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Many people look back at that old Zhihu Q&A about "buying BTC for 6000 yuan" and their first reaction is: If I had bought it back then, would I be financially free now? But this comment hits hard. What we see today is the result after 2017, the myth that BTC has become. But if you really entered the market in 2013, 2014, 2015, or 2016, an ordinary person wouldn’t experience a smooth upward curve, but a series of crashes, thefts, policy shocks, sharp drops, and public skepticism. ---------------------------------- In 2013, policy risks came, and the market plunged; In 2014, some heavily invested but couldn’t hold on and sold at a loss; In 2015, the bear market was sluggish, and even believers doubted their faith; In 2016, Bitfinex was hacked, putting exchange risk directly in front of everyone. So the question was never: "Why didn’t I buy back then?" The real question is: "If you had bought back then, could you really have held on until later?" ---------------------------------- Many wealth stories look simple years later, as if you just need to buy, keep your wallet safe, and forget about it for a few years. But people in the market are not cold backtest data. You will be scared. You will doubt. You will watch the news. You will be persuaded by people around you to quit. You will repeatedly ask yourself if you were wrong during crashes. ---------------------------------- This is also why I think the most valuable part of this kind of crypto archaeology is not to make people regret, but to remind us: What’s truly scarce is not a single "perfect buy," but surviving with knowledge, position management, and emotional resilience amid huge uncertainty. Missing bitcoin:native is certainly a pity. But if your past self wasn’t ready, maybe happily playing games, eating pizza, and living a normal life wasn’t a bad thing after all. The hardest part of investing is never understanding history in hindsight. It’s whether you can hold on when history hasn’t yet become history.