It's not their fault as long as they aren't selling their coins. People need to differentiate actual losses from paper losses. If you bought earlier this year, you are up right now, regardless if someone cashed out profits, and as long as the price keeps going up, that's the case.

2017's bull run made almost everyone win, regardless of people flat out gambling or investing based on fundamentals. That's the power of a bull run, and these mass profits attract even more capital because people love to buy something that has gone up a lot already.

Bitcoin is up ~35% this year, which is quite a solid achievement considering that we're technically still in a bear market. If you lost money with Bitcoin this year, then you have to look in the mirror and rethink why you are here in the first place.