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Re:What Bitcoin’s White Paper Got Right, Wrong and What We S... by qes on Saturday October 31, 2020 @05:13PM (#24955239)
> if you had invested in November 2013

Cherry picking the singularly worst point.

> 4 years of being in the red is a hard pill to swallow

For which you would've been rewarded with nearly all of the months since 2017 with 500%+ gain, and as of now and also for quite a number of months since 2017, 1000%+ gain.

> there's no reason to think this will be true for another 10 years

Just one more bull run like those previous is going to put Nov '13 buyers at 10,000% gains, and if history comes close to repeating itself that will occur within 2 years.

> if you're not diversified

then you disregarded the single most repeated quip of investing advice in the bitcoin community - no more than you can afford to lose.

Re:What Bitcoin’s White Paper Got Right, Wrong and What We S... by doopy1 on Saturday October 31, 2020 @05:43PM (#24955430)
>if history comes close to repeating itself

History didn't come close to repeating itself with Tulips, Beanie Babies, or Pokemon Cards.