That is quite true, and even people with very similar incomes and similar expenses might come out differently in terms of performance, but one of the main performances is also being able to stay in the game and being able to balance a variety of your personal needs, including perhaps your need for insurance, so one person might choose to invest 10% of his income into bitcoin and another person chooses to invest 20% of his income into bitcoin, and surely the one who invested 20% might end up getting ahead, but then he never had a sufficiently-sized emergency fund, and he ended up getting lucky that he did not end up having to experience an emergency.. and the person investing 10% was more prepared for such emergency, even though in the case of this hypothetical, no emergency ended up happening... that is another thing with a sufficiently buttressed emergency fund, it might be less than 5% odds that the emergency fund will ever be needed, and so there are choices about how much to buttress the emergency fund, and realizing the fact that there could be some circumstances in which NOT having a sufficient emergency fund could totally wipe a person out... even though the odds still might be less than 5% that such emergency fund will ever come into need.


Sometimes the mere fact that you are persistent and consistent, you may well outlast others who are in similar positions as you, and people will have differing ideas, and some times some people will get distracted into other areas to put their value, and sometimes we might not notice a difference for many many years.

I know some people who had quite a few advantages over me financially, and I even tried to get them into bitcoin, and they probably would have had been able to invest into bitcoin with way smaller of a fraction of their income (and available assets) than I had done.  These days, there is no way that they would be able to come even close to being able to catch up to me, and from time to time, I heard them telling me about some expenses that they had that were part of their life that was not in my life, but much of that is just excuses - especially since there are other areas in their life in which they were always way more consistently spendy than me, so even if it was true that they had some areas in which they had more expenses than me, they made choices regarding where they were investing their time, money and energies, which happened to not at all (or barely) in bitcoin over the years, and even though I did not kill myself in bitcoin, I was moderately more aggressive, and consistent.. and largely just continued to hold my bitcoin through the years, which is nearly impossible for them to be able to purchase even a fraction of my quantity of bitcoin without having to make a lot of sacrifices, and even that probably would not be enough to catch up absent my suffering some kind of "accident" with my coins... which I am truly not ruling out as non-zero.

I am not even really competing.. but I do sometimes think of the comparisons... including another guy that comes up to me on about an annual basis since about 2016, and even I pretty much consistently say the same thing.. get started.. and I cannot even remember my first conversations with him, which he claims was in mid-2014.. which surely could have had been possible... but still outside of my memory... there were a few other guys with whom I supposedly had these kinds of bitcoin conversations in 2014.. even though I don't recall talking about bitcoin to others until late 2014.. but they were claiming that I was talking about bitcoin with them in mid 2014.


Exactly.. a person can start out 5% or 10% of his income, and after a few years increase that to higher amounts.. but surely if it becomes unfeasible to increase more than 5% to 10%, then just do what you can, and even 5% to 10% will likely add up, even though 5% is likely only be equivalent to a whole years salary for 20 years, but 10% has chances of having invested a whole years salary after 10 years.