True believers always knew this. I remember going to a presentation about Bitcoin where a speaker had boasted about how he had invested all his life savings into bitcoin, back when it was still worth less than $100. He gave his justifications, about how it was the future of money and the end of fiat.
I laughed, and couldn’t wait to hear the sob story about how he lost it all years later when the price went to 0. But the day never came, and I never forgot.
The guy must have cashed out sometime shortly after Bitcoin hit his peak, and now posts about his “riches and bitches”, I’m talking fast cars, big houses with long hallways, vacations around the world with exotic women under his arm and watches as big as your fist. Scroll through his feed long enough and your bound to catch a selfie with a middle finger aimed straight at the camera. He still gives seminars about investing in cryptocurrencies and did a few angel investments in some startups that went who knows where.
Was it wisdom, or pure luck? There’s some element of luck probably, but substantial gains don’t tend to last that long if you only have luck without wisdom.
