These guys just lost a life changing opportunity, because if literally they had known what the value of Bitcoin will turn up to in just mere 15year interval, I'm sure they wouldn't have been arguing with the O.P of that thread who offered to auction 10,000 Bitcoin for a minimum price starting with $50.
Of course, they wouldn't, but how could they know what will happen in the future? Bitcoin was very new at that time, and no one could predict or even think that it was going to become this big someday in the future, so it wouldn't make any sense for people having so many Bitcoins back then not to try to sell them because they could use that money at that time and they could literally get way more than that by mining Bitcoin using a normal computer because it was possible since mining difficulty wasn't high at all at that time.
Now that Bitcoin has gone above $100k, and we have seen how it evolved over time, we can say that holding does pay off and we can have more value for our coins in the future, but that wasn't the case in the past because it was only a year or a couple old back then, so there was no hints or enough history for people to realize and understand its potential.
I remember selling around 0.5
BTC for about $1,600 or something in 2019. If I held that amount, I could get more than $50,000 right now, but I could use the money at that time, so had to sell.