Bitcoin’s Brutal Truth: What 16 Years of Data Proves About Your Portfolio

step-by-step breakdown of Bitcoin price

history right now. And the mass, look,

look, look at the math behind a massive

9900% gain versus a 73% crashes.

Remember those numbers. Remember the

history.

And how do you handle this volatility

gap without losing your mind and most

importantly what that 2025 2026 cool

down tells us about the market maturity.

Look at the world in 2020. Bitcoin

was worth less than a cent. Today, it's

a global household name. But going from

there to today was not a straight line.

And don't forget to subscribe and don't

forget to give a thumbs up. Don't let

the numbers intimidate you first of all,

right? It's actually very simple once

you see the pattern. So in the year

column, this is our timeline. We start

at the beginning of the modern crypto

era in 2010.

Years start versus year end. This is the

price of one Bitcoin on January 1st

versus J December 31st of that same

year. The percent change, this is the

heartbeat of the chart. Green means the

price went up and red means it went

down. Notice something immediately. The

green, look at the numbers. They're

massive. But obviously the rates are

painful, right? It's a little painful to

see some of those numbers. And we're

experiencing some of them right now.

Look at 2010. We started at 0.003.

That's 3/10enth of a penny, but the end

of the year was 30 cents. That's 99,900%

increase. To put in to put this into

perspective,

if you spent the cost of a cup of coffee

by then, you were looking at a

lifechanging amount of money within

months. Here's a first lesson of the

day. Extreme gains always come with

extreme nerves. People look at the 2010

and say, "I wish I bought then." Would

you have held it? When something goes

from a penny to 10 cents, most people

sell. When it goes from 10 cents to 30

cents, almost everyone sells.

This chart shows you what happened to

the people that didn't. Now, let's move

into the teen years of Bitcoin. In 2011,

we see a 1473%

jump. In 2013, a staggering 5500% jump.

You're not going to see that anymore.

Okay, so let's be clear because it's

impossible. Can you imagine an

investment where you put in $1,000 and

turned into $55,000 in 12 months and

that's what we saw in 2013.

Now look at 2014.

This is our first big, you know, the red

year 58%. That is where the Bitcoin is

deadline started. And this is a pattern

I want you to burn into your brain.

Every time Bitcom has a massive

multi,000% year, it always pays the tax

in the following years. What we are

seeing now is not unusual.

Look at 2017. And of course, you need to

understand the risk so you know whether

or not to hold the asset. Are you

getting paid for the risk? This was the

year Bitcoin became famous. It went from

under $1,000 to nearly $14,000. That's

the 1300% gain.

Everyone was talking about it. Everyone

was a genius. And then 2018 happened,

negative

13 negative 73%.

If you bought at the top in 2017,

you watched $10,000 turn into $2,700.

This is the brutal truth. To get the

green years, you have to survive the red

years. This chart is a lesson in

emotional discipline.

As we move into the 2020s, the numbers

change. Notice how the percentage aren't

thousands anymore.

300% 66% minus 65% 2023 plus 156%.

What is this telling us? It's telling us

that Bitcoin is growing up. It's like I

said before, it becomes more

institutionalized.

When an asset is small, it can double

and triple in a week. when it's worth

trillions of dollars, it takes a lot

more energy to move the needle.

But look, in 2024, 121% return. Even in

its mature phase, Bitcoin outperformed

almost every traditional stock market

index in the world. It doubled in value

while most people were just hoping their

savings account would give them four or

5%. Look at the bottom of the chart.

2025 ended with a minus point minus 6%.

And so far 2026

as of February 4th we are down 17% for

the year.

I know that some of you are thinking why

is the party over? If you only took you

know if if you only look at 2026 it

looks bad. You bought at 87,000 and now

it's worth 72,000. That feels like

losing. But zoom out. Use the chart as

your lens. In 2010, the year end was 30

cents. In 2015, it was 430.

In 2020, it was 28,775.

And today, with a bad year, it's at

72,400.

The 2026 downturn isn't a crash. It's a

context of this 16-year history. It's a

breathing spell. If you look at 2014,

2018, 2022,

those were the big reds. We survived

those. So 17% dip uh is a Tuesday in the

world of Bitcoin. So this chart proves

that Bitcoin doesn't go up forever

without stopping. It breathes, it

expands, and it contracts.

I mean, if you can handle the

contraction, you don't you don't deserve

the expansion. So what is the takeaway

here? Well, it's that time is your

greatest ally.

If you look at this chart day by day,

you'll go crazy. You look at it year by

year, you see a story of growth. But if

you look at it decade by decade, you see

revolution. So, we went from 0.003 cents

to $72,000 in 16 years. This there would

be more red years. There would be more

Bitcoin is dead articles. But the math

of the chart doesn't lie. The question

isn't what is be going going to do

tomorrow. The question is can you stay

calm enough to see what it does over the

next five years and that's the reason

why understanding risk is important

because otherwise

this panic in the air and of course you

know when things are down and I and

answer some of the comments of my of of

subscribers you know um and I said you

know every often they said the the

Bitcoin is dead don't believe that one

second

uh he didn't get there like that without

any reason. The thing is you need to you

need a structure, you need

understanding, you need a portfolio. And

that's what I do with my subscribers

every day. You know, around 8:30 I come

in and we talk about okay,

what is our strategy? Not just Bitcoin,

but a bunch of other things. And and and

we learn. We're not trying to predict,

we're trying to understand and learn.

And that is like we're taking a class

basically. And that's basically what I

do. I give a class in the morning in all

these assets and some of the you know um

members come to me and say what about

this asset or what and then we look at

it we understand it and you and you kind

of learn on the on the on the path. One

thing we don't do is we don't listen to

people telling us okay this is what I

have in my portfolio and I suggest you

do the same thing without understanding

anything. So, if you found this

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