There are bulltards who bought 100(or more) btc at $10(or less) (invested $1,000) and sold 2 btc at $1,000 ($1,000 profit). Keep posting memes. (98 btc left) and we are buying more.
The difference is:
In the past you could accumulate with 10k $ a lot off a limited supply (bitcoin) -> wait for the pump and dump!
Today this is not possible, because you need a shitload off bagholders to push the price to the moon.
But yeah, some early adopters still try to push the price, because some were to stupid to ever lockin some profits and get out partially.
In the past bitcoin was worth nothing $0.001, $0.01, $0,1 ... $1 ... and so on. I have first bought at $12.5 b/c I believe bitcoin will be worth $50k( and more).