Yeah those people generally don't exist. They mined back when it was $5 and sold when it was $10 or 20 for 400% profit. They didn't have the ability to read the future and think "if I just hold til December 2017, this will be worth $19000".

Most of the people who actually make it rich with Bitcoin are scammers and hackers. Or drug dealers who had Bitcoins left in an old wallet they forgot about, then saw the news and said "bitcoin is worth HOW MUCH?!" . Hard drive failures, giant hacks and scams, forgetting passwords/passkeys, etc makes people who got rich from Bitcoin a rarity.

I got out of the trading market @ 12700 because the Tether manipulation/pumps/price fixing going on the last 3 days is too great to ignore now. The scam in the works is larger than Mt Gox as you will see in the coming days. Can you hear the Tether printer warming up again?

edit: uh-oh, I said something negative about the near future prospects of Bitcoin. Must just be spreading FUD cuz I am secretly a banker scared of crypto.