In the early days, Bitcoin was a mystery to everyone. Nobody knew if it was the real deal or just another scam, okay? Thats normal. People are naturally sceptical, especially about money. As they say, the early bird gets the worm, and you cant win without playing.

Investing goes beyond money and knowledge. Learning and improving are key. You started with little money and were late to the party, but you did amazing. You learnt and made good decisions, turning a tiny investment into much more. The art of the trade is there.

Bitcoin matters, but so does you. This experience grew you. Having learned to trust your instincts is worth more than money. Money changes, but the lesson remains.

Everyone will have a level where they think they have to jump into bitcoin, I learned that correctly by natural law, maybe there are some people who can already enter at the $17k level even below but there are people who already know but don't jump, maybe they are not ready at that time, and then when the price of bitcoin is at the $60k price level they can only believe in bitcoin, and yes it's just a readiness in us, maybe we are ready at the bitcoin price level at $60k, there is nothing wrong and nothing to regret because indeed someone has a different entry level, this is a natural impulse.

Even people who know about bitcoin specifically at the bitcoin price level at $3, not necessarily he bought at that time.

I discovered Bitcoin when it was valued at $200 per coin. I was a teenager back then with no means of payment. I asked my parents for their card, but of course they quickly shut me down. I managed to purchase approximately 0.40 to 0.50 Bitcoin through a forum, but was scammed once in the process. Fortunately, the rest of the of the transactions were with a more reputable user and turned out fine. Apart from that, my only way into acquiring Bitcoin was through faucets that paid a reasonable amount of satoshi; unfortunately, it wasn't enough, while most of my Bitcoin was wasted on random digital stuff or was left in wallets I no longer had access to. That was the end of my involvement until late 2016 or early 2017.

This was my first ruined chance at acquiring and maintaining Bitcoin; the second and probably worst of all was after the downfall in 2018. Bitcoin had crashed from $20,000 to 1/5 of its value. I was disheartened; I abandoned my coins on an online wallet and also abandoned the forum until early 2021. This must have been my worst move so far. Had I stuck around for a little longer, I would now have a significantly greater amount of bitcoin.

For me I had so many issues which affected my chances of investing earlier, fear, lack of self confidence, doubt and lack of knowledge.Even when I had the opportunity to acquire bitcoin because a friend of mine was already informed about bitcoin and he invested and was holding bitcoin comfortably without panic, I still didn't believe that bitcoin wasn't a scam since I believed the information that was been spread on the media by enemies of bitcoin to be true.

I think the days of living in regret was over few years ago when I became an investor even though the price of bitcoin has not dropped low like when I first got informed to acquire bitcoin then but am happy because the future is bright with bitcoin.

But the challenges that have passed have made me stronger, and I feel like I have many shortcomings, but perhaps the regret is gone because I feel grateful for everything even if it is not as expected. With bitcoin I also have many opportunities to buy at low price periods, but at some point I still need to sell it to spend on personal matters. But I'm happy because I learned about bitcoin and saw the opportunities that can change life conditions, anyway in this space there are many stories shared about how to make profits through bitcoin, but it dawned on me that I probably needed more bitcoin than I needed many other assets.

You’re right, don’t feel too regretting because everyone has certainly pass that stage, doubting the potentials of bitcoin since all we heard about it is telling everyone that bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme, and that it’s design to become a tool to all scammers and hackers, and encourage money laundering in the process. Good thing there’s bitcointalk forum that clears up everything. I know a lot have gone this kind of experience but the important thing is we end up never believing, and now we are already earning well and making significant profits out from bitcoin that we used to doubt before.

I came to know about Bitcoin when it was priced around $500 or less, it was the era when faucets were newly introduced in the market and users were crazy about faucet claims and I was one of those people always sitting in front of my computer and claiming satoshis from each faucet.

We used to have faucet rotators in those days, it's a sort of a website where all faucet websites are added, you keep claiming from each website and clicking next and the next faucet website would open and then you can claim from that and continue doing that until you do it with all.

I always liked Bitcoin, since the beginning, the only reason why I couldn't or didn't buy Bitcoin at that time was because I didn't have money. I was a student, had no job, and my pocket money wasn't enough for me to do that.

Yes those who got on the train very early actually had the luxury to benefits but just like you many threw the opportunity away due to their ignorance about it. If you look well during the time there was a high number of Ponzi schemes that were revolving around and anything digital money then was a very big scare to people. I would say bitcoin then fell just into it and was actually too good to be true. As for your case I don’t think it would have still been ok then for you to invest because of lack of personal income. Investing then will have pushed you into unnecessary panic.

The thing is not everybody that even got the chance to invest early even made huge profits as we point it out to be now. Some might have panicked and sold at a little high or even a loss when it was facing dips then. It could be that you would have been part of the latter. So no need to worry about what has passed as I say to people bitcoin price below the 6 figure in $$ is still at an early stage if you ask me. Start DCAing now and not regret later

These are my thoughts too. I imagine if everyone regrets not investing earlier and then somehow we all had the chance to change that. If everyone invests from then, Bitcoin wouldn’t be worth what it’s worth today. Now you’re buying it, you’re keeping it alive with that trade. And someone who buys Bitcoin next year is also adding to its growth.