Since you invested $17,000 in Bitcoin and held it, you will definitely be laughing at the present time. However, at that time when you sold your land and invested, the people around you might have laughed at you, but now you will laugh and they will cry at your success.
I don't think someone's gonna cry over his success. Well, he's done well and that's an achievement that's hard to attain by many investors. I think what he has to do is to keep himself lowkey. I know that we want sweet revenge to the people that have laughed us. The world can turn upside down for us to get the favor. These people are not different from us, they don't believe in Bitcoin and mocked the early investors and maybe us have sometime in the past. It's the sweetest revenge is when you are quiet and you're living a very well life than those that have laughed at you.