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The odds of an early Bitcoin investor buying the cryptocurrency when it was worth only a few cents and keeping those holdings until today to become a billionaire are extremely low, a crypto trader said.
The trader, known as Techdev, <a href="https://x.com/TechDev_52/status/1952428468651651399" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">shot</a> down the notion that many traders could’ve held onto Bitcoin (<a href="/bitcoin-price" rel="noopener noreferrer">BTC</a>) from its early days in an X post on Tuesday, which has been viewed almost 3.5 million times on the platform.
<h2 id="most-people-wouldn-t-have-the-conviction-to-hold">Most people wouldn’t have the conviction to hold</h2>
“‘If I put $100 into Bitcoin in 2010, I’d have $2.8 billion now.’ No,” Techdev wrote.
The post listed Bitcoin’s brutal corrections over the past 15 years, saying that only someone with extreme conviction could have held on to a Bitcoin investment while watching it rise from $1.7 million, only to then fall to $170,000, to then gain $110 million, only to see it crash again to $18 million.
Although the argument has been made before, Techdev’s post triggered reactions across the crypto industry just weeks after Bitcoin reached an all-time high of $123,100 on July 14. 
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Over the past 13 years, Bitcoin has recorded a compound annual growth rate of 102.79%, <a href="https://curvo.eu/backtest/en/market-index/bitcoin?currency=eur" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">according</a> to Curvo data.
While many people claim they would be retired today if they had invested in Bitcoin early, numerous crypto executives agreed with Techdev’s view on the reality being that most would not have had the discipline to hold long-term.&nbsp;
Those who do are known as having “diamond hands,” a <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/tags/diamond-hands" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">crypto slang term for investors</a> with strong risk tolerance who hold through high volatility.
<h2 id="holding-bitcoin-long-term-easier-said-than-done">Holding Bitcoin long term “easier said than done”</h2>
Crypto entrepreneur Anthony Pompliano echoed a similar sentiment. “Everyone thinks they would have held Bitcoin from pennies to billions of dollars,” he <a href="https://x.com/APompliano/status/1953144540975509993" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">said</a> in an X post. “Easier said than done.”
Many of the commenters on Techdev’s post recalled spending what would now be thousands or even millions worth of Bitcoin on various purchases or losing access to old Bitcoin wallets.
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Nibiru Chain head of ecosystem Erick Pinos <a href="https://x.com/erickpinos/status/1952503628826386476" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">said</a> an investor has to “make a choice every day, every hour, not to sell, for years.”&nbsp;
Other users argued that many of today’s Bitcoin billionaires were those who bought early and forgot about their holdings, only returning to their wallets once the asset began gaining wider adoption.
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This article does not contain investment advice or recommendations. Every investment and trading move involves risk, and readers should conduct their own research when making a decision.

Buying Bitcoin years ago wouldn’t have made you rich today, trader says

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