A lot of folks might think they’ve missed the boat on buying bitcoin. But honestly, it’s not too late. Only about 6.8% of people around the globe actually own any cryptocurrencies, not just bitcoin.
As we look ahead to 2024, the worldwide ownership of cryptocurrencies is estimated to be around 6.8%, meaning there are over 560 million crypto holders out there.
So is it too late to jump in on bitcoin? I’d say no way. Bitcoin is kind of like gold. Its value keeps climbing over time, so now's still a good time to buy in.
Is it too late to invest in bitcoin?
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Short answer, NO.
Long answer, depends on how much money you got to spend.
If you have 5k to invest, you can now buy 0.005 BTC. But few years ago, lets say 2017, you could have bought 1 BTC and have some change for 1-2 ETH.
So yeah, depends really.
There is no time you can't buy BTC. But as a good trader, you need to learn how to take profit. As we approaches the bull run, BTC has the tendency to pump. So if you buy now, make sure you take some profit. This will help you to buy more more during the bear season. So, I will advise you to learn more about BTC and other cryptocurrency before investing. This will guide you on how crypto works.
Trading is risky and if you trade with leverages, futures in a bull market, you can still have loss. In a bull market, you have high probability to get profit if you do Spot Trading, buy low and sell high. With leverage or futures trading, your trading position can be liquidated and you can have loss no matter price goes up or down. Liquidation will be executed if the market moves up or down big enough to trigger liquidation on your position.
Buying and holding in a bull market, waiting for chance to take profit is best. It's like holding to enjoy a bull market.
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dave.falconFull Member
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#5Nov 27, 2017, 03:36 PM
Basically you have to learn what Bitcoin is, so that in the end you will know that it is never too late to buy Bitcoin. If you mean to buy Bitcoin for the short term then it all requires speculation and analysis, but if you mean to hold it for the long term, then it means "NO" which means it is not too late at all. And believe it or not Bitcoin will beat Gold's market cap, I don't know when exactly, but I'm sure it's a certainty, because we know that Bitcoin has beaten silver's market cap.
I see it was a rhetorical question, but in any case, to add to what has already been said, it is not now, nor will it be next year, nor will it foreseeably be in 10 years. It seems clear that bitcoin is here to stay and until we have reached truly mass adoption, and perhaps not even then due to its limited nature, we could start talking about it being late.
D4rkFalconSenior Member
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#7Nov 27, 2017, 09:32 PM
Is buying bitcoin too late? The long answer is a big NO but if you asked about a short-term answer maybe yes is a little bit late. I don't mean that I am skeptic of bitcoin but the price right now is all time High meaning the risk you buy now is higher than like you buy a year ago.
I mean people are optimist about Trump and etc but my personal target bitcoin top is 150K-200K this year but those are just speculation if I were you Im gonna buy on every dip, I mean when bitcoin hits its correction buy and keep the DCA when the profit is more than 20% take a profit a little bit and buy more at the dip and repeat
As long as Bitcoin investment is concerned there's no time you cannot invest in Bitcoin, so there's nothing like too late in Bitcoin investment. Although it depends on how you plan your self, because if you plan your self very well and set up a good goal aside from your Bitcoin investment it will going to help you hold for a long period of time. Because you can decide to use DCA method to invest in Bitcoin either weekly or monthly regardless of the market price.
I've seen a few other threads about this, many questioning whether it's too late to buy bitcoins, now that bitcoins are expensive, various other questions. So what is missed should be forgotten. You've now learned about Bitcoin, so what's wrong with investing in Bitcoin? I think we are still in the early stages. I believe bitcoin will be worth 1 million dollars in the future. In fact, not everyone can be successful in Bitcoin, but those who have been patient have been successful.
hodler_b34rFull Member
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#10Nov 28, 2017, 11:24 AM
Think of two possible opposite futures.
If price continues to rise, you can buy low, sell high and it means you will get profit. It's not too late to buy Bitcoin in this scenario.
If price does not continue its rise, the issue is not like "It's too late to buy Bitcoin", but it is Bitcoin no longer good and profitable to buy for anyone, not only you. It means you are earlier to exit your position or avoid a sinking ship.
DCA is a good strategy for Bitcoin investment.
Yes, if i remember correctly this is the 3rd topic about this issue created in january and i dont think it is too hard to find them, we dont need to create more similar topics. But through that we can see the trend of wanting to invest in bitcoin is increasing and that is why many similar questions are being asked.
I don't think we're in the early stages of the bitcoin revolution but it's not too late to start investing today.
Bitcoin reaching $1 million is certainly possible but it is not an easy task and will not happen in the near future, so the question is how many of us can wait until then.
I guess people who think it's too late to invest in bitcoin are probably looking to get rich quick and have no intention of holding long term.
If you are for short term maybe yes.
But if you are for long provably no since there's no late word comes up with people who choose to invest with Bitcoin since they could buy at whatever price you want since the main focus of long term holder is how they can accumulate more volume. Price is not a big deal for long term holder so those late to buy mindset is not actually exist for people who knows the potential of Bitcoin.
Hopefully people would realize that Bitcoin is for holding and those shitcoins they see or acquired is meant to dump.
Questions like this often arise for various reasons, yes of course everyone can buy Bitcoin whenever they want. So far the price of Bitcoin has exceeded the previous price, my advice before buying is to learn more about how to make a profit in Bitcoin investment.
As long as Bitcoin is used as a long-term investment, it is never too late to buy it. I am still confident that with Bitcoin continuing to increase this year until it reaches $150k, the Bitcoin trend is ongoing, make the right decision so that it remains in the desired position.
I agree on this justification on how still undervalued Bitcoin considering the current holders now. However, most of the huge percentage of Bitcoin holds by institutions which means they might just distribute their Bitcoin to other people by selling it in the market when theres already the demand.
So Im not expecting an astronomical continuous growth rather Bitcoin will be less volatile in the future.
If you search with the title you used, you will find several threads in this forum and it has been discussed very often at least dozens of times. I understand that the time is different and each time a thread creator opens a thread asking this question, they talk about that specific time. But the answer did not change and remained the same, it will remain the same for the next couple of years.
But once Bitcoin reaches a certain target, that will be too late to buy bitcoin. You should not compare Bitcoin with Gold. Bitcoin is more rare than gold. Bitcoin is limited while Gold does not have any limit.
hodler_ha5hFull Member
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#16Nov 30, 2017, 11:26 AM
To be honest, I'm tired of seeing these threads about whether it's too late or not yet to buy Bitcoin. They pop everywhere, why not let's just say that it's too late to buy Bitcoin and let them decide for themselves? With that discouragement to them, they'll think critically and assess themselves whether they're in it for the long term or short term. I guess that pushing people far away will keep them even closer by being curious and will make them think better based on their situation.
Obviously it's not, but the thing is that if we have bought at least least say in 2017, wherein the price is below $1k, you will really have a lot of profits if you have accumulated that time and then hold in the next couple of years.
But as others have said, we still have time, and I think this is the perfect opportunity or at least in the next bear market to buy and see how long you can be here in the market. If you are here for the bigger then, then you can start that time and hold as least for a one full cycle and see how it goes. It boils down on the mentality and do not think that you are late in the party.
nonce_sigmaFull Member
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#18Dec 2, 2017, 04:55 PM
I agree that its never too late to buy Bitcoin. Providing you are patient & treat Bitcoin as a long term savings plan you will make great profits. Whilst you may not get the type of returns people got pre 2020 you will still beat all traditional investments like S&P500. My advice would be to buy regularly over many years, set up a monthly or bi-monthly buy & when you come to retire you will be very happy about your decision to buy Bitcoin.
We all know it isnt too late, there are some who believe it is though and others
who are waiting for a crash to $50k.
Those are the groups who are going to miss the opportunity to benefit the
incoming bull run and probably end up buying when the price goes up.
There will be people and institutions buying at $250k, $500k and $1,000,000
so it will never be too late.
viper_blockSenior Member
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#20Dec 3, 2017, 06:27 AM
No, they are not late to buy Bitcoin even if the price now is at $103k. If they think that is late to buy Bitcoin and don't want to try to buy, they are really late especially when the price is increase more than the price now. They will not have a chance to buy Bitcoin at a low price and only regret with their decision.
They should think that they buy Bitcoin for the long term investment so they don't have to think about the high price of Bitcoin now. They need to realize that investing in Bitcoin for a long term can be profitable so when they have Bitcoin as the investment besides gold, they can make a profit in the future.
But that will be up to them because we can not force them to still investing in Bitcoin. We only hope that before they decide to invest in Bitcoin, they can research to find out more about Bitcoin.
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