BTC’s price chart looks just like an electrocardiogram.

If you go back and look at the candlestick charts from 2011 to 2013, it’s a roller coaster lover’s paradise—first wave shot up 100x, the second calmed down a bit but still did 10x, and the third wrapped up with a 7x run. Over those three years, “volatility” was on full display.

Does “one year in crypto is like ten years in the real world” sound exaggerated? Stretch out the timeline, and you’ll see it’s actually pretty conservative.

From its birth in 2009 at $0.0025, to that wild night in December 2017—$20,000. That’s an 8 million-fold increase. Even after the price corrected back to about $7,200 as I write this, that’s still a 3 million-fold gain from the starting point.

What does a 3 million-fold increase mean? Here’s some simple math: invest $1 back then, now it’s $3 million; invest $10, now it’s $30 million; if you’d put in $100, you’d be sitting on $300 million now.

This isn’t just “going from a bicycle to a motorcycle”—it’s more like a bicycle turning straight into a spaceship.

The only thing between you and those who achieved financial freedom might just be the determination to buy in early. Of course, I’m not saying you should ape in blindly. The point is—sometimes, your judgment of trends and timing your participation really can change everything.

BTC’s decade-long wealth creation story has indeed made a fortune for a group of early participants. Some are tech geeks, some are bold speculators, some just stumbled in by accident. But they all had one thing in common: when others couldn’t see it, they chose to believe.