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The time-travel millionaire myth <\/h2>\n

It\u2019s almost an irresistible daydream: step into a time machine, buy a pile of Bitcoin for pennies in 2010 and return to the present to find millions sitting in your account.<\/em><\/p>\n

In March 2010, the first recorded Bitcoin exchange price was about $0.003 per Bitcoin (BTC<\/a>), and prices never rose above $0.40 that year. Today, BTC trades well into the six-figure range.<\/p>\n

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The truth is, becoming a Bitcoin millionaire requires much more than buying early.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You would have needed to build a large BTC position and then hold it through multiple 80% to 90% price crashes, exchange failures like Mt. Gox<\/a>, shifting regulations, the risk of losing your private keys and years of temptation to take \u201clife-changing profits.\u201d<\/p>\n

This article looks at Bitcoin\u2019s volatile price history<\/a>, the headline-driven shocks, the behavioral traps that trip up even seasoned investors and the math that makes this fantasy so unlikely.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Surviving Bitcoin\u2019s price rollercoaster <\/h2>\n

Bitcoin\u2019s journey from obscurity to six-figure valuations was a series of sharp surges followed by brutal crashes,\u00a0many of which would have led a sane person to cash out.<\/em><\/p>\n