BTC in person. It seems that people that days  where not so much concerned about privacy and paid zero attention to the potential  " $5 dollar wrench attack".

It is hard to expect that such kind of messaging could appear these days, especially  when people have witnessed breath-taking heights  of Bitcoin.

It is interesting to read this. A shame that more people weren’t sounding this alarm back then. It does sort of show why the market went so crazy so suddenly. I think we may see one final adoption wave to push up the price like that when spot ETFs are introduced to the market, which will push early buys like this into the stratosphere.

People that succeed in every investment, make's the highest Risk that ordinary people on a good day won't.
Success in every investment needs you to do your due diligence before investing , and I think that's one of the things the CEO have done.
Today the success he has attained in Bitcoin today can only be imagined,  however the good thing is,  as at when the opportunity came, he had the money to invest. This story also exalt us to avoid people of small minds around us as they could discourage us from attaining a height we are supposed to in the future.