There can be some real problems if we are comparing the performance of our portfolios in the short term, and for example, there are quite a few people who invested into bitcoin in the last couple of years, and at this time, even if they did not do anything wrong, their portfolios are "barely" getting back into profits, and if they made some mistakes, then they might be even further in the red because of those mistakes.
Even with myself, the first three years of my BTC investment was barely in profits.. so from late 2013 until about late 2016, my BTC portfolio was ONLY of questionable profitability.. ..
Even though I pretty much front-loaded my investment into BTC in 2014 (and my average price per BTC was coming down from $1,200 and down into the $500s), but my BTC holdings were largely in the red (and sometimes more than 50% into the negative) for quite a bit of time in 2015 (even though I continued to buy and people felt sorry for me)... So yeah the BTC price was in the mid-$200s for much of the time in 2015, so by the time 2016 came, my portfolio was starting to feel like it was potentially going to come out of the red and to be less in the red, but it was NOT really unambigously out of the red until late 2016 and early 2017..
Even though on a personal level I was already feeling pretty good about my BTC investment by the time we got into early 2016.. but even then it did not become more clear that BTC prices would break above $500 until May 2016. .and then there were further dabbles with $500 in mid-to-late 2016 and even in early 2017, people (bitcoin bears/naysayers) were talking about BTC "having to correct down to below $500 before they could resume up.. and that correction down to $500 did not happen and did not ever happen, so a lot of the folks relying upon those bearish proclamations got even more reckt than the mostly holders, such as myself, and we know what happened to BTC in 2017 and even the correction in 2018 did not bring BTC prices even close to back to 3 digits, since the lowest we got was in the lower $3ks and that did not even last very long, even though we had a brief bout into the upper $3ks in the March 2020 liquidation event.. perhaps a fluke, but who knows?
So my point is that in the long term you may well be laughing.. but in the short term you might not look so good depending on how things are measured and even if you might have made a few mistakes along the way, too.
A very impressive description of the investment journey that you took from 2013 to the present and even entering 1 decade in 2023. Indeed, there were many obstacles but you made it through, even today you have reached a milestone in investment because it has been 10 years. I suspect that many of them have experienced the same thing, but surviving for 10 years in investing is quite difficult for some people.
Many of us would like to see BTC above $100k in the next year, although it may be quite difficult to happen but there is a good chance BTC price will reach $100k in the coming years. We just need to be patient and accumulate BTC over the year to reach our dream once the BTC price hits $100k.
For this reason, we only have to overcome an obstacle, which is to fight against the desire for profit. Because after all it becomes an obstacle that does not have to be in our records. therefore a great hope will continue to grow to continue to buy until one day we can have BTC in our portfolio at a price of $100k at some point in the future.