Its as simple as that, whoever has the conviction to believe in honest money will eventually end up very wealthy.
its hard to hold through all the booms and busts, just ask anyone who bought at 1$ and sold at 10$.
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Whereas I agree in general with what you wrote the fact is that most of the rise behind Bitcoin so far was driven by illegal, or semi-legal businesses and pure speculation which has very little to do with the 'honest money'.