Do you really think that the people who bought BTC cheap and held it all these years through the highs and lows were just "lucky"?
from experience most who held (from lows to highs) did so because they forgot about btc or ignored it for years LOL
Yeah, that's what I think too.
That's has more to do with dumb luck than mad trading skillz. Ver was an angel investor. I would expect him to have a bunch hanging around. This guy named James Howells bought something like 7,500 btc in 2009 and threw away a hard drive. He remembered he had some after the price went up and looked for the hard drive only to remember that he threw it away. That's like buying Apple stock at the beginning and throwing away the certificates. That's got to sting a little.
Or maybe they super early adopters had a real plan from the beginning. What if Group Satoshi knew exactly what they were doing in creating the censorship resistant currency, this forum, the darknet market and the acquisition of the first BTC exchange from Jed McCaleb. It all started from there and the rise and rise of Bitcoin might be no fluke.