I hear a lot of nocoiners and normies say that they heard of #bitcoin in 2011 or 2012 and that they should have “bought it”. And the early whales were “lucky”.
But buying wasn’t the hard part. Yes it took balls wiring money to Tokyo. But the hard part was securing it. Securing bitcoin back then took a lot of self education and technical knowledge. And securing bitcoin was very different and challenging. There were no hardware wallets and seed phrases.
Luck is when hard work meets opportunity. And in the case of Bitcoin you needed to be crazy. You needed to have balls. Here’s to the crazy ones 🍻