Look back and regret, just like those who had the opportunity in the past and did not make good use of the opportunity, but then again, not everyone likes the idea behind Bitcoin, so no matter how high Bitcoin reaches, they might never regret their choices as long as they have where they have planted their capital and wealth is growing from there.

There's no doubt about that, and do you what's the funniest part? There will always be some people with this regret after every five years or so, and this has been happening from the beginning. Those who didn't buy Bitcoin or showed any interest in it around 2010 regretted it badly in 2015, but even in 2015, there were doubtful people who didn't take Bitcoin seriously and didn't start buying but they mocked it, called it names, said it's a bubble and it is going to burst very soon.

By the time we reached 2020, those people were already ashamed of themselves for not taking Bitcoin seriously in 2015 and losing a golden opportunity, but guess what? There were still people in 2020 who didn't take it seriously and thought it is not something they should focus on or make investments in, so they ignored it even after knowing about it, and then comes 2025, and regrets hit that group as well. Now, we are in 2026, but believe me, there are still people with that mindset, and as you said, they are only going to regret it when we reach 2030.

Haha the regret cycle is repeating because human psychology does not change. It remains the same, and those who change their psychology take the necessary steps, but this also proves one thing, that every fifth year a new group of people discover bitcoin because after the halving and bull run, when the early adopters make a lot of profit, they set it as an example for the rest of the world and people see it and become greedy.

They think they have lost the opportunity and then spend the next five years doing nothing and the cycle repeats again, and they realize the pattern is still repeating until it starts to delay to test where these people break.

Although being cautious even after the continuous repetition of the cycle is necessary for anyone to be on the safer side.

Many people are already gotten tempted about the price of bitcoin because they could hold and whenever the price changes they automatically pushes off what they are holding in their possession. Anyone who understands what the futures hold about bitcoin then you would learn to hold for long term and not for short term, thus there are people who are not there to hold for decade where as whatever they had in mind has gotten to expected period of time they wouldn’t mind taking off their profits from their investments so easily without any delay.

Sometimes some of us will only feel sorry not to buy from the beginning but on the one hand they still do not move to make a purchase that will eventually make that regret happen again and again.

There is always something like this and even I have a friend who always says the same thing every time we meet where he regrets why he didn't buy bitcoin at $16K in the previous halving, regrets not buying bitcoin before the USA presidential election and many more regrets that happened.
But whenever there is an opportunity to buy he always says that bitcoin is still too expensive to buy and will wait according to the criteria he expects.

This is always a problem for those who like to wait because in the end waiting for things that are speculative will be very difficult but it will be a different story for those of us who buy no matter the price because we are preparing for the long term.

You’re just coming, having realized what you have probably missed lead to this thread lol  because of course it’s been around for a long time now and regrets has been swept under the rug and people have found way to buy or invest regardless of the price today, yesterday and in hope for the tomorrow price. So chill bitcoin did arrive today we have the regret part past long ago so whoever is not joining the train now is will probably not join because it has been around but still will always have the opportunity to join.

There are many lurking wolves who are waiting for the bottom and buy tons of Bitcoin. They don't tell anyone nor announce their buys but instead doing it silently.

I'm actually curious about the OTC desks chart but it's paywalled behind a subscription in glassnode, I'm sure there is some increase which shows institutional interests.

The unfortunate thing is there will be people who gets all scared again and decide not to buy Bitcoin out of irrational fear.

Perhaps you are right about Bitcoin being the first digital asset, that possesses such features, but BTC is definitely not the last asset, that can possess such qualities. The BTC blockchain and protocol cannot be controlled or manipulated by any single entity, but the BTC price definitely can be manipulated, just look at what Donald Trump did to the BTC price in the last 2 years. I believe that Bitcoin would've never reached levels above 100K USD, if Trump wasn't pro-crypto back then.
Yes, Bitcoin was a huge opportunity 10 years ago, but now the chances of the BTC price growing 5x or 10x are pretty much gone. I still believe that the BTC price could grow 2x or 3x in the next 4 years, which isn't that bad.

The chance to buy in the future will always be there. But don’t expect to get a moment at prices like now. Because when Bitcoin goes up and hits a new ATH in the future, we might see it back in a bearish cycle, but it probably won’t go back to the current price. So whoever doesn’t believe, let them sell their Bitcoin. And those who do believe will gather more.

It exciting to see the rewarding profit after 5 years on investment in bitcoin but some people are just still scared in the present only to start regretting of not taken the risk. Even as that, there are those with other assets they already invested into and wouldn't mind not investing in bitcoin not because they don't think it can give them profit but they're just satisfied with the few assets they've spread their portfolio across.

Most of not all of those who regrets are people who concentrate attention more on the FUD noise that always follow with every bitcoin bear season about bitcoin eventually crashing this time but which later never crash but keep gaining heights in price.